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6 FOOD DELIVERY APP HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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Speaker 1: I worked as a food delivery driver during my first
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Speaker 1: few years of college. Mainly, I would drive for DoorDash
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Speaker 1: or Uber Eats. I didn't like making small talk with
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Speaker 1: strangers and didn't want random people in my car, so
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Speaker 1: I preferred delivering food over being a normal Uber driver.
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Speaker 1: I did this for over a year with pretty much
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Speaker 1: no issues, aside from the occasional customer mad that the
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Speaker 1: restaurant messed up their order. Anyways, it was late Wednesday night,
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Speaker 1: and I didn't have any classes in the morning, so
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Speaker 1: I decided to make an extra few bucks and deliver
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Speaker 1: for a little bit. I did four or five quick orders,
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Speaker 1: and ended up about 20 minutes from my dorm. It
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Speaker 1: was about 1am now, and I figured I should probably
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Speaker 1: end it there and head back. The way the delivery
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Speaker 1: apps work is pretty much you just drive around and
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Speaker 1: wait for a random order to pop up. and then
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Speaker 1: it'll give you an estimate of how much you'll make
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Speaker 1: and how far it is. Then you either accept or
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Speaker 1: decline it. On my way back, I left the app
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Speaker 1: running just in case there was a really quick delivery nearby.
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Speaker 1: I got a few requests, but they were a bit
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Speaker 1: too far and didn't seem worth it to me. But
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Speaker 1: then another one popped up just as I was pulling
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Speaker 1: into my dorm. It was about 12 miles away, but
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Speaker 1: the payout was really big. I'd never seen anyone offer
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Speaker 1: that much money before. I gave it some thought, as
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Speaker 1: it was pretty far, but it was too much money
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Speaker 1: to pass up. I accepted the offer and started the
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Speaker 1: directions to the restaurant. A few minutes later, I arrived
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Speaker 1: and pulled up their order so I could make sure
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Speaker 1: I picked up the right stuff. As I walked through
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Speaker 1: the doors, I noticed the customer had only ordered two items,
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Speaker 1: and the total was only over $ 6. 00. This was really unusual,
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Speaker 1: as typically the high paying orders are because of large
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Speaker 1: deliveries of expensive food. This meant that they were just
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Speaker 1: giving me a really big tip. I got the food
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Speaker 1: and went back to the car. During the drive there,
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Speaker 1: I was really just trying to understand why they would
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Speaker 1: give such a big tip for such a small order.
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Speaker 1: It was a little weird. But honestly, I just came
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Speaker 1: to the conclusion that it was either just a mistake,
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Speaker 1: or they were trying to be kind. Although 12 miles
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Speaker 1: wasn't too far from my campus, I had actually never
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Speaker 1: been to this area. It was really nice, with mostly
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Speaker 1: gated off neighborhood communities and huge houses. Luckily, their house
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Speaker 1: wasn't gated, and I was able to just pull into
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Speaker 1: the neighborhood. I looked at the homes as I passed
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Speaker 1: by and realized that the tip money made a lot
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Speaker 1: more sense now. The street was long though, and I
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Speaker 1: was just a couple minutes from the house when the
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Speaker 1: customer sent me a text through the app. They told
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Speaker 1: me to make sure I delivered the food to the
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Speaker 1: right address when I pulled up. I figured maybe the
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Speaker 1: map showed his neighbor's house or something, so when I arrived,
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Speaker 1: I sent him a text with a description of the
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Speaker 1: house and asked if that was the right one. He
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Speaker 1: replied no, and I waited for a little bit, expecting
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Speaker 1: him to describe his house for me, but he never did.
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Speaker 1: I sent him another text describing his neighbor's house, to
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Speaker 1: which he replied no again. I was starting to get
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Speaker 1: pretty annoyed with this guy, and tried calling him instead,
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Speaker 1: but he refused the answer. He would ring a few times,
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Speaker 1: and then he'd decline the call. I looked at the
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Speaker 1: address again, and then copy and pasted it into Google
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Speaker 1: to try and look it up there. Doing this, I
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Speaker 1: actually noticed that the number for the address wasn't a
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Speaker 1: regular number. It had a subset of numbers on it.
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Speaker 1: I'd never seen this before and wasn't even sure what
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Speaker 1: it meant, so I searched the address on Google and
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Speaker 1: looked at the results. When I zoomed in on the map,
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Speaker 1: I saw that the address actually pointed to a spot
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Speaker 1: right in between the two houses. Zooming in further, it
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Speaker 1: looked like there was a really small garage or maybe
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Speaker 1: even a shed. It was barely visible. I looked up
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Speaker 1: from my phone and moved my eyes to between the
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Speaker 1: two houses, and sure enough, there was a small garage-like structure.
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Speaker 1: It was just a few feet from the main house
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Speaker 1: that my delivery app brought me to. I honestly wasn't
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Speaker 1: sure what to expect or why someone would even live there,
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Speaker 1: but I already came this far, so I wasn't about
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Speaker 1: to walk away now. So I got out and started
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Speaker 1: heading over. As I walked up the driveway, I could
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Speaker 1: clearly see what the place was. It was pretty much
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Speaker 1: just a large storage garage, probably meant for keeping an
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Speaker 1: old car or something. I didn't see any normal door though,
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Speaker 1: so I put the bag down by the garage door.
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Speaker 1: As I began taking my phone out to take a
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Speaker 1: picture for the app, a man came around the right
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Speaker 1: side of the garage. I looked over at him, and
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Speaker 1: he just stood still, staring at me. The guy was
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Speaker 1: really creeping me out, so I said, It's right here
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Speaker 1: for you, sir, as I pointed at the bag and
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Speaker 1: slowly started walking away. Then he replied, telling me that
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Speaker 1: this wasn't where he wanted me to drop it off.
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Speaker 1: I turned around and noticed that he was still standing
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Speaker 1: in the same spot. Um, sorry, where did you want
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Speaker 1: me to put it? I said, starting to get really
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Speaker 1: uneasy about the situation. He pointed around the back of
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Speaker 1: the garage and said that the door was over there.
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Speaker 1: At that point, there was no way I was going
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Speaker 1: to follow that guy to wherever he was trying to
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Speaker 1: get me to go. I just kind of stood there
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Speaker 1: for a moment, then said sorry and quickly walked back
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Speaker 1: to my car. I looked over one more time before
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Speaker 1: driving away and the man was walking back behind the garage,
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Speaker 1: but he left the bag of food. I got out
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Speaker 1: of there and drove back to my dorm, shaking the
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Speaker 1: whole way back. Something about that whole thing felt very off,
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Speaker 1: and the fact that it was in a really nice
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Speaker 1: neighborhood made me even more confused. The more I thought
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Speaker 1: about it though, I realized just how strange it was
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Speaker 1: that he needed to specify for me not to deliver
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Speaker 1: to the main house, and that he refused to take
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Speaker 1: the food unless I followed him to behind the garage.
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Speaker 1: I'd never had to call the police before in my
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Speaker 1: whole life, and I ended up not calling them this
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Speaker 1: time either, as I really wasn't sure if maybe he
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Speaker 1: was just some weird harmless guy. Anyways, it freaked me
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Speaker 1: out for a few days, but eventually I got over
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Speaker 1: it and continued doing deliveries in my spare time. Nothing
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Speaker 1: else happened, though a couple weeks later I had another
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Speaker 1: big order pop up on my app, and the area
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Speaker 1: of delivery was the same. I obviously declined it, but
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Speaker 1: I couldn't help but think about whoever ended up accepting
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Speaker 1: that order, and what happened to them during their delivery.
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Speaker 1: It was the beginning of fall, and I worked as
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Speaker 1: a cashier at a small store near my apartment. My
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Speaker 1: usual shift ended at 9pm, and then I'd usually go
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Speaker 1: do food deliveries for a couple of hours before heading home.
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Speaker 1: I actually enjoyed doing deliveries at night, as the roads
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Speaker 1: weren't busy and most other delivery drivers would work during
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Speaker 1: the day and would take all the orders, so I'd
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Speaker 1: actually get more orders to do at night. Anyways, I
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Speaker 1: had just gotten out of work and set up my
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Speaker 1: app to get ready to do some deliveries. The first
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Speaker 1: one that came in was quick and only took about
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Speaker 1: 15 minutes. Then I waited for a few minutes before
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Speaker 1: the next order came in. It was a good payout
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Speaker 1: and the delivery address was 20 minutes away from where
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Speaker 1: I was. I headed over to the fast food restaurant
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Speaker 1: to pick up their food, then started making my way
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Speaker 1: over to the house. The town I live in isn't
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Speaker 1: too big and has a lot of empty plots of land.
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Speaker 1: There's the main center of town, which is where my
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Speaker 1: apartment is and most of the restaurants. Then about 10
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Speaker 1: minutes out, there's a lot of farmland and the houses
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Speaker 1: are much more spread out. Almost all of the deliveries
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Speaker 1: I get are within the town area, but every once
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Speaker 1: in a while I'll get a delivery further out into
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Speaker 1: the farm area. I assumed this was going to be
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Speaker 1: a farmhouse since it was 20 minutes away. However, the
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Speaker 1: app said that the address was located in a small
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Speaker 1: neighborhood area just off of a small highway. I didn't
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Speaker 1: like delivering to isolated farmhouses at night as it just
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Speaker 1: kind of creeped me out. so I was happy to
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Speaker 1: be delivering to a neighborhood home. Once I got off
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Speaker 1: the highway, I turned left and started making my way
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Speaker 1: down the road toward the neighborhood. But almost immediately, I
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Speaker 1: got a call from an unknown number. I declined it
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Speaker 1: as I thought it was just a scam, but just
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Speaker 1: a few seconds later, they called again. Figuring it was
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Speaker 1: probably the customer, I accepted it.
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Speaker 2: Hello?
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Speaker 1: I asked. A few seconds went by with no response,
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Speaker 1: so I just hung up, but then again, just a
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Speaker 1: few moments later, the same number called me. I answered,
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Speaker 1: and almost immediately a guy speaks and tells me I
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Speaker 1: turned the wrong way. I asked him what he meant
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Speaker 1: as I had the map up and it says that
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Speaker 1: I'm going the right way, but he said his address
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Speaker 1: gets messed up on the delivery app and that he
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Speaker 1: always has to call and let the drivers know where
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Speaker 1: to go. I said okay and asked him how to
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Speaker 1: get there. He told me that when I got off
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Speaker 1: the highway, I needed to take a right from that road,
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Speaker 1: then take the third left. He mentioned it was a
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Speaker 1: gravel path that led to his farmhouse at the end.
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Speaker 1: I told him I'd be there in a few minutes,
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Speaker 1: and turned the car around. I've had multiple customers call
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Speaker 1: me before to tell me that the address was a
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Speaker 1: little off, or to give me directions on unnamed roads,
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Speaker 1: as it was pretty common out here. So I honestly
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Speaker 1: didn't think much of it. I passed the highway that
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Speaker 1: I turned off of and continued until I found the
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Speaker 1: third left and turned onto the gravel path. The path
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Speaker 1: went into a small forest of trees and it was
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Speaker 1: really dark. Again, I didn't like these areas at night,
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Speaker 1: so I was definitely a little nervous driving down this
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Speaker 1: isolated gravel road. Once I started getting nervous, I began
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Speaker 1: thinking about how strange it was that the map had
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Speaker 1: taken me so far in the opposite direction of the
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Speaker 1: house that the man claims is his actual address. I
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Speaker 1: tried to bury those thoughts, assuring myself that I was
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Speaker 1: just overthinking it because I was nervous. A couple minutes passed, though,
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Speaker 1: and there was still no house in sight. At this point,
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Speaker 1: I wasn't even sure if I had turned down the
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Speaker 1: right path. but the trees were too close to the sides,
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Speaker 1: so I didn't have much room to turn around anyways.
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Speaker 1: I figured I'd continue down to the end, then call
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Speaker 1: to ask if I had the right place, and turn
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Speaker 1: around there if not. Another minute or two went by
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Speaker 1: before I finally reached the end, as it merged into
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Speaker 1: a small circle driveway next to a house. I drove
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Speaker 1: up to the path that led to the front door,
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Speaker 1: and parked the car next to a for sale sign
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Speaker 1: that was put up in the front of the house.
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Speaker 1: Seeing that, I wasn't sure if I had the right house,
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Speaker 1: but I looked over at the front door and it
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Speaker 1: was open, and I could see someone further back wave
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Speaker 1: at me. Figuring I was good, I grabbed the bag
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Speaker 1: and started making my way over to the door. As
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Speaker 1: I stepped onto the porch and began putting the bag down,
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Speaker 1: I saw the man again down the hallway that led
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Speaker 1: to the kitchen. He politely asked me if I could
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Speaker 1: set the food down on the kitchen counter, then quickly
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Speaker 1: walked away as if he was in a rush. and
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Speaker 1: then I heard him turn the sink on in the kitchen. Hesitantly,
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Speaker 1: I took a step into the house and looked around.
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Speaker 1: It was decorated with old furniture and accessories, but it
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Speaker 1: almost looked like it was completely unused. I quickly made
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Speaker 1: my way down the hall and into the kitchen, but
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Speaker 1: as soon as I got there, I noticed that the
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Speaker 1: sink was still running, but the man was nowhere in sight.
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Speaker 1: This made chills run down my body, and I quickly
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Speaker 1: set the bag down on the counter and got out
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Speaker 1: of there as quick as I could. I could hear
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Speaker 1: the man yell something from the front door as I
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Speaker 1: got back in my car, but I couldn't understand what
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Speaker 1: he said. I put the car in drive and went
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Speaker 1: back out the way I came. I didn't stop driving
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Speaker 1: until I got to the parking lot of my apartment.
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Speaker 1: Then I pulled my phone out and saw multiple missed
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Speaker 1: calls from that same number. I blocked the number, then
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Speaker 1: opened the delivery app so I could end my deliveries
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Speaker 1: for the night, but that's when I noticed that I
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Speaker 1: had messages from the customer through the app telling me
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Speaker 1: that I had turned the wrong way and that I
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Speaker 1: was at the wrong house. I went into shock for
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Speaker 1: a moment, realizing that the man that had called me
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Speaker 1: wasn't my actual customer and the house I was in
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Speaker 1: was just some stranger's house. I called the police immediately
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Speaker 1: and reported everything to them. An officer came to my
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Speaker 1: apartment to go over more details soon after. I had
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Speaker 1: no idea how this man could have known that I
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Speaker 1: was doing a delivery and had been able to see
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Speaker 1: my location. The officer said that my phone had likely
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Speaker 1: been hacked and that the man was probably monitoring everything
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Speaker 1: that I was doing. Hearing this made me really uncomfortable,
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Speaker 1: as if all of that wasn't bad enough. The next
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Speaker 1: day I was informed that the house I was at
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Speaker 1: was actually vacant as it was for sale by the
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Speaker 1: owners who had moved out months ago. The man had
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Speaker 1: apparently gotten in through an unlocked window in one of
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Speaker 1: the rooms. As of right now, they still haven't found
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Speaker 1: anything significant that could lead to finding the man, which
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Speaker 1: makes me feel really unsafe. I don't know for sure
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Speaker 1: what the man was trying to do. but I think
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Speaker 1: it's a pretty good assumption that he was probably planning
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Speaker 1: on kidnapping me, or maybe even worse. I try not
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Speaker 1: to think about it too much, but I can't help
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Speaker 1: but go over all of the horrible things that could
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Speaker 1: have happened on that night. I worked as a regular
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Speaker 1: pizza delivery driver during my later years of high school.
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Speaker 1: Because of school, I'd always work the night shifts on
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Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday. It was a pretty laid-back job, and
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Speaker 1: for the most part, I'd just be driving or standing
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Speaker 1: in the shop taking orders on the phone. A couple
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Speaker 1: of my friends worked there too, so I always had
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Speaker 1: someone to talk to. Anyways, it was Friday night, and
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Speaker 1: I'd just gotten back from my last break. The place
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Speaker 1: closes at 1am, so we usually stop accepting orders around 12,
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Speaker 1: as we still have to clean and everything before we leave.
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Speaker 1: It was 11.30, but I figured I'd get a head
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Speaker 1: start on the cleaning just to pass the time. Me
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Speaker 1: and my other two friends were the only ones working
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Speaker 1: that night, and one was finishing up a delivery, and
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Speaker 1: the other just went on break after I got back.
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Speaker 1: A couple minutes into cleaning, the phone started ringing, so
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Speaker 1: I picked it up and asked how I could help them.
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Speaker 1: There was an older man on the line, and he
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Speaker 1: asked if we were still open for deliveries. I told
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Speaker 1: him yeah, but we aren't taking any large orders. They
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Speaker 1: said that was okay and asked for a regular pizza
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Speaker 1: and gave me the address to deliver it to. About
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Speaker 1: 15 minutes later, the pizza was ready and I boxed
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Speaker 1: it up and got in my car. The address was
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Speaker 1: a little more than ten minutes away, and I was
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Speaker 1: probably halfway there when I pulled up behind another car
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Speaker 1: stopped at a stop sign on an empty road. I
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Speaker 1: waited for a few seconds, looking around to see why
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Speaker 1: he was stopped for so long. Then I honked my
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Speaker 1: horn gently, assuming that he'd just fallen asleep or something.
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Speaker 1: The car still didn't move, so I started to pull
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Speaker 1: around him, but of course just as I did that,
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Speaker 1: he pressed on the gas and jolted forward down the road.
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Speaker 1: I was a little bit annoyed, but I figured it
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Speaker 1: was just some guy being a dick for fun, so
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Speaker 1: I continued down the road. But a couple minutes later,
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Speaker 1: I passed that same car pulled over on the side
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Speaker 1: of the road with its headlights off. I got a
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Speaker 1: really uncomfortable feeling passing them, like something didn't feel right
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Speaker 1: about it. I checked my mirrors for the rest of
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Speaker 1: the way to the house to make sure he wasn't
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Speaker 1: trying to follow me. Finally, I turned down the address's
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Speaker 1: long driveway that went between a forest of trees. I
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Speaker 1: pulled up to the front of the house and put
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Speaker 1: the car in park. Then I made sure I had
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Speaker 1: everything and went up and knocked on the door. I
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Speaker 1: waited a minute or two and then an old lady
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Speaker 1: answered and asked me what I was doing. I told
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Speaker 1: her I was delivering a pizza here and recited the
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Speaker 1: address to her that I was given. She said that
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Speaker 1: nobody here ordered a pizza, and I could tell she
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Speaker 1: felt bad for me. I just thanked her and went
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Speaker 1: back to my car. This wasn't the most uncommon thing
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Speaker 1: to happen, as some people would do it as a
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Speaker 1: prank or just give the wrong address on accident. I
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Speaker 1: figured I'd get out of the lady's driveway, then call
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Speaker 1: my friend to have them call the number back and
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Speaker 1: confirm the address, so I started making my way out
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Speaker 1: of the driveway. but as I was making my way down,
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Speaker 1: bright headlights blinded my view from ahead of me. It
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Speaker 1: was so bright, I knew it had to be a
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Speaker 1: car coming towards me, so I quickly pressed on the brakes.
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Speaker 1: I waited for the car to turn off the lights
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Speaker 1: or turn their car around, but after waiting for a
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Speaker 1: little bit, I figured they weren't going to move. I
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Speaker 1: wasn't sure exactly what to do as I could barely
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Speaker 1: see and I knew the driveway was thin so there
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Speaker 1: was no way I could get around them. I decided
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Speaker 1: to just wait and see what they'd do first as
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Speaker 1: I didn't really have any other options. A whole minute
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Speaker 1: went by of both of us just sitting there before
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Speaker 1: they turned their lights completely off. I waited for my
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Speaker 1: eyes to readjust to the darkness then looked ahead to
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Speaker 1: see where their car was but I couldn't see it.
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Speaker 1: I put the car back in drive and slowly began
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Speaker 1: making my way down, being cautious in case the other
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Speaker 1: car started coming down the driveway again. A few seconds later,
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Speaker 1: I see the car with all its headlights off parked
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the path. I recognized it as
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Speaker 1: the same one that was parked at the stop sign.
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Speaker 1: I guess he had followed me without me noticing. I
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Speaker 1: couldn't see through the windows in the dark, So as
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Speaker 1: I sat there, I started to get pretty anxious and
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Speaker 1: worried that there could be multiple people in there with
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Speaker 1: bad intentions. Then the front driver door opened and a
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Speaker 1: man got out and began making his way towards me.
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Speaker 1: Halfway to my car, he stopped and began waving at
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Speaker 1: me as if he wanted me to pull up next
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Speaker 1: to him. At this point, I'd be lying if I
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Speaker 1: didn't say that I was really starting to freak out
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Speaker 1: I tried my best to pretend to be calm though
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Speaker 1: and rolled the car next to him. To my surprise,
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Speaker 1: when I pulled up he didn't say anything to me.
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Speaker 1: He didn't even look at me as he started walking
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Speaker 1: around my car and eventually stopped right behind me by
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Speaker 1: the trunk of my car. I looked in my rear
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Speaker 1: view mirror trying to figure out what he was doing
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Speaker 1: and why he was just standing there. A few moments
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Speaker 1: go by as I'm looking at this man. When I
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Speaker 1: suddenly come to a realization and turn my head around
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Speaker 1: to the front, the other three doors of the car
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Speaker 1: swing open and three more men start sprinting towards my car.
20:50
Speaker 1: My adrenaline started pumping, and I stomped on the gas,
20:53
Speaker 1: flooring it and almost hitting one of the men as
20:56
Speaker 1: I turned my car off the driveway. I swerve around
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Speaker 1: their car, nearly hitting several trees before making it back
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Speaker 1: onto the path and eventually out onto the main road.
21:07
Speaker 1: There was nobody else on the road at this time,
21:09
Speaker 1: so I could clearly see in my mirror when the
21:11
Speaker 1: car pulled out onto the road and started making its
21:14
Speaker 1: way towards me. I figured they weren't going to stop
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Speaker 1: unless I could get somewhere that wasn't so isolated. But
21:21
Speaker 1: after 30 seconds, the men turned down a side road.
21:25
Speaker 1: I made it back to work and immediately told my
21:28
Speaker 1: friends what happened. They both convinced me to call the
21:31
Speaker 1: police to at least report it, even though I wasn't
21:34
Speaker 1: able to give much helpful information. An officer came down
21:38
Speaker 1: and I gave an official statement on the incident and
21:41
Speaker 1: then they left just before we closed. I was surprised
21:45
Speaker 1: to get a call the next day saying that three
21:47
Speaker 1: of the men had been arrested after attempting to rob
21:50
Speaker 1: another car later that night in the same exact driveway
21:53
Speaker 1: that I was in. The men were caught when the
21:56
Speaker 1: lady called the police after having two more people try
22:00
Speaker 1: and deliver food to her that she didn't order. I
22:03
Speaker 1: guess they were using that driveway to lure delivery drivers
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Speaker 1: in and rob them on the way out, since it
22:09
Speaker 1: was a narrow, isolated driveway surrounded by forest. Unfortunately though,
22:15
Speaker 1: the fourth man was able to run through the trees
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Speaker 1: and make it out, and I never received any updates
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Speaker 1: on him in the following days, so I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: if he was ever found. The old lady said though
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Speaker 1: that she was unaware and had never seen them in
22:30
Speaker 1: the driveway before that night. It's pretty crazy that this
22:34
Speaker 1: happened to me, but I'm also proud of myself for
22:37
Speaker 1: how quickly I reacted and how I was able to
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Speaker 1: make it out unharmed. It definitely made my job more
22:44
Speaker 1: stressful though, and soon after I was able to change
22:47
Speaker 1: my shifts to only working during the day on the weekends.
22:51
Speaker 1: I really hope that last guy got caught though, because
22:55
Speaker 1: who knows how many more people could be in those
22:57
Speaker 1: horrifying situations due to his escape.
23:09
Speaker 2: About a year ago, I started working as a delivery
23:12
Speaker 2: driver for DoorDash. I was living with my parents during
23:15
Speaker 2: the summer back home from college. I remember not too
23:18
Speaker 2: long after I started, I decided to work one Friday
23:21
Speaker 2: night because I didn't have anything going on, and I
23:23
Speaker 2: knew I could make a lot of money. I started
23:25
Speaker 2: at maybe 5 p.m. and stayed busy throughout the entire night.
23:29
Speaker 2: During the night, I went all around my hometown, which
23:32
Speaker 2: wasn't that big of a city, but still had almost
23:34
Speaker 2: everything you could want in food. I remember that it
23:37
Speaker 2: was about 11 p.m., and things were getting much quieter,
23:40
Speaker 2: with not nearly as many restaurants being open anymore. I
23:43
Speaker 2: was getting tired and planning to stop soon, but decided
23:46
Speaker 2: to take another delivery. This one was from McDonald's, and
23:50
Speaker 2: I headed there to pick it up. I arrived at
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Speaker 2: the 24-hour McDonald's in town, and I received the bag
23:55
Speaker 2: of food, then went on my way with delivering it.
23:58
Speaker 2: The address was about 10 minutes away from the McDonald's.
24:01
Speaker 2: I'd been to that area before, but not that particular neighborhood.
24:05
Speaker 2: When I arrived on the street, it was not very
24:07
Speaker 2: well lit, and very dark. and really dark. There were
24:11
Speaker 2: houses sort of far apart from each other, and I
24:13
Speaker 2: could tell this street was a little more rural. I
24:16
Speaker 2: arrived at the address and pulled into the driveway. The
24:19
Speaker 2: house had a really long and narrow driveway, with overgrown
24:22
Speaker 2: bushes on each side of it. I got out of
24:25
Speaker 2: my car and walked up to the front step. All
24:28
Speaker 2: of the lights in the house seemed to be off.
24:30
Speaker 2: I knocked on the door, but received no answer. I
24:34
Speaker 2: decided to just leave the food on the front step,
24:36
Speaker 2: and then go on my way, I walked off the
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Speaker 2: step and back to my car, which was sitting in
24:40
Speaker 2: the driveway. When I reached my car and got back inside,
24:44
Speaker 2: I decided that I would be done for the night
24:45
Speaker 2: and would go home. I backed out of the driveway
24:48
Speaker 2: that I was in, and before I had reached the street,
24:51
Speaker 2: I noticed something. The car that had been parked at
24:53
Speaker 2: the top of the driveway in front of the garage
24:55
Speaker 2: suddenly turned on. It startled me because I had no
24:58
Speaker 2: idea that anybody had been inside of it. The car
25:01
Speaker 2: then started backing out of the driveway after me at
25:04
Speaker 2: a very fast speed. As I drove off down the street,
25:07
Speaker 2: I couldn't help but notice the way the car was
25:09
Speaker 2: driving behind me. It was rather jerky and was speeding
25:12
Speaker 2: up then slowing down, but also following me. I took
25:15
Speaker 2: several turns, with the car making all the same ones.
25:18
Speaker 2: Before long, it became obvious to me that I was
25:20
Speaker 2: being followed by this seemingly reckless driver. As I got
25:24
Speaker 2: close to home, I called my dad and told him
25:27
Speaker 2: that I was being followed and what was going on.
25:29
Speaker 2: He told me to just drive home and not to panic.
25:32
Speaker 2: I did my best to keep calm and drove back home.
25:35
Speaker 2: It took me maybe ten more minutes to get there.
25:37
Speaker 2: When I arrived, I pulled into the driveway, and the
25:40
Speaker 2: car behind me did the same. This made me really nervous.
25:43
Speaker 2: But then, I saw my dad walking through the front yard,
25:46
Speaker 2: headed right towards the car in the driveway behind me.
25:49
Speaker 2: My dad's a pretty big guy, about 6'5, and has
25:52
Speaker 2: a pretty large build. Still, I thought he was crazy
25:55
Speaker 2: to approach a car with who-knows-who inside of it. But
25:58
Speaker 2: almost as quickly as the car pulled into the driveway,
26:00
Speaker 2: it backed out and sped off into the night. I
26:03
Speaker 2: ran inside, feeling much safer now that the car was gone.
26:06
Speaker 2: I'm lucky that my dad was home, because I'm guessing
26:08
Speaker 2: whoever was following me was hoping I would be going
26:10
Speaker 2: to someplace alone. I'm about to tell you my creepiest
26:19
Speaker 2: experience from being a food delivery driver. I used to
26:23
Speaker 2: deliver for Uber Eats a couple of years ago. I'd
26:25
Speaker 2: mostly do it on the weekends here and there, and
26:27
Speaker 2: it was a great way for me to make some
26:29
Speaker 2: extra cash. One night, as I was working, I had
26:32
Speaker 2: a fast food delivery to make. I drove to the location,
26:35
Speaker 2: which was a house. It was a smaller house, and
26:38
Speaker 2: when I arrived, it was just after sunset. I parked
26:41
Speaker 2: my car, got out, and walked up to the door.
26:44
Speaker 2: As I was walking up, I took a notice of
26:46
Speaker 2: the house, which seemed pretty average to me. The strange
26:49
Speaker 2: thing was as I got up to the door, it opened.
26:52
Speaker 2: I didn't see anybody at all, but the door just
26:55
Speaker 2: sort of swung open slightly, and there was about six
26:57
Speaker 2: inches of a gap. I walked up just outside of
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Speaker 2: it and stood there with the food. I thought maybe
27:03
Speaker 2: somebody had seen me coming up. and was going to
27:05
Speaker 2: answer the door, but got preoccupied with something. After a
27:08
Speaker 2: few seconds, I decided to knock on the already open door.
27:11
Speaker 2: I didn't want to just walk in, or leave the
27:14
Speaker 2: food there with the door open. From the gap that
27:17
Speaker 2: was still open, all I saw was darkness, as if
27:19
Speaker 2: every room in the house had the lights off. This
27:22
Speaker 2: seemed a little bit strange and creepy. Then, out of nowhere,
27:25
Speaker 2: I heard a really creepy and disturbing laugh. It was
27:28
Speaker 2: the kind of laugh you would hear in a horror
27:30
Speaker 2: movie or something like that. It sounded like a man
27:33
Speaker 2: was maybe 10 feet away inside the door. There was
27:36
Speaker 2: no way I was sticking around there. I set the
27:39
Speaker 2: food down on the ground right in front of the door.
27:41
Speaker 2: Right after I did this, I heard the laughter getting closer,
27:44
Speaker 2: and then I saw the door start to slowly swing
27:47
Speaker 2: open even further. I didn't stay to see who was
27:50
Speaker 2: behind it at all, and I sprinted away from the
27:52
Speaker 2: house to my car. I drove away, and feeling really
27:55
Speaker 2: creeped out, decided to just go home. This experience was
27:59
Speaker 2: scary enough for me, but it didn't end there. The
28:02
Speaker 2: next night, really late, right before I was going to
28:04
Speaker 2: go to bed, my phone started to ring suddenly. With
28:08
Speaker 2: it being after midnight, of course this was odd. I
28:11
Speaker 2: looked at my phone, but it didn't have a number
28:13
Speaker 2: or location listed. I chose not to answer it because
28:16
Speaker 2: of this. But moments later, I got a notification that
28:19
Speaker 2: there was a new voicemail. I clicked on it and
28:22
Speaker 2: played it. When I listened, I heard that same creepy laughter.
28:27
Speaker 2: It was about ten seconds of non-stop creepy laughter that
28:30
Speaker 2: I had heard at the house the previous night. I
28:32
Speaker 2: was so creeped out by it that I turned off
28:34
Speaker 2: my phone. Since then, I never got another voicemail with
28:38
Speaker 2: that creepy laugh, but I still wonder about who it was.
28:41
Speaker 2: Maybe it was just someone trying to scare me for
28:43
Speaker 2: some reason. And if it was, they sure succeeded. When
28:57
Speaker 2: I was a senior in high school, I used to
28:58
Speaker 2: work for a local restaurant in town as a delivery driver.
29:01
Speaker 2: The only reason I got the job in the first
29:03
Speaker 2: place is because my uncle owned the restaurant and my
29:05
Speaker 2: cousins would work at it, so it was really easy
29:08
Speaker 2: for me to get the job there. It was nice
29:10
Speaker 2: because my uncle would let me almost choose my own
29:12
Speaker 2: hours and had really flexible scheduling. For those reasons, I
29:16
Speaker 2: loved it. I remember that one time, it was nighttime
29:19
Speaker 2: and shortly before we closed. This would have been maybe
29:22
Speaker 2: between 9.30 and 10 p.m., and I got sent out
29:24
Speaker 2: for a delivery all the way across town. It would
29:27
Speaker 2: take me almost 15 minutes to reach the destination. so
29:30
Speaker 2: I knew this would be my last delivery for the night.
29:33
Speaker 2: I drove to the location, and when I reached it,
29:36
Speaker 2: I saw that I wouldn't be able to park in
29:37
Speaker 2: the driveway. There appeared to be several cars already there,
29:40
Speaker 2: blocking any space that I could take in the driveway,
29:42
Speaker 2: so I decided to park across the street on the
29:44
Speaker 2: side of the road that I saw some other cars
29:46
Speaker 2: parked on. I got the food out of my car,
29:49
Speaker 2: then left, and walked across the street to the house.
29:52
Speaker 2: I went up the driveway that had about five cars
29:54
Speaker 2: in it, and then went to knock on the door,
29:56
Speaker 2: but saw that there was a post-it note on it.
29:58
Speaker 2: The note said to leave the food on the step,
30:00
Speaker 2: and my tip was there as well. I could see
30:03
Speaker 2: that there was a $ 5 bill laying on the step,
30:05
Speaker 2: so I left the food there, picked up the money,
30:07
Speaker 2: and then walked back to my car. When I got
30:09
Speaker 2: back inside my car, I was excited to be done
30:12
Speaker 2: with work for the day. All I would have to
30:13
Speaker 2: do is go back to the restaurant and clock out.
30:16
Speaker 2: I began driving back, but just as I started, something
30:20
Speaker 2: didn't feel right, as if I had forgotten something. Maybe
30:23
Speaker 2: I had dropped my phone or wallet on the ground.
30:26
Speaker 2: but I couldn't put my finger on exactly what it was,
30:28
Speaker 2: so I checked my pockets. My phone was there, but
30:31
Speaker 2: my wallet wasn't. I panicked and looked around the seat
30:34
Speaker 2: next to me, but luckily it was on the passenger seat.
30:37
Speaker 2: But just as I was doing so, I had noticed something.
30:40
Speaker 2: I looked in the seat behind me, and then I
30:42
Speaker 2: saw it. There was a guy sitting behind my passenger seat,
30:45
Speaker 2: between the floor and the seat, ducking down. My car
30:49
Speaker 2: was kind of messy all the time, so he was
30:51
Speaker 2: able to really blend in pretty well. When I noticed him,
30:54
Speaker 2: I saw him look up and make eye contact with
30:56
Speaker 2: me at the same time. The guy started to get up.
30:59
Speaker 2: I freaked out and slammed on the brakes, pulling over
31:02
Speaker 2: to the side of the road. I almost spun out
31:05
Speaker 2: from slamming on the brakes so hard, and everything in
31:07
Speaker 2: the car went jerking around, and the guy slid almost
31:09
Speaker 2: to the other seat in the back. Literally the second
31:12
Speaker 2: the car stopped, I flung open the driver's door and
31:15
Speaker 2: ran outside into the middle of the road. The roads
31:18
Speaker 2: were mostly quiet now, but as I got out, I
31:20
Speaker 2: saw a car happen to be driving on the road
31:22
Speaker 2: that I had run into, The car had to basically
31:25
Speaker 2: slam on its brakes to avoid hitting me and the
31:27
Speaker 2: driver rolled down his window and leaned out to me. Meanwhile,
31:30
Speaker 2: all that was going through my head was getting away
31:32
Speaker 2: from this random guy who was in my car. The
31:34
Speaker 2: guy in my car did not leave and chase after
31:36
Speaker 2: me though. Instead, he moved up into the driver's seat
31:39
Speaker 2: and drove away in my car. The guy who I
31:41
Speaker 2: was standing in the middle of the road blocking asked
31:43
Speaker 2: if I was okay and what was wrong with me.
31:46
Speaker 2: I told him my car had been stolen and to
31:48
Speaker 2: please call the police. After talking to him a little more,
31:51
Speaker 2: the guy was nice enough to pull over and call
31:53
Speaker 2: the police and then waited there until they arrived a
31:55
Speaker 2: short time later. From there, I answered questions from the police,
31:59
Speaker 2: and my parents came by a short time later to
32:00
Speaker 2: pick me up. About a week after this, my car
32:05
Speaker 2: was found two cities over, abandoned, but the man who
32:07
Speaker 2: stole it was never found.