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3 More Scary Craigslist Horror Stories (Volume 2) - Mr. Nightmare · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: This is a popular story with my family and most
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  Speaker 1: of my friends. Amanda is my brother's girlfriend. At the
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  Speaker 1: time of this story, she was looking for her first
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  Speaker 1: apartment and moving out of her parents' house. Her and
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  Speaker 1: my brother didn't want to move together since they'd only
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  Speaker 1: been dating for a few months. She opted instead to
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  Speaker 1: search for a roommate online. Browsing Craigslist, she found an
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  Speaker 1: ad titled something like, Roommate Wanted, Females Only. This sort
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  Speaker 1: of thing was common since the area she was looking
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  Speaker 1: in was mostly young professionals. The listing was for a
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  Speaker 1: room in a house for about $ 2. 25 a month, which
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  Speaker 1: was quite cheap compared to most of the other places listed.
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  Speaker 1: The occupant listed herself as a 23-year-old college student that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't comfortable with living with any males. The other roommate
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  Speaker 1: would have their own room and attached bathroom. So far,
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  Speaker 1: Amanda was into this place. However... The listing only had
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  Speaker 1: a single photo from outside the property. Amanda sent an
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  Speaker 1: email wanting to meet the occupant and tour the house.
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  Speaker 1: Within 30 minutes, she receives an email back with all
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  Speaker 1: the details and time to stop by. The girl worked
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  Speaker 1: late hours and wanted Amanda to stop by at 8pm.
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  Speaker 1: When Amanda arrives, there's a handwritten note on the front
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  Speaker 1: door saying, Door broken. Use back door. Walking around the house,
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  Speaker 1: it looks nice but slightly unkempt. Tall grass, weeds, dusty windows, etc.
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  Speaker 1: Still no alarms for Amanda, though. When she knocks on
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  Speaker 1: the back door, an older man opens the door. At first,
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  Speaker 1: Amanda thinks that she has the wrong house, but the
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  Speaker 1: man reassures her and says that the occupant was out
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  Speaker 1: and that he was the landlord. The occupant asked him
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  Speaker 1: to meet Amanda since she was working late. He seemed
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  Speaker 1: pleasant and offered to show her around. Alarms start going
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  Speaker 1: off but aren't at red alert yet. First, the guy
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  Speaker 1: was clearly in his 40s, unshaven, and looked like he
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  Speaker 1: lived in his car. Also, only the kitchen light was on.
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  Speaker 1: As they walked around the house, Amanda noticed one huge
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  Speaker 1: red flag. No furniture. Nothing. The landlord was polite about
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  Speaker 1: answering questions, but seemed irritable to keeping the lights on
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  Speaker 1: for too long, rushing her around and only letting her
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  Speaker 1: look at rooms for a few moments. There was a
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  Speaker 1: single room that the landlord wouldn't open telling her that
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  Speaker 1: it was the occupant's room and he didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: invade her privacy. As they walk down the hall into
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  Speaker 1: the living room, she notices the front door has a
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  Speaker 1: plank nailed across it. Quote-unquote broken for sure. Amanda's creep-o-meter
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  Speaker 1: is starting to ding, so she decides to wrap up
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  Speaker 1: the walkthrough and leave, but trying to be polite. As
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  Speaker 1: she's giving the guy her thanks-for-the-showing bit, he perks up
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  Speaker 1: and states that he forgot to show her the basement.
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  Speaker 1: He claims it's recently furnished and would be a great
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  Speaker 1: rec room, and she should take a look down there.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, Amanda and the landlord are standing in
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  Speaker 1: the small hallway between the front living room and the
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  Speaker 1: back kitchen. In this little hallway was the basement door.
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  Speaker 1: When he opens the door, it opens outward to create
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  Speaker 1: something of a barrier between Amanda and the back door.
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  Speaker 1: The basement is pitch black. He smiles, motions down the stairs,
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  Speaker 1: and says,' Ladies first.' What happens next is nothing more
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  Speaker 1: than a stroke of luck. Amanda gets a text just
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  Speaker 1: as some random person parks in front of the house.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking on her feet, she pretends it's a phone call
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  Speaker 1: and answers her phone. Hey, yeah, are you here? I'll
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  Speaker 1: come out from around back and let you in. It's great,
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  Speaker 1: you have to see it. With a motion of confidence,
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  Speaker 1: she excuses herself around the landlord and walks out of
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  Speaker 1: the back door. She says the guy just looked at
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  Speaker 1: her like he was confused. Once outside, she sprinted to
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  Speaker 1: her car and sped like hell out of there. When
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  Speaker 1: Amanda got home, she told her mother and my brother everything.
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  Speaker 1: Cops were called. They took her statement and went to investigate.
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  Speaker 1: The Craigslist post had been removed. The house had been
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  Speaker 1: foreclosed over six months earlier. It was found out that
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  Speaker 1: the house had been foreclosed over six months earlier and
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  Speaker 1: the property had been abandoned. When the police investigated... They
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  Speaker 1: found that the closed room that the so-called landlord didn't
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  Speaker 1: want her to look in was where the man had
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  Speaker 1: been staying. There was a pile of old dirty blankets,
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  Speaker 1: rotten food, and empty gallon jugs everywhere. More creepy was
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  Speaker 1: he had plastered ripped up pages from porno magazines on
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  Speaker 1: all the walls in the room. The really scary part
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  Speaker 1: of this was the basement. The man had tied a
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  Speaker 1: thin piece of fishing twine at about shin level across
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  Speaker 1: the stairs about halfway down. The basement was empty except
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  Speaker 1: another pile of old blankets, a broom handle wrapped in
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  Speaker 1: leather belts, and a small box with a few rolls
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  Speaker 1: of assorted tape. I was up late looking for goalie
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  Speaker 1: equipment on Craigslist some night in the summer. I was
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  Speaker 1: only 14 and had no job, and therefore no money,
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  Speaker 1: so I had to find the cheapest deal possible. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't really care about the condition of anything. I came
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  Speaker 1: across an ad that seemed like a steal. The pictures
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  Speaker 1: showed the pads, blocker, glove, and stick. They were all
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  Speaker 1: in visibly good condition. It was only listed for $ 50.
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  Speaker 1: That seemed like an insane deal. I contacted the seller
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  Speaker 1: via text and he asked me a few questions, one
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  Speaker 1: of which was how old I am. I responded 14
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  Speaker 1: and he told me he's glad to hear that I'm
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  Speaker 1: dedicated at a young age. It didn't really seem weird
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  Speaker 1: to me what he said at the time, but now
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  Speaker 1: that I look back on it, I should have been
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  Speaker 1: wiser I asked the seller for his address, but he
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  Speaker 1: instead asked me what town I'm from, and that he
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  Speaker 1: could just meet me somewhere walking distance from my house.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know how I felt about this, but I
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  Speaker 1: really wanted that equipment. We agreed to meet in the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot of the mall, which is literally down the
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  Speaker 1: block from my house. I stood alone in the exact
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  Speaker 1: spot I described for a few minutes, until I heard
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  Speaker 1: somebody toot their horn. I noticed a white van parked
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  Speaker 1: away from all the other cars, and then I received
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  Speaker 1: a text. saying that he was in the white van.
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  Speaker 1: I replied telling him to come out with the equipment,
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  Speaker 1: but he said it would be easier to do the
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  Speaker 1: transaction in the van. I had a really bad feeling
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  Speaker 1: about this, and hightailed away from there. I ran down
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  Speaker 1: the block, and when I looked back, I saw the
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  Speaker 1: white van driving down the street behind me. Now there
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  Speaker 1: was someone in the passenger side as well. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to lead them to my house, so I cut
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  Speaker 1: into some random person's backyard and hopped over the fence.
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  Speaker 1: I was on the opposite side of the block now,
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  Speaker 1: hiding behind a bush. Within 20 seconds, the white van
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  Speaker 1: passed by and turned the next turn, vanishing from sight.
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  Speaker 1: It was safe to run back to my house now.
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  Speaker 1: My parents flipped shit on me when I told them
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  Speaker 1: about it. I didn't get the tag number or a
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  Speaker 1: good look at their faces, so all they could report
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  Speaker 1: was a suspicious white van. The Craigslist ad was taken down,
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  Speaker 1: so I couldn't show it to my parents. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was over, but that night, I heard a vehicle
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  Speaker 1: engine running outside. I looked out my window down to
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  Speaker 1: the street and saw the white van sitting across the street,
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  Speaker 1: but as soon as I looked out the window, the
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  Speaker 1: van drove off down the road out of sight. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen it since. I don't know if they saw
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  Speaker 1: me or not, or if they somehow found my address.
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  Speaker 1: It makes me paranoid to this day. I was selling
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  Speaker 1: a dining room set on Craigslist. I listed it for
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  Speaker 1: $ 1200 but put slightly negotiable on the title. It was
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  Speaker 1: a good looking set but I wasn't getting any offers.
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  Speaker 1: I did live in the country though so not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people lived in my town. I finally received
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  Speaker 1: a call about the set. The man on the other
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  Speaker 1: end of the phone had a very shaky voice and
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  Speaker 1: he sounded a bit off but I can't really explain how.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to check out the set to make an
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  Speaker 1: offer so I gave him my address and he said
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  Speaker 1: he would be over within the hour. I dusted off
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  Speaker 1: all the furniture one more time to make it look
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  Speaker 1: as nice as possible. The doorbell rang within 10 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I was shocked. He must have lived really close, which
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  Speaker 1: in my area was very surprising. I opened the door
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  Speaker 1: and immediately felt uncomfortable about letting this man into my house.
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  Speaker 1: He was wearing a white undershirt with yellow stains scattered
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  Speaker 1: all over it. His pants were way too baggy and
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  Speaker 1: had a few tears in them. His gray mustache stained
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  Speaker 1: brown in the middle. and his hair a complete mess.
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  Speaker 1: Basically everything you shouldn't look in public, he looked. Basically
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  Speaker 1: everything you shouldn't look in public, he looked. He greeted
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  Speaker 1: me with a hello in the same shaky voice as before.
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  Speaker 1: I invited him in and he immediately caught glints of
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  Speaker 1: the dining room set, since the dining room is the
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  Speaker 1: first room you see in the house. He began walking
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  Speaker 1: around really slowly, making weird sounds and making sure to
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  Speaker 1: feel every inch of every piece of furniture. I was
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  Speaker 1: very weirded out watching this and decided to break the
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  Speaker 1: silence by bringing up the price. I reminded him that
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  Speaker 1: my asking price was $ 1, 200, and then he stopped, looked
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  Speaker 1: up at me, and gave me the most unnerving smile
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  Speaker 1: I had ever seen. How about $ 500? he asked me.
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  Speaker 1: I laughed a bit at the insane offer, almost thinking
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  Speaker 1: he was joking, but when his smile turned to an
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  Speaker 1: angry expression, I knew he wasn't. I apologized and told
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  Speaker 1: him that's much too low for me, the lowest I
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  Speaker 1: would be willing to go is 1000. The man then
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  Speaker 1: started acting even weirder. He put his hands up to
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  Speaker 1: his head and started making strange noises again, pacing back
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  Speaker 1: and forth. He then looked at me with a look
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  Speaker 1: of anger and hatred. This man was not right in
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  Speaker 1: the head. I realized it just then and there, and
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  Speaker 1: I needed him out of my house. I apologized to
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  Speaker 1: him again and thanked him for coming, which was the
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  Speaker 1: most obvious way of me letting him know it was
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  Speaker 1: time for him to leave. But he didn't move. At
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  Speaker 1: this point the stare he was giving me was obviously
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  Speaker 1: a stare of malice. This man was much bigger than
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  Speaker 1: me and I didn't think I could take him in
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  Speaker 1: a fight. But then the man moved his hand to
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  Speaker 1: his back pocket and I quickly assumed he was reaching
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  Speaker 1: for a gun. I ran upstairs to my bedroom to
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  Speaker 1: my closet leaving the man alone in the dining room.
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  Speaker 1: In my closet I grabbed my. 45 loaded it and
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  Speaker 1: took cover behind the wall sneaking a peek into the
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  Speaker 1: dining room. The man was gone I went back to
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  Speaker 1: my room and locked the door. I called the police
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  Speaker 1: and took cover behind my bed in the meantime. It
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  Speaker 1: felt like hours before I heard the police sirens outside
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  Speaker 1: my house. However, I stayed put behind my bed. For
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  Speaker 1: all I knew that man was right outside my bedroom door.
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  Speaker 1: Thankfully I hadn't locked the door and I heard the
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  Speaker 1: police enter my house. I left the bedroom with my
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  Speaker 1: hands raised and showed them my ID. They had me
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  Speaker 1: wait outside while they continued their search. I sat there
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  Speaker 1: for probably five minutes before the two police officers stepped
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  Speaker 1: out of my house with the man in handcuffs. They
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  Speaker 1: told me something disturbing. He was hiding in my pantry
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  Speaker 1: closet with a loaded gun. I feel it's only a
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  Speaker 1: miracle that the police weren't shot at, but the thing
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  Speaker 1: that still haunts me the most to this day was
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  Speaker 1: the look that that man gave me through the window
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  Speaker 1: of the police car as it drove off. A look
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  Speaker 1: of malice and hatred. like the first thing he would
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  Speaker 1: plan to do after getting out of jail would be
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  Speaker 1: to come back for me. I'm still thinking about moving.
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  Speaker 1: I can't deal with the constant paranoia of that man
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  Speaker 1: coming back. All I can say that can be learned
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  Speaker 1: from this is to be very careful when giving your
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  Speaker 1: address to people from Craigslist.