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3 True Scary Airbnb Horror Stories | Vol. 2 That Will Haunt Your Stay · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: I stayed at an airbnb about three years ago. There
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  Speaker 1: was no occasion. It was more of just a weekend
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  Speaker 1: get away to spend some time off from work. The
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  Speaker 1: airbnb was a cabin four hours away from my hometown.
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  Speaker 1: The cabin looked like it was mostly isolated, only having
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  Speaker 1: three or four other cabins within a mile of it,
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  Speaker 1: and the woods were right in the backyard. This was
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  Speaker 1: just what I was looking for, and I was super
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  Speaker 1: excited when I arrived. Early in the morning, I explored
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  Speaker 1: the property and messed around with some of the cool features.
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  Speaker 1: In the afternoon, I sat outside on the back patio
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  Speaker 1: in one of those swinging chairs, and as I was
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  Speaker 1: looking out into the distance, I saw a man walking
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  Speaker 1: in the woods. He looked like a regular guy from
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  Speaker 1: what I could see, and I figured he was probably
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  Speaker 1: staying in one of those other cabins. He walked deeper
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  Speaker 1: into the woods until I couldn't see him any more,
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  Speaker 1: and I continued enjoying the nature. I want to say
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  Speaker 1: I stayed out there for almost an hour before going
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  Speaker 1: inside and making dinner, then sitting down to watch a
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  Speaker 1: movie at the end of the night. During this movie,
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  Speaker 1: the door bell rang. I didn't even know the cabin
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  Speaker 1: had a door bell, but regardless, I went up and
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  Speaker 1: answered the front door. A man standing on the porch,
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  Speaker 1: and I recognized him as the guy had seen earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the woods. How can I help you? The man
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  Speaker 1: smiled wide and said he'd been lost for a few
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  Speaker 1: hours and needed help getting back to his cabin. I
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  Speaker 1: paused for a second, knowing there was something strange about
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  Speaker 1: this guy, but I couldn't quite figure out what it was. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let me get my phone and you can search the address.
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  Speaker 1: I closed the door and went over to the couch,
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  Speaker 1: picking up my phone and going back. But when I
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  Speaker 1: opened the door, he was gone. He wasn't anywhere on
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  Speaker 1: my porch or in the front yard. I stood in
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  Speaker 1: the doorway for a second, then closed it and went
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  Speaker 1: back to the couch. I knew something was off about
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  Speaker 1: that guy, but this just didn't really make any sense.
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  Speaker 1: I stayed cautious for a while, but eventually I went
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  Speaker 1: to bed. I slept surprisingly well, and in the morning
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  Speaker 1: I got up and went outside on the back porch
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  Speaker 1: to drink my coffee. But just ten minutes later I
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  Speaker 1: saw something I didn't expect to see. That man from
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  Speaker 1: yesterday was walking in the woods in the same place
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  Speaker 1: he was before, seemingly walking on the same path. One
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  Speaker 1: thing I knew for sure now was that he definitely
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  Speaker 1: wasn't lost, But then why did he come up to
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  Speaker 1: my cabin. I went back inside after seeing that and
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  Speaker 1: called one of my friends to tell them about this
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  Speaker 1: weird situation. It made me feel better to talk it
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  Speaker 1: over and have someone else be confused with me. But
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  Speaker 1: as we talked, I heard something that almost gave me
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  Speaker 1: a heart attack, the doorbell. I quickly whispered to my
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  Speaker 1: friend what was happening, and I left the phone call
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  Speaker 1: going while I answered the door. Do you need something?
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  Speaker 1: I asked. The man smiled and repeated the same thing
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  Speaker 1: he said yesterday about being lost and needing help. I
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  Speaker 1: looked at him with an annoyed and confused face. Then
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  Speaker 1: he spoke again, can you get your phone and search
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  Speaker 1: for the address? My whole body went cold when he
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  Speaker 1: said that. I slammed the door shut and updated my friend,
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  Speaker 1: who told me I needed to get out of there
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  Speaker 1: right away. I agreed, hurrying to pack all of my bags.
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  Speaker 1: I checked the peep hole to make sure the guy
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  Speaker 1: had left before I went out to my car. After
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  Speaker 1: shoving my bags in the back seat. I got in
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  Speaker 1: and started backing out. As I did, the man appeared
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  Speaker 1: in the front window, standing inside the house and watched
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  Speaker 1: me drive away. When I got home, I contacted the
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  Speaker 1: airbnb owner and let them know about this crazy guy
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  Speaker 1: who broke into his rental. His response was very short
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't even seem worried about it at all.
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  Speaker 1: He just apologized for me disliking my stay. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what he was trying to do, but it had
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  Speaker 1: my head spending the whole time. Even now, I still
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  Speaker 1: don't know what his plan was, but seeing him standing
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  Speaker 1: in the window inside the house just thirty seconds after
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  Speaker 1: I left was the most horrifying and creepy thing I'd
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  Speaker 1: ever seen. I was taking a road trip to Denver, Colorado,
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  Speaker 1: but to save on some cash, I was staying in
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  Speaker 1: a small city just outside of Denver. I'll admit that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't do a ton of research on the city
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  Speaker 1: I was staying in and really just chose it because
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  Speaker 1: it was only fifteen minutes out. I booked an airbnb
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  Speaker 1: for a one bedroom house that looked small but was
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  Speaker 1: just enough size for me. I drove for twelve hours straight.
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  Speaker 1: It was a lot more exhausting than I thought it
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  Speaker 1: would be, and I got nervous for a while about
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  Speaker 1: whether I could even make it without falling asleep on
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  Speaker 1: the road. As I got closer, though, the excitement pulled
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  Speaker 1: me through the last hour of driving. However, that excitement
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  Speaker 1: faded as I drove through the city and eventually pulled
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  Speaker 1: up to my airbnb. Now, the airbnb itself looked fine,
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  Speaker 1: but it was the neighborhood surrounding it that had me worried.
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  Speaker 1: The houses were like decaying shacks with rusty metal fences
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  Speaker 1: around them. I tried to ignore my thoughts and went
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  Speaker 1: out to the door. The first thing I did was
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  Speaker 1: move all of my stuff from my car into the house,
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  Speaker 1: just to be safe. Then I toured the place. It
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  Speaker 1: looked well taken care of and even recently remodeled in
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  Speaker 1: some parts. I tossed my bags in the bedroom closet
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  Speaker 1: and sat on the couch in the living room for
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  Speaker 1: a bit. It was late into the night, but I
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to relax and watch some YouTube before going
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  Speaker 1: to bed. Around twenty minutes in there was a knock
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  Speaker 1: at the door. I checked the time and it was
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  Speaker 1: well past twelve, Way too late for someone to be
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  Speaker 1: coming to the door. I stayed where I was, and
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  Speaker 1: after another knock they left. I never saw them, so
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea who they were or what they wanted,
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  Speaker 1: but it had me uneasy for the rest of the night.
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  Speaker 1: I went to bed around one am, but I can't
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  Speaker 1: say it was easy to fall asleep. I was so tired,
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  Speaker 1: but something about the place made me feel like I
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  Speaker 1: had to stay awake. At some point, though, I did
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  Speaker 1: fall asleep, but it wasn't for long, because when I
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  Speaker 1: woke up, it was still dark outside and the bedroom
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  Speaker 1: was pitch black. I laid there staring at the ceiling
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  Speaker 1: for a minute before rolling over and tapping on my
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  Speaker 1: phone to check the time. As soon as my phone
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  Speaker 1: screen lit up, I saw a figure standing at the
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  Speaker 1: end of my bed against the wall. From the shadow,
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  Speaker 1: I could tell it was a large man, but with
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  Speaker 1: the dim light of my phone and the small glimpse
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  Speaker 1: I got, I couldn't make out any features. I shot
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  Speaker 1: up from the bed and stood in the corner of
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  Speaker 1: the room, breathing rapidly from the shock of the moment.
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  Speaker 1: I held my phone up and their glowing eyes stared
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  Speaker 1: back at me. The bedroom door was right between us,
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  Speaker 1: and I was terrified to try running for it, but
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  Speaker 1: after a second I made my attempt. The whole thing
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  Speaker 1: was so chaotic in my head, but I don't think
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  Speaker 1: the man even tried to stop me. He just stared
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  Speaker 1: me down as I sprinted out of the house. When
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  Speaker 1: I got to a place where I felt safe, I
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  Speaker 1: dialed nine to one one. By the time the police
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  Speaker 1: got there, nobody was inside and all of my bags
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  Speaker 1: were gone. I told the police what I knew, but
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  Speaker 1: their investigation didn't find much. The big mystery is how
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  Speaker 1: the man entered the home. I was sure he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: there when I arrived, but there were also no signs
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  Speaker 1: of a break in. The police ruled out the airbnb
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  Speaker 1: owner almost immediately, but I feel like that may have
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  Speaker 1: been a mistake. Whatever the case, I was lucky to
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  Speaker 1: have gotten out. I fear that the only reason the
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  Speaker 1: man was in my room like that was to take
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  Speaker 1: me out quietly before robbing the place clean. Otherwise, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why he'd be standing there the way he
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  Speaker 1: was and not attempting to steal anything while I was asleep.
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  Speaker 1: Every time I think back to it, one of the
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  Speaker 1: most terrifying things about the interaction was that it was
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  Speaker 1: silent from the moment I saw him at the end
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  Speaker 1: of my bed to me running out of the airbnb.
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  Speaker 1: There was almost no sound, just absolute silence in a
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  Speaker 1: pitch black room as this man stared at me, probably
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  Speaker 1: moments away from taking my life. In my late twenties,
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  Speaker 1: I was traveling the country, visiting different states every couple
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  Speaker 1: months in search of somewhere to possibly move to. I
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  Speaker 1: was alone at the time, and since I was traveling
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  Speaker 1: so much, I had to say save money on where
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  Speaker 1: I would stay. For every trip I took, I would
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  Speaker 1: find the cheapest hotel or airbnb in the area and
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  Speaker 1: book it. On this trip, I had booked a small
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  Speaker 1: Airbnb labeled as a private room. This usually just meant
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  Speaker 1: that I would be staying in a spare bedroom of
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  Speaker 1: someone's house. It's fairly common on Airbnb, and I'd done
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  Speaker 1: it several times before with no issues. When I landed
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  Speaker 1: at the airport, I had a taxi drive me to
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  Speaker 1: the airbnb and drop me off. Due to flight delays,
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  Speaker 1: it was eleven PM when I got there. I knocked
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  Speaker 1: on the front door and waited. I knew it was late,
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  Speaker 1: but I texted the post and let them know hours
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  Speaker 1: beforehand that I would be here around this time. I
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  Speaker 1: knocked again and listened. Someone was moving around in the
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  Speaker 1: left side of the house. I didn't know what they
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  Speaker 1: were doing, but they were definitely awake. I knocked louder
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  Speaker 1: this time, and finally the host came up and opened
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  Speaker 1: the door. He was a tall, older man with long
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  Speaker 1: gray hair and a scruffy beard. He stood in the
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  Speaker 1: doorway without greeting me or saying anything, so I introduced myself, Hi,
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  Speaker 1: a Mike here for the Airbnb. The man nodded and
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  Speaker 1: let me in. He showed me to my room, which
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  Speaker 1: was on the left side of the house, next to
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  Speaker 1: another bedroom. After giving me a spare key, he walked
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  Speaker 1: away and went upstairs. The man never said a word,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe he just didn't like interacting with his guests,
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  Speaker 1: which I understood, and honestly, I would always prefer not
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  Speaker 1: to see the host either if possible. My room was
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  Speaker 1: very small, a lot smaller than expected. The bed took
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  Speaker 1: up most of the space and there was no other
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  Speaker 1: furniture in the room aside from a night stand, but
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  Speaker 1: at least there was a small connected bathroom. I dropped
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  Speaker 1: my bags down and showered, then got in bed. As
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  Speaker 1: I laid there with my eyes closed, I heard someone
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  Speaker 1: walking around upstairs. They sounded like they were right above me,
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  Speaker 1: just walking all over the place for at least ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes until I heard them go to the stairs and
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  Speaker 1: walk down. They came over by my room and stood
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  Speaker 1: what I thought was right outside my door, but then
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  Speaker 1: they opened the room next to mine and went inside.
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  Speaker 1: For as long as I managed to stay awake, they
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  Speaker 1: stayed in that room and were working on something, moving
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  Speaker 1: around all night. When I woke up, the house was quiet.
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  Speaker 1: I stepped out of the room and saw the host
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  Speaker 1: standing in the kitchen. Good morning, I said to be friendly,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't say anything back. I left and got
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  Speaker 1: a taxi into the city to see how it was,
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  Speaker 1: but after walking around for a day, I knew it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't going to be my favorite place. Around to nine
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  Speaker 1: p m. I headed back to the airbnb. When I
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  Speaker 1: walked inside, all the lights were off except for the
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  Speaker 1: one in my room. The light was glowing under the door,
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  Speaker 1: but I knew I had turned it off before leaving.
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  Speaker 1: I began walking over, but all of a sudden, the
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  Speaker 1: door swung open and the host quickly walked out of
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  Speaker 1: my room and into the other room, closing and locking
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  Speaker 1: the door behind him. I went up and knocked on
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  Speaker 1: his door, trying to ask him what he was doing,
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  Speaker 1: but the man refused to open up. It could have
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  Speaker 1: been nothing like him making sure the amenities in the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom were full, but him not talking made it all
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  Speaker 1: the more unnerving. I went into my room and packed
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  Speaker 1: up my bags. I wasn't sure what I was going
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  Speaker 1: to do yet, as far as leaving now or just
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  Speaker 1: leaving in the morning like I was supposed to. My
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  Speaker 1: gut was telling me that there was something wrong here,
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  Speaker 1: but my head was telling me that I was just
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  Speaker 1: over thinking everything. Then I heard the door to the
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  Speaker 1: other room open. I looked over at my door as
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  Speaker 1: the man walked out into the hallway, and that's when
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  Speaker 1: I noticed what the man had done in my room.
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  Speaker 1: The doorknob had been replaced, and the lock wasn't on
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  Speaker 1: my side anymore, it was on the outside. I jumped
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  Speaker 1: up and pulled open the door. The man stood right
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  Speaker 1: there in front of me, facing my door with his
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  Speaker 1: arm out stretched like he was in the act of
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  Speaker 1: either opening my door or locking me inside. He quickly
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  Speaker 1: turned and went upstairs, and I was breathless and in
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  Speaker 1: total disbelief. I grabbed my bags and ran out of there,
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  Speaker 1: running to the corner of the block and getting a
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  Speaker 1: taxi to the airport. Once there, I called the police
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  Speaker 1: to report the incident, but unfortunately they couldn't do anything
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  Speaker 1: with the information I gave them. Then didn't even let
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  Speaker 1: them inside, so it just became my word against his.
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  Speaker 1: I spent the night sitting on a bench at the
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  Speaker 1: airport and flew home the next day. I still use
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  Speaker 1: Airbnb even after that, but I can't say I'll ever
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  Speaker 1: feel safe staying in a private room again. If I
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  Speaker 1: was even a second late to opening that door, I
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  Speaker 1: might have never been able to leave.