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4 RENTAL_AIRBNB Horror Stories Animated · Martin Animations

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  Speaker 1: When I was in my early 20s, I was living
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago, and I wasn't making that much money. When
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  Speaker 1: I found this apartment, it was too good to be true.
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  Speaker 1: The top floor was a duplex with six rooms for $ 775.
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  Speaker 1: The agent who showed me this apartment stressed to me
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  Speaker 1: that the landlords were very religious. I didn't have an
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  Speaker 1: issue with that, even if it did sound a bit ominous.
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  Speaker 1: The landlords were an elderly couple that lived downstairs. At first,
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  Speaker 1: they seemed okay. When I would see them in the yard,
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  Speaker 1: they would smile at me. But when they saw that
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  Speaker 1: I was having my boyfriend over, things started to get
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  Speaker 1: really strange. One day, I was in my office writing,
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  Speaker 1: and I hear a knock at the door. I open up,
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  Speaker 1: and it's the old lady from downstairs. Before I could
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  Speaker 1: even say hello, she asked me if I ever got
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  Speaker 1: an abortion. I shut the door in her face. No thanks.
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  Speaker 1: This was a colossal mistake. The layout of the house
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  Speaker 1: was a bit odd. There was a door at the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of a flight of stairs. It was always locked. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: I found out the hard way that it led directly
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  Speaker 1: into my landlord's living room. One day I was in
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  Speaker 1: my kitchen, cooking. My boyfriend was at work and I
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  Speaker 1: was by myself. when I heard what sounded like the
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  Speaker 1: click of a door. Okay. I walked into the hallway
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  Speaker 1: and looked around. I didn't see anyone. I poked my
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  Speaker 1: head into all the rooms. Nobody was there. I then
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  Speaker 1: looked down the staircase, and there was the neighbor lady,
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  Speaker 1: standing there, staring back at me. I screamed. She flinched
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  Speaker 1: and stepped back into her apartment. swinging the door shut.
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  Speaker 1: After that incident, I spent every possible moment away from
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  Speaker 1: the house I could. I would come back and discover
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  Speaker 1: that something had been moved. A window would be shut,
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  Speaker 1: once the shower was dripping and my towel was damp.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't lock that downstairs door. Since it was technically
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  Speaker 1: a door to their house, they were the only ones
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  Speaker 1: with the key. The knocking became frequent. three or four
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  Speaker 1: times a day. My boyfriend and I propped up an
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  Speaker 1: old mattress so we wouldn't have to hear it while
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  Speaker 1: we slept. The second to last straw was when I
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  Speaker 1: opened the door for work and the stairs were gone.
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  Speaker 1: I physically could not leave my house. They had been
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  Speaker 1: dismantled and were sitting on their porch. I called them
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly but they did not answer. Finally, their son came
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  Speaker 1: out of the house and explained that they were doing
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  Speaker 1: some remodeling. He told me that I had to cut
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  Speaker 1: through their apartment downstairs. So I descended the staircase, opened
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  Speaker 1: the door, and they were both sitting at their filthy
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  Speaker 1: kitchen table, staring at me. The phone was ringing in
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  Speaker 1: its cradle. They must have heard it, but they kept
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  Speaker 1: staring at me with this blank look on their faces.
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  Speaker 1: I crossed their kitchen and left out the back door.
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  Speaker 1: A few days later I came home from my job
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  Speaker 1: and noticed the bathroom floor was almost completely flooded like
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  Speaker 1: somebody had left the faucet on. The old woman seeing
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  Speaker 1: that I had come home came up the stairs and
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  Speaker 1: knocked screaming at me that I had flooded the bathroom
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  Speaker 1: and that her son would have to come and fix it.
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  Speaker 1: I was so exhausted at this point that I just
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  Speaker 1: said it was okay. Her son comes by a few
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  Speaker 1: hours later I open the door and tell him that
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  Speaker 1: I needed an hour or so. He then picks something
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  Speaker 1: up and swings it at me. It was a massive wrench.
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  Speaker 1: I somehow ducked out of the way before he stumbles over.
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  Speaker 1: I then pushed past him and booked it down the
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  Speaker 1: newly repaired stairs as quickly as I could and called
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  Speaker 1: the police. They come by and take down the complaint,
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  Speaker 1: but since there was no physical contact, they couldn't do anything.
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  Speaker 1: I later discovered that this old couple had a daughter
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  Speaker 1: on the force. In the middle of the night, myself,
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  Speaker 1: my boyfriend, and several of his friends packed up all
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  Speaker 1: of our stuff into a Chevy Astro. We lived in
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  Speaker 1: hotels and out of our vehicles for a month until
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  Speaker 1: we found a new place. That old couple never attempted
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  Speaker 1: to contact us again. This past New Year was my
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  Speaker 1: fourth year anniversary with my boyfriend. We typically don't do much.
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  Speaker 1: So this year, we decided to make it special by
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  Speaker 1: planning a romantic getaway. We found a cabin on Airbnb
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  Speaker 1: with a hot tub, and we were sold. The cabin was,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the last house on the road. You had
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  Speaker 1: to drive down a small private road that ended in
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  Speaker 1: a roundabout. Off this roundabout was a long uphill driveway
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  Speaker 1: that led to our cabin. When we got to the cabin,
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  Speaker 1: it was snowy and scenic. The cabin itself sat on
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  Speaker 1: top of a garage, and you had to enter through
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  Speaker 1: some stairs in the back. When we got inside, there
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  Speaker 1: was a booklet with all the information outlined. The book
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  Speaker 1: stated that during the winter season, to not be surprised
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  Speaker 1: if their contracted snowplower showed up to clear off the driveway. Alright,
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  Speaker 1: sounds good to me. We unpacked and realized that there
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  Speaker 1: was no cell service, but there was a landline in
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  Speaker 1: the cabin if we needed anything. We spent the first
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  Speaker 1: night by the fire, playing board games and drinking wine.
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  Speaker 1: The weekend was exactly what we needed it to be.
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  Speaker 1: We planned to spend the next day in town. I
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  Speaker 1: had booked us a reservation for a nice dinner. We
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  Speaker 1: were gone almost all day, only returning briefly to get
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  Speaker 1: dressed for dinner. Dinner was great, and we were excited
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  Speaker 1: to head back to the cabin for some champagne and
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  Speaker 1: hot tubbing. While at dinner, the temperature had dropped, and
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  Speaker 1: it snowed for the first time that day. coating everything
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  Speaker 1: in a fresh layer of white. We drove down the
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  Speaker 1: private road and got to the driveway. It was at
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  Speaker 1: that point my boyfriend stopped the car and asked me
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  Speaker 1: if I had noticed the new tire tracks on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: I looked at the driveway, hoping to quickly disregard these
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  Speaker 1: new tire tracks, but there they were. We remembered that
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  Speaker 1: the snow plowers could have stopped by, but the issue
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  Speaker 1: was that we saw these tire tracks because of the snow.
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  Speaker 1: and who plows in the dark. We also knew that
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  Speaker 1: once we were at the cabin, there would be no
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  Speaker 1: cell service. So we figured that we would head back
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  Speaker 1: into town and message our Airbnb hosts and ask if
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  Speaker 1: they or one of their friends had stopped by the cabin.
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  Speaker 1: We waited for a while in town for a reply,
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  Speaker 1: but we never heard back. We could have called, but
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  Speaker 1: at that point it was past 10 o'clock, and we
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to be discourteous. We figured that we had
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  Speaker 1: blown the whole thing out of proportion and might as
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  Speaker 1: well head back to the cabin. After all, I was
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  Speaker 1: big into true crime and horror movies and was probably
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  Speaker 1: just psyching myself out. My boyfriend drove us back and
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  Speaker 1: this time we actually drove up the driveway towards the
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  Speaker 1: top of the hill. That's when I noticed something. My
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  Speaker 1: stomach dropped when I saw the footprints in the snow.
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  Speaker 1: We backed down the driveway. and took a closer look
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  Speaker 1: to see if there were more footprints. From what it
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  Speaker 1: looked like, someone had drove up the driveway, reversed down, parked,
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  Speaker 1: then got out of their car, and walked onto the property.
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  Speaker 1: This property was quite large, with tons of trees and bushes,
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  Speaker 1: and we knew that these footprints could go anywhere. The
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  Speaker 1: moment we saw them, we decided to call the police.
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: We figured it was better safe than sorry. We would
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  Speaker 1: just have an officer go onto the property with us,
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  Speaker 1: just to check everything out. We drove back down the
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  Speaker 1: driveway until we got service again. We then called the police,
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  Speaker 1: explained to them the situation, and waited for their arrival.
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  Speaker 1: A police officer showed up and we followed him onto
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  Speaker 1: the property. The officer scanned the property and determined that
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  Speaker 1: there was no one there. Obviously, we were a bit
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  Speaker 1: shaken up and kind of embarrassed. We thanked him as
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  Speaker 1: he left. Needless to say, We no longer wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get into the hot tub and look out into the
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  Speaker 1: dark forest. Instead, we locked ourselves inside and watched a
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  Speaker 1: movie with no champagne. We were both tired from the
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  Speaker 1: day and passed out pretty quickly. At 3 a.m., we
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  Speaker 1: both woke up on the couch with all the lights
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  Speaker 1: and TV on. As my boyfriend went to go brush
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  Speaker 1: his teeth, we heard a noise. and only lasted a
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  Speaker 1: few seconds, we both looked at each other and froze.
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  Speaker 1: It was the garage door. There are only very few
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  Speaker 1: reasons that someone would need to open a garage door
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  Speaker 1: of a guest-occupied Airbnb at 3 o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: We knew that if someone was outside, they knew we
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  Speaker 1: were here, and they could see us. I immediately grabbed
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  Speaker 1: the landline and dialed 911. As I sat on the
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  Speaker 1: phone talking to the operator, we heard a bang on
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  Speaker 1: the balcony, as if someone threw something up onto it
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  Speaker 1: when the operator told me the police were on their way.
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  Speaker 1: We sat crouched in the cabin. hoping the police would
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  Speaker 1: show up in time. Suddenly, we saw the police lights
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  Speaker 1: in the driveway. They exited their cars and began searching
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  Speaker 1: the property. Soon, we heard them knocking at the door.
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  Speaker 1: There were two policemen, the one in front of us
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  Speaker 1: and the other a bit behind. still looking around the yard.
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  Speaker 1: I immediately noticed that the officer in the back was
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  Speaker 1: the one who came out on the first call. They
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  Speaker 1: told us that not only was the garage door shut,
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  Speaker 1: it was locked. Again, there were no signs of anyone
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  Speaker 1: on the property. We discussed leaving, but the officer said
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  Speaker 1: that the road conditions were too dangerous at that time.
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  Speaker 1: I looked at the officer who had come out to
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  Speaker 1: the property twice. and I felt that I deeply disappointed him.
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  Speaker 1: We went back inside, again, locking all the doors, and
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  Speaker 1: then went to bed. The next day, we were leaving.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't feel right in the cabin anymore, and I
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to get out of there. As we packed,
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  Speaker 1: we heard the same noise. It was the heater. A
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  Speaker 1: heater that sounds just like a garage door opening. As
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  Speaker 1: for the banging on the balcony, it was just a
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  Speaker 1: perfectly timed fall of a pine cone. I think back
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  Speaker 1: on this story and I'm embarrassed, but I'm also incredibly
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  Speaker 1: grateful for some reason. We were wrong about the garage
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  Speaker 1: door opening, and maybe I was being a bit too paranoid.
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  Speaker 1: But the tire tracks and footprints we saw were there.
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  Speaker 1: For all we know, there could have been somebody out there.
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  Speaker 1: watching us.
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  Speaker 2: Before I officially started up my business I used to
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  Speaker 2: work as like a general handyman and on a very
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  Speaker 2: casual basis too. I was fresh out of the county
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  Speaker 2: and determined to turn myself around but I barely had
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  Speaker 2: two cents to my name so I just started hustling
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  Speaker 2: with whatever I could get my hands on. And about
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  Speaker 2: six months after I had my own van, my own tools,
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  Speaker 2: and I had everything except a contractor's license. but that
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  Speaker 2: sure as hell didn't stop me from building my business
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  Speaker 2: and growing my revenue. About a year later, I was
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  Speaker 2: basically working on retainer for a landlord who operated multiple
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  Speaker 2: different properties across the city. Some were in nice areas,
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  Speaker 2: some were in not so nice areas, and I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: actually on retainer, we just joked that he gave me
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  Speaker 2: so much work that I might as well have been. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: one day he asked me if I could fit some
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  Speaker 2: veneers on some old cabinets, so I tell him sure.
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  Speaker 2: get the address to the place that he wants me
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  Speaker 2: to visit, then headed over the very next morning to
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  Speaker 2: get it done. The tenant of the apartment I was
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  Speaker 2: working on had been asked to vacate while the work
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  Speaker 2: was going on, so I was free to do my thing,
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  Speaker 2: which for the most part consisted of applying a super
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  Speaker 2: strong adhesive to the cabinets before carefully fitting the veneers.
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  Speaker 2: I was about halfway through the job when I heard
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  Speaker 2: the key turning in the lock of the apartment's door.
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  Speaker 2: I waited until the tenant was within earshot, then called
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  Speaker 2: out an apology for the smell of the glue, which
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  Speaker 2: by that stage was still real strong and thick in
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  Speaker 2: the air. A second or so later, a woman of
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  Speaker 2: maybe 35 to 40 appeared in the doorway, and she
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  Speaker 2: looked at me with these big, wild eyes before asking me,
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  Speaker 2: Where is it? I was still halfway up a ladder
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  Speaker 2: at the time, so I'm halfway turned around on it
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  Speaker 2: when I ask her back, Where's what? Instead of answering me,
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  Speaker 2: she got really angry all of a sudden, stomped her
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  Speaker 2: way to the center of the room and told me,
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  Speaker 2: word for word, tell me, or I'll kick you off
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: that thing ladder. I start feeling incredibly vulnerable after that,
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  Speaker 2: so I start climbing down real fast in the hopes
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  Speaker 2: that she was only bluffing, or if she does kick
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  Speaker 2: the ladder, then I'll have less of a fall and
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  Speaker 2: less chance to really hurt myself. I expected some kind
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  Speaker 2: of confrontation when I got to the ground, so... I
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  Speaker 2: can feel my adrenaline start kicking in as I stepped
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  Speaker 2: off that bottom rung and turned to face her. By
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  Speaker 2: the time I did, she was gone. Gone in the
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  Speaker 2: sense that she was no longer in front of me,
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  Speaker 2: and gone in the sense that whoever I'd just been
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  Speaker 2: talking to was gone too. She dropped to her knees,
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  Speaker 2: grabbed the open tube of adhesive that I'd been using,
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  Speaker 2: and started to sniff up these deep huffs of the
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  Speaker 2: fumes into her nose. I must have asked her something like,
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  Speaker 2: What the hell, lady? and then reached down to take
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  Speaker 2: her by the shoulder to try to pull her away
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  Speaker 2: from it. But the second I touched her, she turned,
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  Speaker 2: and it was a totally different person looking back at me.
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  Speaker 2: The lady that walked into her apartment had been rude
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  Speaker 2: and confrontational, but the lady staring back at me now
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  Speaker 2: looked like she could have ripped out my liver, eaten
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  Speaker 2: it raw, and then asked for seconds. She screamed, get
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  Speaker 2: your hands off of me, shove me. then went right
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  Speaker 2: back to huffing the tube of industrial-strength adhesive that I
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: had sitting at the bottom of the ladder. And I'm
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: serious when I say it was like a transformation. Her
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  Speaker 2: eyes were different, still angry but full of something else, too.
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  Speaker 2: She was like a mountain lion if a person got
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  Speaker 2: too close to her cubs, completely rabid, and even though
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  Speaker 2: she was small enough for me to toss, I got
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  Speaker 2: to admit that in that moment, I was goddamn terrified.
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  Speaker 2: She kept on huffing and puffing on that tube of glue,
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  Speaker 2: until all that rage just seemed to wash away from her.
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  Speaker 2: Then when she was done, and with the tube of
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  Speaker 2: glue still in her hand, she got up, walked over
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  Speaker 2: to her couch, and just plopped herself down and lay
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  Speaker 2: there looking all blissed out, like she didn't even know
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  Speaker 2: where she was. I remember telling her that I was
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: going to get my stuff and put it in the
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: van and get the hell out of there, and that
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  Speaker 2: she'd have to deal with her landlord if she wanted
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the cabinet veneers fitted, She just groaned
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  Speaker 2: at me and waved her arm as if to say,
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  Speaker 2: just go away already. And so I did. With her
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  Speaker 2: lying there like a zombie, I packed up my stuff
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  Speaker 2: and got the hell out of there before she decided
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  Speaker 2: that she wanted to help herself to the rest of
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  Speaker 2: my gear. I left her with that tube of adhesive too.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: That stuff can be expensive, but there was no way
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  Speaker 2: that I was about to risk getting my face ripped
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  Speaker 2: off by trying to pull it out of her hand.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: So I pack up my gear. trying to carry as
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: much as possible out to the van, just in case
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: the glue-sniffing tenant decided to steal something. I managed to
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  Speaker 2: get everything except my ladder under my arms, then on
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  Speaker 2: the way out, I started hearing this kid crying. There's
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  Speaker 2: no telling how long they'd been wailing, but I guess
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  Speaker 2: I just filtered it out into background noise while I
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: was trying to keep from getting shredded by that crazy
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: glue-sniffer lady. But then when I step outside, I see
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  Speaker 2: where the crying was coming from. There was a car
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: right there on the curb with both the driver's side
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: and rear passenger door open. In the back there was
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: a kid still strapped into the car seat and was
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: screaming out, Mommy, Mommy, over and over again. There were
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: grocery bags sat in the pathway to the apartment too,
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  Speaker 2: like the woman had gotten home, saw the van and
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: rushed inside after abandoning both her grocery bags and her kid.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Maybe she just forgot that I was stopping by that
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  Speaker 2: day and rushed inside to check it out before bringing
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  Speaker 2: her kid and groceries inside. I'm not sure. But either way,
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  Speaker 2: she walked in. The smell of the adhesives hit her
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  Speaker 2: and that's all that she had in her mind. And
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  Speaker 2: that was the scariest thing of all. Way scarier than
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: the prospect of getting my face chewed off by this
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: crazy lady. This woman was such a degenerate drug addict
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  Speaker 2: that one little whiff of industrial strength adhesive and she
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  Speaker 2: was gone. Hell, she might have been mother of the
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  Speaker 2: year before she walked into that room and then just boom,
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  Speaker 2: she was just right back to the bottom of the barrel,
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  Speaker 2: getting high all over again. I don't honestly know what
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  Speaker 2: her situation was, and I shouldn't speculate. I just hope
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  Speaker 2: her kid ended up okay, because with a mother like that,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: life sure is going to be an uphill struggle.
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  Speaker 1: This story happened in October of 2016.
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  Speaker 2: For context.
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  Speaker 1: I lived in Fargo. I am a 30-year-old male, but
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  Speaker 1: back then I was 22 and was still living with
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  Speaker 1: my parents and two brothers, Tommy and Andrew. One weekend,
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  Speaker 1: my brothers and I decided to go on a getaway
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  Speaker 1: that was two hours away from Fargo. We wanted to
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: get out of the city and away from our nagging parents,
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  Speaker 1: so we decided to book a spacious Airbnb for a
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  Speaker 1: decent price that was located in a forest. We packed
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  Speaker 1: our backpacks, got in my truck, and headed over. When
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  Speaker 1: we got there, the host greeted us and left us
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  Speaker 1: the keys. The weather was perfect, and the view of
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the yellow autumn leaves on all the trees was stunning.
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  Speaker 1: On the first night, we decided to take a nice,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: long walk in the forest. While hiking through the trees,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: we made small talk and generally explored the area. Soon,
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  Speaker 1: it became dark. I don't know about Tom and Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm easily creeped out by the dark alone. But
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: being in a forest? No way. Guys, maybe we should
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: head back to the rental, yeah? It's getting creepy out here.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Then suddenly... A loud growl came from somewhere nearby. It
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: sounded human, yet animalistic at the same time. What the
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: f * * * was that? I don't know, but
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: we're not sticking around to find out. We then heard
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: something speeding toward us. I hear something heading toward us.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Let's get out of here quick. When I looked behind us,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I saw a figure of what looked like a man
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: coming out of the tree line. But here's the thing.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: It seemed way too tall. The shoulders were weirdly shaped.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: They were almost like arches. We got back to our
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Airbnb and locked the door. But it wasn't over yet.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: At around 1am, we had calmed down enough to call
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: it a night. But I was still paranoid. I couldn't
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: get the image of the figure I saw out of
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: my mind. Was it a man? If so, was he
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: wearing some kind of costume? Could he be a part
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: of a cult? Could there be others hiding out in
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: the forest? Did our Airbnb host set us up? I
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: got up and double-checked the house to make sure all
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: the windows and doors were locked. I eventually went to bed,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: but I had trouble falling asleep. Out of random curiosity,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I looked out my bedroom window. and I noticed a
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: black dog under the dim driveway lamp. At first, I
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: didn't think anything of it, but the more I looked
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: at it, the more creeped out I got. The dog
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: appeared to be looking right at me, not moving a muscle.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: What happened next was simply unbelievable. Its eyes began to
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: glow red, and then it stood on its hind legs.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Its stance became pale, kangaroo-like, before it took on a
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: humanoid appearance with long, sharp fingernails. I freaked out and
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: quickly closed the blinds. My brothers heard me screaming. Josh,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: what's wrong with you? I saw something in the driveway.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: At first it was a dog, and then it became,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know, something else. They didn't believe me at first.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: but they quickly changed their minds when they heard that
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: same deep growl we heard out in the forest. But
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: this time, it was coming from just outside the front door.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Something then began to strike the door over and over again.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: All three of us were freaking out and trying to
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: look for a weapon in case that thing managed to
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: break in. Thankfully, the door was solid wood. Eventually, all
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: fell silent. My brothers and I stayed up for the
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: rest of the night. The next morning, we got back
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: in my truck and got the hell out of there.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: On the way out, I saw that same strange dog,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: its eyes following my truck as we tore off down
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the road. Our Airbnb host obviously didn't believe a word
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: of what we said. and never gave us a refund.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: But ultimately, I'm just glad we made it out of
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: there alive.