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3 True Winter Food Delivery at Night Horror Stories That Will Make You Fear the Cold · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: I do deliveries for my local Papa John's. I'm in college,
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  Speaker 1: so this is just one of the few jobs I
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: could choose from. A few of my friends work here too,
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  Speaker 1: but we're all delivery drivers, so even when we have
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: the same shifts, we don't really see each other anyway.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: This happened to me last December while I was picking
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  Speaker 1: up some extra shifts before Christmas. This night, it was
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  Speaker 1: snowing a good amount, making deliveries take longer than usual,
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  Speaker 1: while also getting more deliveries than usual. I was never
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  Speaker 1: too stressed about work, though having to go NonStop for
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  Speaker 1: hours on end was definitely not as enjoyable. At nine
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  Speaker 1: point thirty, I grabbed my next set of orders to
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  Speaker 1: deliver and got in my car to get the directions up.
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  Speaker 1: I had two orders and the houses were just five
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  Speaker 1: minutes from each other, but they were both pretty far
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  Speaker 1: from the shop. They were fit fifteen minutes away, which
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  Speaker 1: was more like twenty five minutes in this weather. The
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  Speaker 1: first part of the drive was normal, but then it
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  Speaker 1: began taking me toward the less visited part of town.
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  Speaker 1: The houses here were older and most of the shops
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  Speaker 1: in the area had closed. Nobody ever came around here
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  Speaker 1: unless they lived here because it was so old and
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  Speaker 1: just wasn't up to today's standards. After twenty minutes of driving,
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  Speaker 1: I pulled into one of the neighborhoods and drove down
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  Speaker 1: the road toward the first house. The road was very bare,
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  Speaker 1: no cars parked on the side, and most of the
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  Speaker 1: houses kind of looked empty. Once I got to the
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  Speaker 1: first address, I parked on the road and walked up
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  Speaker 1: to the front door. A kind old man answered the
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  Speaker 1: door and paid for the pizza. Then I went back
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  Speaker 1: and set the directions for the next house. It was
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  Speaker 1: in the same neighborhood, but I realized as I drove
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  Speaker 1: that it was taking me deeper into the neighborhood, to
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  Speaker 1: the point where there were less houses and more space
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  Speaker 1: between them. By the time I got to the address,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't see any other houses around. It was just
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  Speaker 1: trees surrounding the area. Again, I parked on the street
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  Speaker 1: and walked up to the front door. I knocked and
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  Speaker 1: waited patiently on the porch. It was pretty cold out though,
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  Speaker 1: and the snow making my clothes soaked wasn't helping. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: after a minute, the door opened. It was a middle
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  Speaker 1: aged woman who looked like she'd just woken up. Her
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  Speaker 1: hair was messy, and she had tired and motionless eyes.
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  Speaker 1: I have your order here for two pizzas, I said,
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  Speaker 1: holding out the boxes and giving her the total to pay.
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  Speaker 1: She took the boxes and placed them on the table
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  Speaker 1: next to her, then told me to wait a moment
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  Speaker 1: for her to get cash. Another minute went by before
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  Speaker 1: they opened the door again. She started sifting through some cash,
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  Speaker 1: counting it slowly and trying to add it all up.
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  Speaker 1: There was definitely something weird about her. It's hard to
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  Speaker 1: pinpoint what it was exactly, but everything she was doing
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  Speaker 1: was just very odd. Then, as if she wasn't struggling
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  Speaker 1: enough on counting the cash, she started up small talk
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  Speaker 1: with me, normal stuff like how my day was and
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  Speaker 1: all that. I responded politely, but it was just really weird,
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  Speaker 1: like she was stalling. At some point while she was talking,
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  Speaker 1: I looked back at my car, just to distance myself
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  Speaker 1: from the uncomfortable situation for a moment, But I was
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  Speaker 1: quick to see a man standing right next to it.
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  Speaker 1: He was looking in the windows and doing something to
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  Speaker 1: the door. But when I looked back at the woman,
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  Speaker 1: her face had shifted into anger. I figured it all
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  Speaker 1: out too late, though, as she reached out and then
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  Speaker 1: started yelling to the man by my car. He turned
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  Speaker 1: around and started sprinting towards us. As the woman tried
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  Speaker 1: to pull me into the house, I pushed her away
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  Speaker 1: and broke free. Then my instincts took hold of me
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  Speaker 1: and I sprinted into the trees. I could hear the
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  Speaker 1: man's heavy footsteps crunching in the snow behind me all
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  Speaker 1: the way through the forest, until finally they started to
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  Speaker 1: fade away. After two minutes of sprinting, I stopped to
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  Speaker 1: catch my breath. Luckily, the moon was lighting up the
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  Speaker 1: forest enough for me to navigate through it and back
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  Speaker 1: to one of the streets in the neighborhood. I called
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  Speaker 1: nine one one once I got service, and after ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes of waiting in the cold, an officer arrived. Another
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  Speaker 1: patrol car went to the house, finding the man outside
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  Speaker 1: in the act of trying to break into my car.
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  Speaker 1: To keep things from dragging on. Basically, the motive was
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  Speaker 1: likely due to the couple running out of money and
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  Speaker 1: resorting to robbing my vehicle. The whole distraction was so
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  Speaker 1: that the man could rob my car without me ever knowing,
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  Speaker 1: but since I saw what he was doing. It's not
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  Speaker 1: really clear what they would have done. Maybe they would
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  Speaker 1: have just let me go, but it's obvious I would
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  Speaker 1: have reported them, so I don't think it's likely they
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  Speaker 1: would have. I'm just thankful for getting away unharmed, and
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  Speaker 1: for being the first victim they tried it on before
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  Speaker 1: getting arrested and never having the chance to do anything
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  Speaker 1: to anyone else. This was just last winter. In early February,
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  Speaker 1: I was driving to my next door dash order. I
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  Speaker 1: was a bit tired, as I'd been driving for the
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  Speaker 1: last four hours and it was almost twelve am. After this,
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  Speaker 1: I was definitely calling it a night and heading home,
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  Speaker 1: as I was worried about getting sleepy on the road,
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  Speaker 1: especially with all the ice and snow. I was driving
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  Speaker 1: down a fairly empty road though it was a side
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  Speaker 1: road that connected two of the main towns in our city,
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  Speaker 1: but there was a five mile stretch that had nothing,
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  Speaker 1: no buildings or houses or anywhere to stop. As I
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  Speaker 1: was driving down this section. I don't really know what happened,
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  Speaker 1: but I just got hit with a wave of tiredness
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  Speaker 1: that made me lose focus on the road for just
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  Speaker 1: a few seconds. But that was all it took, I
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  Speaker 1: guess I hit a patch of ice and slid towards
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  Speaker 1: the side, and although I fully woke back up, at
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  Speaker 1: this point it was too far gone. I tried to
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  Speaker 1: steer back onto the road, but my car just slid
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  Speaker 1: straight off and into the small ditch between the road
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  Speaker 1: and the woods. It wasn't a bad crash at all,
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  Speaker 1: since the snow lightened the impact, but it still made
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  Speaker 1: me a little shaky, and I knew right away that
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  Speaker 1: it was going to be impossible to get out of this.
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  Speaker 1: My car was stuck on the incline of the ditch
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  Speaker 1: and in thick snow. I didn't even bother getting out
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  Speaker 1: to try and see how bad it was, though I
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: did test my luck at trying to maneuver the car
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  Speaker 1: to get some traction, but if anything, I just made
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  Speaker 1: it worse. In the middle of trying to figure everything out,
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  Speaker 1: I noticed a car's headlights down the road. At first,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was just a car passing by, but
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  Speaker 1: after a few seconds it was clear that they weren't moving.
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  Speaker 1: Someone must have just been parked down the road with
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  Speaker 1: their headlights on, which I found to be a little
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  Speaker 1: unnerving at the coincidence of it. Being on this long
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  Speaker 1: empty road. They weren't close enough to have stopped to
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  Speaker 1: try and help me, but they weren't far enough either
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  Speaker 1: to not see my headlights. I pulled out my phone
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  Speaker 1: and called my dad, knowing he'd still be awake and
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  Speaker 1: hoping he'd be able to help me. I'd never been
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  Speaker 1: in a situation like this, so I really didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what to do. He said he would call roadside assistance
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  Speaker 1: and then drive down to wait with me. I thanked
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  Speaker 1: him and felt relief, knowing he would be down here
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  Speaker 1: in just a few minutes. I looked back out on
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  Speaker 1: the road, looking for the headlights from the car i'd
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  Speaker 1: just seen, but now they were gone. It was too
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  Speaker 1: dark to see anything that far without lut so I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know if they'd driven away or were still there
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  Speaker 1: and had just turned off their lights. It started to
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  Speaker 1: creep me out the more I thought about it. I
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  Speaker 1: kept my eyes down the road, not looking away for
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  Speaker 1: more than a few seconds, as I began getting paranoid.
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  Speaker 1: It was something about the silence as well that made
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  Speaker 1: it more uneasy, only hearing the wind outside my car
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  Speaker 1: and nothing else. Then, after three minutes of waiting, I
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  Speaker 1: saw a figure walking toward my car. He was down
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  Speaker 1: the road, coming from the direction where the headlights had been.
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  Speaker 1: I watched him as he slowly made his way through
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  Speaker 1: the snow, getting to just about fifteen feet from the
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  Speaker 1: front of my car. Then he stopped. He stood there
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  Speaker 1: in the snow, facing me, but not moving. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: see much of him, as he had a hoodie covering
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  Speaker 1: his face, but the way he just stood there my
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  Speaker 1: headlights started to terrify me. After a moment, I honked
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  Speaker 1: my horn softly a few times, just to let them
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  Speaker 1: know that I was in the car and that I
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  Speaker 1: could see them. They still didn't move or acknowledge me.
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  Speaker 1: But just as I was pulling out my phone to
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  Speaker 1: call my dad again, the man turned around and walked away,
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  Speaker 1: disappearing down the road. I still called my dad to
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  Speaker 1: let him know about this really strange person that was
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  Speaker 1: out here, and he said he was just a minute away.
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  Speaker 1: I stayed on the phone with him this time, and
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  Speaker 1: only thirty seconds later I saw headlights turn on down
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  Speaker 1: the road and begin moving toward my car. Once they
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  Speaker 1: were right across the road, they parked and turned off
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  Speaker 1: their lights. I couldn't see over the ditch, but I
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  Speaker 1: heard a door open as I yelled through the phone
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  Speaker 1: what was going on, But then my dad's car pulled
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  Speaker 1: right in front of my view and screeched to a stop.
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  Speaker 1: I heard him yell at someone as they got back
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  Speaker 1: in their car and sped away. They didn't come back,
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  Speaker 1: but my dad said the guy was holding something in
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  Speaker 1: his hands that looked like he was going to break
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  Speaker 1: into my car with Everything went okay after that, though,
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  Speaker 1: and the car ended up not even having much damage
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  Speaker 1: to it. I'm not sure what was about to happen
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  Speaker 1: that night, but I know I'm really lucky to have
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  Speaker 1: not found out. I do uber eats on the weekends
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes on days when school is out. This happened
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  Speaker 1: just a couple weeks before school's holiday break. It was
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  Speaker 1: a Friday night and I didn't have any plans at all,
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  Speaker 1: so I figured why not make a few bucks instead
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  Speaker 1: of being bored and laying around the house all day.
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  Speaker 1: I started driving and set up the app to start
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  Speaker 1: getting orders. It wasn't snowing out, but it was really
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  Speaker 1: cold and windy, and there was still a thin layer
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  Speaker 1: of snow on the roads from earlier in the day.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was six pm when I started, and
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  Speaker 1: I did a few orders before I got one to
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  Speaker 1: pick up from a nearby burger king. Once I got
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  Speaker 1: the food, I checked on the app where I was going.
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  Speaker 1: It was clear at first that it wasn't a house address,
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  Speaker 1: but when I zoomed in, I was a little more
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  Speaker 1: confused to see it was at the corner of two streets,
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  Speaker 1: looking like maybe a gas station. Although finding it to
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  Speaker 1: be unusual, I clicked begin route and started driving over.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think it was anything bad. I just thought
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  Speaker 1: it was going to be an awkward interaction, since I'd
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  Speaker 1: probably have to find the person in the parking lot
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  Speaker 1: and give it to them directly. Usually I never see
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  Speaker 1: the customers and just do a quick drop off. As
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  Speaker 1: I got closer and drove up to the intersection it
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  Speaker 1: was at, I saw that it was a gas station
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  Speaker 1: that was right in the spot the directions were taking me.
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  Speaker 1: The gas station itself looked normal, but no cars were
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  Speaker 1: in the parking lot. I pulled in and parked in
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  Speaker 1: one of the spots at the back, then stayed in
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  Speaker 1: my car and tried to look around for anyone. The
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  Speaker 1: app should have let them know that I'd arrived, so
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  Speaker 1: I was expecting someone to be out here waiting for me,
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  Speaker 1: but even after a couple minutes, nobody was here. I
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  Speaker 1: sent a text through the app, just letting them know
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  Speaker 1: that I was in the parking lot waiting for them.
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  Speaker 1: Then I got out of my car to see if
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  Speaker 1: I could get a better look around. The whole intersection
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  Speaker 1: was empty, No cars were passing by, and all the
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  Speaker 1: stores across the street seemed to be closed for the night.
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  Speaker 1: The longer I stood out there, the more unsettled I got.
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  Speaker 1: I checked my phone, still seeing no response from the customer.
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  Speaker 1: I was just about to get back into my car
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  Speaker 1: before a truck pulled into the gas station. They passed
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  Speaker 1: the pumps and drove right up to me, parking just
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  Speaker 1: a couple spots away. It was an older, dark red
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  Speaker 1: pickup with tinted windows. The first thought to come through
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  Speaker 1: my head was why would they order for delivery if
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  Speaker 1: they were just going to end up driving here anyway.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: I'd thought before that maybe they were a worker at
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  Speaker 1: the gas station or were just hanging out here for
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  Speaker 1: some reason, but now this was far more suspicious than
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  Speaker 1: it already was. The driver door opened and a man
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  Speaker 1: stepped out of the truck. From one look at him.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: He had a very disheveled appearance, like something you'd expect
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  Speaker 1: from someone living on the road. Even his clothes looked dirty,
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  Speaker 1: stained and torn. As he got out, I held up
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  Speaker 1: the bag with a slight smile, but the man didn't
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  Speaker 1: even look at it. He kept his eyes locked on
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  Speaker 1: me as he approached, and something struck me, giving me
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  Speaker 1: the feeling to get out of there immediately. I set
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  Speaker 1: the bag on the ground, and almost right away, the
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  Speaker 1: man started walking faster, as if he knew I was
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  Speaker 1: going to leave. I got in my car and started
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: backing out just as the man got up to my door,
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: but then he ran right back to his truck, leaving
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  Speaker 1: the food on the ground. As I left the gas station,
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: I saw him back out quickly and start speeding toward
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  Speaker 1: the exit I was leaving from. I floored it, going
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  Speaker 1: through a red light and just speeding down the road
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  Speaker 1: until I got to where more cars were. The truck
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  Speaker 1: tried to follow me for a minute, but then turned away.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Once I was safe, I called the police, but really
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  Speaker 1: nothing came of it. In the heat of the moment,
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  Speaker 1: I never even thought to check the man's license plate,
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: though thinking back, I'm not sure if he even had one.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what he was doing or what would
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  Speaker 1: have happened if I didn't leave when I did, but
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  Speaker 1: knowing that I was so close to finding out is
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  Speaker 1: still horrifying.