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Top 11 True Horror Stories That Will Haunt You Forever · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: Are any of you afraid of being alone? Hello? My
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  Speaker 1: name is Lucas, and for as long as I can remember,
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  Speaker 1: being alone has been one of my biggest fears. Until recently,
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  Speaker 1: I was in company. I lived with my wife in
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  Speaker 1: this huge house that we had recently moved into. Things
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  Speaker 1: when Natasha didn't work out the way I would have liked,
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  Speaker 1: and she just left me. After a big fight we had,
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  Speaker 1: Natasha took her things and left the house. Don't think
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't like to get back together with her. I do.
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  Speaker 1: I try to call her every chance I get, but
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  Speaker 1: she never picks up after sending her WhatsApp messages. At first,
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  Speaker 1: all my messages would reach her and she wouldn't answer me.
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  Speaker 1: But after a few days, the messages just stopped reaching them,
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  Speaker 1: so I have to assume that she changed her cell phone. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the days without her were getting longer and longer. I
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  Speaker 1: missed her a lot and didn't feel like doing anything
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  Speaker 1: without her. I didn't say anything to my friends or family.
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  Speaker 1: I hid what happened with Natasha as if it was
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  Speaker 1: the darkest secret possible. I knew they wouldn't understand me.
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  Speaker 1: I knew they would share judge me as the days
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  Speaker 1: went by, I felt like I was getting used to
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  Speaker 1: being alone. I mean, I still didn't like it, but
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't as terrified as I used to be. And
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  Speaker 1: it was in those moments of learning to accept my
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  Speaker 1: loneliness that I realized something. Maybe I wasn't alone.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I can't explain the feeling I had from that night on,
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  Speaker 1: but I felt like I was being watched at all times.
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  Speaker 1: To make it worse, I feared I was becoming paranoid.
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  Speaker 1: But I could swear that many times I heard doors
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  Speaker 1: open in places in the room where I was not,
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  Speaker 1: things seemed to be put in a different place, and
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  Speaker 1: more than anything, I would hear footsteps in different parts
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  Speaker 1: of the house. I remember how every time something like
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  Speaker 1: this happened, I would say the same thing to myself,
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  Speaker 1: you are imagining things. Surely this is due to being alone,
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  Speaker 1: or surely it is some noise coming from outside. All
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  Speaker 1: these excuses helped me feel better temporarily until one night.
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  Speaker 1: One night I could no longer deny what was happening.
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  Speaker 1: That night, I saw someone in my house. A few
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  Speaker 1: hours earlier, I had fallen asleep on the couch when
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  Speaker 1: I fought with Natasha, I always ended up there, but
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  Speaker 1: it didn't bother me since I could fall asleep watching
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  Speaker 1: TV living alone. You could imagine that I fell asleep
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  Speaker 1: almost every night with the TV on, without even putting
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  Speaker 1: one in the room. I remember that when I woke up,
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  Speaker 1: the clock next to me showed that it was after
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  Speaker 1: four in the morning. I am normally a very deep sleeper,
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  Speaker 1: so I never woke up on my own at that time,
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  Speaker 1: and that night was no exception. Something had woken me up.
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  Speaker 1: At first, I thought it was the sound of the television,
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  Speaker 1: but it was off before I fall asleep. I usually
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  Speaker 1: set the TV to turn off automatically about two hours later,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't leave it on all night. I woke
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  Speaker 1: up wondering what could have woken me up at that time.
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  Speaker 1: I felt it was a person's voice. Are they trying
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  Speaker 1: to rob me? No, they definitely would have made more noise.
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  Speaker 1: I raised my head from the couch into my surprise,
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  Speaker 1: I saw a figure coming from the hallway. It was
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  Speaker 1: a female figure that looked very familiar to me. Was
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  Speaker 1: it I ran towards where the figure was coming from,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't see anyone. I went into my room.
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  Speaker 1: Had Natasha appeared? Why wouldn't she tell me anything? Was
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  Speaker 1: she playing a joke on me? Or had I dreamt
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  Speaker 1: about her and the sound was the work of my imagination.
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  Speaker 1: To make matters worse, I tried to turn on the
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  Speaker 1: light and it didn't work. I looked out the window
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  Speaker 1: and the power cup was general. I guess I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: have such bad timing with the light off and only myself.
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  Speaker 1: One night, I looked for her everywhere. I was sure
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  Speaker 1: of what I had seen, and if there was someone
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  Speaker 1: in the house, I would find her. After a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes of intent searching, I was sure that there was
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  Speaker 1: no one in the room, confirming that there was no
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  Speaker 1: one in the house either. In the end, it seems
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  Speaker 1: that it had all been a dream. I took advantage
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  Speaker 1: of being in the room and threw myself on the bed,
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  Speaker 1: which was more comfortable than the couch. I closed my
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  Speaker 1: eyes and was about to fall asleep until something made
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  Speaker 1: me open my eyes again. I felt that someone was
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  Speaker 1: lying next to me. I turned over nervously, but the
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  Speaker 1: bed was empty. I was quite uncomfortable and nervous. This
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  Speaker 1: was not a dream. What had happened? I decided I
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  Speaker 1: had to calm down, so I went to the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: A soda would do me good. I turned on the
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  Speaker 1: kitchen light and grabbed a soda from the fridge. I
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  Speaker 1: sat down in the dining room to drink it. This
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  Speaker 1: whole Natasha leaving me thing had gone too far. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it was time to let go. What would she think
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  Speaker 1: if she saw me now anyway? Not being able to
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  Speaker 1: sleep at night, thinking there were ghosts in the house.
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  Speaker 1: I always put her first, but maybe, just maybe it
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  Speaker 1: was time to put me first. Hey, it's me again.
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  Speaker 1: As far as I can see, you don't get my messages.
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  Speaker 1: You probably changed your number or something. In case you
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  Speaker 1: happened to see this message. I just wanted to tell
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  Speaker 1: you that I'm sorry. I don't know if you left
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  Speaker 1: for something in particular, or if you just got bored
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  Speaker 1: of me, but I always wanted I'm sorry. I always
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  Speaker 1: wanted the best for you, And if what's best for
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  Speaker 1: you is to be without me, I understand. Once I
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  Speaker 1: sent the message, I felt sad, but at the same
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  Speaker 1: time liberated. I knew I had made the right decision.
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  Speaker 1: And even though I knew that the message might never
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  Speaker 1: reach them, And even though I knew that the message might
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  Speaker 1: never reach her, it helped me to try to start
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  Speaker 1: over again. From now on, things were going to be better.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly I noticed someone banging on my door. Who could
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  Speaker 1: it be? A concerned family member, a friend who wanted
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  Speaker 1: to know about me. I got up to open the door,
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  Speaker 1: but I saw something in the hallway, a person. But
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't just anyone. It was Natasha. What was wrong
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  Speaker 1: with her? One of her eyes was twitching, her head
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  Speaker 1: was open and droll was coming out of her mouth.
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  Speaker 1: Was I going crazy? The knocking on the door got
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  Speaker 1: louder and louder, but I had to follow Natasha. I
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  Speaker 1: approached her and she started walking. I followed her to
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  Speaker 1: the pasement door, and she just stood there, looking at
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  Speaker 1: me and crying. I tried to approach her, but the
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  Speaker 1: pounding on the door turned into kicks. The noise from
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  Speaker 1: the door was intolerable. I fell to the floor dizzy.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't take another step in Natasha's direction. I looked
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  Speaker 1: up once more, but she she was next to me.
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  Speaker 1: Her face was terrifying. This was not the Natas I knew.
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  Speaker 1: Her skin had turned gray and emanated a foul, putrid smell.
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  Speaker 1: Her mouth was wide open, and her whole head and
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  Speaker 1: face were filled with blood. This was a monster. None
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  Speaker 1: of it could be true. It was a dream, but
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know how to wake up. I slapped myself
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  Speaker 1: in the face. I had to wake up somehow. Natasha
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  Speaker 1: grabbed me by the neck with one hand and lifted
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  Speaker 1: me easily, only to throw me a few feet back
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  Speaker 1: back into the kitchen. My only reaction was confusion and sadness.
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  Speaker 1: I cried not and stop, without understanding what was happening.
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  Speaker 1: I looked ahead once more, and Natasha was gone. But
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  Speaker 1: the danger was not over. She was no longer alone.
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  Speaker 1: The place was full of people. They were cops. They
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  Speaker 1: all started to search the house. After a few seconds,
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  Speaker 1: two of them came out of the basement and said
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  Speaker 1: things that I didn't understand. Confused, I watched as one
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  Speaker 1: of them put handcuffs on my hands, said something I
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  Speaker 1: didn't understand, and took me to his car. I was scared.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what was happening to me or why.
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  Speaker 1: I just hope that wherever I was would be okay.
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  Speaker 2: And will that man pay for what he did to Natasha.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. He won't go to jail. His
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  Speaker 1: mental state is highly deteriorated. He's completely out of his mind.
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  Speaker 1: His lawyer will have him committed to a mental institution.
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  Speaker 1: But that's ridiculous. You've already found the tapes. You can
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  Speaker 1: see perfectly how the psychopath pushes Natasha and her neck breaks.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what it's like for a father to
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  Speaker 1: see the moment when his daughter dies, the moment when
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  Speaker 1: he takes her corpse to a cellar to rot? How
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  Speaker 1: do you want it to go on after that?
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  Speaker 2: My daughter just wanted to escape from that violent monster,
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  Speaker 2: and that's why she ended up dead. Lucas should rot
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  Speaker 2: and come in jail.
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  Speaker 1: I know, and I agree, but that's not how the
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  Speaker 1: protocol works. I'm sorry, but to tell you the truth,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Lucas realizes whether he's in jail or
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  Speaker 1: an insane asylum, that man's sanity died along with Natasha.
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  Speaker 1: As far as he can go, he can be considered
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  Speaker 1: a living dead man.
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  Speaker 2: Hello. My name is Lucas. I'm a very distrustful man
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  Speaker 2: who's basically afraid of everything. This is not by chance.
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  Speaker 2: Since someone chased me when I was a kid, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm still afraid that he'll find me. This someone became
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  Speaker 2: a part of my day and every time I look
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  Speaker 2: in the mirror, I'm afraid I'll see him peeking out,
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  Speaker 2: waiting for the opportunity to kill me. Everything started on
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  Speaker 2: a Saturday night. That night, my parents had an important
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  Speaker 2: engagement and couldn't take me with them, so I stayed
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  Speaker 2: home alone. I was twelve years old at the time,
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  Speaker 2: and although I felt pretty big and capable of handling myself,
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  Speaker 2: my parents were very hesitant to go without me. Luckily
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  Speaker 2: for me, the trip came up at the last minute
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  Speaker 2: and no babysitter was available, so they had no choice
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  Speaker 2: but to leave me alone. After instructing me that they
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  Speaker 2: had left food on the stove and all the phone
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  Speaker 2: numbers to call in case something happened, they began to
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  Speaker 2: get get ready to leave. I was really excited. I
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  Speaker 2: had the house all to myself. Obviously, I wasn't going
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  Speaker 2: to have a party or anything like that. Being twelve
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  Speaker 2: years old, there was really no real way to take
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  Speaker 2: advantage of being alone. But you know, that's not what
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  Speaker 2: it was all about. What mattered to me was having
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  Speaker 2: the freedom to be alone, to have no one tell
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  Speaker 2: me what time to go to bed or when to eat.
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  Speaker 2: I was happy because from that day on, I was
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  Speaker 2: sure I would always be left alone. Once my parents left,
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  Speaker 2: I stayed in my room, trying to distract myself with
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  Speaker 2: TV and some games, but I couldn't help but feel restless.
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  Speaker 2: I admit that my first experience of being alone was
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  Speaker 2: a little more frightening than I had expected. The house
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  Speaker 2: was too quiet, and every little noise made my hair
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  Speaker 2: stand on end. At the time, I couldn't help but
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  Speaker 2: think that this was because it was my first time
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  Speaker 2: being alone. I would eventually get used to it, but
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  Speaker 2: I could never get used to what happened next. A
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  Speaker 2: while all passed and I realized that I needed to
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  Speaker 2: go to the bathroom. I tried to ignore my fear
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  Speaker 2: of having to go down the dark hallway, but finally
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't stand it any longer and plucked up the
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  Speaker 2: courage to leave my room. I walked down the hallway slowly,
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  Speaker 2: trying not to make noise, but all my footsteps sounded
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  Speaker 2: loud on the wood and made more sound than normal walking.
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  Speaker 2: I decided to keep the fear from overcoming me, so
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  Speaker 2: I ran at full speed towards the bathroom, as if
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  Speaker 2: trying to fool someone who was in the dark waiting
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  Speaker 2: to attack me. I reached the bathroom and turned on
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  Speaker 2: the light, feeling a bit of relief to see that
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  Speaker 2: everything was in order. Just as I was about to finish,
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  Speaker 2: I heard a noise coming from the living room, and
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  Speaker 2: I stood still, trying to listen better. What was that noise?
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  Speaker 2: Had something fallen? Where had someone entered the house? I
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  Speaker 2: stayed focused, trying to hear another noise, and even though
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want it to happen, I managed to hear
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  Speaker 2: something else, something much. The laughter of a child. Something
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  Speaker 2: as simple as the laughter of a child who could
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  Speaker 2: easily be my neighbor, left me terrified. My muscles tensed,
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  Speaker 2: and my heart began to pound. Who the hell would
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  Speaker 2: be laughing in my house at this time of night.
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  Speaker 2: I left the bathroom aheaded towards the living room, trying
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  Speaker 2: not to make a sound. With each step, the laughter
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  Speaker 2: grew louder and clearer. The laughter was going back and forth,
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  Speaker 2: as if it was running and laughing for no reason.
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  Speaker 2: When I reached the living room, I froze. In the
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  Speaker 2: center of the room, standing next to the couch was
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  Speaker 2: a man, A man I didn't recognize. He was staring
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  Speaker 2: up at the ceiling a twisted smile on his face.
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  Speaker 2: My first impulse was to scream, but something in me stopped.
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  Speaker 2: What if this man was dangerous? What if he had
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  Speaker 2: a gun? I stood still, watching him in fear. Surely
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  Speaker 2: an adult would have acted better, but what could a
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  Speaker 2: little boy like me do. The man finally looked down
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  Speaker 2: at me, and his smile widened even more. Then he spoke,
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  Speaker 2: but his voice was strange but familiar. It was the
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  Speaker 2: child's voice I heard before. It was as if he
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  Speaker 2: was trying to imitate a child's voice. What are you
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  Speaker 2: doing up, little buddy? You should be in bed at
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  Speaker 2: this time of night. I gulped and backed away, slowly,
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  Speaker 2: looking for something to defend myself with. The man took
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  Speaker 2: a step towards me, and then I knew I had
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  Speaker 2: to act fast. I ran towards the front door, my
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  Speaker 2: heart pounding so hard I thought it was going to
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  Speaker 2: burst out of my chest. But just as I was
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  Speaker 2: about to reach for the door, the man grabbed my
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  Speaker 2: arm and stopped me in my tracks, pulling me to
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  Speaker 2: the floor. Oh no, no, no, you're going with me now.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you want to play? No, I don't want to play.
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  Speaker 2: Please go away. I'm afraid. No, what are you afraid
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  Speaker 2: of little buddy. We're just two kids wanting to have fun.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't we play a game later? I promise to leave?
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  Speaker 2: Will you really leave? Of course? Best friend promise? Oh okay,
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  Speaker 2: what do you want to play? My favorite game is
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  Speaker 2: Hide and seek? We can play all night. Oh boy,
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  Speaker 2: what's wrong with you? I'm scared. Don't be afraid. It's
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  Speaker 2: just a game. You'll hide and I'll look for you.
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  Speaker 2: You have one minute. If I don't find you, you
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  Speaker 2: win if I find you. If I find you, I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you to a chair and you'll see how I
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  Speaker 2: killed Mom and Dad. What First, I'll break Dad's legs.
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  Speaker 2: Then I'll beat Mom until she's almost passed out, and
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  Speaker 2: when I'm done, I'll chop them both up while you watch.
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  Speaker 2: You want to know what I'll do next? Please let
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  Speaker 2: me go. Then I'll kidnap you and lock you in
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  Speaker 2: my basement. And you know what I'll do to you.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what I'll do to you?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing. I'll leave you in the basement and never give
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  Speaker 2: you food or water. You'll die and no one will
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  Speaker 2: know where you are. Isn't that great? My little friend?
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  Speaker 2: Why are you doing this? You should know who are
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  Speaker 2: both kids, and we both like to have fun? Or
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  Speaker 2: don't you like hide and seek? Now go run, I'll
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  Speaker 2: start counting. Desperate, I ran as fast as I could.
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  Speaker 2: I thought about running away from the house anyway he
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  Speaker 2: had his back turned, but if I did that, he
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  Speaker 2: would surely kill my parents when they came back. I
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  Speaker 2: decided to play his game and go hide. I went
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  Speaker 2: to my parents room, the place where I always hid
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  Speaker 2: when I played alone. I was going to go behind
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  Speaker 2: the curtain, under the bed, in the closet, but all
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  Speaker 2: those places were so obvious. I was sure to be found.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: I thought and thought as much as I could, but
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  Speaker 2: nothing came to my mind until it occurred to me.
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  Speaker 2: I moved one of the pieces of furniture that was
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  Speaker 2: in a corner, and I stood behind it. There was
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  Speaker 2: no way he could see me there. I put the
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  Speaker 2: furniture back and hid. Now I just had to wait.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Seconds passed and I could hear the man coming. And
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  Speaker 2: that's when it hit me. The light. I never turned
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  Speaker 2: off the light. The rooms were turned off before he
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  Speaker 2: will surely notice. I thought about going to turn off
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  Speaker 2: the light, but it was too late. I could hear
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  Speaker 2: him approaching, humming a children's song. He was getting closer
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  Speaker 2: and closer, and as soon as he saw the lights on,
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  Speaker 2: he realized I was there, little friend. Unless this is
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  Speaker 2: just to distract me, I must confess you started the
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  Speaker 2: game wrong. Once he was inside the room, the cycle
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  Speaker 2: started looking for me everywhere. He kicked the bed, broke
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  Speaker 2: the curtains, destroyed everything he saw on his path. There
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  Speaker 2: was only one place left to check, and he approached it, laughing,
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  Speaker 2: as if he knew I was there. The man approached
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  Speaker 2: in slow motion, as if enjoying every second before meeting me.
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  Speaker 2: He had no reason to think I was hiding behind
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  Speaker 2: that piece of furniture, but he seemed to know it perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: When I saw that he was about to arrive, fear
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  Speaker 2: overcame me and I closed my eyes, praying that he
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  Speaker 2: would just go away. I spent seconds with my eyes closed,
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  Speaker 2: and he didn't come closer. Was he gone? I opened
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  Speaker 2: them for just a moment, and there he was. His
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  Speaker 2: face was staring at me over the top of the cabinet.
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  Speaker 2: He had a big, innocent, boyish grin on his face,
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  Speaker 2: and he looked so happy to have found me. As
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  Speaker 2: soon as he saw me, I tried to run to
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  Speaker 2: another room, but he easily grabbed me and put me
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  Speaker 2: against the wall.
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  Speaker 1: You lost.
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  Speaker 2: I used all my strength to escape, but I couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about an adult who looked like a child.
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  Speaker 2: There was no way I could overcome him with brute strength.
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  Speaker 2: As if in ecstasy of having caught me, the man
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  Speaker 2: pulled out a knife and showed it to me, as
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  Speaker 2: if to indicate that this was what awaited me. I
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  Speaker 2: screamed as loud as I could. I knew it was useless,
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  Speaker 2: but I had to do it, and to my surprise,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: it worked. Suddenly I heard the door and my parents
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: came running to protect me. Once they got to the room,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I was alone on the floor at the man left.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: My parents hugged me crying. They didn't look for my
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: attacker and didn't seem confused about what was happening, just sad.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: As soon as they finished hugging me, they took me
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  Speaker 2: to the hospital to treat my wounds. I told them
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: that there was a man dressed as a boy in
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: the house, but they seemed to ignore me and only
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: responded by looking at me in such a way as
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: if they felt pity. At the time, I didn't understand
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: what was going on. But over the years I did.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: It's been ten years since I suffered that traumatic event
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: at my home. You know I've suffered many more like it.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: That man dressed as a boy is always harassing me.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: He shows up when I least expected, and he always
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: tries to hurt me. Do you know when he stopped
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: showing up when I started taking the medication the doctors
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: gave me. My name is Jared, and I have multiple
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: personality disorder. My other personality may not be as developed
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: as mine, but I know that another person lives inside
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: my head. The story I just told you was exactly
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: as I remember it, but that's not really what happened.
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  Speaker 2: The truth is that there is some one of mine
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  Speaker 2: who wants to kill me, and that night was not
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: the first time it happened, but it was just the
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: one I remembered the most to day. As long as
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I take my medication, I feel much safer. But you know,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I know that person is still inside me, waiting waiting
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: for me to be weak, waiting for me not to
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: take my medication, waiting for me to make any mistake
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: that he can take advantage of to come out and
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: get rid of me. Most kids get excited at the
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: possibility of a night alone without parent supervision. Usually that
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: means staying up late, watching scary movies and eating junk food.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I envisioned that night in October as I
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: pleaded and negotiated with my parents. I'm eleven years old now,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: I said, as if I were a mature adult, I
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: don't need a babysitter. Please. My parents were going out
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  Speaker 2: of town for a work related night out, and after
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: a lot of pleading, begging, and immature whining, they budged
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: and allowed me to stay home alone. It's only one night,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: my dad whispered to my worried mom in a consoling tone.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be all right. I ran to my room, excited
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: for the upcoming night of unsupervised fun. It wouldn't take
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: long for that excitement to morph into panic and terror,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: as it became the worst night of my life. Before long,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: my mom was kissing me good bye and smiling worriedly.
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  Speaker 2: You call us if you need anything, anything at all,
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  Speaker 2: got it, yes, Mom? I rolled my eyes. I placed
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  Speaker 2: my glass of ice water on the coffee table in
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: the living room and let my mom embrace me. We
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: finished our good byes, and before long the door was closed.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: I was alone, unsupervised for the first time in my life.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Fear began to creep into the pit of my stomach.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: What if something bad actually happened? Who would I call?
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: What would I do? I heard my parents car pull
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: out of the driveway, and the tingle fear became stronger,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: flooding into my head. I ran upstairs to my bedroom
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: window that gave me a clear view of the front
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: of the house. My parents were still in the driveway
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: pulling out. I watched them forehead against the glass as
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: rain began to fall on the window, obscuring my view
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: of their car driving away. Their car grew distant, smaller
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: and smaller. They turned left at the end of our street,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: and they were gone. I stayed frozen, face against the glass.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I regretted, asking to stay alone. What if there was
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: an emergency? What if I burned the house down? My
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: eyes became heavy with tears. I continued to stare out
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: of the window for minutes, hoping their car would reappear,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: turn into our street and into our driveway, where they'd
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: tell me their event was canceled and they'd stay home
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: with me. The light post in the corner of the
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: street flickered on, breaking me out of my days. It
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: was getting dark. Okay, I whispered to myself. If I
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: don't do anything stupid, I should be fine. I began
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: to move away from the window when something caused me
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: to turn back under the light post. Two figures turned
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: the corner and walked toward my end of the street.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: They wore black sweaters and pants. One looked paranoid. He
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: looked around constantly, while the other hit his arm and
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: gestured to keep him looking forward. I stared as the
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: panic began to set in again. Are they coming here?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: No way, that'd be ridiculous, right. The figures passed the
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: first house on the street, They passed the second one,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: they passed the third. My house was next. Keep walking,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I whispered in a trembling voice. But they didn't keep walking.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: The pair of men stopped right in front of my house.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: As one gestured at the empty driveway, they argued. The
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: rain began to come down harder. They approached my front door.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I could hear my heart beating in my chest. Now.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I let out a small yelp as the doorbell rang.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: What did they want? Why are they here? I came
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: down the stairs quietly and stood over the welcome mat
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: by the entrance. I stared at the door. As the
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: door chimed again. I pressed my ear close to the
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: cold wooden door. I could hear them now, you see.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: One said, there's no one here. I saw them carrying
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: luggage into their car and saw them drive off. They're
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: not coming back for the night. I don't know, man said,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: The other toned, oozing with paranoia. Shut up, the other
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: one said. The door handle began to jiggle violently. I
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: pressed my hands close to my mouth to suppress a scream.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Fuck it. The paranoid one said, let's just go through
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: the window and get off the street. Every one can
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: see us. Before I had time to react, the window
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: next to the door exploded, causing shards of glass to
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: rain on to the hardwood floor. Without time to think,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I sprinted upstairs. This cannot be happening, I repeated to
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: myself as I glided up the stairs as quietly as possible.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: I glanced back downstairs. As I turned into my parents bedroom,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: a body emerged from the shattered window, causing my stomach
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: to drop. I shut the door and rushed under the bed.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Had they seen me? Did they hear the door clicking shut?
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Did they know I was here? I laid on my stomach,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: my mind, assuming the worst. From my hiding spot, I
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: stared at the small slit of light under the door.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Glass shattering broke out from downstairs. The scratching of furniture
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: being dragged across the floor followed, and finally voices broke out.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Someone's here, said a calm but firm voice. What how
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: do you know? Said another, Fear surrounding every word. This water,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: it's cold, there's still ice in it under the bed.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I broke out in cold sweat. After hearing those words,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I focused to hear anything else, but nothing followed. The
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: silence was deafening. Minutes passed of complete silence that felt
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: like an eternity. Suddenly, the soft and subtle cracking of
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: the wood floor creaked. The soft click of a door
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: being shut quietly followed. They were in my room. I
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: stared at the slit of light under the door. The
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: creaking continued, crescendoing and nearing. My panic grew. My fear
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: became a reality. Two dark spots suddenly appeared under the door,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: blocking the bright strip of light coming from outside my
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: parents room. They were here. The door opened slowly. I
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: could now see two pairs of feet under the threshold.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I know you're here, said a calm voice. It sounded
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: taunting and playful. You can come out. We won't hurt you.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: The other voice snickered. Unmoving, I stared as the two
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: men separated. They went around the perimeter of the bed,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: and I quickly lost sight of one. The other stood
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: directly in front of me. I could have reached out
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: and grabbed his shoelace. I wonder where he is, said
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: the one in front of me. Is he in the
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: closet behind the curtains, or perhaps he may be under
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: the bed. As he said the last word, a pair
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: of hands grabbed my ankles and began pulling me. I
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: shrieked in terror, but an enormous hand covered my mouth.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: I struggled, kicked, and flailed to no avail. Two enormous
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: arms indulped me, leaving me immobile. The man that had
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: stood in front of me approached sleep. He whispered. He
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: brought a moist cloth and placed it over my mouth
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: and nose. Everything began to go dark. Seconds later I
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: lost consciousness. I woke up in a dark and damp room.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: I laid on cold cement over a thin blanket. My
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: body ached, my mouth was incredibly dry. I sat up,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: groggy and my eyes adjusted to the dim light. A
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: single light bulb hung from a wire in the middle
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: of the room that was void of any windows or decorations.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: I scanned the perimeter, trying to orient myself, with no success.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: In the corner of the room, a flight of stairs
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: let up. Minutes passed when a loud pop rang from above.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Muffled screaming broke out, and banging and crashing followed. I
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: recoiled and curled up on the ground, covering the back
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: of my head with my hands. The scuffle overhead intensified
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: as a series of loud pops continued, then complete and
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: total silence. A minute passed and the silence was broken.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: The loud creak of a heavy door being opened echoed
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: through the damp room. I shut my eyes tight, ready
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: for more pain. Mike came a strong voice. Are you
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: in here? I remained silent. This is police Officer Gordon.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: I'm here to help. I looked up, gave out a
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: cry of acknowledgment, and felt hope for the first time
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: in days. Tears flowed from my mom's eyes as she
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: hugged me tightly. After being reunited at the police station,
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: for what seemed like an eternity, my parents both embraced
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: me in the detective's office. I could have stayed in
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: their embrace forever. Finally, Officer Gordon explained that the pair
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: of burglars had been watching my house for days. They
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: noticed my parents left with luggage, and they assumed they
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: would be gone for an extended period of time. As
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: soon as they drove off, they pounced at the opportunity
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: of an empty house ready for looting. But when they
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: discovered I was there, they were unsure of what to do.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: I was a hiccup in their plan. They drugged me
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: and placed me in the basement of their house. However,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: as they carried my unconscious body and placed it in
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: the back of their truck that was hidden around the
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: corner of our street, a camera atopped the light post
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: caught their license plate. The very next day, my parents arrived,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: and before minutes my house was full of detectives and
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: police officers. After some digging around the lamp post, camera
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: footage was used to locate my kidnappers. Decades have passed
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: since that horrible day, and I am eternally thankful that
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: that camera was placed on top of that lamp post.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: I sometimes think of what horrible fate would have followed
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: if that footage hadn't been discovered.