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3 True Winter Horror Stories for a Cold December Night | Vol. 2 That Will Freeze Your Blood · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: Last year, my roommate moved out of the house we
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  Speaker 1: had been renting together for the past four years. By then,
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  Speaker 1: both of us had gotten better jobs and we're getting
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  Speaker 1: paid more, and the house we had wasn't the best,
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  Speaker 1: so it was only a matter of time before one
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  Speaker 1: of us moved out to get their own place. After
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  Speaker 1: he moved, though, I was able to use more of
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  Speaker 1: the space in the house and actually just decided to
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  Speaker 1: stay there for another year or two. This happened during
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  Speaker 1: this time in early December. Our area was going through
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  Speaker 1: a week of some pretty bad snowstorms, and the office
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  Speaker 1: I worked at allowed us to work from home for
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  Speaker 1: a few days if we wanted to. Obviously, I chose
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  Speaker 1: to take the offer. I used my old roommate's bedroom
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  Speaker 1: as an office and worked throughout the day. But at
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  Speaker 1: one point while I was working, there was a knock
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  Speaker 1: at the front door. I left the room and checked
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  Speaker 1: who it was. There was a man on the porch
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  Speaker 1: in a heavy winter jacket. He didn't seem to be
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  Speaker 1: a worker or delivery person of any kind, just some
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  Speaker 1: regular guy. I opened the door, getting hit by a
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  Speaker 1: rush of snow and wind. How can I help you?
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  Speaker 1: The man smiled, and apologized for interrupting my day, then
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  Speaker 1: explained his situation. He said his car got stuck in
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  Speaker 1: the snow right on the side of the road next
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  Speaker 1: to my house, and he didn't have a phone on him,
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  Speaker 1: so he asked if he could borrow mine. Obviously skeptical,
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  Speaker 1: I told him to give me a minute. Then I
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  Speaker 1: closed the door and went to the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the house. I looked out the window at the road
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  Speaker 1: he was supposedly stuck on. There was a small suv
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  Speaker 1: that looked like it had actually slid into the curb
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  Speaker 1: and gotten stuck in the snow bank. Now that I
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  Speaker 1: was pretty sure he wasn't lying, I grabbed a jacket
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  Speaker 1: and put on some shoes, then went back to the
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  Speaker 1: front door. I was still a bit skeptical, but I
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  Speaker 1: stood on the porch with him as he used my
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  Speaker 1: phone to call his brother, just so that if he
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  Speaker 1: did try to run with my phone or anything, I
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  Speaker 1: could chase after him or prevent him from leaving. After
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  Speaker 1: a quick call, though, the man handed my phone back
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  Speaker 1: and thanked me, then walked away. I went inside and
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  Speaker 1: checked the window, seeing the man getting in his car.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking everything was settled now, I went back to the
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  Speaker 1: office and started working again. Around seven, I felt like
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  Speaker 1: I'd done enough for the day and took the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the night off. It was then that I remembered
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  Speaker 1: about the man in his car and went to check
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  Speaker 1: on it. But I was surprised to see that the
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  Speaker 1: car was still there and I could see the man
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  Speaker 1: moving around inside. It had been almost three hours by then,
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  Speaker 1: which made me wonder how he was still there. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: he was waiting for his brother to get off of
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  Speaker 1: work and pick him up. I didn't know, but I
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  Speaker 1: went to the kitchen and made some dinner, then sat
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  Speaker 1: on the couch to watch TV. I stayed up until
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  Speaker 1: about nine thirty, then went upstairs to shower and get
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  Speaker 1: ready for bed. I turned the water on and got
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  Speaker 1: in the shower, but a few minutes in there was
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  Speaker 1: an abrupt and sudden banging on the front door. It
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  Speaker 1: was loud and harsh, completely jump scaring me and putting
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  Speaker 1: me in a fear induced frozen state for a moment.
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  Speaker 1: The banging was so loud it was shaking the walls
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  Speaker 1: and even across the entire house. I could hear that
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  Speaker 1: it was coming from the front door. They were hitting
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  Speaker 1: it non stop, and I could even hear them aggressively
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  Speaker 1: shaking the door handle. It was such a sudden burst
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  Speaker 1: of chaos that it was hard for me to know
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  Speaker 1: what to do. I turned off the shower and quickly
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  Speaker 1: got dropped. But as I left my room and walked
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  Speaker 1: down the upstairs hallway, everything stopped. It was just silent,
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  Speaker 1: no more sounds at all. I stopped in place, hearing
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  Speaker 1: only the wind from outside and feeling the eeriness set in.
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  Speaker 1: Before I slowly walked downstairs and up to the front door,
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  Speaker 1: nobody was there anymore. I quickly ran to the window,
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  Speaker 1: seeing that the car was still there, but the man
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  Speaker 1: was not inside of it. Not knowing what to make
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  Speaker 1: of any of it, I called the police. When they came,
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  Speaker 1: they noticed multiple sets of shoe prints in the snow,
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  Speaker 1: but they were covered up by the storm. Soon after.
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  Speaker 1: They took the license plate of the car, though, and
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  Speaker 1: found the picture of the owner, and from what I
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  Speaker 1: could tell, it was the same guy that I'd helped
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  Speaker 1: on my porch in the following days. They waited for
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  Speaker 1: him to turn but as far as I know, he
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  Speaker 1: never did. It's really disturbing to think about what could
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  Speaker 1: have happened that night right outside my door. Was it
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  Speaker 1: that same man desperately trying to get in for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: or someone else with a more malicious intent. It seems
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  Speaker 1: most think that it was the man running from someone
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  Speaker 1: and trying to get help, but what happened afterwards is
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  Speaker 1: still up for debate. Nothing is really known about that night.
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  Speaker 1: Where the man is now and what he was running
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  Speaker 1: from are just a few questions on a long list
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  Speaker 1: that will probably never be answered. It was January and
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  Speaker 1: I was renting out a winter cabin that was by
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  Speaker 1: an ice fishing lake. It was a very small, barebones
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  Speaker 1: cabin with only the essentials, and was only there for
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  Speaker 1: people like me who liked going out to the lake
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  Speaker 1: for fishing or ice fishing. I'd usually bring a friend
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  Speaker 1: along with me, but sometimes I went by myself and
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  Speaker 1: never had any issues with it. I had planned out
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  Speaker 1: three days there with no other real plans in mind
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  Speaker 1: except sitting out by the lake and fishing. On the
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  Speaker 1: first day, when I got there, I set up my
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  Speaker 1: things in the cabin and made myself at home, brewing
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  Speaker 1: some hot coffee and relaxing by the fireplace for most
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  Speaker 1: of the afternoon. This cabin was only a single room,
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  Speaker 1: so the bed fireplace and everything else was all in
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  Speaker 1: one area. Anyway, I fell asleep early and woke up
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  Speaker 1: at seven am to go out to the lake. It
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  Speaker 1: was about a ten minute walk from the cabin down
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  Speaker 1: a short forested path that was entirely covered in snow.
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  Speaker 1: Once I reached the lake, I found a good spot
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  Speaker 1: and got my things situated, drilled into the ice, and
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  Speaker 1: started fishing. I find it to be really stress releasing
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  Speaker 1: to just sit there and fish, though I do know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people find it to be boring. I
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  Speaker 1: stayed on the lake for several hours, probably three or four,
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  Speaker 1: then packed my things. As the snow was starting to
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  Speaker 1: pick up and the wind was getting heavier, I walked
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  Speaker 1: off the lake and back onto the path, but immediately
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  Speaker 1: noticed a set of footprints in the snow going alongside
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  Speaker 1: mine from earlier. They went right up to the edge
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  Speaker 1: of the lake I was at. Then turned around and
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  Speaker 1: went back down the path toward the cabin. Feeling a
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  Speaker 1: little uneasy that someone was out here and had been
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  Speaker 1: right behind me, maybe watching me, I chose to follow
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  Speaker 1: the prince and see where they led. They mostly went
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  Speaker 1: along with the path, going right back to the cabin,
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  Speaker 1: but in instead of going up to the cabin, they
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  Speaker 1: veered off into the woods. As far as I could see,
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  Speaker 1: they continued in a straight line, going through the trees.
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  Speaker 1: Even More confused and slightly nervous, I went back inside
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  Speaker 1: the cabin and warmed up by the fireplace. There was
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  Speaker 1: nothing else out here for miles from what I was
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  Speaker 1: aware of, so anyone being out here was just odd,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the winter. I made food and stayed in
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  Speaker 1: the cabin for the rest of the night, keeping the
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  Speaker 1: fireplace running and mostly just reading. But about an hour
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  Speaker 1: after sunset, I heard movement outside, a very light crunching
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  Speaker 1: in the snow, but in the recognizable pattern of someone walking.
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  Speaker 1: I moved over to the window and looked instantly, seeing
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  Speaker 1: a figure out by the trees, walking toward the path.
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  Speaker 1: They were wearing thick clothing covering every part of them,
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  Speaker 1: making it hard to get any details on what they
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  Speaker 1: looked like. Once they got to the path, though, they
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  Speaker 1: turned and started coming right for the cabin. I ducked
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  Speaker 1: my head down, now just listening to the footsteps, getting
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  Speaker 1: closer and closer until they were right up to the wall.
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  Speaker 1: The footsteps moved to the side, coming right up to
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  Speaker 1: the window I was hiding under their shadow moved around
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  Speaker 1: like they were peering inside the cabin, but then they stopped.
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  Speaker 1: I tilted my head up, seeing their eyes staring right
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  Speaker 1: back at me. I jumped away, now standing a few
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  Speaker 1: feet from the window, as the person quickly tried to
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  Speaker 1: lift it open. I ran and grabbed a nearby knife,
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  Speaker 1: but after a few more attempts sat opening the window,
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  Speaker 1: the person ran off. I watched their figure disappear into
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  Speaker 1: the snow. We woulds going in the same direction i'd
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  Speaker 1: seen them come from. After that, I packed up and
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  Speaker 1: ran for my car, leaving the area only a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes later. I don't know who they were or what
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  Speaker 1: they wanted, but they knew I was staying there after
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  Speaker 1: seeing me at the lake, and willingly came back in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the night to try and break in
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  Speaker 1: through the window, so they definitely had something horrible in mind.
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  Speaker 1: Luckily I got out unharmed, but I have a feeling
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  Speaker 1: that that night was close to being my last. This
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  Speaker 1: happened in January of twenty twenty, when I was eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Over winter break, I had signed up for door dash
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  Speaker 1: since a couple of my friends were also doing it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really need the money, as I was in
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  Speaker 1: high school and still living with my parents, but it
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  Speaker 1: was more to just have something to do, and as
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  Speaker 1: a kid, a couple hundred bucks a week was pretty nice.
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  Speaker 1: My first few nights went smoothly. I got the hang
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  Speaker 1: of it after the first three or four orders, and
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  Speaker 1: after that it was all just the same sort of
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  Speaker 1: work cycle. During my second week, I started working more, though,
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  Speaker 1: getting excited about making money for the first time and
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  Speaker 1: trying to make as much as I could. My friends
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  Speaker 1: were doing the same and had mentioned that on days
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  Speaker 1: with bad weather you'd usually make even more. So on
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  Speaker 1: the one night when snow started coming down, I chose
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  Speaker 1: to hit the road and do some deliveries. For the
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  Speaker 1: first hour, I was facetiming one of my friends as
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  Speaker 1: we were both driving around, but he stopped and went
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  Speaker 1: home around eight. It was Saturday, so I could stay
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  Speaker 1: out as late as I wanted, but by ten I
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  Speaker 1: was getting a little bored. I took up one more order.
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  Speaker 1: I got the bag and drove to the neighborhood it
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  Speaker 1: was in. This was just some regular street with very
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  Speaker 1: average houses. By now, the snow had covered up everything, though,
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  Speaker 1: which made it both hard to drive and hard to see.
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  Speaker 1: The numbers on the houses. I slowly made my way
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  Speaker 1: down the street until finally finding the right address. It
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  Speaker 1: was a two story, typical looking suburban home that still
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  Speaker 1: had Christmas lights hanging on the trees outside. I parked
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  Speaker 1: and put my hazards on, then got out. I double
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  Speaker 1: checked that the bag had everything as I walked up
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  Speaker 1: the driveway, but as I approached the porch, I saw
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  Speaker 1: that the front door was open, not all the way,
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  Speaker 1: but enough to be strange. Considering it was snowing and cold,
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  Speaker 1: I figured it was so I could leave the bag
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  Speaker 1: inside the house rather than out in the snow. So
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  Speaker 1: when I got up to the door, I pushed it
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more open and slid the bag inside
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  Speaker 1: the house. But just as I pulled my phone out
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  Speaker 1: to take a picture for confirmation, I heard a woman's
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  Speaker 1: voice yell from across the house. She asked if I
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  Speaker 1: was the delivery person dropping off her order. It sounded
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  Speaker 1: like a young woman, maybe even early twenties. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: put it right here in your doorway, I said, not
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  Speaker 1: expecting the conversation. The woman responded right away, saying I
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  Speaker 1: could push the door open and bring the bag to her.
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  Speaker 1: I knew it was strange to be asking me to
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  Speaker 1: go inside their house, but I pushed the door open
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  Speaker 1: just to see where they were. Past the entrance, there
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  Speaker 1: was a long hallway that led to what I think
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  Speaker 1: was the kitchen, and on the wall I could see
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  Speaker 1: the clear shadow of the woman, who was presumably standing
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  Speaker 1: right away around the corner. Oh, where do you want
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  Speaker 1: me to bring it? There was a long moment before
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  Speaker 1: the woman responded. She leaned half of her body around
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  Speaker 1: the corner and showed herself at the end of the hallway,
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  Speaker 1: telling me to just bring it over to her, and
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  Speaker 1: gesturing with her hands for me to come in. But
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  Speaker 1: as she went back around the corner and out of sight,
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  Speaker 1: I realized that the shadow outline on the wall hadn't
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  Speaker 1: moved with her. It was someone else's shadow, standing somewhere
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  Speaker 1: by her around the corner. I stood there for a
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  Speaker 1: second as I felt blood rushed through my body. Then
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  Speaker 1: I quietly placed the bag down and took a few
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  Speaker 1: steps back before turning and rushing away from the house.
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  Speaker 1: I stumbled into my car and glanced back at the
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  Speaker 1: house as I pulled away. In the front window, the
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  Speaker 1: figure of a large man approached and watched as I left.
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  Speaker 1: I stopped at a nearby gas station to catch my
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  Speaker 1: breath and rethink everything that happened. It was pretty clear
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  Speaker 1: by how everything played out that this was some kind
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  Speaker 1: of setup, but I also knew the police would have
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  Speaker 1: nothing but my word to go off of. I did
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  Speaker 1: end up reporting it, but when they went to the
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  Speaker 1: house to ask the woman about what happened, she denied
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  Speaker 1: that anyone else was there and denied the officer's access
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  Speaker 1: to search the home for anyone else. So, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: the police were unable to do anything at the time.
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  Speaker 1: What the woman and the man were trying to do
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  Speaker 1: by getting me inside their house is unknown, and I
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  Speaker 1: can only imagine that I wouldn't be here right now
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  Speaker 1: if I had gone inside without thinking twice