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3 True Creepy Tinder Horror Stories That Will Make You Fear Online Dating · True Horror Stories

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: I met a man who well name is John on Tinder.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: He was kind and well spoken, and we had gone
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: in four or five dates before he invited me over
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  Speaker 1: to his home. I'd known him for almost a month
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: and was ready for this next step to start dating
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: outside of the public scene. I drove over to his
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: house at six point thirty, where he said he would
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  Speaker 1: have a nice homemade dinner ready for us. Driving up
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  Speaker 1: to his house, there were two cars in the driveway.
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  Speaker 1: I never asked if he had roommates or anything, so
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  Speaker 1: I thought maybe that's what this was. I didn't see
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  Speaker 1: it as a bad thing, but just something that he
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  Speaker 1: should have told me before coming over. I drove back
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  Speaker 1: around and parked on the curb in front of his house.
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  Speaker 1: I walked up to the door and rang the doorbell.
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  Speaker 1: John opened the door quickly with a big smile and
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  Speaker 1: invited me in. Upon first look, the appearance of his
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  Speaker 1: home home really put me off. I'm not some girl
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: looking for a rich guy to be my sugar daddy
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  Speaker 1: or anything, but I do like a well put together man.
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  Speaker 1: This house almost looked like a hoarder's house, Trash everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: random things tossed on the furniture, and barely any room
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  Speaker 1: to walk. I faked a smile and followed him into
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen, trying not to let him notice my disgust.
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  Speaker 1: By now, I'd already decided in my mind that this
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  Speaker 1: probably isn't the right guy for me, but I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to be disrespectful and fully commit to ending things.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: After just seeing his house for the first time, the
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  Speaker 1: kitchen was less messy, seeming like it had been cleaned
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: up recently. On the table were two plates of food,
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  Speaker 1: but after seeing the place I didn't have an appetite anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I kindly told him that my stomach wasn't feeling well
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  Speaker 1: today and that I tried to eat it later. His reaction, though,
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  Speaker 1: was off putting. He just looked at me as if
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  Speaker 1: he was shocked by my answer and was in deep
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: thought about what to say. I couldn't look him in
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  Speaker 1: the eyes for more than a few seconds before it
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: just got weird. When I looked away, I think he
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  Speaker 1: snapped out of it. Oh, okay, it's cool. Then he
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  Speaker 1: took my plate and put it in the fridge. I
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  Speaker 1: started up a conversation, asking how his day was and
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  Speaker 1: if anything new was going on with him. He answered normally,
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  Speaker 1: but it seemed like something else was on his mind.
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  Speaker 1: He was looking around, trying to be sneaky about it,
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  Speaker 1: and seemed almost nervous. Him looking around reminded me about
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  Speaker 1: the cars in the driveway. Hey, I saw you had
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of cars in the driveway. Do you have roommates,
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  Speaker 1: I asked politely. Uh. Yeah, they're away for the weekend, though,
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  Speaker 1: he said. Then he got up and excused himself, saying
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  Speaker 1: he had to take a call, and walked back toward
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  Speaker 1: the living room. The way he was acting was nothing
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: like before. I didn't like it at all. I heard
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  Speaker 1: him softly talking on the phone for thirty seconds. Then
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  Speaker 1: he came back and set his phone down on the table. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: he said, sitting down. I smiled, but it was getting
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  Speaker 1: hard to fake it. I didn't really feel safe for
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  Speaker 1: comfortable in his house, so I knew I needed to leave.
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: He was looking around again, and I was just trying
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  Speaker 1: to get the courage to tell him that I was
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  Speaker 1: going to go, until a thump came from upstairs. Right
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  Speaker 1: when it sounded, John looked directly at me, as if
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  Speaker 1: checking whether or not I heard it. Give me a second,
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  Speaker 1: He got up and quickly walked up the stairs, and
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  Speaker 1: just a moment later, his phone that was still sitting
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  Speaker 1: on the table lit up. Normally I wouldn't snoop on
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  Speaker 1: someone's business like that, but I felt justified given this
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  Speaker 1: whole ordeal. I stood up and leaned over, seeing it
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  Speaker 1: was a text from a number that wasn't saved as
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  Speaker 1: a name. The text was short reading do you have
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  Speaker 1: her yet? I stood there in a panic for a second,
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  Speaker 1: trying to wrap my head around the text, before I
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: heard footsteps coming back down the stairs. I sprinted out
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  Speaker 1: the front door as footsteps were quickly coming behind me
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  Speaker 1: from inside the house. I got in my car and
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  Speaker 1: floorted out of the neighborhood. I took some time to
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  Speaker 1: calm down as I sat in my car in my driveway.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: Then I called the police. I didn't know if there
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  Speaker 1: was something going on or not, but I don't feel
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  Speaker 1: like I was in the wrong for believing there was.
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  Speaker 1: Why would he lie about nobody being home? And what
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  Speaker 1: was that text supposed to mean? It all added up
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  Speaker 1: in my mind. But the police questioned John along with
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  Speaker 1: his roommate that was upstairs. They even allowed the off
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  Speaker 1: officers to do a quick search of the home but
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: they found nothing pointing to any bad intentions. The officer sympathized,
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  Speaker 1: saying they understood my concerns and that they would have
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  Speaker 1: felt the same, but there just wasn't anything else they
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  Speaker 1: could do. So now I'm left to just hope that
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: I took it all the wrong way and there was
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  Speaker 1: nothing else going on. Just a simple lie, he told,
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  Speaker 1: and a strange message that meant nothing. I'm a twenty
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: six year old female, and at the time I was
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: twenty three and in college. I used Tinder throughout the
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: second half of my college years. I wasn't exactly looking
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  Speaker 1: for a long term relationship, but I also wasn't entirely
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  Speaker 1: avoiding it either. If things seemed more serious, then I'd try.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise we'd just have some fun and move on. After
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  Speaker 1: school on Friday, I went back to my dorm and
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: sat in bed, swiping left and right on the app.
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  Speaker 1: I was hoping to have something to do over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: After some time, one of the guys responded. We talked
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  Speaker 1: it up for an hour or so, then he asked
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  Speaker 1: me out on a date for Sunday night. I agreed,
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  Speaker 1: though it was rather quick to ask me out. We
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  Speaker 1: texted for a while longer, mostly about school and hobbies.
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  Speaker 1: He said he went to the same school as me,
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  Speaker 1: but was in the dorm building on the opposite side
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  Speaker 1: of the campus. Anyway, on Saturday we texted back and
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  Speaker 1: forth a few more times, and come Sunday, I met
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  Speaker 1: him at a popular restaurant not far from the campus
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  Speaker 1: over dinner. He didn't strike me as anything but a
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  Speaker 1: normal person, so normal that he was almost a little boring.
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  Speaker 1: I found him attractive, though, and thought he was maybe
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  Speaker 1: holding back on a lot due to just meeting me.
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  Speaker 1: Once we finished, we went outside and said no date
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  Speaker 1: for the next week. As I said goodbye and started
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: walking away, he asked me if I needed a ride home.
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  Speaker 1: Living in the dorms at the campus, I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a car, so I just walked everywhere, including the restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: I was surprised he even had a car, since he
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  Speaker 1: lived at the school as well, but I was even
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  Speaker 1: more surprised that he offered me a ride. It seemed
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  Speaker 1: like he was trying to make his move for tonight,
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  Speaker 1: which I wasn't expecting. But seeing as I enjoyed my
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  Speaker 1: time with him and he was just like any other guy,
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  Speaker 1: I took him up on the offer. The campus was
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  Speaker 1: a twenty five minute walk away, so if nothing else,
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: at least i'd be back sooner. He showed me over
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  Speaker 1: to his car, which was just an older black Honda Suv.
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  Speaker 1: I got into the passenger seat and he started driving.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as we were on the road, things started
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  Speaker 1: to get awkward. I tried making small talk, but he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't really responding, so I sat back and neither of
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  Speaker 1: us talked. After a few minutes, he took a left turn.
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  Speaker 1: The campus was to the right, in the complete opposite direction.
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  Speaker 1: I felt a lump in my throat and my body
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  Speaker 1: got stiff. That feeling of something awful about to happen
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  Speaker 1: had fallen over me. Hey, I think you missed the turn,
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  Speaker 1: I said, nicely, trying to hide any hint of fear
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  Speaker 1: in my voice. No, he muttered. I was looking over
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  Speaker 1: at him, but his gaze was locked on the road.
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  Speaker 1: Where are you taking me? He didn't respond. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what else to ask. I told him to let
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  Speaker 1: me out of the car, in one last effort to
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  Speaker 1: get out of the situation without anything escalating. He still
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  Speaker 1: didn't respond. The further out he drove, the more remote
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  Speaker 1: the area became My head was aching from the fear
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  Speaker 1: of getting too far to be able to find any
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  Speaker 1: way out of this. I still have my phone in
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  Speaker 1: my pocket, which I knew he was going to take
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  Speaker 1: as soon as we stopped wherever he was taking me.
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  Speaker 1: My plan, and really my only plan, was to try
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  Speaker 1: to take out my phone as quickly as possible and
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  Speaker 1: dial nine one one before he would have time to react.
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  Speaker 1: I waited until he started making a turn, and right
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  Speaker 1: when he looked the other way, I pulled my phone
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  Speaker 1: out and with shaky hands, dial nine one one. He
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  Speaker 1: noticed immediately trying to grab my phone mid turn and
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  Speaker 1: jerking the car. I was able to keep myself away
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  Speaker 1: from grasp while the phone rang, and as soon as
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  Speaker 1: I heard a voice on the other side, I yelled
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  Speaker 1: for help, saying the street names and direction we were going.
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  Speaker 1: The man was still fighting me from my phone, hitting
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  Speaker 1: me and pulling me toward him. In the midst of
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  Speaker 1: the fight, he lost control of the car and ran
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  Speaker 1: off the road straight into a speed limit sign. I
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: was dizzy and my vision was blurry, probably from a concussion,
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  Speaker 1: but I could hear the operator on the phone talking
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  Speaker 1: from somewhere under my seat. I almost forgot the situation
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  Speaker 1: I was in, but once it came back to me,
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  Speaker 1: I immediately looked over. The windshield was shattered and the
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  Speaker 1: air bags were out, but the man I was with
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  Speaker 1: was gone. I tried to see out the windows, but
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  Speaker 1: he was nowhere. I didn't even remember seeing the windshield
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  Speaker 1: shatter or the airbags go off, so I might have
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  Speaker 1: even been unconscious for a few seconds or minutes without
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  Speaker 1: knowing it. I searched for my phone, telling the operator
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  Speaker 1: what happened and that I was okay. Officers came soon after.
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  Speaker 1: I had no lasting injuries, just some pains around my body.
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  Speaker 1: But what hurts the most is that I was so
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  Speaker 1: sure they would catch the man, having his name, description,
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  Speaker 1: and license plate, but I was wrong. The car was
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  Speaker 1: stolen the day before, which was probably why he abandoned
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  Speaker 1: it after the crash. His name was likely fake, although
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: it was a really generic name anyway, and his tender
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  Speaker 1: account was removed, so all they have is a description
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  Speaker 1: of what he looked like. I should have been more careful,
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  Speaker 1: and I definitely have been ever since. What he planned
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  Speaker 1: on doing with me is something too awful for me
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  Speaker 1: to even think about. I just really hope that he's
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  Speaker 1: not out there trying to do the same thing to
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  Speaker 1: someone else. My girlfriend left me two weeks before this.
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  Speaker 1: I know two weeks is not long enough to fully
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  Speaker 1: process a breakup and start using Tinder, but I was desperate.
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  Speaker 1: Within a few days, I had two girls I was
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  Speaker 1: talking too regularly. I asked them both out on a
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  Speaker 1: date for separate days, hoping one of them would be
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  Speaker 1: a good match for me. Unfortunately, the first one ghosted me, though,
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  Speaker 1: so I was left with just the one, making me
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  Speaker 1: even more desperate. In her picture, she seemed like my
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  Speaker 1: perfect type, blonde hair, blue eyes, and just really attractive.
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  Speaker 1: Her personality, however, left much to be desired, at least
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  Speaker 1: over text. She was bland and bad at conversation, but
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: some people are just better in person, so I figured
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  Speaker 1: I'd give it a shot and continue with the date.
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: I decided on a cheap restaurant that she agreed was
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  Speaker 1: close enough to her. On the night of the date,
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: I got ready and drove down, then texted her that
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  Speaker 1: I was there and stood out in front of the restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: I was five minutes early, so I wasn't expecting her
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  Speaker 1: to show up right away, but after waiting for twenty minutes,
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  Speaker 1: I tried calling her. The phone rang for a few
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: then she answered, Hey, where are you. I'm right outside
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  Speaker 1: the place, I said. I waited a few seconds Hello.
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  Speaker 1: She hung up without saying a word. Great, another girl
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  Speaker 1: ghosted me. I was embarrassed and annoyed. I got back
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  Speaker 1: in my car and drove home. I made myself a
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: bowl of cereal, then chilled on the couch and tried
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: to forget about life for a while. I passed out
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: around eight, still on the couch. When I woke up,
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: I reached for my phone to check the time, but
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: I couldn't find it. I opened my eyes a bit
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: wider and sat up, still searching for my phone. During
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: my search, I caught something in the corner of my eye.
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: My back door was slightly open, just barely, not even
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: enough to see through the crack between the door, but
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: opened slightly enough so that it wasn't even with the wall,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like someone had pulled it partially closed so
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: that it wouldn't make the click sound. I stood still,
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: looking around. Everything felt like it became so quiet. I
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: took one last quick search for my phone, then gave
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: up and walked over to the back door. It was
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  Speaker 1: just as I'd said, barely not closed. I always kept
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: every door locked, so this was a terrifying thing to
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  Speaker 1: see after napping just a few feet away. I thought
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: maybe when the intruder saw me on the couch, they
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  Speaker 1: must have just left. But then I started thinking about
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  Speaker 1: my phone being gone. What if they'd stolen my phone,
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: they would have had to be right in front of me,
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  Speaker 1: just inches away, probably watching me sleep. A shiver ran
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  Speaker 1: through my body. These thoughts were just making me more scared.
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  Speaker 1: I pushed the door shut and locked it, praying that
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  Speaker 1: whoever it was had all already left. I then walked
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: around the first floor, checking the rooms, but not finding
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  Speaker 1: anything worth noting. Then I went upstairs, which for some
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  Speaker 1: reason had me more scared. I walked down the hallway,
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  Speaker 1: looking in each room. Before I got to my bedroom,
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: I looked around the room, under the bed, everywhere, no
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  Speaker 1: signs of anyone. I stepped back into the hall, closing
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  Speaker 1: the door. I just thought to myself how creepy this was,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: and tried to think of the best way to contact
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: the police without my phone. But then I heard something quiet,
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: soft breathing at going inside the closet behind me. I froze.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: The longer I stood there, the more horrified I was.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: I ran for the stairs and went out the front door.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: There was a gas station at the end of the block,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: so all the way there and got them to call
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  Speaker 1: the police. By the time everything was settled, nobody was
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  Speaker 1: in my home anymore. My phone was still missing, but
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: that was the only thing that was gone. My account
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: was backed up, though, so it wasn't too hard to
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: get a new phone and transfer all my apps and data.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: A few weeks later, though, I went back on Tinder,
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  Speaker 1: and that's when I started putting pieces together. The girl
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  Speaker 1: that ghosted me and creepily answered my phone call no
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: longer existed. I thought that it would actually be possible
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: for them to have gone to the restaurant, but instead
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: of meeting me, followed me home. As for why they
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: took my phone, I'm not sure. The only reason I
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: can really think of is so that I couldn't call
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: the police or show them their account. There's still a
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: lot that doesn't make sense, though, like why they only
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: took my phone and what they were doing in my
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  Speaker 1: house while I was sleeping