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3 True Unnerving New House Horror Stories That Will Haunt Your First Night · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: Me and my best friend, who I'll call Alex for privacy,
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  Speaker 1: decided to rent a house together. We talked about being
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  Speaker 1: roommates for a while because neither of us wanted to
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  Speaker 1: live with our parents anymore. We were attending community college
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  Speaker 1: and had jobs, so it felt like moving out was
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  Speaker 1: just the next step. We found this really small, but
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  Speaker 1: still somewhat nice home that was only a ten minute
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  Speaker 1: drive to school. This was last year when COVID was
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  Speaker 1: still big, so we were able to schedule a self
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  Speaker 1: tour and look at it ourselves. We both thought it
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  Speaker 1: was that perfect kind of crappy yet cheap house for
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  Speaker 1: us to spend our college years in. It even had
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  Speaker 1: a decent yard and wasn't crammed together with neighbors all around.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that caught our attention, though, was this creepy
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  Speaker 1: old shed in the backyard. I mean, it just looked
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  Speaker 1: like a regular shed, I guess, but it had a
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  Speaker 1: padlock on it, and in the description of the house
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  Speaker 1: online it didn't mention it anywhere. Neither of us cared
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  Speaker 1: to use it anyway, so we ignored it and signed
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  Speaker 1: the lease. I was super pumped, and I could tell
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  Speaker 1: Alex was too. A month later, we moved in the
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  Speaker 1: first week was great. This was both of our first
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  Speaker 1: times living on our own, so the freedom of it
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  Speaker 1: was amazing. On a normal Saturday night, I was in
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  Speaker 1: the living room watching TV waiting for Alex to come
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  Speaker 1: home from work. It was only seven and Alex got
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  Speaker 1: off at eight. Through the TV playing I heard what
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  Speaker 1: I could have sworn was a large door shutting. It
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  Speaker 1: came from outside, and my first thought was the shed.
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  Speaker 1: There was absolutely no way I was going out there
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  Speaker 1: to check by myself. When Alex got back, I told
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  Speaker 1: him what I heard. He asked me over and over
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  Speaker 1: if I was sure it wasn't from the TV or something,
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  Speaker 1: but I knew it wasn't. All right, Let's take a look.
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  Speaker 1: Then we turned our phone flashlights on and went outside.
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  Speaker 1: We were maybe twenty feet away from the front of
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  Speaker 1: the shed and everything looked exactly how it was before.
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  Speaker 1: The lock was still on the front, so there was
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  Speaker 1: no way someone could have gone inside and locked it
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  Speaker 1: from the outside. Alex gave me a look like I
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  Speaker 1: was crazy. We went back inside and watched TV for
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  Speaker 1: a while. I couldn't stop thinking about what I heard, though,
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  Speaker 1: I was starting to question whether or not the sound
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  Speaker 1: was even real. At one point, while watching TV, I
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  Speaker 1: looked to my side and a figure was standing outside
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  Speaker 1: the window, staring at us. Alex didn't see him, but
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  Speaker 1: he heard his footsteps running away, so we were on
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  Speaker 1: the same page this time. Alex asked what we should do,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't know. We'd never had to deal with
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  Speaker 1: something like this before. I wasn't sure if that guy
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  Speaker 1: had something to do with the sound I heard earlier either.
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  Speaker 1: We kept our eyes and ears open for a couple hours,
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  Speaker 1: and with no further strange sightings, we went to bed.
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  Speaker 1: It took a bit for me to fall asleep, but
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  Speaker 1: I think I finally dozed off around ten pm. I
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  Speaker 1: woke up in the middle of the night to a strange,
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  Speaker 1: bright red glow flickering across the walls in my room.
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  Speaker 1: It was coming through the slits in my window. As
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  Speaker 1: I became more awake, I realized I was hearing something too,
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  Speaker 1: a soft crackling sound also coming from outside. I was
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  Speaker 1: still tired and my head wasn't fully awake, but then
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  Speaker 1: I heard Alex call my name from the hallway outside
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  Speaker 1: my room, Hey, wake up. As I was about to
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  Speaker 1: ask what was going on, I was interrupted by something eerie, horrifying,
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  Speaker 1: and loud. I turned my head to the window, pushing
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  Speaker 1: aside the covers when the shed was in flames and
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  Speaker 1: had just fallen over. The huge fire was getting close
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  Speaker 1: to the house. Alex called nine one one and we
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  Speaker 1: both took his car and drove across the street. The
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  Speaker 1: fire department was able to get the fire extinguished before
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  Speaker 1: it got too serious. Only minor burned damage was done
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  Speaker 1: to the side of the house. We told the police
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  Speaker 1: about what we'd heard and the man I saw, thinking
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  Speaker 1: maybe he had done this, but there was nothing to
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  Speaker 1: go off of. Everything that was inside the shed was
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  Speaker 1: ashes except a few old metal tools. It makes me
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  Speaker 1: think that someone was doing something in there and probably
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  Speaker 1: burned it down to hide evidence of their doings as
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  Speaker 1: soon as we moved in. It all just seems like
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  Speaker 1: too much of a coincidence. I don't think we'll ever
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  Speaker 1: know what exactly happened that night, though, or what was
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  Speaker 1: going on inside that shed. My lease agreement was coming
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  Speaker 1: to an end and the owners of the home decided
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to sell the house after this lease, so
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  Speaker 1: I was forced to find a new place instead of
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  Speaker 1: renewing the lease like I'd planned. On. It's unfortunate because
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  Speaker 1: they only gave me a month's notice, which is not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time to find a new house. I
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  Speaker 1: worked full time, which only made things harder. The first
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  Speaker 1: two weeks blew by, and I only had the next
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  Speaker 1: two weeks to find a house, pack and move in.
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  Speaker 1: I was stressed out of my mind with time running out,
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  Speaker 1: I just applied to three houses nearby without even touring them.
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  Speaker 1: Two of them declined me, but I got accepted by
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  Speaker 1: the third. From the pictures, it didn't look nearly as
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  Speaker 1: nice as the house I was staying at, but I
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  Speaker 1: did the best I could with the shy situation I
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  Speaker 1: was given. I rented a U haul and got my
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  Speaker 1: stuff over as soon as possible. After getting all the
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  Speaker 1: boxes inside and all the furniture where I needed to be,
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  Speaker 1: I finally had a chance to look at the house.
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  Speaker 1: It was a lot worse than the pictures had shown.
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  Speaker 1: The walls had paint peeling, and everything just looked aged
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  Speaker 1: and outdated. The rent was cheap, but not enough to
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  Speaker 1: make up for the trashy condition of the place. I
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  Speaker 1: was too tired to take care of anything right away, though,
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  Speaker 1: so I got my bed ready and crashed for a
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  Speaker 1: quick nap. I slept a lot longer than I wanted to,
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  Speaker 1: and woke up well rested. Around nine p m. I
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  Speaker 1: checked my phone and saw I had a text from
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  Speaker 1: the landlord. He just greeted me and told me to
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  Speaker 1: call him if I needed anything. It was already pretty late, though,
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  Speaker 1: so my angry call was gonna have to wait until tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I closed my phone and went downstairs to make myself
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  Speaker 1: something to eat. Right when I turned the corner into
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen, I jumped back. A man was standing in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the living room looking right at me.
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  Speaker 1: What the fuck, I said under my breath, not sure
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  Speaker 1: what to do yet. It was really dark and I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't read his face. He was just kind of blank.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing here? I said. The man turned
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  Speaker 1: around and walked out the front door in no hurry
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  Speaker 1: at all. My first instinct was to run up and
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  Speaker 1: lock the door. Then I called the landlord, but he
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  Speaker 1: didn't pick up. I looked out the windows to see
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  Speaker 1: if he was still around, but he seemed to have
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  Speaker 1: left for good. Calling the police crossed my mind, but
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  Speaker 1: I was just so confused by the whole interaction. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't even feel threatened really. I didn't see anyone outside
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  Speaker 1: for a while, so I left the windows and sat
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  Speaker 1: on the couch. I didn't have my TV set up yet,
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  Speaker 1: so I had nothing better to do than start packing.
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  Speaker 1: I went through four boxes and was working on the
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  Speaker 1: fifth when someone knocked on the door. I walked over
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  Speaker 1: cautiously and turned on the porch light, then called out,
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  Speaker 1: asking who was there. There was a long wait before
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  Speaker 1: they answered, it's me, your landlord. I opened the door
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  Speaker 1: a bit and looked at him. He looked really similar
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  Speaker 1: to the man I'd just seen in my house, but
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't sure. Hey, did you need something. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: here to make sure you settled in nicely, he said,
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  Speaker 1: with a big smile, leaning his hand on the door. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was just about to go to bed. I'll talk
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  Speaker 1: to you tomorrow, I said, pushing the door, but the
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  Speaker 1: man outside tapped his hand on the door, not letting
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  Speaker 1: me close it. I stopped pushing for a moment, and
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  Speaker 1: the man smiled again. Then it all hit me at once,
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  Speaker 1: the fear and creepiness of the situation. I slammed my
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  Speaker 1: body into the door, closing it too quickly for him
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  Speaker 1: to react, then turned the boat lock. I heard the
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  Speaker 1: door handle turn and the man outside bash against it.
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  Speaker 1: There was another long wait before the man sprinted away
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  Speaker 1: from the porch. I called the police, then got my
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  Speaker 1: car keys and put them in my pocket to prepare
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  Speaker 1: for a quick escape if I needed to. I waited
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  Speaker 1: for a couple minutes, still just standing by the front door,
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  Speaker 1: before I heard leaves crunching around the house. They went
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  Speaker 1: to the back door and stopped. I walked up a
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  Speaker 1: bit and peered around the corner, and right in front
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  Speaker 1: of the back door was that same man standing outside
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  Speaker 1: with a hammer in his hand. I took this chance
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  Speaker 1: to run for my car. I opened the front door
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  Speaker 1: and ran to my car in the driveway. I got
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  Speaker 1: in and locked the doors, then backed out. I saw
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  Speaker 1: the man on the side of my house watching me
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  Speaker 1: as I drove away. The man was gone when the
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  Speaker 1: police got there. They did a whole investigation and enduring it.
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  Speaker 1: I met the landlord in person. He was not the
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  Speaker 1: man I saw at my door, but he did look
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  Speaker 1: oddly similar. He even talked in a very similar way.
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  Speaker 1: It made me wonder if he had a brother or something.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It could also be a creepy neighbor
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  Speaker 1: or a homeless person. Either way, I never encountered the
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  Speaker 1: man again, but once my lease was up, I moved
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  Speaker 1: out and never looked back. This was my first time
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  Speaker 1: ever purchasing a house. I was twenty eight and looking
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  Speaker 1: for a place to settle down. I began my search
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  Speaker 1: for a house five months before my lease ended and
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  Speaker 1: my current residence. This one place that I found was perfect,
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  Speaker 1: but it was pretty far over my budget, so I
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  Speaker 1: had to pass on it and keep searching. I viewed
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  Speaker 1: a ton of other places and even thought I'd found
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  Speaker 1: a good home until that same house came up on
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  Speaker 1: my search again. The price had been lowered tremendously, putting
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  Speaker 1: it in the mid range of my budget. I scheduled
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  Speaker 1: a tour and eventually bought the home. Obviously, I was ecstatic.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like a really big move forward in my life.
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  Speaker 1: It was a two story home with a basement and
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  Speaker 1: large yard with trees all around. The only sly issue
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  Speaker 1: was that it was twenty minutes away from most stores
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  Speaker 1: and shops, but I worked from home, so I didn't
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  Speaker 1: need to go out all that much. Within the first
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  Speaker 1: few days, though, things got a little strange. While working
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  Speaker 1: from the living room. One day, I heard some sounds
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  Speaker 1: coming from the basement, things moving around or dragging on
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  Speaker 1: the floor. I got up and opened the door to
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  Speaker 1: the basement, but the sound stopped. It was silent. I
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  Speaker 1: turned on the light and walked a few steps down,
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  Speaker 1: but nothing was there. I had only a couple boxes
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  Speaker 1: in the basement, so it was entirely empty aside from
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  Speaker 1: the water heater an air conditioner in the far corner.
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  Speaker 1: I'd only been in the place for a couple days,
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  Speaker 1: so I thought I just wasn't used to the sounds
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  Speaker 1: the house made, after all, there wasn't anything in the basement.
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  Speaker 1: But only a day later I heard it again. This
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  Speaker 1: time it was more of a soft, wooden sounding thud,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a piece of wood hitting the wall. I went
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  Speaker 1: down the basement stairs all the way this time and
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  Speaker 1: did a perimeter check around the walls, but again the
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  Speaker 1: basement was empty, so there was nothing to even check. Still,
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  Speaker 1: I blew it off. What could it possibly even be.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't believe in anything paranormal, so logically it had
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  Speaker 1: to be the house. During the first week of staying
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  Speaker 1: in my new house, I had experienced these sounds, probably
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  Speaker 1: six or seven times. By the fourth or fifth time,
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  Speaker 1: I stopped even checking and started ignoring it. That was
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  Speaker 1: until I explored the outside of my house. I was
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  Speaker 1: just walking around, enjoying the nature scene when I noticed
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  Speaker 1: one of the tops of the basement window wells was
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  Speaker 1: missing from the side of my house. It in itself
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  Speaker 1: wasn't an alarming find, but just something I needed to
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  Speaker 1: fix right away before it rained and flooded in my basement.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: I went out and got a cover from a hardware
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  Speaker 1: store and installed it that day. That night, I went
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  Speaker 1: to bed early, but woke up at eleven PM to
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  Speaker 1: another wooden thud sound from the basement directly below me.
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  Speaker 1: A second later, I heard something else. This time it
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  Speaker 1: was very distinctly footsteps going from one side of the
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  Speaker 1: basement to the other. I was horrified. Part of me
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  Speaker 1: was absolutely positive there was someone in my basement, but
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  Speaker 1: there was another part of me that thought it could
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  Speaker 1: be something I was imagining, or even somehow another noise
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  Speaker 1: from the house. I needed to know for sure, though.
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  Speaker 1: I took my bat that I kept in my room
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  Speaker 1: and walked downstairs and over to the basement door. Just
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  Speaker 1: before I approached it, though, an extremely loud thud came
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  Speaker 1: from outside the house. I stopped in my tracks, waiting
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  Speaker 1: for anything else. Then I opened the basement door and
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  Speaker 1: walked down slowly. Nothing was there, just the same empty basement.
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  Speaker 1: I looked all around and even waited for a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes for more sounds, but it was just like every
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  Speaker 1: other time when I went to investigate. As soon as
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  Speaker 1: I'd opened the basement door and look around, it would
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  Speaker 1: be silent. I got really uneasy after a few minutes
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  Speaker 1: and went back upstairs. I put a chair in front
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  Speaker 1: of the basement door so that if there was somehow
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  Speaker 1: someone down there, I'd at least have a heads up
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  Speaker 1: if they tried to open the door. The next morning,
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  Speaker 1: I checked the basement again, but something felt different. It
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  Speaker 1: was much brighter than usual. I checked the window well
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  Speaker 1: and could see from the bottom that the top cover
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: was gone. Again. I went outside and looked around everywhere
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  Speaker 1: for it, but it was completely gone. That was enough
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  Speaker 1: for me to call the police though something was going on.
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  Speaker 1: They sent one officer who took notes from me, then
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  Speaker 1: searched around the basement. He found just as little as
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  Speaker 1: I did. I got a new cover for the well
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  Speaker 1: and hired a handyman to come out and install bars
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  Speaker 1: on the window. From the inside. After that, I never
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  Speaker 1: experienced any more sounds or noises. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: exactly I was dealing with in my basement, maybe someone
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  Speaker 1: squatting there, or maybe something else. Even now, though three
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  Speaker 1: years later, I still have that fear in the back
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  Speaker 1: of my mind of hearing those sounds again