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7 CHUCK E CHEESE HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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Speaker 1: This took place when I was 10 years old at
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Speaker 1: my local Chuck E. Cheese's. My mom had promised to
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Speaker 1: take me as I had gotten all A's on my
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Speaker 1: report card and every time I did, I'd get a
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Speaker 1: prize or some sort of outing. I've been to Chuck E.
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Speaker 1: Cheese's my whole life and every kid knows it was
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Speaker 1: their hangout spot. At the time, my family and I
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Speaker 1: had been tight on money so my mom agreed to
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Speaker 1: take me but that we couldn't go over the $ 50
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Speaker 1: limit While it was a sucky situation, I didn't care
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Speaker 1: about the money and just wanted to have fun. I
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Speaker 1: remember my mom sitting down at one of the booths
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Speaker 1: waiting for our pizza and giving me tokens to go
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Speaker 1: play some games. I had been playing skeeball, the typical
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Speaker 1: old but gold game. As I'm playing, one of the
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Speaker 1: balls I had fell on the floor when I see
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Speaker 1: an arm pick it up. As I look up, I
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Speaker 1: see a man standing in front of me while handing
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Speaker 1: over the ball. He wore a white shirt, black pants,
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Speaker 1: and an obviously fake Rolex on his wrist. To be honest,
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Speaker 1: he looked like a dad, and I kind of thought
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Speaker 1: he was at first. He introduced himself as Robert and
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Speaker 1: asked if I was alone. When I tell him I wasn't,
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Speaker 1: he immediately says that he enjoyed skee-ball as well and
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Speaker 1: wondered if he could join me. I give him a
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Speaker 1: friendly smile, giving him the hint that I didn't want
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Speaker 1: to talk to him as I took the whole stranger
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Speaker 1: danger thing seriously. He then says, You know, my son
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Speaker 1: enjoys this game as well. Let's go play with him.
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Speaker 1: He's right over there. He then proceeds to grab my
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Speaker 1: hand and sort of nudge me to follow him. However,
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Speaker 1: something in my gut told me not to go with
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Speaker 1: him no matter how innocent he might have seemed. He
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Speaker 1: tried slightly tugging me, but I just kept resisting, making
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Speaker 1: it clear that I didn't want to go with him.
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Speaker 1: This thankfully got the attention of people, which made the
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Speaker 1: man start to get nervous. One of the bystanders had
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Speaker 1: yelled out for him to let me go. One bystander
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Speaker 1: turned into another one. and then another one, which ended
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Speaker 1: up becoming a whole scene. At this point, multiple staff
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Speaker 1: and police had rushed over. This made him finally let go,
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Speaker 1: and he then tries to run toward the exit doors
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Speaker 1: where he was eventually caught by police. I see this
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Speaker 1: man trying to resist arrest to the point where he
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Speaker 1: eventually got tased. The sound of his crazed screams will
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Speaker 1: forever be burned into my mind as he laid down
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Speaker 1: being put in handcuffs. My mom had taken me away
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Speaker 1: where she had spoken to the police and the head manager.
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Speaker 1: Turns out, this wasn't the first time he's ever done
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Speaker 1: this before. He's actually done this to several other kids
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Speaker 1: and had even managed to take off with a few.
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Speaker 1: Before you ask, yes. The kids were apparently found and safe.
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Speaker 1: The Chuck E. Cheese had apologized for the situation and
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Speaker 1: even offered a full refund. However, my mom wasn't having it,
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Speaker 1: practically shielding me as we left the building. My mom
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Speaker 1: was extra cautious with me for the next few years
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Speaker 1: until I could learn to fend for myself. Needless to say,
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Speaker 1: we never returned to that Chuck E. Cheese again. This
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Speaker 1: just goes to show you how Chuck E. Cheese isn't
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Speaker 1: always a place where a kid can be a kid. So,
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Speaker 1: I've worked at Chuck E. Cheese for almost four years
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Speaker 1: now as the standard cast member. It's a pretty fun
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Speaker 1: job overall, with the exception of moderate chaos at birthday
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Speaker 1: parties and management. Every week, there were different managers, some
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Speaker 1: good and some bad, so it really depends on who
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Speaker 1: you get. Other than that, it was decently reasonable. Throughout
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Speaker 1: these four years, I had dealt with many different kids
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Speaker 1: and seen some stuff you wouldn't see at any other establishment.
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Speaker 1: But this experience takes the prize. One day, some of
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Speaker 1: our staff had been let go for reasons I won't
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Speaker 1: go into, leaving us with a skeleton staff. This basically
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Speaker 1: meant that there were barely enough employees to fully operate
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Speaker 1: the center. While we may have been short staffed, it
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Speaker 1: had been a relatively slow day, which certainly reduced some stress.
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Speaker 1: It was around closing time, and so we all had
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Speaker 1: to clean up everything in a span of an hour. Now,
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Speaker 1: this was around the time where COVID was still in
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Speaker 1: its prime, so all staff was required to sanitize everything
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Speaker 1: in the store. This included stuff like games, tables, counters,
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Speaker 1: and even parts of the animatronics. After sanitizing and sweeping
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Speaker 1: most things, I head into the back room where all
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Speaker 1: of the animatronics were. Upon approaching the room, I immediately
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Speaker 1: notice that the door leading into the room was slightly opened.
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Speaker 1: This was weird as both my manager and I were
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Speaker 1: the only two people on site that had access to
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Speaker 1: this room. I had assumed she had just maybe went
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Speaker 1: in for something and forgot to lock it. As I
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Speaker 1: walk inside, I begin to notice that the animatronics had
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Speaker 1: seemed to have been tampered with. Assuming that they had
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Speaker 1: to have been misplaced by my manager or something, I
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Speaker 1: begin wiping them down while listening to my music. As
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Speaker 1: I'm cleaning the inside of Chucky's head, I look to
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Speaker 1: my right and sitting down is a man giving me
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Speaker 1: a dead stare. I call for my manager, frantically screaming
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Speaker 1: that there's someone in the back room. The man then
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Speaker 1: slowly gets up and proceeds to forcefully put his hand
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Speaker 1: over my mouth. Being a 5'7, 140-pound girl, I couldn't
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Speaker 1: escape his grasp no matter how hard I tried. It
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Speaker 1: then came to a point where he leaned in and
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Speaker 1: said that if I didn't stop, that he'd kill me.
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Speaker 1: I try my best to calm down while bawling my
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Speaker 1: eyes out, not knowing what he was going to do next.
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Speaker 1: My manager... along with the outside security guard we have,
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Speaker 1: entered the room. The security guard draws his gun, demanding
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Speaker 1: he let me go and to put his hands up.
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Speaker 1: He complies, and I nearly run straight into my manager's
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Speaker 1: arms while hugging her. Our well-fit security escorts him out
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Speaker 1: of the center, where police were then called. It turns
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Speaker 1: out that this man had gotten a hold of a
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Speaker 1: spare key in our office area when it was unattended.
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Speaker 1: There were also high amounts of zinc phosphide found in
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Speaker 1: the suits. It's a very dangerous rat poison and can
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Speaker 1: be toxic to humans if breathed in or consumed. I
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Speaker 1: could only assume his plan was to attempt to poison
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Speaker 1: the staff who wore the suits. To make matters worse,
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Speaker 1: he was also found with a large knife in his
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Speaker 1: back pocket. It was that night where I quit right
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Speaker 1: then and swore never to return and my manager politely understood. However,
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Speaker 1: I still have several remaining questions as to what had happened.
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Speaker 1: How did nobody see him get a key? What were
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Speaker 1: his intentions? And what would he have done had the
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Speaker 1: security not been there? It still gives me goosebumps till
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Speaker 1: this day. My name is Ron, and I've been an
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Speaker 1: electrician for about 30 plus years now. What I do
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Speaker 1: is basically repair any electrical errors that may occur in
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Speaker 1: several establishments. These establishments ranged anywhere from schools all the
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Speaker 1: way to malls. It's a pretty chill job for the
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Speaker 1: most part if you knew what you were doing, but
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Speaker 1: other than that, I enjoyed it very much. Throughout my
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Speaker 1: years of work, I've never really had any sort of
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Speaker 1: abnormal encounters, but that all changed in just one evening.
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Speaker 1: One day, our company had received a call from a
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Speaker 1: Chuck E. Cheese, reporting an issue with a few of
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Speaker 1: their lights. On that day, I was scheduled to go
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Speaker 1: in and fix them, which shouldn't be too much of
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Speaker 1: a problem, as lights were my speciality. I arrive at
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Speaker 1: the Chuck E. Cheese, which had been closed due to
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Speaker 1: a staff-only meeting. After inspecting the lights, I go inside
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Speaker 1: the ceiling trying to figure out if there was something
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Speaker 1: in the ceiling causing the issue. Being a big guy
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Speaker 1: and going into small spaces was really uncomfortable, especially if
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Speaker 1: you were in a rush. I'd say a minute after
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Speaker 1: of getting this feeling, I hear what sounded like footsteps
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Speaker 1: coming from across the ceiling. I shine my light in
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Speaker 1: the dark empty ceiling, only to find nothing. At first
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Speaker 1: I thought that it might have been some sort of animal,
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Speaker 1: considering this was next to a wildlife preserve where this
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Speaker 1: was home to unwanted critters. So there I am, attempting
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Speaker 1: to repair the issue when I hear clear as day,
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Speaker 1: the laugh of a small child echoing through the dark. However,
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Speaker 1: the only problem was that I couldn't see anyone. or anything,
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Speaker 1: even with my flashlight. There was seemingly nobody inside this
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Speaker 1: ceiling but me. I ended up repairing the lights and
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Speaker 1: packed up my equipment and got the hell out of there.
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Speaker 1: On my way out, I tried my best to forget
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Speaker 1: about what I had just heard, and to focus on
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Speaker 1: what's next. I didn't bother saying anything to the staff
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Speaker 1: or anyone at my job for that matter, thinking they'd
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Speaker 1: see me as crazy. But then again, can you blame them?
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Speaker 1: Till this day, I'm still unsure what it exactly was
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Speaker 1: that I heard, but fear was not enough to describe
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Speaker 1: what I felt. To be honest, I don't know what
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Speaker 1: I felt. It was sort of a mix of fear,
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Speaker 1: Confusion and panic. While I didn't talk about this with
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Speaker 1: many people, I did speak to my friend who claims
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Speaker 1: that it was all in my head. However, I was
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Speaker 1: certain it was not.
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Speaker 2: When I was a kid, I went to Chuck E.
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Speaker 2: Cheese a number of times.
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Speaker 3: It was pretty popular back then for kids to go
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Speaker 3: to for birthday parties or for whatever reason. I always
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Speaker 3: loved going there and every part about it was cool.
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Speaker 3: But one time, when I was about eight years old,
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Speaker 3: that all changed. I was invited to my friend's birthday party,
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Speaker 3: and it would be at the local Chuck E.
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Speaker 2: Cheese.
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Speaker 3: He was a friend of mine and classmate from school.
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Speaker 3: I think his name was Ben, and we weren't really
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Speaker 3: that great of friends, but he invited like 20 people.
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Speaker 3: The party was that Saturday, and the neighborhood that I
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Speaker 3: lived in was really close by to the Chuck E.
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Speaker 2: Cheese. In fact, I could walk there if I wanted to.
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Speaker 2: So on Saturday.
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Speaker 3: My parents actually did in fact let me walk there.
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Speaker 3: It took me under 10 minutes, and our neighborhood was
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Speaker 3: very safe that I was aware of. I don't remember
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Speaker 3: any crime happening or ever feeling scared to leave my house.
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Speaker 3: I got to the Chuck E. Cheese and was one
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Speaker 3: of the first kids there. I talked to Ben, and
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Speaker 3: pretty quickly a bunch of other kids started showing up.
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Speaker 3: After that, I don't remember a whole lot. We were
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Speaker 3: just playing arcade games, eating pizza, and drinking soda. It
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Speaker 3: was a pretty fun time, just like any other experience
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Speaker 3: that I had at Chuck E.
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Speaker 2: Cheese as a kid.
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Speaker 3: There were other people there too, but for my friend's party,
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Speaker 3: they had rented off a little room of space. He
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Speaker 3: had cake as well, and the party lasted for probably
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Speaker 3: two or three hours. Then, when people started to leave,
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Speaker 3: I decided to go home. I remember I told Ben's
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Speaker 3: parents that I was going to walk home, and they
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Speaker 3: offered to give me a ride. I told them how
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Speaker 3: close I lived, and they made sure that my parents
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Speaker 3: knew I was walking home, but they said it was okay.
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Speaker 2: So then, I left.
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Speaker 3: I was happy to walk back by myself because it
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Speaker 3: made me feel older than I actually was, and when
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Speaker 3: I walked home on that day, everything was fine. I
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Speaker 3: took the sidewalk past the Chuck E. Cheese and behind it.
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Speaker 3: That led right into the residential neighborhood that I lived in.
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Speaker 3: Then I just walked a few blocks and only had
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Speaker 3: to turn once. It was still daytime and just seemed
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Speaker 3: like a regular Saturday to me. I don't remember noticing
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Speaker 3: anything out of the ordinary. I made it home, and
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Speaker 3: after getting there, I don't really remember what I did
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Speaker 3: for the rest of the day. Probably just the typical
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Speaker 3: stuff of watching TV or playing video games. I lived
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Speaker 3: with my parents and younger brother in a one-story house
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Speaker 3: that wasn't really that big or small. I went to
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Speaker 3: bed that night, and this is where things get really creepy.
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Speaker 3: I had my bedroom all to myself, and my window
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Speaker 3: was next to my bed and looked out to the backyard.
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Speaker 3: At some point in the middle of the night, I
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Speaker 3: woke up. I'm not really sure why I did, but
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Speaker 3: when I did I was really groggy and kind of
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Speaker 3: looked around my room wondering what time it was. I
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Speaker 3: then sat up to look at my clock slash radio
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Speaker 3: that was on my nightstand next to me. It was
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Speaker 3: then that I realized something was outside of my window.
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Speaker 3: My blinds covered the window, but they were open partly.
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Speaker 3: Then I remember looking over to see a large Chuck E.
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Speaker 2: Cheese mask.
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Speaker 3: It was the mask of the mouse and somebody was
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Speaker 3: standing there wearing it over their head and staring into
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Speaker 3: my window. The feeling that I got when I saw
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Speaker 3: it was the most scared I had ever been for sure.
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Speaker 3: I was also shocked, and I just couldn't believe it.
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Speaker 3: It was so random and bizarre. I moved back and
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Speaker 3: got off of my bed. Then I ran away and
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Speaker 3: into my brother's bedroom. He was fast asleep, and I
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Speaker 3: just kind of stood in there for a while, just
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Speaker 3: inside the doorway, not knowing what to do. Eventually, I
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Speaker 3: went into the living room and turned on the TV.
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Speaker 3: I didn't want to wake anybody else up, but I
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Speaker 3: also didn't want to go back into my bedroom, and
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Speaker 3: I couldn't sleep. I don't recall hearing anything else strange,
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Speaker 3: and I didn't see the guy for the rest of
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Speaker 3: the night. Eventually, I fell asleep on the living room couch.
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Speaker 3: When my parents and brother got up, they asked me
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Speaker 3: what I was doing on the couch, and I remembered
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Speaker 3: the whole thing and told it to them. They were confused,
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Speaker 3: and I think they believed me, but it was just
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Speaker 3: such a weird situation. I even questioned myself many times
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Speaker 3: if I actually saw what I think I did. I
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Speaker 3: definitely was not half asleep, though. I know that I
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Speaker 3: was wide awake. We went outside and saw something extremely creepy.
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Speaker 3: Just below my window on the grass, there were some
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Speaker 3: Chuck E.
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Speaker 2: Cheese tickets.
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Speaker 3: I never saw the guy again or experienced anything like
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Speaker 3: that after. I wonder if it was somebody from Chuck E.
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Speaker 3: Cheese who followed me home or something. To me, that
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Speaker 3: makes the most sense. But like I said, I didn't
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Speaker 3: notice anything unusual. Still to this day, I'm left with
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Speaker 3: many questions about that experience. When I was a kid,
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Speaker 3: one of my classes in school won a field trip
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Speaker 3: to Chuck E.
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Speaker 2: Cheese.
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Speaker 3: I don't remember at all how or why we won it,
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Speaker 3: but I know that we were all very excited. I
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Speaker 3: had only been to Chuck E. Cheese one previous time,
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Speaker 3: and I think I was about 10 years old back then.
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Speaker 3: When it was time for class that day, we all
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Speaker 3: met in the classroom and then walked out to the bus.
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Speaker 3: I remember that it was a great feeling leaving school
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Speaker 3: during a school day to go to Chuck E.
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Speaker 2: Cheese.
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Speaker 3: We rode the bus for about 10 minutes to get there,
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Speaker 3: and then we went inside.
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Speaker 2: This Chuck E.
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Speaker 3: Cheese was located near a strip mall at the local
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Speaker 3: shopping area for our city.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't very.
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Speaker 3: Busy being a weekday during the daytime, and there was
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Speaker 3: probably about 20 or 30 of us kids total. We
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Speaker 3: all got a number of tokens to play the games,
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Speaker 3: and there were a few pizzas for us as well.
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Speaker 3: We all started running around playing the arcade games and stuff.
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Speaker 3: It was turning out to be one of the best
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Speaker 3: school days of my life to that point. But I
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Speaker 3: remember that about 30 minutes in or so, I was
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Speaker 3: looking for a new game to play. I just kind
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Speaker 3: of wandered off to the corner by myself just to
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Speaker 3: see everything that was over there. That particular area didn't
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Speaker 3: have a whole lot, and there was nobody else really
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Speaker 3: in that area. I walked past a couple of those
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Speaker 3: car racing game machines, I think. Well, between them and
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Speaker 3: another game, I saw a grown man crouch down like
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Speaker 3: he was hiding. He was really hard to see, and
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Speaker 3: I'm surprised that I even saw him at all, to
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Speaker 3: be honest. When I did, I first started to walk past,
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Speaker 3: but I realized I saw somebody, and I stopped. Then
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Speaker 3: I went closer to examine. and see if there actually
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Speaker 3: was a man there. When I did, I got within
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Speaker 3: about 50 feet of the guy, and he turned and
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Speaker 3: looked at me. I gave him probably a confused look,
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Speaker 3: but didn't say anything. He then smiled, and put his
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Speaker 3: finger up to his mouth, signaling me to be quiet.
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Speaker 3: I guess this guy was playing hide and seek with
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Speaker 3: maybe a kid or something. It seemed really weird, but
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Speaker 3: I didn't think too much of it. I kind of
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Speaker 3: nodded back to him, and then left him alone. I
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Speaker 3: kept moving, trying to decide which game that I would
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Speaker 3: play next. After not finding anything in that corner that
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Speaker 3: I wanted to play, I started to move back over
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Speaker 3: to the other games. But not far from that area,
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Speaker 3: I found a game and started to play it. I
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Speaker 3: was at that game for maybe five.
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Speaker 2: Minutes or so.
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Speaker 3: At one point of being there, I happened to look
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Speaker 3: over to the quiet corner that I had been at before.
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Speaker 3: I don't know why, but I just did. It was
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Speaker 3: near where I had seen the man who had been hiding.
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Speaker 3: But now, I saw the guy again. He was standing
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Speaker 3: up and with a girl who was not in my class.
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Speaker 3: She appeared to be younger than me, and at first,
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Speaker 3: I figured that she was his daughter. But I noticed
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Speaker 3: that they were walking towards the emergency exit, and the
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Speaker 3: way the guy looked, I just had a bad feeling.
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Speaker 3: Something just wasn't right, and I decided to walk over.
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Speaker 3: I had no plan, and didn't know what I was
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Speaker 3: going to do or say. I started walking straight for
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Speaker 3: the guy, and he then saw me. What happened next
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Speaker 3: was really surprising. He had been holding onto the little
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Speaker 3: girl's hand, and then he let her go. Then, he
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Speaker 3: walked towards the exit door and left. The girl remained inside,
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Speaker 3: standing there. I guess it wasn't an emergency exit, because
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Speaker 3: no kind of alarm or anything went off. But the
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Speaker 3: guy was now gone. I walked over to the girl
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Speaker 3: and asked her if she knew that guy. She didn't
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Speaker 3: say anything to me, but shook.
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Speaker 2: Her head no.
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Speaker 3: After that, I walked with her back over to my
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Speaker 3: teacher and told her about what had happened.
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Speaker 2: The man was long gone, though.
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Speaker 3: I'm not really sure what else was done, because I
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Speaker 3: went back over to the arcade, and I don't remember
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Speaker 3: a whole lot of details after. but I'm glad that
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Speaker 3: I saw the man both times. Something about him just
18:54
Speaker 3: seems suspicious from the start. I trusted my instincts, and
18:58
Speaker 3: my instincts were right. This is something that happened almost
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Speaker 3: ten years ago now. It was 2015, and at the time,
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Speaker 3: I was a divorced mother of a ten-year-old boy. I
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Speaker 3: enjoyed spending time with my son, and we would do
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Speaker 3: fun things together all the time.
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Speaker 2: One night, I took him to Chuck E. Cheese.
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Speaker 3: It was fairly busy, and there were a lot of
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Speaker 3: other people there. My son always loved going there, and
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Speaker 3: I would usually just sit at a table as he
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Speaker 3: played the games. He was old enough that I didn't
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Speaker 3: need to always keep an eye on him, so I
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Speaker 3: sat at one of the tables and went on my phone.
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Speaker 3: On this night in particular, I was pretty much by
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Speaker 3: myself at one of the tables. My son was in
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Speaker 3: the arcade somewhere, and nobody was sitting immediately near me.
19:41
Speaker 3: At one point, though, a man came up and sat
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Speaker 3: at my table. I didn't see where he had come from.
19:46
Speaker 3: I just noticed when he sat down, and I looked
19:48
Speaker 3: up to see him there. He looked to be around
19:51
Speaker 3: my age, so roughly late 30s, and had really short,
19:54
Speaker 3: blonde hair. I was a little bit confused by why
19:57
Speaker 3: he was sitting at my table, and I looked up
19:59
Speaker 3: at him.
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Speaker 2: That's when he just stated that his kid loved Chuck E. Cheese.
20:03
Speaker 3: I said that mine did too, and we talked very
20:06
Speaker 3: briefly about our kids. I don't remember much of what
20:08
Speaker 3: he said. because I was still confused as to why
20:11
Speaker 3: he had come up to me in the first place.
20:13
Speaker 3: He must have sensed my confusion, because he then stuck
20:16
Speaker 3: out his hand for me to shake and introduced himself
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Speaker 3: to me. He said that his name was Dave, and
20:21
Speaker 3: I gave my name to him. Then he said that
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Speaker 3: he better get going, and he got up and walked away.
20:27
Speaker 3: I watched him walk back into the arcade and out
20:29
Speaker 3: of my sight. The whole encounter was a little bit strange.
20:33
Speaker 3: I stayed where I was for probably another 30 minutes
20:36
Speaker 3: or so. I didn't see Dave at all for the
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Speaker 3: rest of the night, After my son had used up
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Speaker 3: all of his tokens, he came over and got something
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Speaker 3: with his tickets, and then we left. It was the
20:46
Speaker 3: next day that I was on Facebook when I saw
20:48
Speaker 3: that I had a friend request from a guy named Dave.
20:51
Speaker 3: At first, I didn't know who he was, so I
20:53
Speaker 3: clicked on his profile. I then realized that it was
20:56
Speaker 3: the same man who had talked to me at Chuck E.
20:58
Speaker 3: Cheese the previous night. This was kind of weird, because
21:02
Speaker 3: I had only given him my first name, and I
21:04
Speaker 3: wasn't really sure how he found me. We didn't have
21:06
Speaker 3: any mutual friends or anything. There wasn't a whole lot
21:10
Speaker 3: on his profile as far as information or pictures either.
21:14
Speaker 3: I don't really know why, but I accepted his friend request.
21:17
Speaker 3: Unless it was obviously a robot or something, I would
21:20
Speaker 3: kind of automatically accept everyone. But that proved to be
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Speaker 3: a mistake, as only about an hour later, he started
21:27
Speaker 3: sending me messages. He started out by saying hi and
21:31
Speaker 3: asking what I was doing. I wasn't interested in talking
21:34
Speaker 3: to him, to be honest, and I didn't respond. He
21:37
Speaker 3: kept sending me messages, though. By the next day, there
21:40
Speaker 3: was about ten more unread messages that I had from him.
21:43
Speaker 3: I finally decided to respond and asked him why he
21:46
Speaker 3: was sending me so many messages. He replied saying because
21:50
Speaker 3: I wasn't responding. He then asked me if I wanted
21:53
Speaker 3: to hang out with him, and I told him no thanks,
21:55
Speaker 3: and that's when his mood started to change. He started
21:58
Speaker 3: cursing me out and calling me things that I won't
22:00
Speaker 3: repeat here. I told him that if he didn't stop
22:03
Speaker 3: messaging me, I was going to block him. That's when
22:06
Speaker 3: he said something that really made me worry. He said
22:09
Speaker 3: something like, go ahead, I know where you live. It
22:12
Speaker 3: gave me the chills to read it, because based on
22:14
Speaker 3: his behavior, I thought that maybe he did somehow know.
22:18
Speaker 3: He then said that he didn't even have a kid.
22:20
Speaker 3: I blocked him and reported his account for harassment to Facebook.
22:24
Speaker 3: I just hoped that that would be it and I
22:26
Speaker 3: wouldn't have.
22:26
Speaker 2: To deal with him anymore.
22:28
Speaker 3: For a few days, I didn't hear from Dave or
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Speaker 3: see him at all. But then, one night, he came
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Speaker 3: to my house. Luckily, my son wasn't home at the
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Speaker 3: time and was at a friend's house. It was probably
22:40
Speaker 3: about 8 or 9 p.m., and I would be leaving
22:42
Speaker 3: to pick up my son soon. There was a knock
22:44
Speaker 3: on my front door to the house, and I knew
22:47
Speaker 3: instantly based on how late it was that it was
22:49
Speaker 3: probably Dave. My heart was racing as I walked over
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Speaker 3: to look out one of the front windows. He knocked
22:55
Speaker 3: on the door again as I saw him standing there.
22:58
Speaker 3: I wasn't going to answer it, but soon he started yelling.
23:01
Speaker 3: I heard him say that he knew I was home
23:03
Speaker 3: and to open up the door. I was thinking that
23:06
Speaker 3: this guy had to have been crazy or something. He
23:09
Speaker 3: started looking around to the windows and I quickly moved away.
23:13
Speaker 3: I knew that this was grounds to call the police
23:15
Speaker 3: and I got my phone from the counter and dialed 911.
23:18
Speaker 3: As I was talking to the operator, Dave started yelling
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Speaker 3: something else, but I wasn't paying attention to him. I
23:24
Speaker 3: was told that a police officer was in the area
23:26
Speaker 3: and would head over. I figured they would be there
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Speaker 3: in a couple of minutes and I started to feel better. Meanwhile,
23:32
Speaker 3: Dave kept knocking on the door. He was clearly angry now,
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Speaker 3: and I heard him yell at me that if I
23:37
Speaker 3: didn't open the door for him, he was going to
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Speaker 3: break in. That's when the relief that I felt went away,
23:42
Speaker 3: and I was just as worried as I had ever been.
23:45
Speaker 3: I still didn't bother to say anything back to Dave, though. Instead,
23:48
Speaker 3: I moved into my hallway and entered the bathroom. Then
23:51
Speaker 3: I closed the door and locked it, and hoped that
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Speaker 3: Dave wouldn't actually try to break in. The bathroom had
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Speaker 3: a small window that faced our backyard. At first, when
24:00
Speaker 3: I was in there, things were quiet now that I
24:02
Speaker 3: was farther away from Dave. I could barely hear the knocking,
24:05
Speaker 3: but then the knocking stopped. Probably about two minutes later,
24:10
Speaker 3: I then heard noises coming from the backyard. It sounded
24:13
Speaker 3: like Dave was possibly banging on the kitchen window. This
24:16
Speaker 3: only lasted for a few seconds, though, and then it stopped.
24:20
Speaker 3: I didn't hear anything for a few minutes after that.
24:22
Speaker 3: The next thing I knew, I got a call from
24:24
Speaker 3: the police saying that they were there. I left my
24:27
Speaker 3: bathroom and saw several officers outside of my house with
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Speaker 3: flashing lights. They had actually caught Dave. and I was
24:33
Speaker 3: told that he had been hiding in my backyard. I
24:36
Speaker 3: pressed charges against him for harassment, and later got a
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Speaker 3: restraining order. I'm happy to say that I've never seen
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Speaker 3: him since then. The first and only time I ever
24:46
Speaker 3: went to Chuck E. Cheese was back in the year 2005.
24:49
Speaker 3: I was a little kid at the time, and I
24:52
Speaker 3: remember that my older brother got invited to one of
24:54
Speaker 3: his friend's birthday parties, which was going to be at
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Speaker 3: the Chuck E.
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Speaker 4: Cheese.
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Speaker 3: My parents were invited as well, so they said that
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Speaker 3: I could come with. I was excited to go there,
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Speaker 3: because I had always wanted to. It seemed like so
25:05
Speaker 3: much fun, with the arcade games, the pizza, and everything.
25:09
Speaker 3: I remember that the party was on a Sunday, I think,
25:11
Speaker 3: and when we got there, my parents got a pizza,
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Speaker 3: and my brother went to hang out with his friends.
25:16
Speaker 3: I knew some of the kids that were there, but
25:18
Speaker 3: they were mostly my brother's friends, so I could kind
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Speaker 3: of do my own thing. My brother's friend who the
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Speaker 3: party was for was named Tyler, and his parents got
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Speaker 3: a bunch of tokens for everyone. They gave me a
25:28
Speaker 3: little paper cup with a bunch of tokens in it,
25:30
Speaker 3: and I began going around playing some of the machines.
25:33
Speaker 3: I was trying to find the best machines that would
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Speaker 3: have the best payout of tickets. I saw that the
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Speaker 3: Chuck E. Cheese had some pretty cool prizes you could
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Speaker 3: win with the tickets. After playing maybe half the arcade
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Speaker 3: games they had in there, I found this one in
25:45
Speaker 3: the corner that I really liked a lot. I was
25:48
Speaker 3: getting on a winning streak, and after the second time
25:50
Speaker 3: playing it, I had quite a few tickets, and played
25:53
Speaker 3: it for a third time. I was right in the
25:55
Speaker 3: middle of the game, when all of a sudden, the
25:57
Speaker 3: whole thing suddenly went black and froze. It was really strange.
26:02
Speaker 3: I pushed some of the buttons and messed around with
26:04
Speaker 3: it a little bit, but nothing worked. The screen was
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Speaker 3: completely black, and nothing I did seemed to affect it.
26:11
Speaker 3: I was a little kid, so I didn't really know
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Speaker 3: how the machines worked, but I just figured it was broken. Then,
26:16
Speaker 3: I saw a man appear next to the machine. He
26:19
Speaker 3: was wearing a shirt with a Chuck E. Cheese logo
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Speaker 3: and asked me what had happened. I told him the
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Speaker 3: machine was broken, and he took a look at it
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Speaker 3: and saw how it wasn't working. He pushed a few
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Speaker 3: of the buttons and then went around to the back
26:30
Speaker 3: of the machine. It seemed like he was working on it,
26:32
Speaker 3: and a short time later, he returned and said that
26:35
Speaker 3: it appeared as though the machine was broken and it
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Speaker 3: would be out of.
26:38
Speaker 2: Order for a while.
26:39
Speaker 3: Then he apologized to me and told me he could
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Speaker 3: get me the tickets that I would have won and
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Speaker 3: some extra tokens for the trouble. I was glad to
26:45
Speaker 3: hear this because I would have already won a good
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Speaker 3: amount of tickets from the game before it broke. The
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Speaker 3: guy started to walk away and told me to follow him.
26:53
Speaker 3: We went off to the side of the room and
26:55
Speaker 3: then into a hallway which led to the back. I
26:57
Speaker 3: stopped at the entrance of the hallway that said, employees only,
27:01
Speaker 3: but then I was told to keep going. I followed
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Speaker 3: the guy down the hall, and then we reached a
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Speaker 3: side door. The guy then backed up and grabbed my
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Speaker 3: arm tightly. He opened the door, which turned out to
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Speaker 3: be an exit of the building. I could see outside,
27:15
Speaker 3: and he pulled my arm and forced me to follow him.
27:17
Speaker 3: I asked the man what was going on, but he
27:19
Speaker 3: didn't answer me. I was starting to panic. The guy
27:23
Speaker 3: had a strong grip on my arm, and it looked
27:25
Speaker 3: like we were going out to his car. I really
27:27
Speaker 3: didn't want to go any further, and I was desperate.
27:30
Speaker 3: As we got closer, I suddenly took my leg and
27:33
Speaker 3: kicked the man right in the groin area. It really
27:36
Speaker 3: took him by surprise, and he dropped to his knees
27:38
Speaker 3: for a second, and his grip became much looser. I
27:41
Speaker 3: pulled away from the man and started running back, but
27:44
Speaker 3: I decided to go around to the front of the
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Speaker 3: Chuck E.
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Speaker 1: Cheese.
27:47
Speaker 3: Once I had made it around to the front, I
27:49
Speaker 3: went in the entrance doors and ran back inside to
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Speaker 3: my parents. When I got there, they saw me and
27:54
Speaker 3: asked me what was wrong. After I told them what
27:57
Speaker 3: had happened, they decided to call the police and talk
28:00
Speaker 3: with the managers as well. I remember I had to
28:02
Speaker 3: talk with the police for a while. Looking back at
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Speaker 3: that day, I realized that the man didn't work at
28:08
Speaker 3: Chuck E. Cheese at all, and he most likely just
28:10
Speaker 3: unplugged the game I was playing himself.
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28:50
Speaker 3: I used to work at a Chuck E Cheese. I
28:54
Speaker 3: enjoyed the job a lot. It was a fun place
28:56
Speaker 3: to work, maybe because I had a lot of good
28:58
Speaker 3: memories of going there as a kid. I would do
29:01
Speaker 3: a little bit of everything there, including quite a bit
29:03
Speaker 3: of maintenance and cleaning. One night, I was working on
29:06
Speaker 3: a quieter evening. I was in the process of cleaning
29:09
Speaker 3: up a table area when I saw a customer approaching me.
29:13
Speaker 3: I stopped what I was doing and saw that there
29:15
Speaker 3: was a pretty average looking guy standing in front of me.
29:18
Speaker 3: The guy told me that he had just been in
29:20
Speaker 3: the men's bathroom in the back and he wanted to
29:22
Speaker 3: let me know that it was really dirty and could
29:23
Speaker 3: use a cleaning.
29:25
Speaker 2: I told the guy thanks for letting me know, and
29:27
Speaker 2: then he walked away.
29:29
Speaker 3: Keeping the bathroom clean was one of my jobs, and
29:31
Speaker 3: it wasn't one of my favorite parts of the job,
29:33
Speaker 3: but it actually usually wasn't that bad. After I was
29:36
Speaker 3: done clearing the table, I walked down the hallway to
29:38
Speaker 3: our little cleaning closet where I got a cleaning cart
29:41
Speaker 3: that I would use for the restrooms. By this time
29:43
Speaker 3: of night, the place wasn't too busy, and there were
29:45
Speaker 3: only a few kids and parents in the arcade or
29:47
Speaker 3: eating areas. When I got to the men's bathroom in
29:51
Speaker 3: the back, I went inside and saw that it was
29:53
Speaker 3: empty and nobody else was in, which was good, but
29:55
Speaker 3: when I looked around, everything seemed fine.
29:58
Speaker 2: I was happy to see this but also confused.
30:01
Speaker 3: The more I looked around after going all around the
30:03
Speaker 3: bathroom I saw that it was completely clean and nothing
30:06
Speaker 3: was dirty at all. After that I took my cart
30:09
Speaker 3: and went to leave. When I tried opening the bathroom
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Speaker 3: door to get out it wouldn't move. All I had
30:15
Speaker 3: to do was push it open but it seemed like
30:17
Speaker 3: there was someone or something on the other side blocking
30:19
Speaker 3: it and holding it back because no matter how hard
30:22
Speaker 3: I pushed it just wouldn't budge. I kept trying but
30:25
Speaker 3: nothing was happening. Then suddenly All the lights went out.
30:30
Speaker 3: It was pitch black in there, and I couldn't see
30:32
Speaker 3: a thing. I kept on trying the door, but nothing
30:34
Speaker 3: was happening. I started banging on the door and yelling
30:37
Speaker 3: at that point, hoping that somebody would hear me. Finally,
30:41
Speaker 3: after about a minute straight of this, the door suddenly
30:44
Speaker 3: burst open, and I went flying out there and fell
30:46
Speaker 3: flat on my face on the other side of the doorway.
30:49
Speaker 3: I looked around, but didn't see anybody nearby. I saw
30:53
Speaker 3: one of my coworkers, Jake, not too far away, kind
30:55
Speaker 3: of walking towards me. He came up and asked if
30:57
Speaker 3: I was okay, looking confused. I told him what had
31:01
Speaker 3: just happened to me. Jake said he had seen me
31:03
Speaker 3: go through the door, and he had heard somebody yelling,
31:05
Speaker 3: and that's why he was approaching the bathroom. He said
31:08
Speaker 3: when he got towards the bathroom doors, he saw a
31:10
Speaker 3: large man running away.
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Speaker 2: I was really creeped out when I heard this.
31:14
Speaker 3: I actually looked around after that for the guy who
31:16
Speaker 3: had told me that the bathrooms were dirty, but I
31:19
Speaker 3: couldn't find him anywhere. I ended up just working the
31:22
Speaker 3: rest of the night like normal after that. I've often
31:24
Speaker 3: wondered what exactly happened there.