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Top True Horror Stories That Will Leave You Speechless · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: My name is Oliver. I am a twenty six year
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  Speaker 1: old and I'm on a road trip with my twin brothers,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin and Mason, who will be graduating from high school
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  Speaker 1: this year. Our parents wanted me to take Kevin and
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  Speaker 1: Mason on college tours every break they got from school.
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  Speaker 1: We live in Ohio, but my mom wanted me to
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  Speaker 1: take the boys all the way to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to
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  Speaker 1: tour Harvard University. She doesn't like the idea of her
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  Speaker 1: baby boys going so far away to college, but she
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  Speaker 1: loves the idea of her two sons becoming lawyers together.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin and Mason have their own ideas of what they
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  Speaker 1: want to do, but we're willing to tour Harvard for
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  Speaker 1: mom's sake. It was late at night as we were
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  Speaker 1: driving through the state of Massachusetts. I had been driving
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  Speaker 1: for nearly twenty four hours straight and I was tired.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to stay ahead of schedule so we could
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  Speaker 1: take our time. I had a hotel room booked and
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  Speaker 1: plug the address into my GPS. Are we there yet?
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  Speaker 1: Muttered Mason sleepily in the back seat. I'm starving, Kevin
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  Speaker 1: groaned from the front seat. On our way to the hotel, now,
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  Speaker 1: I said, Can we stop for food, asked Kevin. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'll find someplace, I told them. I entered the route
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  Speaker 1: to the hotel and typed food near me on the
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: GPS map. It let us down some highway called Route
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: forty four, and we hoobooth. The highway was dark and deserted,
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  Speaker 1: but this was the quickest route to a McDonald's and
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  Speaker 1: I was starving too. Maybe some food would wake me
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  Speaker 1: up enough to get to the hotel. I continued down
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  Speaker 1: the long, dark road, fighting sleep. I cracked open a
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  Speaker 1: window to let the cold autumn are in to keep
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  Speaker 1: myself alert. I had never fought sleep harder in my life,
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  Speaker 1: but I was determined to get my brothers some food.
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  Speaker 1: Who's that, Kevin asked who, I replied that dude out there.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin pointed down the road where we saw the silhouette
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  Speaker 1: of a man. As I drove closer, we saw a
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  Speaker 1: man with red hair and a full beard, dressed in
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  Speaker 1: a flannel shirt and jeans. He looked dirty, as though
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  Speaker 1: he lived out in the woods surrounding the highway. Think
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  Speaker 1: he needs help, Mason asked, dude, is creepy? I say,
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: we keep driving. Kevin replied, it's just creepy because it's
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  Speaker 1: late at night. Maybe he does need help, I said.
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  Speaker 1: As I pulled up the man, Kevin leaned over toward
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  Speaker 1: me as I rolled down his window. Everything okay, sir,
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  Speaker 1: I asked. The man just stared at us. His eyes
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  Speaker 1: were black and he had an eerie grin stretched across
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  Speaker 1: his face. His teeth were yellow with black gunkin between them.
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  Speaker 1: I waited for him to speak up, but he said nothing, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Is there something you need? I asked. He reached up
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  Speaker 1: and placed his hand on the windowsill, and Kevin leaned
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  Speaker 1: further toward me. The man said nothing. He just continued
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  Speaker 1: to stare at us with that unnatural grin on his face. Oliver,
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  Speaker 1: can we please go, Kevin asked, in a shaky voice.
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  Speaker 1: This dude's creeping me out, Mason said from the back seat. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to help if there's something you need,
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  Speaker 1: but if you don't tell me, I'm gonna have to leave.
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  Speaker 1: I told the man. His eyes met mine, and I
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  Speaker 1: had a sense of dread come over me. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: tell if I was hallucinating from being so tired or
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  Speaker 1: if something was really wrong. He finally spoke, I'm wanting
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  Speaker 1: to go get some food? Can you take me? His
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  Speaker 1: voice was low, and something about it shot a chill
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  Speaker 1: down my spine. I looked back at Mason, who was
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  Speaker 1: shaking his head adamantly. Kevin shook his head too. If
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  Speaker 1: the man wanted to eat, we could take him. If
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: traveling for my job on the road has taught me anything,
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  Speaker 1: it's keep a firearm with you. I happened to have
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  Speaker 1: one tucked under my seat. Not even Kevin or Mason
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  Speaker 1: knew about it. Kevin get in the back seat, I said,
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  Speaker 1: are you crazy? You're giving him a ride? He protested,
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  Speaker 1: According to the GPS, we're only ten minutes away from
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  Speaker 1: the McDonald's. What's the harm in taking him for a
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  Speaker 1: bite to eat? I said, Both boys protested. Kevin crawled
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  Speaker 1: into the back next to Mason, and the stranger got
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  Speaker 1: into the front seat. I reached down, pretending to adjust
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  Speaker 1: my seat, but grabbed the gun. I kept under it
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  Speaker 1: and placed it under my thigh. The stranger put his
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  Speaker 1: seat belt on. Thank you, he said, with a smile
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  Speaker 1: that continued to send chills down my spine. I know
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  Speaker 1: what you're thinking. I should have driven off, but sometimes
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  Speaker 1: people do crazy things when they're hungry, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: I told myself. Plus I was prepared in case this
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  Speaker 1: dude tried anything smart. I kept my eyes on the
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  Speaker 1: road ahead, and my leg pressed against the seat, holding
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: my pistol there. The entire time I drove. The man
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  Speaker 1: jest stared at us. His black eyes would go for me,
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  Speaker 1: to the boys in the back, and back to me.
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  Speaker 1: He then set his eyes on me, and I was
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  Speaker 1: so scared at this point that I finally pulled over
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  Speaker 1: and whipped out my gun, pointing it straight at him.
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  Speaker 1: He still continued to stare at me with those black,
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  Speaker 1: lifeless eyes. I needed you to get out of the car,
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  Speaker 1: I said, as I took the safety off. Kevin and
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  Speaker 1: Mason gasped from the back seat. They seemed more shocked
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  Speaker 1: to see the gun than the stranger. In fact, he
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: looked flat out amused. My hands shook as he grabbed
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  Speaker 1: my hands that held the gun. He unhinged his jaw
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  Speaker 1: wide and shoved the gun barrel in his mouth and pulled.
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  Speaker 1: We all screamed as brains and blood splattered everywhere. I
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  Speaker 1: sped down the road as fast as I could, all
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  Speaker 1: of us freaking out. When suddenly he vanished into thin air.
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  Speaker 1: None of us could explain what happened that night, but
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  Speaker 1: after we got to our hotel, we spent the night
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  Speaker 1: and drove home without looking back. I did some research
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  Speaker 1: when I got home and found out the man we
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  Speaker 1: came across was a ghost that many have seen before.
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  Speaker 1: He's known as the Redhead and a flunnel shirt ghost
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  Speaker 1: on Root forty four that smiles eerily at passing cars.
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  Speaker 1: I will never drive on Root forty four ever. Again.
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  Speaker 2: Hi guys, my name is Aarria, and to be honest,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how I'm alive to tell you the
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: story I'm about to tell you. It all started on
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  Speaker 2: March twenty fifth. My boyfriend had his birthday in two days,
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  Speaker 2: and even though our relationship was really rocky, I was
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  Speaker 2: looking for something to give him as a present. To
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  Speaker 2: be honest, we both argued a lot and this could
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  Speaker 2: be a great opportunity to fix things, so I had
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  Speaker 2: to give him a big gift. I searched high and
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  Speaker 2: low on the internet for someone selling his favorite Spider
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  Speaker 2: Man action figure, until with a lot of effort, I
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  Speaker 2: found someone who was selling it. This person was a
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  Speaker 2: childhood friend of mine, someone I knew who collected Marvel
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  Speaker 2: figures and sold as many as he could. I went
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  Speaker 2: into my friend's house and he quickly showed me the figure.
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  Speaker 1: It was beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure Tom, my boyfriend, was going to love it.
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  Speaker 2: I stayed there, having coffee with my friend and catching
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  Speaker 2: up with him, and after a few hours I went back.
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  Speaker 3: To my house.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't have known where I was, or he would
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  Speaker 2: find out what I was going to give him. After
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  Speaker 2: that day, Tom spoke to me surprisingly less, but when
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  Speaker 2: his birthday came, he picked me up in his car
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  Speaker 2: to go to lunch with his family for his birthday.
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  Speaker 2: We hadn't dated it in a long time, and his
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  Speaker 2: family lived far away, so this would be the first
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  Speaker 2: time I would meet her. You can imagine how nervous
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  Speaker 2: I was. What I imagined at the time was that
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  Speaker 2: I would never actually get to meet her because her
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  Speaker 2: family had died years ago. I still remember how that
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  Speaker 2: day Tom had a smile from ear to ear. It
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  Speaker 2: was almost machiavelian, but I could tell he was nervous
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  Speaker 2: and angry about something. I asked him what was wrong,
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  Speaker 2: but he just said he was nervous because he was
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  Speaker 2: going to meet his family, and I innocently believed him.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as I got into the car, I noticed
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  Speaker 2: that he didn't say a word to me or look
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  Speaker 2: at me. He was absorbed and his head was somewhere else. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: tell me, what are you thinking about. Something is clearly happening.
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  Speaker 4: I told you nothing. Can't you be a little more patient, then.
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  Speaker 2: Something is happening. If you tell me to be patient,
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  Speaker 2: it's because something is about to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Just be patient. Okay, I have a surprise for.
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  Speaker 2: You, a surprise for me. It's your birthday, not mine.
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  Speaker 2: From that moment on, Tom left me to answer. I
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  Speaker 2: was a little uncomfortable after that talk. I felt the
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  Speaker 2: surprise couldn't be good, but I decided to give him
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  Speaker 2: a chance anyway. It's not like he was planning to
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  Speaker 2: kill me or anything, or at least that's what I
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  Speaker 2: thought at the time. Car started going faster and faster
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  Speaker 2: toward the highway. I knew his parents lived in that direction,
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  Speaker 2: so I didn't suspect anything strange. When we got on
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  Speaker 2: the freeway is when the weirdness really started to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Tom started to speed up more and more, until after
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  Speaker 2: a few minutes he was over the limit. I started
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  Speaker 2: to get worried and let him know, but he just
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  Speaker 2: ignored me. After a few seconds that felt like hours,
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  Speaker 2: he began to answer me, Hey, seriously, what's wrong with you?
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  Speaker 2: You're going too fast. We might have an accident area.
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  Speaker 4: I know you met with a man a few days ago.
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  Speaker 2: What what are you talking about? Have you been following me.
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  Speaker 4: So you recognize him? Well, it didn't make sense for
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  Speaker 4: you to lie either. Yes, I've been following you. If
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  Speaker 4: I'm suspicious of you, it's obvious. I'm going to have
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  Speaker 4: to make sure you're not up to some thing weird,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't regret it. From what I saw, I
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  Speaker 4: was right.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell is wrong with you? That was just
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  Speaker 2: a friend. I was buying your birthday present from him. Angrily,
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  Speaker 2: Tom put his hand on my neck and looked at
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  Speaker 2: me in a defiant matter.
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  Speaker 4: Don't even think of using my birthday as an excuse.
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  Speaker 4: It's enough that you've already betrayed me.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm telling you the truth.
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  Speaker 4: Every word you say makes me sick. I'm more and
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  Speaker 4: more satisfied with my decision decision.
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  Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 4: You should try to put on your seat belt as
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  Speaker 4: I did, my dear.
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  Speaker 2: Suddenly, Tom came you call around and started driving down
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  Speaker 2: the freeway on the wrong side of the road. All
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  Speaker 2: the cars barely managed to avoid him. Luckily there were
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  Speaker 2: very few people, but still it was only a matter
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  Speaker 2: of time before where an accident happened. As Tom increased
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  Speaker 2: his speed more and more. Stop the car, now, what
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  Speaker 2: the hell is wrong with you? Have you gone crazy?
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  Speaker 2: Tom didn't answer me and just kept driving with a
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  Speaker 2: psycho face I have never seen since I've known him.
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  Speaker 2: I tried to put on my seat belt before it
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  Speaker 2: flew out the window, but to my surprise, it was gone.
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  Speaker 2: Someone had cut it off.
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  Speaker 4: Oh it looks like you don't have a seat belt.
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  Speaker 4: A real shame, but you know what you deserve it
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  Speaker 4: only good people like me deserve to live.
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  Speaker 2: You're a psycho. Stop the car. You won't survive either.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a belt.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we'll see about that. Unfortunately, I don't think you'll
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  Speaker 4: be alive to find out. If you're a kid with
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: a car in front of you, you'll be thrown out
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  Speaker 4: of the window for sure. Your head will smash against
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  Speaker 4: the glass, and then you'll hit the other car and
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  Speaker 4: go straight into the pavement. I had my seatbelt and
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: airbag to protect me.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you doing this to me? I have never
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  Speaker 2: been with anyone else. I just wanted you to have
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  Speaker 2: a good time today.
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  Speaker 4: Lies, All women are just as treacherous. You were only
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  Speaker 4: with me because you just met me. Surely you were
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  Speaker 4: already bored with me and you started dating your friend, right.
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  Speaker 2: I swear I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I hate liars.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't we?
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  Speaker 2: Tom moved this car and crashed it into my side
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  Speaker 2: with another car. The glass in my window shattered and
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  Speaker 2: hurt my arm. Tom lost the little control but quickly
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  Speaker 2: regained it.
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  Speaker 4: It hurts, doesn't it. You know what this is, love,
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  Speaker 4: This is the price of betrayal. I've been following you
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  Speaker 4: for as long as I've known you. I always knew
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  Speaker 4: you were out to something weird. But you know what
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  Speaker 4: your mind. And when a toy of mine is defective,
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  Speaker 4: I throw it away.
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  Speaker 2: With that said, Tom accelerated to crash into a truck.
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  Speaker 2: This time it was going to happen. The truck showed
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: no signs of evading my boyfriend's car. I had to
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  Speaker 2: do something or I would surely die. In an act
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  Speaker 2: of impulsivity, I grabbed Tom's steering wheel and swerved the
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  Speaker 2: car to the side. He crashed into a fence and
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: fell down a small ravine straight into the river. Water
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  Speaker 2: began to pour into the car through my broken glass.
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  Speaker 2: Tom seemed to have passed out, so I took that
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  Speaker 2: moment to swim through the broken car window and escape,
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  Speaker 2: But suddenly Tom grabbed my foot. His gaze was full
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  Speaker 2: of anger. This man wasn't interested in saving himself. He
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  Speaker 2: just wanted to kill me. As he grabbed my foot,
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  Speaker 2: I started to run out of air, and to make
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  Speaker 2: it worse, a part of my body was still going
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: through the broken window of the car, and I still
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  Speaker 2: had the glass embedded and in my skin. Every time
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: my body hit the car, I could feel those little
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: pieces of glass penetrate my skin even further. In my dements,
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  Speaker 2: I kicked Tom in the face as hard as I could,
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  Speaker 2: and on my third kick he let go of me,
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  Speaker 2: and so I took the opportunity to swim away. As
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  Speaker 2: I did so, I could see Tom stretching his arms
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  Speaker 2: out to catch me while the car was sinking deeper
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  Speaker 2: and deeper. Tom never made it out of the car. Ironically,
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: it was the seat belt that doomed him, But then again,
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  Speaker 2: he couldn't swim nearly drowning. I managed to get out
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  Speaker 2: and breathe, and when the police rescued me, I told
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  Speaker 2: them everything. There was no trial and no one questioned
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  Speaker 2: what happened to me. It turns out that Tom wasn't
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: really Tom. His name was Frances and he was a
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: wanted criminal for murdering his entire family. That's why he
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  Speaker 2: lived so far away from her. From that day on,
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: I could never trust again. I know that many people
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: are actually good, and not all of them will want
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: to kill me, but I have to go through a
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  Speaker 2: very big healing process. Every time someone approaches me, I
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: see Tom reflected in their eyes, and I feel that
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: no matter how good the other person is, they are
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: hiding a serial killer inside them.
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  Speaker 1: Nicole and Smith both lived in a city hostel. These
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  Speaker 1: individuals decided to go out to eat one evening. They
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: rode their bikes outside at eleven PM to eat. In
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  Speaker 1: this manner, Smith told Nicole to take the short force
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  Speaker 1: path after supper so we could get to his hostile
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  Speaker 1: as soon as possible. Nicole, on the other hand, refused
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  Speaker 1: and stated that this route should not be taken because
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  Speaker 1: it passes through an abandoned cemetery. Smith informs them that
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  Speaker 1: it is on the right side of the forest, whereas
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  Speaker 1: we will be traversing the left. Nicole agreed with him,
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  Speaker 1: and they both went down this road. They arrived near
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  Speaker 1: the abandoned cemetery. After some time on that path, Nicole
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  Speaker 1: announced immediately that we had arrived at the cemetery. According
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  Speaker 1: to Smith, the cemetery should have been on the opposite
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  Speaker 1: side of the forest. What brought it here? Nicole orders
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  Speaker 1: him to leave the area immediately, fearing for his safety.
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  Speaker 1: Niicole noticed movement in the cemetery as soon as Smith
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  Speaker 1: reversed the bicycle. Niccolo tightened his grip on Smith's shoulders
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  Speaker 1: when he noticed this, prompting Smith to inquire, what's the
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  Speaker 1: matter with you? Why are you putting so much pressure
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: on my shoulders? Nicole informs him, terrified that he has
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  Speaker 1: just seen movement in the cemetery. Smith then inquired as
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  Speaker 1: to the location of the movement. There is someone in
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  Speaker 1: the cemetery over there, said Nicole, motioning to him. Smith
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  Speaker 1: became terrified upon hearing this and stated that he does
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  Speaker 1: not wish to observe anything. We should leave this area
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  Speaker 1: as soon as possible, because I'm starting to get scared,
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  Speaker 1: Nicole stated that there is someone present on this occasion.
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  Speaker 1: When Smith looked there, he found nothing. However, Nicole stated
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  Speaker 1: numerous times that there is someone present there. Can't you see?
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Smith claimed, I can't see anything. What do you see?
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  Speaker 1: Nicole claims a white cloth moving to the right and
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  Speaker 1: left on a regular basis. After hearing this, Smith became
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  Speaker 1: even more terrified. Nicole began telling Smith to leave immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Smith left after Nicole repeated this several times. Nicole eventually
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  Speaker 1: heard a sound in his ear as if someone is
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  Speaker 1: telling him stop or rosso kill you. Nicole became terrified
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: when he heard this and began yelling go fast at Smith.
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  Speaker 1: This Smith acquired as to what occurred. Smith's gaze was
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  Speaker 1: drawn to the bike's mirror. He noticed a woman in
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: white chasing him through the air. When Smith saw this,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: he became terrified and increased the speed of the bike. Fearful,
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  Speaker 1: they arrived at their hostel, went to their room, and
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: fell asleep after locking the gate. The next day, a
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: college holiday, they both left for home, promising not to
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: tell anyone about the incident. The next day, Smith receives
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: a phone call, and when he answers it, he discovers
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  Speaker 1: that it's Nicole's mother picking up the phone. Nicole's mother
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: informed Smith that he hasn't eaten or spoken to anyone
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  Speaker 1: since Nicole returned home. He spends the entire day in
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: his room, and there is a sound of someone talking
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: to someone from his room in the middle of the
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: night while no one is in his room. Do you
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: know anything about it? Smith became terrified and reported the
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: incident to Nicole's mother. His mother was also terrified. Upon
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: hearing this information, She reprimanded Smith, saying that all this occurred,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: and you didn't tell anyone. What if something terrible were
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: to occur? Smith stated that because we were terrified, we
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: did not tell anyone. Nicolo was conversing with another individual
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: in his room while his mother listened in through the door.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: On the same evening, she entered the room because she
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: did not comprehend anything. Inside, they observed Nicole standing in
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: a dark corner with his back to the wall and mumbling.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: They observed Nicole standing in a dark corner with his
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: back to the wall and mumbling. Nicole, what are you
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: talking about? Questioned his mother. Nicoleo did not respond, but
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: he did stop babbling. Tell me who are you talking
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: to she inquired. That's when Nicole shouted, leave me in
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: that cemetery and a come, old lady, that is my residence.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I will bring your child with me. Nicole's tonal voice
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: had changed, his eyes turned red, and his voice sounded
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: as if to the The three people were saying all
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: of this at the same time, Nicole collapsed unconscious. After
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: saying all of this, his mother became terrified and picked
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: him up and made him lie on the bed. Then
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: she called her husband and told him everything. Nichole's father
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: returned from work after an hour. Nichole's mother started crying
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: and asked, what happened to our son. When she sees him,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: please correct it. Nichole is driven to church by his
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: parents the next day. The priest places his hand on
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the coal's head, closes her eyes, and then opens her
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: eyes and declares that he is possessed by a witch.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: She had followed it out of the cemetery and it
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: returned to him. She would also like to accompany him
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: to the cemetery. Nichole's mother burst into tears upon hearing this.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: She asked the priest save my son. According to the priest,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: this witch followed, your son sent to your house. As
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: a result, its odor must drive it away. You dispose
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: of his clothes from today in the same cemetery without
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: watching it. Don't worry, I'll keep the witch until you
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: return with the clothes. You must, however, complete the task tonight.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Only Nichole's parents became enraged upon hearing this, and brought
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: his clothes to the cemetery that night to be stored there.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: We left your victim of the graveyard. You should leave,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: the priest responded, do not return again. After the witch
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: returned to the abandoned graveyard, Nicole was now free of
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the witch's clutches. The priest advised Nichole's family that your
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: son should never take that road by accident. After saying this,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the priest sent all three of them out of the
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: church and they returned home happy.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Since the day I started working in this theater seven
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: years ago as a security guard, I knew it was
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: going to be an easy job. After all, the theater
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: was closed forever and the building was up for sale anyways,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: the only reason to the security team was hired was
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: to guard the props and all the valuable lighting and
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: sound systems present in the theater. Sam, Jordan and I
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: used to be on the night shift every night. We
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: all never believed in ghosts or anything paranormal. I was
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: the senior security guard there. Sam joined a year later
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: and Jordan had just completed two years working with us.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Our job was simple. We had to get there by
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: six in the evening and relieve the previous guys. Then
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: we used to take rounds and check each room in
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: the theater. The building had three floors, and we each
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: used to check one floor. After that, we used to
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: lock up and sit in the control room, keeping an
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: eye on the CCTV camera feed. Our job was pretty uneventful,
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: but the pay was good and we were free to
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: take up another job in the day, so it was perfect. However,
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: last month Sam fell ill and a new guy joined
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: our team as a replacement for Sam. His name was
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Andy and he was a young lad. It was his
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: first job ever, so Jordan and I decided to take
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: him under our wing and show him the ropes of
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: the work. He was a bit of a coward, but
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: given his age and lack of experience, we didn't mind.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: So instead of assigning him Sam's second floor to check,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: we told him to guard the main game, and Jordan
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: and I checked the second floor on alternate days. Andy
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: was very happy to guard the main gay as no
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: matter how late it was, there was always some people
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: on the road or the sidewalks. Plus, all he had
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: to do was sit in the cubicle and keep watch.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: As Andy was guarding the entrance, Jordan and I focused
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: more on the other CCTV cameras. This soon became our normal.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Andy used to join us for a couple of hours
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: in the control room to chat, but used to return
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: to his position pretty quickly. Our dynamic worked well for
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: us until two months into Andy's recruitment, Jordan suggested that
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: we should check on Andy, just to make sure he's
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: all right. We generally never checked in on him, but
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: that day Jordan was stressing about it. Sure, just let
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: me open the feed that covers the entrance. As soon
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: as I opened the feed that showed Andy, Jordan and
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: I exchanged a funny look. In the feed, we could
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: see Andy standing out of his cubicle and making hand
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: gestures as if he was talking to someone. What's up
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: with him? Asked Jordan. Don't know, man, is he talking
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: to someone on the phone. My first thought was maybe
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Andy was wearing an earpiece and talking to someone. I
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: don't think so, man, Can you zoom in on his ear?
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Jordan asked, sure. I zoomed in on his ear and
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: we could not see an earpiece. That's when Andy did
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: the weirdest thing. He extended his hand in front of
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: him as if offering someone to hold it, and then
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: very slowly started walking down the sidewalk that ran parallel
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: to the street away from the theater. Jordan and I
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: again exchanged the look. What the hell is going on?
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Jordan cursed out loud. Does he still have the walkie
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: talkie with him? Jordan asked me, yeah, I guess it's
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: strapped to his waist. Look. I pointed at the screen.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Each member of the security team has a long distance
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: walkie talkie with us in case we need to communicate.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: I picked up mine from the side table and decided
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: to talk to Andy. Hey Andy, do you copy? I
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: asked Jordan and I kept on looking at Andy, who
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: was now in one corner of the screen, still acting
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: as if he was helping someone walk. After a few seconds,
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: we got a reply, Yes, this is Andy, I copy, buddy.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: What are you doing this time? It was Jordan talking
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: through my walkie talkie helping her? What else do you think?
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Andy's reply confused me and Jordan even more. Helping who Andy?
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: I asked in a calm tone. Jordan and I had
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: a faint idea of what was going on, but we
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: didn't want to scare Andy, so in a calm voice,
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: I told Andy the truth. Listen, buddy, I don't know
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: what's going on, but we've been watching you from the
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: CCTV for a while now and we think something is wrong.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Can you please tell us who you are helping? The
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: old lady I'm helping cross the road. Andy's reply sent
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: chills down our spines, but Jordan and I I had
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: to save our friend. Listen carefully, Andy, there is no
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: old lady. You were seeing things. We need you to
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: just run back into the theater towards the control room, now, hurry.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: We could see Andy's panic before we heard his voice.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: What do you mean, I'm confused. That's when Jordan snatched
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: the walkie talkie from me and just began to yell
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: into it. Run Andy, just run, get into the theater.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Run as fast as you can run, man. Run through
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: the screen, we saw Andy running towards the theater. By
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: the time he barged into the control room, he was
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: sweating and terrified. Are you all right, I asked Andy
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: to what He just nodded. Jordan brought him a glass
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: of water and handed it to her. After Andy was
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: a bit stable, we showed him the CCTV footage in
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: which she was clearly talking to someone and later escorting
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: the invisible figure. When we asked who he was helping,
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Andy revealed a shocking story. I was helping the old
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: lady almost for a week now. She walks by the
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: theater at around three am and struggles across the road.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: That's why I've been talking to her and helping her
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: every night until today, when you guys told me that
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: I was alone on the sidewalk talking to someone. And
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: now this footage confirms that I've been helping a spirit
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: all along. Andy was sobbing and shaking while telling us
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: his story. The next day, Jordan and I did a
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: bit of digging and found out about the urban legend
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: that was popular in the neighborhood. According to the legend,
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: there are shape shifters that rote the streets at night,
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: and people often see them in the form of people
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: or animals. They even take the form of people you know,
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: and once they gained your trust, they eventually killed you.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: After the incident with Andy, all we could think was
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: what would have happened if we hadn't checked the CCTV
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: that night.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: My name is Anthony Smith and I was an employee
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: at the Burger King restaurant in Houston, Texas. My reason
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: for writing this is to share with the public the
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: horrific activities that have occurred at Burger King for the
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: past couple of years, involving the disappearance of multiple Burger
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: King employees with no information as to where they had gone,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: and my personal traumatic experience with the infamous Burger King.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: I interviewed for the job at Burger King on the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: twenty first of November twenty seventeen. At the time, I
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: was twenty one years old and just looking for a
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: way to get some money while I looked for a
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: better job. The man who interviewed me was named Donald,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: and since the job didn't require any past experience or
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: anything like that, it was more him giving me the
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: restaurant's rules and guidelines than actually asking me questions. The
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: rule he emphasized the most was kind of odd to me.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: He made sure I understood the manager and manager's office
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: were strictly off limits, and any issues I had should
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: be taken up with him the assistant manager, as the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: manager was a very private man and did not like
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to be disturbed. Now, it seemed odd to me that
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the manager wouldn't want to interact with the employees at all,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: but it didn't seem like a problem at the time,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and I was just glad I had gotten the job.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: The first few weeks working at Burger King were tiring.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I was constantly doing dishes all day, and at night,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: when I was done with the dishes, I'd have to
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: clean the whole place alone. I wasn't sure if i'd
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: keep the job for much longer, but I did because
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I needed the money. Eventually I got used to the routine.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I began bonding with the cooks and a girl named
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Becky who always stayed late to lock up. While cooking
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: at night, I couldn't help but always glance at the
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: manager's door and wonder how no one had seen him,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: or if he even cared what went on in the restaurant.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: One day, while doing the dishes, I decided to ask
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the cooks if any of them ever met the manager. Hey,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: this is kind of a weird question, Bud, Have any
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: of you ever met the manager? A silence followed before Gerald,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the head chef, looked at me and said, well, I
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: haven't met him, but I've seen him. The silence remained
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: as Gerald continued with It was back when I was
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: still kind of new here. I was working the night
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: shift when I heard his door shut. Obviously, I wanted
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: to know what he looked like, so I stopped and
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: had a look. Gerald paused, as if trying to build
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: up the tension. He laughed and continued, I've told everyone
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: already he's a pretty normal guy. There's no mystery. There's
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: no secret, just a man that likes his privacy. So
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: don't go looking for answers where there are no questions, Smith.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: He pated me on the back and walked away. We
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: were open pretty late that night, but eventually everyone had
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: gone home and the only one I was left with
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: was Becky. I decided to ask her about the manager,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: as I couldn't believe Gerald's story. Can I ask you something?
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I asked, as I cleaned down the last table.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Whatever you want, Smith.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: She replied, so I continued with, what do you think
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: about our manager? I stopped cleaning and looked at her,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: trying to see if she had any reaction like the cooks,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: but she didn't seem even slightly bothered by my question.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: She just looked up at me and said.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: You mean the manager that doesn't exist. Honestly, I've never
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: cared enough to ask questions. I just get paid and
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: go home.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I responded with, so you didn't find it even slightly strange.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: What if it's something illegal? She laughed and kept looking
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: at her phone.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, Smith I met. Maybe burger King is a
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: drug lab or.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: She was cut off by the sound of a shutting
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: door coming from the back. Nobody else was with us,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and the only officers at the back were Donald's and
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the managers. Did you hear that? I said, wondering who
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: was around this late. Becky didn't seem to care, as
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: she just replied.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: Relags, it's probably just Donald he stays late sometimes.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I was basically done cleaning, so I decided to check
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: it out. I walked out to the back and no
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: one was there, so I decided it'd be better to
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: just finish up and leave. I didn't see Donald, I said,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: as I returned to the dinning area, it's cool.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: I saw who it was.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Becky said, still clearly unbothered. Really, who was it, I asked.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: We were both pretty tired, and I figured I was
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: keeping Becky by wasting time, so I told her I
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: was done and left her to lock up. That night
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: in bed, I thought for a while about what both
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Gerald and Becky said and decided whoever the manager was,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't care as long as I did my job
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: and got paid. As I walked to Burger King the
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: next morning, I could see a small crowd forming around
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the restaurant and a couple of cop cars and police
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: officers trying to disperse the crowd, a lot of which
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: were Burger King employees. I figured someone had broken in
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: and stolen something, but as I got closer, I realized
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: the truth was far more worse than that. My heart
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: fell to my stomach as I saw Becky sat it
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: up against the door with her head tilted over. There
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: was a large amount of blood on her head, and
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: some had run down her arms and face. The police
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: questioned all the employees of their whereabouts last night, and
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: eventually it came up that I was the last person
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: to see Becky alive, so I was taken into custody
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: to be questioned. I told the police everything about how
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Becky and I usually stayed late together every night, and
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: this wasn't a one time thing. They asked me to
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: think hard, as even the smallest detail could be the
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: answer to this question. And it didn't take that much
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: thinking to remember the only thing I found odd last night.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: There was a noise, I said, A noise. The officer replied,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: as that detail seemed to have interested him. Yeah, a noise.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: It came from the back, the officer interrupted, with the
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: bag like out back, no, I replied, not outside. It's
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: where the offices and stores are. At least that's what
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I thought. But when I went to check it out,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: no one was there. I continued with. Becky said she
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: saw someone, though The officer's eyes lit up when I
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: said that. Did she say who it was?
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: No?
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: All she said was he was really tall. That's it,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: the officer said, visibly disappointed. Nothing else. He continued, Listen,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: young man, we understand you're probably very emotional right now,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: and we get it. But a young lady, he was
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: killed right in front of your workplace. Nothing was stolen,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: and she wasn't sexually assaulted. Do you understand what that means.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: It means either your friend Becky kept some bad company
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: or we have a very sick individual running around killing people.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: So if there's anything you're keeping from us, I suggest
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: you say it to be honest. I was trying to
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: understand what had happened, just as much as the police
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: wanted to, and I don't know why, but I was
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: certain the manager had something to do with Becky's death.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I told the police I didn't know anything else, and
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: after some more questions, they let me go. I was
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: told not to travel out of the city and that
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: I would be contacted again shortly. I didn't think I
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: would be a suspect, but it made sense saying I
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: was the last person to see her alive. I thought
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: about what to do for a while. I was already
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: the leading suspect in this case and would be prosecuted
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: if the police didn't find the actual killers or any
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: evidence proving otherwise. I thought hard and back to that night,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: wondering if I had missed anything. All I could remember
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: was the noise of the shutting door. It didn't make
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: any sense, how whoever it was left without me seeing them.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I laid in bed thinking for hours before deciding I
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: had to find out for myself what really happened that night.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I walked over to Burger King at night with only
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: one thing on my mind. Who was the tall man
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Becky saw? It wasn't hard getting past the police tape
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: and getting in through the back door. The place was quiet.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: I couldn't help but notice how being in here alone
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: filled the Burger King with an eerie feeling. I silenced
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: my phone and lowered the brightness before walking straight over
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: to where the offices were and standing in front of
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the manager's office, sort of preparing myself for a reveal
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: of some sort. I got the sense of tension as
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: chills ran down my spy. I opened the door, and
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: almost immediately something caught my eye. It was a door
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: right at the back of his office, A door I'm
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: guessing leads outside. It seemed to explain everything, but I
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: I couldn't help but still feel confused. I decided to
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: look around the office and see if i'd find answers.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: It was quite a small office. It had a lot
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: of paperwork and didn't have anything out of place. I
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: figured the door was enough to prove the manager had
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: something to do with Becky's death and would eventually help
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the cops figure out the rest of the story. But
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: as I was about to leave, I heard something faint,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: but it got louder, and I soon realized they were footsteps.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: I quickly turned my phone's flashlight off and hid under
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: the desk right when the door slowly creeped open. The
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: person walked into the room and there was silence for
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: a minute. Fear was the only thing I could feel
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: at that moment, as I wondered if I would end
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: up like Becky. There was no movement or sound, almost
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: like whoever it was simply stood in the room with me.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: But then he said, you can choose to remain hidden,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: but the outcome won't be any different. Smith His voice
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: cut through the silence, but I remained quiet. He sounded old.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I'd figured you'd be more enthusiastic than this when you
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: finally got to meet me. Don't you want answers to
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: your questions? I decided At this point, he obviously knew
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I was in the room, so there was no point hiding.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: I hit emergency call on my phone, slipped it in
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: my pocket and got out from under the table. I
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: was met with an almost seven feet tall man, completely bald,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: with huge eyes that had completely sad eyebags under them.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: He had a slight hunch forward and was skinny. You
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: knew I'd come. I was wondering how he found out
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: I was here. Yes, you aren't a very smart individual,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: he replied, with no expression on his face. Why do
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: you kill her? I asked, hoping the cops would get
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: here before he killed me too. No I didn't kill her, Smith,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: you did, he said, pointing at me. What No, I didn't.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: Yes, you did, he screamed, interrupting me. You killed her, Smith,
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: Your questions killed her. You couldn't just work like everyone else,
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: could you. Well that's what killed her.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: You know, someone like you always comes around eventually asking
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: questions they're not meant to, far too inquisitive for their
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: own good, and then we have to kill them. I
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: was both scared and confused at this point. Was he
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: killing people for just trying to find out who he was?
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: And what did he mean by we? What kind of
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: sick man kills people because they want to know what
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: he looks like. I took a few steps back after
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: asking the question, as I didn't know if I would
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: be getting a reply, he would just get bored and
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: kill me. Look, Smith, a long time ago, probably before
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: you could even say a word, I was part of
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: a greater mission to keep the world how it is,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: to be rid of all the purges and mistakes on
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: this earth. I was a member of the second Clan
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: of the KKK, a group with only one goal to
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: cleanse the world. But instead we were seen as evil
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: by this weak society and deemed belitting names such as
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: white supremacists and hate groups. Unfortunately, I was arrested and
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: put on death rope. That was until some members of
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: my clan broke me out. Of course, we had to
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: leave our home, but don't be mistaken, we took our
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: mission with us. I am a very wonted man, and
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: where better to hide than the place this society sees
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: as a safe place. He continued, Do you understand, Smith,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: people like you are a risk to me and my
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: clan as a whole. We tried to warn you not
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: to ask questions, but you blatantly disregarded our warning. The
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: sickening look in his eyes couldn't be described, but I
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: knew he was going to kill me. I didn't want
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: to die, so I asked one last question as my
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: final attempt to buy time. But why, Becky, I asked, crying.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: He wore a sick and smile on his face as
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: he said. A part of me would like to say
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: it's because she saw me, but that's not true. Despite
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: her nonchalance toward the situation, she was an abomination. Her
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: color of her skin, in her supposed a sexual orientation
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: had doomed her already. My skin crawled to just see
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: her walk around every day. It was all just a
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: matter of time. He paused, then continued with now, if
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: you're done buying time, sadly, Smith, I can't have you
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: around anymore. I ran for the door at the back,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: but it was locked. My heart was pounding and tears
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: began filling my eyes. I turned and watched as he
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: picked a hammer from the shelf before lunging at me.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Fighting back was the only option I had, and I
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: had to take it. I grabbed his hands mid air
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: and we began struggling. He was oddly powerful for an
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: elderly man, and as he hit my nose with his head,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I let go of him. I was disoriented, for a
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: few seconds, and that's when I felt the hammer hit
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: my head. I immediately hit the floor as I was
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: barely conscious and could feel the pool of blood forming
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: around my head. As I closed my eyes. In the distance,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: I could hear sirens, and the last thing I saw
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: was the manager's feet moved past me as he unlocked
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: the back door and left. I woke up days later
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: in the hospital and was informed I was almost dead
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: by the time I arrived at the hospital. The manager
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: was identified to be Griffith Theodore, a notorious and wanted
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: leader of the Second Clan White Supremacists. It was revealed
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: both Donald and Gerald have supported and aided him for
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: years and were never identified by the authorities. Griffith Donald
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: and Gerald had escaped the police and were reported to
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: have already fled the state. Following years after that were difficult.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: I suffered a traumatic brain injury from the blow to
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: the head and had to undergo therapy and rehabilitation for
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: traumatic brain injury. Burger King ruined my life, and there's
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: a shiver that runs down my spine every time I
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: walk past one. I can't help but always wonder if
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: there's a deeper meaning to the restaurant's infamous slogan, have
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: it your way.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Have you ever been swayed by other people's opinions? I mean,
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: have you ever judged someone without knowing them, just because
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: someone else had a bad opinion. Before you answer me,
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: let me tell you my story. My name is Angela,
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: and believe it or not, my answer to this simple
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: question almost cost me my life. It all started when
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: I was desperately looking for a wax salon. The place
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: I normally went to had taken a vacation, and I
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: couldn't wait for them to come back as I had
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: a date in a few days, and I wasn't comfortable
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: with my body. I had never been up for it,
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: and didn't trust my mom either, So I went to
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: the only wax salon near my house. All my friends
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: had been there at some point in their lives, and
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: they all told me the same thing. Beware of the
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: man with no eyebrows. They all told me that their
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: experience with this man was terrible. Not that he hurt them,
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: harassed them, or set anything out of line, not at all.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: In fact, he was very professional. What bothered all my
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: friends was the obsession with which he wanted to pull
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: out all the hairs. He seemed to hate them. There
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: are rumors that say he doesn't have any hair, that
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: he pulled them all out and had surgery so they
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: would never grow back. Others say that he is not
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: even human, that he was a being from another planet
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: who wanted to to impersonate one of us, but he
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: couldn't grow hair on his costume and that's why he
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: hated them. Me, I honestly didn't believe any of those rumors.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: I found one more ridiculous than the other. Maybe it
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: was that they were uncomfortable having a man attend to them,
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: which is more common than they think. Whatever the reason
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: for their exaggeration, I went to the store and asked
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: to be serviced that night. I came home late from
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: work and the store was closing, but I knocked on
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: the door and asked if I could be serviced, and
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: they graciously let me in. The man who was serving
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: me was bald, and I automatically recognized him as the
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: man I had been warned about. He seemed like a
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: calm person, maybe a little disoriented, but overall he didn't
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: strike me as the monster that all my friends seemed
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: to warn me about. Besides, I couldn't criticize him. The
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: man was staying after hours to see me.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: He didn't even know me.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: He didn't even know me, he didn't even have an appointment,
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: and kind gestures like this hardly exist anymore. The man
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: made me lie down on the bed and started waxing
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: my leg. Obviously, it hurt, but not as much as
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: in other places. For a moment, I understood what my
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: friends were referring to. His face seemed to be totally
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: focused on the hair on my legs. The man didn't
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: see me. It was as if I didn't exist for him.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: He only cared about doing his job.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: I admit that this may seem strange, but was it
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: really a bad thing. I was paying him to work,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: not to be my friend. I lay on the bed, relaxed,
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: and just waited for the man to finish his work. Suddenly,
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: a strange feeling ran through my body in a place
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: I didn't expect. I raised my head, and to my surprise,
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: I had wax on my feet. I asked the man
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: what he was doing, and, almost ignoring me, he replied
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: that my feet also had hair on them, only that
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: they were more imperceptible. I decided to listen to him,
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: although I admit that this time I was uncomfortable with
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: him putting wax on my feet without my permission. Unfortunately,
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: this was only the beginning. Without warning, the man began
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: to put wax on my face. Automatically. I stood up, upset.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: This is not what I had asked him to do.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: But before I could say anything to him, he grabbed
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: my head violently and sank it back on the bed.
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: I hate hair. You will not leave here until you
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: don't have any hair left. Do you understand me?
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: This man was not joking. His face had turned red,
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: fury had covered his whole body from one second to
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: the next. It was as if the fact of revealing
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: myself to him had awakened something in him, something that
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: was not going to stop until he fulfilled his promise,
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: even if it was something as illogical as pulling all
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: the hair out of my face. Already much more upset
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: than a few seconds before, the man pulled all the
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: boiling wax off of my face, my first and only
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: reaction was to scream in pain. This man was a beast.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: My face was all sore, and it burned so much
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: that I could feel it was on fire. After that
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: I knew he had pulled out all my hair, including
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: my eyebrow hairs. I took advantage of his frantic but
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: happy look to get out of bed. All of this
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: had been for coming so late. I had given him
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: the chance to play with me without anyone seeing him.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Luckily it was all over. I stood up with a
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: lot of energy and cried. I tried to leave the
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: waxing salon, but the man had other plans. With great violence,
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: he threw me against the wall and told me that
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: we were not finished yet. There was still one more
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: place with hair. I asked him which place, crying, and
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: with a devilish smile, he said a sentence that terrified me.
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: You you've got hair on your tongue.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: What that's ridiculous. That myth is false. I study medicine,
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: and there is no such things as hairs on the
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: Without letting me finish speaking, the man interrupted me by
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: putting one hand on my neck and began to choke me.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: With the other hand, he grabbed boiling wax and put
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: it inside my mouth, all over my tongue. I did
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: my best not to swallow anything, but I was afraid
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: that something would come down my throat. What the man
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: hadn't realized was that my friend's warnings hadn't gone completely unnoticed,
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: and that after he had attacked me, he had thrown
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: me on top of my purse. Quickly, I used my
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: hand to pull pepper spray out of my purse and
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: sprayed it in his face, immobilizing him. I quickly ran
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: to the exit door. There was my freedom, but the
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: man anticipated this. The door was locked. With a boiling
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: wax in hand. The man threw himself at me and
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: pinned me against the door, choking me again. He could
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: barely see me. His eyes were almost closed from the
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: pepper spray I had just sprayed on him. How did
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: this man endure so much pain? Even though he had
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: a lot of resistance, The pepper spray incident distracted him
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: so with a kick to the wax, it flew up
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: in his face. As he screamed in pain. I rammed him,
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: and although I barely managed to knock him down, the
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: man was in a lot of pain. I admit that
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: at that moment I could have grabbed the keys and left,
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: but this situation had made me furious. I wanted to
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: teach this personal lesson because if the victim was not me,
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: It could have been someone else. I walked over to
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: the table and grabbed even more boiling wax and threw
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: it in his face. The man was getting severe burns
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: on his face, but I didn't care. I just grabbed
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: the keys, got out, and went to the nearest hospital.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: Soon after, I found out that this man had survived,
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: but his face had been ruined forever. After that, my
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: tongue was saved, and I decided I was going to
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: use it. I told everyone in the media what happened,
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: and before I knew it, everyone knew my story. This
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: man would not hurt anyone else, not while I was alive.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: After that day, I still don't judge people by what
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: other people tell me, but I must admit that every
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: time someone tells me something about someone else, a small
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: part of me wonders if they are right.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: Since the day my wife died, I and my daughter
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Lizzie have been living by ourselves. Initially, the grief was
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: too much to bear, Buddy. Eventually we learned to live
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: with it. Now that two years had passed and I
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: had become a workaholic, my daughter decided it was time
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: for me to step out and find love again. Little
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: does she know that her mother was irreplaceable and I
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: would never love a woman as I loved her again.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: But to make Lizzie feel better, I decided to give
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: it a try, and what better way than tender. I
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: didn't have the slightest clue on how to make a profile,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: let alone find an interesting woman using it, so my
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: daughter helped me with it. As my profile went live,
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting much to happen, but to my utter surprise,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: within just a week of use, I had matched with
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: several women. Some of them were too young for my taste,
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: bud not gonna lie. Some were really beautiful. Although I
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: could never give the place my late wife has in
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: my heart to someone else, it doesn't mean I couldn't
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: find a partner again. This one particular woman had caught
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: my attention and looked like she must have been in
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: her late thirties. Given the fact that I was in
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: my forties, I wished to give her a chance. But
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: in all her pictures she was wearing a face mask.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: I thought maybe all her latest pictures were taking during COVID,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: hence the face mask. Although we texted quite a bit,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: we both never really dare to ask one another out.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: That's when my daughter intervened. So when are you going
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: to ask her out? Dad? I mean from the pictures
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: you have shown me, she looks quite stunning. I felt
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: like a teenage boy asking his crush for a date,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: but I did it anyways. I asked her if she
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: would go to dinner with me on the weekend, and
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: if she said yes, could she send me a picture
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: of herself without the mask on so I could recognize her.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: I got my reply in about and half an hour,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: and as I had expected, she texted, took you too
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: long to ask, and I'd love to go on a
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: date with you. However, I want you to see me
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: in person yourself. Don't worry, I will recognize you as
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: I know how you look. Not thinking much about it,
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: and I was excited to go on the date. When
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: the day of the date arrived, I was like a
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: kid about to go on a picnic. I couldn't stop
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: thinking about her, and the thought of finally being able
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: to see her face was making me just as nervous
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: as I was excited. Oh and did I tell you
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: she was Japanese and her name was Susan My first
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: wife was Asian too. I guess Asian women are my type.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: We had decided to meet in a lakeside restaurant. I
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: had already reserved the table with the best view and
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: put down my car to pay for the meal. I
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: immediately recognized those eyes, and as the waitress was escorting
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: her to our table, my eyes met with Susan's for
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: the first time, and there was an instant connection. I
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: knew I wouldn't mind taking our relationship further if she
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: was willing to do the same. As she neared our table,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: I straightened my blazer and rested my sweaty hands on
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: the table. Susan reached our table and thanked the waitress
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: with her sweet voice. Looking at her standing there, it
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: felt like I was falling in love for the first time.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: I was just so delighted to see the woman I
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: had developed a crush on. She was about to sit
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: down when I got up and pulled her chair for her.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: She looked pleased, and I knew she liked me by
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: the way she looked at me. At any moment, now,
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: she would take off her mask and I would finally
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: get to see her face. With no doubt, I knew
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: would be pretty. How are you, Joseph, she asked, and
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: to be honest, I was a bit tongue tied. I'm fine,
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: good really, now that I've met you, She giggled girlishly,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: which was kind of cute. It felt like we were
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: two teenagers on our first date. You look stunning tonight, Susan,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: I complimented her. You don't look too bad yourself, she
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: said seductively. At that moment, I knew I was a goner.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: The moment I would return home, I was going to
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: thank Lizzie and get her ice cream for pushing me
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: into creating an account on Tender. I was hoping Susan
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: would pull her masks down, but she never did, and
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: for some reason, I did not point it out to
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: her either. I thought she would be compelled to take
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: it off when the food would arrive. Anyway, what would
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: you like to have?
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: Um?
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: I know, Joseph, this is a date and you expect
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: us to share a meal, but my stomach is kind
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: of upset since the morning, and to be able to
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: come on this date, I have taken a few medicines,
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: which means I won't be able to join you. But
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: please go ahead and order whatever you want for yourself.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: I was a bit disappointed and felt sad that she
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: had to come while she was sick. Hey, we could
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: have rescheduled the date. You could have told me, Darling.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Susan's eyes softened and she said, Joseph, I couldn't wait
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: to see you, so I did not cancel the date.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: I know that stupid of me, but I just really
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: wanted to meet you in person. This made my heart
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: melt instantly. This woman was here to see me, even
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: while she was sick. God looked like my attraction was
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: reciprocated just as strongly. How about I'll have a watermelon
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: juice and we head out talking walking the park to
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: get a little bit of privacy. That sounds great, but
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: I don't want you to skip dinner because of me.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. Lizzie is ordering a pizza, and
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: my daughter never finishes her pizza, so I'll have a
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: few slices when I get home. I winked at her. Okay,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: if you don't mind, let's walk and talk a few minutes.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: We were in Central Park and although it was dark,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: we felt peaceful. Susan was clinging to my arm, which
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: for an instant reminded me of my late wife, but
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: for the first time, I pushed her thoughts aside and
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: focused on the woman in my arms. As soon as
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: we went to a secluded part of the park, Susan
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: insisted to sit on a bench. We sat in silence,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: looking at the trees around us for a while, and
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: then I finally couldn't hold back. Would you please let
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: me see your whole face, darling, I asked her, Joseph,
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: there is something I did not tell you. She was stuttering.
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: What is it?
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: I thought, if you knew the truth, you would never
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: come on a date with me. This was really confusing.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: When we texted, we exchanged almost all the information about
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: one another. Then what was so important that she had
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: left out? Which would want me to change my mind
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: about her? Do you think I'm pretty? She asked? Hmm,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: where was that coming from? Of course I do, sweetie.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: But before I could finish my sentence, her grip on
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: my bicep almost tightened painfully, and right in front of
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: my eyes, she turned into a witch. Her beautiful eyes
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: were red and her elegant hands had claws. But that
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: wasn't the scariest part. She ripped her mask off Her
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: face was sliced in the shape of a smile from
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: ear to ear, and when she opened her mouth, her
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: face tore into two pieces, barely attached by a few
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: pieces of muscle. I was terrified would be an understatement.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: I was frozen on the spot. The lights beside us
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: started to blink, and Susan spoke with her gaudy mouth.
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: Do you think I'm still pretty? She asked me again.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: She looked hideous, and I wanted to run out of there,
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: but I just couldn't. I was about to open my
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: mouth to beg her to let go of me, when
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: something happened, and Susan suddenly let me go and backed off.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: That's when, in the distance, I saw a speck of
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: light and someone was walking towards us. When I saw
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: clearly it was my late wife Mia. She was doing
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: something that was casting Susan's powers off me. I was
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: still rooted to the spot, not able to believe my
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: eyes that my wife was in front of me. Mia
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: chanted to something and poof, Susan turned to dust. I
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: always thought my wife was an angel, even when she
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: was alive, but right now she was truly my guardian angel.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: She turned to kiss me on my lips and said,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: will always watch over you and your lovely daughter. Tell
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: her I love her, okay, and kiss her for me tonight.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: I want her to know that Mom still loves her.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: And just like that, I was alone in the dark park.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: I went home and told the whole experience to my daughter,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: who actually believed me. I deleted the tender rep for
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: my phone and decided to give love another chance the
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: old schoolway.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: You might have seen in movies or TV shows that
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: superheroes have superpowers. I too have a superpower, but my
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: superpower is much more sinister than you could possibly imagine.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: Let's go a few decades back to when it all started.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: I must not have been a day over five years
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: old when a woman came to visit us. When I
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: was a child, I lived in a small house with
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: my mom and dad. When I saw the woman sitting
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: and chatting with my mom in the drawing room, I
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: walked directly to her for a few seconds, and then suddenly,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: out of nowhere, I blurted out, You're gonna die soon.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: The woman responded by laughing because she thought I was joking.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: My mother was horrified when she heard how impolitely I
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: spoke to her guest. That was the first time I
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: was grounded. A week later, the woman passed away from
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: a heart attack.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: So if you have.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: Guessed by now, you're probably correct. I can tell when
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: someone is about to die. As the years passed, I
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: developed the ability to know the details of a person's
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: death up to the last minute. At first, I would
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: only get a weird feeling when I saw a person
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: who was about to die. But as I grew older
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: and began to understand the world better, my powers began
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: to grow stronger. Now I can tell the date, time,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: and how a person will die. No one but my
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: mom knows about this superpower. At the age of twenty five,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: I worked in a salon as a hairdresser. Every week,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: I worked with hundreds of customers. Sometimes I would sense
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: that some of those customers were going to die soon,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: but I never told anyone about their impending death. However,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: one day, a teenage girl came into the salon and
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: she looked depressed. She was just sitting in a corner
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: with her long waist length hair hanging in front of
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: her face. It didn't look like she had an appointment,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: and none of the other staff members seemed to notice
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: her except me. While I was working with a client,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: I noticed the girl staring at me when I looked
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: into the vanity mirror. Whatever I did, she continued to
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: stare at me, her sunken, almost crimson eyes following me everywhere.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: At last, I became came impatient and walked up to
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: the girl. What do you want, miss? What are you
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: in the salon for? Do you have an appointment? She
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: didn't move an inch, her still eyes boring holes in
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: my face? Why did you not tell me?
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 6: Excuse me? Tell you what, miss, that I was going
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 6: to die that day. You see people's death, don't you?
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 6: You saw mine too? She said, and then gave me
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 6: a creepy smile, while her eyes still had that sad,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 6: haunting look. Her accusation shocked me. I stumbled away from her.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 6: The salon was still jam packed with clients and staff members,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 6: but no one seemed to notice me. Even the woman
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 6: whose hair I was dying continued to read her magazine.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: Ha ha, how do you know this?
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 6: After you die, you get to know everything?
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: Was her reply. What do you mean after you die?
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: Are you dead? I wasn't ready to believe that this
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: was a spirit let alone a ghost. Knowing people's death
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: was one thing, but interacted with a ghost in a
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: salon was completely different. Yes, I'm dead, but I didn't
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: have to be.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 6: If you had the courtesy of telling me I was
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 6: going to die, I could have saved myself. I was
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 6: too young to leave so soon.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: I had my whole life in front of me. But
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: you didn't help me. Neither.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 6: Did you ever help anyone whose death you knew was coming?
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 6: Why did you do that?
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: She asked me, to which I had no reply. I
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: always thought of my superpower as a burden, an unwanted gift,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: But I never thought of the fact that I could
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: save people's life if I told them about their deaths,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: just like I did with the lady when I was five.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: But before I could react, the ghost girl sitting in
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: front of me picked up a pair of sharp scissors
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: and stabbed me in the neck. Blood started gushing out
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: of my neck. Everyone around me broke out of their
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: apparent trance and finally noticed me. I was trying to
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: fight with a girl, But when I looked in the
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: mirror in front of me, there was no girl. It
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: was me who had stabbed me in the neck using
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: a pair of sharp scissors. To the person watching the scene,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: it might have seemed like I had committed suicide in
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: the middle of the salon, but as I collapsed on
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: the floor, I knew that it was all caused by
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: the ghost girl, who acted out her revenge upon me.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: I watched myself in the mirror, gasping for air and
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: choking on my blood as I eventually died. Hey, Hey, hey, Margaret,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: what happened to you? Why the hell are you staring
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: in the mirror like that? Are you okay? Your client
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: is waiting for you, Go help her. That was Jasmine,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: another hairdresser who worked in the salon with me. That's
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: when I realized I wasn't dead yet, but what I
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: had just experienced was the intimation of my own doom.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: My death was today and it would happen any second now.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: That's when the main entrance bell rang, indicating someone just
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: had entered the salon. It was the girl from my vision,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: the ghost girl who killed me. I knew I was
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: gonna die, so I ripped my apron, tore my rubber gloves,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: grabbed my purse, and left the salon before the girl
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: could even notice me. As I excited the salon, I
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: saw the girl sitting in the same spot as I
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: had seen in my vision. I don't know what I
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: should do, and I'm not sure whether I had skipped
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: my own death or not. But if this plan works out,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: this means the girl was right. If I tell people
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: about their death, maybe they can escape it. Perhaps they
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: can live a long life, just like the girl wanted
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: to live. Maybe I was a coward all along. Maybe
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: I should have helped others rather than leave them to
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: their own demise. If this plan of mine works and
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: I miss my death, I promised myself that I won't
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: be a coward anymore and will help people escape their death.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: But right now I must focus on getting home safely.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: What do you think, Will I make it or will
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: death find another way to catch up with me.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 4: As a high school student, there aren't many jobs you
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 4: could do. You either end up in a walmart, in
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 4: a cafe as a barista, or waiting at the tables
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 4: at a restaurant. I wasn't interested in any of these jobs,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 4: so when there was an opening for staff at our
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 4: local theater, I applied. The good thing was the shift
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: started at around six in the evening, and ended whenever
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 4: the last show for the day ended. This meant I
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 4: could attend school in the morning, study, or sleep in
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 4: the afternoon, and get to work in the evening. This
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 4: happened almost four months into my new job. I was
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 4: assigned the task to clean the theater after every show,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 4: picking up the trash people leave behind and making sure
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 4: a clean theater awaited the next batch of spectators coming
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 4: to see a movie. Most of the people carried their trash,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 4: so I never really had much work to do. The
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 4: workload was moderate and the pay was good. I was
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 4: very happy with my job. One evening, however, the staff
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 4: members who had worked at the theater for longer, we're
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 4: having a serious discussion, and I too joined them to
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 4: know what the matter was. Hey, guys, what's going on?
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 4: I asked, Jason, did you know this theater is haunted? Stacy,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 4: the girl who worked at the ticket booth set it
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 4: said that when this theater first opened about thirty years ago,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 4: one night, a woman came to see the last show
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 4: and somehow failed to get out of the theater before
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 4: the staff and got locked inside. As the theater did
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 4: not reopen for the next week due to a snowstarter
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 4: she died inside of dehydration and hunger. Many people claim
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 4: that they have seen a ghost of a woman roaming
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 4: the hallways and in the theater. Stacy added, well, I
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 4: haven't seen anyone, and to be honest, I don't believe
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 4: in such things, I said and walked away from there.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 4: Two days later, I was working on my shift as
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 4: usual when Cameron, the guy who also did the night
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 4: shift with me, had a date with his girlfriend, so
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 4: he left early, leaving me in charge cleaning the theater
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 4: after the last show. We usually cleaned the theater at
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 4: night after the end of the last show so the
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 4: staff in the morning doesn't have to bother with it.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 4: Early in the morning as soon as they arrived when
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 4: the last show ended, I waited for all the people
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 4: to walk out before entering the theater and cleaning it.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 4: That day, I was alone, as Cameron was on his day.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 4: I usually start with the last row and gradually moved
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 4: forward to the front seats. While I was cleaning the
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 4: second to last row, I saw a woman wearing a
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 4: sun dress with long, straight black hair sitting in one
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: of the chairs. I called out to her, ma'am, the
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 4: show has ended. You can leave, assuming She must have
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 4: dozed off during the movie and no one had woken
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 4: her up. But to my surprise, she had got up
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 4: from her current seat, which was right in the center
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 4: of the theater, and sat in one of the rows
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 4: ahead of her. I found it to be weird and
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 4: decided to comfort her, but as I got closer to her,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 4: she got up once again and walked out of the exit.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: The only issue she was she had walked out of
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 4: the exit and taken a wrong turn. She had walked
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 4: into a staff only area, and it was necessary to
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 4: get her out of there. Without thinking much, I followed her.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 4: She kept on walking through the restricted area, and like
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 4: a fool, I kept on yelling at her to stop
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 4: and get out of there. But finally she entered her
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 4: staff changing room, and I knew for sure there was
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 4: nothing ahead of that room. I swung the door open
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 4: to tell her she had to get out, but as
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 4: I entered the room, it was empty. There was no
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 4: woman in the room. I stood there, dumbstruck. That's when
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 4: I remembered Stacy's story from a few days ago. I
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 4: was horrified at the realization of what I had just seen.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: I wanted to get back home as soon as possible.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 4: I ran towards the exit, not caring about cleaning the theater.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 4: But as I neared the exit of the building, I
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 4: realized that it was locked. The guard in charge of
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 4: locking the building had assumed there was no one in
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 4: and locked the place. I realized that I was in
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 4: great trouble. Although the theater would open tomorrow, I had
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 4: no idea whether I would survive till tomorrow or not.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 4: I immediately dug out my phone from my pocket, only to
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 4: realize there was no network. This never happened. There was
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 4: always a network in the whole building. I just sat
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 4: there at the entrance, contemplating my options. That's when I
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 4: saw her again. She was peeking from a hallway that
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 4: led to the woman's wallshrums. I was scared as hell,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 4: but I decided to follow her anyways. As I was
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 4: walking behind her, it felt like she was leading me somewhere.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 4: I kept on following, and in the end, she entered
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 4: a storage room. I went in there too, to find
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 4: myself surrounded by old vending machines, cleaning supplies, some more
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 4: furniture and whatnot. That's when I saw a square window
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 4: on the wall at the back of the storage room.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 4: It was high enough that I couldn't reach it without
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 4: a ladder or something to me, but not too high.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 4: I was wondering how I could reach that window when
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 4: a loud bang came from the hallway behind me. I
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 4: went there to investigate and saw the janitor's closet open
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 4: and on the floor lay an old wooden ladder. That's
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 4: when it hit me. The woman wasn't trying to scare
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 4: me or harm me. Rather, she was helping me get
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 4: out of a situation she couldn't get herself out of.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 4: I grabbed the ladder and placed it below the window,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 4: and somehow managed to get out. When I was out,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 4: the first thing I checked was for a network. Luckily
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 4: I had one, and decided to call my brother to
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 4: come get me. As I was walking away, I turned
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 4: back to look at the window one last time and
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 4: saw two hands grabbing onto the window and a head
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 4: peeking out looking at me walk away. That's the day
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 4: I started believing in ghosts and spirits. Although I deemed
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 4: this incident to be the scariest one of my life,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 4: I could not imagine what would have happened to me
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: if I was locked there overnight. The spirit of the
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 4: woman helped me, and I will forever be thankful to her.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 4: Have you ever encountered a spirit like this?
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: My name is George, I'm forty eight years old and
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: I drive a truck for a living. I have a
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: wonderful wife, three boys and two girls at home. Max
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: is my youngest son, and he just turned twelve. He's
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: really been excited, as it's our tradition in our family
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: that I take my kids on the truck for summer
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: break when they turn twelve. Dad, where are we going?
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: Max asked enthusiastically. We're starting on Route four ninety one.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: I'm the only trucker willing to go through it, so
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: my boss gives me the job. He even pays extra,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: which allows your mom to book that annual trip to Disneyland.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: I replied, why are you the only trucker that goes there? Though?
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: Because I work with a bunch of sissies. Max laughed, No, really, Dad,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: are you the only one who drives on it? My
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: co work is a highly superstitious The highway is formally
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: known as Highway six sixty six, but they had to
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: rename it as that is the devil's number. It's said
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: to be the Devil's Highway. Strange occurrences have been known
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: to happen to people who travel this highway. Doesn't that
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: scare you? I shook my head. Nah, been doing this
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: route for years and nothing's happened to your old man.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: It's just a bunch of tales to scare people. We
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: aren't going to see any ghosts, are we, Max asked wearily.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: I chuckled softly. Son, I told you ghosts don't exist.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: People die and they simply go to heaven or hell.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: Max nodded, and we turned on some clean comedy radio
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: to listen as I drove. We spent the day driving
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: Route four ninety one without a care in the world.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: As late afternoon said it in. I started heading toward
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: a truck stop I frequent when I take this Everything
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: seemed fine until I hit a massive pothole, and suddenly
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: sparks came flying out of all the tires. I tapped
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: the brakes of my truck, bringing us to a slow stop.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: I managed to ease off the road so I could
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: get out and investigate what was happening. I told Max
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: to sit in the truck while I look around. When
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: I got out, I was shocked to see all my
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: tires had been blown and were shredded. What the fuck,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: I gasped as I looked around. I shook my head
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: in disbelief and got back into the truck to call
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: my boss. I told him what happened, and he said
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: he would send assistance out my way, but they wouldn't
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: be there until morning. Shit. I didn't want to think
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: about being on this road at night, as it does
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: give me the creeps. But I didn't want to tell
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: Max that. I had some sandwiches and the cooler that
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: we had for dinner and some sodas I opted for
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: beer to keep my cool for Max. Dad, I have
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: to go pee, Max said. I checked the time and
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: it was around three am, and we had been in
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: and out of sleep. Okay, let's go. I grabbed a
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: flashlight took Max outside. We went around the side of
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: the truck. It was dark and quiet out, not even
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: the stars of moon lit up the sky. I stood
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: behind Max, keeping an eye on our surroundings as he
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: did his business. As I looked out at the empty
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: land in front of me, I heard footsteps coming towards us.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to alarm Max, so I took a
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: deeper breath. You almost done, buddy. Yeah, Okay, it's dangerous out,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: so let's get back in the truck. The footsteps got
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: closer and I shined the light out, but I couldn't
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: see anything. All of a sudden, whatever was walking around
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: began to run straight for us. I could see a
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: dark shadow outside the light. Daddy, what is that? Max
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: asked in a shaky voice. Just get in the truck,
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: I told him. As I opened the door, I sure
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: to Max inside and saw something crawling at an unnatural
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: speed towards us. I slammed the door shut. What's out there,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: Max asked, I don't know, I said, in a shaky voice.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: Suddenly there were banging sounds coming from all angles of
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: the truck. They were loud and it shook us. I
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: listened close, and it almost had a rhythm to it.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: I looked up as there was a fire red semi
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: truck headed our way. It was driving at an unnatural speed.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: It moved off to the side of the road and
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: came face to face with us. The truck wasn't stopping.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: I turned on my high beams in an attempt to
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: blind the driver. Instead, I saw a beast with horns
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: driving the truck. He looked menacing as he stared right
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: at me and drove faster. The truck vanished into thin
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: air just before it collided with my truck, and I'm
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: not ashamed to say I shit my pants. The next morning,
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: I was talking to the service guys about it, and
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: they said, those who are on the highway at night
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: tend to see a red truck that heads straight for them.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: I quit my job that day and started my own business,
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: never driving that highway ever.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 3: A Hi, I'm Gracie and I was a new and
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 3: upcoming esthetician when this happened. I specialized at hair removal
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 3: of the waxing kind. After getting my license, I was
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 3: hired at a high end salon that did all kinds
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 3: of wax jobs, including Brazilian wax. For those who don't
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 3: know what it is, to put it delicately, it's waxing
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 3: you're growing and around your anus. I had done Brazilian
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 3: waxes in school, so I was used to it by
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 3: the time I entered the industry. It was usually a
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 3: pretty hygienic procedure and I love my job and tell
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 3: I was violated by one of the male clients, and
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 3: now I want nothing more than to leave this entire
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 3: industry behind me. Most of the time we had females
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 3: coming in for Brazilian waxes, but we started getting men
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 3: coming too, mostly the bodybuilder type. They would get their
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 3: doodleberries to their back door waxed. There was a particular
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: Latino gentlemen, a bodybuilder named Rodrigo that came in regularly.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 3: He was a bit of a womanizer. He made it
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 3: a point to come in twice a week and see
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 3: a different esthetician every time. The majority of us were female,
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 3: so he was spending a lot of money on this place.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 3: I had him a couple of times, and despite a
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 3: few cheesy pickup lines, he was nice, allowed me to
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 3: do my job, and even tipped well. But one day
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 3: my co workers started making complaints about him. My work
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 3: bestie Christie was his second victim. Ah, Sherry, you have
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 3: to read chart Rodrigo. He grabbed my ass and laughed
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 3: about it, saying, fair is fair. I can't just ban
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 3: a steady client. Maybe it was an accident. I'll put
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 3: him on Gracie's schedule next week. I looked over at
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 3: Sherry with shock on my face. What I don't want him. Look,
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 3: if he makes you uncomfortable, just cancel this session and
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 3: I'll deal with it.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: Fine.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 3: His name was typed into my schedule on the computer,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 3: and I sighed, hoping him exposing himself and laughing was
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 3: just a fluke. The week went by and work was
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 3: so great I nearly forgot about it until Monday when
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 3: it was time for him to come in. Good luck, Gracie,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 3: Thanks Christy. Knew I was going to need it. I
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 3: walked up to the waiting room and called Rodrigo back.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 3: He stood up, looking more swollen than usual. Hey, gorgeous,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: He smiled as he walked up to me, and I
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: just simply smiled awkwardly and took him back to the room.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 3: Usually when I take a client back, I tell them
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 3: to take off their underwear and lay down on the table.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 3: The rule is that whatever isn't getting waxed is covered.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 3: Rodrigo didn't even wait for me to leave before he
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 3: began stripping. I just walked out of the room without
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 3: saying anything. I grabbed some gloves and sanitation supplies and
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 3: knocked on the door.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 4: Come in.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 3: I heard Rodrigo's voice giggling on the other side of
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 3: the door. I closed my eyes and took a deep
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 3: breath and stepped inside. Thankfully, he was in the proper
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 3: position to get his back door waxed. He was acting
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 3: particularly perverted that day. I took some sanitary wipes and
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 3: began cleaning him. Poured the hot wax into the designated
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 3: area and laid the parchment paper on top of it.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 3: Rodrigo kept giggling, and I couldn't take it anymore. My
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 3: tone was short and snarky. Is there a problem, No,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 3: not at all. Uh mind telling me what's so damn funny?
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 4: Nothing. I apologize. I'm on these new medication and it
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 4: gives me the giggles.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 3: I shook my head and grabbed the parchment paper. Okay,
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 3: I'm going to pull now, one, two, three. I pulled
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 3: the paper on three, and brown liquid came shooting out
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 3: all over me.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: Ew whoa, ewoo woo.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 3: On my face, in my hair, on my clothes, and
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 3: on the table. I looked at him as my blood
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 3: began to boil. I watched while brown liquid continue to
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 3: extract from him, and it made me sick to my stomach.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 3: I was in complete and utter shock. I mean, he
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 3: was cackling in his own mess of poop. He then
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 3: stood up and his whole demeanor changed.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 4: You'll just made me shit myself. What the other's wrong
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 4: with you?
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 3: I still couldn't speak or move. I was fighting the
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 3: urge to vomit. He came up to me and grabbed me,
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 3: slamming my head onto the table, right into his poo water.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 4: You should clean this up.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 3: He began to rub my face in him. He took
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 3: my hair and began to mop up what he could
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 3: with it. He then lifted my face off the table
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 3: and looked into my eyes.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 4: Damn it, now you're all dirty. I'm sorry. Let me
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 4: make this better.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 3: He grabbed a sanitation wipe and dabbed at my face.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 3: I couldn't hold it anymore, and I vomited all over
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 3: his face. I could fill the rage pumping through him
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 3: as he gripped me. He bawled a fist and full
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 3: on punched me in the face.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 4: You disgusting bitch, Hurst, You make me shit myself. Now
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 4: you're puking all over me? What's wrong with you?
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 3: Like a godsend, Sherry and Christy came bursting into the room. You, oh,
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 3: oh my god, crazy. I honestly can't remember anything after that.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 3: I think I just checked out. I remember getting a
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 3: shower at the salon and going home. I later found
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 3: out Rodrigo had been arrested. Turns out he was on
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 3: steroids and it had been a recent thing he'd been
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 3: dabbling in, which explains his sudden erratic behavior. Sherry finally
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 3: red charted him, so he won't be coming to the
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 3: salon ever again. I can't bring myself to come back
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 3: to work. Christy tells me that they can't get the
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 3: smell of poop out of the room and doesn't blame
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 3: me if I never come back. Doing Brazilian waxes has
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 3: been ruined for me. I'll never be able to do
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 3: one again without picturing the honey mustard fountain spouting up
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 3: at me.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 4: Getting your first job is supposed to be an exciting thing.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 4: It means when you're a teenager, you can spend your
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 4: money on whatever you want. It's even smart to start
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 4: putting it aside. According to my parents, I'm Karl and
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 4: I happen to have my first job at King when
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 4: I was sixteen years old. This was back in the
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 4: times before smartphones came out. I worked a late shift
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 4: on the weekends, and focused on school during the week.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 4: I was feeling proud of myself, as I had learned
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 4: the register quickly and was efficient about pushing out orders.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 4: Looking back, this may have had to do with the
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 4: fact that we lived in a small town and most
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 4: of the orders were from regulars who ordered the same
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 4: thing every time. But still it wasn't all around good experience.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 4: Being good at your job makes you want to work harder.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 4: One day, my manager, Drew called me into the back office. Hey, Carl,
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 4: you're really killing it out there. Thanks. Listen. We're hiring
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 4: a new girl and we need a way to bring
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 4: customers in. I'm really pleased to say that I would
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 4: really like to put her in your hands while I
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 4: put on the burger king costume to attract more customers.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 4: But that would require you to work earlier in the
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 4: day for a bit. Can you handle that? Of course
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 4: I can, looking forward to it. It turns out they
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 4: hired this girl I had a crush on, named Andrea.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 4: Since I got my first paycheck, going to work has
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 4: hit different. But now that I'd be working with my
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 4: crush and training her, I couldn't wait to go to work.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 4: She came in for orientation and I gave her a
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 4: tour of the place. I showed her around the back
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 4: where we keep everything, the manager's office, and the drive
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 4: through window. I showed her how to work the headset
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 4: and smile at her. So, how are you feeling about everything?
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 3: It's a lot, but once it processes, I'll remember everything.
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 4: It's a pretty easy job. Plus, in our small little town,
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 4: we get the same customers regularly and they led her
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 4: the same things.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 3: That makes it a lot easier.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but sadly, we do have some crappy days around here.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 4: Just the other day, this lady from out of town
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 4: came in and she was trying to order things off
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 4: the menu that weren't there. Then she yelled at me
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 4: because what she wanted wasn't on the menu. Like, sorry, lady, Andrew.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 4: He had cracked a smile and laughed, and God help
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 4: me if that didn't make my day.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 3: Some people can be so stupid sometimes.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 4: You'll learn that here. You don't think people can be
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 4: that stupid, but huh, they are.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 3: I look forward to working with you, Carl.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to be really fun. And it was fun.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 4: For weeks we worked together, and though she was a
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 4: little slower than me she did a good job. Drew
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 4: would spend the day outside wearing the burger King costume,
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 4: waving at every single person that drove or walked by.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 4: One night, he walked around the back to come in
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 4: through the employee's only entrance. It was getting laid in
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 4: time to close, but we're supposed to wait until Drew
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 4: gets inside and tells us to lock the doors and
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 4: start closing up the restaurant. I watched as Drew, still
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 4: in costume, walked up to the front and walked through
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 4: the doors. Was the door locked, Drew looked at me
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 4: and lifted a one shoulder shrug. Drew, he just stared
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 4: at me. Burger King mask covering his face made this
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 4: interaction creepy, But because Andrea was behind the counter with me,
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 4: I tried my best to play it cool. Okay, man,
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 4: we're just going to start closing up the place. Mind
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 4: locking the door while you're there. Drew started walking slowly
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 4: toward the counter, the burger King face, grinning ear to
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 4: ear at me, making each step more eerie than the next.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 4: A horrible feeling washed over me, and it hit me
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 4: harder and harder the closer Drew God he reached the
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 4: counter and leaned in close.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 3: Coo, what's going on?
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 4: I don't know, Andrea. A hissing sound came out of
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 4: the Burger King mascot, and he held a finger to
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 4: his lips in a hushing motion. He reached across the
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 4: counter and tried to grab me. I managed to dodge
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 4: his grip and took Andrea's hand and we ran for
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 4: the back office, locking the door behind us. We have
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 4: to call the police, I told her, I'll call him,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 4: I'll keep him out right. As she picked up the phone,
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 4: all the lights went out and the phone line went dead.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 4: I could hear her trembling voice from the other side
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 4: of the room.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: Carl, I'm scared.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 4: Don't worry, Andrea. We're safe as long as this door
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 4: is locked. She screamed, bloody murder. As Drew began banging
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 4: heavily on the door. Let me in. Andrea came running
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 4: into my arms and I hollered toward the door. Turn
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 4: the lights back on. Come on, Carl, don't you want
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 4: to play cat and mouse or in this case, employee
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 4: versus the king. We heard maniaco laughter on the other
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 4: side of the door, and the banging persisted. Andrea screamed
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 4: in terror and clung to me. All this noise in
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 4: the situation at hand was causing me my own level
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 4: of stress, and I felt as though I was going
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 4: to freak out too, but I couldn't. Andrea was counting
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 4: on me, and like hell, I was going to let
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 4: her down. I had to get my shit together and
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 4: get us both out safely. The banging stopped and everything
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 4: went quiet. Andrea went to say something, but I shushed her.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 4: The silence was almost more unsettling than all the chaos,
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 4: but silence meant a possibility was drew still out there
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 4: Was it worth opening the door and taking a chance.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 4: I had no choice but to find out. Andrea. I'm
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 4: going to open the door.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: Are you crazy?
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 3: He could still be there.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 4: Maybe he passed out or he went away. Either way,
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 4: we've got to do something or be stuck in here
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 4: until the restaurant manager comes in.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 3: I don't like this, Carl. What if you get.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 4: Hurt or killed if he comes at me. I want
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 4: you to run out of here and go to the police.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: Carl.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 3: I couldn't leave you behind.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 4: You have to, Andrea. If any of us gets out,
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 4: it's you. I can take care of myself and I will.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 3: Fine.
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  Speaker 4: I know you don't like this, but if we sit
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 4: in here, that means he knows where we're at, who
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 4: knows what links he'll go to to get in here.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 4: We have to take our chances.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 3: O kay, please be careful.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 4: I nodded, and as I felt around the room, looking
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 4: for the door in the pitch dark, I began to sweat.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 4: Panic began to set in, and I wanted nothing more
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 4: than to crawl into a hole. But then the sound
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 4: of Andrea's shaking breath kicked me into gear. Protecting her
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 4: was the priority. I opened the door and the moonlight
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 4: illuminated the inside of the building and I didn't see
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 4: anyone anywhere. I whispered for Andrea to take my hand
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 4: and we were going to run. She took my hand
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 4: and we'd belined it for the doors. We heard a
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 4: psychotic scream from the back, and doubt came Drew, still
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 4: dressed as the King, running out with a butcher knife
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 4: in his hand. He chased us until we got to
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 4: the police station down the street. It turned out Drew
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 4: was an attic and he was using the costume as
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 4: a cover to inject mething to himself. He was fired
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 4: and sent to rehab. The incident was scarring, but it
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 4: also made Andrea and I close. Luckily, there were no
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 4: more incidents like that, and our new manager, Carla, did
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 4: monthly drug tests for everyone's safety to ensure that things
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 4: like that never happened again.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: A few years back, when I was about sixteen years old,
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 2: I and my family, which consisted of my two elder
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 2: siblings and my parents, drove home from Mexico to Texas.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 2: My mom is Mexican, so some of our relatives still
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 2: live there. Her part of the family is a bit
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 2: more religious than our relatives in Texas, so we made
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 2: it a point to go to Mexico at least twice
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 2: a year. One of my older brothers, Delan, hates planes,
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 2: so we usually complete the journey by road in our
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: car for years now. We start the trip in the morning,
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: stay in a motel for the night, complete the rest
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: of the journey the next day. However, on this particular trip,
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 2: Dad had received a call from his workspace that he
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: was needed at work due to an emergency, so we
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: decided to complete the twelve hour trip as fast as possible,
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: which meant no overnight stops. We started our journey at
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 2: four in the afternoon, and we're planning to reach home
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 2: around six am the next day so Dad could make
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 2: it to his office on time. As Dad drove for hours,
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: we were all getting pretty tired. Although our suv is
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: quite spacious, sitting in it for so long was uncomfortable
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 2: and everyone was agitated, especially me, who was cramped between
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 2: my two elder brothers, who almost took most of the
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 2: back seat. Around nine pm, we stopped at a gas
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 2: station to fill up the tank, and then at a
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: diner a few miles ahead to grab a quick bit.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: Around eleven thirty pm, we all had enough. Dad finally declared.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 4: Guys, I know we're here right now because me, but
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 4: I don't think we should be on the road right now.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 4: I'm super tired and I don't want to fall asleep
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 4: behind the wheel and put your lives in danger. I
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 4: think we should stop at the next motel we come across.
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: Everyone was delighted upon hearing this, as we all had
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 2: been on the road for too long. As Dad drove
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: a few more miles, we did not come across any motel,
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: so eventually the tiredness got the best of us all
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: and we decided to park our car beside the highway
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: in a suitable spot and sleep for a while. Even
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 2: though the thought of sleeping in a car cramped up
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 2: between my brothers wasn't ideal, at that point, I was
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: willing to take anything over the constant travel. As we
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: found a suitable spot, Dad parked the car and.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 4: Said, guys, lock the door and shut the windows. I'll
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 4: keep the air conditioning on in the car and we'll
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 4: nap for a few hours before we hit the road again.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 2: With that said, in a few minutes we were all out.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 2: The time was about midnight. Suddenly I woke up due
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 2: to a loud noise right beside my ear. That's when
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: I realized one of my brothers was laying across my
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: lap and the other had rested his head on my
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: shoulder and was snoring loudly. Everyone was still fast asleep, However,
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 2: now I was awake. At first, I tried to get
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: some more sleep, but as the minutes passed it was
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: clear that I was no longer sleepy. I somehow managed
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: to untangle myself for my brothers and checked the time.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 2: It was around two fifteen am, which meant we were
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 2: all asleep for more than two hours, I sat in
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 2: the car and played some games on my cellphone, but
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 2: it soon ran out of battery. That's when I noticed
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 2: how pitch black it was outside. As the curious kid,
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 2: I decided to do the most childish thing you could
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 2: ever imagine. I grabbed my backpack, fetched a small flashlight,
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: and scooted as close to the window as I could
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: given the fact that my two brothers were on either
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 2: side of me. I pressed my face against the window
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: and started looking out with the light of my flashlight.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: In the beginning, I saw nothing more than the highway,
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: some trees, and a field around me. As my eyes
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: got used to seeing in the dark, I started to
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: see more details. That's when I saw something move beside
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 2: a tree a few feet away from us. I brushed
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: it off as an animal and continued exploring through the window.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: When I looked at the spot again, this time I
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: could see a silhouette of a tall man standing right
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 2: beside the same tree. I thought my mind was playing
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 2: tricks on me, as the man was as still as
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 2: the tree trunk itself, so it was possible that it
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: could be a dead tree shaped roughly like a human,
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 2: and my over imaginative mind was pondering up all the rest.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 2: Just then, the man, who I had almost concluded to
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 2: be a dead tree trunk, moved and hid behind the
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: tree beside him. This was a shock to me. This
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 2: meant I wasn't seeing things. I switched off my flashlight
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 2: but kept staring out the window in the direction of
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 2: the tree. A few minutes past and the man peeked
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 2: at our car from behind the tree. This time though
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: I had no flashlight, so he might have thought that
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 2: I was asleep. He then emerged fully from his hiding
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: spot and kept staring at our car. I kept looking
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: at him too. That's when I noticed that his eyes
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: were red, and they were glowing in the dark and
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: staring directly at me. This scared the shit out of me.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 2: I had no idea what I should do, so I
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 2: decided to do the most obvious thing a kid would do.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 2: I pulled my brother's leather jacket over my head and
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 2: hid between them. I did not move more to make
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 2: a single sound until eventually I fell asleep.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: A few hours later.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 2: I woke up sore from being cramped in between my
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 2: brothers for so long. As soon as I opened my eyes,
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 2: a few sun rays hit me square in the face.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 2: A very beautiful sunrise was about to happen right beyond
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 2: the field. However, my brothers and my parents were out
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: of the car inspecting it. This made me curious, so
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 2: I got out too. The sight I saw shocked me
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: to my core. All over the car there were muddy handprints,
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: and on the windows and windshields there were impressions of
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 2: faces being pressed against them, as if someone was peeking
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: into the car from outside. Not long ago. This terrified
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 2: us all, and we decided to drive home and get
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 2: the hell out of that area as soon as possible.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 2: I did not speak a single word about the man
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: I had seen during the rest of the car ride.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 2: But after a few days, when we were all discussing
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 2: how we had put ourselves in a risky position by
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 2: namping in our car on a highway, I could not
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 2: hold back. I narrated the whole incident to my face family,
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 2: and this information terrified them even more. We just happened
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: to be lucky that the man, or maybe the men,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: did not attack us or harm us in any way.
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 2: But from then on we decided to visit Mexico by
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 2: plane and not by road. Moreover, Dad tried to dig
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 2: into the matter by researching on the internet at the
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 2: similar incident was reported, but found nothing as such. However,
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 2: some people claim that what we encountered were field spirits.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 2: These are spirits of ancestors of the farmers who owned
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: the field, and these spirits protect the fields from intruders
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 2: or whoever tries to damage the crops. As we were
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 2: practically parked on the land that belonged to the field,
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 2: these spirits may have perceived us as threats, but when
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 2: they realized we meant no harm to them or their fields,
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 2: they left us alone. Protectors are not This experience was
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 2: truly horrific and I will never travel on that road again.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 4: This happened when I was about seven years old. My
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 4: grandparents lived in a small town in Arkansas. My parents
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 4: and I used to visit them often, and during our trips,
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 4: I used to go on these small heights with my grandparents.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 4: That day, too, my grandparents and I went out for
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 4: a hike on one of the new paths. My grandparents had
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 4: recently discovered. The part in which we used to hike
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 4: was a wilderness, meaning no vehicles had access to it
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 4: and not many humans went there either. This trail was
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 4: new to me. I've never been there, but as we
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 4: reached the end of the trail, I could immediately tell
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 4: why my grandparents had chosen this spot. The trail ended
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 4: on a bluff that overlooked a small river that flowed
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 4: underneath it. This bluff was about two hundred meters high
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 4: and was a serene spot to sit and spend some time.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 4: On our return journey. I clearly remember spotting a waterfall
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 4: a few meters away from our trail. It was about
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 4: eleven thirty am, and I desperately wanted to see the
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 4: waterfall up close. My grandpa walked a few meters away
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 4: from us to scout the path toward this waterfall, but
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 4: there was no walkable path leading to this waterfall, so
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 4: they both refused to take me there. I admit I
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 4: was a bit of a stubborn child back then. I
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 4: cried and threw a tantrum in the middle of the forest.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 4: I sat on the ground and refused to move. My
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 4: grandparents were used to my antics, so they just kept
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 4: on walking ahead, not too far, just far enough to
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 4: show my seven year old self that they were leaving
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 4: me behind. At some point I knew that I was
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 4: going to get my way, So with my head hanging
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 4: between my shoulders, I started walking again. I slowed down
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 4: my pace on purpose, but I clearly remember my Grandpa
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 4: turning after short intervals to keep an eye on me
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 4: to make sure I was walking right on the trail.
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 4: It was broad daylight. When I raised my head to
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 4: look at my grandparents. Suddenly they were not ahead of me. Instead,
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 4: there was this line of huge trees like a wall,
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 4: and between them ran a small dirt trail. Given the
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 4: fact that I hadn't been on this trail before, I
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 4: thought this might be the right route. Besides, I had
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 4: purposely slowed down. I was sure that my grandparents were
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 4: up ahead somewhere. I kept walking, and after maybe a
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 4: couple of hours of walking, I could not find my
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 4: grandparents or the way back home. I was a bit
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 4: scared and exhausted, so I decided to sit on a
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 4: nearby rock. After a few minutes, I decided to keep walking,
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 4: and soon enough I reached the bluff that I had
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 4: visited with my grandparents. It was weird that I had
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 4: reached there again. But before I could decide to do anything,
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 4: some one walked towards me from the tree line. Hello,
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 4: she said. She reached up to my shoulder in height
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 4: and had black hair and brown eyes. She was wearing
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 4: a frock and looked friendly. Hello, I replied, How were you,
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 4: I asked, I'm Mary, said the little girl. She came
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 4: and stood in front of me and asked, how old
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 4: are you? I'm seven and my name is Josh. I'm five.
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 4: She seemed pretty harmless and not like my seven year
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 4: old self knew any better. I was just happy to
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 4: find someone there. We started talking, and pretty soon we
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 4: were good friends. By chatting with Mary, I quickly gathered
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 4: that her parents were camping in the woods too. She
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 4: and her family came to this part of the woods often,
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 4: so she knew the way down. She had just started
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 4: school and was struggling to make new friends despite her
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 4: funny jokes and sweet singing. She sang for me too
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 4: and told me some very funny jokes. I thought that
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 4: she was my new best friend. When the sunset was close,
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 4: it was clear to me that I was lost and
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 4: that Grandpa and Grandma would come for me, but I
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 4: didn't know. When Mary agreed to stay with me for
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 4: the night and to help me get back home in
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 4: the morning, I was delighted. Indeed, we spent the night
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 4: sleeping on the bluff, looking at the stars and sharing
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 4: stories from our schools. She also brought me some berries
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 4: from a nearby bush so I wouldn't be hungry. The
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 4: next day, we climbed down the hill, and Mary, despite
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 4: being smaller than me in age and size, was an
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 4: expert hiker, almost as good as my father and grandpa.
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 4: Whenever the path became steep, she stood in front of
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 4: me to help me come down safely. When we were
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 4: down later that afternoon, she took me to a small
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 4: cave like structure and asked me to stay there for
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 4: the night. She also got me some fruits from some
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 4: nearby trees and led me to a small stream to
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 4: drink water. The next day, we had to walk a
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 4: lot to reach the nearby street from where I could
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 4: go home. When we reached the street, Mary told me
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 4: that she was happy she met me till then. I
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 4: didn't want Mary to leave, and I wanted her to
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 4: meet my parents, but she told me that she had
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 4: to get back to her parents and it would be
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 4: very angry if she didn't come back soon. Bye Mary,
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 4: Bye Josh. We waved at each other and then she
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 4: walked away back into the forest. I was just sitting
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 4: on a boulder when a small van passed me on
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 4: the road. The driver stopped when he saw me sitting
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 4: and jocked towards me in a hurry. There was another
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 4: man in the van too, Hey, are you Josh Davis?
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 4: The driver asked me, yes, Sir, I replied. Immediately, both
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 4: the men exchanged a funny look, and the other man
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 4: rushed towards his van and made a few phone calls
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 4: till then the driver casually asked me where I was.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 4: I was in the woods, Sir, I said, to which
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 4: the man seemed unconvinced. Within minutes, police cars had arrived,
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 4: and amidst the chaos, there was a car that I
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 4: very much recognized. It was my father's car, and out
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 4: of it stepped my parents and grandparents. I was surrounded
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 4: by my whole family, and every one was hugging me,
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 4: kissing me, and what not. It was hard for me
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 4: to understand what had happened. Wasn't it just the punishment
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 4: my grandparents gave me because I was being stubborn? Soon
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 4: I was taken to the hospital and some unnecessary tests
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 4: were performed on me. When the doctors were done with me,
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 4: everyone was asking me the same questions, where was I
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 4: and how did I end up on the corner of
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 4: the road. So I told them the whole story of
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 4: how I met Mary, and how she helped me get down,
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 4: and how she was nice and funny, and how she
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 4: brought me food and told me stories about her school. Everyone,
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 4: including my family, was baffled. I mean, I understand that
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 4: it's odd to make friends in the woods, but Mary
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 4: was really nice. Then I was told that I had
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 4: been missing for almost two days and there was a
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 4: search party looking for me. The men who found me
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 4: by the road had been a part of this search too.
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 4: I didn't get it then, but now that I'm an
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 4: old buzzard, I get how crazy all of it must
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 4: have sounded. My story had made headlines, and now most
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 4: of the people were worried about Mary too. Until a
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 4: man who was around seventy years old came up to
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 4: my family and demanded to speak to me. He claimed
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 4: he was Mary's dad. I was eager to meet him
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 4: because that meant I could meet Mary too, But what
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 4: the man told me still shocks me to my core
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 4: to day. Mary was lost in those Woods about thirty
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 4: five years ago at the same spot where I met her,
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 4: and later her dead body was discovered. The girl who
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 4: I assumed was my best friend was not a girl
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 4: but a ghost all along. He asked me to describe
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 4: Mary in great detail, and when he was satisfied that
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 4: I wasn't joking, he showed me a picture of Mary.
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 4: It was an old, yellow, crumpled picture of her. I
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 4: broke into tears. But as I grew up and I
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 4: kept on reanalyzing the story, I figured maybe the spirit
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 4: of Mary Wilson didn't want to see another kid end
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 4: up in the same situation she did. She wanted to
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 4: save my life because no one saved hers. Maybe Mary
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 4: was a kind spirit, But the sweet smile of that
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 4: that little girl who saved me all those years ago,
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  Speaker 4: still haunts me to this day.