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5 Superstore Night-Shift Stories That Went Horribly Wrong · Paranormal Activity

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  Speaker 1: All my life, I swore to myself that I would
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  Speaker 1: never hitchhike. I'd seen enough horror movies to know that
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: that was a very bad idea. Besides, I grew up
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  Speaker 1: in Riverside, and I'd literally never seen any one hitchhike
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  Speaker 1: in real life before then. Last spring, I was visiting
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  Speaker 1: my cousins in central Oregon, and I found myself stranded
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  Speaker 1: on the side of the road. It was rainy and cold.
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  Speaker 1: I was driving back from my cousin's house when my
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  Speaker 1: car blew attire. I'd gotten flat tires before, but I
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  Speaker 1: never learned how to change one. I'd always just called
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  Speaker 1: Triple A and wait for someone to come by and
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  Speaker 1: help me. But at this time, I was in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of nowhere, surrounded by trees and mountains, and I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get a signal on my phone. I also didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a spare aside from a gas station that i'd
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  Speaker 1: passed an hour ago. There weren't any buildings around, just
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  Speaker 1: one long stretch of highway through the trees. With no
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  Speaker 1: signal and no place to walk to, I went to
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  Speaker 1: the side of the road and held out my thumb.
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  Speaker 1: I waited for ten minutes before a car came, but
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  Speaker 1: it didn't stop. I was angry, but I also knew
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  Speaker 1: that if I were that driver, i'd probably do the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. Five minutes later, an old truck came driving by,
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  Speaker 1: and it actually stopped. Unlike the first car, which was
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  Speaker 1: a new little Nissan, this truck really gave me the creeps.
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  Speaker 1: It was rusted and missing a window, and the back
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  Speaker 1: was filled with piles of old wood. I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to catch riding that thing, but I didn't really have
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  Speaker 1: any other choice. I approached the window and saw that
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  Speaker 1: the driver was about as unappealing as this truck. He
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  Speaker 1: was wearing a dirty white shirt. Need a ride, ma'am,
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  Speaker 1: he asked. My name's Brian. I was about to lie
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  Speaker 1: and say that I was waiting for someone, but he'd
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  Speaker 1: already seen me with my thumb in the air. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I said. I took a deep breath, and he got
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  Speaker 1: in his truck. I didn't tell him my name. He
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  Speaker 1: started the engine and drove. I'm guessing you need a mechanic,
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  Speaker 1: He said, Uh, just a place with a phone. I
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  Speaker 1: told him, whatever's close. He told me about a gas
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  Speaker 1: station that was about fifteen minutes ahead. He promised to
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  Speaker 1: drop me off, and he even offered to wait with
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  Speaker 1: me if I wanted him to. Despite his appearance, the
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  Speaker 1: man acted very nice, too nice. I didn't trust him,
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  Speaker 1: but there was nothing I could do about it now
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  Speaker 1: that was already in his truck. He tried to small
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  Speaker 1: talk with me for a bit, going on and on
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  Speaker 1: about how lonely it gets on the road. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear a lot of what he said. I was busy
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  Speaker 1: looking at the pile of fast food wrappers at my feet.
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  Speaker 1: His truck was insanely dirty. Then I saw a bit
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  Speaker 1: of pink sticking out of the piles of trash. I
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  Speaker 1: used my foot to push stuff out of the way,
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  Speaker 1: and I found a woman's purse sitting on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: Are you married, I asked him. Very single, he said,
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  Speaker 1: with a wink. I started a panic. I knew he
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  Speaker 1: was lying to me. What was his deal? I imagine
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  Speaker 1: that he picked up single women, killed them, and then
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  Speaker 1: kept their purses for trophies. There could have been another explanation,
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  Speaker 1: but that was the only one I could think of.
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  Speaker 1: I knew I shouldn't do anything to get him mad,
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  Speaker 1: but I had to ask, if you're single, whose purse
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  Speaker 1: is this? Brian laughed, nervously. Okay, he caught me there.
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  Speaker 1: Then he reached towards his glove compartment to grab something.
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  Speaker 1: I was terrified. I assumed he had a gun in
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  Speaker 1: or a knife. Before he could open the compartment, I screamed, stop,
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  Speaker 1: let me out of here. He grabbed the wheel with
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  Speaker 1: both hands and angrily swerved to the side of the road.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell, lady, he grumbled. I opened the door
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  Speaker 1: and jumped out. Before I could close the door, he
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  Speaker 1: reached into the glove compartment and pulled out what he
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  Speaker 1: was looking for, his wedding ring. That was just gonna
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  Speaker 1: show you this, he said. You don't have to be
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  Speaker 1: such a bitch. He closed the door for me and
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  Speaker 1: sped off. I felt like an idiot for overreacting, and
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  Speaker 1: now I was worse off than ever. I was still
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  Speaker 1: stranded on the side of the road, but now I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even close to my car. I didn't know whether
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  Speaker 1: I should walk back in that direction or to keep
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  Speaker 1: heading toward the gas station. In the end, I decided
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  Speaker 1: to keep going forward. It didn't take long for another
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  Speaker 1: car to stop. This one was a Chevy Sedan, much
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  Speaker 1: nicer than Brian's truck. It parked next to me and
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  Speaker 1: the window rolled down. The driver was one of the
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  Speaker 1: most handsome men I'd ever seen. He was dressed like
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  Speaker 1: a businessman, and he seemed instantly trustworthy. I asked him
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  Speaker 1: if he could drop me off at the gas station
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  Speaker 1: up ahead, and he told me to hop in. Without
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  Speaker 1: any hesitation, I got in and we drove off. The
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  Speaker 1: man said his name was Cody. I told him my
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  Speaker 1: name too. We talked for a while. He told me
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  Speaker 1: about his work as a surgeon. Unlike my I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the truck. I felt absolutely safe with this new guy.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I thought about asking for his number after
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  Speaker 1: he dropped me off. He was handsome, successful, probably rich.
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  Speaker 1: After a while, I noticed the gas station up ahead.
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  Speaker 1: I almost didn't want to get out because I was
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  Speaker 1: really liking this guy. But when we reached the gas station,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't stop. In fact, he sped up. I told
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  Speaker 1: him that we passed it, and its crooked grin disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: His expression got really dark. When I told you I
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  Speaker 1: was a surgeon, he said, I guess you thought I
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  Speaker 1: did it professionally. It's actually more of a hobby. With
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  Speaker 1: one hand on the wheel, he reached his other hand
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  Speaker 1: into his pocket and pulled out a scalpel. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to cut you, he said. The car was going ridiculously
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  Speaker 1: fast now the trees blurred by. I couldn't jump out,
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  Speaker 1: so I had to think of a way to reason
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  Speaker 1: with him. Please, I said, duck, don't hurt me. With
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  Speaker 1: his eyes still focused on the road, he slashed me
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  Speaker 1: across the arm with a scalpel, just to show that
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  Speaker 1: he meant business. I grabbed my arm, but that did
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  Speaker 1: nothing to stop the blood. Then two headlights appeared behind us.
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  Speaker 1: They were high beams, glaring into the back window. They
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  Speaker 1: got closer and closer. Someone was behind us, tailgating us.
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  Speaker 1: This guy has a psychopath, Cody said. I scoffed under
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  Speaker 1: my breath. Takes one and no one, I muttered. The
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  Speaker 1: headlights got closer. They got so close at the front
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  Speaker 1: of the vehicle rammed against the back of our car.
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  Speaker 1: Cody lost control of the steering wheel and swerved to
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  Speaker 1: the side. We almost drove straight into a tree until
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  Speaker 1: he slammed on the brakes. Behind us, a truck parked
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  Speaker 1: and its driver got out. I saw through the window
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  Speaker 1: that it was Brian. It run us off the road.
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  Speaker 1: Despite how I treated him before, he just saved my life.
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  Speaker 1: But I wasn't out of the woods yet. I was
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  Speaker 1: still trapped in this car with Cody. He was still
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  Speaker 1: holding the scalpel angrily. Cody shoved the scalpel into his pocket.
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  Speaker 1: Brian stepped up to his window and asked Cody what
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  Speaker 1: the problem was. You ran me off the side of
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  Speaker 1: the road. Cody said, that's the problem, so you were
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  Speaker 1: minding your own business, Brian said, Then he looked at me.
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  Speaker 1: Is that right, ma'am? I glanced at Cody, afraid that
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  Speaker 1: he'd hurt me if I said anything about him. Cody
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  Speaker 1: just smiled at me, and then, in a burst of motion,
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  Speaker 1: he pushed open his door, slamming it against Brian. Brian
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  Speaker 1: fell backwards and Cody tried to make a run for it.
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  Speaker 1: Brian grabbed him by the lane and pulled him onto
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  Speaker 1: the ground next to him. The two men started punching
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  Speaker 1: and kicking each other, but that didn't last long. Sirens
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  Speaker 1: filled the air and two police cars arrived. The cops
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  Speaker 1: ran out and grabbed Cody. Honestly, they were sort of
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  Speaker 1: doing him a favor because Brian had already given him
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  Speaker 1: a black eye and what looked like a broken nose.
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  Speaker 1: As the police took Cody away, the trucker picked himself
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  Speaker 1: up and walked toward me. He didn't have a bruise
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  Speaker 1: on him. Are you okay, he asked. I nodded. I
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  Speaker 1: recognize this car from the news. Brian explained, it's been
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  Speaker 1: connected with a string of murdered women along this highway.
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  Speaker 1: When I saw it speeding past the gas station, I
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  Speaker 1: knew there was a problem, and somehow I knew you
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  Speaker 1: were in trouble. I think Brian at least one hundred times.
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  Speaker 1: Without him, I would have died. Since this happened, Cody
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  Speaker 1: was sent to jail. He pled guilty to four murders,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure there were more. I got my
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  Speaker 1: tire fixed and headed back home. I never saw Brian
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  Speaker 1: the trucker again, but I'll always remember him.
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  Speaker 2: I take the chance every time to pursue the purest
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  Speaker 2: form of liberty I can find away from the humdrum
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  Speaker 2: of social population and all that it brought. Since I
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  Speaker 2: was nineteen, I could hardly bring myself to live in
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  Speaker 2: one place for too long. I enjoyed the breeze of
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  Speaker 2: the morning crashing against my face at the first crack
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  Speaker 2: of dawn, without the hindrance of mundane things causing me
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  Speaker 2: bother I had smelled the evening as I escaped with it,
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  Speaker 2: plunging in the snaking paths that sprawled lifelessly through roadways
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  Speaker 2: and scrubs. I have been drowsy while I walked, keeping
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  Speaker 2: my mind straight. At the next stop, whichever it was
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  Speaker 2: that I knew I would never settle in. But nothing
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  Speaker 2: prepared me for what would be one of the strangest
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  Speaker 2: evenings ever. As I made that walk through the slumbering
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  Speaker 2: desert paths, marching with the rucksack on my back, bearing
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  Speaker 2: all of my possessions and my water, I had enough
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  Speaker 2: common sense to be wary of cars that came up
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  Speaker 2: along the road and were in a very jolly mood
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  Speaker 2: to pick up strangers. They were either too dangerous or
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  Speaker 2: too stupid in any way, they could not be trusted.
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  Speaker 2: But I had no such fears. When the large white
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  Speaker 2: Ford suv slowed to a halt beside me, you lashed
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  Speaker 2: a woman, dirty blonde hair, blackened lips and plump called
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  Speaker 2: to me. I shook my head. Attacking at such a
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  Speaker 2: time can be dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: You know that.
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  Speaker 2: I smiled back at her. I knew that I flipped
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  Speaker 2: my device out of my pocket, and there was scarcely
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  Speaker 2: any cell coverage for where I was from my provider.
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  Speaker 2: The engine of her vehicle rebbed in my ears with
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  Speaker 2: an assurance of company. A subtle breeze coasted across my
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  Speaker 2: skin as I provided her with the map of my route,
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  Speaker 2: yet to utter a word to her. Ah, just where
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  Speaker 2: I'm headed, she said, gesturing with her hands for me
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  Speaker 2: to get into her vehicle. I was tempted. I hated
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  Speaker 2: the small talk that most commuters often suspected I needed.
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  Speaker 2: But one glance in the distance, seeing the oncoming blanket
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  Speaker 2: of nightfall snatching the innocent orange sunlight into its fold,
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  Speaker 2: was all I needed to know. I needed the trip
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  Speaker 2: in the vehicle. I've got some pastry to deliver and
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  Speaker 2: Marlors cross a small town from here, and I'll drop
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  Speaker 2: you off, she seemed to insist, persuasively. I conceded and
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  Speaker 2: hopped into her vehicle, taking a seat by the passenger side.
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  Speaker 2: She looked at me away from the road and flashed
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  Speaker 2: me a grin that I was undecided about. Perhaps it
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  Speaker 2: was the way that her eyes glazed when she smiled
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  Speaker 2: with a fulfillment which made me uneasy, or the fact
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  Speaker 2: that I could perceive how shallow the beam was from
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  Speaker 2: the way that her lips cracked, contorting upwards to reveal
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  Speaker 2: a set of chipped teeth. The smell in the vehicle
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  Speaker 2: crawled into my nostrils slowly. There was a damp funk
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  Speaker 2: suffocating under the aroma of her pastries, which she had
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  Speaker 2: slightly open, as though in invitation. An unruly insect buzzed
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  Speaker 2: into the vehicle and offered temporary distraction to the awkward
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  Speaker 2: silence that I shared with the stranger. She cussed violently
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  Speaker 2: and swatted her hands this way, and that's the car
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  Speaker 2: of the insect. Goddamn beast, she said. When the insect
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  Speaker 2: buzzed away. Then she heaved A terrible country this is
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: I could tell, I simpered and nodded. My name is Chris,
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  Speaker 2: she said, with a pronounced pause for me to fill
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  Speaker 2: in chance. I replied, huh, beautiful name. I'll be sure
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: to remember it, she said. I thought that it was
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: odd that she would say that to me, as I
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: barely ever met the same people twice in my hitchhiking trips.
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: I mentioned it to her and we laughed about it
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  Speaker 2: for some time before she offered some of the pastries
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  Speaker 2: that I might want to have. I refused, She insisted,
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  Speaker 2: with that effusive charm of hers that wore down my senses.
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  Speaker 2: Just one of the past trees, she said, flipping the
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  Speaker 2: covering over to show off the fine assortment of oven
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  Speaker 2: brown flower. The scent filled my nostrils, and I grabbed
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  Speaker 2: a piece. They are delicious, she said to me, and
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: flicked her head, suggesting I have them. My phone, buzzing
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  Speaker 2: in my pants, called my attention. I sighed in relief,
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  Speaker 2: knowing I had finally passed by an area with good
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  Speaker 2: cell reception. I brought my phone from my pocket to
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  Speaker 2: check for my messages. When she flipped put that the
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  Speaker 2: mass away and eat the damn pastries, she barked. Her
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  Speaker 2: voice was the haunting timber of desperation, an unsettling yawn
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  Speaker 2: that stretched out after it had been uttered. Followed. I
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  Speaker 2: was perplexed by it. Excuse me, she began to ramble,
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  Speaker 2: swerving the car across the road, an annoyance that I
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: had brought my phone out of my pocket. I broke
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  Speaker 2: a batch of sweat, which trickled down the side of
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  Speaker 2: my face and panic as the car whipped this way
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  Speaker 2: and that my fear was not immediately for my safety.
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  Speaker 2: I did not quickly assume it was. I had hoped
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  Speaker 2: it was an episode that needed to pass. I said,
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  Speaker 2: eat the damn pastries. She barred again, her greasy face
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: quickly turning beat root red as she spoke in anger.
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: Her insistence on the pastries made me wary. I had
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  Speaker 2: the thought to slip out of the car, jump onto
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  Speaker 2: the road, and find an escape, but even that would
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  Speaker 2: be foolish, because if I was incapacitated, I would be
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  Speaker 2: no match for the visibly irate lady. I tried to
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  Speaker 2: ease myself, but I was so shaken by her display
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  Speaker 2: of grievance that I could not sit still. As though
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: her yelling did not pass her message across, she slammed
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  Speaker 2: her hands on the dashboard, furiously ordering me to eat
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  Speaker 2: the pastries. When I did not, she tilted. She reached
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  Speaker 2: her hands to her side and fetched out a maroon
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  Speaker 2: stained cudgel, matter she swore, swinging the weapon directly at me.
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  Speaker 2: The car drifted out of her control, but she was
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  Speaker 2: so crazed by my stubbornness that she paid no mind
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  Speaker 2: to it. Not, lucky mastard, you're not getting away from me.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: Realization dawned and a thin d of lulling dreams slipped
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  Speaker 2: from my eyes. I was in danger, and terror filled
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  Speaker 2: me with such sharp anxiety. The cudgel caught me on
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  Speaker 2: the forehead, and it felt as though as the world
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  Speaker 2: around me had suddenly exploded because I suddenly fell deaf.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: With my senses that remained, I saw her drifting in
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  Speaker 2: and out of my line of vision, and her gesticulation
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  Speaker 2: death filled me with dread. And knowing that this strange
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  Speaker 2: woman or strange behavior could do that to me made
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  Speaker 2: my head spin.
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  Speaker 1: Damn.
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  Speaker 2: I hollered, latching onto the swung cudgel with all of
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  Speaker 2: the force that my arms could muster. I pried it
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  Speaker 2: from her and swung back three times in blind succession.
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  Speaker 2: Her body went limp and I inhaled deeply. A strong
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: fecal smell assaulted my nostrils from her loosened muscles, and
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  Speaker 2: I knew I could do nothing else but to escape her.
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  Speaker 2: I steered the vehicle off the roadway into the desert
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  Speaker 2: and jumped out as I found a safe spot to lamb.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: After a moment on the ground, I recovered from the
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  Speaker 2: madness to find out that the vehicle had crashed into
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  Speaker 2: a rock in the distance. I picked myself off the
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: ground and continued on my hitch hiking, still unable to
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  Speaker 2: make sense of the horrors that I had just encountered.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: I was driving to my brother's new cabin in eastern Oregon.
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  Speaker 3: I'd never been to the area before, so I kept
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  Speaker 3: getting lost. I was supposed to be at his place
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  Speaker 3: by six pm, but it was already after ten and
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: I was still at least an hour away. I was
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: on a one lane highway in the middle of a
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  Speaker 3: thick forest. There were no other cars on the road.
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  Speaker 3: Then a truck appeared behind me. I hadn't seen it
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  Speaker 3: in the darkness because its headlights were off, but when
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: it was just a few feet away, the driver turned
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  Speaker 3: on his high beams and blared his horn. At first,
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  Speaker 3: I thought there was some kind of emergency, so I
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  Speaker 3: slowed down and started to pull to this and let
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  Speaker 3: him pass. That was when he rammed the front of
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  Speaker 3: his truck into my car. I lost control and careened
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  Speaker 3: into a tree. My air bag exploded in my face.
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  Speaker 3: I think my nose was broken. When I was finally
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  Speaker 3: able to get out of the car, the truck was
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  Speaker 3: long gone and my car was completely totaled. I looked
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  Speaker 3: for my phone to call for help, but I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: find it in the wreckage. That's when the panic set in.
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  Speaker 3: I was alone and hurt on the other side of
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  Speaker 3: an empty highway in the middle of the night. I
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  Speaker 3: couldn't call for help, and I had no idea who
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  Speaker 3: that trucker was, and if he'd come back, he'd intentionally
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  Speaker 3: run me off the road, so I wouldn't be surprised
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  Speaker 3: if he were turned to finish me off. I had
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  Speaker 3: to get out of there. I considered walking into the
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  Speaker 3: forest and hiding somewhere until the morning, but I wasn't
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  Speaker 3: brave enough. I decided to wait on the road and
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  Speaker 3: pray that someone else would drive by and find me.
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  Speaker 3: I had pepper spray just in case. Less than a
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: minute later, a small sedan drove toward me from the
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: other direction. I thank god that it wasn't the truck.
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  Speaker 3: I stood in the middle of the road and waved
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  Speaker 3: my arms. I knew that hitchhiking was dangerous, but it
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  Speaker 3: was my only option. The car stopped and I could
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  Speaker 3: see that a little old lady was driving. She smiled
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: at me pleasantly and asked if I'd swerved off the
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: road because of a deer. I told her about the truck,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: and she literally got out of her car and gave
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: me a big, motherly hug. She said everything was going
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: to be all right. She could drive me to a
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: hospital about thirty miles away. I got in her car
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: and instantly felt myself relax. My nose was throbbing, and
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: I think one of my wrists was broken, but I
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: knew that I was safe. The lady and I talked
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: for a bit. She said she and her son had
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: lived in the area for years, and the road we
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: were on had a reputation for being dangerous. Eventually, she
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: turned onto an unmarked dirt road that seemed to had
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: stray into the forest. She said that it was a
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: shortcut to the hospital. I was too distracted to realize
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: how strange that was. Why would a hospital be on
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: an unmarked dirt road. We drove for a bit, and
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: then she parked in front of a rundown trailer in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of nowhere, looked abandoned. Where are we? I
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: asked home? She said, Then she giggled. I panicked and
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: ran out of the car. I had no idea where
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  Speaker 3: I was going. I just had to get away from her.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: I raced past the trailer and into the dark forest.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Crouching behind a tree, I could see the old woman
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: get out of her car and casually walk towards the trailer.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: That's when I noticed that the truck that ran me
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: over was parked just behind the trailer. A young man,
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: obviously her son, got out of the trailer and asked
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: the woman if she found anything. The woman said, just
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: a girl, but she's still alive. Do you want to
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: go find her or should we wait for for one
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: of the traps to get her traps. I looked around
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: me in the dark, and sure enough I saw bear
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: traps sitting just a few feet away. If I had
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: kept walking, I would have stepped right on it. From
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: what I could tell, this guy and his mom were
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: working together to capture and probably murder people on the highway.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: He'd run them down, and she'd drive by and pick
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: up the bodies. They were insane. Let's see what she
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: does tonight, the man said. In the morning, I'll go
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: out and check the traps. They both laughed and then
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: went inside the trailer. I had no idea what to do.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I was too weak to fight them. I couldn't go
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: anywhere in the forest because I'd step into some bear
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: trap or spiked pitt. I didn't have my phone. I
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: thought about stealing the woman's car, but I had no
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: idea how to hot wire or anything, and I doubted
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: that she left the keys inside. I reached into my
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: pocket from my pepper spray, but even that was gone.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: I guess it had fallen out of my pocket. The
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: only weapon I had was this bear trap. I swallowed
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: my fear and leaned closer to the bear trap. It
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: was chained to a peg that had been planted into
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: the dirt. Very carefully, I pulled out the peg, then
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: grabbed the trap by the handles on either side. Slowly,
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: I carried it back towards the trailer. I couldn't make
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: any noise, and I definitely couldn't do anything to trigger
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: the trap. Somehow, I made it all the way to
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: the front porch and set the trap in front of
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: the door. Then I stepped back. Okay, I shouted, I
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: give up, you can have me. Instantly, the door opened
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: and the man walked out with a big smile on
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: his face. He was holding a butcher knife. I held
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: up both my arms. Please don't hurt me, I mumbled.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: I wanted to look as helpless as possible so that
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: he'd be focused on me. I didn't want him to
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: notice the bear trap about playing the metal snap shot
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: on the man's foot. He screamed in pain and dropped
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: the knife. I was able to grab it just as
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: his mother ran out of the trailer with a shotgun.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: She shot at and missed. That gave me enough time
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: to run past her son and slammed the butcher knife
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: into her shoulder. She collapsed onto the porch right next
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: to her son. I kicked the shotgun out of the
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: way and demanded them to give me their car keys.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: The woman moaned in pain as she dug into her
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: pocket and pulled out the keys to her car. Without
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: looking back, I stole her car and drove away. About
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: thirty minutes later, i'd made it into town. I found
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: the hospital and told them to contact the police. My
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: brother ended up meeting me at the hospital. He was
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: a big support as the doctors gave me a cast
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: for my wrist. The next day, we found out that
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: the mother and son had left their trailer before the
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: cops arrived. All they found were bloodstains on the front porch.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: I know they're still out there. They've probably moved on
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: to another isolated road where they can continue their sick games.