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3 Creepy True Airbnb Horror Stories for a Night Alone | Vol. 2 That Will Keep You Up · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: I thought i'd treat myself to a short getaway vacation.
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  Speaker 1: I live in a really flat and boring area, so
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  Speaker 1: I chose somewhere with a more mountainous and forest covered scenery.
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  Speaker 1: I settled on Colorado, but I didn't really know any
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  Speaker 1: towns aside from the main ones, which were pretty expensive,
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  Speaker 1: so I started looking into airbnbs in smaller towns. There
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  Speaker 1: weren't as many options as I was hoping within my
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  Speaker 1: price range, but I did find one that I thought
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  Speaker 1: wasn't too bad. I booked it and was on the
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  Speaker 1: road the following week, driving through the country to the airbnb.
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  Speaker 1: Ten long hours later, I made it to the town
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  Speaker 1: i'd be staying in. I gotta say I was not
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  Speaker 1: very comfortable when I first started driving through it. I
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't have expected much, but this was far less than
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  Speaker 1: what I'd thought it would be. The few rows of
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  Speaker 1: houses bordered a very empty and dark road, with old
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  Speaker 1: wooden power lines barely standing on the sides. Being at night,
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  Speaker 1: it almost looked like an abandoned ghost town. I knew
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  Speaker 1: during the day it would probably look less so, but
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  Speaker 1: this was my first and only impression to go off of. Thankfully,
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  Speaker 1: I was able to find the airbnb without trouble. Pulling
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  Speaker 1: into the gravel path that led to a cul de
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  Speaker 1: sac with my airbnb along with four other small homes,
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  Speaker 1: I parked and got out, lugging my bags up to
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  Speaker 1: the front door and getting inside. This was a very small,
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  Speaker 1: five hundred square foot home, but I have to admit
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  Speaker 1: the setup was nice. I dropped my things in the
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  Speaker 1: bedroom and went to the kitchen to fill up my
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  Speaker 1: water bottle and take a minute to relax before. As
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  Speaker 1: I stood at the counter, though, I heard a car
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  Speaker 1: coming down the gravel outside. I walked over to the window,
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  Speaker 1: seeing a pair of headlights appear and slowly coming to
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  Speaker 1: the cul de sac, parking in front of the house
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  Speaker 1: next to the airbnb. The car turned off and the
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  Speaker 1: headlights went out, but oddly, as I stood and watched,
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  Speaker 1: nobody ever exited the car. After a minute, I just
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  Speaker 1: left and went back to the kitchen, as it was
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  Speaker 1: really none of my business and I didn't want them
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  Speaker 1: to notice me watching. I sat down on one of
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  Speaker 1: the barstools and pulled my phone out, responding to some
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  Speaker 1: messages and letting my family know that I made it
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  Speaker 1: here safe. I was there no longer than fifteen minutes
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  Speaker 1: before calling in the night and going to the bedroom.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: I unpacked some things and started getting ready when I
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  Speaker 1: quietly heard a car door open and close outside, followed
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  Speaker 1: by some foots steps. It sounded like they walked up
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  Speaker 1: pretty close, but I assumed they had to just be
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  Speaker 1: walking up to the house next door. The footsteps stopped
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  Speaker 1: somewhat abruptly, though, but after finishing getting ready, I got
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  Speaker 1: in bed. From what I remember, I fell asleep after
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  Speaker 1: half an hour and didn't hear anything else during that time.
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  Speaker 1: When my eyes opened, I had no idea what time
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  Speaker 1: it was, but I felt very unsettled. Everything was quiet,
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  Speaker 1: aside from the light creaking of the house. I sat up,
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  Speaker 1: staring through the dark room and trying to understand whatever
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  Speaker 1: was making me feel this way. My eyes could barely
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  Speaker 1: see anything until they fell on the uncovered window and
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  Speaker 1: behind it a pair of eyes were looking back at me.
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  Speaker 1: My heart jumped and my body froze, and after a
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  Speaker 1: moment I saw the figure move away from the window,
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  Speaker 1: but I could only slightly hear their footsteps and it
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  Speaker 1: didn't sound like they were leaving. I quickly got out
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  Speaker 1: of the bed and hurried to get dressed, but there
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  Speaker 1: was a sudden sound from outside the bedroom door. I
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  Speaker 1: stopped and listened as heavy footsteps left from right behind
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  Speaker 1: the door and ran down the hallway. At this point
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what to do, so I just stood
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  Speaker 1: there and listened. I heard the footsteps go from inside
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  Speaker 1: the house to the gravel path and down to the road.
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  Speaker 1: Then a car started and drove off. After some time passed,
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  Speaker 1: I carefully opened the door and walked down the hallway,
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  Speaker 1: seeing the front door wide open and hearing only the
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  Speaker 1: quietness of the night. I never heard the foot steps
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  Speaker 1: of the man by my window leaving, but from the
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  Speaker 1: looks of it, they were definitely gone. I did what
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  Speaker 1: I could, reporting it to a local police station twenty
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  Speaker 1: minutes away, but there was never any follow up. Who
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  Speaker 1: they were, what they wanted, and why they broke in.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't stay to find out. I arrived at my
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  Speaker 1: last stop before my final destination on the following day.
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  Speaker 1: It was late and I was extremely exhausted from a
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  Speaker 1: long few days of driving, so I got my small
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  Speaker 1: backpack out and got inside my airbnb for the night.
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  Speaker 1: It was some random house off the main road that
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  Speaker 1: just happened to be on my route. I didn't do
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  Speaker 1: too much looking into it because it was just for
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  Speaker 1: a night, so really all I needed was a bed
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  Speaker 1: to sleep in for eight hours. Upon walking in, I
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  Speaker 1: immediately got a whiff of a really unpleasant smell. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a concerning smell per se, but it definitely was
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  Speaker 1: not enjoyable, like maybe a dead rodent under the house
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  Speaker 1: or mold in the ceilings. I did a very quick
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  Speaker 1: look around, glancing into the bedroom and bathroom, but I
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  Speaker 1: noticed the smell was a lot stronger in the bedroom
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  Speaker 1: than it was in the living room, so I decided
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  Speaker 1: to keep my stuff in the main living space and
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  Speaker 1: just set myself up for the night on the couch.
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  Speaker 1: I took the throw blanket off one of the sofa
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  Speaker 1: chairs and laid it out, but as I was doing this,
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  Speaker 1: a loud thump rang through the walls. I was less
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  Speaker 1: scared than I was confused, thinking that this was way
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  Speaker 1: too loud, just to be the house settling in or something.
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  Speaker 1: But the way the sound came through the walls made
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  Speaker 1: it really hard to tell where in the house it
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  Speaker 1: came from. I stepped down the hallway and peeked my
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  Speaker 1: head into each of the rooms, checking for anything wrong,
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  Speaker 1: but everything looked okay. I wasn't really sure what to
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  Speaker 1: check for, to be honest, but as far as I thought,
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  Speaker 1: nothing was to worry about for the short amount of
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  Speaker 1: time i'd be staying there. I went back to the
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  Speaker 1: couch and continued setting it all up, then laid down
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  Speaker 1: and took my phone out to do some planning for
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  Speaker 1: the next few days. Only a few minutes after that
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  Speaker 1: first thump, there was another. It was almost identical to
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  Speaker 1: the previous, ringing through the walls and just being a
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  Speaker 1: single thump. I got up and walked down the hallway again,
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  Speaker 1: but decided to check the rooms a bit more thoroughly.
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  Speaker 1: This time. I flicked on the lights and inspected the
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  Speaker 1: war ceiling, but still there was nothing to show any
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  Speaker 1: signs of anything. At this point, I was thinking maybe
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: a large branch was swinging in the wind and banging
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  Speaker 1: on the roof, but even that just seemed far fetched.
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  Speaker 1: I went back to the couch and reminded myself that
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  Speaker 1: I was only here for one night and whatever the
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  Speaker 1: problem was wasn't my problem. I shut off the lights,
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  Speaker 1: laid down and fell asleep, with the night being quiet
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: and being as exhausted as I was. I had no
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  Speaker 1: problem sleeping, but the way I woke up was unusual.
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: My eyes were still closed, as I'd only partially woken up.
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  Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't have even remembered it if not for
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  Speaker 1: what happened next. I got a bad feeling in my gut.
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  Speaker 1: As I opened my eyes. A man was standing right
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  Speaker 1: above me, staring into my eyes. My whole body tightened
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  Speaker 1: in that moment, but it only lasted fractions of a
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  Speaker 1: second before the man sprinted from the side of the
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  Speaker 1: couch and straight out the front door. I quickly stood
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  Speaker 1: up and ran to see where he went, but I
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: lost sight of him in the trees. I closed the door,
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: then went to grab my phone, but stopped at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the hall as I saw something from the
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  Speaker 1: corner of my eye. Hanging in the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: hallway was a folding ladder leading up to an attic.
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  Speaker 1: I wasted no more time to call for help. As
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  Speaker 1: you could guess the man had been up in the
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  Speaker 1: attic that night, but there wasn't much up there to
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  Speaker 1: show he'd been around for more than a day or two.
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  Speaker 1: It's likely he was just using the airbnb as a
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  Speaker 1: place to live, but his actions made things really disturbing.
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  Speaker 1: If I hadn't woken up, I don't know what would
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  Speaker 1: have happened. At the time of writing this, this happened
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  Speaker 1: only a few weeks ago. I had driven out to
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  Speaker 1: an Airbnb vacation cabin in a woodsy area. I had
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  Speaker 1: planned a backpacking trip with a few friends, and I
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  Speaker 1: was meant to stay there only two nights before heading
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  Speaker 1: out for the rest of the week. When I pulled
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  Speaker 1: in and saw the place, I was satisfied. It was
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  Speaker 1: very isolated. It was very much just a plain cabin,
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  Speaker 1: which I loved. I parked around the side of the
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  Speaker 1: place and got my gear out of the truck, bringing
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  Speaker 1: it inside. The inside is what you'd expect, small and
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  Speaker 1: not the nicest, but good for what I paid for.
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  Speaker 1: That night, I pretty much got right in bed, though,
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  Speaker 1: falling asleep and getting up early the next morning. My
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  Speaker 1: goal for this stay was to scout out the first
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  Speaker 1: portion of the trail that my friends would meet me
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  Speaker 1: on the following day. Really, I just needed to make
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  Speaker 1: sure it was open and not too muddy from last
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  Speaker 1: week's rainfall. If it was, then we'd have to find
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  Speaker 1: a new trail. I made a cup of coffee and
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  Speaker 1: chilled until mid afternoon, then went out and walked down
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  Speaker 1: to the main road, walking along it for a half
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  Speaker 1: mile to the trailhead. It looked clear and dry, so
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  Speaker 1: I didn't bother hiking down more than a quarter mile
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  Speaker 1: or so before heading back. In total, I'd only been
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  Speaker 1: gone for an hour, but when I got onto the
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  Speaker 1: path leading to the airbnb, I saw in the distance
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  Speaker 1: that a truck was now parked right out front. I
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  Speaker 1: quickened my pace, unsure what was going on. When I
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  Speaker 1: got up to the cabin, I went right up to
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  Speaker 1: the window of the truck, but nobody was inside. I
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  Speaker 1: then looked around in all directions, not seeing anyone at all.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody in the distance, and nobody at the front door.
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  Speaker 1: Where else could they even be? I cautiously walked up
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  Speaker 1: to the front door, noticing it was still locked. Heading inside,
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  Speaker 1: it was clear that nobody had entered, which was my
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  Speaker 1: worst fear. After double checking all the rooms, I opened
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  Speaker 1: the Airbnb app and contacted the host, asking if he
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  Speaker 1: or someone else was here. As I waited for a response,
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  Speaker 1: I checked the windows but still saw nothing. What made
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  Speaker 1: this so unnerving was that I couldn't see where anyone
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  Speaker 1: could even go from here. It was just forced around
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  Speaker 1: with this one cabin in the middle. As I continued
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  Speaker 1: to wait for a response, hours passed. I kept looking
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  Speaker 1: for anyone to come back to their truck, but with
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  Speaker 1: the sun setting, it seemed more unlikely. Then, at just
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  Speaker 1: about eight pm, I got a text back, no one
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  Speaker 1: else should be here. I'd be lying if I said
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  Speaker 1: I didn't already expect that answer, but I was just
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  Speaker 1: hoping that somehow it wasn't. After some thinking, I just
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get myself to feel safe enough to stay the night.
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  Speaker 1: I went around the cabin and started packing my things,
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: but then the sudden sound of footsteps came from the front.
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  Speaker 1: I stopped and listened as they made their way onto
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  Speaker 1: the porch and up to the door. Moments passed and
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  Speaker 1: no knock came. I must have stood there staring at
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  Speaker 1: the door for at least a minute before slowly walking
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  Speaker 1: up and looking out. A tall man was on the doorstep,
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  Speaker 1: but he was facing away from the door, looking out
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  Speaker 1: by the truck. An eerie feeling came over me, looking
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  Speaker 1: at this man, not moving at all and just staring
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  Speaker 1: out into the distance, feeling that he may not be
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  Speaker 1: the only one out there. I took a few steps back,
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: trying to quietly go into the other room to call
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: nine one one, but on my third step, one of
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: the floorboards made an extremely loud creak. Right after, I
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: heard the man shuffle around outside, followed by seeing the
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: doorknob shake violently as he tried to open it. I
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  Speaker 1: ran and locked myself in the bedroom, dialing nine one
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  Speaker 1: one as the man outside continued to shake the door
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  Speaker 1: and bang on it before suddenly running off the porch.
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  Speaker 1: A second later, I heard the truck driving away. Police
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  Speaker 1: made it to the cabin relatively quickly, but it didn't
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  Speaker 1: end up being that helpful. I left the cabin that
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: night to stay in a hotel instead. Being that the
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  Speaker 1: man wasn't caught and was still out there somewhere. I
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  Speaker 1: really can't even try to guess what he was doing.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing that really horrifies me is thinking about
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  Speaker 1: where the man was that whole time. Was he just
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: standing out in the woods or hiding somewhere outside the house.
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  Speaker 1: After that experience, though, I probably won't be staying in
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  Speaker 1: another far out cabin anytime soon. Sh