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3 True Creepy Abandoned Building Horror Stories That Will Make You Fear the Dark · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: I was taking a few days off and spending it
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  Speaker 1: camping in the woods. I was in some forest a
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  Speaker 1: few hours from my town and had set up camp
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  Speaker 1: at the end of a four hour trail. I'd spent
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  Speaker 1: the night there already and had noticed this thin path.
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  Speaker 2: Leading out from the campsite.
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea where it went, and it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: on the map of the area, but having nothing better
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  Speaker 1: to do on that second day, I thought I'd go
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  Speaker 1: for a short hike down the path just to see
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  Speaker 1: if it led anywhere cool, maybe a small pond or
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  Speaker 1: a waterfall or something. I brought with me a backpack
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  Speaker 1: with food and water in case i'd be out longer
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  Speaker 1: than expected. Walking through the trail, it was very obvious
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  Speaker 1: that almost nobody used it, or at least hadn't used
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  Speaker 1: it in a long time, maybe even years. It was
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  Speaker 1: very thin and overgrown in a lot of sections, and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see any signs of people, like shoeprints or anything.
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  Speaker 1: This went on for several miles, taking around two hours
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  Speaker 1: before I found the end, and it wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: What I expected.
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  Speaker 1: There was a house or cabin sitting in the woods.
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  Speaker 1: At first sight, there was no mistaking that it was abandoned.
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  Speaker 1: Moss and vines were growing out of the woods siding,
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  Speaker 1: and the doors and windows were all open. Before approaching
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  Speaker 1: any further, I looked around at my surroundings, just checking
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  Speaker 1: for anything, as this wasn't a normal thing to just
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  Speaker 1: stumble across. The woods were calm and unsettlingly still, I
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  Speaker 1: went up to the doorway and poked my head in.
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  Speaker 1: Looking down the front hallway, there was dust and debris
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  Speaker 1: eying all over the floors, but it was otherwise barren.
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  Speaker 1: I went in a little further. It smelled of mildew
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  Speaker 1: and rotting wood, but as I crept through the rooms
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't much to see. Feeling uneasy though, I was
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  Speaker 1: about to turn around and leave, but a small glimmer
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  Speaker 1: caught the side of my eye on one of the
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  Speaker 1: closed wooden doors. The handle had been ripped off and
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  Speaker 1: replaced by a silver padlock. It almost looked brand new
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  Speaker 1: and matched nothing else in the house. My curiosity immediately
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  Speaker 1: had me thinking of why there was a padlock on
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  Speaker 1: the door to an otherwise empty and ruined cabin. The
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  Speaker 1: more I looked at it, though, that uneasy feeling just
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  Speaker 1: took over me, and I couldn't get myself to investigate.
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  Speaker 2: I quickly left the house and went back to the path.
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  Speaker 1: Just as I entered the trail again, I heard a
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  Speaker 1: single footstep on the wooden floor inside the house. I
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  Speaker 1: turned and looked at the doorway, but saw nothing, so
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  Speaker 1: I kept on walking, trying to distance myself from that place.
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  Speaker 1: As I walked back, though for the whole two hours,
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  Speaker 1: I kept hearing footsteps in the distance, like someone was
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  Speaker 1: following me. The trees densely covered the area, though, making
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  Speaker 1: it impossible to see that far. When I got back
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  Speaker 1: to the camp, I got a fire going early and
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  Speaker 1: just sat and waited, listening and looking to see if
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  Speaker 1: anyone showed up. By nightfall, I hadn't heard anything else,
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  Speaker 1: but as the hours got later, I started hearing it again,
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  Speaker 1: footsteps out in the distance, far beyond the light of
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  Speaker 1: the campfire, definitely close enough for them to see the light.
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  Speaker 1: It went on for several hours, hearing a line of
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  Speaker 1: footsteps every ten to fifteen minutes, still though I was
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  Speaker 1: never able to see them, and eventually it got so
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  Speaker 1: late that I knew I had to sleep, so I
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  Speaker 1: left the campfire going. As I got inside my tent,
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  Speaker 1: I was in and out of sleep for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the night, waking up at every small sound the
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  Speaker 1: woods made.
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  Speaker 2: After getting almost no.
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  Speaker 1: Sleep, I left. What the cabin was doing there, and
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  Speaker 1: whoever had followed me that night, I'll never know. I
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  Speaker 1: can't say what they intended to do, but their disturbing
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  Speaker 1: stalking behavior only lets me assume the worst. But I
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  Speaker 1: can never seem to stop thinking about the disturbing possibilities
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  Speaker 1: of what was behind that locked door. This happened almost
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  Speaker 1: ten years ago when I was in high school. Me
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  Speaker 1: and my friend, while called Jake for privacy, have kept
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  Speaker 1: from sharing this until now, mostly because we just don't
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  Speaker 1: know what really happened. We had been talking about going
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  Speaker 1: to this abandoned mall near our city for a while,
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  Speaker 1: but the only thing making us nervous was that we
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a group to go with. It would just
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  Speaker 1: be us, and we knew that it was a sketchy
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  Speaker 1: place to be. For some reason, we were both just
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  Speaker 1: really intrigued by the place and the idea of going there,
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  Speaker 1: so much so that we couldn't stop ourselves. We gathered
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  Speaker 1: up some stuff into a drawstring bag and took Jake's
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  Speaker 1: card to get there. This mall was off the side
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  Speaker 1: of a long highway, but the state had blocked the
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  Speaker 1: view from the road with a ton of trees, probably
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  Speaker 1: to keep people from seeing the unpleasant building so close.
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  Speaker 2: To the city. The road to get to the parking.
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  Speaker 1: Lot was destroyed too, so we had to park on
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  Speaker 1: the side of the highway, kind of nestled around some
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  Speaker 1: trees so it wouldn't be seen by passing cars. Then
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  Speaker 1: we started walking. The sun was just about setting, which
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  Speaker 1: gave us enough light to not get lost.
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  Speaker 2: In the trees.
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  Speaker 1: After a few minutes, the sound of cars passing on
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  Speaker 1: the highway faded out, and we reached the edge of
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  Speaker 1: the massive, empty parking lot, where the abandoned mall sat
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  Speaker 1: right in the middle. There were no cars, no people,
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  Speaker 1: and no sounds. We stood there for a moment, just
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  Speaker 1: to be sure we were alone.
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  Speaker 2: Then we walked through.
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  Speaker 1: The parking lot and up to the main entrance.
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  Speaker 2: All the glass from the doors.
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  Speaker 1: Were shattered, and inside it almost immediately became darker. We
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  Speaker 1: stayed quiet at first, walking slowly and being careful just
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  Speaker 1: looking around. Being inside this huge mall with no people
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  Speaker 1: walking around and no lights on was super eerie and strange.
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  Speaker 1: Feeling every step we took echoed all the way through
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  Speaker 1: the mall, which was completely dark. As we got further
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  Speaker 1: toward the middle, we stopped for a minute, taking our
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  Speaker 1: flashlights out of the bag when we heard something.
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  Speaker 2: Someone was laughing.
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  Speaker 1: It was from the other end of the mall, which
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  Speaker 1: was pitch black. We didn't hear any talking afterward, or
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  Speaker 1: see any lights. We both agreed that it had to
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  Speaker 1: just be another group exploring the place, but it didn't
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  Speaker 1: really make me feel any better. This wasn't ideal, and
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  Speaker 1: we were hoping to avoid other people, but already being there,
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  Speaker 1: it felt like a waste of time to just turn back.
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  Speaker 1: We turned on the flashlights and started walking into the
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  Speaker 1: dark section of the mall, moving the light around. All
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  Speaker 1: the stores were emptied and had garbageing graffiti everywhere. By then,
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  Speaker 1: the sun had definitely set too, because when I looked
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  Speaker 1: behind us at where we came from, it was pitch
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  Speaker 1: black as well. I turned back around to tell Jake,
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  Speaker 1: but he had stopped walking and was holding his flashlight
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  Speaker 1: steadily ahead of him. Jake, I whispered, but then I
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  Speaker 1: looked closer at where his light was pointing far back
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  Speaker 1: in the store, directly ahead of us, I saw a figure.
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  Speaker 1: They were standing by the entrance to the shop and
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  Speaker 1: just looking at us.
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  Speaker 2: I think what.
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  Speaker 1: Terrified us so much was just how creepy it was
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  Speaker 1: for them to just be standing there without saying hello,
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  Speaker 1: or just walking away or something.
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  Speaker 2: And as more and more seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Passed, my heart felt like it was beating out of
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  Speaker 1: my chest in terror. Before Jake finally moved his light away,
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  Speaker 1: both of us turned around and started quickly walking back
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  Speaker 1: where we came from. We were constantly swinging our lights
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  Speaker 1: around as we navigated through the darkness. Our footsteps echoing
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  Speaker 1: around us made it hard to hear anything else, only furthering.
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  Speaker 2: The panic we were in.
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  Speaker 1: Then our lights finally reached the entrance to the mall,
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  Speaker 1: and just then running footsteps came.
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  Speaker 2: From the floor right above us.
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  Speaker 1: I shined my lights, only catching a glimpse of a
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  Speaker 1: person running down the hallway. This is when Jake and
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  Speaker 1: I started sprinting, heading straight for the exit as we
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  Speaker 1: could hear the footsteps start making their way down the
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  Speaker 1: escalators towards us. We managed to get out and continued
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  Speaker 1: running through the parking lot and all the way to
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  Speaker 1: the trees. Looking back, nobody had followed us out. As
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  Speaker 1: we walked back to the car, I almost threw up
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  Speaker 1: from my heart racing so fast. We got in the
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  Speaker 1: car and drove back to Jake's house, and after that
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  Speaker 1: we never talked about it. I don't know what that
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  Speaker 1: was the way it all played out, though. I just
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  Speaker 1: can't see how a couple people would plan all of
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  Speaker 1: that without meaning harm. Thankfully, we didn't assume anything, because
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  Speaker 1: if we had stayed there and continued exploring, there's really
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  Speaker 1: no saying what would have happened that night. There's an
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  Speaker 1: abandoned hotel in my town that's been vacant for decades.
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  Speaker 1: It had been bought out several times before, but every
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  Speaker 1: time they ended up going bankrupt after just a few years.
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  Speaker 1: Our town is small and kind of old fashioned, so
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  Speaker 1: there's really no reason for anyone to visit unless they
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  Speaker 1: have family here, which means that there's really no reason
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  Speaker 1: to even.
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  Speaker 2: Have a hotel as big as this one was.
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  Speaker 1: It was at least six stories and was probably the
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  Speaker 1: largest building in our town. Anyway, when I was twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: I just casually decided to check it out. I felt
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  Speaker 1: like there was nothing actually dangerous or scary about it.
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  Speaker 1: It was just an empty abandoned building that would be
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  Speaker 1: cool to walk around and look at. I decided to
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  Speaker 1: go during the day because I figured that if anyone
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  Speaker 1: was there during the daytime, then they were probably just
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  Speaker 1: harmless people exploring it like me. I parked at a
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  Speaker 1: store that was a half mile away, then walked to
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  Speaker 1: the hotel. It was mostly isolated on the side of
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  Speaker 1: the road, being that most of the stores surrounding it
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  Speaker 1: had already been torn down.
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  Speaker 2: The hotel itself.
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  Speaker 1: Though, looked a lot worse than the last time I'd
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  Speaker 1: seen it. The brick was crumbling and the whole place
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  Speaker 1: seemed like it was fading and decaying. I went up
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  Speaker 1: to the front and glanced inside. It was mostly empty,
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  Speaker 1: with only a few things scattered around like chairs and
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  Speaker 1: old furniture. I stepped in and walked through the lobby,
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  Speaker 1: opening the door to the staircase. The whole stairwell was
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  Speaker 1: covered in shadows, as barely any light was getting in.
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  Speaker 1: All I could see was a dim beam of light
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  Speaker 1: coming from one of the floors above. It was only
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  Speaker 1: just enough for me to find my way up the stairs,
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  Speaker 1: but when I got to the door on the second story,
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  Speaker 1: it was blocked. Something on the other side was keeping
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  Speaker 1: it from opening, and a sheet of wood was covering
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  Speaker 1: the window on the door. I left it and continued
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  Speaker 1: up to the third story, opening the door and entering
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  Speaker 1: the hallway. This was probably the most creepy setting I'd
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  Speaker 1: ever been in. The hallway was dark and musty, with
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  Speaker 1: only a small window on either end.
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  Speaker 2: To light up the corridor.
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  Speaker 1: I walked down a little bit, then went into the
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  Speaker 1: first room with an open door. Oddly, it looked kind
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  Speaker 1: of normal. There were layers of dust covering everything, but
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  Speaker 1: all the furniture was set up as if it had
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  Speaker 1: never been moved. There were even towels and soap left
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  Speaker 1: in the bathroom. Still, as I was looking at all
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  Speaker 1: of this, I heard a small thumb. I turned around
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  Speaker 1: and faced the doorway, not sure if that was from
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  Speaker 1: the floor I was.
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  Speaker 2: On or the one below me.
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  Speaker 1: A few seconds later, quiet footsteps creaked the floorboards.
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  Speaker 2: Coming down the hallway.
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  Speaker 1: As they got closer, I just stared at the doorway
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  Speaker 1: and hoped that they weren't on my floor. After a
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  Speaker 1: few seconds, though, I heard them stop, followed by a
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  Speaker 1: door opening and then slamming shut on the.
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  Speaker 2: Floor below me.
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  Speaker 1: Afterward, there were no footsteps or really any sounds at all.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to be quiet, walking up to the hallway
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  Speaker 1: and looking out to make sure nobody else was here.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking about it, though, I couldn't see why another person
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  Speaker 1: just exploring the place would walk so deliberately to a
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  Speaker 1: room and slam the door. And the more I thought
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  Speaker 1: about it, the more nervous I got. Only adding to
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  Speaker 1: the eeriness was how silent.
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  Speaker 2: The whole place was. Now.
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  Speaker 1: After a minute of standing in the hallway and thinking
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  Speaker 1: I'd had enough, I quietly walked back to the staircase
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  Speaker 1: and opened the door, Entering the dark stairwell and starting
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  Speaker 1: to descend. There was no way to be quiet. On
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  Speaker 1: the metal stairs. Each step was an unavoidable hollow thumb.
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  Speaker 1: But as I passed the door to the second story,
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  Speaker 1: I noticed a small gap in the doorway that definitely
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  Speaker 1: wasn't there before. Then I looked down at the stairs
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  Speaker 1: ahead of me. A figure stood in the stairwell only
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  Speaker 1: a few steps below me, barely visible in the darkness,
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  Speaker 1: but their eyes stared right at me. They looked dreadful
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  Speaker 1: and emotionless. With no choice, I started carefully walking on
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  Speaker 1: the edge of the staircase, passing.
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  Speaker 2: By them, with only a couple feet between.
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  Speaker 1: Us, as his eyes followed every move I made. Once
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  Speaker 1: I got to the bottom, I opened the door and
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  Speaker 1: ran out into the lobby, where I could finally see clearly.
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  Speaker 1: I hurried back to my car and sat in the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot for a while. Looking back, that was probably
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  Speaker 1: the dumbest thing I'd ever done. I guess I just
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  Speaker 1: didn't realize what I was walking into. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: why that person was there or what they were doing.
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  Speaker 1: Leaving when I did was probably the only good decision
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  Speaker 1: I made.