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What I saw in my room still haunts me - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Where is it? I clearly, I heard the door open.
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  Speaker 1: I heard the bells. I heard the pot. I heard
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  Speaker 1: the footsteps.
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  Speaker 2: I saw the door open. I see the thing walk in.
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  Speaker 2: I watched it walk down the aisle. I watched it
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  Speaker 2: bend over.
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  Speaker 1: It's in the room. Where is it?
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  Speaker 2: And this is night one. There's two more nights of
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  Speaker 2: this and it gets worse. When I was 16 years old,
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  Speaker 2: I was an avid snowboarder. Starting from the time I
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  Speaker 2: was like 12 years old, I used to always go
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  Speaker 2: snowboarding with the same two guys, my two very close.
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  Speaker 1: Friends, Wolf and Nick.
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  Speaker 2: Every winter, me, Nick, and Wolf would go up to
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  Speaker 2: Nick's family's cabin that was up in the White Mountains
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  Speaker 2: in New Hampshire, just.
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  Speaker 1: Snowboard, and it was great.
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  Speaker 2: Every time we went up to this cabin in New Hampshire,
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  Speaker 2: it would be me, Wolf, Nick, and then Nick's mom
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  Speaker 2: and dad. Unexpectedly, leading into my 16-year-old winter, Nick's.
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  Speaker 1: Father passed away.
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  Speaker 2: We were actually planning on going on a trip to
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  Speaker 2: the mountains that winter. And I remember speaking to Wolf
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  Speaker 2: and being like, I don't know if it's even appropriate
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  Speaker 2: to ask about this trip.
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  Speaker 1: Because we knew that Nick was very close to his father.
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  Speaker 2: And not to mention, every time we went on this
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  Speaker 2: particular trip up to the mountains, Nick's dad was always
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  Speaker 2: with us. And it just seemed like, how can we
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  Speaker 2: possibly now go on this snowboarding trip? Not only is
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  Speaker 2: it a low priority item, but just the dynamic is
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  Speaker 2: all different now. Nick called us and was like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: so we are still going to do the snowboarding trip
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  Speaker 2: to the cabin in New Hampshire. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Wolf and I, we spoke and we're like, Let's just
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  Speaker 2: go with it. I mean, maybe it's like maybe they
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  Speaker 2: want to do something that is that maybe is a
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  Speaker 2: fond memory of their father, their husband.
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  Speaker 1: And so we agreed to go.
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  Speaker 2: So he passes away maybe a few months, maybe a
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  Speaker 2: few months before we end up going up to the mountains.
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  Speaker 2: And so the the grief was still definitely there. But
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  Speaker 2: also just again, that the dynamic was very it was
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  Speaker 2: like the elephant in the room. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Like as we're driving up, we drove in the same car.
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  Speaker 2: Me, Wolf, Nick, and then Nick's mom was driving, it
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  Speaker 2: was so apparent that Nick's dad.
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  Speaker 1: Was missing because he was always in the car with
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  Speaker 1: us when we drove up.
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  Speaker 2: Anyhow, so we make the trip up to New Hampshire
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  Speaker 2: and we're planning to be up there for three days.
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  Speaker 1: So the house itself wasn't really a cabin. It was
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  Speaker 1: a house.
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  Speaker 2: It was a small house. It was on a mountain.
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  Speaker 2: And if you think about the way a mountain works,
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  Speaker 2: it's a slope. And so in order to have a
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  Speaker 2: house level on a mountain, A portion of it needs
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  Speaker 2: to be on stilts, right?
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  Speaker 1: The portion that's kind of hanging off the mountain.
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  Speaker 2: And then the other part of the house is kind
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  Speaker 2: of like embedded in the mountain itself. And when you
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  Speaker 2: drive up to the house, there's a wraparound porch that
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  Speaker 2: goes around the house. The majority of it is on
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  Speaker 2: the stilted section of the house, right? So if you're
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  Speaker 2: on the wraparound porch, your footsteps are going to echo.
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  Speaker 2: Like you can hear those footsteps because you're above the ground.
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  Speaker 2: When you step into the house, you open a door.
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  Speaker 2: It actually opens inwardly. There were sleigh bells that were
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  Speaker 2: on the door, on the inside of the door. So
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  Speaker 2: anytime you open the door, you.
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  Speaker 1: Hear those sleigh bells ringing.
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  Speaker 2: And as soon as you step foot into the house,
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  Speaker 2: if you took one step into the house, right? So
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  Speaker 2: you step on the wraparound porch, you open the door,
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  Speaker 2: sleigh bells ring.
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  Speaker 1: When you step into the house, your right foot would
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  Speaker 1: be in the kitchen. You'd be standing on linoleum.
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  Speaker 2: And your left foot would be on shag carpet, which
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  Speaker 2: is like the dining room. And that's the way the
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  Speaker 2: house is laid out. As soon as you walk in,
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  Speaker 2: kitchen on your right, dining room on your left. And
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  Speaker 2: if you keep walking, you're going to enter into this
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  Speaker 2: living room. And if you turned around in the living
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  Speaker 2: room and looked up, you would see a lofted second floor.
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  Speaker 2: If you walk into the house, again, your right foot's
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  Speaker 2: in the kitchen, your left foot's in the dining room.
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  Speaker 1: And you walked as if you were going into that
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  Speaker 1: living space.
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  Speaker 2: But stopped about halfway across the house, you could look
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  Speaker 2: to your right and there'd be one hallway. There's only
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  Speaker 2: one hallway, it's a small house. And this hallway is
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  Speaker 2: bringing you, call it, into the mountain. If you think about, again,
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  Speaker 2: the layout of the house, you have a portion of
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  Speaker 2: the house that's sitting in the mountain and a portion
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  Speaker 2: of the house that's on stilts. Well, this hallway leads
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  Speaker 2: into the section of the house that's in the mountain.
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  Speaker 2: And if you go down this hallway and it turns left,
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  Speaker 2: it's a short little hallway, it brings you to one room.
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  Speaker 2: And that room is where me, Nick, and Wolf would
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  Speaker 2: stay every time we went snowboarding at this mountain. That room,
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  Speaker 2: if you go into it, it's a corner-fed room. You
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  Speaker 2: open the door, and immediately to your right is a
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  Speaker 2: bunk bed. I would always sleep on the bottom bunk,
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  Speaker 2: and Wolf would sleep on the top bunk. Our feet
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  Speaker 2: would be closest to the door. In the center of
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  Speaker 2: the room, with the remaining space, because this is not
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  Speaker 2: a big room, there was like a queen-size bed. It
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  Speaker 2: was a slightly larger bed that sat basically in all
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  Speaker 2: of the free space. that was left over in the room.
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  Speaker 2: It was sitting right in the middle of the room
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  Speaker 2: and that's where Nick would sleep. So basically the room
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  Speaker 2: was completely packed with three places to sleep and really
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  Speaker 2: not much else.
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  Speaker 1: There was a very.
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  Speaker 2: Small space between the queen size bed and the bunk bed.
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  Speaker 2: So you could walk between those two, but that was
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 1: So that layout is very important and you'll see why.
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  Speaker 1: We snowboard for the day.
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  Speaker 2: We come back to the cabin and me, Nick and
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  Speaker 2: Wolf decide we're going to crash super early and get
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  Speaker 2: up and have a full day of riding ahead of
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  Speaker 2: us because we're avid snowboarders. So we go to our room,
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  Speaker 2: the one that's kind of, you go down that hallway
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  Speaker 2: and you get to the room I just described. We
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  Speaker 2: plan on going to bed early, but we were excited
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  Speaker 2: and so we stayed up gaming for a bit.
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  Speaker 1: And then maybe around like 11 or 12 o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: At night, Nick, who again is in the queen size
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  Speaker 2: bed and Wolf was in the top bunk.
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  Speaker 1: They ultimately fall asleep.
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  Speaker 2: I was still awake and what struck me and it
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  Speaker 2: always struck me whenever I slept in this room is
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  Speaker 2: when you turn off all the electronics and you're just
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  Speaker 2: laying in bed in this house, in particular this.
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  Speaker 1: Room, it is pitch black. There's no windows.
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  Speaker 2: You're in the segment of the house that's in the mountain.
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  Speaker 2: It is truly pitch black. Not to mention the house itself,
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  Speaker 2: there weren't really any neighbors nearby because this house, Nick's
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  Speaker 2: family had purchased it a while ago when this used
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  Speaker 2: to be an active ski resort, the mountain itself that
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  Speaker 2: it was on.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And most people that were living there had left and
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  Speaker 2: sold their property. But a few people had decided to stay.
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  Speaker 2: And so Nick's family was one of them. They had
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  Speaker 2: this cabin on an abandoned ski resort. There was virtually
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  Speaker 2: no streetlights. There's virtually no neighbors. And so at night,
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  Speaker 2: when you're laying in this room, like I was this night,
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  Speaker 2: you're really struck by just how dark and quiet it is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, basically no white noise. I mean, silence and pitchfork.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm laying there. And one other detail that
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  Speaker 2: needs to be brought up before we get into what
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  Speaker 2: actually happens. So Nick had two much older brothers.
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  Speaker 1: They were in their 30s, and we're 16 years old.
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  Speaker 2: And we were expecting one of them, we didn't know which,
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  Speaker 2: to swing by the house at some point over the
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  Speaker 2: next few days.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Nick's mom had said. Nick had kind of
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  Speaker 1: reiterated it.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that Wolf and I understood that now
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  Speaker 2: that Nick's father was gone, that they were just kind
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  Speaker 2: of trying to find a way to fill the void
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  Speaker 2: that was left from the father passing. And so we
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  Speaker 2: were expecting over the course of that weekend for someone,
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  Speaker 2: one of the two brothers, to come to this house
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  Speaker 2: and stay with us for a.
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  Speaker 1: Night or whatever it was.
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  Speaker 2: I had never met either of these two brothers. I
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  Speaker 2: knew they existed, but I had never met them before.
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  Speaker 2: But somewhere in the back of my mind, I know
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  Speaker 2: that probably one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Is going to show up at some point, maybe tonight,
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  Speaker 1: maybe tomorrow, whenever it is. Man, it's giving me goosebumps
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  Speaker 1: just thinking about this. So that night as I'm laying
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  Speaker 1: in bed, I'm thinking about how dark and quiet it is.
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  Speaker 2: I remember the only light in the room was the
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  Speaker 2: digital clock, the little red digital clock. And it was
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  Speaker 2: like a beacon in the light. And that doesn't emit
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  Speaker 2: much light. But when it's pure darkness, it does. And
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  Speaker 2: I just could not fall asleep. I remember I got
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  Speaker 2: to a place where I started counting how many hours
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  Speaker 2: of sleep I might get if I fell asleep right
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  Speaker 2: then and there, which is never a good sign. That
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  Speaker 2: means you're not close to sleeping. If you're like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: if I fell asleep now, I'll get three hours and
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  Speaker 2: 22 minutes of sleep, right? Like that's where I was
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  Speaker 2: at mentally. At some point, I think it was around
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  Speaker 2: three in the morning, I remember looking at the clock
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  Speaker 2: and thinking, wow, it's gotten so late and I'm still awake.
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  Speaker 1: I hear footsteps on the wraparound porch.
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  Speaker 2: In a situation where, as I'm telling it, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to think, how did you not.
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  Speaker 1: Raise a red flag immediately?
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  Speaker 2: In real time, in real life, your brain goes to
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  Speaker 2: great measures to convince you that everything is okay.
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  Speaker 1: It really takes an enormous.
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  Speaker 2: Amount of anomalies to stack up for your brain to
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  Speaker 2: say something's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's what happened in this first night.
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  Speaker 2: I hear footsteps on the wraparound porch and I immediately assume,
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  Speaker 2: even though we're talking, it's like three in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: I just assume that it's got to be one of
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  Speaker 2: Nick's brothers arriving to be a part of this, this
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  Speaker 2: weekend getaway. So I really actually didn't think anything of it.
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  Speaker 2: I actually just thought, well, you know, when he comes
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  Speaker 2: in the house, if he happens to come in here
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  Speaker 2: to check on us, I'll just pretend to be asleep
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  Speaker 2: in case, you know, he were to see.
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  Speaker 1: That I was awake.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to have a conversation with him. Number one,
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  Speaker 2: it's three in the morning. Number two, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: the guy. I'm, you know, I'm just going to pretend
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  Speaker 2: to be asleep. So that's all I'm thinking about. Not worried,
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  Speaker 2: not scared, not anything. Footsteps on the wraparound porch and
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  Speaker 2: then the door opens and I can hear the sleigh
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  Speaker 2: bells that are on the door itself.
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  Speaker 1: I can hear those chimes. as the door opens. Again,
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  Speaker 1: no part of me is concerned about this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking it's a little bit weird that they're arriving
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  Speaker 2: at three in the morning, but we knew that his
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  Speaker 2: brothers had these weird work schedules where they might show
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  Speaker 2: up in the middle of the night, so it was
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  Speaker 2: whatever it was. Sleigh bells ring, and then I hear
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  Speaker 2: a but sounds like a pot, like a kitchen pot,
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  Speaker 2: fall and hit the.
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  Speaker 1: Linoleum floor in the kitchen. And I remember just the
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  Speaker 1: sounds stood out to me.
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  Speaker 2: It just seemed like this person's kind of making a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Of a commotion in the middle of the night here.
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  Speaker 1: And the door didn't shut. And I noticed that. I
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  Speaker 1: figured they were maybe bringing their stuff in, right? They're
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  Speaker 1: offloading some stuff. They're leaving the door open. Oh, this is.
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  Speaker 2: Just thinking about this, it's really making me feel uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 2: So I hear the footsteps on the wraparound porch.
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  Speaker 1: The door opens. I can hear the sleigh bells. A
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  Speaker 1: pot falls and it hits the little belandolium floor.
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  Speaker 2: The footsteps that I could hear on the wraparound porch,
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  Speaker 2: because it's on stilts, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like the porch is hovering over the ground. You can
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  Speaker 1: hear those footsteps.
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  Speaker 2: Well, when these footsteps continued into the house where you're
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  Speaker 2: on a concrete slab, and there should be no sound,
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  Speaker 2: like I shouldn't hear echoing footsteps, it sounded like it
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  Speaker 2: was on the wraparound porch still, but the noise was
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  Speaker 2: getting closer to me. So it was like the footsteps
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  Speaker 2: sounded totally natural.
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  Speaker 1: Out on the wraparound porch, but once they were in
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  Speaker 1: the house, it.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't really make any sense that I could hear them
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  Speaker 2: as if the footsteps were standing on something that was
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  Speaker 2: suspended off the ground.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't. You're in the house on a concrete slab.
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  Speaker 2: And so I hear these footsteps. The door hasn't shut.
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  Speaker 2: The front door is wide open. We're in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of winter here. We're in the middle of nowhere too.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm thinking about that, but I'm still thinking it's
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  Speaker 2: got to be Nick's brother, one of Nick's brothers. The
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  Speaker 2: footsteps continue through the house and they stop about halfway
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  Speaker 2: through the house.
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  Speaker 1: If you open that door and walk halfway through the house.
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  Speaker 1: And then the.
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  Speaker 2: Footsteps began to walk down the hallway towards our room.
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  Speaker 1: Come down the hall and they get right outside the door,
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  Speaker 1: which is shut. The door to our room is shut.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sitting there again, my feet are closest to
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  Speaker 2: the door. It's pitch black.
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  Speaker 1: In the room minus the, you know, digital clock.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm thinking, why didn't they shut the front door
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  Speaker 2: of all the weird things that have happened? The fact
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  Speaker 2: that I'm hearing footsteps as if they're on the wraparound porch,
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  Speaker 2: but they're getting louder and moving through the house. The
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  Speaker 2: thing that really just made the hair on the back
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  Speaker 2: of my neck stand up was why didn't they shut
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  Speaker 2: the front door? That just seems like such a bad idea.
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  Speaker 2: There's animals out there. There's a host of things out there. Like,
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  Speaker 2: why aren't you shutting? And not to mention, it's freezing outside.
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  Speaker 2: There's a space between the bunk bed, the bottom bunk
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  Speaker 2: that I'm on, and the top bunk. There's a space
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  Speaker 2: that I can see clear as day. Whoever walks in
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  Speaker 2: the room, I'm going to see them when they walk
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  Speaker 2: past the foot of the bed. But because of the
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  Speaker 2: top bunk, my view is actually obscured and I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: Be able to make out someone's face. For example, I
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  Speaker 1: could really only see their like middle section.
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  Speaker 2: And so when the door opens and this shadow figure
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  Speaker 2: walks into the room, which by the way, you're, I'm
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  Speaker 2: in a pitch black room and I clearly make out
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  Speaker 2: a black silhouette. This thing walks into the room and it's,
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  Speaker 2: it's obscured. So I wouldn't have been able to see
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  Speaker 2: its head or upper body anyways, but it's hips are
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  Speaker 2: are so high that I can't even really see those.
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  Speaker 1: Those are at the level that I would expect someone's.
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  Speaker 2: Upper body or head to be at, meaning this figure
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  Speaker 2: that's walked in, its legs are extremely long. And so
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  Speaker 2: if it was proportionally the size of a human, you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about maybe a 10-foot tall person, but we're in
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  Speaker 2: a space that is not a 10-foot high ceiling.
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  Speaker 1: And so this thing walks in, and.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as I see it, and I make out
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  Speaker 2: that black silhouette, even though it's pitch black in the room,
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  Speaker 2: I clearly see the silhouette that is unnaturally tall, combined
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  Speaker 2: with all the things that I've just thought about, mainly
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  Speaker 2: the door's still open, that made kind of a commotion.
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  Speaker 1: I can hear these weird footsteps.
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  Speaker 2: I instantly was frozen with terror, frozen, petrified. I, well, one,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, it's not Nick's brother. And even if we're
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  Speaker 2: not talking about paranormal here, This is such a bad situation.
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  Speaker 2: Even if that's just some dude who's coming to the house,
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  Speaker 2: that's a really bad situation.
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  Speaker 1: So no matter what, this is a really bad situation.
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  Speaker 2: But what I'm looking at doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 1: It's an unnaturally tall person. They've left the door open.
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  Speaker 2: And I hear their footsteps all over the house and
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  Speaker 2: it walks in past the foot of the bed. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm laying there and I can't see higher than its
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  Speaker 2: waist because it's obscured by the top bunk. And this
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  Speaker 2: thing makes this like facing movement, like a military facing
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  Speaker 2: movement and begins to walk down the aisle between the
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  Speaker 2: queen size bed in the middle of the room and
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  Speaker 2: the bunk bed where I am. And it's walking down
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  Speaker 2: right next to me. And I'm, I'm literally sitting there
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  Speaker 2: unable to move. And I remember thinking, I can't do anything.
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  Speaker 2: I'm truly frozen with terror. And all I remember thinking is,
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  Speaker 2: Whatever happens, just don't bend down and look at me.
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  Speaker 1: That will ruin my life. If this thing so much
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  Speaker 1: as looks at me, that's it. I'm done.
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  Speaker 2: So it walks down the aisle. It's right next to me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm literally frozen. And it does another quick movement, but
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  Speaker 2: it's facing away from me now. Facing towards Nick in
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  Speaker 2: the center of the room. And it bows onto and
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  Speaker 2: then down through Nick's bed.
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  Speaker 1: And disappears.
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  Speaker 2: In the movies, in a movie, as soon as the
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  Speaker 2: ghost disappears into the floor, whoever's hiding would make a
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: run for it. In real life, there's no such thing
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: as ghosts. There's no such thing as people disappearing into
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: the ground. So I'm expecting this thing to just get
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: back up again. I couldn't understand that it was... disappear
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: into the bed. That's not possible.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Where is it? I clearly, I heard the door open.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: I heard the bells. I heard the pot.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: I heard the footsteps. I saw the door open. I
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: see the thing walk in. I watched it walk down
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: the aisle. I watched it bend over.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: It's in the room. Where is it?
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: And for hours, I mean all night, I laid there
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: absolutely petrified, expecting this thing to come back up and
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: just look at me. That was like my biggest fear
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: is whatever this thing was, I did not want it
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: to look at me. So that was the worst. I'm
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: laying there frozen. I can only move my eyes all night. Finally,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: I hear Nick's mom out in the living room making coffee.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, this was probably like five, six in the morning.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: And it was like the first time that I'm like, okay,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: I'm safe now. Even if it's in the room, I'm
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: safe to just go because I can hear someone out there.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: And I could hear her speaking. I knew it was her.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: And so I go right out there.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: And now you've got to understand that even though this
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: was a horrible situation that I still can't really explain,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: I know that she has just lost her husband. And
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: so the idea of approaching the subject, which effectively is
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: going to turn into ghosts, right? I've never had a
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: paranormal experience before this. I've never had a paranormal experience
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: since this.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Like I'm more or less a skeptic and I'm going
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: to go out.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: There and I'm going to start talking about ghosts to
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: the woman who's recently bereaved. It just felt really inappropriate.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: And so I was really struggling with how I wanted
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: to communicate what happened.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: And so I went to the table. She got me
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: a cup of coffee and we know each other well.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: She knows me well.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: And she definitely picked up that something was wrong but
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: didn't really ask anything yet. She was just kind of puzzling,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: like kind of sizing me up a little bit. And
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: the only thing I could think to do was to
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: just ask, you know, hey, did either of your two sons,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Nick's older two brothers, did they stop.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: By at any point last night? Did they stop by?
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: And she's like, no. And I'm sitting there like, okay.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: And I'm just like, I must have had a reaction
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: that was obvious to her.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: And she just goes....
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I heard my husband here last night too. And you know,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: that made it a lot worse. Because on the one hand,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: you have a situation where she is confirming something that
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: part of me.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Hopes is a bad dream. Number two, she's now saying
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: it's her husband.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: And so I intuitively assumed that she has somehow figured
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: out what I'm stressed about that probably isn't real, and
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: because she's grieving, she's created a story where her husband
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: is now in the house, you know, looking over us.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: I really believed that she didn't hear anything, that she
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: just somehow understood that I had had this weird feeling
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: and she'd turned it into a, oh, my husband's in
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: the house. And I just couldn't ask any more questions
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: at that point. I felt like I had set her
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: up for this awkward exchange. I felt really bad that
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: like that was the discussion we were having. I also
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: thought like, if that's true, I don't want to have
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: this conversation. Like I really was just dumbfounded on what
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: to do in this situation.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: And this is night one. There's two more nights of
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: this and it gets worse.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: So Nick and Wolf eventually come out of the bedroom
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: and they come to the dining room. And the same
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: way I felt reserved talking to Nick's mom about what happened,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: I had the same feelings about Nick because it was
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: his father.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: And I also just felt like that would be inappropriate.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: But Wolf, he's not a family member and he's my buddy.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: And I kind of pulled him aside and I kind
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: of told him what was going on as best as
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: I could. But I kept it like kind of generic.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I was like, you know, I could have sworn I
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: heard someone in the house last night.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Like I could have sworn. And he's like, yeah, you know,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: you're probably dreaming.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: You know, like that's what this is. And I was like, no,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: like I wasn't, but I can't make sense of it.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: And I was like, can you just do me a favor?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: And at this point, Nick actually overheard the conversation. And
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I kind of, I very much kind of cut ties
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: with what I was talking about. I was like, yeah,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: I just thought I heard something last night.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: It's just me freaking myself out.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: And I was like, can you guys tonight, when we
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: get back from snowboarding, Can I fall asleep ahead of you?
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: That way I'm asleep, you guys can just fall asleep
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: after I do, and then I'll sleep through the.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Night, no big deal.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: And they're like, all right, yeah, weirdo, whatever. So I'm like,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: all right, my big plan is I'm just going to
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: go to bed.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Really, really early.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Because I didn't sleep the night before, so I'm thinking
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: I'll fall asleep right away.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: So we go out, we snowboard for the day, my
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: mind is off of what happened.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: And frankly, I'm starting to convince myself that that had
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: to have been sleep paralysis, Even though I'd never had
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: that before. I was Googling some stuff. Maybe it was
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: sleep paralysis. Maybe it was just like a really intense dream.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: You know, I would just look at it. There has
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: to be something. Like this is too weird. It has
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: to be something explainable.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Turns out it wasn't.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: We get back from snowboarding and I am immediately going
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: to bed.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Pretty much immediately. It was like maybe six o'clock. I
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: was like, I'm going to bed.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: And I get in bed, and all I'm thinking about
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: is what happened the night before, and I can't fall asleep.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Eventually, Nick and Wolf, they come in the room, and
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: they're trying.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Their best to stay awake so that I can fall asleep.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: But it's getting later and later, and I can't fall asleep.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: And now I'm back to that, like, okay, if I
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: fall asleep now, I get six hours of sleep. And
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: they finally just said, hey, man, I'm tired.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I'm going to bed.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: So they both fall asleep, and I'm awake. And I
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: was so upset with myself. Like, you screwed yourself. Why
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: didn't you just fall asleep, you dummy? And I remember
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: the only thing that I did that really made this real,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: looking back at it, is I put a knife.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Like a kitchen knife or something, in the springs above me.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: So I'm in the bottom bunk, like basically right under
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: the top bunk, I put a knife in there. And
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I'm laying in bed and I'm constantly looking over at
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: the digital clock. And it was probably around 3 a.m.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: It was late enough that it was like, okay, this
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: is about the time that happened last night.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: And my heart just sunk.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: When I heard those footsteps on the wraparound porch again.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: They sounded the same as they did the night before.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I was like, that has to be one of Nick's brother's.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: the door opens. I hear the sleigh bells. I hear
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: the fricking pot fall on the ground. It was like
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: deja vu. The exact same thing is happening. And these
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: footsteps start walking through the house. And again, referencing how
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: movies would portray this, you know, the, the person who's,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: who's me in the movie is like, okay, I'm going
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: to get this knife and I'm going to position myself
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: over here because I know what's going to happen. I'm
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: going to protect myself in real life. I'm like, This
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: thing's going to be in my room, potentially. It happened
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: last night. It's apparently happening again. Please, for the love
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: of God, don't bow into.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Me the way it bowed into the floor the night before.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Don't look at me.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: It will ruin my life if some entity just engages
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: with me, just looks at me. That will ruin my life.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: This thing walks down the hall. And I hear those
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: footsteps coming.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Down the hall.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: And just pretend for a second, forget the paranormal aspect.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Pretend it's the middle of the night in the middle
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: of nowhere. And a stranger is walking around your house.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: That alone is horrifying. The footsteps come right outside the door.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: And I'm looking at the knife that's right underneath the bed.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: And I'm petrified. I cannot move. I'm drenched in sweat.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Just from the few seconds that it's taken this thing
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: to go from the door to the front of my bedroom.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Because I know what's happening. Again, it's happening again. I'm
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: not crazy. It's just happening again. What the F is this?
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: And I'm petrified. I can't reach.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I'm so worried about making any noise that would alert
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: this thing that I'm here.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: That I can only move my eyes.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: And I remember even thinking that I shouldn't move my
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: eyes too quickly because it might hear that.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Like this is a primal level of fear.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: The door opens. It walks into the room. Goes right
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: past the foot of my bed. And I'm, again, petrified.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: And it walks down. After making its facing movement, it
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: walks down the aisle between me and Nick.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: And I remember what happened the night before where it
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: folded into Nick and disappeared. And I'm just thinking to myself,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: please don't turn and fall.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Bowing to me please whatever happens just don't do that
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: so it turns away from me and does the same
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: thing it did the night before folds onto Nick.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: And disappears into the ground.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: But again even though in the movies this would be
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: the same thing happening you know night two it's the
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: same routine it'd be like oh the ghost is in
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: the floor now I can I can go alert the
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: authorities because now it's safe in real.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Life I'm like where did it go I know this
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: happened last night, but it still doesn't make any sense.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: It's in the room. It has to be. This is
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: a real thing. It came in the room. It's somewhere.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Is it under my bed? Where is it? All night.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: All night, I lay there.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: This is the second night that I've not slept. When
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I heard Nick's mom out in the other room, it
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: was like such a relief.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Because.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I didn't give a crap at this point about being polite.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: I wasn't going to like try to, you know, distance
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: myself from the conversation around ghosts.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: I was going to go out there and be like,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: what's wrong with this house?
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: And so I hear her and I go right out
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: to the living room and I tell her everything in
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: as acute detail as I possibly can.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: And as I'm telling her this, her reaction didn't line up.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Her reaction was not surprise, terror, confusion. It was empathy.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: She felt bad for me. It was sympathy. You don't understand.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: I'm listening, but you just don't understand what's happening. And
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: I'm telling her every detail I can possibly muster. And
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: at the end of it, or towards the end, she
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: just kind of stops me. She's like, John, I told
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: you yesterday that And again, I heard it last night.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: That's just my husband. I heard him last night too.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: He's got nothing to worry about. And I was like, no. No.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: That cannot be.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: That cannot be what it is. And she was like,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I heard him open the door. I heard the pot fall.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: I heard him walk through the house. I'm assuming he
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: went into Nick's room again with you guys.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, what is happening?
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: So totally now just beside myself. I remember I was
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: crying actually, like during this conversation, I'm just crying. Not
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: even like tears of sadness as much as just like
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: what's happening.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Like I needed my mom. Like I'm, I felt so
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: helpless and no offense.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: To next mom, but I just felt like I was
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: with a lunatic how but like at the same time
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: she's recalling the exact same things as me how do
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: i put that together i.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Remember thinking i need to leave i need to get
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: out of here i can't be here anymore.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: But then i thought about like how am i going
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: to make this happen nick's mom and wolf and nick
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: they aren't leaving today And it was pretty clear that
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Nick's mom liked the fact that she, you know, heard
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: her husband walking around the cabin. She's not trying to leave.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: There's one more night that we're here. And I would
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: have to tell my parents to drive, my mom or
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: my dad, to drive to New Hampshire and come get me.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Because I'm seeing ghosts. Like this is a trip that
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: I loved. I looked forward to this trip.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Every year. It wouldn't have made any sense.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: And they would have been like, what's wrong with you?
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: And I honestly was not prepared to have it. conversations
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: with my mom and dad.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I was not.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Prepared to be like, let me tell you about the
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: ghost I saw over the past two days. And so
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: I was just trying to have resigned and decided to
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: stay in retrospect. Um, I think I should have called
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: my parents. And been like, that's what parents are for. Like,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: get the hell up here. It doesn't matter why.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Come get me.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: But it was such a confusing moment that I had
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: no blueprint for how to handle.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: So I just stayed. Nick and Wolf finally get up.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: And I remember I made the decision as I'm sitting
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: there thinking about what's happening is Nick's.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Mom is reassuring me, you know, about her husband being
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: in the house. And I make the decision that I'm
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: going to stay. Okay.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Nick and Wolf come out of the room and they
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: come over and Wolf pretty much immediately looks at me
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: to get a gauge on what happened.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: And you can see it all over my face. I've
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: been crying. And I told them what happened.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: And, you know, Nick, Nick was always kind of a
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: stoic and he was just unaffected.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: You know, Wolf, on the other hand, was more.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Inclined to at a minimum believe something was happening. He
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: didn't know if it was a ghost or not, but
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: he certainly understood that something's going on. And the fact
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: that Nick's mom, as I'm explaining to Nick and Wolf
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: what's going on, she was, she was like reinforcing my argument.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard him too. I heard the door open. Yeah,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I was upstairs.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: I heard him walk through the house and Wolf's like,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: what's going on? And Nick is like, he didn't want
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: to hear it.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Kind of.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: It probably was uncomfortable. It's about his father or ultimately
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: talking about his father. Before we went out snowboarding for
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: the day, because Nick's mom would drive us and drop
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: us off, she brought us to a local store and
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: we bought a coffee table. Because they've been looking to
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: replace the one that was in their house. Basically, when
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: you walk into the house, instead of turning down.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: The hallway towards our room, if you just keep walking
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: into the lofted area.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: At the foot of the stairs was a coffee table
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: where they kept a landline phone because you're in the
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: middle of nowhere and you've got to have some way
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: to call. And they put it right at the foot
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: of the stairs in this little coffee table. But it
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: had broken or it was old or whatever. I know
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: they wanted a new one for a long time. We
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: went out and got it.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Me, Nick, and Wolf, we go. We snowboard. We come back.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: We help offload the coffee table into the house. We
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: put it at the foot of the stairs. And that
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: night we go to bed. I was ruthless in trying
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: to keep Wolf and Nick awake. I mean, I wasn't
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: even trying to make jokes out of it.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: I was like straight up kicking the bunk, like kicking
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Wolf's bunk, like literally shaking Nick.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I was doing everything in my power to keep them
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: awake because I couldn't sleep. I'm terrified. I'm terrified. It
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: was like the.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Opposite of how excited you get before Christmas and you
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: can't sleep. It was like the opposite of those feelings,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: but you still can't sleep. It was like this is
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: the worst night of my life. And also, the nail
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: in the coffin, if you will, is during the day
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: that day, we found out that neither of Nick's two
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: brothers were going to be making the trip.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: They weren't going to make it. So no one's going
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: to be at the house. No one should be at
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the house except for us.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: And so that night, I'm laying there. And after all
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: my attempts to keep Nick and Wolf awake, they fall asleep.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Everyone's asleep. The house is pitch black.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: It's silent. And around... Two, three in the morning, I'm
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: getting goosebumps just thinking about it. I hear those footsteps
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: on the wraparound porch. The door opens and I hear
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: the sleigh bells ringing on the door. A pot falls
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: on the ground and the footsteps walk into the house.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the third time that this has happened.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: So in a way, this was the first time that
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: I was expecting something to happen. for it to walk
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: down the hall, to come in the room, to come
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: next to me, fold into Nick, and then that's it.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: This was the first time I had a little bit of,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: call it security, that something was going to happen.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: And I understood what was going to happen. I didn't
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: understand it, but I expected something to happen.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: But this was not the case this night.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: It walked into the house. Everything was the same.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: It walked into the house, but instead of going down
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: the hallway towards our room, it kept walking into the
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: lofted area.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: And the lofted area from where.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: I was laying, my foot's at the door, my head's
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: back here, the wall straight, if I like sat up
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: in bed and looked straight, the wall right there led
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: into the area where this thing was. So I'm talking,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: I'm basically, if there wasn't a wall, I'd be looking
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: dead at this thing.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: And I'm waiting for it to walk through the wall.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: As crazy as that sounds, I'm just anticipating something coming
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: through the wall After a long pause of it being
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: in that lofted area, I hear it go up the steps.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Listening to the creak of the steps as it goes
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: up the steps.
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  Speaker 1: It makes my skin crawl.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: It's making me emotional thinking about how terrifying that was.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: It walks up the stairs and now It's above me.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: And if the past two nights or any example, this
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: thing has sunk into the ground two nights in a
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: row and disappeared.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: And so now my fear.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Is it's going to literally come through the ceiling, through
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: the bunk onto me.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: The sound stopped when it was upstairs, got upstairs. And
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: that's where Nick's mom slept. She was upstairs.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: So I laid in bed, petrified once again. I got
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: my stupid night sitting in the underside of the bed above.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Me and.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Hours and hours of waiting for my literal worst nightmare
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: to come true as some entity comes through the ceiling
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: and goes into me. Or even just if it was
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: like onto Nick, if it came through the ceiling and
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: out of my peripheries, I'm watching like this beast come
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: through the ceiling and float down and into Nick. It's just,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: These thoughts in my head, they didn't make any sense.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: They were terrifying, but they were happening. I laid in
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: bed and I couldn't fall asleep. I was now coming
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: up on three days without sleep. So at some point
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: that night, I did fall asleep, probably just out of
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: sheer exhaustion. At some point in the morning, early morning,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: now probably like five in the morning, I wake up
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: again and I can hear Nick's mom. It didn't sound
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: like she was making coffee. It sounded like something was wrong.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: I couldn't place it, but it just sounded like she
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: was acting emotional somehow. I couldn't tell if she was
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: crying or not. But now it's like it's the morning.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: It's my last day.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: I'm leaving today. I'm up.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: I'm out. And as soon as I walk out, I
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: walk out of the hallway and I look to the
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: left into the dining room where I expect to.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: See Nick's mom and she's not there.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: And she's actually over at the foot of the stairs
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: in the lofted kind of living room area next to
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: this new coffee table we had just put in. And
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: she's standing over this coffee table at the foot of
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: the stairs where the The entity had been the night before,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: the one deviation from the other two nights.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: And she's crying. Come here.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: She points to the coffee table. And she's down on
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: her knees looking at the table. And now I can
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: tell she's probably crying tears of joy. Because scratched into
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: the coffee table were the words, I love you.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: I was like, I'm done.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: That ended my friendships with certainly Nick. Uh, Wolf to
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: a lesser degree, but I never, I stopped snowboarding. I
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: didn't go back to that cabin, even though I know
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Wolf did the next year. The theories about what happened,
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: you know, Nick's mom, it's possible she could have created
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: a narrative, made it about her husband, and then she
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: could have just as easily scratched that into the table.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: The, I love you. That could have been her.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Um, I mean, it's also possible that she had sleep
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: paralysis and I had sleep paralysis and somehow we synchronized
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: and had the same vision, and she scratched at the table. Or,
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: to be honest, what I believe, that that was a ghost,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: and that it interacted with the physical.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: World, and it did walk around the house. It did
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: carve I love you into that table.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: And, you know, it's the only time in my entire
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: life that I've had anything happen like that.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: I don't have any other paranormal stories before or after.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: That's it. I hope you enjoyed that.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: I'm going to continue to do long versions of my
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: ghost stories and scary stories that I find that I
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: usually that I've been posting on TikTok. I'm going to
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: do long versions of those on this YouTube channel. That's
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: going to be the new direction for this channel. If
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: you have a great ghost story, please DM me on Instagram.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: My handle is JohnBAllen416. J-O-H-N-B-A-L-L-E-N-416. Send me your story on Instagram.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: You can also hit me up on TikTok. That's MrBallen416.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: And that's going to do it, guys. I hope you enjoyed.