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Top 3 SCARIEST true stories Spooky Stories Part 1 · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: In twenty ten, an avid cavebird named Jeff decided to
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Speaker 1: go to Madagascar to explore a natural cave shaft he
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Speaker 1: had discovered years earlier. He arrived in country, he got
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Speaker 1: a rental car and he hired a guide to take
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Speaker 1: him out to the area where he knew this cave
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Speaker 1: was going to be. When he got out to that area,
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Speaker 1: he used his notebook where he'd taken notes the last
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Speaker 1: time he was here, and he used that to find
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Speaker 1: the opening to the cave. He paid the guide to
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Speaker 1: stick around at the car while he went down and
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Speaker 1: explored this cave, he ensured him it was not going
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Speaker 1: to be for a very long time. The shaft was
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Speaker 1: approximately fifty meters deep end one meter across, so it's
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Speaker 1: pretty narrow, and the first twenty meters of the descent
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Speaker 1: are on a bit of an angle, and then the
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Speaker 1: final thirty meters are down at a straight vertical drop.
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Speaker 1: At the bottom of this cave was this opening where
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Speaker 1: you could actually stand up and walk around, but there
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Speaker 1: were no other tunnels to explore at the bottom, so
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Speaker 1: you would just go down, touch the bottom, and go
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Speaker 1: back up. The visibility inside of the shaft was limited
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Speaker 1: because all you had was the light that was coming in,
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Speaker 1: and because of how narrow the opening was, Jeff's body
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Speaker 1: would obscure a lot of the sunlight coming in, so
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Speaker 1: once Jeff got a few meters down into the tunnel,
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Speaker 1: he would rely on his headlamp. So Jeff enters the
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Speaker 1: cave and he makes his way down to the twenty
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Speaker 1: meter mark, so that's where the tunnel goes from being
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Speaker 1: on an angle to being straight, and he's about to
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Speaker 1: make that final descent down that final thirty meters when
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Speaker 1: he notices something out of the corner of his eye,
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Speaker 1: and he focuses his light on the side of the shaft,
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Speaker 1: and he sees thousands of black widow spiders trying to
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Speaker 1: escape the light or scattering.
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Speaker 2: All over the walls.
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Speaker 1: And he looks around him and he realizes, from his
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Speaker 1: position down on the vertical section of the shaft is
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Speaker 1: covered in black widow spiders. As much as Jeff wanted
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Speaker 1: to stop right there and go right back up to
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Speaker 1: the surface, he couldn't. In order to go back up
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Speaker 1: this line that he was repelling down on, he needed
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Speaker 1: technical gear, and his technical gear was packed in his backpack,
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Speaker 1: and it would just be totally unsafe trying to fish
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Speaker 1: it out of his bag, and so.
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Speaker 2: He would have to descend the final thirty meters to
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Speaker 2: the bottom, then take his pack off, get the gear out,
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Speaker 2: and go back up. So Jeff took a deep breath
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Speaker 2: and he began his slow, awful.
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Speaker 1: Descent into this cave filled with spiders, and periodically, as
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Speaker 1: he would bump into the wall, he'd hear them scatter
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Speaker 1: all over the walls, and then he saw them climbing
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Speaker 1: on his sleeves and he'd have to brush them off
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Speaker 1: his sleeves. He saw them on the rope he's trying
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Speaker 1: to brush them off. He finally gets to the bottom
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Speaker 1: and he can hear the spiders on the wall just
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Speaker 1: crawling all over the place. He takes his bag off
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Speaker 1: and it's covered in spiders. He opens it up. Spiders
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Speaker 1: crawled out of his bag. He carefully reaches in and
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Speaker 1: pulls out his technical gear. He throws it up and
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Speaker 1: he begins making his way back up, and the whole
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Speaker 1: time he just brushes spiders off of him. Once he
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Speaker 1: gets to the surface, the first thing he does is
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Speaker 1: he strips all of his clothing off to get all
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Speaker 1: the spiders off of his clothing. He takes his bag
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Speaker 1: dumps it out. More spiders are in there. After he
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Speaker 1: finally brushes all the spiders off, He redresses and gets
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Speaker 1: in the car, and you can only imagine what the
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Speaker 1: guide was thinking as he's watching this guy, this foreigner,
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Speaker 1: taking his clothes off after being in this cave. But
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Speaker 1: luckily he doesn't get bit. He gets in the car
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Speaker 1: with the guide and they start heading back towards the city.
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Speaker 1: As they're driving, he takes his notebook out and he
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Speaker 1: scratches off the title he had given this cave from
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Speaker 1: the last time he was here.
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Speaker 2: Which was the crooked tube.
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Speaker 1: He scratches that out and on top of it he
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Speaker 1: writes The Entrance to Hell. In two thousand and six,
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Speaker 1: a fourteen year old boy named Evan lived on a
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Speaker 1: farm in North Carolina. This was not a typical farm
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Speaker 1: with animals and crops. It was a pine tree harvestry.
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Speaker 1: Pine needles are a big landscaping commodity, and Evan and
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Speaker 1: his family made their living bailing pine.
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Speaker 2: Straw every year.
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Speaker 1: As such, their main living house on the farm was
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Speaker 1: situated right in the middle of five hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: acres of perfectly lined up pine trees.
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Speaker 2: They did not have any neighbors nearby, and there.
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Speaker 1: Was only one road that led into the property, which
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Speaker 1: from the main house they could look out and basically
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Speaker 1: see through the rows of trees all the way to
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Speaker 1: the beginning of this road, which meant any visitors were
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Speaker 1: really easy to spot. The main house was built on
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Speaker 1: a very slight hill, which meant one side of the
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Speaker 1: house was effectively built on stilts to compensate for the angle,
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Speaker 1: and on that side of the house, on the first floor,
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Speaker 1: was the living room, so anyone who was in the
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Speaker 1: living room looking out the window, they'd basically need to
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Speaker 1: look at a downward angle to see the ground.
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Speaker 2: It would actually seem.
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Speaker 1: Like you were on the second floor, but really you're
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Speaker 1: on the first floor.
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Speaker 2: The window in the living room was very unique.
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Speaker 1: It stretched almost the entire length of the room, so
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Speaker 1: almost fifty feet across, and at night, you could see
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Speaker 1: animals darting between the different trees because you could see
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Speaker 1: down the rows.
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Speaker 2: And so that was pretty creepy.
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Speaker 1: And then just the fact that this window is so big,
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Speaker 1: if you're in the living room at night, you just
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Speaker 1: felt really exposed. So between the creepy animals running around
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Speaker 1: and the level of exposure and vulnerability, people basically avoided
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Speaker 1: the living room anytime they were in the house at night.
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Speaker 1: That winter, Evans's cousin came to stay with him on
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Speaker 1: his farm, and because the main house did not have
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Speaker 1: any extra bedrooms, Evan and his cousin would have to
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Speaker 1: sleep in the living room.
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Speaker 2: There were two couches inside.
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Speaker 1: Of the living room, one that was right underneath the
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Speaker 1: fifty foot long window, and then another which was on
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Speaker 1: the other side of the room against a wall that
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Speaker 1: did not have a window, and so Evan would be
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Speaker 1: sleeping on the couch right under the window and his
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Speaker 1: cousin would be sleeping on the other couch. The first
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Speaker 1: night Evan's cousin was there, they put this big sheet
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Speaker 1: up over the window, but it only blocked like seventy
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Speaker 1: five percent of the window. The two flanks of the
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Speaker 1: window were still exposed, but where the couches were lined up,
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Speaker 1: they were kind of blocked by this sheet, so it
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Speaker 1: gave them a little bit of privacy. After goofing around
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Speaker 1: for a while, the boys finally fell asleep around midnight,
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Speaker 1: and then they woke up a couple hours later because
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Speaker 1: they heard evans dogs barking way off in the pine trees. Now,
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Speaker 1: Evan was used to his dogs running around the property
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Speaker 1: and barking at other smaller animals, and so just them
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Speaker 1: barking was not necessarily a red flag. But the barking
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Speaker 1: persisted to the point where Evan's cousin got up off
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Speaker 1: the couch moved across the room to the opening of
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Speaker 1: the window that was not covered by the sheet at
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Speaker 1: the foot of where Evan was sleeping. Now, Evan was
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Speaker 1: still laying on the couch. He was not going to
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Speaker 1: get up and look out the window, so he's looking
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Speaker 1: down at his cousin kind of looking at his face
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Speaker 1: to get some sort of a read on what he's seeing,
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Speaker 1: and he notices his cousin has this really perplexed look
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Speaker 1: on his face, like he's squinting his eyes and trying
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Speaker 1: to make sense of what he's looking at. And so
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Speaker 1: Evan looks at him and says, Hey, what's going on?
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Speaker 2: What do you see?
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Speaker 1: And his cousin's like, I don't know if my mind's
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Speaker 1: playing tricks on me or not, but I'm pretty sure
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Speaker 1: I see people out there. At this Evan jumps off
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Speaker 1: the couch and runs over and butts up right next
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Speaker 1: to his cousin so he can look out the window too,
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Speaker 1: and he's scanning out amongst the rows of trees, because
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Speaker 1: there's just a mile of pine trees. And the first
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Speaker 1: thing he notices is the moon is very bright that night,
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Speaker 1: so there's good illumination, and there was a light snow
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Speaker 1: covering on the ground, which really added.
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Speaker 2: To the illumination.
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Speaker 1: He's looking out maybe one hundred meters when he sees
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Speaker 1: someone's leg extend from behind one of the pine trees,
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Speaker 1: as if they're stepping into the space between a pine
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Speaker 1: tree column, and he's staring at it, and he can't
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Speaker 1: believe he's even seeing anyone walking around this area because
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Speaker 1: he didn't see anybody come in on the road and
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Speaker 1: they have no neighbors, and so he's looking and then
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Speaker 1: a body follows the leg.
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Speaker 2: A person walks from one road to the next. This tall, dark.
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Speaker 1: Figure just walks calm as can be between the two
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Speaker 1: pine trees, and Evan just grabs his cousin and he's like,
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Speaker 1: did you just see that? And his cousin's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I saw that. And so they continue to look in
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Speaker 1: the direction of where this person crossed the path, and
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Speaker 1: after a couple of minutes, they see another leg now emerging,
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Speaker 1: going the other way, back towards where that first person
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Speaker 1: had come from. The leg kind of extends into this gap,
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Speaker 1: and this tall figure walks across into the next row,
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Speaker 1: except now instead of going just directly across, it looks
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Speaker 1: like they're moving at an angle closer to the main
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Speaker 1: house property. The boys look at each other and they
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Speaker 1: don't know what to do, so they just keep looking
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Speaker 1: out the window in stunned silence, and as they're looking,
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Speaker 1: they see this person emerge again, except now they're not
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Speaker 1: one hundred meters away. They're like twenty meters away. They
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Speaker 1: don't know how they were able to move that quickly
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Speaker 1: without being seen. And this time, when the leg comes
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Speaker 1: out from behind the pine tree, instead of walking across
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Speaker 1: the gap, it stops right in the middle and it
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Speaker 1: turns and it looks directly at the boys in the
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Speaker 1: window and then begins running toward them. The boys practically
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Speaker 1: fall over trying to get away from the window. Evan's
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Speaker 1: yelling for his father upstairs, and the boys instinctively just
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Speaker 1: start running around the house, locking every door, shutting every window.
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Speaker 1: And as they're going from door to door, the anxiety
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Speaker 1: is growing and growing because they think, if I don't
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Speaker 1: get there fast enough, this person who is running towards
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Speaker 1: the property is going to come barging through that door,
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Speaker 1: and so at every door, their anxiety through the roof.
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Speaker 1: But they managed to shut everything is locked. Right as
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Speaker 1: Evan's father comes charging down the stairs. He's got his
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Speaker 1: gun in hand and he's like, what's going on, and
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Speaker 1: they say, there's someone out in our property. Their dad
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Speaker 1: charges out the front door. The front door is not
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Speaker 1: on the same wall as the living room, it's on
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Speaker 1: the side of the house, so once he goes outside,
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Speaker 1: he's going to need to turn to the right to
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Speaker 1: look out in the direction they were describing.
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Speaker 2: He bombs outside.
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Speaker 1: He stays in the porch and he starts yelling at
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Speaker 1: whoever's out there that if you come over here, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna shoot you. Get the f away from here. And
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Speaker 1: then there's silence, and the boys are waiting. They're looking around,
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Speaker 1: they're checking the window. They don't see anything. The dad
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Speaker 1: comes back inside. He shut and locks the door, and
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Speaker 1: he tells Evan keep an eye out. If you see
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Speaker 1: him again, you let me know. Evan would reflect on
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Speaker 1: this experience later on and say, you know, we really
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Speaker 1: should have called nine one one at that point, but
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Speaker 1: as a kid, I just understood that that's the way
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Speaker 1: my family did business.
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Speaker 2: We kind of took care of ourselves.
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Speaker 1: And so even though there is a threat of some
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Speaker 1: stranger who's running at our property, we were not gonna
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Speaker 1: call the cops. And so his dad effectively was telling
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Speaker 1: him to be lookout. And so Evan and his cousin
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Speaker 1: they go back into the living room and they kind
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Speaker 1: of go up to the window. They're a little bit
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Speaker 1: apprehensive and they're looking out, and after five ten minutes
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Speaker 1: of looking out the window and not seeing anything. They're
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Speaker 1: thinking to themselves, you know, Evan's dad's a pretty intimidating guy,
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Speaker 1: and he was just out there screaming and yelling with
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Speaker 1: a gun, threatening to shoot them.
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Speaker 2: So they probably got the message and they're probably gone.
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Speaker 1: And so the boys got back into their couches and
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Speaker 1: it took them a while, but they did.
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Speaker 2: Ultimately fall asleep.
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Speaker 1: The next morning, when the boys got up, the first
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Speaker 1: thing they wanted to do was go out there and
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Speaker 1: see if they could find footprints from this person, to
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Speaker 1: kind of confirm it really was a person, because part
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Speaker 1: of them thought, you know, maybe we didn't see that.
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Speaker 2: Maybe that was our imaginations. They don't know.
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Speaker 1: And so they start by going out the front door,
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Speaker 1: so not on the same wall as the living room.
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Speaker 1: They go out the front door, they turn and they
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Speaker 1: walk down into the trees and they're looking around and
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Speaker 1: they find some footprints. So they're confirming to themselves, Okay,
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Speaker 1: there was someone out here, wasn't us.
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Speaker 2: This is not our footprints. We found them. So they
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Speaker 2: start following the.
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Speaker 1: Footprints back towards the property and they realize at some
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Speaker 1: point there are two distinct sets of footprints.
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Speaker 2: There were two people out here, and even worse is
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Speaker 2: they followed them all the way up.
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Speaker 1: To the house, and there were two different circles of
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Speaker 1: footprints that stopped right underneath the living room window, along
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Speaker 1: the two flanks of the window where the sheet was
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Speaker 1: not covering, which means over the course of the night,
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Speaker 1: when Evan and his cousin were up at that window
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Speaker 1: looking out, there's a good chance that one or two
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Speaker 1: strangers were tucked up against the side of the house
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Speaker 1: and they would not have seen them because of the
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Speaker 1: angle out of the living room window. It was steep
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Speaker 1: because of the stilts it was on, and so anybody
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Speaker 1: that was tucked up along the side, they'd be in
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Speaker 1: a blind spot. And then for sure, after Evan and
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Speaker 1: his cousin got back into bed and were sleeping, there
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Speaker 1: were two strangers who were right up against those windows,
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Speaker 1: probably pulling themselves up to look inside. When Evan's father
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Speaker 1: found these footprints, he immediately grabbed his gun and tried
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Speaker 1: to follow them back into the woods to see where
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Speaker 1: they came from. But unfortunately the snow cover wasn't complete
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Speaker 1: and at some point they lost the tracks and they.
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Speaker 2: Never figured out who those two people were. Evan would say.
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Speaker 1: Following this event, his cousin refused to ever come back
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Speaker 1: over his house for a sleepover. In October of two
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Speaker 1: thousand and five, a twenty one year old named Nathan
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Speaker 1: was back home in Elk Grove, California, visiting his mother
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Speaker 1: at her apartment for.
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Speaker 2: A couple of days. Her apartment was part of this
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Speaker 2: really safe complex. It was gated.
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Speaker 1: There's lots of lights and cameras, so anything that went
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Speaker 1: bump in the night was just going to be your
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Speaker 1: noisy neighbors or something.
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Speaker 2: On the last night of.
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Speaker 1: Nathan's day, he was laying in his bed in the
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Speaker 1: guest room, listening to the hum of the street lamp
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Speaker 1: that was outside and the crickets and the passing by
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Speaker 1: of cars. When he drifted off to sleep. At about
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Speaker 1: two am, Nathan woke up, or so he thought. He
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Speaker 1: couldn't move his body. He could only move his eyes,
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Speaker 1: and even though he had never experienced sleep paralysis before,
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Speaker 1: he instinctively understood this is probably that he noticed the
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Speaker 1: room was completely silent. There was no more crickets, no
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Speaker 1: more hum of the light outside, no more traffic, just
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Speaker 1: total silence. And then he started flashing eyes around the
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Speaker 1: room because he couldn't move his head to his body,
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Speaker 1: and he started taking stock of the room. The bed
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Speaker 1: he was in was positioned as far away from the
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Speaker 1: door as he could. In the back right corner from
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Speaker 1: where he was laying, if he looked to his right
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Speaker 1: in that corner was this big armois, and then moving
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Speaker 1: left from the armois, as he scanned the room, he'd
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Speaker 1: come to the door, which is on the opposite side
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Speaker 1: of where his bed was. And then if he kept
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Speaker 1: scanning left, he would reach the foot of his bed,
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Speaker 1: and just beyond the foot of his bed was a
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Speaker 1: table and a chair. But because he was laying flat,
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Speaker 1: he couldn't really look down and actually see the table
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Speaker 1: and chair, And so with.
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Speaker 2: All of his strength, he managed to raise his head.
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Speaker 1: Just enough that he had a line of sight to
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Speaker 1: that section of his room, the only section he has
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Speaker 1: not looked at yet. And he sees the table and chair,
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Speaker 1: and he sees in the corner is this dark figure
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Speaker 1: that's standing there looking at him. He's completely frozen with fear.
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Speaker 1: His thought is there's an intruder in the house. How
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Speaker 1: did they get in here? What are they doing in here?
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Speaker 1: And he managed to keep his head up just long
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Speaker 1: enough to get a decent look at this dark figure,
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Speaker 1: and he determined it was most likely a woman with
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Speaker 1: a shawl covering her face. And before his head fell
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Speaker 1: back to the pillow, he saw her suddenly crouch down
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Speaker 1: on the.
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Speaker 2: Ground out of view. And then Nathan's head fell back,
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Speaker 2: and now he knows there's.
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Speaker 1: Just some stranger in his room, and he can't lift
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Speaker 1: his head up anymore, and he's looking around with his eyes.
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Speaker 2: He sees the armois, he sees the door.
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Speaker 1: He can't see that table and chair, and then he
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Speaker 1: hears the sound of someone slithering along the ground out
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Speaker 1: of view, and he can hear her breathing, and she's
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Speaker 1: getting closer and closer to.
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Speaker 2: The edge of the bed, and he's laying there terrified.
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Speaker 1: He's so scared he can't even make a sound, and
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Speaker 1: he's telling himself, this has to.
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Speaker 2: Be a dream. Wake up, wake up, wake up.
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Speaker 1: And he's laying there and this woman she stands up
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Speaker 1: and she leans out over his bed and she looks
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Speaker 1: at him, and her face is pale and her eyes
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Speaker 1: are sunk way back in her head. Then she begins
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Speaker 1: to slowly crawl on top of him, and Nathan's sitting
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Speaker 1: here looking at this woman. He wants to close his eyes,
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Speaker 1: but he can't. Then he just feels his chest being
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Speaker 1: pressed down. He can hear the sounds of the springs
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Speaker 1: compressing all around him as this woman positions herself on
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Speaker 1: his chest, and then he finally manages to let out
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Speaker 1: a scream. And then suddenly he's awake. The woman's gone,
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Speaker 1: and he sits up and he's looking around. There's nobody
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Speaker 1: in his room. The familiar hum of the light and
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Speaker 1: the crickets and the traffic outside.
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Speaker 2: They all returned.
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Speaker 1: And his mom comes running in the room and she's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: are you okay?
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Speaker 2: I heard screaming in here. He said, oh, no, I
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Speaker 2: had a bad dream. I'm fine now. I had a
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Speaker 2: terrible dream, but I'm fine now.
15:22
Speaker 1: And his mom's like, okay, all right, you need anything,
15:26
Speaker 1: and he's like nope.
15:27
Speaker 2: So she comes over. She goes ma hug and a kiss.
15:29
Speaker 1: She goes back to bed, and he would go downstairs
15:31
Speaker 1: flip on a Disney movie, actually Aladdin, and he would
15:34
Speaker 1: fall asleep with a Disney movie on and with lights on,
15:37
Speaker 1: and there was no more sleep Prolyssis.
15:38
Speaker 2: That night.
15:39
Speaker 1: The next day, Nathan got up and he headed back
15:41
Speaker 1: to his house, and he really he couldn't shake the experience.
15:44
Speaker 1: He had never had sleep prolyssis before, but it was
15:47
Speaker 1: just so much more terrifying than he ever would have imagined.
15:50
Speaker 1: And he's just thinking to himself, I can't believe there
15:52
Speaker 1: are people that put up with this on any sort
15:54
Speaker 1: of regular basis. But you know, after a couple of
15:57
Speaker 1: days and getting home and not experiencing sleep paralysis, you know,
16:01
Speaker 1: time went.
16:02
Speaker 2: On and he just kind of forgot about it.
16:03
Speaker 1: A few months later, in March of two thousand and six,
16:06
Speaker 1: Nathan is at this big family party in Chico, California,
16:09
Speaker 1: big outdoor barbecue. All of his family's there, and at
16:12
Speaker 1: some point his sister shows up. His sister was not
16:15
Speaker 1: supposed to be attending this party, so it was a
16:17
Speaker 1: great surprise. He hasn't seen her in a while, and
16:19
Speaker 1: he immediately pulls her aside to catch up with her.
16:21
Speaker 1: And so for the first hour of their conversation, they're
16:24
Speaker 1: just chatting about their lives and what they're up to.
16:26
Speaker 1: Towards the end of their conversation, Nathan suddenly felt compelled
16:30
Speaker 1: to share his sleep paralysis experience with his sister, and
16:33
Speaker 1: the reason he wanted to was because he knew that
16:36
Speaker 1: she knew that he was actually a skeptic, and so
16:39
Speaker 1: she would believe him. If he's telling her this is
16:41
Speaker 1: what happened, she would believe that that's what he saw.
16:44
Speaker 1: And so he starts by saying, you know, I had
16:46
Speaker 1: the weirdest experience at Mom's apartment just a couple of
16:50
Speaker 1: months ago. I'm pretty sure it was sleep paralysis. And
16:53
Speaker 1: his sister immediately butts in and she goes, wait a minute,
16:56
Speaker 1: I had sleep paralysis for the first time in my
16:58
Speaker 1: life two weeks ago at Mom's apartment.
17:00
Speaker 2: It was horrible.
17:02
Speaker 1: I was in the guest room and then I saw
17:03
Speaker 1: this woman and she was like standing on me.
17:06
Speaker 2: I thought I was gonna die. It was horrible. That's
17:09
Speaker 2: exactly what happened to me.
17:10
Speaker 1: I was laying in the guest room and I couldn't move,
17:13
Speaker 1: and then I saw a woman in the corner and
17:14
Speaker 1: she stood on my chest. They proceeded to go over
17:17
Speaker 1: all the details of each of their stories, and they
17:20
Speaker 1: discovered that they had had almost the exact same experience,
17:24
Speaker 1: and at the end of it, they wanted to have
17:26
Speaker 1: a rational explanation for how they both could just somehow
17:30
Speaker 1: have their only sleep paralysis, experience in the same room
17:34
Speaker 1: and roughly the same timeline and experience the exact same events.
17:37
Speaker 1: They were trying to, you know, come up with a
17:40
Speaker 1: rational explanation for that, but it was just.
17:42
Speaker 2: Too much of a coincidence.
17:44
Speaker 1: But ultimately neither of them were really prepared to start
17:47
Speaker 1: discussing what else it could be, so they decided to
17:50
Speaker 1: just kind of laugh it off and say.
17:51
Speaker 2: Man, that's pretty weird, and they moved on.
17:54
Speaker 1: After the party was over, Nathan would go back to
17:56
Speaker 1: his house and he would tell his wife about this
17:58
Speaker 1: crazy coincidence he and he had had, and his wife
18:01
Speaker 1: would say.
18:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's wild.
18:03
Speaker 1: But after that, Nathan just did not want to think
18:05
Speaker 1: about it or talk about it, and so he kind
18:06
Speaker 1: of just you know, pushed it out of his mental space.
18:09
Speaker 2: And did forget about it. He moved on.
18:12
Speaker 1: Five months later, in August of two thousand and six,
18:14
Speaker 1: Nathan's mom would move out of that apartment building and
18:17
Speaker 1: she would move into a two story house, still in
18:19
Speaker 1: Elk Grove, California.
18:20
Speaker 2: Shortly after she moved in, she asked.
18:22
Speaker 1: Nathan if he would come spend a couple nights with her,
18:24
Speaker 1: and Nathan said sure, in order to better understand what
18:27
Speaker 1: happens to Nathan over the course of his stay at
18:29
Speaker 1: his mother's new house, you need to understand a basic
18:32
Speaker 1: layout of her house. So when you walk through her
18:35
Speaker 1: double doors, to your left is going to be a
18:37
Speaker 1: formal living room. In the center of the house is
18:39
Speaker 1: a hallway that shoots straight back to the kitchen, and
18:42
Speaker 1: then to your right right when you walk in, there's
18:44
Speaker 1: a wall, and on that wall is the stairs leading
18:47
Speaker 1: up to the second floor. If you take those stairs
18:49
Speaker 1: to the second floor, you reach a landing where there's
18:51
Speaker 1: a window that looks back into the backyard. And immediately
18:54
Speaker 1: to your right there is a single door, and that's
18:56
Speaker 1: the master bedroom where Nathan's mom would sleep. From the landing,
18:59
Speaker 1: if you turned left, there'd be another door that's a
19:01
Speaker 1: mirror image of the master bedroom door, and this door
19:05
Speaker 1: is the guest room. That's where Nathan was gonna stay.
19:07
Speaker 1: And then to the left of the guest room was
19:08
Speaker 1: a hall that went to the front of the house,
19:10
Speaker 1: but that's irrelevant to the story. If you went inside
19:12
Speaker 1: the guest room, the bed was located in the back
19:15
Speaker 1: right corner, so the same layout as the guest room
19:17
Speaker 1: in the apartment building where the person laying in the bed,
19:20
Speaker 1: so Nathan his feet would be closest to the door,
19:23
Speaker 1: and from Nathan's perspective in the bed, the only other
19:26
Speaker 1: piece of furniture in this new house guest room was
19:29
Speaker 1: a table that was from his perspective, on the right
19:32
Speaker 1: hand wall, centered on the wall, and on the table
19:35
Speaker 1: was a TV.
19:36
Speaker 2: So that's the only things in the room.
19:37
Speaker 1: The first night Nathan was at this new house was
19:39
Speaker 1: totally uneventful. Second night not so much. He was up
19:43
Speaker 1: in the guest room laying on the bed watching TV.
19:46
Speaker 1: The lights are off, it's just the TV on, and
19:49
Speaker 1: at some point he dozes off. He wakes up a
19:51
Speaker 1: short time later and he can't move. It's the same
19:54
Speaker 1: sensation he had when he was staying with his mom
19:56
Speaker 1: at her apartment. And he begins to panic because the
19:58
Speaker 1: last time he felt this way, a strange, veiled woman
20:02
Speaker 1: stood on his chest and made it feel like he
20:04
Speaker 1: was dying.
20:05
Speaker 2: And so immediately he's trying to move his body.
20:07
Speaker 1: He can't, and so using his eyes, he starts looking
20:10
Speaker 1: around the room, praying this woman is not in the
20:13
Speaker 1: room with him, and so he looks to the right
20:15
Speaker 1: to that corner which he can see there's no one there.
20:18
Speaker 2: From this corner. He starts scanning across the room. He
20:20
Speaker 2: sees the TV.
20:21
Speaker 1: It's still on. He keeps scanning, and he sees the
20:24
Speaker 1: door and it's open. And then he scans and he's
20:26
Speaker 1: able to just barely make out the space at the
20:28
Speaker 1: foot of the bed. He can actually see to the
20:30
Speaker 1: corner and this woman she's not in here, and so
20:32
Speaker 1: initially he feels incredibly relieved that she's not in the
20:35
Speaker 1: room with him. But then he finds himself focusing on
20:38
Speaker 1: the open door into the dark hallway, and he's thinking
20:41
Speaker 1: to himself, please, please, do not come walking through that door.
20:45
Speaker 1: And so he stares at the open door, just hoping.
20:47
Speaker 1: He breaks out of the sleep paralysis when he notices something.
20:51
Speaker 2: About the TV.
20:51
Speaker 1: It's flickering, and so he averts his gaze to the
20:54
Speaker 1: TV and he realizes what he's looking at on TV does.
20:57
Speaker 2: Not look familiar. It does not look like a TV show.
21:00
Speaker 1: It looks like CCTV camera footage, like it looks like
21:03
Speaker 1: a security camera footage. And he realizes the footage he's
21:07
Speaker 1: looking at is the inside of his mother's kitchen downstairs.
21:11
Speaker 1: He recognized the way it was laid out that's his
21:13
Speaker 1: mother's house, that's downstairs, and he's staring at the footage, thinking,
21:16
Speaker 1: why is this footage playing on the TV?
21:18
Speaker 2: And I don't think there's a camera down there.
21:20
Speaker 1: When he notices on the camera, the woman with the
21:24
Speaker 1: veil walks into the middle of the frame and she
21:26
Speaker 1: looks up at the camera right as the camera turns off,
21:29
Speaker 1: and then the room is completely dark.
21:31
Speaker 2: There's no more ambient light in the room.
21:33
Speaker 1: The hallway is dark, and he's left paralyzed knowing this
21:36
Speaker 1: woman is downstairs in the kitchen, and as he's laying there,
21:40
Speaker 1: he hears her start running through the house and it
21:43
Speaker 1: sounds like an animal's barreling into things as she's running
21:46
Speaker 1: through the bottom floor, and she stops at the foot
21:49
Speaker 1: of the stairs, and he's thinking to himself, I know
21:51
Speaker 1: where she's going.
21:52
Speaker 2: She's coming up to my room.
21:53
Speaker 1: And so as he's laying there, he feels his heart
21:55
Speaker 1: racing and he's staring at the open door. He knows
21:58
Speaker 1: she's gonna come flying up those stairs and she's gonna
22:00
Speaker 1: come through that door. And instead of running up the stairs,
22:03
Speaker 1: he hears her take one step, two step, and as
22:06
Speaker 1: she's making her way up the stairs. He's just thinking,
22:08
Speaker 1: please break out of this trance, stop this paralysis, wake up,
22:12
Speaker 1: wake up, And then he sees her head emerge and
22:15
Speaker 1: she turns to look at him from the stairs into
22:17
Speaker 1: the room, and once she sees it's him, she bolts
22:19
Speaker 1: around and starts charging into the room on all fours
22:22
Speaker 1: like an animal. At this point, Nathan lets out a
22:25
Speaker 1: primal scream. He is scared for his life as this
22:28
Speaker 1: woman is charging towards him, and she stops dead in
22:31
Speaker 1: her tracks right in the middle of the room. She
22:33
Speaker 1: looks at him, turns around and crashes out of the room,
22:36
Speaker 1: charges downstairs, and then it's silent.
22:38
Speaker 2: As soon as she was downstairs.
22:39
Speaker 1: Nathan could sit up, except it did not feel like
22:43
Speaker 1: the first time he had sleep paralysis at his mom's apartment,
22:45
Speaker 1: when he sat up and he had the sensation of relief,
22:49
Speaker 1: you've woken up.
22:50
Speaker 2: You were asleep before, now you're awake.
22:52
Speaker 1: This time it was like he was always awake, but
22:55
Speaker 1: now he can sit up. He did not have a
22:57
Speaker 1: sense of relief. In fact, he was worried she was
23:00
Speaker 1: in the house. And as he's sitting up in bed,
23:02
Speaker 1: his mother comes running into the room.
23:04
Speaker 2: She looks to shovel. She's half asleep, and she's like,
23:06
Speaker 2: was that you? Were you running around the house? I
23:09
Speaker 2: could have sworn I heard someone running around the house.
23:11
Speaker 2: Was that you?
23:12
Speaker 1: Nathan's looking at her and he can't even process what
23:14
Speaker 1: he's been through, whether that was real, whether it was
23:16
Speaker 1: a dream, and he's trying to find the words to
23:19
Speaker 1: describe to his mom the dream he had, like he
23:22
Speaker 1: he can't, he can't process what's happening. And he just says, Mom,
23:25
Speaker 1: we have to check the house. We have to make
23:28
Speaker 1: sure no one's in the house. And so the two
23:30
Speaker 1: of them flip on every light upstairs. They're not even
23:32
Speaker 1: talking at this point. It's survival mode. They turn on
23:35
Speaker 1: all the lights upstairs and Nathan leads.
23:37
Speaker 2: The way down.
23:37
Speaker 1: They're flicking on all the lights and they managed to
23:40
Speaker 1: search the whole house and.
23:41
Speaker 2: There's no sign of a break in. There's no one
23:43
Speaker 2: in their house.
23:44
Speaker 1: After the coast was clear and they felt like they
23:46
Speaker 1: were not in immediate danger, they went into the kitchen
23:49
Speaker 1: to kind of talk about what just happened, and so
23:51
Speaker 1: Nathan's like, Okay, Mom, I just gotta tell you everything
23:55
Speaker 1: that I'm thinking right now.
23:56
Speaker 2: I can't really process what just happened.
23:59
Speaker 1: I think it was a bad dream, but I'm starting
24:01
Speaker 1: to think that it could be something else or I'm
24:03
Speaker 1: just losing my mind. So a few months ago, I
24:05
Speaker 1: was sleeping in your guest room in your apartment, and
24:08
Speaker 1: I had an experience that I'm almost positive was sleep paralysis.
24:13
Speaker 1: You know, I was laying there, I could move, and
24:15
Speaker 1: this figure was in the room and they were standing
24:17
Speaker 1: on me. It was terrifying, but it sounded an awful
24:20
Speaker 1: lot like sleep paralysis. But then I a couple months
24:23
Speaker 1: after that, I talked to my sister and I told
24:26
Speaker 1: her about it, and she told me that very recently,
24:30
Speaker 1: right before you moved into this house, actually she was
24:32
Speaker 1: in that room and she also had basically the exact
24:36
Speaker 1: same experience. She had never had sleep proalyssis before. I
24:40
Speaker 1: had never had sleep paralysis before. So we basically had
24:43
Speaker 1: the exact same horrifying experience in the same room around
24:47
Speaker 1: the same time.
24:48
Speaker 2: And then just now tonight, I.
24:50
Speaker 1: Had another sleep prolyssis experience with the same woman who
24:55
Speaker 1: was running around the house. And you just said you
24:57
Speaker 1: heard her running around the house. His mom looked really concerned,
25:01
Speaker 1: but she wasn't shocked. She says to Nathan, I have
25:04
Speaker 1: seen this woman. I saw her in my apartment way
25:08
Speaker 1: long time ago, but I remember what you're describing. That's
25:11
Speaker 1: the experience I had. This woman, you know, showed up
25:14
Speaker 1: in the room and she stood on me, and it
25:17
Speaker 1: scared the heck out of me. But I didn't tell
25:19
Speaker 1: anyone because I thought I was sleep prolysis. And so
25:22
Speaker 1: Nathan and his mom proceeded to spend the next several
25:24
Speaker 1: hours just talking through what this could be. How could
25:28
Speaker 1: they all three of them, you know, him, his mom,
25:30
Speaker 1: and his sister, How could all of them have had
25:32
Speaker 1: the exact same experience, And how could tonight when Nathan
25:37
Speaker 1: had this experience, how could his mom have heard those
25:41
Speaker 1: footsteps if that was indeed sleep prolysis, because it wasn't Nathan.
25:45
Speaker 1: He was in the bedroom, and it wasn't his mom.
25:48
Speaker 1: She was in her bedroom and she didn't have any pets,
25:51
Speaker 1: So who could it be? Nathan says he and his
25:53
Speaker 1: family are still totally rattled by this experience, and they
25:56
Speaker 1: don't have an answer. And this is a family of skeptics,
25:59
Speaker 1: so they're not looking for a reason to call this paranormal.
26:02
Speaker 2: They simply don't have the.
26:03
Speaker 1: Answers Nathan has said that he, his mom, and his
26:06
Speaker 1: sister have not had any further experiences with the woman
26:10
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26:13
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