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10 Horrifying TRUE Stories (Volume 3) - Mr. Nightmare · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: This happened to my dad when he was a little kid.
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  Speaker 1: I think it messed him up a bit emotionally, but
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  Speaker 1: he never admitted it. This story freaks me out just
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  Speaker 1: imagining it. So I'm pretty sure my dad was 10
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  Speaker 1: years old, and he was home alone for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 1: He was watching TV in the living room. It was
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  Speaker 1: the only TV in the house. And all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: the TV just shut off. So he got up and
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  Speaker 1: turned it back on. It was an old shitty TV,
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  Speaker 1: so it wasn't weird at all. When he got back
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  Speaker 1: on his couch, it happened again. He got up once
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  Speaker 1: again and turned the TV back on, and again it
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  Speaker 1: turned off. He repeated this process a couple more times
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  Speaker 1: before he started to look for the remote. While looking
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  Speaker 1: for the remote, he walked over to check behind one
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  Speaker 1: of the couches and saw a man hiding in the corner,
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  Speaker 1: holding the TV remote. My dad described the man as
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  Speaker 1: having long, messy hair and a crazed look in his eyes.
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  Speaker 1: He gave my dad a smile, and my dad ran
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  Speaker 1: out the front door screaming like a little girl. He
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  Speaker 1: went to his neighbors who called the police. The man
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  Speaker 1: was still in the house when the police got there,
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  Speaker 1: so he was arrested. My dad told me that he
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  Speaker 1: still assumes the man was either homeless or crazy. Either way,
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  Speaker 1: this story is downright terrifying. My friend told me about
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  Speaker 1: something that happened to her when she was younger, about
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  Speaker 1: 8 or 9. She was walking home from school and
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  Speaker 1: got her key out to let herself into the house.
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  Speaker 1: Her single mom worked and came home later on weekdays.
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  Speaker 1: As she reached up to put the key in the door,
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  Speaker 1: her mom opened it in a dressing gown having left
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  Speaker 1: work sick. Instead of greeting her, she looked straight past
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  Speaker 1: my friend and immediately said, Who are you? My friend
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  Speaker 1: turned around and a man in a long coat hurried
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  Speaker 1: back down the path and down the street. Being ill
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  Speaker 1: that day had possibly saved her daughter from something potentially
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  Speaker 1: horrible happening to her. Before I start this story, I
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  Speaker 1: want to note that Jacob's mother is a drug addict,
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  Speaker 1: and his father really didn't have much wrong with him
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  Speaker 1: outside of being with his mother. So one night, when
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  Speaker 1: Jacob and his father were asleep, they heard a series
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  Speaker 1: of loud banging, scratching, and moving noises coming from the
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  Speaker 1: mother's room. Jacob's father jumped out of the bed and
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  Speaker 1: ran down the hall and started slamming on the door.
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  Speaker 1: His mother opened it, yelling at him to quiet down
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  Speaker 1: and that he woke her up. He asked her about
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  Speaker 1: the sounds. She hadn't been awake to hear them. Jacob's
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  Speaker 1: dad would have assumed that she was on something again,
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  Speaker 1: but something was wrong. The window was open all the way,
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  Speaker 1: and the TV was moved across the room, still plugged in,
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  Speaker 1: and had the screen facing outside. Jacob's dad was reasonably scared.
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  Speaker 1: He shut the window, got his bat, locked the mother's
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  Speaker 1: room from the outside, and made her sleep in the
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  Speaker 1: living room. He stayed up most of the night. He
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  Speaker 1: woke up Jacob at five. It was still dark out.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob went out to the kitchen where his mother already was.
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  Speaker 1: A couple minutes later, his dad walked in, wide-eyed. He
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  Speaker 1: pointed at Jacob and his mother and held his finger
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  Speaker 1: to his lips. They both quieted down. They heard something
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  Speaker 1: shuffling around on the roof, going from edge to edge.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob's dad had the bat. They sat together in the room, quietly.
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  Speaker 1: Minutes later, the sound went away. Jacob's grandmother was called.
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  Speaker 1: She was asked if everybody could stay over there for
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  Speaker 1: a little while. She said yes and told them she'd
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  Speaker 1: come pick them up. Jacob finished eating and went to
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  Speaker 1: go sit on the couch. There was no TV in
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  Speaker 1: that room, so he sat in silence. He looked over
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  Speaker 1: at a door to an empty room in the hallway.
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  Speaker 1: The door was opened. There was a finger wrapped around
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  Speaker 1: the side of it. Jacob screamed and pointed to it
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  Speaker 1: and his father grabbed him and ran out. Jacob's mother
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  Speaker 1: followed behind. They went to a gas station and sat
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  Speaker 1: out front until they saw Jacob's grandmother's truck. Jacob described
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  Speaker 1: how unnatural the finger looked to me. He said it
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  Speaker 1: reminded him a little bit of a foam finger in
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  Speaker 1: length and width. It was wrapped clear around the door frames.
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  Speaker 1: the door itself being latched on the opposite side. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't go back to that house much after that. Once
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  Speaker 1: they'd gotten everything out of it, they never went back again.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing was stolen, and the window in the empty room
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  Speaker 1: was open. I was 13 years old. I had the
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  Speaker 1: most isolated bedroom imaginable. Mix that with a wild imagination,
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  Speaker 1: and I was often up late at night, scared and paranoid,
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  Speaker 1: unable to fall asleep. My bedroom was a separate floor
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  Speaker 1: of the house, on the opposite side of my parents' room.
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  Speaker 1: They had no way of hearing what was going on
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  Speaker 1: in my room. So it was a seemingly ordinary night,
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  Speaker 1: with a bit of rain, but not a storm. I
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  Speaker 1: woke up and looked at my clock, and saw that
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  Speaker 1: it was two in the morning. I got an uncomfortable
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  Speaker 1: feeling right away, but I didn't know why. I then
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  Speaker 1: saw at the edge of my bed, there was a
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  Speaker 1: shadow of something roundish, just over the head of the
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  Speaker 1: edge of my bed. My heart started racing until I
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  Speaker 1: realized it was just my hat. I sometimes hung my
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  Speaker 1: hat on one of the wooden poles at the edge
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  Speaker 1: of my bed, so I calmed myself down and fell
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  Speaker 1: back asleep. I woke up again around half an hour
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  Speaker 1: later and was again startled by the sight of the
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  Speaker 1: shadow at the end of my bed, but after my
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  Speaker 1: brain started to fully wake up, I remembered it was
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  Speaker 1: just my hat again. This process happened one more time
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  Speaker 1: that night, probably another half hour later, and once again
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  Speaker 1: I was startled by the sight of the shadow I
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  Speaker 1: was getting thirsty, so I reached my hand down to
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  Speaker 1: the side of my bed, looking for my water bottle,
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  Speaker 1: but I instead found something else. My hat. And at
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  Speaker 1: that instant, I felt my heart drop into my stomach,
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  Speaker 1: as I almost fell out of my bed trying to
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  Speaker 1: turn the lamp on. The light revealed the face of
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  Speaker 1: a man, peering over the edge of my bed, staring
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  Speaker 1: right into my eyes. I let out the highest-pitched scream
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  Speaker 1: a boy could possibly produce. and ran straight past the
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  Speaker 1: man and down the stairs of my room. I felt
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  Speaker 1: the man try to grab me, but I managed to
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  Speaker 1: open the door and run to my parents' room to
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  Speaker 1: get my dad. My dad got the baton from under
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  Speaker 1: his bed and raced to my room, but he was
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  Speaker 1: too late. When we got back to my room, the
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  Speaker 1: window was wide open. Apparently the man jumped out onto
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  Speaker 1: the patio roof outside my window. When I was a kid,
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  Speaker 1: I had a huge group of friends that all happened
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  Speaker 1: to be on my block. On the weekend nights, we
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  Speaker 1: would always play manhunt, aka hide-and-go-seek for older people. It
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  Speaker 1: worked out great because since we were all neighbors, we
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  Speaker 1: used all the front and backyards and even the woods
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  Speaker 1: behind our houses. We had a rule, though, that we
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  Speaker 1: couldn't go out more than a backyard's length into the woods.
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  Speaker 1: I always used the same hiding spot, and nobody ever
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  Speaker 1: found me. I always hid behind an old rusty barrel
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  Speaker 1: that was thrown into the woods years ago. So on
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  Speaker 1: this particular night, There were only six of us playing.
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  Speaker 1: My friends Joe and Raj were on my team. We
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  Speaker 1: quickly dispersed as we were the first to hide. I
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  Speaker 1: ran to my usual hiding spot, through my backyard, into
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  Speaker 1: the woods behind the barrel. Usually I would see the
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  Speaker 1: flashlights of the other team shining through the backyards in
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  Speaker 1: the woods, but it was unusually quiet this time. And then,
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  Speaker 1: I finally heard footsteps nearby. I didn't see a flashlight,
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  Speaker 1: so I assumed it was one of my teammates. I
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  Speaker 1: whispered Joe and Raj's names, but then whoever it was
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  Speaker 1: started charging at me, full-on sprinting. I immediately shot up
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  Speaker 1: and ran out of the woods to find a new
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  Speaker 1: hiding spot in my backyard, but nobody ever came out
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  Speaker 1: of the woods. I heard all my friends calling my
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  Speaker 1: name from out front, including Joe and Raj, so I
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  Speaker 1: assumed something was wrong and went up front. I saw
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  Speaker 1: Joe's parents talking with my parents, with all my friends surrounding.
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  Speaker 1: My parents seemed a bit relieved to see me, so
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  Speaker 1: I was naturally really confused. They told me that a
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  Speaker 1: police officer had just passed by and warned them about
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  Speaker 1: a serial rapist spotted in the area and that all
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  Speaker 1: the kids should stay indoors. I explained what happened to
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  Speaker 1: me in the woods, and my parents started freaking out,
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  Speaker 1: making 100% sure that I wasn't lying. They called the police.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't know if he was ever caught, but
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  Speaker 1: I really hope he was. I try not to think
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  Speaker 1: about what would have happened to me had whoever that
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  Speaker 1: was caught me. When I was maybe 12 or 13, me,
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  Speaker 1: my mom, my stepdad and two dogs went to the
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  Speaker 1: beach for a weekend. We rented an apartment all the
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  Speaker 1: way at the back of the shore. The apartment had
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  Speaker 1: nothing surreal to it at first sight. We unpacked everything
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  Speaker 1: and went out for dinner straight afterwards. We came back
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  Speaker 1: and at the time it was maybe 9pm. We watched
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  Speaker 1: some TV for an hour or so. My mom, stepdad
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  Speaker 1: and two dogs slept on a bed you could make
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  Speaker 1: from the couch. They gave me the bedroom with a
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  Speaker 1: king sized bed. I went to bed and used my
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  Speaker 1: computer for a while to play some games that I
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  Speaker 1: had pre-installed since I knew that there would be no
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  Speaker 1: internet connection there. I stayed up playing games pretty late
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  Speaker 1: at night. I decided it was time to get some
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  Speaker 1: shut-eye and go to sleep. Maybe after five minutes of
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: laying in my bed, complete silence filled the room. But then,
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I hear this extremely loud sigh. No.
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  Speaker 1: I knew it wasn't my parents or the dogs considering
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  Speaker 1: the door to the living room was closed. I straight
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  Speaker 1: bolted from that room and went to sleep in the
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  Speaker 1: bedroom opposite of the master bedroom. My heart was pounding
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  Speaker 1: so fast because I was absolutely petrified. Needless to say,
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  Speaker 1: no sleep was had that night. I told my parents
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  Speaker 1: about it the next morning and they told me it
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  Speaker 1: was probably just my imagination, but I was certain it
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  Speaker 1: was not. This story still gives me nightmares to this day.
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  Speaker 1: I was staying with one of my best friends in
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina where I had a job interview. I was
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  Speaker 1: coming from New Jersey and my friend Mike offered to
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  Speaker 1: let me crash at his place for a few days.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't necessarily live too close to the company I
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  Speaker 1: was interviewing for, about two hours away, but I also
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to see one of my good friends again.
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  Speaker 1: So this happened after the second interview. I came back
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  Speaker 1: to Mike's place in a good mood as I had
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  Speaker 1: been offered the job on the spot. We celebrated in
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  Speaker 1: the yard that night with a few friends and a
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  Speaker 1: few beers. Or a lot of beers. We stayed up
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  Speaker 1: late and basically got shit-faced. People were coming and going
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  Speaker 1: all night. That's the kind of person Mike is. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't really keep track of who entered and left his house.
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  Speaker 1: So at about four in the morning, after everyone had left,
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  Speaker 1: we called it a night. I struggled to make it
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  Speaker 1: up the stairs and to the bathroom. I drained the
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  Speaker 1: snake and soaked my face with hot water and it
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  Speaker 1: was at that moment that I thought I could see
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  Speaker 1: something in the corner of my eye. I turned to
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  Speaker 1: the half-open door and saw an eye poking in at
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  Speaker 1: me through the crack of the door. I let out
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  Speaker 1: a loud, holy shit, and in my drunken, klutzy state,
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  Speaker 1: I fell to the floor. When I got back on
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  Speaker 1: my feet, the eye was gone. I stumbled out of
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom and called Mike's name. I heard him call
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  Speaker 1: out in response from downstairs in the kitchen. Couldn't have
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  Speaker 1: possibly been him. I didn't hear anyone go down the stairs.
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  Speaker 1: But I asked if he was up there anyway. Expectedly,
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  Speaker 1: he replied with a no. I can't remember fully, but
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  Speaker 1: I assume I just brushed it off under the assumption
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  Speaker 1: that I had too much to drink. I made it
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  Speaker 1: to the guest bedroom and basically fell onto the bed,
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  Speaker 1: barely managing to throw the covers over myself. You know
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  Speaker 1: when you're drunk you fall asleep easier. That's an understatement.
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  Speaker 1: I think I fell asleep seconds after falling onto that bed.
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  Speaker 1: only to wake up after an unknown duration of sleep.
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  Speaker 1: I immediately felt the unbearable headache coming on and began
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  Speaker 1: to rub my head. It was probably a little before sunrise.
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  Speaker 1: The room was a bit chilly. My foot was sticking
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  Speaker 1: out of the covers, hanging over the edge of the bed.
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  Speaker 1: And then it happened. I felt something extremely cold grab
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  Speaker 1: onto my foot and start stroking it. I then heard
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  Speaker 1: a raspy voice whisper the words, Can you help me?
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  Speaker 1: I sat up and screamed at the top of my
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  Speaker 1: lungs before sprinting out of the bed and out of
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  Speaker 1: the room, meeting Mike at the top of the stairs.
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  Speaker 1: I called the police and they arrived shortly. The intruder
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  Speaker 1: was actually a woman, a woman in her late 40s
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  Speaker 1: who clearly suffered from some kind of addiction. She admitted
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  Speaker 1: to simply walking right into Mike's house and hiding in
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  Speaker 1: a closet. The eye I saw was hers, peeking at
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  Speaker 1: me while in the bathroom. I always make sure to
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  Speaker 1: cover my feet with my sheets now It was the
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  Speaker 1: dead of winter in Cali. Me and a couple buddies
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  Speaker 1: were on a skiing trip by South Lake Tahoe. We
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  Speaker 1: stayed in a big luxurious log cabin for a few nights.
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  Speaker 1: On the third night during a blizzard, I got up
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  Speaker 1: to get a glass of water late in the night.
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  Speaker 1: As I crossed the cabin over to the kitchen, there
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  Speaker 1: was a frantic knock at the door. I was a
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  Speaker 1: bit spooked that somebody would be knocking this late. I
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  Speaker 1: thought maybe I should just ignore it and let them
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  Speaker 1: go away. But I realized they knew we were there
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  Speaker 1: as my car was parked right outside. I also had
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  Speaker 1: the thought that maybe somebody was in trouble and needed
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  Speaker 1: to get out of the dangerous weather. I tiptoed over
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  Speaker 1: to the door and waited for another knock. It didn't
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  Speaker 1: take too long before the knocking came again, this time
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  Speaker 1: much louder and more frantic. Who is it? I asked.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody answered. I asked again louder, but there was still
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  Speaker 1: no answer. After I asked this, there was no more knocking.
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  Speaker 1: I grew curious and eventually opened the door a crack
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  Speaker 1: with the chain lock still on just in case. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: was outside. I undid the lock and opened the door completely.
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  Speaker 1: There were footprints in the snow leading away from the cabin.
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  Speaker 1: For whatever stupid reason, maybe I felt some kind of
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  Speaker 1: guilt and worry for a person in need. I slipped
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  Speaker 1: on my boots and jacket and stepped out into the
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  Speaker 1: storm to follow the footsteps before they were completely filled.
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  Speaker 1: The footsteps led me to the edge of the property
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  Speaker 1: before completely stopping. I shit you not, the footprints completely ended.
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  Speaker 1: Not a sign of vehicle marks, a struggle, nothing. It
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  Speaker 1: was as if whoever made the tracks was standing still,
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  Speaker 1: right where I was. I felt disturbed and ran back
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  Speaker 1: into the cabin and slammed the door shut behind me,
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  Speaker 1: making sure to lock it. Before I could even gather
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  Speaker 1: my thoughts, the frantic knocking at the door resumed. My
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  Speaker 1: heart started pounding. and I started to scream for my friends.
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  Speaker 1: One by one, they all rushed down to see what
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  Speaker 1: was wrong. When we opened the door, there was nobody there.
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  Speaker 1: The footprints were already filled. I never could prove what
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  Speaker 1: happened to my friends. I don't blame them for not
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  Speaker 1: believing me. I almost don't believe myself, but I know
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  Speaker 1: what happened. I just can't even try to explain it.
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  Speaker 1: It still freaks me out to this day. My friend
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  Speaker 1: and I were going to a party a few hours
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  Speaker 1: out of town, so we decided to stay at her
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  Speaker 1: family's holiday house about an hour south of the party.
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  Speaker 1: We arrived around mid-afternoon, and it was winter in a
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  Speaker 1: holiday town, so the area was completely empty. No other
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  Speaker 1: cars on the street. When we left for the party,
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  Speaker 1: I spent a moment deciding whether to pull the gate
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  Speaker 1: all the way closed. I'd had some trouble opening it
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  Speaker 1: earlier when we arrived, and if we were getting home
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  Speaker 1: late at night, I didn't want to be stuck outside.
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  Speaker 1: I ended up deciding to shut it for security. The
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  Speaker 1: party was great, we got back to the house around 1230,
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  Speaker 1: and the gate was open. I immediately felt on edge
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  Speaker 1: because not only did I know that I had locked it,
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  Speaker 1: but I knew it couldn't just blow open in the wind.
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  Speaker 1: But I didn't want to make a big deal, so
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  Speaker 1: I was vague when my friend asked me if I'd
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  Speaker 1: shut it. We went inside and decided to make a snack.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: I was wandering through the house when suddenly my friend
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: raced from the kitchen into the hallway and virtually tackled
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  Speaker 1: me to the ground. she was convinced she'd heard someone
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  Speaker 1: walking around outside. We tried to calm ourselves down, but
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  Speaker 1: we had no cell reception and there was no one
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  Speaker 1: else around. Over the next half hour or so, as
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  Speaker 1: we sat in the hallway paralyzed with fear, we heard
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  Speaker 1: footsteps outside and the back door being jimmied. We decided
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  Speaker 1: we had to leave, so we gathered everything up and
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: got ready to make a break for the car. Just
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  Speaker 1: as we were at the front door ready to leave,
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  Speaker 1: there was a huge bang in the backyard. and suddenly
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: what sounded like hundreds of birds started screaming. We legged
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  Speaker 1: it to the car, ended up starting it with all
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  Speaker 1: our stuff still on our laps. We hadn't bothered to
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  Speaker 1: even put in the back seat. As we reversed out
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  Speaker 1: the driveway, we saw somebody running up the side of
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: the house towards us. We sped the entire way home,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: and didn't sleep at all that night. When I was ten,
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  Speaker 1: and my youngest brother Ben was only one, There was
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  Speaker 1: this one weekend that my parents were painting our bedrooms,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: so we would have to sleep in the basement. There
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: was a pull-out couch down there that turned into a bed,
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  Speaker 1: and Ben had an extra crib down there. I was
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  Speaker 1: only 10, so sleeping in a pitch-dark basement was very uncomfortable. Somehow,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: having Ben down there made me feel a bit safer, though.
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  Speaker 1: He would wake me up in the middle of the
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: night crying, and for some reason, tending to him made
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: sleeping down there a little less scary. But it was
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: this one time... that I woke up to him screaming.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Not crying, screaming, like no one-year-old should. I was scared
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: shitless immediately and ran over to him to see what
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: was wrong. He was standing up looking at me, pointing
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: to something. I looked in the direction he was pointing at.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: He was pointing into the pitch-dark boiler room right next
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: to his crib. I felt like a thousand knives just
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: stabbed me in the chest, and even through the heat
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: of the moment, I vaguely remembered the faint sound of
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: something falling over in the boiler room, and I felt
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: as if I was being watched in that basement. I
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: grabbed Ben and got the hell out of there as
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: quickly as possible. I have never gone back down in
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: that basement.