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3 Scary Halloween Horror Stories (Vol. 1) That Will Ruin Your Celebration · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: My friends and I were trigger treating a few years
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  Speaker 1: ago when we were thirteen to fourteen years old. This
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  Speaker 1: was our second year going without any of our parents
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  Speaker 1: coming with us, so we were pretty excited to run
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  Speaker 1: around the neighborhood collecting candy and just having a good time,
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  Speaker 1: something we'd do every year. Before Halloween. Was plan out
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  Speaker 1: our trigger treating route so that we could go to
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  Speaker 1: all the biggest houses and hopes to get full sized
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  Speaker 1: candy bars. Earlier this year, a whole street of newly
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  Speaker 1: built luxury homes were finally finished and people had moved in,
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  Speaker 1: so we decided to start there and then make our
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  Speaker 1: way around to the other neighborhoods afterwards. This new street
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  Speaker 1: of houses wasn't too far from my place, so we
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  Speaker 1: all met at my house on Halloween evening, then we
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  Speaker 1: headed out to begin trigger treating. We stopped at a
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  Speaker 1: few houses on the way just for some extra candy,
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  Speaker 1: and then turned down the sidewalk that led to the
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  Speaker 1: new streets. To our surprise, we didn't see any other
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  Speaker 1: kids walking around here. We figured we were the first ones,
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  Speaker 1: and we got really excited and ran over to the
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  Speaker 1: first house. A kind older man opened the door and
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  Speaker 1: gave us each a full sized Hershey's chocolate bar. Once
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  Speaker 1: we were out of the driveway, we all got super excited,
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  Speaker 1: as we were already off to a good start, but
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  Speaker 1: as we rang the next door bell, nobody answered, and
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  Speaker 1: neither did the next house or the one after that.
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  Speaker 1: One thing about this street was that each house had
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  Speaker 1: a really big yard, so the walk between them would
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  Speaker 1: take almost two to three minutes. After about ten houses
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  Speaker 1: not answering, we were starting to feel like we were
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  Speaker 1: wasting our Halloween here and not getting anything. We could
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  Speaker 1: see the next house, though, and it was the biggest
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  Speaker 1: one on the street as far as we could see,
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  Speaker 1: so we agreed to try there first. This house had
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  Speaker 1: a really long driveway and led to an even larger
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  Speaker 1: circle driveway. As we were walking up, I saw a
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  Speaker 1: woman looking at us from the small window right next
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  Speaker 1: to the door, but as soon as I made eye
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  Speaker 1: contact with her, she quickly backed away. I figured she
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  Speaker 1: was just waiting for trick or treaters, and I was
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  Speaker 1: just glad to see that someone was home and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: had some candy for us. We got up onto the
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  Speaker 1: porch and I rang the doorbell. Almost immediately a woman
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  Speaker 1: opens the door, and standing behind her was another older woman,
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  Speaker 1: the same one that I'd seen in the window. They
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  Speaker 1: both smile as we say trick or treat. Then she
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  Speaker 1: opens the door wider, revealing a huge round table set
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  Speaker 1: up inside of their large entrance room. On the table
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  Speaker 1: was pretty much every kind of candy you could find
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  Speaker 1: at a store. I couldn't believe someone would spend this
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  Speaker 1: much on Halloween candy, but with a house like this,
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  Speaker 1: I guess it made sense. She told us to come
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  Speaker 1: in and choose two of whichever candy we wanted. Without hesitating,
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  Speaker 1: we all ran in and over to the table to
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  Speaker 1: look at everything they had. All of us, in that
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  Speaker 1: moment were so happy getting to decide on pretty much
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  Speaker 1: whatever candy we wanted. But as I was trying to
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  Speaker 1: decide on what my second choice would be, I heard
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  Speaker 1: the door slam shut. All of us turned and looked
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  Speaker 1: at the woman standing right by the door, still smiling
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  Speaker 1: at us. She then asks us to stay here for
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  Speaker 1: just a minute, as she'd forgotten to put out some
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  Speaker 1: dessert for us to have on our way out, and
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  Speaker 1: then she walked away Quickly. I looked around, noticing the
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  Speaker 1: other woman wasn't there anymore either, I could tell all
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  Speaker 1: of us were panicking and scared. Only seconds later, footsteps
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  Speaker 1: started coming towards us from down the hall. I immediately ran
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  Speaker 1: for the door and opened it, letting all of us outside.
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  Speaker 1: As we could hear the woman call out for us
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  Speaker 1: to wait. We all ran down the driveway and didn't
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  Speaker 1: stop until we got all the way back to my house.
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  Speaker 1: We sat on my driveway, terrified and confused as to
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  Speaker 1: watch us happened. We thought about telling my parents, but
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  Speaker 1: we knew they'd yell at us for stupidly going into
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  Speaker 1: the house when we were told so many times before
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  Speaker 1: to not go into anyone's home, so we didn't say anything.
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  Speaker 1: After a little bit, we ended up continuing our trick
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  Speaker 1: or treating in my neighborhood, being a lot more cautious
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  Speaker 1: and trying to make sure we weren't the only kids
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  Speaker 1: walking around. It was definitely the weirdest thing that happened
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  Speaker 1: to me on Halloween, and my friends and I still
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  Speaker 1: talk every Halloween about what we think those women were
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  Speaker 1: trying to do and what would have happened if we
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  Speaker 1: stayed in their house for the dessert. Last year was
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  Speaker 1: the first time that I had ever lived completely alone,
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  Speaker 1: in a house, as I had just rented a small
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  Speaker 1: place in a new neighborhood that was closer to my work.
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  Speaker 1: I moved in in early October, but it seemed like
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  Speaker 1: most of the neighbors kept to themselves, so I did
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  Speaker 1: as well. But everything it was pretty normal otherwise for
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  Speaker 1: the first few weeks. Anyways, it was Halloween now and
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  Speaker 1: I noticed only a couple houses actually had decorations up.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have anything crazy, just a few pumpkins or signs,
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  Speaker 1: but it was more than any of the other houses.
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  Speaker 1: I decided to put up a small trigger treat sign
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  Speaker 1: on my door, and I bought a small bag of
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  Speaker 1: candies to hand out. Where I used to live, i'd
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  Speaker 1: buy three or four big bags, but I didn't get
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  Speaker 1: the feeling that these people really celebrated Halloween here, so
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  Speaker 1: I figured one bag would be enough. The afternoon came
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  Speaker 1: and I got a few small groups of kids, but
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  Speaker 1: that was pretty much it. I was a little bit disappointed,
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  Speaker 1: as I always found Halloween to be enjoyable, even if
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  Speaker 1: I was just the one handing out treats at my house. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: it started getting late around ten PM, so I put
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  Speaker 1: the bag of candy in my pantry and sat on
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  Speaker 1: the couch to watch a scary movie to end the
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  Speaker 1: night on. I think I was halfway through the movie
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  Speaker 1: before I heard the doorbell ring. A little bit confused
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  Speaker 1: and annoyed, I got up and looked out the peephole
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  Speaker 1: to see who was there. I saw what looked like
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  Speaker 1: a small boy, maybe ten or eleven, standing at the
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  Speaker 1: door in a homemade costume. It didn't look like anything specific,
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  Speaker 1: just black cloth with red accents and a black mask.
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  Speaker 1: I opened the door and he said trick or treat.
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  Speaker 1: By now, it was almost eleven, so I was a
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  Speaker 1: little worried that he was alone walking door to door.
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  Speaker 1: I smiled and told him to wait a minute while
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  Speaker 1: I'll get him some of the candy that I'd put away.
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  Speaker 1: I went back to my pantry and grabbed a big
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  Speaker 1: handful and then brought them back to the door and
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  Speaker 1: dropped him in the boy's pillowcase. Then I looked around
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  Speaker 1: behind him to see if his parents were on the sidewalk,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe a group of friends, but I didn't see anyone.
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  Speaker 1: He turned around and started walking away, but I stayed
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  Speaker 1: in the doorway for a few seconds just to make
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  Speaker 1: sure he was okay. But again I didn't see anything
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  Speaker 1: or anyone, so I closed the door and went back
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  Speaker 1: to the couch. A couple more minutes went by before
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  Speaker 1: the doorbell rang again. This time, I went to the
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  Speaker 1: pantry first and got the bag of candy, and then
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  Speaker 1: headed for the door. When I opened it, I was
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  Speaker 1: surprised to see the same kid standing there, but without
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  Speaker 1: a pillowcase or a bag. This time, concerned, I asked
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  Speaker 1: him if he was okay, to which he didn't reply.
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  Speaker 1: I looked around behind him again, but this time I
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  Speaker 1: noticed someone standing in my neighbor's driveway across the street,
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  Speaker 1: watching us. It looked like a full grown man, but
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  Speaker 1: he was wearing a similar costume to the kids. Is
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  Speaker 1: that your dad over there, I asked nicely. The kid
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  Speaker 1: waited a second and then said yes. Then I asked
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  Speaker 1: him why he came back to my house, to which
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  Speaker 1: the boy responded asking for more candy. I was even
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  Speaker 1: more confused by this because he didn't have his pillowcase,
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  Speaker 1: but I held out my bag of candy for him
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  Speaker 1: to take out of but the boy looked, almost annoyed
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, then reluctantly reaches in and grabs a
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  Speaker 1: single piece before running off. That whole interaction creeped me
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  Speaker 1: out a bit, so I made sure to lock my door,
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  Speaker 1: and then I went back and finished the movie. It
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  Speaker 1: was pretty late at this point, so I decided to
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  Speaker 1: get ready for bed. I got up from the couch
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  Speaker 1: and began walking over to the stairs, but out of
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  Speaker 1: the corner of my eye, I saw a light flash
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  Speaker 1: from outside one of my windows. I nervously went over
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  Speaker 1: and looked outside, and then realized that it was the
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  Speaker 1: motion sensor lights that were by my garage. I stayed
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  Speaker 1: in the window looking around for a few minutes, as
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  Speaker 1: I was getting pretty creeped out now, but nothing else happened,
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  Speaker 1: so I closed the blinds and headed upstairs to my bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: I laid in bed for probably thirty minutes, thinking about
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  Speaker 1: that boy from earlier and how strange the whole thing was.
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  Speaker 1: But as I started adrift into sleep, I heard a
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  Speaker 1: soft ruffling noise followed by loud thumping bangs on my
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  Speaker 1: front door. I shot up and jumped out of bed,
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  Speaker 1: then quietly made my way downstairs and over to the
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  Speaker 1: front door. Just before I looked into the people, three
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  Speaker 1: more loud bangs shook the door and made me jump
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  Speaker 1: back a little. I waited there for a few seconds,
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  Speaker 1: then looked. It was the man that I'd seen across
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  Speaker 1: the street from earlier, that the kid had said was
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  Speaker 1: his dad. He was standing there just inches away from
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  Speaker 1: the door, still wearing that creepy black and red costume
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  Speaker 1: and a mask. I could tell something was in his hand,
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  Speaker 1: but he was too close to the door for me
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  Speaker 1: to see what it was. There was no way I
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  Speaker 1: was opening that door, as I had no idea what
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  Speaker 1: this guy could possibly want from me. I knew this
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  Speaker 1: was either some sick joke or something much worse. I
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  Speaker 1: ran back upstairs and grabbed my phone, then locked myself
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  Speaker 1: in the room and called nine one one. The man
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  Speaker 1: continued banking on the door for probably a whole minute
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  Speaker 1: before it went silent. I waited in fear, hoping he
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  Speaker 1: had left for good. Then I got up and looked
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  Speaker 1: out of my bedroom window, which had a small view
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  Speaker 1: of the sidewalk that led to the front door. But
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  Speaker 1: as I was looking, the sudden sound of glass shattering
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  Speaker 1: came from what sounded like the kitchen downstairs. I was
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  Speaker 1: completely terrified at this point, with no way to defend
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  Speaker 1: myself if they came upstairs. Thankfully. Just moments later, I
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  Speaker 1: could hear police sirens down the road, followed by footsteps
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  Speaker 1: rushing outside from downstairs. I waited for the police to
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  Speaker 1: call for me at the front door before I made
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  Speaker 1: my way downstairs to let them in. They searched the
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  Speaker 1: house to make sure the man was gone, and noticed
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  Speaker 1: a broken window in my kitchen, where it was obvious
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  Speaker 1: the man had entered. I ended up staying at a
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  Speaker 1: hotel for the next few days just to be safe,
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  Speaker 1: but I guess the guy never came back. I run
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  Speaker 1: through the whole night in my head a lot, wondering
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  Speaker 1: if he was just using his kid as some weird
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  Speaker 1: way to gain entry into my house. I don't really
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  Speaker 1: know for sure, but nothing was stolen, though, which makes
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  Speaker 1: me question what the man was really trying to do
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  Speaker 1: breaking in my house. Anyways, It's been almost a year
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  Speaker 1: now and Halloween is in just a couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm starting to get pretty paranoid that the man
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  Speaker 1: from last year might come back to finish what he started.
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  Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I lived with my parents
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  Speaker 1: in a small neighborhood. Halloween was never really a big
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  Speaker 1: thing as far as trigger treating and stuff. So we'd
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  Speaker 1: always do something else. One thing my dad and I
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  Speaker 1: always loved doing on Halloween was exploring creepy or abandoned
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  Speaker 1: places together. It's funny. I would never do this kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing alone or even with friends, but with him,
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  Speaker 1: I felt safe and I was never scared of what
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  Speaker 1: we might find, at least up until this day. After
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  Speaker 1: driving around for a while, we found a worn down barn.
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  Speaker 1: This thing had to be vacant for years. The sighting
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  Speaker 1: was half gone and the roof was carved in. If
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't for the little slivers of paint here and there,
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  Speaker 1: you would have never known it was red. We maneuvered
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  Speaker 1: around broken glass and slabs of wood, finding left behind
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  Speaker 1: tools and garbage, and then I saw it. A cute
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  Speaker 1: little scarecrow perched up on the side of the barn.
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  Speaker 1: I pointed to it and my dad led the way.
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  Speaker 1: But the closer we got, the worse it started to smell.
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  Speaker 1: Poor guy, I heard my dad say. As I looked down,
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  Speaker 1: there was a big wild raccoon lying motionless, not too
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  Speaker 1: far from the scarecrow's feet. What do you think killed it?
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  Speaker 1: I asked. He examined it for a bit as I
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  Speaker 1: looked back up towards the figure. But then I froze.
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  Speaker 1: It was staring right at me. I could have sworn
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  Speaker 1: it was looking straight off into the distance before, but
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  Speaker 1: now its eyes have shifted on to me, still smiling
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  Speaker 1: and sitting upright, but just the eyes had moved. Dad
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  Speaker 1: he didn't respond. I looked over at him, and he
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  Speaker 1: pointed at the raccoon with a more disgusted look this time.
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  Speaker 1: Then I saw what he was looking at. All of
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  Speaker 1: its insides were missing, and usually there would be a
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  Speaker 1: big mess or something. But the strange part about this
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  Speaker 1: was that it was heartily noticeable unless you looked closely.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to, but I looked up at the
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  Speaker 1: scarecrow once more. My stomach sank as I realized it
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  Speaker 1: was still staring at me, but its eyebrows that were
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  Speaker 1: once raised were now furrowed, and its smile was gone.
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  Speaker 1: Then I started to notice the scattered blood stains seeping
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  Speaker 1: through its raggedy clothes. I felt a sickness come over me,
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  Speaker 1: and I got really dizzy until my dad put his
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  Speaker 1: hand on my shoulder. Probably just a coyote, he said,
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  Speaker 1: then started leading the way out. His words made me
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  Speaker 1: feel better, but I wasn't too sure if I believed it.
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  Speaker 1: As we walked away, I looked back at the scarecrow,
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  Speaker 1: and it was just how we found it, looking off
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  Speaker 1: into the distance and smiling with its eyebrows high. I
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  Speaker 1: never told my dad, as I wasn't quite sure if
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  Speaker 1: what I saw was real or not, and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want him to worry that I was seeing things and
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  Speaker 1: not take me on adventures anymore. I still have no
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  Speaker 1: idea what I was seeing, or if it was even
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  Speaker 1: real at all. But what creeped me out the most
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  Speaker 1: was that my dad went back a few days later
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  Speaker 1: to sketch the barn with my brother, and when he
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  Speaker 1: came back, he showed me the pictures, but on them
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  Speaker 1: was no scarecrow.