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Speaker 1: All I ever wanted to do was live in a
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Speaker 1: big city. Being from a small country town, the big
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Speaker 1: city and bright lights were always extremely appealing to me.
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Speaker 1: I finally got my wish when I made the move
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Speaker 1: to the city. I loved everything about it at first.
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Speaker 1: The nightlife, the hustle, the bustle, and the people. I
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Speaker 1: felt like I was tailor-made for the city, you know?
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Speaker 1: I found an apartment on the 20th floor of a
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Speaker 1: building and the view was incredible. I could see a
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Speaker 1: sea of lights every night and the sounds were amazing.
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Speaker 1: It felt like the city was a living and breathing organism.
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Speaker 1: What I loved about this apartment was that I was
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Speaker 1: on the top floor. I had nobody above me to
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Speaker 1: distract me. However, my neighbors below me were another story.
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Speaker 1: One night after work, it was late and I had
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Speaker 1: picked up a job as a bartender. I made my
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Speaker 1: way home for some much needed rest. While I was
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Speaker 1: getting into more comfortable clothes, I thought I could hear screaming.
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Speaker 1: I turned the TV to mute and I listened intently.
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Speaker 1: It was undeniably screaming. I was able to pinpoint where
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Speaker 1: the screams were coming from and it was right below me.
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Speaker 1: At first it was muffled screams. I could hear the
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Speaker 1: tone and inflection of the voices but couldn't make out
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Speaker 1: any of the words. I continued getting ready and noticed
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Speaker 1: that the voices were getting louder. The apartment had a
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Speaker 1: small screened in balcony and I went out there and
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Speaker 1: I could hear much more clearly. It's like when there
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Speaker 1: was a bad accident and you can't really look away.
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Speaker 1: It was uncomfortable to listen to but I wanted to
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Speaker 1: keep listening and as horrible as that may sound It
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Speaker 1: was clearly a male and female arguing. The male was
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Speaker 1: going insane. I could clearly hear things like, you don't
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Speaker 1: think I'll do it, and I'd love to see if
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Speaker 1: you can fly. My first thought was, is he going
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Speaker 1: to throw his chick out the window or something? Then
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Speaker 1: I heard the woman get extra loud when she said,
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Speaker 1: you have no idea what I can do and whom
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Speaker 1: I know. Aversions of that argument continued for another five
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Speaker 1: minutes or so until I heard a loud crash. so
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Speaker 1: loud that it vibrated my entire screened-in balcony. It was
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Speaker 1: quiet for a couple of seconds, and just as I
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Speaker 1: started to feel the worst, I heard another voice now.
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Speaker 1: It was a different male voice, and he screamed, Look
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Speaker 1: what you did, you idiot! The woman started to scream
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Speaker 1: back at him. I didn't hear the other man, so
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Speaker 1: I started to let my mind wander again as to
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Speaker 1: what happened. The briefest of relief came over me when
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Speaker 1: I heard the first guy start shouting again. At this point...
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Speaker 1: all three people were just shouting almost incoherently to each other.
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Speaker 1: I contemplated for a while what I should do. Clearly,
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Speaker 1: I should have just called the cops, but I didn't,
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Speaker 1: and instead, I made a choice that I would soon
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Speaker 1: come to regret. As you would see in movies or shows,
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Speaker 1: I grabbed a broomstick, and I just banged on the
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Speaker 1: floor in my living room. That was my attempt to
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Speaker 1: alert the neighbors that they were loud and to just
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Speaker 1: keep it down. After my assault on the floorboards, I listened,
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Speaker 1: and I didn't hear anything I went back out to
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Speaker 1: the balcony to see if I could hear anything and
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Speaker 1: it was still quiet. I figured for a moment that
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Speaker 1: I had accomplished my goal, but I could not have
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Speaker 1: been more wrong. They must have gone out to their
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Speaker 1: balcony because now they started to scream at me. I
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Speaker 1: had heard one of the men first as he addressed
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Speaker 1: his anger at me saying.
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Speaker 2: Are you serious?
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Speaker 1: Do you have a problem? I just stayed quiet. Then
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Speaker 1: I heard the woman, her responding, Mind your business, this
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Speaker 1: doesn't concern you. Now embarrassed, I quietly went inside and
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Speaker 1: just wanted this ordeal to be over. I could hear
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Speaker 1: the muffled screaming, but now I couldn't tell if they
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Speaker 1: were yelling at me or yelling amongst themselves. I can't
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Speaker 1: even begin to explain how uncomfortable it is to sit
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Speaker 1: and just hear this level of screaming. The type of
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Speaker 1: screaming that I would consider borderline violence, really. And then finally,
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Speaker 1: it stopped. It was finally quiet enough for nearly 20 minutes,
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Speaker 1: and I turned off the TV and just got into bed.
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Speaker 1: And just as I was dozing off I heard a
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Speaker 1: knock at the door. I thought maybe I was going
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Speaker 1: in and out of consciousness and maybe I dreamed the
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Speaker 1: knock at the door. But I slowly got out of
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Speaker 1: bed and made my way to the door. I heard
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Speaker 1: the knock again and it was clearly a knock and
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Speaker 1: not my imagination. I asked who it was and the
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Speaker 1: only response I got was another slow series of knocks.
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Speaker 1: The apartments I lived in all had small cameras on
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Speaker 1: the side of the door so I was able to
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Speaker 1: pull up the camera. It was two guys and a girl.
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Speaker 1: and right away I realized that it had to be
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Speaker 1: my neighbors from below me. I didn't answer the door,
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Speaker 1: and then the knocks kept coming. The woman was doing
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Speaker 1: the knocking, and the two men just stood behind her
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Speaker 1: with their hands in their pockets, it seemed. I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure what they planned on doing at 3.30 in the morning.
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Speaker 1: I just continued to ignore them at the door, and
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Speaker 1: that's when the one guy started beating on the door
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Speaker 1: with his fist. I was able to get a good
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Speaker 1: look at the guy. He was huge. He was bald
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Speaker 1: and had a tight beard. He had some sort of
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Speaker 1: line work tattoo coming from the back of his shirt
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Speaker 1: to the bottom of the skull. He had a fist
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Speaker 1: that looked like a boulder as he banged on the door.
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Speaker 1: And they knew about the camera since they lived in
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Speaker 1: the building and that's when the man leaned over to
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Speaker 1: the camera box and started to whisper. Open the door.
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Speaker 1: Open the door. Open the door. And he just kept
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Speaker 1: saying that on repeat. I didn't respond. And in fact,
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Speaker 1: I finally, thank God, did call the police. I went
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Speaker 1: to the bedroom and shut the door and whispered to
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Speaker 1: the dispatch operator. I remained on the phone with them
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Speaker 1: until they sent someone. The entire time I waited they
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Speaker 1: just kept knocking and whispering open the door. They were
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Speaker 1: still standing there when the police finally showed up. One
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Speaker 1: of the officers escorted them away and I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: what happened to them after that. I spoke with one
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Speaker 1: of the police officers after the other one got them
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Speaker 1: off my floor. I don't think they were below me
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Speaker 1: because I couldn't hear anything. and I gave the officer
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Speaker 1: my entire account of the evening, and that was basically it.
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Speaker 1: I never heard back from the police, but I also
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Speaker 1: never had a run-in with these three again. I also
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Speaker 1: took extra precautions after this and locked my door with
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Speaker 1: an extra lock. I never heard another peep from that
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Speaker 1: apartment below me after this, which I found most strange
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Speaker 1: of all about all of this. Even though I had
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Speaker 1: just moved to the city not that long before, I
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Speaker 1: had my fill of the city after this night, and
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Speaker 1: once my lease was up, I moved back to the
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Speaker 1: country where it was quiet all the time. My girlfriend
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Speaker 1: and I just moved into our new apartment not that
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Speaker 1: long ago. We love the place and it's our first
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Speaker 1: place together so for that reason it's very special to us.
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Speaker 1: I have lived in apartments before and they can be
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Speaker 1: less than ideal. This place on the other hand was great.
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Speaker 1: The apartment unit was recently remodeled and everything was brand new.
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Speaker 1: It was a great little place to start this chapter
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Speaker 1: of our lives. Now I know this may sound ridiculous,
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Speaker 1: but for me, one of the best parts was behind
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Speaker 1: the apartments. It was a small path that led to
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Speaker 1: a local breakfast diner. Anybody who knows me knows I
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Speaker 1: can crush some bacon and eggs every day of the week.
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Speaker 1: I told my girlfriend about the short path and told
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Speaker 1: her that on Sunday when she was off and free
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Speaker 1: from work, that we would have to have a little
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Speaker 1: walk over to the diner. Sunday came and we made
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Speaker 1: our way to the path. Now it's important to note
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Speaker 1: that the path itself is maybe 30 yards or so.
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Speaker 1: It's not very long. It is literally a short dirt
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Speaker 1: path surrounded by a massive path of trees. When we
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Speaker 1: were walking over to the diner we noticed a bag
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Speaker 1: of clothes just sitting in the middle of the dirt path.
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Speaker 1: We both just looked at it and kept walking. I
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Speaker 1: mean sure it was weird but it was breakfast time
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Speaker 1: and I wasn't worried about a bag of clothes. I
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Speaker 1: figured someone just dropped it while walking to the diner
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Speaker 1: or something. After our amazing breakfast we walked back and
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Speaker 1: noticed that the bag was gone. I said to my girlfriend, See,
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Speaker 1: I told you someone just dropped it. And she begrudgingly agreed,
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Speaker 1: but we went about our day. I worked from home
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Speaker 1: during the week, so I would walk over to the
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Speaker 1: diner every morning. The next day, when I walked to
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Speaker 1: the diner, I noticed the bag again, but this time
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Speaker 1: it was to the side of the path instead of
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Speaker 1: just in the middle of the walkway. I just figured
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Speaker 1: that I missed it yesterday and somebody must have just
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Speaker 1: moved it, and that's why we didn't see it when
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Speaker 1: we walked back to the apartment. After breakfast, when I
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Speaker 1: walked back, I saw someone going through the bag. I
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Speaker 1: cautiously walked by just because it looked like some strange man.
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Speaker 1: When I got closer, the man turned around and looked
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Speaker 1: at me with a sort of crazed look in his eyes,
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Speaker 1: but I kept walking and just gave him a friendly
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Speaker 1: good morning. The man said nothing, but out of the
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Speaker 1: thick trees, a very small and frail-looking woman appeared. Her
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Speaker 1: legs looked more like twigs, and she was missing most
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Speaker 1: of her teeth. I instinctively jump back just because it
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Speaker 1: was very alarming. In a low, raspy voice, almost like
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Speaker 1: she smoked eight cigarettes a day for breakfast alone, she.
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Speaker 2: Says, Keep walking.
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Speaker 1: I didn't engage with those two at all. I did
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Speaker 1: keep walking, and just shook my head. I didn't want
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Speaker 1: to tell my girlfriend about that because I figured that
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Speaker 1: she would never want to walk over to that diner again,
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Speaker 1: and I was pretty sure that this was just some
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Speaker 1: random one-time event with just some shady characters. I didn't
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Speaker 1: go to breakfast until Friday. I made my way to
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Speaker 1: the path and I was instantly relieved that the bag
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Speaker 1: was gone. While I was walking down the short path
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Speaker 1: I investigated the tree line where the bag was located
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Speaker 1: the last time I walked and I saw the silhouettes
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Speaker 1: of two people standing in the foliage. I didn't stop
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Speaker 1: and look and ultimately just kept going. My gut told
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Speaker 1: me who was standing there but I didn't want to
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Speaker 1: take any chances. I felt uneasy during my meal and
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to walk by that path again. I
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Speaker 1: had visions in my head of those two people jumping
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Speaker 1: out and trying to rob me or something. So, after breakfast,
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Speaker 1: instead of walking through the pathway, I walked the long way,
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Speaker 1: all the way around, which ended up being about 40
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Speaker 1: minutes compared to the quick 5 minutes, believe it or not.
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Speaker 1: I forgot to tell my girlfriend about the experience that
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Speaker 1: I had that day. When Sunday came, she suggested that
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Speaker 1: we go to the diner. Now I was pumped for breakfast,
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Speaker 1: and sadly, I had already completely forgotten about the brief
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Speaker 1: experience that I had on that path. As I write this,
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Speaker 1: and I'm listing the events that happened... I'm ashamed that
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Speaker 1: I didn't remember, but at that moment, since nothing really
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Speaker 1: had happened, I just didn't think about it. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: until we got to the path that Sunday morning that
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Speaker 1: I remembered what had happened. I stopped for a quick second,
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Speaker 1: but then kept going. I didn't want to scare my
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Speaker 1: girlfriend and there was a chance the two were gone.
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Speaker 1: While we were walking, she was telling me some story
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Speaker 1: and I was watching the tree line for any movement.
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Speaker 1: About halfway through the path, the man ran out of
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Speaker 1: the woods and and stood blocking our path. The woman
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Speaker 1: came out and stood behind us. My girlfriend, trying to
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Speaker 1: be rational, tried to communicate with the two, but neither
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Speaker 1: of them said anything and just started inching closer to us.
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Speaker 1: The gap was closing, and I could feel the panic
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Speaker 1: start setting in. I grabbed my girlfriend's hand, and as
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Speaker 1: I attempted to make my move, instead of running through
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Speaker 1: the guy, who was significantly larger than the woman, I
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Speaker 1: turned and ran through the skinny woman like I was
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Speaker 1: a truck. As I was running through the woman, she
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Speaker 1: somehow got a hold of my back and scratched me
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Speaker 1: with her nails, which surprisingly broke my skin. She screamed
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Speaker 1: one of the most horrific noises I had ever heard
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Speaker 1: when we ran by. As we ran back to our apartment,
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Speaker 1: I could hear them fighting on the path, but I
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Speaker 1: couldn't make out the words. We just called the police
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Speaker 1: when we got back and reported the incident, but of course,
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Speaker 1: they were already gone when they went to check. The
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Speaker 1: apartment has cameras all over the lot, but none of
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Speaker 1: them reached the path, so they had no footage of
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Speaker 1: the two. About 20 feet into the thickness, they found
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Speaker 1: sleeping bags, trash, and bottles. These two had been living
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Speaker 1: on the path for a while before they finally decided
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Speaker 1: to attack us. Thankfully, we didn't sustain any real injuries,
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Speaker 1: and as far as we know, nobody else got hurt
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Speaker 1: or attacked. We feel a little uneasy that these two
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Speaker 1: were never caught, and unfortunately... No new information was ever reported.
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Speaker 1: I make the short drive now whenever I go to
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Speaker 1: the diner and I plan on never taking that short
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Speaker 1: path ever again.
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Speaker 2: I'm not even sure where to begin with this. Whether
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Speaker 2: it was two separate incidents or related, I can't be sure. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: to start off, I'm a small town southern girl. I mean,
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Speaker 2: a town small enough where you never have to lock
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Speaker 2: your doors. Be that as it may, I've always had
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Speaker 2: problems believing that people are real monsters, but life has
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Speaker 2: a way of kicking you with the truth. My husband
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Speaker 2: and I left the small town to move back to
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Speaker 2: the place that he's from, a city almost 2,000 miles away.
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Speaker 2: Family health, job opportunities, things like that. We moved into
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Speaker 2: an apartment that was considered to be in a bad
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Speaker 2: part of town, and I was quick to always lock
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Speaker 2: my doors, everything, especially with our son who was 6
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Speaker 2: or 7 when this incident took place back in 2020.
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Speaker 2: I should note that there's two incidents in this story.
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Speaker 2: The first happened when my husband first started working as
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Speaker 2: a correctional officer for the state. I won't say which
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Speaker 2: one as it's really not that important. Anyway, when he
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Speaker 2: was hired he was working evenings slash nights, leaving me
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Speaker 2: home with our son. When the pandemic hit, He was
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Speaker 2: considered one of the essential employees and therefore would work
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Speaker 2: his regular shifts. One night, I thought I was going
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Speaker 2: to be like any other. Make dinner, bathe our son,
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Speaker 2: get him to bed, then just spend time watching TV
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Speaker 2: until I either fell asleep or my husband came home.
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Speaker 2: This night, I should have just known something was wrong.
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Speaker 2: I had this innate sense of dread and I couldn't
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Speaker 2: figure out why. Sure, I heard the emergency sirens and
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Speaker 2: fighting of our neighbors, but we lived in that apartment
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Speaker 2: for a little over a year and it was common
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Speaker 2: to hear all that. I should also point out that
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Speaker 2: the buildings in the complex were locked, so you need
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Speaker 2: a key to get into the building, but some asshole
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Speaker 2: would always rig our building door to stay open, even
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Speaker 2: with the lack of security. I was in the kitchen
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Speaker 2: cooking dinner as my son had played on the floor
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Speaker 2: with his toys and I kept the TV noise low
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Speaker 2: as to not disturb anyone. Because I kept it quiet,
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Speaker 2: I could hear everything going on inside the apartment. So
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Speaker 2: when I heard the distinct sound of someone messing with
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Speaker 2: my door, clearly trying to break in, I knew it
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Speaker 2: was far too early for my husband to be off,
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Speaker 2: and immediately grabbed a butcher knife. I told my son
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Speaker 2: to hide under the dining table, and I gave him
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Speaker 2: a small steak knife, and he must have heard the
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Speaker 2: panic in my voice, because without a word, he silently
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Speaker 2: did as I said. As I made sure that he
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Speaker 2: was safely hidden, I could still hear whoever it was
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Speaker 2: trying to pick open the deadbolt. Once I was sure
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Speaker 2: my son was safe, I clutched the butcher knife and
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Speaker 2: tiptoed to the door, shaking like crazy. They got the
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Speaker 2: deadbolt unlocked a few minutes later. I say they because
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Speaker 2: when they opened my door, there were two men, about 5'9, 5'10,
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Speaker 2: both of them with guns in the waistbands of their pants.
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Speaker 2: I didn't even think at this point. Instead, going on
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Speaker 2: full motherly protection. Before either one of them could set
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Speaker 2: foot across the threshold, I shot my hand out, knife
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Speaker 2: pointed directly between the eyes of one of them, and
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Speaker 2: then screamed. I swear to God, if you don't get
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Speaker 2: the fuck out of my damn apartment, I'm gonna make
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Speaker 2: damn sure that you wish you were never born! Either
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Speaker 2: they forgot they were carrying, or the guns were fake,
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Speaker 2: or maybe I just surprised and scared them. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I just know the color drained from their faces and
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Speaker 2: they ran away and out of the building calling me
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Speaker 2: a crazy white bitch. About two weeks to a month later,
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Speaker 2: we adopted a Siberian Husky mix named Koda. Koda is
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Speaker 2: not the typical Husky. Instead, he likes to lounge around
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Speaker 2: and is generally pretty quiet. With my husband working all
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Speaker 2: the time and me being a stay-at-home mom, it was
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Speaker 2: really no big deal to be sure the dog had
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Speaker 2: his daily walks. One night, a couple of days after
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Speaker 2: we adopted Koda, I took him out to do his business. Now,
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Speaker 2: as a general thing with me, I always have headphones in,
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Speaker 2: as I don't want to bother people or I'm writing
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Speaker 2: and need to focus. This night was no other, and
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Speaker 2: instead of a full walk around the area, I kept
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Speaker 2: them in the yard around my apartment building. It was
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Speaker 2: extremely dark out, even with the streetlights, and I wanted
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Speaker 2: to stay close to my unit. The building has a
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Speaker 2: fence around it with some yard space, just like a
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Speaker 2: painted country fence. Anyway, I had my headphones in listening
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Speaker 2: to music with my back to the fence. I faintly
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Speaker 2: noticed headlights from what I thought was a passing vehicle.
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Speaker 2: I didn't see the car stop at the fence corner,
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Speaker 2: nor the men getting out and coming up behind me.
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Speaker 2: As a side note, I should point out that I'm
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Speaker 2: no taller than 5'0, and I weigh about 130 pounds,
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Speaker 2: and my husky weighed almost as much as I do.
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Speaker 2: I was really wondering why he wasn't doing his business,
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Speaker 2: thinking maybe he was just getting a sense of the area.
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Speaker 2: That was when his head turned and then lowered. I
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Speaker 2: thought my own dog was looking at me and snarling
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Speaker 2: at me, but I then turned and saw these guys
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Speaker 2: jump the fence with knives in their hands. At the time,
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Speaker 2: it was cold outside. and there was still a mask
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Speaker 2: mandate in effect, so I never saw their faces. I
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Speaker 2: thought for sure I would die, or maybe even get
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Speaker 2: kidnapped or worse. But my dog began to growl, and
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Speaker 2: without warning, leaps right past me and then jumps on
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Speaker 2: one of the men, sinking his teeth in the guy's shoulder.
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Speaker 2: The movement was so sudden that I kind of just
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Speaker 2: stood there speechless, and the other guy that my dog
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Speaker 2: hadn't jumped on then ran back to his white SUV,
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Speaker 2: no license plate. The one my dog had jumped on
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Speaker 2: had managed to struggle free, tearing his hoodie in the
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Speaker 2: process before he too had taken off back to the SUV.
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Speaker 2: The two guys gunning it out of there so fast
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Speaker 2: that the tires screamed on the pavement before they disappeared
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Speaker 2: down a dark street. I was in shock after that,
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Speaker 2: absentmindedly petting Koda and calling him a good boy. The
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Speaker 2: dog does his business as if nothing had happened. We
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Speaker 2: go back upstairs to the apartment, and still in shock,
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Speaker 2: I don't even realize how hard I shut the door,
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Speaker 2: waking up my husband after he'd gone to bed. He
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Speaker 2: was understandably angry at first. It was only when he
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Speaker 2: saw my face, how numb I was, that he guided
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Speaker 2: me to sit down and tell him what happened. It
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Speaker 2: took me a while, at least an hour before I
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Speaker 2: reacted or even spoke. I was almost catatonic. I'd never
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Speaker 2: had someone attempt to do that to me before. I've
19:26
Speaker 2: had my fair share of horror story-esque experiences, but never
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Speaker 2: an attempted kidnapping. When I finally told him, my voice
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Speaker 2: was so quiet he could barely hear me, and I
19:38
Speaker 2: ended up having to repeat myself. It was only then
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Speaker 2: that the gravity of the situation finally kicked me in
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Speaker 2: the face. I started shaking, crying, and panicking so hard
19:49
Speaker 2: I couldn't breathe and wrenched in the bathroom. I held
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Speaker 2: it together just long enough to get it out. Once
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Speaker 2: that had passed, my husband insisted I called the cops.
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Speaker 2: It took about 20 minutes of coaxing, but I did.
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Speaker 2: They showed up and I spent two hours with a
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Speaker 2: couple of officers trying to explain the whole situation. One
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Speaker 2: of the officers had to sit me down and guide
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Speaker 2: me through another panic attack. After I told them everything,
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Speaker 2: they suggested I change my routine and that they would
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Speaker 2: be doing some follow-ups with the leasing office to get
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Speaker 2: security footage to catch the guys responsible. The cops showed
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Speaker 2: up to the leasing office about an hour after they opened,
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Speaker 2: but they had kept the doors long during business hours
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Speaker 2: and wouldn't answer the door. The officers told me this,
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Speaker 2: and then explained they drove around the complex to look
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Speaker 2: for security cameras, but they found none. So, they found
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Speaker 2: out and then told me that the security the leasing
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Speaker 2: office possessed was only one camera, which was pointed in
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Speaker 2: the main office, and that was it. They also had
20:53
Speaker 2: no security footage, and they boast to have excellent security.
20:57
Speaker 2: Like I said before, I don't know if the two
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Speaker 2: incidents of what happened to me are related or not.
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Speaker 2: I personally don't think they are, But it was still
21:06
Speaker 2: very frightening to be in a location that I'm supposed
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Speaker 2: to consider my home and then have my own home
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Speaker 2: broken into and I'm almost abducted right out of my yard.
21:16
Speaker 2: We ended up moving out a month later into a
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Speaker 2: small town neighborhood several miles away where it's a hell
21:21
Speaker 2: of a lot safer. But that's my story. If anyone's
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Speaker 2: ever feeling unsafe for reasons they can't explain or just
21:29
Speaker 2: a general sense of anxiety that something bad's going to happen,
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Speaker 2: don't ignore it. and please stay alert. I'm so glad
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Speaker 2: that I don't live in apartments anymore, at least in
21:45
Speaker 2: the city I used to live in. I had a
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Speaker 2: family across the hall from me, and they were okay people,
21:52
Speaker 2: except for their oldest son. He didn't say much, but
21:57
Speaker 2: when he did, he talked in a creepy kind of
21:59
Speaker 2: soft-spoken way, like Michael Jackson, but more like he was
22:03
Speaker 2: on something. He had offered to help us move my
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Speaker 2: wife's stuff into our apartment when her family showed up
22:09
Speaker 2: with the U-Haul, and her family being trusted people said yes. Now,
22:14
Speaker 2: I was a bit hesitant, but we did need the
22:17
Speaker 2: extra help. We somehow got to talking about a pair
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Speaker 2: of pants that I no longer needed, and he's immediately like, Yo,
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Speaker 2: can I have them? Sure, whatever dude. He stares at
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Speaker 2: the pants like he found lost treasure. It was weird.
22:33
Speaker 2: As we're moving stuff, He then asks if there's anything
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Speaker 2: else he can have. Creepy. I told him we'd let
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Speaker 2: him know if something fit him that we don't want.
22:44
Speaker 2: After that, my wife knew firsthand just how weird he was.
22:48
Speaker 2: One time, he randomly knocked on our door and asked
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Speaker 2: if we wanted to buy some candy. Fast forward a
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Speaker 2: few months later, and some unrelated stuff in our apartment
22:56
Speaker 2: was making us uneasy, and we were seriously considering not
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Speaker 2: renewing our lease. I knew it was time to leave
23:03
Speaker 2: when we were woken up at 6 a.m. one morning
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Speaker 2: to hear the police shouting, It's the police! Open up!
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Speaker 2: We have a search warrant! They shouted two more times,
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Speaker 2: and then we heard a loud crack, and we saw
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Speaker 2: through the people that they busted down a door. A
23:20
Speaker 2: week later, the family moved out. I hated that they
23:23
Speaker 2: left because other members of the family seemed pretty normal. Unfortunately,
23:28
Speaker 2: a week or two later, we see the older creepy
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Speaker 2: ass son hanging around our hallway. I had nodded to
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Speaker 2: him on my way out to get the mail and
23:37
Speaker 2: I then called my wife like, he's still here? What
23:41
Speaker 2: the hell? She says I should strike up a conversation
23:45
Speaker 2: to find out if his family's still here and then
23:47
Speaker 2: I'm confused even though we saw them taking out furniture.
23:51
Speaker 2: So when I came back to the apartment, I had
23:54
Speaker 2: made eye contact and I asked how his family's doing.
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Speaker 2: they're good. He responds, cool, cool, good to hear. I
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Speaker 2: haven't seen y'all around lately. I thought I saw them
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Speaker 2: moving stuff out. Wait, did y'all move? Yeah, they moved.
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Speaker 2: I ended the conversation soon after and then went back
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Speaker 2: into my own apartment. If they moved, why the hell
24:18
Speaker 2: is he hanging around our hallway? The only thing I
24:22
Speaker 2: can think of is that maybe the older son was
24:24
Speaker 2: into drugs, which would explain his weird behavior. Then the
24:28
Speaker 2: police caught him buying or selling drugs and busted down
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Speaker 2: his family's place because it's his address. Maybe they didn't
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Speaker 2: take him with them because they didn't want part of
24:37
Speaker 2: any of his lifestyle. It's really the only thing I
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Speaker 2: can make out of it, and we only saw him
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Speaker 2: a couple more times before we moved. We barely landed
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Speaker 2: an opening in an apartment on the other side of
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Speaker 2: the town, which is much safer. Our budget was real tight,
24:53
Speaker 2: but it was well worth it. and I'm so glad
24:56
Speaker 2: that I don't live in that area anymore. Peace, love,
25:00
Speaker 2: and be safe and vigilant out there, everyone. Please. When
25:07
Speaker 2: I was in college, I lived in apartments that weren't
25:10
Speaker 2: on campus but still called student housing. I saw this
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Speaker 2: guy around that I thought was pretty cute. His name
25:17
Speaker 2: was Kiefer. He knocked on my door one day and
25:21
Speaker 2: he said he was the maintenance man and that he
25:22
Speaker 2: needed to change our AC filters. I was making dinner
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Speaker 2: for my roommate at the time and for myself, and
25:28
Speaker 2: he commented that it smelled really good, so I invited
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Speaker 2: him in to stay for dinner. All went pretty normal
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Speaker 2: as we watched a movie afterwards. Totally innocent. At about
25:40
Speaker 2: midnight or so, I kept telling him that I was
25:42
Speaker 2: really tired, trying to hint for him to leave. My
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Speaker 2: roommate had already gone to bed, so it was just
25:48
Speaker 2: him and me now. After telling him to leave because
25:51
Speaker 2: I was going to bed, he kept trying to talk
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Speaker 2: me out of it, saying that I should stay up longer.
25:56
Speaker 2: He just kept taking forever, trying to drag it out.
26:00
Speaker 2: When he was putting on his shoes, he then started
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Speaker 2: crying that he had a cramp in both of his calves.
26:05
Speaker 2: He told me that he couldn't walk upstairs and that
26:07
Speaker 2: he didn't know what to do. I really wanted to
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Speaker 2: go knock on his door to have his roommate come
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Speaker 2: and get him, but I'm in a wheelchair and I
26:15
Speaker 2: couldn't go upstairs. We had an extra bedroom in our
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Speaker 2: apartment that only had a bed in it and nothing else.
26:22
Speaker 2: He continued asking if he could sleep in the room
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Speaker 2: and I kept telling him no. We argued for like
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Speaker 2: 10 minutes about allowing him to sleep in the extra bedroom.
26:31
Speaker 2: I was so freaking exhausted I just went ahead and
26:34
Speaker 2: decided to let him. I locked my roommate's door and
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Speaker 2: my door so that he at least couldn't come into
26:39
Speaker 2: our rooms. When I woke up the next morning luckily
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Speaker 2: he was gone and nothing was stolen. I honestly should
26:46
Speaker 2: have reported it to the apartment complex but I wasn't
26:49
Speaker 2: really thinking. A couple of days later I heard someone
26:52
Speaker 2: knock on my bedroom window in the middle of the
26:54
Speaker 2: night and I totally flipped out about it. It ended
26:58
Speaker 2: up being Kiefer but obviously I didn't let him in.
27:02
Speaker 2: Then the next night my roommate and I were in
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Speaker 2: the living room and then he came and knocked on
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Speaker 2: our door. Ashley my roommate answered it and he asked
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Speaker 2: for me and she said that I was asleep already.
27:13
Speaker 2: His response? No, I know she's not asleep. I look
27:17
Speaker 2: inside y'all's window, so I know she's awake. Yeah, Kiefer
27:22
Speaker 2: was definitely a creep. So, about four years ago, my
27:29
Speaker 2: parents were going out. And with that, I was going
27:33
Speaker 2: to be home all alone for at least three to
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Speaker 2: four hours. They left around six, and they said they
27:40
Speaker 2: would be home around nine to twelve. Whenever they left,
27:44
Speaker 2: I went downstairs. I got some snacks and I had
27:48
Speaker 2: put on Netflix to then look around for a new show.
27:52
Speaker 2: After like two hours of watching a new show, that's
27:56
Speaker 2: when I then heard a very strange noise coming from
27:58
Speaker 2: the front porch. Keep in mind, I have a wraparound
28:03
Speaker 2: porch and there were a lot of windows looking out.
28:07
Speaker 2: Me being curious, I pulled back the curtains and then
28:11
Speaker 2: looked out into the dark yard. After looking around, nothing
28:16
Speaker 2: seemed off, until I saw a black silhouette of a
28:20
Speaker 2: man standing by the front door. I froze in fear,
28:25
Speaker 2: dropping the curtains, and then ran upstairs into my parents' room.
28:30
Speaker 2: After five minutes of waiting, I decided to text my parents.
28:34
Speaker 2: I told them the incident, and surprise, surprise, they didn't
28:39
Speaker 2: believe me, given that I was only thirteen. I sat
28:44
Speaker 2: there and I thought maybe it was my imagination. I
28:48
Speaker 2: decided to walk back downstairs and finish my show. I
28:51
Speaker 2: realized the motion sensor light in the backyard was now on.
28:56
Speaker 2: You can either turn the light on, or if anyone
28:58
Speaker 2: walks by it, it will turn on automatically. Keep in
29:02
Speaker 2: mind then, this light isn't very sensitive. Most time it
29:06
Speaker 2: turns on whenever a person or animal walks by it.
29:11
Speaker 2: Once I realized what was going on, I ran back
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Speaker 2: to my parents' room, once again in tears. I picked
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Speaker 2: up the house phone to call the police, when I
29:21
Speaker 2: then heard a whisper from outside my window. Hey, I
29:26
Speaker 2: know you're in there. Just come out. Come out here
29:31
Speaker 2: real quick. I just want to talk to you. My
29:35
Speaker 2: heart dropped and was about to beat right out of
29:38
Speaker 2: my chest. I froze in fear, then snapped back and
29:43
Speaker 2: called the police. The 911 operator told me to hide
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Speaker 2: in a closet and to stay quiet. She told me
29:51
Speaker 2: to stay on the line just in case anything else happens. Also,
29:55
Speaker 2: keep in mind that my house is around 15 minutes
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Speaker 2: away from the nearest town. After sitting in my parents' closet,
30:02
Speaker 2: I heard the back door creak. Tears started rolling as
30:07
Speaker 2: I then heard someone walking around in the kitchen and
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Speaker 2: living room. I told the 911 operator what was happening
30:14
Speaker 2: and then I heard something fall over downstairs. Then I
30:18
Speaker 2: heard the stairs creaking and a man walking around the bedrooms.
30:24
Speaker 2: Thank God I locked the bedroom door because he saw
30:27
Speaker 2: it was locked and just kept going Or so I thought. Well,
30:33
Speaker 2: after around 30 seconds, I heard the loudest bang of
30:37
Speaker 2: my life and with a man screaming. And like a miracle,
30:42
Speaker 2: right after this, I then heard police sirens and the
30:46
Speaker 2: man running away and then the back door slamming shut.
30:50
Speaker 2: I ran out and I saw him running into the woods.
30:54
Speaker 2: I ran outside and I told the cops everything. And
30:58
Speaker 2: then they took me to my aunt's house. where I
31:00
Speaker 2: waited at for my parents to come home. Ever since
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Speaker 2: this happened, they never did find the man, considering we
31:09
Speaker 2: never really got any details on him. I pray and
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Speaker 2: hope he never returns.