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6 Walmart at Night Horror Stories That Will Make You Avoid Late-Night Shopping · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: Last year, I went to Walmart at about two o'clock
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. I occasionally worked really late, and on
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: this day, I worked well past one a m. I
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  Speaker 1: needed to get groceries, and I really wasn't that sleepy yet,
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  Speaker 1: so I decided to stop at Walmart, knowing the store
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  Speaker 1: was open but nobody would be there. I got in
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  Speaker 1: the store, which was in fact dead, and started to shop.
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  Speaker 1: I only noticed a couple of other shoppers. When I
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  Speaker 1: got to the back corner of the store to get yogurt,
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  Speaker 1: I noticed a man standing next to the shelves, just
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  Speaker 1: staring at me. At first, I thought maybe he knew me,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't recognize him at all. He kept a
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  Speaker 1: completely straight face. He just wouldn't take his eyes off me.
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  Speaker 1: I said high and nodded my head at him. He
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  Speaker 1: just kept staring, didn't acknowledge me at all. I thought,
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  Speaker 1: so something must be wrong with him. So I got
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  Speaker 1: the yogurt and moved on. When I left the aisle,
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  Speaker 1: I heard him start to follow me. I tried my
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  Speaker 1: best to just ignore him. Maybe he was playing a
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  Speaker 1: dumb prank on me or something. I only needed about
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  Speaker 1: two more things, so I quit, grabbed them and headed
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  Speaker 1: to the self checkout. The man followed me all the
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  Speaker 1: way there, about twenty or thirty feet behind me the
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  Speaker 1: whole time. When I was checking out, I thought about
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  Speaker 1: alerting a store worker about the man, but I decided
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  Speaker 1: not to. I just wanted to get my stuff and
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  Speaker 1: go home. I finished checking out and began walking to
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  Speaker 1: my car. I got out of the doors of Walmart,
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  Speaker 1: and the man continued to follow me out into the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot. I increased my pace to get to my
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  Speaker 1: car so I could drive away. Then the man started
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  Speaker 1: to fall out sprint at me. When I saw I
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  Speaker 1: ran to my car. I struggled to open the doors
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  Speaker 1: with bags in my hands. I finally got to the
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  Speaker 1: door and jumped inside. I slammed the door shut and
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  Speaker 1: locked it. The man reached my car and tried opening
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  Speaker 1: the door just a few seconds later. Now he didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a straight face anymore. He had a big smile,
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  Speaker 1: which looked completely insane. He banged on my window until
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  Speaker 1: I quickly drove away. I have not shopped at Walmart
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  Speaker 1: since a couple of years ago. I went to Walmart
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  Speaker 1: at night with two of my good friends, John and David.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly what we needed to get there,
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  Speaker 1: probably food or something, but I do remember that we
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  Speaker 1: wound up near the sports car because John was really
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  Speaker 1: into them at the time. The three of us were
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  Speaker 1: in high school and we were looking at a box
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  Speaker 1: of baseball cards when a man approached us. He looked
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  Speaker 1: at me, about twenty five to thirty, was wearing a
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  Speaker 1: hood and smelled like cigarettes. He asked us if we
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  Speaker 1: drove here and if we could give him a ride.
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  Speaker 1: I said no, sorry, I can't. He said that he
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  Speaker 1: didn't need to go very far, but he really needed
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  Speaker 1: a ride. I still said no, and he stood there
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  Speaker 1: for a good ten seconds before finally walking away. My
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  Speaker 1: friends and I then went to another section of the
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  Speaker 1: store for a couple minutes before checking out and leaving.
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  Speaker 1: When we left the store, we saw the man again.
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  Speaker 1: He was standing outside the door smoking. He looked at us,
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  Speaker 1: so we tried to avoid eye contact, but he started
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  Speaker 1: to approach us again. We just ignored him. The man
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  Speaker 1: started to walk with us us to my car. He
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  Speaker 1: said once more that he really needed a ride. I
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  Speaker 1: told him no yet again, and my friends and I
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  Speaker 1: got into my car. As we got in, to my surprise,
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  Speaker 1: he helped himself and got in the back seat. He said,
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  Speaker 1: now we don't have a choice. With a smile. I
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  Speaker 1: told him to leave the car. He responded by saying
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  Speaker 1: he was not leaving until I drove him where he
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  Speaker 1: needed to go. Finally, I asked him where it was
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  Speaker 1: he needed to go. He replied by saying I would
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  Speaker 1: find out when I got there. This guy was being
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  Speaker 1: super sketchy, and I couldn't help but think of him
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  Speaker 1: having us drive him to a spot to get robbed
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  Speaker 1: or something. My friend John told him he was going
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  Speaker 1: to call the police if he didn't leave the car.
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  Speaker 1: The man said something along the lines of if we
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  Speaker 1: called the police, he would hurt us. All we were
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  Speaker 1: high school kids and not that big, but three against one,
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  Speaker 1: I thought maybe we could take him. But then again,
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea what this man was capable of.
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  Speaker 1: The man told me to drive, and so I started
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  Speaker 1: to drive. Just a couple seconds later, though, to my surprise,
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  Speaker 1: we saw a police car that happened to be pulling
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  Speaker 1: into the parking lot. The man cursed at us and
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  Speaker 1: then told me to stop. I stopped the car and
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  Speaker 1: he got out. I don't know if the man just
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  Speaker 1: really wanted to ride or if he had bad intentions,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm glad I didn't find out. I work at
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  Speaker 1: a Walmart stocking shelves. I frequently work overnight shifts, and
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  Speaker 1: that's when much of the stocking is done. Our store
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  Speaker 1: is at twenty four hour store, so I occasionally have
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  Speaker 1: to deal with customers, but usually I don't interact with
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  Speaker 1: them much at all. A couple of weeks ago, I
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  Speaker 1: was stalking the shelf of a cleaning supply aisle near
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  Speaker 1: the back of the store. It was about three o'clock
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. I was restocking hand sanitizer when I
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  Speaker 1: heard some one walk from the aisle behind me to
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  Speaker 1: the aisle I was in. I briefly looked, and from
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  Speaker 1: the corner of my eye I could see some one
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  Speaker 1: entering the aisle. I kept working, and I felt them
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  Speaker 1: walk past me and to the other end of the aisle.
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  Speaker 1: The person then walked back over to me and tapped
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  Speaker 1: me on my shoulder. I looked and I could see
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  Speaker 1: it was a man. He appeared to me about twenty
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  Speaker 1: five years old, with a goatee and long hair. He
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  Speaker 1: asked me if I could help him with something. I
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  Speaker 1: asked him what he needed help with. He just stood
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  Speaker 1: there looking at me for a good five seconds before
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  Speaker 1: he responded. He finally told me that he needed some
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  Speaker 1: tooth paste. I told him where it was, but he
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  Speaker 1: insisted I go with so I stopped working, got up
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  Speaker 1: and started to walk with the man. As we were
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  Speaker 1: walking over, he seemed to know where we were going
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  Speaker 1: and was leading the way. When we finally arrived, I
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  Speaker 1: was shocked at what I saw. Just about every item
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  Speaker 1: from the shelves had been thrown on to the floor,
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  Speaker 1: and there was a huge pile of toothpaste, as well
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  Speaker 1: as tooth brushes and other items all over the floor.
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  Speaker 1: The man just looked at me and smiled. I asked
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  Speaker 1: him if he did this. He smiled at me with
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  Speaker 1: a creepy smile and said yes. He then took off
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  Speaker 1: and sprinted away towards the exits and ran out the store.
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  Speaker 1: I ended up having to clean it up. This was
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  Speaker 1: by far the strangest thing that ever happened to me
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  Speaker 1: while working at Walmart.
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  Speaker 2: It was approaching one of my niece's birthdays, and she's
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  Speaker 2: at the age where I think she would appreciate a
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  Speaker 2: gift from her uncle. I'm a poor college student with
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  Speaker 2: a new car, so I commute everywhere and anywhere, knowing
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  Speaker 2: that I always take my backpack and headphones anytime I
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  Speaker 2: leave my house. So I'm at Walmart and have this
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  Speaker 2: care package planned out for my niece. She loves Elsa
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  Speaker 2: from Frozen, so I decided to get her a costume, doll,
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  Speaker 2: and candy, all Frozen themed. Of course, like I mentioned earlier,
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  Speaker 2: any place I travel, I usually have my headphones in.
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  Speaker 2: This is kind of a pain to explain, but this
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  Speaker 2: detail defines the whole story. Now, I'm so lazy, I
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  Speaker 2: use a third party music app instead of the music
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  Speaker 2: app included on my iPhone. Unfortunately for me, this requires
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  Speaker 2: a good internet connection and living in rural parts of Denver,
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  Speaker 2: my music ends up cutting in and out and then
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  Speaker 2: stops playing altogether. Now at this point, I have one
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  Speaker 2: item left on my list, and I'm in the toy
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  Speaker 2: section of Walmart looking for an Alsa toy. Before I
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  Speaker 2: know it, this mom leaves her too children beside me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure why, but this has happened before. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: I have a trustworthy face. Let me tell you all
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  Speaker 2: something now, there are so many strange things that happen
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  Speaker 2: in this world that I would be a fool to
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  Speaker 2: leave these two children alone. And for the record, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know these people at all. It's kind of a pain,
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  Speaker 2: but I figured it's just me being a good person.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know how some people can do this.
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  Speaker 2: This is literally a woman leaving her two children at
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  Speaker 2: a section of the store and telling them to wait
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  Speaker 2: there for a short while. Anyways, one girl is around
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  Speaker 2: four years old and her sister was around one to
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  Speaker 2: two years old. The older sister had one missing crock
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  Speaker 2: and her younger sister had pajamas on and a pacifier
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  Speaker 2: in her mouth. I felt even more obligated to stay
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  Speaker 2: until their mom came back, and I was right. Not
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  Speaker 2: even five minutes passed since their mom left, and some
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  Speaker 2: fool came up and started talking to these girls. I
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  Speaker 2: have lots of toys and candy in my car, and
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  Speaker 2: a dog too. He probably thought I wasn't listening because
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  Speaker 2: I had my headphones in, but like I said, by
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  Speaker 2: this point, my music had cut out a long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as he mentioned his dog, I immediately made
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  Speaker 2: my way up to him. He was crouched down talking
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  Speaker 2: to the girl about the stuffed animal she had in
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  Speaker 2: her hand. My dog is really big. He's not pink,
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  Speaker 2: but he's nice. Would you like to come and meet him?
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  Speaker 2: I crouched down and pushed the girl back a few steps. Immediately,
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  Speaker 2: the guy moved back a few steps himself. I extended
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  Speaker 2: my arm and shook my finger back and forth, gesturing
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  Speaker 2: to him, no, not to day. I gave the guy
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  Speaker 2: a very harsh look, like I knew exactly what he
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  Speaker 2: was doing, and I just stared at him very attentively.
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  Speaker 2: The guy was very short and stature and had short,
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  Speaker 2: stringy hair with the tan pilot jacket. He was also
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: wearing some very beat up, new balanced tennis shoes. He
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: looked very plain. To describe him best, At this point,
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  Speaker 2: I was about to pounce on him and hold him
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  Speaker 2: down if need be. I'm not even the big guy myself.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't stand for any bolt. Before that could happen,
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  Speaker 2: he immediately got up, turned right, and handed out the
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  Speaker 2: garden exit. I waited with the little girl and her
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  Speaker 2: sister until their mom came back. I said, yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't leave your children alone. Some guy was talking to
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  Speaker 2: one shoe over here about some generic bolts, probably trying
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  Speaker 2: to kidnap your kids. Those were my exact words. I
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  Speaker 2: mean there's no denying what just happened. Anyways, I told
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  Speaker 2: her she won't be as lucky next time. The mom
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  Speaker 2: just shook her head up and down and swallowed any
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  Speaker 2: spit that was in her mouth in a very harsh gulp.
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know if something bad would have happened, but
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: if my music had not stopped playing, let's just say
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: neither one of those girls could speak for themselves. I
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: live in a very populated city, and in approximately a
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  Speaker 2: five mile radius of my house there's at least three
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  Speaker 2: major groceryes, one of which is a Walmart. Being a
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  Speaker 2: sixteen year old girl, I visit Walmart regularly if I
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: need note books or something for school, or if I
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: want a brows, make up, and things of that sort.
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  Speaker 2: I've never been uncomfortable going shopping by myself. I actually
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  Speaker 2: enjoy it, and I've never had any bad experiences being
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  Speaker 2: on my own until one day a few months back.
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  Speaker 2: On this particular Sunday, my parents were working and my
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  Speaker 2: little brother was at a baseball game, so I had
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  Speaker 2: been home alone all day. I needed body wash and
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: a new lanyard for school. The school I attend requires
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: we wear IDs around our necks on the lanyard. I
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  Speaker 2: think most high schools are doing this now and it's
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  Speaker 2: becoming more common. Anyway, mine broke the friday before, so
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  Speaker 2: that was my main reason for going out. I got
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  Speaker 2: to wal Mart and park, like I had a hundred
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: times before, went in and went straight to the purse
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  Speaker 2: section where the lanyards were. I walked down the aisle
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  Speaker 2: and there was a man looking at wallets hanging on
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  Speaker 2: the display. I didn't think much of him. He was
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: probably in his mid fifties, average height and weight, wearing
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  Speaker 2: jeans and a brown T shirt. He looked just like
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  Speaker 2: an old grampa I I could best describe him. Hi there,
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  Speaker 2: he said, with a big grin. Hi, I said, with
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  Speaker 2: a grin back. How are you to day? I'm good?
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  Speaker 2: How are you? I said, still browsing for a lanyard?
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  Speaker 2: I like, great, I'm just doing some shopping today, another
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  Speaker 2: big smile. I thought it was weird that he explained
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  Speaker 2: that he was shopping, since I could clearly see him
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  Speaker 2: looking at all the wallets on the racks, and I
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  Speaker 2: could have assumed he was shopping on my own. I
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: decided it was nothing and moved on my way. I
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  Speaker 2: found what I needed and made my way over to
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  Speaker 2: the body wash. I was in no rush to be anywhere,
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  Speaker 2: so I was leisurely walking up and down the aisle,
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  Speaker 2: smelling anything that sounded interesting. When he walked by the
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  Speaker 2: aisle that I was in and smiled again. At this
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  Speaker 2: point I was a little uneasy. I've always been taught
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  Speaker 2: to trust my gut instinct, and some something just didn't
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  Speaker 2: feel right to me. I had never had a conversation
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  Speaker 2: with anyone in this walmart before, and now it seemed
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  Speaker 2: that this man was following me. I texted a friend
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  Speaker 2: of mine to tell her that I thought I was
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  Speaker 2: being followed and where I was at as a precautionary measure.
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  Speaker 2: I decided that maybe it was just a coincidence. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he could have just needed soap too, and continued on
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  Speaker 2: with my shopping. I went a few whiles up the
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  Speaker 2: face wash, and then when I had what I needed,
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: I walked around the corner, where I ran into him
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  Speaker 2: again for the third time. Excuse me, young lady, Can
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  Speaker 2: I tell you something? Uh? Yeah, I said, with a
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  Speaker 2: quivering smile. You are very beautiful. Oh thank you. I
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: was very uncomfortable at this point. Are you married? Mind
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  Speaker 2: yourself that I'm only sixteen and definitely didn't look old
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  Speaker 2: enough to be married. No, ha ha, me either, he said,
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: with the grin that turned my heart to ice and
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  Speaker 2: made my stomach turn. Do you have a boyfriend? Uh? Yeah,
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: I stammered, as I forced a smile on my face
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  Speaker 2: to try and hide my fear. I didn't have a
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  Speaker 2: boyfriend at the time. He began to speak again when
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  Speaker 2: a man probably seventeen or eighteen, standing in the aisle
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  Speaker 2: perpendicular to us looking at cologne, walked over and said, yes,
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  Speaker 2: she does. She is with me. He gave me the
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  Speaker 2: biggest smile and stood super close to me as if
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  Speaker 2: he was the boyfriend I had said yes to having. Oh,
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: I figured, said the man. He seemed very uncomfortable at
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: the presence of another male. Good luck to you two,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: and with that he walked away. I turned towards the
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  Speaker 2: man and thanked him for coming to my rescue. He
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: said he could tell by the tone of my voice
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  Speaker 2: and look on my face something was up and was
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: hoping I would play along with him. He watched me
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  Speaker 2: check out to make sure the man didn't follow me
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  Speaker 2: out of the store, and I was cautious before turning
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  Speaker 2: onto the streets since I lived so close to the store.
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  Speaker 2: This was the last I saw of either of them.
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  Speaker 2: I've no idea what the old man's intentions were, but
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you'd just know in your gut that something is wrong,
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  Speaker 2: and that day I knew something about him was terrifying
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  Speaker 2: and sinister. I'm so grateful for the guy who helped
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  Speaker 2: me out, But to the old man who was following
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: me in Walmart, please find someone your own age. I
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: live on campus at a public university in a small
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: college town. It's pretty quiet existence, but I like the
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: peace and I'm rarely bothered by too much in the
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: way of general excitement. My roommate and I usually just
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: spend our time watching Netflix and eating microwave macaroni in
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: our dorm, typical college stuff. I don't really do much
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: on campus, save for the occasional walk at night to
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: our school's computer lab. Most days are generally pretty uneventful
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: for me, with the exception of to day. Me and
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: my roommate drink a lot of water, so we have
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: to buy a couple of cases every few weeks. I
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: decided to go to Walmart to pick up our refill
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: and he stayed behind to finish some homework. I left
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  Speaker 2: around eight o'clock and drove into town to run a
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: few errands late before stopping at Walmart. I don't know
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: what it is about that place, but I dread going there.
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  Speaker 2: Something just isn't right with the type of people who
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: hang out at Walmart in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 2: But I usually just ignore the typical wanderers and weirdos
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  Speaker 2: and go on with my business. I grabbed a couple
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  Speaker 2: of cases and hurried to the self checkout. It was
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: approaching nine o'clock, and that's usually when the strangest folks
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: set up camp for the night. I paid at the machine,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: grabbed the receipt between my index and middle fingers, and
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: then grabbed the water to carry them out to my
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: truck without a cart. I wasn't part too far out,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: but I was far enough that the crowd of cars
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: was thinner than it is close to the entrance. I
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: don't know why, but for some reason, I hate parking
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: up front. I went to set the cases of water
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: in the bed of my truck, but as I lifted up,
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: a quiet breeze and a lack of grip on my
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: part allowed the receipt to fly off from a hand.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: I finished putting the water up and chased after it.
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  Speaker 2: The small piece of crumpled up paper had drifted into
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  Speaker 2: an empty part of the lot, underneath the street light.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I've bent over to pick it up and I noticed
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: something a phone. It was a white iPhone five CE,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: lying face down on the asphalt in between the yellow
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: lines of a parking space. There was a huge scratch
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: across the black Apple logo, and the thing looked pretty
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: beaten up in general. Now, typically I'm the type of
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: guy to leave things alone that don't have anything to
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: do with me. But there were no cars anywhere around it,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: and I thought maybe I could find the owner, so
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I picked it up. The screen was all but shattered,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: with a huge crack in the top right corner, covering
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: most of the thin black piece of glass on the front.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: It was apparent to me that someone had probably dropped
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: it loading it into their vehicle. On knowing, I slid
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: it into my pocket and added home. I got back
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: to the room around nine fifteen and my roommate was gone.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: He had went to the lab to finish studying for
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: his Japanese class. I unloaded the water and began to
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: take everything out of my pockets. I set the phone
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: down on the dresser and checked my phone to see
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: if I had any texts or group chat messages. I didn't.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: I picked up the white phone and pressed the home button.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: The screen hesitantly lit up with the background picture of
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: two girls I didn't recognize. They were both blondes, and
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: they were posing for the photo as any typical sorority
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: girls would. They were definitely young, probably in their early twenties.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I swiped the screen to unlock it, but it required
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: a four digit pass code. Of course I didn't know it,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: but I took a couple of failed guesses. There was
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: no way for me to figure out who the phone
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: belonged to, so I set it on my dresser. I
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: know a guy in my stat's class who has jail
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: broken iPhones before, so I figured I would just take
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: it to him later. I n dressed for the night
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: and got into bed around ten o'clock. That was almost
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: three hours ago. I'm still in my room and it's
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: approaching one in the morning. My roommate is pulling a
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: late night study session with a friend of his, so
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen him for a while. Twenty minutes ago,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: the phone rang. It was the regular iPhone ring and
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: the contact name was Kara. The picture ID that came
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: up was one of the girls on the front of
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: the phone. I figured it must have been the owner's
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: friend calling to see if someone had stolen the phone.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I sat there as it rang a few times, quickly
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: debating whether to answer or not. After five or six rings,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I picked up the phone and slid the bar to answer.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I put it up to my ear, but before I
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: could say anything, a loud, screaming voice came across the receiver. Jen, Jen,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: please help me. Oh God, he's.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Going to kill me. Jen.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: The voice cut off abruptly, and there was a thud,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: as though the phone had been dropped. I heard a
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: sound like heavy breathing, and then the receiver beaped, signaling
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the end of a call. I'm sitting in bed now,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: wide awake. I don't know what to do. I can't sleep. Jen,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: please contact me to get your phone back. I don't
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: want anything to do with it.