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6 Creepy Flatmate/Apartment Horror Stories That Will Make You Fear Living Alone · True Horror Stories

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Speaker 1: This happened nine years ago, but I had just ended
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Speaker 1: a four year relationship and then moved into an old
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Speaker 1: building in downtown Paris. I had to start all over
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Speaker 1: again from scratch.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: I did the mistake to let my ex girlfriend keep
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Speaker 1: a lot of my furniture, kitchen, cutlery, pans, coffee machine, etc.
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Speaker 1: At the time, I had worked as a waiter, so
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Speaker 1: I could only afford a one room apartment from a
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Speaker 1: Council of State building. It was really old and barely
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Speaker 1: even clean, but at least I had a roof over
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Speaker 1: my head. The first two weeks nothing had happened, but
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Speaker 1: quickly I began to hear someone talking at night. It
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Speaker 1: was kind of like mumblings. It basically said just go
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Speaker 1: and die already. When I looked into the door, Judah,
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Speaker 1: I had saw a scrawny, shirtless guy smiling and scratching
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Speaker 1: the door with his finger. This became a thing. Every
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Speaker 1: two or three nights he would come and threaten me
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Speaker 1: through the door or sing songs with a really childish voice.
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Speaker 1: I thought about opening the door and asking him what
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Speaker 1: he wanted, but I was afraid that he had a
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Speaker 1: knife or something, and I couldn't see his hands while
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Speaker 1: looking into the door Judo. What really stunned me is
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Speaker 1: that he acted totally normal whenever I stumbled upon him
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Speaker 1: during the day, and he actually denied being the one
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Speaker 1: to do this at night. I even got mad at
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Speaker 1: him for it, but he seemed to genuinely not understand
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Speaker 1: what the hell I was talking about. One day, I
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Speaker 1: came home with a girl that I had met at
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Speaker 1: a bar that I was working at. For some reason.
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Speaker 1: She had left during the night, and I went back
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Speaker 1: to sleep. The mumbling started again, only this time it
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Speaker 1: fell really close. I opened my eyes only to witness
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Speaker 1: the scrawny neighbor now headbutting the wall and singing what
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Speaker 1: sounded like a mix between religious chants and also a
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Speaker 1: lulla by in slow motion. I was honestly totally paralyzed
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Speaker 1: by the fear. I tried to communicate with him, but
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Speaker 1: it was just grinning, and he ended up exiting the
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Speaker 1: apartment by himself. That I had enough and finally decided
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Speaker 1: to call the police. They took him in all right,
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Speaker 1: and he ended up getting put into a psych word. Apparently,
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Speaker 1: this guy had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and he was
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Speaker 1: put in a psychiatric hospital because of it. He wasn't
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Speaker 1: supposed to live at his place anymore. He had apparently
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Speaker 1: ran away from the hospital two months ago. He initially
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Speaker 1: got sent into the psych word after bashing a shovel
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Speaker 1: into a postman's head, putting him into a coma. He
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Speaker 1: did that for absolutely no reason at all. I never
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Speaker 1: saw him again, and I moved out two years after that.
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Speaker 1: I'm a twenty five year old female and I had
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Speaker 1: just bought my first home in December of twenty nineteen
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Speaker 1: in West Michigan. The neighborhoods some quiet and safe, which
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Speaker 1: I was pleased with, being that I live alone with
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Speaker 1: only my dog to keep me company. Having a degree
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Speaker 1: in social work and recently interning at the county jail
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Speaker 1: has made me a bit jaded when it comes to
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Speaker 1: local crime and the overall darker side of civilization. I've
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Speaker 1: met quite a few of the surrounding neighbors, many of
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Speaker 1: which are on the older side, and they all seem pleasant,
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Speaker 1: but of course there's always that one loopy neighbor that
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Speaker 1: has to ruin it. About a month after I moved
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Speaker 1: in there, there was a knock in my door. I answered,
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Speaker 1: and there was a man around his late fifties to
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Speaker 1: early sixties waiting there. As I opened the door, he
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Speaker 1: introduced himself. We'll call him John. John had a beard
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Speaker 1: and was a little on the hefty side. It smelled
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Speaker 1: of cigarettes, but overall looks like a pretty normal dude
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Speaker 1: for his age. He told me he lived a few
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Speaker 1: doors down and he had welcomed me to the neighborhood
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Speaker 1: and said that he's a good handyman, so if I
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Speaker 1: ever needed anything, I could let him know. I thanked him,
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Speaker 1: and I thought I was nice to know that I
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Speaker 1: had someone I could go to help for if there
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Speaker 1: was an emergency. He asked if I lived with anyone,
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Speaker 1: and I said no, that it was just me. It
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Speaker 1: struck me as slightly odd that he would ask, but
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Speaker 1: I figured I was just being paranoid. As the conversation ended,
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Speaker 1: John said, you know, you're a really beautiful girl. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: very pretty, and he smiled at me. I smiled back
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Speaker 1: and thanked him. Although shivers had written down my spine.
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Speaker 1: After he left, I thought about his comment for a while.
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Speaker 1: Had he been a decade or two older, it may
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Speaker 1: have come off as more of a cute thing than
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Speaker 1: an elderly man might say to a younger woman, but
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Speaker 1: the ways said it struck me as quite odd. As
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Speaker 1: the months passed, we casually waved to each other as
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Speaker 1: neighbors normally do, but I didn't directly speak to him
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Speaker 1: again until just a few weeks ago, almost one year
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Speaker 1: after our first conversation. I was raking leaves in the
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Speaker 1: front yard and I had my dog tied him to
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Speaker 1: a tree so they could lay outside in the sun
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Speaker 1: and watch me. My dog, whose name is Newton, is
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Speaker 1: a mid size mixed breed what I believe to be
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Speaker 1: a border Collie and some type of shepherd. I got
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Speaker 1: him from a local shelter when he was just a pup.
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Speaker 1: He's a real cutie and he's very gentle and calm
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Speaker 1: around me, but he can be quite protective and he
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Speaker 1: isn't always the fondest of males that he isn't familiar with.
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Speaker 1: While I was raking the leaves, John comes over and
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Speaker 1: is riding mower. It starts to mow the unfinished side
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Speaker 1: of my line. I was a little annoyed because I
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Speaker 1: was right in the midst of learning how to take
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Speaker 1: care of fall leaves for the first time. But I
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Speaker 1: didn't let this show and just continued finishing up my patch.
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Speaker 1: After he finished, he had hopped off the mower and
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Speaker 1: he walked over to me and Newton. Newton's tail was wagging,
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Speaker 1: but it was apparent that he was also a bit
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Speaker 1: on edge. John and I spoke for a moment, and
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Speaker 1: I thanked him. Then John turns to Newton and he
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Speaker 1: puts his hand out. Newton sniffs his hand and he
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Speaker 1: begins to growl a bit. As I'm attempting to hush him,
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Speaker 1: John proceeds to swat at his face in a playful gesture,
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Speaker 1: not a smart move to protect. To smack a dog
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Speaker 1: who's visibly unsure of you. Newton then breaks out in
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Speaker 1: an episode of nervous barking. Embarrassed and not wanting to
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Speaker 1: annoy the other neighbors, I try and console Newton. Then,
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Speaker 1: to my surprise, this grown adult man gets down on
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Speaker 1: his hands and knees in a child's post position right
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Speaker 1: in front of Newton and actually begins to whimper like
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Speaker 1: a dog. I stared in disbelief, praying that no one
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Speaker 1: else was watching this horribly awkward moment taking place. My
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Speaker 1: eyes quickly darned to each surrounding house, looking for witnesses
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Speaker 1: and then stop on a woman to watching us intently
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Speaker 1: from John's side of the fence. John eventually gets up
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Speaker 1: from the grass, and he told me about his own
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Speaker 1: dogs and that he also lives with his ex wife
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Speaker 1: in her basement. He went into all kinds of details
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Speaker 1: about their marriage and how it didn't work out because
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Speaker 1: he liked a party and she was more of a homebody.
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Speaker 1: I assumed that his ex wife was the woman who
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Speaker 1: had been watching us in a rack from their yard
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Speaker 1: before he left, though he had told me that he
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Speaker 1: was moving out in the spring. By that around in
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Speaker 1: the upcoming winter to snowbloil my driveway if i'd like
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Speaker 1: for fifty dollars each time, I told him that I'd
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Speaker 1: let him know, although I thought to myself that fifty
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Speaker 1: bucks was a bit steep for such a small driveway.
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Speaker 1: After this conversation, I saw him once again last week
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Speaker 1: when I brought my trash out. I saw him out
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Speaker 1: of the corner of my eye waving to me from
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Speaker 1: his driveway, but ignored him, now wanting to invite him
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Speaker 1: into conversation as I was leaving for work. Soon while
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Speaker 1: walking back to my garage, I had heard him yell, hey, there,
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Speaker 1: so I had no choice but to turn and give
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Speaker 1: him a quick wave and nod. Aside from the whole
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Speaker 1: whimpering like a sad puppy thing, he just generally gave
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Speaker 1: me the creeps, and earlier today my impression of him
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Speaker 1: being an outright weirdow was reinforced. I was walking Newton
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Speaker 1: around the block in the late afternoon. I started to
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Speaker 1: shovel quickly when I came across John's house, hoping you
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be outside, But of course he was, as he
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Speaker 1: always coincidentally seems to be outside when I am. He
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Speaker 1: yelled hello to me as he very swiftly walked out
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Speaker 1: from his garage, and I very reluctantly paused by his
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Speaker 1: mailbox and greeted him. I broke my wrist, he sputtered out.
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Speaker 1: I looked to see his right wrist was in a cast.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, how did that happen? I asked, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: John said. I wondered how a person could totally be
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Speaker 1: unaware of how they broke a bone. I guess I'm
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Speaker 1: just old. I'm probably about the same age as your dad, right,
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Speaker 1: John asked, Yeah, probably pretty close, I replied. He then
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Speaker 1: did his usual thing where he talks about things that
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Speaker 1: I couldn't possibly care less about, like about his new
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Speaker 1: glasses and how he was also in the military so
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Speaker 1: he was able to get free gear from the VFW.
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Speaker 1: He stuck out his hand to Newton again, and I
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Speaker 1: had to remind him that Newton wasn't really fond of
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Speaker 1: men that he didn't know that well. He offered to
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Speaker 1: get Newton a bone, but I shrugged off the idea,
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Speaker 1: not really wanting to prolong our conversation. You know, we're
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Speaker 1: supposed to get some snow over the weekend. John said, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I heard about six inches. I replied shortly. I really
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Speaker 1: loathe small talk, and I'm really horrible at faking interest
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Speaker 1: in topics like the weather. Yeah, well, I'll snowboil your
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Speaker 1: driveway for you if you want. I do Margine's driveway
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Speaker 1: there in that brown house. John then says, as he
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Speaker 1: points across the street, Oh, yeah, you said it'll be
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Speaker 1: around fifty dollars, right, I asked, Uh, you know, I
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Speaker 1: misspoke the last time we talked about it. We could
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Speaker 1: work something out, maybe twenty five dollars or whatever you
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Speaker 1: can pay. I know times are tough because of the
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Speaker 1: pandemic and whatnot. Or instead, you know, we could fall
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Speaker 1: around or something, John stammered. I was a bit quiet
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Speaker 1: for a moment, just trying to process his proposition, and
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Speaker 1: I thought that there was no way I heard him correctly,
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Speaker 1: or that he meant that in a sexual manner. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'll let you know, I guess, I said, nervously. So
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Speaker 1: do you have a boyfriend? John asked, no, I answered.
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Speaker 1: I immediately kicked myself mentally for not telling him. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I'm a horrible wiar though it doesn't come to me naturally,
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Speaker 1: which can really suck in these types of situations where
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Speaker 1: it could be useful. Well do you want one, John
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Speaker 1: asked further, Not really, I replied, laughing out of discomfort. Hey,
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Speaker 1: by the way, thanks for waving me the other day.
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Speaker 1: That was nice of you. I was trying to get
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Speaker 1: your attention and I didn't think you saw me. John said, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: no problem, I said, wondering why I wave meant so
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Speaker 1: much to him. John began to speak about something else,
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Speaker 1: and to be honest, I don't really remember what he
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Speaker 1: said because I was so wrapped up and trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out his motive behind his last few comments. I
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Speaker 1: ended up telling him to have a nice day and
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Speaker 1: started to walk away. So, yeah, just let me know
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Speaker 1: about the snow blowing. If you can pay me with cash,
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Speaker 1: we can just full around and I would count that
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Speaker 1: as even, he said from behind me, confirming his intentions. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't know about that, I said, sarcastically, not turning
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Speaker 1: in his direction as I continued back home. Oh okay, well,
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Speaker 1: no big deal, John said, in a weirdly friendly manner.
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Speaker 1: I didn't respond, and the rest of the walk home
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Speaker 1: I became pissed. Pissed that I didn't tell him I
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Speaker 1: had a boyfriend or tell him to stay the hell
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Speaker 1: away from me. Pissed at how he was so nonchalant
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Speaker 1: and direct and assuming that there was even a silver
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Speaker 1: of chance that I would be down to basically prostitute
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Speaker 1: myself for what a forty minute shovel job. Pissed that
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Speaker 1: I now feel uncomfortable inside and outside of my first
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Speaker 1: home that I've worked so hard for. Pissed that so
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Speaker 1: many young women as well as men, are put in
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Speaker 1: similar situations or far far worse. I'm sure there will
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Speaker 1: be more to this story, seeing as I think he's
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Speaker 1: going to try and clear my driveway this weekend without
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Speaker 1: me even asking for his help, but for now, I'm
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Speaker 1: just going to go to sleep with a knife right
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Speaker 1: next to my bed. I'm also going to invest in
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Speaker 1: some blinds from my bedroom which faces direction, and I
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Speaker 1: really hope he'll still be moving away in the spring
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Speaker 1: like he said he was. My parents were born in
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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty two. Their first child, my sister, Janie, was
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Speaker 1: born early in nineteen fifty eight. This story takes place
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Speaker 1: at the very beginning of nineteen fifty nine. Now, my
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Speaker 1: father was away on business and I wouldn't be born
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Speaker 1: until very late in nineteen sixty. So my mother and
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Speaker 1: my infant sister are home at the time and they're
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Speaker 1: both having really bad bouts of the flu. My mom
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Speaker 1: decides to call her mother to come and help her.
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Speaker 1: Now it's in the middle of the night. My mom, dad,
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Speaker 1: and sister lived in New York City, Manhattan. Grandma lived
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Speaker 1: in Queens and Fleshing. So my mom calls her mom
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Speaker 1: and she asked her to get a cab and come
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Speaker 1: into the city. Grandma says sure, okay, So enough time
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Speaker 1: goes by for Grandma to arrive. My mom then hears
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Speaker 1: a weird scratching sound on her front door. She's a
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Speaker 1: little spooks, and she says, Mom, is that you? If
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Speaker 1: that's you, why don't you ring the doorbell? There was
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Speaker 1: no response other than more scratching. Now my mom is
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Speaker 1: really spooted, but asked once more, Mom, is that you?
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Speaker 1: Whoever it is? If I don't get an answer right now,
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Speaker 1: I'm calling the police. And then just more scratching at
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Speaker 1: the door. So as you can imagine, my mom picks
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Speaker 1: up the telephone and then dials I guess in the
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Speaker 1: late nineteen fifties, just the operator, since there was no
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Speaker 1: nine to one one yet. Hello, my name's miss O'Donnell.
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Speaker 1: Someone's scratching at my front door and they're not answering
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Speaker 1: when I ask them to identify themselves. The operator then
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Speaker 1: says they'll send a car over. The cops arrive fast.
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Speaker 1: They find outside the door a very old man in
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Speaker 1: his pajamas, barefoot too. He was a neighbor and he
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Speaker 1: lived on another floor with two of his daughters. He
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Speaker 1: had some kind of sinility Orrolheimer's and I had gotten
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Speaker 1: out somehow, and his only crime was trying to find
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Speaker 1: his way home. It's honestly kind of sad when you
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Speaker 1: think about it. He was really, really lucky that he
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Speaker 1: had picked my mom's door to try and get into
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Speaker 1: any other apartment, and no one would have hurt him,
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Speaker 1: and he would have gone outside and bare feet, and
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Speaker 1: it was like single digits outside at the time, midwinter,
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Speaker 1: and like three o'clock in the morning. His daughters came
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Speaker 1: down the next day and had thanked my mom for
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Speaker 1: saving him and apologized profusely for their dad disturbing her.
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Speaker 2: My next door neighbor was the best you could dream of.
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Speaker 2: She worked nights and when she was off rarely made
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Speaker 2: a peep. Her little dog was a concern early on,
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Speaker 2: but I would soon discover it was a quiet as
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Speaker 2: its owner. I've been at the complex for a year
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Speaker 2: when she told me she found a boyfriend and things
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Speaker 2: were going well. After that, I saw her even less
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Speaker 2: than before and was more than happy to sign another
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Speaker 2: twelve month lease. Things proved to be too good to
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Speaker 2: be true. However, barely a month into my second year,
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Speaker 2: things began to change drastically. Next door, loud arguments were
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Speaker 2: often heard through the walls, and the dog reacted to
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Speaker 2: these as badly as I did. The poor little guy
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Speaker 2: barked his head off while she and the new love
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Speaker 2: of her life, screamed at each other repeatedly. I did
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Speaker 2: attempt to ignore the racket for a couple of weeks,
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Speaker 2: but would finally lose my mind and began banging on
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Speaker 2: the wall. I was shocked at at work, but only
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Speaker 2: the first time. All the others after were ignored. This
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Speaker 2: garbage went on for over three months, and after several
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Speaker 2: visits from the copse, she showed up at my door
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Speaker 2: to apologize. She claimed things were going well, just as
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Speaker 2: she had told me prior, but after he moved in,
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Speaker 2: his behavior changed. After that, it seemed all they would
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Speaker 2: do is fight. He could hit her during one and
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Speaker 2: she foolishly forgave him. He'd sworn it would never happen again,
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Speaker 2: but it did, and she kicked him out. Her hope
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Speaker 2: was that he'd move on to someone else. However, he
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Speaker 2: soon appeared at her door out of the blue, begging
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Speaker 2: her to take him back. The cops were called and
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Speaker 2: she filed a restraining order. That was almost a month ago,
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Speaker 2: and she hoped he was gone for good. From what
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Speaker 2: I could see and hear, things had gone back to
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Speaker 2: the way they had been originally. I went back to
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Speaker 2: living a peaceful life, and I assumed so had she,
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Speaker 2: considering we had opposite schedules. It wasn't strange for us
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Speaker 2: to go weeks without seeing or hearing one another, and
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Speaker 2: I was happy for it to stay that way. Then
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Speaker 2: something terrifying would happen. One day, as I returned from work,
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Speaker 2: I pulled into the complex and turned to enter my
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Speaker 2: section of the lot and was blocked by several cop
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Speaker 2: cars and ambulances. It was a surprising thing to see,
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Speaker 2: but none of my business, I suppose. I found another
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Speaker 2: spot to park and headed for my apartment. As I
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Speaker 2: neared my place, I noticed my neighbor's door was wide
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Speaker 2: open and cops were going in and out. After what
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Speaker 2: she told me, I assumed her ex had showed up uninvited.
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Speaker 2: Upon approaching our building, another officer stopped me and informed
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Speaker 2: me the area was closed. I let him know I
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Speaker 2: lived in the building and asked what had happened. They
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Speaker 2: couldn't tell me, but if I waited for a detective
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Speaker 2: to come out, he'd probably have some questions for me.
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Speaker 2: The cop said something over his radio, and a minute later,
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Speaker 2: a guy in a suit came out of the apartment
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Speaker 2: and took me aside. He only had a few questions
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Speaker 2: if I had seen anything and the like. As the
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Speaker 2: seconds passed, I got increasingly nervous and begged him to
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Speaker 2: tell me what was going on. He paused and said,
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Speaker 2: in a very serious voice that my neighbor had been
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Speaker 2: found dead in her apartment earlier that day. My eyes
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Speaker 2: had to have looked like saucers to him. I was
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Speaker 2: completely shocked and wondered how I hadn't noticed something so major.
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Speaker 2: Before he could ask the question, I blurted out her
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Speaker 2: ex's name. They were familiar with him, and I could
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Speaker 2: tell from his demeanor he was their main suspect. He
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Speaker 2: handed me his card and let me go. I turned
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Speaker 2: to walk away, but stopped a few steps later. What's
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Speaker 2: going to happen to her dog? The detective hesitated, and
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Speaker 2: a sad look popped up on his face. The assailant
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Speaker 2: appears to have killed him too. I'm sorry. I'm not
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Speaker 2: sure why this angered me so much, struck me as needless.
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Speaker 2: I guess the cops probably thought I was crazy, mumbling
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Speaker 2: cusswords under my breath as I walked away. The following morning,
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Speaker 2: I was browsing through the local paper online and came
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Speaker 2: across a story about the murder had explained that my
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Speaker 2: neighbor was a week later on a rent and received
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Speaker 2: a notice. When no reply came after two days, the
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Speaker 2: manager visited the apartment personally. There was no answer even
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Speaker 2: after she knocked, so she let herself in and found
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Speaker 2: the body. The detective was quoted as saying that they
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Speaker 2: had yet defined her ex and they believed that he
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Speaker 2: had fled back to his original home in Lebanon. Not
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Speaker 2: much information has come out since then. The ex boyfriend
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Speaker 2: is still unlocated and no other suspects exist at this time.
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Speaker 2: I've moved on to a different apartment complex now, but
19:39
Speaker 2: for the remainder of my time in that one, things
19:41
Speaker 2: went back to business as usual. Two months before my
19:45
Speaker 2: lease was up, new tenants moved in. This was a
19:48
Speaker 2: young couple with a five year old boy. The noise
19:51
Speaker 2: coming from them was endless, and I was overjoyed when
19:55
Speaker 2: the time came for me to move. The place I'm
19:59
Speaker 2: now in is majority older couples and the noise levels
20:03
Speaker 2: almost non existent. As nice as things are at present,
20:07
Speaker 2: I don't believe I'll ever have a neighbor as good
20:09
Speaker 2: as her. Any Time I hear a bang on my
20:12
Speaker 2: ceiling or loud talking through the walls. I think back
20:16
Speaker 2: on her and how great of a woman and neighbor
20:19
Speaker 2: she was. This is less of a creepy one person
20:25
Speaker 2: encounter and more of a whole community creeped out by
20:29
Speaker 2: one man. The neighbor in question is somewhat famous for
20:34
Speaker 2: his lawn, an impossibly thick green landscape that he had
20:38
Speaker 2: tended by a company. I'm vaguely aware of him losing
20:42
Speaker 2: it on the landscapers, screaming at them outside enough I
20:47
Speaker 2: knew he had a temper. The first real red flag
20:51
Speaker 2: that he might be legit crazy came last summer. He
20:56
Speaker 2: asked a teenage boy in the neighborhood to check in
20:58
Speaker 2: on the house once a day and make sure all
21:01
Speaker 2: the doors and windows were secured and water their flowers.
21:06
Speaker 2: The day they left, though, he left a crazy list
21:10
Speaker 2: saying the kid had to be there multiple times a day,
21:13
Speaker 2: turning off and on different sets of lights at specific times,
21:17
Speaker 2: and leaving weird chores for him. Also, the kid was
21:22
Speaker 2: not allowed to walk on the lawn, and he had
21:24
Speaker 2: to remove his dirty shoes before walking on the concrete sidewalk.
21:30
Speaker 2: He was never to enter the house, but was to
21:33
Speaker 2: turn off and on the lights from the doorway by
21:36
Speaker 2: means of a stick with a loop on it. Also,
21:41
Speaker 2: he was not allowed to use the garden hose to
21:43
Speaker 2: water the lawn and had to instead use a teeny
21:46
Speaker 2: tiny watering can. The letter implied that my neighbor would
21:51
Speaker 2: have the kid under surveillance and would have pictures if
21:54
Speaker 2: he failed to comply. Basically, the kid's parents called him
22:00
Speaker 2: and said they weren't comfortable with the situation anymore, and
22:03
Speaker 2: while they would keep an eye on the house, the
22:06
Speaker 2: deal was off, they argued over the phone. When my
22:10
Speaker 2: neighbor got back from vacation, it was early morning, and
22:14
Speaker 2: he immediately went to their house, woke them, and tried
22:18
Speaker 2: to pick a fight with them. One of the other
22:21
Speaker 2: neighbors is a retired colonel and came out to see
22:24
Speaker 2: what was going on and tried to settle the issue.
22:27
Speaker 2: Crazy neighbors said that he would let it rest if
22:30
Speaker 2: he was allowed to bear ass spank the kid. He
22:35
Speaker 2: flipped out when they told him hell no. Some time
22:39
Speaker 2: after this, another neighbor was at the grocery store when
22:42
Speaker 2: he was concerned by crazy neighbor. Crazy neighbor apparently just
22:47
Speaker 2: talked at him in rapid fire for a half hour.
22:50
Speaker 2: Among other things, he started saying how wives shouldn't have friends,
22:55
Speaker 2: and said that his wife's sister was so fat she
22:58
Speaker 2: broke the toilet seat last time she visited. After this,
23:03
Speaker 2: everyone started talking about how you don't see his wife anywhere.
23:08
Speaker 2: Occasionally she will be out watering flowers, but while her
23:11
Speaker 2: husband is seen out, she isn't. Considering that she used
23:16
Speaker 2: to be a social butterfly. This is weird. During the winter,
23:21
Speaker 2: everyone found pamphlets on their mailbox from the landscaper he uses,
23:26
Speaker 2: along with a note saying it was mandatory to now
23:29
Speaker 2: use this landscaper in our area and failure to comply
23:33
Speaker 2: will result in being sued. We are private, single family
23:38
Speaker 2: homes with no homeowners association, so this is patently untrue.
23:44
Speaker 2: During the winter, someone saw his wife and her arm
23:47
Speaker 2: was in a sling and she had a black eye.
23:50
Speaker 2: When they went to ask her about it, he wouldn't
23:53
Speaker 2: let her speak and said she had slid on ice.
23:57
Speaker 2: Since then, there have been a few attempts maid to
24:00
Speaker 2: talk to her alone and all have failed. They've gone
24:04
Speaker 2: so far as to get their church involved and to
24:07
Speaker 2: call a welfare check by the copse. When he was
24:09
Speaker 2: out of the house, but if she is being abused,
24:13
Speaker 2: she has been refusing help. Snow was bad this year
24:18
Speaker 2: and he blew a fit about the snowplows piling snow
24:21
Speaker 2: on his property, so he scattered screws on the roadway
24:25
Speaker 2: outside before they came One morning. Then someone in a
24:29
Speaker 2: neighborhood got a puppy. It's quiet and has a fenced
24:33
Speaker 2: in back yard. Its owners wake up in the middle
24:37
Speaker 2: of the night to the door bell ringing. When they
24:40
Speaker 2: come out, crazy neighbor is standing on the road at
24:43
Speaker 2: the edge of the property. He tells them that the
24:46
Speaker 2: first time the dog gets out, they won't have a
24:49
Speaker 2: dog anymore, and he pulls out a gun and waves
24:52
Speaker 2: her a round before pointing it towards the back yard
24:56
Speaker 2: and saying bang. Obviously, they go back inside and call
25:01
Speaker 2: the cops. When confronted, crazy neighbor claims he was out
25:06
Speaker 2: for a walk, thought they were awake and stopped by.
25:10
Speaker 2: He says he didn't get the gun out, but it
25:13
Speaker 2: had been on his belt and that he didn't mean
25:15
Speaker 2: his statement as a threat. He ended up getting some
25:19
Speaker 2: sort of citation from the police. Come spring, he has
25:23
Speaker 2: taken to sitting outside and writing something every time someone
25:27
Speaker 2: walks or drives by. We don't know what, but I
25:31
Speaker 2: have taken to driving differently home to avoid going by him.
25:38
Speaker 2: Most recently, someone put up a swing set in their backyard.
25:43
Speaker 2: They came back from work to find tire tracks through
25:45
Speaker 2: the backyard and the swing set run over and crushed.
25:50
Speaker 2: No one saw anything, but his massive truck happens to
25:54
Speaker 2: have the same kind of tires as the tread arks
25:57
Speaker 2: left behind. The retired colonel has taken the compiling statements
26:02
Speaker 2: from everyone and keeping records because we think this is
26:07
Speaker 2: going to end badly.
26:14
Speaker 3: When I was thirty years old, i'd saved enough money
26:17
Speaker 3: to buy my first house. It wasn't anything special, and honestly,
26:21
Speaker 3: all things considered, it wasn't in the best neighborhood either,
26:24
Speaker 3: but I was still proud of the accomplishment. Nonetheless, I
26:27
Speaker 3: had met all the nearby neighbors, and i'd say the
26:29
Speaker 3: first two weeks I moved in. Considering the neighborhood, I
26:33
Speaker 3: was surprised to discover they all actually seem pretty nice.
26:36
Speaker 3: A couple of them even invited me over for dinner
26:38
Speaker 3: a few times. And having lived in different apartments all
26:41
Speaker 3: my life, this wasn't really something I was used to.
26:44
Speaker 3: Of course, they weren't all like this. However, two houses
26:48
Speaker 3: down from the house I moved into lived a man
26:50
Speaker 3: that was probably fifty years old. Upon moving in, every
26:54
Speaker 3: other night or so, the dude would knock at my
26:56
Speaker 3: front door at some absurd hour, asking for stuff so like.
27:00
Speaker 3: As an example, the first time it happened, he asked
27:02
Speaker 3: me if I had any spare breand I wasn't gonna eat.
27:05
Speaker 3: Another time he asked me if I could fill up
27:06
Speaker 3: a bucket with water because his was turned off. It
27:10
Speaker 3: was just random, but somewhat understandable things like that, But
27:14
Speaker 3: I drew the line when he started asking me for money.
27:16
Speaker 3: I figured I had no obligation to be constantly meeting
27:19
Speaker 3: this guy's needs. I mean, I had pretty much just
27:21
Speaker 3: met the dude. I had started opening the door to
27:24
Speaker 3: his knocks less and less, but this didn't seem to
27:27
Speaker 3: have any effect on the number of times he would
27:28
Speaker 3: show up. Fast forward to a night a few weeks later,
27:32
Speaker 3: and again another knock. I had planned to ignore it,
27:36
Speaker 3: like I had grown accustomed to doing by that point,
27:38
Speaker 3: but as I looked through the people, I noticed the
27:40
Speaker 3: guy looked distressed. Seeing this, I decided the right thing
27:44
Speaker 3: to do would be to open up the door, so
27:47
Speaker 3: I did. I asked him what he needed, and what
27:50
Speaker 3: he responded with was not at all the type of
27:51
Speaker 3: response I was expecting. He asked me if I could
27:54
Speaker 3: come over and show him how to use his new grill.
27:57
Speaker 3: Now this happened around midnight, which, in my opinion, was
28:00
Speaker 3: an extremely odd time to start grilling, But against my
28:04
Speaker 3: better judgment, I decided I would help him. I was
28:07
Speaker 3: pretty into cooking at that point in my life and
28:09
Speaker 3: figured taking ten minutes to show the gay how a
28:11
Speaker 3: grill worked wouldn't be the end of the world. I
28:13
Speaker 3: told him that I'd be over in a second, and
28:15
Speaker 3: then I just needed to put some shoes on. He
28:18
Speaker 3: thanked me and started walking back. A couple minutes later,
28:21
Speaker 3: and I made my way over to his house. I
28:24
Speaker 3: opened some gate and walked into his backyard. It was dark,
28:27
Speaker 3: so it was hard to see, but it was clear
28:30
Speaker 3: there was no grill. On top of that, the guy
28:32
Speaker 3: was nowhere in sight, although his back door was wide open.
28:36
Speaker 3: I stuck my hand inside and yelled out for the guy. Yeah,
28:40
Speaker 3: I'm down here, I need you help getting some meat
28:42
Speaker 3: from the freezer. The muffled response came from down a
28:45
Speaker 3: set of stairs just to the left of me. I
28:47
Speaker 3: was hesitant to go down. There were no lights on
28:50
Speaker 3: down there. In fact, there wasn't a single light on
28:52
Speaker 3: throughout the whole house. I yelled down the stairs, asking
28:56
Speaker 3: him if he could turn on a light so I
28:57
Speaker 3: could see. There was silence for a few seconds. Eventually
29:01
Speaker 3: he responded, no, they're broken. I can't do that. I
29:06
Speaker 3: knew something was off at that point. I yelled back
29:08
Speaker 3: something like I think I'm just gonna go, man, I
29:12
Speaker 3: kid you not. This second after I said this, audible
29:14
Speaker 3: footsteps started sprinting up the stairs. My flight reaction kicked
29:18
Speaker 3: in immediately. I ran directly back to my house and
29:21
Speaker 3: locked the door behind me. I pulled back a set
29:23
Speaker 3: of curtains and looked out one of my windows, but
29:26
Speaker 3: I didn't see anything. I was terrified. I thought about
29:30
Speaker 3: coining the police, but decided against it, figuring I really
29:32
Speaker 3: wouldn't be able to prove anything that just happened. For
29:36
Speaker 3: the next few days, I didn't leave my house for
29:37
Speaker 3: anything except work. During those days, I never saw the guy,
29:42
Speaker 3: nor did any late night Knoxacer. Exactly one week after
29:46
Speaker 3: it happened, I was talking with my neighbor across the street.
29:49
Speaker 3: The conversation eventually landed on what I experienced and how
29:53
Speaker 3: I was planning to move because of it, but I
29:56
Speaker 3: was just met with a look of confusion. I was
29:58
Speaker 3: then informed that no one lived in the house I
30:01
Speaker 3: was talking about it. It had been abandoned for two years.
30:05
Speaker 3: This prompted my neighbor to call the police. However, the
30:08
Speaker 3: police would find nothing inside or around the house. I
30:12
Speaker 3: moved out a few weeks later, so that's all I know.
30:15
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if anything else came from the situation
30:17
Speaker 3: or not. I still don't know who that guy was
30:21
Speaker 3: or what he was trying to lure me into.