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3 True Unnerving New House Horror Stories | Alone at Night That Will Keep You Paranoid · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: This happened a couple years back when I was twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: My single mother had just passed away, and being the
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  Speaker 1: only child, their house was left for me to either
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  Speaker 1: sell or move into. I was living in a really
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  Speaker 1: nasty apartment because I couldn't afford much back then, and
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  Speaker 1: after much deliberation, I decided to move into the house.
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  Speaker 1: It was already paid off, so I was saving a
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  Speaker 1: considerable amount of money by moving in. My goal was
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  Speaker 1: to hopefully save up for a few years and get
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  Speaker 1: back on my feet, then sell it and buy the
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  Speaker 1: house that I wanted. Once my lease was up at
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  Speaker 1: the apartment, I moved across town to the house. It
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  Speaker 1: was part of a community of farmland owners, but in
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  Speaker 1: the recent years most of that land had stopped being
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  Speaker 1: used for farming and was left as just empty fields.
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  Speaker 1: That's what happened with my mom's land as well. It
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  Speaker 1: was pretty much just an old barn style home in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of a huge field with only a small
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  Speaker 1: overgrown path leading to it. In the first week living there,
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  Speaker 1: I spent most of my time cleaning and getting all
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  Speaker 1: of my stuff where I wanted it. During one of
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  Speaker 1: these nights, while I was cleaning, I heard a car
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  Speaker 1: coming toward the house. I looked out of the window
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  Speaker 1: and saw an old pickup truck driving down the overgrown path.
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  Speaker 1: It was very strange, being that the only reason for
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  Speaker 1: them driving here would be if they were coming to
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  Speaker 1: the house. But just as they approached the end of
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  Speaker 1: the path, they slowed to a stop. I could make
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  Speaker 1: out a male figure in the driver's seat, but couldn't
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  Speaker 1: make out any specifics. They stayed there for a moment
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  Speaker 1: with their headlights shining over the field, before they did
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  Speaker 1: a three point turn and drove away. I thought they
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  Speaker 1: probably just typed in the wrong address or something, but
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of creepy to see someone coming all
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  Speaker 1: the way out here so late in the night. A
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  Speaker 1: few days went by, and by then I'd finished getting
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  Speaker 1: the house cleaned up and organized. It was a Sunday
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  Speaker 1: night and I was staying up late watching TV and
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  Speaker 1: eating a home cooked meal when a familiar sound came
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  Speaker 1: up in the distance, a car driving toward the house.
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  Speaker 1: I looked out the window again and saw that same
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  Speaker 1: pickup truck coming down the path, this time with all
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  Speaker 1: its headlights off. Knowing it couldn't possibly be an accident,
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  Speaker 1: this time, I was more worried. I quickly looked at
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  Speaker 1: my phone and saw it was nearly one am, so
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  Speaker 1: why would anyone be coming here. The truck came all
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  Speaker 1: the way to the front of the house and parked.
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  Speaker 1: Then a man got out and started walking up to
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  Speaker 1: the porch. I waited anxiously, but after a minute there
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  Speaker 1: was no doorbell or knocking. I cautiously went up to
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  Speaker 1: the front door and looked out the peep hole. A
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  Speaker 1: man was standing right on the porch, looking directly at
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  Speaker 1: the door. I was terrified as he looked like he
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  Speaker 1: was contemplating something. Then he turned around and went back
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  Speaker 1: to his truck, getting in and hurrying away. I was
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  Speaker 1: really creeped out, so I called the police and reported it,
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  Speaker 1: but there was nothing else to be done. I went
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  Speaker 1: to bed that night with a really bad feeling about everything.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently I was right, because I woke up to what
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  Speaker 1: I thought was the sound of a knock at the door.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a single knock. I got up right
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  Speaker 1: away and looked out the window, but the truck that
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  Speaker 1: I thought i'd see wasn't anywhere outside the house. I
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  Speaker 1: quietly left my bedroom to try and go downstairs and
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  Speaker 1: see who it was. But just as I reached the
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  Speaker 1: top of the steps, I could see that the front
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  Speaker 1: door was slightly open. I froze, and moments later I
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  Speaker 1: heard footsteps walking through the hallway below me. I quickly
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  Speaker 1: hid in the spare bedroom that was next to me
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  Speaker 1: and died nine one one As the footsteps grew louder
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  Speaker 1: and started coming up the stairs. They went straight into
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  Speaker 1: the main bedroom, and I could hear them moving stuff
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  Speaker 1: around like they were looking for something. I was too
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  Speaker 1: scared to speak to the officer on the phone, worried
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  Speaker 1: the intruder would hear me, so I just sat there silently.
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  Speaker 1: They spent a few minutes going through the bedroom before
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  Speaker 1: leaving and going back downstairs and finally exiting the house.
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  Speaker 1: I started talking to the officer as I ran up
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  Speaker 1: to the back window to see if I could identify
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  Speaker 1: them before they got away. It was dark, but I
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  Speaker 1: could see that it was the same man who was
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  Speaker 1: on my porch earlier. He was walking in the backyard
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  Speaker 1: toward the field of tall grass, eventually disappearing in it.
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  Speaker 1: Police came by and tried to find any evidence to
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  Speaker 1: help with the case, but my description of the man
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  Speaker 1: was about all there was that was helpful. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what that man wanted, but he seemed to be
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  Speaker 1: looking for something specific. It makes me think maybe he
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  Speaker 1: knew of something my mother had, and after hearing of
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  Speaker 1: her passing, he wanted to steal it. But once I
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  Speaker 1: realized he had to have known I was home and
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  Speaker 1: probably in the bedroom, it terrified me to think about
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  Speaker 1: how he still went in and looked around. What was
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  Speaker 1: he planning to do to me if I was still
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  Speaker 1: in there. I ended up selling the house a month
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  Speaker 1: later because I was too scared of him coming back.
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  Speaker 1: Even now, I still check every few months to see
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  Speaker 1: if there were any reports of recent break ins at
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  Speaker 1: that address, but it's been quiet ever since that night.
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  Speaker 1: Three years ago, I moved down a few states on
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  Speaker 1: the East Coast to a new city to work in money.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't make the trip to see the place before
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  Speaker 1: making the move, but I was only renting, so there
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  Speaker 1: wasn't too much risk in it. It was mid September
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  Speaker 1: when the movers came and loaded everything up, then dropped
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  Speaker 1: it off at the house. The landlord was nice enough
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  Speaker 1: to let the movers in for me to unload because
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't actually arriving there until the following week. It
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  Speaker 1: was a Monday evening when I finally arrived and saw
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  Speaker 1: the house in person for the first time. It was
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  Speaker 1: a mess, with boxes everywhere and furniture laying all around,
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  Speaker 1: but the house itself was all right. The layout was
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  Speaker 1: interesting and that it was very separated. It was a
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  Speaker 1: single story, with the kitchen and living room on one
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  Speaker 1: side of the house, then on the other side was
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  Speaker 1: a long hallway with all the bedrooms and bathrooms. Since
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  Speaker 1: it was already late, I went to the master bedroom
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  Speaker 1: and started working on getting the bed put together, then
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  Speaker 1: shut off all the lights and went to sleep. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a clock set up yet, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what time it was. But in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night, I woke up to an odd sound. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was a noise the house was making, but
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to see what it was and if it
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  Speaker 1: was something I needed to let the landlord know about.
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  Speaker 1: I got up and walked over to the bedroom door.
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  Speaker 1: As I got closer, though, I realized it was coming
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  Speaker 1: from somewhere down the hallway. I opened the door and
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  Speaker 1: it stopped almost instantly. The hallway was pitch black, so
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  Speaker 1: I flicked on the light, but nothing was there. I
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  Speaker 1: slowly walked down and peered into the living room. It
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  Speaker 1: looked the same as it had earlier, but I turned
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  Speaker 1: on the lights and looked around just to be sure.
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  Speaker 1: On the floor there were a lot of footprints scattered
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  Speaker 1: between the boxes that were laying around. I knew it
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  Speaker 1: was likely from the movers, and with no other signs
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  Speaker 1: of anything, I went back to the bedroom. It took
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  Speaker 1: a while for me to fall asleep again because I
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  Speaker 1: kept thinking about how the sound stopped as soon as
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  Speaker 1: I opened the door. I tried to come up with
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  Speaker 1: any possible way this could be the house making noises,
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  Speaker 1: but nothing came to mind. When I drifted back asleep,
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  Speaker 1: it felt like I only stayed asleep for a minute
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  Speaker 1: before I was woken up by a sudden thump, followed
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  Speaker 1: by footsteps running down the hallway. My eyes shot open
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  Speaker 1: and I looked over at my bedroom door. The door
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  Speaker 1: was wide open and on the ground were clear footprints
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  Speaker 1: coming right up to my bed. I got up and
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  Speaker 1: hurried to see who was there, but by then they
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  Speaker 1: were long gone. All that was left were scuffed prints
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  Speaker 1: from them running away. I got my phone and called
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  Speaker 1: the police, locking myself in the bathroom until they arrived.
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  Speaker 1: When they did, they oddly found no signs of a
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  Speaker 1: break in aside from the footprints. I convinced myself that
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  Speaker 1: they might must have gained access during the week before
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  Speaker 1: I arrived at the house, but something still didn't sit
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  Speaker 1: right with me. After unpacking and checking each box, nothing
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be missing. It obviously makes me wonder what
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  Speaker 1: they were even doing in the house, But the biggest
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  Speaker 1: mystery is why did they walk up to my bed
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  Speaker 1: and what was that thump sound that I heard just
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  Speaker 1: before they ran away. The landlord was eager to allow
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  Speaker 1: me to break the contract and move out, so long
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  Speaker 1: as I didn't say anything about the break in Publicly.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, it sounded like he just didn't want
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  Speaker 1: anyone to be scared away from the house so that
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  Speaker 1: he wouldn't miss out on his rental income, But now
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  Speaker 1: I'm not so sure. When I was twenty one, I
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  Speaker 1: made the poor decision to move out of my parents'
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  Speaker 1: house before I could afford a place on my own.
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  Speaker 1: It was something I'd actually planned out for months, searching
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  Speaker 1: for cheap apartments, roommates, and anything that could help me
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  Speaker 1: move out. For some reason, I just prioritized moving out
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  Speaker 1: on my own over everything else. After months of searching,
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  Speaker 1: I found a post on Facebook about a room for
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  Speaker 1: rent in my area. It was a two bedroom house
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  Speaker 1: and the owner was renting out the second bedroom. I
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  Speaker 1: sent him a message on Facebook and got a reply
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  Speaker 1: in minutes. He asked a couple of questions, then sent
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  Speaker 1: over a document. It looked like a huge list of
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  Speaker 1: rules for moving in all simple stuff that's pretty much
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  Speaker 1: common sense. After agreeing to all the rules, he let
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  Speaker 1: me come over to look at the room that same day.
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  Speaker 1: When I got there, I was very surprised at how
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  Speaker 1: clean and well put together the place was. It looked
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  Speaker 1: like it was a model house, so perfectly decorated and furnished.
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  Speaker 1: The owner, Terry, was a little bit weird though he
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  Speaker 1: was in his late twenties, but his personality and looks
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  Speaker 1: didn't match the way the house looked. He was wearing
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  Speaker 1: a dirty T shirt and just had a weird way
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  Speaker 1: of talking. Still, I was blinded by the possibility of
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  Speaker 1: moving out that I didn't even care. A week later,
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  Speaker 1: I packed up a rental van with my stuff and
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  Speaker 1: drove it down to the house. When I walked inside,
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  Speaker 1: I almost thought I'd walked into the wrong house. It
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  Speaker 1: was so empty, no decorations or furniture except for an
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  Speaker 1: old couch in the living room. It was a completely
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  Speaker 1: different looking place than the one I'd seen the first time.
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  Speaker 1: Terry was standing there and acted like nothing was different,
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  Speaker 1: talking my ear off about how excited he was to
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  Speaker 1: have a roommate. I asked about all the furniture and everything,
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  Speaker 1: but he basically ignored my question and just went straight
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  Speaker 1: to moving my stuff into the house. Being a little
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  Speaker 1: weirded out, I still moved in. Several weeks went by,
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  Speaker 1: and to be honest, I rarely even saw Terry. He
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  Speaker 1: was always working and didn't get home until late at night.
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  Speaker 1: But about a month in I started realizing that Terry
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  Speaker 1: had stopped coming home most nights. It was maybe once
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  Speaker 1: a week. I'd hear him get home around two or
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  Speaker 1: three am. He'd hang around downstairs for a while, then
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  Speaker 1: leave and wouldn't show up for another week or so.
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  Speaker 1: Part of me didn't care, because I was happy to
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  Speaker 1: have the house to myself, but another part of me
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  Speaker 1: was curious about what he was up to. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he wanted me to move in so bad, but now
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  Speaker 1: he's never here. Then one night, at two am, weeks
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  Speaker 1: since I'd last seen Terry, I was woken up to
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  Speaker 1: him banging on my bedroom door and yelling my name.
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  Speaker 1: I got up and rushed over. Terry was standing in
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  Speaker 1: the doorway with sweat dripping from his head and look
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  Speaker 1: of anger. Do not leave your room, he said in
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  Speaker 1: a harsh voice, then grabbed the door and ripped the
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  Speaker 1: handle out of my hands, slamming it shut. I stood
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  Speaker 1: there in shock, listening to him walk downstairs. I opened
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  Speaker 1: the door quietly, and after a few seconds I heard
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  Speaker 1: the sound of him dragging something heavy across the floor
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  Speaker 1: and into the garage. I ran downstairs to see what
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  Speaker 1: was going on. There was a smear of mud and
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  Speaker 1: dirt going across the kitchen and leading up to the
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  Speaker 1: garage door. I tried to open it, but he'd somehow
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  Speaker 1: locked it from inside. I realized it was best to
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  Speaker 1: just remove myself from the situation and ran out to
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  Speaker 1: my car, driving away while calling the cops. When they
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  Speaker 1: got to the house, Terry was already gone and the
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  Speaker 1: smears on the floor had been cleaned up. After some
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  Speaker 1: days of investigating, it turned out that Terry was actually
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  Speaker 1: rent the house from someone else. So I wasn't even
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  Speaker 1: allowed to have legally moved in, and all the documents
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  Speaker 1: he sent me and had me sign were fake. Terry
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  Speaker 1: likely wasn't his real name either, and as far as
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  Speaker 1: I know, he never showed back up after that. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know for sure what he was up to, but
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  Speaker 1: he was so adamant about me staying in my room
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  Speaker 1: that night, and with him vanishing afterward, he clearly had
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  Speaker 1: something horrible he was hiding. But what really confuses me
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  Speaker 1: is why he wanted me to move into the house
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  Speaker 1: and live with him so badly. I can't help but
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  Speaker 1: think that he had some sort of plans for me,
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  Speaker 1: and I barely got out of there without having to
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  Speaker 1: find out the hard way