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3 True Exploring Abandoned Places Horror Stories (Vol. 3) That Will Change Your View on Exploration · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: My neighborhood growing up wasn't the nicest. Everyone who lived
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  Speaker 1: there was there because they couldn't afford anywhere else, not
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  Speaker 1: because they wanted to live there. A lot of the
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  Speaker 1: houses were extremely small and old, and even the businesses
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  Speaker 1: in the town had trouble staying open for more than
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  Speaker 1: a year or two. When I was young, it was
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  Speaker 1: pretty common for us to go to these houses and
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  Speaker 1: businesses that had been abandoned and just mess around in them.
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  Speaker 1: The police had to have known this was going on,
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  Speaker 1: since every kid in town was doing it, but they
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  Speaker 1: didn't do anything about it anyway. When I was really young,
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  Speaker 1: my elementary school shut down and the building was never repurposed.
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  Speaker 1: So when I was older and exploring these run down places,
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  Speaker 1: I was intrigued to see what the school looked like. Now.
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  Speaker 1: On a Saturday night, my buddy Ryan and I went
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  Speaker 1: to the school. We didn't have cars, so we had
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  Speaker 1: to walk about four miles from his house to get there.
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  Speaker 1: This building, even before it was abandoned, I always found
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  Speaker 1: a little bit creepy. It was on the edge of town,
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  Speaker 1: buried in the woods, with a chain link fence around it.
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  Speaker 1: It just really did not seem like a place for
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  Speaker 1: an elementary school. We climbed over and went to the
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  Speaker 1: side of the building to see if there was a
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  Speaker 1: window to get in from. Lucky for us, almost every
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  Speaker 1: window had already been smashed open. I jumped in first,
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  Speaker 1: followed by Ryan. The first thing we did was just
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  Speaker 1: stand there and listen to hear if anyone else was inside.
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  Speaker 1: There was this very loud, hollow, creaking noise the building
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  Speaker 1: was making, but it sounded like we were alone. We
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  Speaker 1: walked down the hallway, peeking into some of the rooms.
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  Speaker 1: It was a very strange feeling to be back at
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  Speaker 1: the school after so many years and see it in
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  Speaker 1: such horrible condition. We passed maybe three rooms, walking slowly
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  Speaker 1: and quietly, before a sudden thud echoed throughout the entire building.
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  Speaker 1: We stopped and looked at each other, but no more
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  Speaker 1: sounds came. Ryan said it was probably just a building
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  Speaker 1: settling in on its own weight, and we continued down
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  Speaker 1: the hallway. A lot of the rooms were either empty
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  Speaker 1: or just had a bunch of chairs lined up in them,
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  Speaker 1: but nothing really interesting. That was until we got to
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  Speaker 1: the next hallway deeper into the school. This hallway had
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  Speaker 1: chairs scattered throughout, blocking the way through. We had to
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  Speaker 1: push them aside just to get to the rooms. The
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  Speaker 1: first room was locked, so we went down to the
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  Speaker 1: second room on the left side and looked in, seeing
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  Speaker 1: what looked like clothes hanging from the ceiling. I walked
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  Speaker 1: in and looked at it, unsure why or how those
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  Speaker 1: got there. After a moment, I wondered why Ryan hadn't
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  Speaker 1: said anything and if he was seeing what I saw.
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  Speaker 1: I turned around, and as my head moved across the
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  Speaker 1: room I caught a glimpse of a figure in the
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  Speaker 1: far back. I shot my eyes to the far wall,
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  Speaker 1: seeing a disheveled man staring at us as he stood
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  Speaker 1: with something in his hand. To make it all worse,
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  Speaker 1: he had almost no clothing on. I quickly glanced at Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: who had his eyes fixed on the man as well,
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  Speaker 1: before he grabbed my arm and pulled me back into
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  Speaker 1: the hallway. Immediately we heard something metal being thrown across
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  Speaker 1: the room toward the door we were at, followed by
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  Speaker 1: a horrific scream. We sprinted down the hallway and out
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  Speaker 1: the first open window we saw, then ran as far
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  Speaker 1: away as we could before losing our breath. On the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the walk home, we put the pieces together
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  Speaker 1: and realized the man was likely holding a knife, which
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  Speaker 1: was probably what he tried throwing at us. Considering his
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  Speaker 1: unstable state, it's likely the man was really dangerous, and
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  Speaker 1: had we stayed any longer or not noticed him, we
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  Speaker 1: might have not made it out. When I was a kid,
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  Speaker 1: between the ages of fourteen to sixteen, me and my
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  Speaker 1: friends were really into hanging out anywhere other than our houses.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the time we would go to some fast
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  Speaker 1: food place and chill there, or just find some spot
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  Speaker 1: in the woods near the park. I guess we were
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  Speaker 1: at that age where we wanted to be alone and
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  Speaker 1: not have people looking over our shoulders all the time.
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  Speaker 1: The only problem with this was that on the weekends,
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  Speaker 1: when we'd be out late, most stores and dining areas
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  Speaker 1: closed before we were ready to call it a night.
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  Speaker 1: During winter break one year, we ran into this problem
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  Speaker 1: a lot. We'd go to the parks to hang out,
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  Speaker 1: only to find that even in the late hours of
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  Speaker 1: the night, there would be multiple other groups that had
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  Speaker 1: the same idea. Then one night, my friend j T
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  Speaker 1: brought up his parents old farmhouse, saying it could be
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  Speaker 1: a cool spot to explore and that nobody else would
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  Speaker 1: be there. He'd mentioned it a few times before this,
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  Speaker 1: but we never thought much of it until that night.
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  Speaker 1: J T drove me and my other friend Paul out
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  Speaker 1: into what looked like the middle of nowhere, arriving at
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  Speaker 1: a wooden fence. The fence was closed off with a
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  Speaker 1: chain since it was a private property and JT didn't
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  Speaker 1: have the key to it, so he parked and hopped
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  Speaker 1: over it. From the edge of the wooden fence, though,
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  Speaker 1: the first thing I realized was that I couldn't see
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  Speaker 1: the farmhouse. Yeah, it was dark out and there were
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  Speaker 1: no lights anywhere, but I couldn't even make out the
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  Speaker 1: shape of the house in any direction. JT started walking,
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  Speaker 1: leading the way on a rough gravel path as he
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  Speaker 1: explained why his parents even had the place to begin with.
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  Speaker 1: He said it was his grandparents farmhouse, but when they died,
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  Speaker 1: they passed it down to his parents. Apparently it was
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  Speaker 1: in horrible condition and his parents didn't know what to
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  Speaker 1: do with it, so they just kept it. That was
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  Speaker 1: almost ten years ago. Nobody had done any maintenance or
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  Speaker 1: even checked up on it in over a decade. We
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  Speaker 1: walked down this path, following JT for a good ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes before we could finally see the house. Even from
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  Speaker 1: just the outline of it in the dark, you could
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  Speaker 1: tell it was in bad shape. Part of the roof
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  Speaker 1: was dipping inward like it was about to collapse, and
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  Speaker 1: some of the siding panels were hanging from the wood.
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  Speaker 1: All of us were quiet now, just looking at it
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  Speaker 1: as we walked closer. When we got up to the
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  Speaker 1: front of the house, the door was covered by a
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  Speaker 1: large sheet of wood, so we went around to the back,
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  Speaker 1: where the door was completely missing. We each turned on
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  Speaker 1: our phone flashlights and stepped inside. Surprisingly, the place wasn't
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  Speaker 1: really trashed like we thought it'd be. Most of the
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  Speaker 1: furniture and stuff didn't seem to have been moved very much.
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  Speaker 1: It was extremely dusty, though, and our phone lights were
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  Speaker 1: not the best, so maybe it just looked better than
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  Speaker 1: it was. We split up after a minute, just walking
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  Speaker 1: around the first floor and looked. I entered a hallway
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  Speaker 1: on the left side of the house and began walking
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  Speaker 1: down when suddenly someone walked past the end of the hallway.
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  Speaker 1: I froze, and out of panic, I called out j
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  Speaker 1: T as if it was maybe him, but I already
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  Speaker 1: knew it wasn't the man. I saw, although it was dark,
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  Speaker 1: was much taller and thinner than either of my friends.
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  Speaker 1: I stepped back and started to go where I'd last
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  Speaker 1: seen the two of them. When I turned around the
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  Speaker 1: corner and held up my light, both JT and Paul
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  Speaker 1: were standing in the middle of the room, looking away
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  Speaker 1: from me. I stepped into the room and looked where
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  Speaker 1: their lights were, pointing at the edge of the light,
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  Speaker 1: the man was standing and staring right back at them.
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  Speaker 1: It was like they were all frozen in fear, unsure
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  Speaker 1: of what to make of the situation. Guys, let's just leave,
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  Speaker 1: I said, shakily, but trying to act calm. So the
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  Speaker 1: guy didn't do anything, But that must have triggered everyone's reactions,
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  Speaker 1: because suddenly we were all sprinting to the back door
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  Speaker 1: and running out into the open field. I can't even
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  Speaker 1: say for sure if the man chased us out, but
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  Speaker 1: JT says he was confident he heard footsteps right behind him.
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  Speaker 1: We pretty much ran straight back to the car and
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  Speaker 1: drove off, not taking any more risks. I think we
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  Speaker 1: can all assume that the man was just a squatter
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  Speaker 1: or homeless person defending the place he calls home. But
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  Speaker 1: without a good look at him. It's hard to say
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  Speaker 1: for sure. JT said he'd tell his parents about it
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  Speaker 1: so they could lock down the farmhouse, but he never
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  Speaker 1: went through with it because he was worried about getting
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  Speaker 1: in trouble for going there. Whatever happened that night remains
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  Speaker 1: the most horrifying experience I've had, and if JT was
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  Speaker 1: right and the man was trying to chase us, then
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  Speaker 1: we got really lucky to have all gotten out unharmed.
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  Speaker 1: This was only a year ago. At the time, it
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  Speaker 1: had been a while since my last camping trip, and
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  Speaker 1: four a few months leading up to this, I was
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  Speaker 1: just really wanting to get out in camp like I
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  Speaker 1: always used to do. I finally had gotten some time
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  Speaker 1: off work and planned out a trip right away. There
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  Speaker 1: were some mountains not far about a two hour's drive
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  Speaker 1: from me, and there were plenty of trails on it.
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  Speaker 1: I scrolled through the pictures, but eventually just decided to choose.
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  Speaker 1: Once I got there, I wasn't too worried about the
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  Speaker 1: trail and really just wanted to sit by my tent
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  Speaker 1: and relax for most of the time. I drove up
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  Speaker 1: to the mountain with four days worth of camping supplies
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  Speaker 1: and food, This wasn't really a popular mountain that people
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  Speaker 1: came to a lot, so there weren't many parking areas.
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  Speaker 1: I ended up finding a dirt plot on the side
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  Speaker 1: of the road and parked there. Then got out and
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  Speaker 1: started walking along the road until I got to one
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  Speaker 1: of the camping trails. On the very great out map,
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  Speaker 1: it showed that the trail went a few miles into
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  Speaker 1: the forest and up the mountain, then split into three
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  Speaker 1: different paths that led to camping spots. I figured this
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  Speaker 1: would work, so I started the hike. It took just
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  Speaker 1: under two hours to get to the three paths. I
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  Speaker 1: saw no difference, so I just went with the left one.
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  Speaker 1: About thirty minutes later I came up to the camping grounds.
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  Speaker 1: All it was was an open area with less trees.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody else was there, and it didn't exactly look like
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  Speaker 1: anyone had been there in a long time. Everything had
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  Speaker 1: grown over to the point where if there wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: direct path leading to this place, it would just look
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  Speaker 1: like any other spot in the forest. I tossed my
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  Speaker 1: bags down by one of the trees and built up
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  Speaker 1: my tent, then sat on a log and ate my lunch.
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  Speaker 1: After that, I kind of just sat there, riding in
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  Speaker 1: my journal and listening to the birds. Once the sun
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  Speaker 1: was starting to get lower, I had to get a
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  Speaker 1: fire going to keep me warm, so I got up
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  Speaker 1: and walked around the perimeter of the camping grounds to
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  Speaker 1: find sticks to use. But not too far from my tent,
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  Speaker 1: I found something strange, a path leading off into the woods.
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  Speaker 1: Not a regular trail, though this was very clearly a
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  Speaker 1: footpath formed by someone walking that same route over and over.
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  Speaker 1: Usually these types of paths grow over quickly when not used,
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  Speaker 1: so the fact that it was so clear and noticeable
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  Speaker 1: was odd. I finished collecting sticks and prepped the campfire,
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  Speaker 1: but something about that path made me feel uneasy, and
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to check what it was before camping
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  Speaker 1: the night. Right next to it, I grabbed my bag
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  Speaker 1: and started following the thin path. The more I walked
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  Speaker 1: on it, the more sure I was that someone was
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  Speaker 1: here recently. After a fifteen minute walk, I reached the
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  Speaker 1: end out in the woods. Just beyond the path, there
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  Speaker 1: was a small cabin. It looked like it was decaying
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  Speaker 1: and abandoned. The wood was splintering, with entire boards missing,
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  Speaker 1: and the door was left wide open. I walked up
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  Speaker 1: to it and looked around, wondering why a footpath would
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  Speaker 1: lead to an abandoned hut in the woods. It was
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  Speaker 1: too far for someone to just stumble upon it. Curious,
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  Speaker 1: I peered in through the doorway. It was dark inside
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  Speaker 1: and I couldn't really see much, but I could tell
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  Speaker 1: that it wasn't empty. There were things in there. I
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  Speaker 1: was about to take a step inside, but a sudden
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  Speaker 1: voice from behind me startled me away. Leave, go away,
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: a man said, sternly, almost angrily. I faced him, standing
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  Speaker 1: about ten feet away. The man told me again to leave,
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  Speaker 1: and without saying a word, I did as he said.
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  Speaker 1: As I walked away, I looked back once, seeing the
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  Speaker 1: man standing at the end of the path and watching
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  Speaker 1: me to make sure I was leaving. Once I got
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  Speaker 1: back to my tent, it was already dark out, but
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  Speaker 1: I was not going to stay there. I quickly packed
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  Speaker 1: up and left, dangerously hiking in the pitch black with
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  Speaker 1: just a flashlight until I got back to my car.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what was going on there, but what
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  Speaker 1: frightened me so much was that I was immediately sure
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  Speaker 1: that the man I saw did not live there. He
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  Speaker 1: was wearing regular, clean clothes, and had no signs of
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  Speaker 1: even being out there for more than a couple days,
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  Speaker 1: which makes me question why he was out there and
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  Speaker 1: why he needed me to leave, and how did the
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  Speaker 1: footpath form if he didn't live there, or was there
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  Speaker 1: someone else that did. The whole thing has me asking
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  Speaker 1: a hundred questions and I don't think there's ever going
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  Speaker 1: to be answers.