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6 DRIVING HOME ALONE HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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  Speaker 1: This story is told in the perspective of a female.
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  Speaker 1: This happened to me a few days ago on my
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  Speaker 1: way home after a long and busy day at work.
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  Speaker 1: I work right smack in the middle of downtown Salt
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  Speaker 1: Lake City, and I lived in the suburbs, so it
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  Speaker 1: was a long drive back home. My boss, being the
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  Speaker 1: asshole he was, gave me a week of closing shifts
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  Speaker 1: during the week I was supposed to be out of
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  Speaker 1: town for vacation. However, he said that the company needed
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  Speaker 1: extra help and told me I couldn't go. Needless to say,
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  Speaker 1: I was pissed, but hey, you can't always win, right?
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  Speaker 1: It was around 7, maybe 8 o'clock at night, and
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  Speaker 1: I had about an hour to get home. I ended
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  Speaker 1: up taking a different route home, as this route would
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  Speaker 1: only take me about 45 minutes than the hour drive.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing the fact that I was dead tired and just
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  Speaker 1: wanting to go home, I decided to take the route.
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  Speaker 1: According to my GPS, I was about halfway home, listening
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  Speaker 1: to my music, when I hear my car start making
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  Speaker 1: this rattling noise. I cussed myself as this noise continues,
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  Speaker 1: causing my car to come to a complete stop. Thankfully though,
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  Speaker 1: the road was empty, as no one ever used it
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  Speaker 1: at this time of night, but that obviously didn't solve
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  Speaker 1: the car problem. For context, I drive a 2003 Honda Civic, aka.
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  Speaker 1: Box which always had problems with it. I'm only 19
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  Speaker 1: and my job doesn't pay enough for me to afford
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  Speaker 1: a new car. I work 20 hours a week making
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  Speaker 1: $ 15 an hour so it was the only thing I
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  Speaker 1: could afford. I pop the hood and take a look
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  Speaker 1: at the car to see that my car battery was
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  Speaker 1: full of corrosion. Out of anger I hit my car
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  Speaker 1: knowing that I'd have to call a tow truck which
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  Speaker 1: could be a mission seeing how far I was from
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  Speaker 1: the city. That being said, I called AAA, but they
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  Speaker 1: said it could take a while to send someone out
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  Speaker 1: due to the distance. Alright, whatever, I guess I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a choice, right? Needless to say, I bite my lip,
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  Speaker 1: just waiting inside my car for the tow truck to come.
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  Speaker 1: After a while, I started to notice how alone I
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  Speaker 1: was on this road. It was dead silent, and all
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  Speaker 1: I could hear were the crickets from the woods. As
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  Speaker 1: I'm playing a game on my phone, I look in
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  Speaker 1: my rear view mirror and see a pair of headlights
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  Speaker 1: approaching me from the back. The closer it came, the
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  Speaker 1: more I made it out to be a truck. I
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  Speaker 1: thought that it could have been the tow truck, but
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  Speaker 1: as it pulled up behind my car, I saw that
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  Speaker 1: it was definitely not a tow truck. It was just
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  Speaker 1: a standard white pickup truck, and that's when I saw
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  Speaker 1: a man that appeared to be Hispanic step out and
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  Speaker 1: tap on my window. I'd say he was maybe in
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  Speaker 1: his mid-fifties, asking me if I needed a lift. Trying
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  Speaker 1: to be safe, I lower my window just a tad
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  Speaker 1: and tell him that my car broke down, but that
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  Speaker 1: the tow truck was on its way. I thank him
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  Speaker 1: for the offer, but told him I had everything under
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  Speaker 1: control and that I didn't want to be a bother.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason, though, this guy didn't seem to get
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  Speaker 1: the hint and began to ask me if I could
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  Speaker 1: open the door for him and that he could help me.
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  Speaker 1: it started to concern me now he wasn't going away
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  Speaker 1: and was now trying to get in my car keep
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  Speaker 1: in mind there's nobody else on this road and I'm
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  Speaker 1: basically in the middle of nowhere with this person who
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  Speaker 1: seemed as if they were up to no good he
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  Speaker 1: stares at me through the window for a good minute
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  Speaker 1: or so before walking back to his truck I thought
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  Speaker 1: that was the end of it and that he would
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  Speaker 1: finally drive off but boy was I wrong After spending
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  Speaker 1: about five minutes in his truck, he comes back out
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  Speaker 1: and motions for me to roll down my window. I
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  Speaker 1: comply and roll down my window a bit and ask
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  Speaker 1: him what he wanted. This time in a more annoyed
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  Speaker 1: tone as I didn't want anything to do with him.
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  Speaker 1: Somehow he notices my change of behavior and says that
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  Speaker 1: he's just trying to help and that there's no reason
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  Speaker 1: to get angry with him. I tell him that I
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  Speaker 1: didn't need help and that the tow truck would take
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  Speaker 1: care of me. He then goes on to explain that
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  Speaker 1: he had a pair of jumper cables in his truck
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  Speaker 1: and could easily get my car started. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: I see yet another pair of headlights coming from behind
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  Speaker 1: me and instantly recognized it as the tow truck. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: look man, help is already here. Thank you for the offer,
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  Speaker 1: but I'd rather have the tow truck help me. By
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  Speaker 1: this point, the tow truck driver gets out and the
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  Speaker 1: man then looks both ways, turns to me and walks
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  Speaker 1: back to his truck driving away. The tow truck driver
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  Speaker 1: then comes to my window and I open my door
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  Speaker 1: explaining the issue with my car's battery. As I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: him what's going on, he stops me mid-sentence and asks
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  Speaker 1: if I knew who that man was. I told him
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  Speaker 1: no and that he just pulled up behind me and
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  Speaker 1: tried to help. The tow truck driver just stared at
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  Speaker 1: me with this pale face and said that he's actually
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  Speaker 1: seen that man before. Turns out he was a registered
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  Speaker 1: sex offender from two towns over and would sometimes be
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  Speaker 1: on this road at night looking to lure any unsuspecting women.
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  Speaker 1: This ranged anywhere from getting him to go with him
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  Speaker 1: somewhere to attempting to get in their cars which is
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  Speaker 1: exactly what he tried doing. He was released from prison
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  Speaker 1: three years ago for good behavior and hasn't been seen since.
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  Speaker 1: The tow truck driver was almost certain it was him
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  Speaker 1: as he was able to get a good look at
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  Speaker 1: him from the headlights of the tow truck. He tows
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  Speaker 1: my car away with him giving me a ride to
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  Speaker 1: the police station making sure I was safe. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: give an accurate description to the police other than that
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  Speaker 1: his truck was white. The police said they do some
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  Speaker 1: investigative work but never got back to me about any leads.
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  Speaker 1: It's been almost a week now, and I'm still paranoid
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  Speaker 1: knowing that he's probably still out there. Had I been
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  Speaker 1: that dumb or naive to open my door or window
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  Speaker 1: for him, God, I don't even know what he might
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  Speaker 1: have done. One thing I will take from this is
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  Speaker 1: that I'll never drive down that road at night again,
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  Speaker 1: and I always carry pepper spray with me. This story
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  Speaker 1: is a bit short. But this is seriously one of
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  Speaker 1: the creepiest moments of my life. I'm a 26-year-old female,
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  Speaker 1: and I was driving home from a friend's birthday party
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  Speaker 1: one night. I live in a very rural area of Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: so there's a lot of hills, forests, and flatlands throughout
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  Speaker 1: most of the state. Anyway, on this particular night, I
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  Speaker 1: was driving through I-81 between Knoxville and Bristol. It was
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  Speaker 1: around 2am on a weeknight, so there were no other
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  Speaker 1: cars on this road other than mine. Now, whenever I'm
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  Speaker 1: out late at night, I always remember to have my
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  Speaker 1: nighttime coffee. This night, however, I didn't have my coffee,
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  Speaker 1: which caused me to become exhausted while behind the wheel. So,
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  Speaker 1: there I am, driving for about 25 minutes, when, out
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  Speaker 1: of nowhere, something jumps out onto the road from the trees.
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  Speaker 1: This scared me to the bone. causing me to let
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  Speaker 1: out an oh shit and brake hard. It looked like
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  Speaker 1: a person, to be honest, who just straight up jumped
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  Speaker 1: in front of my car as if they were trying
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  Speaker 1: to get hit. I only caught a glimpse of them
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  Speaker 1: and tried to see if I had ran someone over.
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  Speaker 1: I was ready to give this person a piece of
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  Speaker 1: my mind and got out of my car to see
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  Speaker 1: not a soul in sight. I was seemingly the only
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  Speaker 1: person on this road, and right then I started freaking
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  Speaker 1: out wondering what the hell just happened. After taking a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes to compose myself, I get back in my car,
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  Speaker 1: only for it to not start. I tried starting the
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  Speaker 1: engine several times, but nothing I did ever made it work.
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  Speaker 1: Long story short, I called a tow truck to give
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  Speaker 1: me a ride, and it took about a month to
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  Speaker 1: get my car back up and running. Till this day,
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  Speaker 1: I'm strongly convinced that whatever I had seen was completely
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  Speaker 1: paranormal and was the reason for my car dying. So,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a 25 year old male and this happened just
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  Speaker 1: last year in the summer. I was on a road
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  Speaker 1: trip from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Los Angeles, California. The
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  Speaker 1: reason for this trip was to visit my old friend
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  Speaker 1: from my childhood who I hadn't seen in years. Moving
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  Speaker 1: away from one of your best friends is enough to
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  Speaker 1: make anyone feel lonely and sad. His name was Jason,
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  Speaker 1: and we had been good friends ever since I could remember.
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  Speaker 1: I had only saw him once a year when I
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  Speaker 1: had time off from work, so this trip was very
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  Speaker 1: important to me. If I remember correctly, I was driving
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  Speaker 1: down a long stretch of road somewhere in Arizona when
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  Speaker 1: my car suddenly dies out of nowhere. Being rightfully pissed off,
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  Speaker 1: I hit my dashboard while trying to get the damn
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  Speaker 1: thing to start. Eventually, I get out of my car
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  Speaker 1: and open the hood. My car's battery had been covered
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  Speaker 1: in battery acid and had spread throughout the other components.
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  Speaker 1: I was stuck on an empty road in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of nowhere with nothing but desert and cliffs. I take
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  Speaker 1: out my phone to try and get a hold of
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  Speaker 1: Jason's to see if he could come get me. When
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  Speaker 1: we were younger teens, we'd always have this little slogan
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  Speaker 1: when trying to reach each other. It went something along
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  Speaker 1: the lines of, So and so, do you copy? And
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  Speaker 1: I repeat the catchphrase attempting to reach him. Hey Jason.
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  Speaker 1: Do you copy? I'm in a bit of a pickle here. However,
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  Speaker 1: signal around here was basically non-existent, so I had no
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  Speaker 1: other choice but to walk to the nearest town. All
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  Speaker 1: the while, I'm still trying to reach Jason, but there
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  Speaker 1: was no luck. About 15 minutes into my walk, I
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  Speaker 1: look behind me and notice two headlights in the distance
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  Speaker 1: getting closer and closer. It only took me a second
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  Speaker 1: to realize that it was a car, and I flagged
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  Speaker 1: them down while practically begging for help. Believe it or not,
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  Speaker 1: it seemed as if my prayers had come true, as
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  Speaker 1: the car then starts to slow down and pulls up
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  Speaker 1: next to me. Inside was an older looking gentleman, and
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  Speaker 1: in the back were two younger men with a middle-aged
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  Speaker 1: woman wearing sunglasses in the middle. The two men seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be carrying her as she appeared to be asleep,
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  Speaker 1: The driver asked as to how they could be a help,
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  Speaker 1: and I explained my situation to them. One of the
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  Speaker 1: men in the back seat had said something about how
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  Speaker 1: that sounded like a you problem, and that they'd be
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  Speaker 1: no help. I apologized, thanking them for their time, and
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  Speaker 1: told them I'd be on my way. However, that's when
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  Speaker 1: I noticed the woman in the car. She looked slumped over,
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  Speaker 1: and just appeared to be out of it. I then
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  Speaker 1: ask in a direct tone to the driver, Everything alright
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  Speaker 1: with her? He then looks at the men, looks at me,
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  Speaker 1: and says, No, no, she's dead, but why is that
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  Speaker 1: your concern? One of the men in the back take
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  Speaker 1: off her sunglasses, revealing her face. The second I saw
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  Speaker 1: her face, I could now see as to why she
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  Speaker 1: was deceased. Her lifeless body limped over the two men
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  Speaker 1: with her mouth hung open as if it had been broken.
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  Speaker 1: The driver then looks at me and says six words
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  Speaker 1: that have haunted me ever since. Calling the cops would
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  Speaker 1: be a mistake. I then back off and start running
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  Speaker 1: back to my car as the other car sped off
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  Speaker 1: until they were too far to be seen. Thankfully, my
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  Speaker 1: car willingly started back up again where I was able
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  Speaker 1: to go to the next town and get a new battery.
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  Speaker 1: I obviously did inform the police about my encounter and
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  Speaker 1: gave them an exact description of the men. Up until now, however,
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  Speaker 1: there have been unfortunately no leads as to who might
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  Speaker 1: have been responsible. In the end, I did get to
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  Speaker 1: see my friend and nothing happened again while on that trip.
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  Speaker 1: There are truly some sick and twisted people in this
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  Speaker 1: world that we just have to live with. It's unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: a harsh reality of life.
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  Speaker 3: Hey everyone, my name is Dennis Blaze. I was around
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  Speaker 3: 17 when this happened. And to give you an idea
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: of how long ago this took place, I am now
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  Speaker 3: 43 years old. I grew up in a small town
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  Speaker 3: across from Seattle during the late 90s. At the time,
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  Speaker 3: there was maybe a total population of 6,000 to 7,000 people.
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  Speaker 3: The town didn't really have a whole lot of things
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  Speaker 3: to do. One night I was hanging out with my
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  Speaker 3: three friends, who we'll call Gary, Mark, and Rob. We
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  Speaker 3: all got bored of just sitting at home, so we
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  Speaker 3: decided to go for a drive. We stopped to eat
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  Speaker 3: at a McDonald's before continuing our aimless endeavor. We had
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  Speaker 3: been driving for about 15 minutes after we left the restaurant.
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  Speaker 3: It must have been about 10pm at this point. My
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  Speaker 3: vehicle was a 92 Ford Probe. Mark rolled down his window.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think anything of it at first. I just
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  Speaker 3: figured he needed some air. We were descending a large
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  Speaker 3: hill when I saw a pair of headlights in the distance.
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  Speaker 3: The lights got closer, and I saw that it was
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  Speaker 3: a semi-truck, but it wasn't hauling a trailer behind it.
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  Speaker 3: As the semi-truck was approaching, I could see Mark sitting forward.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't sure what he was doing. I then saw
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  Speaker 3: him throw something at the truck as it passed. What
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: the hell are you doing? Relax, it was just a
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  Speaker 3: sweet and sour packet from the nuggets. I was annoyed,
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  Speaker 3: but I didn't think anything would happen. We got to
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  Speaker 3: the bottom of the hill when I looked into the
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  Speaker 3: rearview mirror. I could now see the headlights from the
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  Speaker 3: semi-truck barreling down the hill, rushing directly at my car.
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  Speaker 3: Holy sh- Everyone in the car turned around at once. Um,
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  Speaker 3: I think you just pissed him off, Mark. I quickly
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  Speaker 3: found a driveway to turn around, then raced to back
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  Speaker 3: up the hill as fast as I could to gain
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  Speaker 3: some distance from the semi-truck. When I got to the
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  Speaker 3: top of the hill, I turned off all my lights,
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  Speaker 3: and everyone in the car told me to turn down
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  Speaker 3: this side road that was pitch dark. I could barely
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  Speaker 3: see a thing, but I decided to go for it.
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  Speaker 3: I then turned the car back around before putting it
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  Speaker 3: in park. We thought it would be a good idea
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  Speaker 3: to wait for a few minutes before heading back to
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  Speaker 3: my house. We waited for about two minutes, when we
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  Speaker 3: saw those damn headlights coming in our direction. I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: believe it. The truck driver must have seen us turn
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  Speaker 3: down this road. I thought for sure we had lost him.
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  Speaker 3: The massive truck seemingly blocked our only way out. It
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  Speaker 3: came to a full stop. We then heard the driver's
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  Speaker 3: side door opening. Soon the driver was illuminated by his
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  Speaker 3: own headlights. This man looked huge. What the hell should
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  Speaker 3: we do, Mark? You're the one who got us into this.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think we should do? Let's get the
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  Speaker 3: f * * * out of here. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: I have enough room to get around him. No, that's
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  Speaker 3: not true. On the left, there's a clearing. He's not
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  Speaker 3: hauling a trailer, so if he flew it now... You
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  Speaker 3: should have just enough room to get around him. I
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  Speaker 3: decided to trust Mark, and stepped on the gas pedal.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: I narrowly missed hitting the man. I remember him angrily
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  Speaker 3: shouting at us as we zoomed past. Who knows what
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  Speaker 3: he would have done if he got his hands on
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  Speaker 3: any one of us. Mark turned out to be correct.
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  Speaker 3: I had just enough room to make it out of there,
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  Speaker 3: and I floored it all the way back home. My
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  Speaker 3: parents were at the casino that night, and they weren't
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  Speaker 3: going to be home for at least a few more hours.
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  Speaker 3: We locked all the doors and closed the curtains, checking
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  Speaker 3: every couple of minutes for any headlights. When we were
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: convinced that we were no longer in danger, we all
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  Speaker 3: had a good laugh about the whole situation. It was crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I told Mark he's no longer allowed to eat chicken
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  Speaker 3: nuggets again. I'm glad we all made it out of
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  Speaker 3: there safely. But I'll never forget the fear I felt
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: when I was staring down those headlights on that dark road.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: About five years ago, I was driving back home from
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  Speaker 2: work late one night. I worked at a restaurant slash
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: bar at the time and often worked very late. So
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: it was past midnight when I was finally going home
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  Speaker 2: and driving my Honda Accord. I lived with my parents
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  Speaker 2: during this time in a neighborhood about ten minutes from
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  Speaker 2: my job. So after leaving work, I got onto the
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  Speaker 2: roads which were very quiet as they often were in
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  Speaker 2: the late night hours. It was a huge difference from
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  Speaker 2: when I would go to work and there would be
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  Speaker 2: lots of cars on the road to when I would
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  Speaker 2: drive home and there would be basically nobody. So within
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: probably two or three minutes of driving home, I did
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  Speaker 2: notice a car behind me. When it started following me though,
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  Speaker 2: I had no idea. I kept driving home and was
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: realizing that the car behind me was turning wherever I did. Soon,
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  Speaker 2: I was very suspicious that I was being followed. I
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  Speaker 2: was never quite 100% sure, though. I thought maybe it
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  Speaker 2: was a neighbor or something. There are many other houses
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  Speaker 2: in the neighborhood. Still, I was suspicious by it. Soon,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I had made it to the street where my parents'
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  Speaker 2: house was. I turned onto it, and the car behind
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: me did the same. I actually thought about driving around
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  Speaker 2: the block or turning around, but ultimately, I drove to
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: my house and pulled into the driveway. I remember being
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: really nervous as I was pulling in that the car
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  Speaker 2: would as well. But it didn't. Instead, the car kept
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  Speaker 2: going down the street. I felt much better and then
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: got out of my car and walked inside. By now,
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  Speaker 2: my parents and sister had long gone to bed upstairs.
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  Speaker 2: The lights were off inside the house and it was
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  Speaker 2: very quiet. I went into the kitchen to make some
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: ramen noodles or something like that. I was very hungry
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: and wanted something quick to have before bed. As I
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: was waiting for the water to heat up though, I
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: casually walked around a little. I went into the living
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: room and glanced out the front window. That's when I
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: noticed a car driving extremely slow down the street. and
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I further noticed that it was the same car that
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: had seemingly followed me all the way home. Now I
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: was very suspicious. I continued to watch out the window.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: The car then turned and parked on the side of
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the street just past our house. I heard the engine
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: turn off. and then watched the driver's door open and
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: saw a man get out. He then started walking towards
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: our front yard. That's when I jumped back from the
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: window so that he wouldn't see me. I went back
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: into the kitchen and just hoped that this guy wasn't
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: going to try to break in or something. Seconds later, though,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: there was a knock at the front door. My heart
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: started racing. What could this guy possibly want? Several moments
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: went by, and he knocked again. I slowly walked into
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: the living room and went to a window. When I
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: looked outside, I saw the man walking away from the
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: front door, but he wasn't going back to his car. Instead,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: he walked around the side of our house. I went
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: back into the kitchen and looked out of a back window.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I was very careful when I was looking so that
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be seen. The man appeared to walk through
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: the backyard. He made his way through the backyard and
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: then went out of sight again. I then went back
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: to the front of the house. When I looked out
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: of the window, I didn't see the guy for a while.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Soon though, I saw him going through the front yard.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: He went back to his car, then got inside. Then
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: he drove away. After that, I went back to what
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I was doing. I looked out of the window a
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: few more times that night, but he didn't come back.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I still wonder who he was, why he followed me home,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: and what he was doing.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Back when I was 18 years old, for about six months,
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: my boss drove me to work. I know that may
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: sound a little weird, but I didn't get a license yet,
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: and he knew my mom. It also helped that he
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: lived about two minutes from my house. It was just
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: a weird situation, and no matter how I try to
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: preface it, I just know that it sounds weird. Most mornings,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: the drive to work was uneventful. We'd usually get to
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: work at around 6.30 a.m., and neither one of us
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: would talk in the car. He was usually hungover and
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: I just wasn't the talkative type. I'm a quiet person
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: by nature, but I was even quieter back then. One day,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: we had to go to work at 3 in the
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: morning for inventory. My boss decided it would be good
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: to show me, so I got up extra early for
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: that 3 a.m. shift. On the way into work that morning,
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: my boss said that he wanted to grab some coffee
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: at the gas station since it was the only place
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: that was open. When we parked, as he was getting
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: out of the car... He told me that he was
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: going to hit the restroom as well. I just nodded
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: and decided to wait in the car. I was exhausted
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: from staying up way too late playing video games and
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: I was planning on just resting my eyes until we
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: got to work. I'm assuming a few minutes had passed.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: I don't know exactly how long it was because I
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: was falling asleep while I was waiting for my boss.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: With no notice, the back seat door opened and it
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: startled me in my half-asleep state. I just thought it
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: was my boss and Then I felt movement behind me.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: I finally looked behind me and just sitting there in
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: the back seat was a woman. She didn't appear to
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: be homeless or look like she was on anything. She
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: just looked strange. And we made eye contact for a
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: few seconds and then I went back around trying to
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: process what was happening. I'm a really quiet person and
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: I was even more quiet back then like I said
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: and I didn't know what to say or what to do.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: I was just hoping my boss was going to come
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: back out soon. I started to finally work up the
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: courage to ask what was going on and I was
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: immediately freaked out when I turned around. She was sitting there,
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: now smiling, but looking forward. I don't really know how
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: to describe her eyes. They were cold and dark and
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: seemed almost lifeless even though she was kind of pretty.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Even as I write this, I still can't get the
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: image of her out of my mind. It had probably
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: been about 30 seconds since all this started and I
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: finally uttered my words when I asked her, Hey, is
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: everything okay? You know this isn't your car, right? Instead
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: of answering with words, she just started to scream erratically.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: It was so erratic that it was shaking the entire
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: car it felt like, or maybe just my head. I
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: jumped back just out of panic, confusion and shock and
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: I saw my boss walking out of the gas station.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: I just dove out of the passenger side door and
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: shut it behind me. My boss was confused and asked
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: me what the heck was going on and I just
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: pointed to the woman in the back seat of his car.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: We both just stood there, almost in amazement and disbelief.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: She was still screaming, shaking and rocking back and forth.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: We could physically see the car shaking from her wild
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: movements from inside the car. My boss approached the back
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: seat where she was sitting and as he grabbed the
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: door handle she put both her hands on the window
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: and I kid you not started to hiss and growl
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: at my boss. He said nope and walked back towards me.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: I was standing probably 10 feet away at this point.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: He immediately called the police and we were hoping that
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: they would arrive soon since it was a small town.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: The entire time that we were waiting for the cops
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: we could hear the woman screaming and the car still shaking.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: After a minute or two of waiting for the police,
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: we went inside and watched her from inside the gas station.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: There was just something unsettling about the entire situation. She
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: wasn't trying to rob us. She only looked like she
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: wanted to cause harm when we got near the car.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, she was sitting in the back seat, so
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: she wasn't even trying to steal the car. It was
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: just all so weird. The cops showed up maybe five
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: minutes after the call. We went outside to greet the
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: officer and fill him in on the situation and he
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: looked confused and I'm not going to lie, he almost
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: looked kind of amused by the whole situation. The officer
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: tried to get the woman to come out calmly but
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: after a minute of her screaming and growling he basically
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: went into the car and apprehended her. And this is
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: where this bad dream truly turned into a nightmare. Upon arrest,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: the officer had to remove four knives from her purse
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: and Yeah, you heard that right. This woman had four
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: sharp objects on her. Thankfully, she never showed us the
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: knives or even hinted at the fact that she had them.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: But even more disturbing, perhaps, is the fact that she
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: didn't have an ID on her and she wasn't talking,
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: so the officer had no idea who she was. This
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: complete stranger came out of nowhere. She got into my
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: boss's car without saying a word. She went from smiling
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: to off-the-wall insane. Then, to cap things off, she had
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: no ID and four deadly weapons on her. I've had
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: some wild things happen to me over the years, but
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: I'd have to say that this was probably the strangest
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: and most terrifying that's ever happened to me. It's been years,
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: and I remember this moment like it was yesterday. I'll
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: never forget that woman's face, and I honestly wonder what
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: she's up to now.