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2 True New House Horror Stories That Will Make You Fear Your Next Home Purchase · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: I was never a fan of dating apps, but after
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  Speaker 1: my last breakup, my friend suggested I try Tinder, saying
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  Speaker 1: that it would make my dating life alive and fun again,
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  Speaker 1: flying around and swiping random guys left or right. When
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  Speaker 1: one of the profiles really caught my eye. It was
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  Speaker 1: a single pick, very closely taken, focused on the deep
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  Speaker 1: blue eyes of Ethan. Truth is not always what you
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  Speaker 1: see through your eyes, his bio read. Out of sheer curiosity,
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  Speaker 1: I swiped right. We matched, and eventually our conversation led
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  Speaker 1: us to meet up face to face. After some coffee
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  Speaker 1: at a place near my apartment, Ethan invited me for
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  Speaker 1: dinner at his apartment. As we ate dinner in the
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  Speaker 1: flickering candlelight, I couldn't help but admire Ethan's face. His emphasizing,
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  Speaker 1: sharp jawline made my heart skip a beat. His tender
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  Speaker 1: profile hadn't captured the intensity in his eyes enough. There
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  Speaker 1: was a kind of manic hunger in them that sent
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  Speaker 1: a shiver down my spine. Yet there was an undeniable
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  Speaker 1: magnetism about him, a darkness that repelled and attracted me.
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  Speaker 1: Our conversation flowed surprisingly well. We bonded over underrated art
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  Speaker 1: and banned literature. He spoke of his love for Edgar
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  Speaker 1: Allan Poe, reciting verses about love and loss with a
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  Speaker 1: chilling intensity. As the night progressed, Ethan suggests we moved
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  Speaker 1: to his balcony. How about we get some fresh air.
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  Speaker 1: You'll love the view from here. I hesitated at first.
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  Speaker 1: The small, cluttered balcony felt oddly claustrophobic, but Ethan's smile,
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  Speaker 1: boyish and disarming, made me comfortable. The view from the
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  Speaker 1: balcony wasn't bad. The city lights below looked like scattered diamonds.
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  Speaker 1: But there was something very odd stuck in the air,
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  Speaker 1: making me wrinkle my nose. Something smells meaty, I commented,
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  Speaker 1: noticing a covered grill tucked in the corner. Ethan gave
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  Speaker 1: a creepy laugh, a hollow sound that made the hairs
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  Speaker 1: on the back of my neck.
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  Speaker 2: Stand on end.
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  Speaker 1: Just the little lamburger, he said, his voice too casual,
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  Speaker 1: family recipe, he whispered with a grin. He lifted the lid,
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  Speaker 1: revealing a sizzling patty.
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  Speaker 2: My stomach twisted.
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  Speaker 1: The lamb looked unnaturally dark, the edges grilled black. Suddenly
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  Speaker 1: I noticed something more on the patty. There was a
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  Speaker 1: long strand of blonde hair wrapped around it. I felt
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  Speaker 1: like throwing up.
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  Speaker 3: WHOA, that doesn't look too good, making me.
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  Speaker 1: Sick, I mumbled, backing away. All of a sudden, ethan
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  Speaker 1: smile disappeared, his eyes narrowed, the charming personality replaced by
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  Speaker 1: a cold, dangerous gleam. I promise you'll love the taste
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  Speaker 1: of it. Just give it a dry Monica. The words
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  Speaker 1: sent a fresh wave of terror through me.
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  Speaker 4: I don't feel well. I need to go.
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  Speaker 1: No, you don't, he growled, grabbing my hand with surprising strength.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing, I screamed, trying to free myself.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you see, he hissed.
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  Speaker 1: His expression was now a mix of anger and desperation.
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  Speaker 1: We were meant to be together forever. The smell in
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  Speaker 1: the air intensified. Desperate by sheer terror, I wrestled free.
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  Speaker 1: I stumbled back, tripping over a metal bucket that was
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  Speaker 1: resting in the corner of the balcony. It clanged loudly,
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  Speaker 1: revealing its gruesome contents, a bleached skull and several long bones.
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  Speaker 1: Ethan raged at be again. Monica, don't ruin the food.
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  Speaker 1: But this time I was ready with a rush of adrenaline.
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  Speaker 1: Grabbing a metal spatula kept on top of the hot grill,
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  Speaker 1: I swung it in Ethan blindly. The thudding sound of
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  Speaker 1: metal on bone echoed in the night. Ethan fell to
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  Speaker 1: the ground, a choked gasp, escaping his lips. I was
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  Speaker 1: staring at him, the spatula trembling in my hand. Nausea
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  Speaker 1: threatened to overwhelm me again, but this time it was
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  Speaker 1: mixed with a horrifying realization. The burger, the bones, Ethan's words,
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  Speaker 1: they all clicked into place.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't just a psycho.
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  Speaker 1: He was a monster who couldn't handle rejection, and I
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  Speaker 1: was about to become another entry in his collection of
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  Speaker 1: discarded dates. Dazed and trembling, I ran to the lobby
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  Speaker 1: outside his apartment and called nine to one one. The
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  Speaker 1: image of Ethan's twisted face and the gruesome contents of
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  Speaker 1: the bucket made my fingers tremble.
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  Speaker 2: While dialed the call.
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  Speaker 1: Ethan remained unconscious until the police arrived. A group of
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  Speaker 1: them got inside his apartment while I was escorted out
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  Speaker 1: by the paramedics. But even amidst the flashing lights and
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  Speaker 1: concerned questions, I was not able to shake the feeling
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  Speaker 1: of fear God, I was on a date with a cannibal.
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  Speaker 1: The following days were a blur. News reports buzzed with
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  Speaker 1: Ethan's arrest. The police had discovered a hidden room in
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  Speaker 1: his apartment filled with the remains of young women. Each
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  Speaker 1: had matched with Ethan on dating apps, each lured under
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  Speaker 1: the pretense of romance. As the only a live key witness,
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  Speaker 1: my story is a chilling testament to the monster who
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  Speaker 1: hid behind a charming facade. Yet a part of my
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  Speaker 1: mind remained haunted the lingering smell and those horrific laughs
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  Speaker 1: in my nightmares. The echo of Ethan's words we were
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  Speaker 1: meant to be together forever served as a constant reminder
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  Speaker 1: of the night I danced with death on a balcony,
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  Speaker 1: bathed in moonlight. It was nine years ago when I
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  Speaker 1: matched with Olivia on Tinder. She was thirty six, divorced
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  Speaker 1: and living in a suburban area not far from my apartment.
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  Speaker 1: At twenty eight, I was just looking for some fun,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest, and Olivia seemed perfect. We clicked instantly,
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  Speaker 1: bonding over a shared love for classic rock horror movies
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  Speaker 1: and a mutual disdain for small town gossip. There was
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  Speaker 1: a spark between us, an electric attraction, so to say,
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  Speaker 1: do you like the Rolling Stones?
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  Speaker 2: No way, They're my favorite band.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw them live back in ninety nine.
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  Speaker 4: That was a wild night.
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  Speaker 2: We decided to meet at a quiet bar she recommended.
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  Speaker 1: I remember the place well, dimly lit with old wooden
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  Speaker 1: booths and a jukebox that played nothing but eighties hits,
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  Speaker 1: And then she walked in.
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  Speaker 2: Olivia was stunning.
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  Speaker 1: She had this effortless charm, a confident gait, and while
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  Speaker 1: smoking hot body. We laughed, flirted, and drank more than
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  Speaker 1: we probably should have. She was blunt about her intentions.
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  Speaker 1: I cope ages in a damper. I mean, look at you.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be eight years older to me.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be honest, Ethan, I like going around with younger men,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm not looking for anything.
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  Speaker 4: Just so you know, it's a one night thing.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds perfect to me. We left the bar and Olivia
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  Speaker 1: invited me to her place. Her bungalow was old, with
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  Speaker 1: a Victorian style that looked kind of unsettling under the moonlight.
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  Speaker 1: My drunken brain felt a twyinge of unease as soon
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  Speaker 1: as I stepped inside. The house was beautifully maintained, but
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  Speaker 1: had an unerving air about it. The living room had
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  Speaker 1: antique furniture, dark wood paneling, and heavy drapes, but something
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  Speaker 1: didn't fit the creamy textured carpet. It clashed with the decor,
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  Speaker 1: standing out like a sore thumb. Nice place you got here,
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  Speaker 1: Daddy sells oil.
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  Speaker 3: Daddy shot himself when I was three. I got the place,
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  Speaker 3: and the divorce husband was into real estate.
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  Speaker 4: Want another drink?
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  Speaker 1: She handed me a glass of whiskey and we settled
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  Speaker 1: on the couch. Her touch was intoxicating, and soon our
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  Speaker 1: fingers were exploring each other's while our eyes locked. There
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  Speaker 1: was something about her brutal honesty, her charm, and her
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  Speaker 1: confidence that had me drunk. Other than the Jack Daniels,
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  Speaker 1: you have great taste in decor, very vintage.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a sucker for antiques.
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  Speaker 3: They have a history, a story to tell, just like us.
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  Speaker 2: Oh and what's our story?
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  Speaker 3: Two strangers meeting by chance and sharing an ad of
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  Speaker 3: adventure sounds exciting.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of adventure do you have in mind?
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  Speaker 4: One that starts with good whiskey and ends with well,
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  Speaker 4: we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I like the sound of that. You're full of surprises,
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  Speaker 1: aren't you?
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  Speaker 4: Only the good kind? What about you? What surprises do
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  Speaker 4: you have up your sleeve?
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  Speaker 2: You'll have to stick around to find out.
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  Speaker 3: I think I just might, so tell me what a
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  Speaker 3: handsome guy like you doing on tender looking.
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  Speaker 2: For someone intriguing? I guess I found.
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  Speaker 4: Her flattery, we'll get you everywhere?
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  Speaker 2: Good to know? And what about you, my tender?
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  Speaker 3: Not many places for women like me to find young
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  Speaker 3: men like you.
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  Speaker 2: Lively? Huh, I can do lively?
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  Speaker 4: I bet you can.
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  Speaker 3: Shall we take this adventure downstairs? I have a special
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  Speaker 3: room for my guests.
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  Speaker 2: Lead the way.
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  Speaker 1: But as she grabbed my arm to lead me to
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  Speaker 1: her bedroom, a wave of nausea hit me. I stumbled,
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  Speaker 1: and before I could stop myself, it came out. I
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  Speaker 1: vomited all over the carpet. I remember Olivia's demeanor changing
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  Speaker 1: in an instant. She flew into a fit of rage,
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  Speaker 1: rushing to grab a mop, her face twisted with anger.
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  Speaker 4: You idiot, you ruined my carpet.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to.
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  Speaker 4: I sue it.
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  Speaker 3: With my hands, the one thing in this house that
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  Speaker 3: doesn't remind me of my sick ex husband, And now
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  Speaker 3: your bile is swimming over it.
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  Speaker 1: Realizing I had blown my chance, I mumbled an apology
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  Speaker 1: and hurried out of the house.
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  Speaker 2: My head was spinning, my stomach churning.
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  Speaker 1: I made it home and collapsed into bed, cursing my
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  Speaker 1: capacity for ruining what would have been a glorious night.
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  Speaker 1: Now nine years later I saw her face plastered on
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  Speaker 1: the news. Olivia, now forty five, was arrested. A secret
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  Speaker 1: torture room was uncovered in the basement of her bungalow,
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  Speaker 1: where she kept young men and tortured them.
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  Speaker 2: One of her.
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  Speaker 1: Victims had managed to escape and alerted the authorities. The
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  Speaker 1: police found evidence of cannibalism, token parts of previous lovers
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  Speaker 1: she had tacon, and the final horrifying reveal, a carpet
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  Speaker 1: made of human skin. I sat there staring at the
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  Speaker 1: TV in disbelief. The creamy textured carpet flashed in my
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  Speaker 1: mind and a chill ran down my spine as I
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  Speaker 1: realized how lucky I was. When I matched with David
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  Speaker 1: on Tinder, I couldn't believe that he'd swiped right on me.
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  Speaker 1: He was twenty seven, an Australian globe trotter with an
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  Speaker 1: infectious smile and tussled blonde hair.
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  Speaker 2: His tan was just perfect.
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  Speaker 1: It had to be because he served, and he wore
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  Speaker 1: an intriguing blue beaded necklace in every photo. We started
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  Speaker 1: flirting over texts almost immediately. So what does a gorgeous
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  Speaker 1: girl like you do for fun on a gorgeous Boston
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  Speaker 1: evening like today?
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  Speaker 3: Besides swiping on Tinder? Mostly exploring the city and avoiding
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  Speaker 3: bad dates?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you deserve a good one drinks tomorrow night?
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  Speaker 2: Smooth.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, you don't waste time, do you?
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  Speaker 1: I wasted. It's the most precious thing in the world. Well,
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  Speaker 1: except for that smile of yours. He was good. We
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  Speaker 1: exchanged numbers and decided to meet at a pub downtown.
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  Speaker 1: The night came and I was nervous but excited. I
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  Speaker 1: arrived early, found a table and waited and waited, and
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  Speaker 1: then waited some more, rejected to advances from strangers for him,
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  Speaker 1: and let a martini sit, hoping that my surfer boy
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  Speaker 1: would surface. But he didn't. An hour passed and still
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  Speaker 1: know David. It was then that it dawned on me
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  Speaker 1: he had stood me up. I rushed back to my place,
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  Speaker 1: even my calls weren't getting placed.
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  Speaker 2: Frustrated, I texted.
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  Speaker 4: Him, Hey, where are you? I was waiting for you?
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  Speaker 4: For over an hour.
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  Speaker 1: I was there at the pub. Didn't see you see this?
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  Speaker 4: Men and their lies for real? Stop disappointing me further.
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  Speaker 1: You need proof, Here you go. He sent a photo
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  Speaker 1: of the pub he was from the same night. Judging
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  Speaker 1: by the people and the lighting. Where were you near
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  Speaker 1: the juke box? Where were you near.
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  Speaker 4: The juke box? How could we have not seen each other?
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  Speaker 1: God knows? I was confused. Something didn't feel right to me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure that making up would be a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: His responses caught me off guard. What harm could a
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  Speaker 1: coffee do? So reluctantly I agreed, But stupid me, the
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  Speaker 1: same thing happened again. I sat there in the cafe,
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  Speaker 1: feeling more and more foolish as time passed. Eventually I
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  Speaker 1: had to get up and leave. I couldn't believe that
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  Speaker 1: the guy had made a fool of me, not once,
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  Speaker 1: but twice. When I texted him angrily, he simply replied
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  Speaker 1: with another photo, this time of the cafe from that evening.
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  Speaker 4: This is ridiculous. Are you messing with me?
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  Speaker 2: No? I swear I was there. Maybe we just keep
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  Speaker 2: missing each other.
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  Speaker 3: I tried to call you from the cafe.
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  Speaker 4: There was no ring.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, I have some troubles with my American ZIM card,
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  Speaker 1: need Wi Fi to make calls.
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  Speaker 2: That was it.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't going to be fooled twice. I blocked his number,
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  Speaker 1: chalking it up to a bizarre catfishing experience. Months passed
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  Speaker 1: and I forgot about David. But then one night, while
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  Speaker 1: out at a club with friends, I saw him. The
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  Speaker 1: same tussled hair, the same blue beaded necklace. He stood
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  Speaker 1: in the distance, almost like a shadow, but I could
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  Speaker 1: feel his eyes upon me. My heart raised as I
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  Speaker 1: approached him, but he vanished into the crowd. Back home,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. Curiosity
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  Speaker 1: and a lingering sense of an ease led me to
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  Speaker 1: unblock David's number. I called him, but again there was
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  Speaker 1: no ring. Surprisingly, a few minutes later, my phone buzzed
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  Speaker 1: with a message. It was a photo of the nightclub
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  Speaker 1: from that very night.
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  Speaker 4: What the hell is going on?
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  Speaker 1: Just wanted to see you again? I owed you some answers.
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  Speaker 1: Anger searched through me, but before I could respond, another
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  Speaker 1: message came through. This one was a newspaper clipping with
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  Speaker 1: David's picture. The headline read Australian surfer, fourth victim of
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  Speaker 1: the Boston barbie matched on Tinder the night before his poisoning.
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  Speaker 2: My blood ran cold.
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  Speaker 1: I stared at the clipping, which proclaimed that David was dead.
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  Speaker 1: He had been dead for months, murdered by a serial killer.
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  Speaker 1: My hands trembled as I typed a reply, This isn't funny.
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  Speaker 4: How are you sending these?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for liberating me. My phone buzzed again. This
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  Speaker 1: time he was a photo of me, taken from behind.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: I was sitting on my couch, staring at my phone
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  Speaker 1: in horror. Every hair on my body stood unengged. I
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  Speaker 1: gathered the courage to turn around, expecting to see someone
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  Speaker 1: standing there, but there was no one. Instead, on the
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  Speaker 1: floor where no one had been a moment before, laid
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  Speaker 1: David's blue beaded necklace