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3 True Abandoned Places Horror Stories | Vol. 3 That Will Ruin Your Exploration Plans · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: This happened almost four years ago. Now on a road
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  Speaker 1: trip I was taking across the country. I'm a frequent
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  Speaker 1: traveler and adventurer, going on long road trips and stopping
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  Speaker 1: at great hiking and camping locations all around the nation.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, I had been on the road for
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  Speaker 1: well over a month and was taking a short break
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  Speaker 1: at a small town in Nevada. While at the bar
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  Speaker 1: talking with the locals, they asked me if I was
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  Speaker 1: here to see the mines. I didn't know exactly what
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  Speaker 1: they meant and asked for more details, and they all
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  Speaker 1: talked about how there were hundreds of abandoned mines and
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  Speaker 1: mining towns all over the state. When I went back
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  Speaker 1: to my camper that night, I looked it up and
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  Speaker 1: found all these interesting mines not far from where I was.
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  Speaker 1: I had planned to just pass through Nevada as a whole,
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  Speaker 1: but after seeing this, I couldn't help myself. The next
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  Speaker 1: day I set out for one of the abandoned mining towns.
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  Speaker 1: The actual hiking portion only took an hour and a half,
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  Speaker 1: but it was mostly uphill. When I arrived, the town
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  Speaker 1: was on a flat portion of the large hill. There
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  Speaker 1: were twenty to thirty small wooden buildings, and in the
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  Speaker 1: center of the town was a railroad leading into the
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  Speaker 1: hill where the mine entrance was. I walked along this railroad,
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  Speaker 1: looking at the identical rows of wooden structures. I was
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  Speaker 1: more interested in the actual mine than I was in
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  Speaker 1: the ghost town, but it was still cool to see.
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  Speaker 1: I checked out one of the structures, but it was
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  Speaker 1: full of dirt and rubble, and I was sure that
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  Speaker 1: all the others would probably be the same. At the
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  Speaker 1: entrance to the mine, I took out my flashlight and
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  Speaker 1: when I pointed it through, the tunnel was so long
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  Speaker 1: that I couldn't even see the end. I started walking,
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  Speaker 1: and the further inside I got, the more quiet everything was,
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  Speaker 1: until eventually it was just the sound of my footsteps
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  Speaker 1: echoing through the mine. After a couple minutes, I reached
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  Speaker 1: the end of the railroad tracks and was met by
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  Speaker 1: a sign that said the area beyond was closed. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: I walked past it. The tunnel very quickly became shallower
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  Speaker 1: and less well rounded. There was then a turn that
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  Speaker 1: started going down at a slope, and at one section
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  Speaker 1: of it the floor had caved in. Someone before me
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  Speaker 1: had set up some makeshift walkway to get across the opening,
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  Speaker 1: but it seemed incredibly dangerous and unstable. I pointed the
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  Speaker 1: flashlight down, and the drop was enough to have me
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  Speaker 1: permanently trapped if I were to fall. I decided to
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  Speaker 1: turn back and went down one of the other side
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  Speaker 1: passages that had passed up previously, and found myself at
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  Speaker 1: a ladder going down a steep tunnel again. I shined
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  Speaker 1: my flashlight and saw that the bottom of the ladder
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even visible. I started my scent, but not long
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  Speaker 1: into it I heard something from below. It was a
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  Speaker 1: loud thud echoing through the mine. The echo made it
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  Speaker 1: hard to know how close or far it was. I
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  Speaker 1: pointed my flashlight down, and while I didn't see the
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  Speaker 1: cause of the sound, I did see the bottom. I
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  Speaker 1: climbed down and found myself at the base of another passageway,
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  Speaker 1: and a few feet in I found what caused the thud.
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  Speaker 1: There was a large rock sitting in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the tunnel, which I thought could have fallen from the ceiling,
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  Speaker 1: but it wasn't hard to tell that it was an
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  Speaker 1: entirely different kind of rock, which begged the question how
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  Speaker 1: did it fall and create a thud? I got my answer.
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  Speaker 1: When I pointed the flashlight further down the tunnel, two
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  Speaker 1: almost unidentifiable people stood in the middle of the passage,
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  Speaker 1: about ten feet down, one man and one woman. I
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  Speaker 1: knew from one look that they were not explorers. The
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  Speaker 1: way they looked at me was like they didn't even
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  Speaker 1: know I was a person. I started backing up, being
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  Speaker 1: cautious with my movements to not make them feel threatened
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  Speaker 1: in any way. When I got to the ladder, I dreaded,
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  Speaker 1: putting the flashlight in my pocket and started climbing up.
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  Speaker 1: Part of the way up, I swear I heard someone
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  Speaker 1: grab onto the rungs below me and begin climbing up quickly.
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  Speaker 1: I looked down and saw nothing but darkness. I screamed
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  Speaker 1: and began climbing up as fast as I could. I
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  Speaker 1: sprinted out of the mine and away from the ghost town.
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  Speaker 1: During the hike back, I collected my thoughts, thinking maybe
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  Speaker 1: what I heard was their footsteps, and in the moment
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  Speaker 1: I'd just mistaken it for them climbing up after me.
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  Speaker 1: But it was still terrifying. I drove down to a
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  Speaker 1: police station in the area and reported what had happened,
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  Speaker 1: But as far as I know, the police didn't do
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  Speaker 1: any sort of search or anything, despite me telling them
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  Speaker 1: that they looked malnourished and deeply insane. Even if they
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  Speaker 1: didn't know it themselves, they seriously needed help. I did
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  Speaker 1: some digging online since then and thought of some interesting
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  Speaker 1: theories as to why they may have been there. To
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  Speaker 1: begin with, there were several cases from around the area
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  Speaker 1: of couples that went missing within the past ten years,
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  Speaker 1: mostly due to committing horrible crimes and likely running away
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  Speaker 1: from the police. It just makes me think, how if
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  Speaker 1: that were to be true, and these were two people
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  Speaker 1: who'd committed terrible crimes, then I was very lucky to
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  Speaker 1: have escaped after seeing them. Me and my best friend
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  Speaker 1: Glenn grew up in a small town far from any
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  Speaker 1: big cities. The population was less than a thousand, so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was very local and everyone knew everyone. Growing up,
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  Speaker 1: rumors would spread about various creepy things that would go
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  Speaker 1: on in the town, al most likely fake, but one
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  Speaker 1: of the words that would spread was of this small
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  Speaker 1: community a few miles out in the surrounding woods that
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  Speaker 1: was abandoned decades ago. By the time Glen and I
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  Speaker 1: were in high school, we found out from multiple people
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  Speaker 1: that the community was actually real and there was a
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  Speaker 1: whole history to it. After finding that out, it was
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  Speaker 1: impossible for us to resist the urge to go out
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  Speaker 1: there and see what all the talk was about. We
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  Speaker 1: tried planning the whole trip out, but in the end
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  Speaker 1: we just packed a backpack with some water and flashlights,
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  Speaker 1: then headed into the woods. We got some basic directions
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  Speaker 1: to this poorly made trail that supposedly led there, and
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  Speaker 1: we followed it down for about three miles, but then
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  Speaker 1: it ended there were no other trails or anything. It
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  Speaker 1: was just a dead end. My immediate thought was that
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  Speaker 1: we'd been set up by some elaborate prank, but Glenn
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  Speaker 1: wasn't convinced. He somehow got me to follow him for
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  Speaker 1: another half mile through the woods, not following any trail
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  Speaker 1: or directions. By then, we'd already been out longer than expected,
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  Speaker 1: and the sun wasn't at its highest. I was nervous
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  Speaker 1: about getting lost without the sunlight or a clear path
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  Speaker 1: to follow, But just before we turned back, Glen spotted
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  Speaker 1: a shape in the distance. It was too far to
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  Speaker 1: see exactly what, but it was rigid, indefinitely man made.
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  Speaker 1: As we got closer, the shape revealed itself to be
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  Speaker 1: a worn and broken down cabin. The roof had caved in,
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  Speaker 1: and it looked like people had been around here recently.
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  Speaker 1: But when we walked around to the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the cabin, there was a large field where all the
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  Speaker 1: trees had been cut down. In the field stood six
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  Speaker 1: cabins of varying sizes, along with a few other structures
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  Speaker 1: that I couldn't really identify. Both of us were shot
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  Speaker 1: to actually have found this place, and in person, it
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  Speaker 1: was way creepier than we ever could have imagined. The
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  Speaker 1: houses were all falling apart in one way or another.
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  Speaker 1: We walked over to one of the cabins close to
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  Speaker 1: us and went inside. It was trashed, but it looked
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  Speaker 1: like most of the furniture, like wooden chairs and tables,
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  Speaker 1: were still intact and sitting in the same place they
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  Speaker 1: had been decades ago. The sunset was casting long shadows
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  Speaker 1: on everything, which really just gave it all an eerie feeling.
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  Speaker 1: I went into what I think was supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: the bedroom, but as I looked around, I heard someone
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  Speaker 1: walking outside the cabin. I turned around to give Glen
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  Speaker 1: a nervous look, but he wasn't there, staying quiet, I
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  Speaker 1: looked through a track on the wall to see if
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  Speaker 1: the person outside was Glen, but as the footsteps came closer,
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  Speaker 1: I caught sight of them. It was a tall, old
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  Speaker 1: man i'd say mid fifties, half naked, and the clothes
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  Speaker 1: he did have on were torn and disgusting. He walked
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  Speaker 1: past the cabin and I turned back and started looking
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  Speaker 1: through the rooms for Glenn, but he must have left
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  Speaker 1: at some point. I exited through an empty window frame
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  Speaker 1: and stayed behind the cabin as I tried to scan
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  Speaker 1: the whole field for any sign of Glen, but I
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  Speaker 1: saw no signs of him. I assumed he was exploring
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  Speaker 1: one of the other houses, but I had no idea
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  Speaker 1: of if he was even aware of this man that
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  Speaker 1: had just entered the abandoned community. In my frantic state
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  Speaker 1: of moving around the outside of the cabin and searching
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  Speaker 1: for Glen, I realized I'd lost sight of the man.
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  Speaker 1: I was struggling to keep myself calm, and the whole
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  Speaker 1: woods was getting darker by the minute. Then all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, there was a horrifying scream from the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the abandoned town. I peered around the cabin
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  Speaker 1: and saw Glen running through the open field. Once he
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  Speaker 1: saw me, we both ran into the woods back toward home.
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  Speaker 1: Thankfully we found the trail before the sun fully set,
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  Speaker 1: because once the sun went down, we could only see
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  Speaker 1: a few feet ahead. When we finally got back, I
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  Speaker 1: asked Glen what happened. He said he was exploring one
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  Speaker 1: of the houses, and as he did, he started to
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  Speaker 1: realize that it didn't look as abandoned as the others,
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  Speaker 1: and someone was likely living there. When he turned to leave,
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  Speaker 1: the same man I'd seen was standing on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the cabin holding a knife. He described his
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  Speaker 1: eyes as having a look of hunger, and without hesitation,
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  Speaker 1: the man charged at him. Glenn screamed and ran, and
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  Speaker 1: I guess the man didn't chase very far. We don't
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  Speaker 1: know what that man would have done to us, but
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  Speaker 1: it was stupid to have even gone to that abandoned
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  Speaker 1: town in the first place, and it almost cost us
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  Speaker 1: our lives to figure that out. Last year was my
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  Speaker 1: senior year of high school, and my friend group was
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  Speaker 1: always full of dumb ideas. All it took was a
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  Speaker 1: boring weekend night for us to go out and find
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  Speaker 1: anything to entertain us. That's exactly what happened this night.
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  Speaker 1: It was me and my two other friends hanging out
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  Speaker 1: and just trying to think of something to do. One
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  Speaker 1: of them, Mikey, had been talking of this abandoned place
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  Speaker 1: nearby for the past few weeks. We pushed it off
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  Speaker 1: for a while, but now with nothing to do, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't sound all that bad of an idea to go exploring.
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  Speaker 1: He said it was a house on the edge of
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  Speaker 1: town where all the farmland was, but aside from the locate,
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  Speaker 1: that was about all he knew. Me and the other
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  Speaker 1: friend shrugged and said why not, and within fifteen minutes
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  Speaker 1: we were on the road. We drove for a half
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  Speaker 1: hour until we reached the point where Mikey said to
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  Speaker 1: turn off onto an unpaved road, and a few minutes
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  Speaker 1: later we exited the tree line and were right in
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  Speaker 1: front of the house. It was a very large house
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  Speaker 1: with a huge plot of abandoned farmland around it. We
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  Speaker 1: got out of the car and each took a flashlight,
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  Speaker 1: then approached the front door. I turned the knob and
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  Speaker 1: it was unlocked, but when I tried shoving it open,
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  Speaker 1: it was blocked by something heavy on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: We went around to the back and tried the back door,
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  Speaker 1: but that door was locked. We resorted to crawling through
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  Speaker 1: a busted window on the side of the house. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as we were in, a strong, awful smell took over.
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  Speaker 1: It was like a mixture of mold and rotting animal carcass.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this was the worst smell I'd ever experienced
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  Speaker 1: by a long shot. My friends didn't seem as fazed
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  Speaker 1: as I was, so we kept moving in. Right away,
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  Speaker 1: we noticed footprints all throughout the dusty hallway floors. We
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  Speaker 1: thought nothing of it because we figured this place had
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  Speaker 1: basically been a tourist attraction for stupid teenagers like us.
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  Speaker 1: The whole place was unnervingly empty, though there wasn't any
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  Speaker 1: old furniture or garbage on the floor. As we walked
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  Speaker 1: through the first few rooms, we reached the hallway that
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  Speaker 1: led to the front door, and against the front door
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  Speaker 1: was an old couch with a bunch of boxes on
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  Speaker 1: top of it. Whoever had done that had taken what
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  Speaker 1: looked like everything from inside the house just to block
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  Speaker 1: the front door from opening. We continued up the stairs
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  Speaker 1: to see if the upstairs rooms were emptied too. At
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  Speaker 1: the top of the steps, I shined my flashlight down
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  Speaker 1: the hallway, there were three doors. We opened the first
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  Speaker 1: two and they were both empty bedrooms. Then I opened
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  Speaker 1: the third, and not surprisingly, it was empty two. But
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  Speaker 1: this room was much smaller than the others. The reason
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  Speaker 1: this confused all of us was because there were no
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  Speaker 1: more rooms next to it, so based on the layout
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  Speaker 1: of the house, it was easy to assume that this
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  Speaker 1: room was supposed to be double the size of the others.
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  Speaker 1: Since there were no more doors. With nothing left to see,
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  Speaker 1: we started back down the stairs, but as we got
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  Speaker 1: halfway down, we all heard the same thing. It sounded
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  Speaker 1: like a ball hitting the floor, rolling, then quickly and
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  Speaker 1: intentionally being stopped. It came from upstairs, where we just
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  Speaker 1: were Cautiously, We checked each of the rooms again and
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  Speaker 1: found nothing. All of us hearing the exact same thing
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  Speaker 1: made it extra odd because we all knew it happened,
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  Speaker 1: but there was nothing upstairs. After that, we were all
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  Speaker 1: getting uncomfortable and we quickly left the house through the
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  Speaker 1: same window we came in from. We walked to the
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  Speaker 1: front where the car was and got in. Just before
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  Speaker 1: I pulled out, though, I noticed two windows upstairs on
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  Speaker 1: the left side of the house, and I specifically remembered
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  Speaker 1: that the small room we were confused by only had
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  Speaker 1: one window. I pointed this out to my friends and
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  Speaker 1: we all sat there staring at the second floor windows
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  Speaker 1: and trying to figure out what was going on. Then
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  Speaker 1: there was a sudden flicker of a shadow moving across
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  Speaker 1: the blinds, followed by a dim light glowing from behind
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  Speaker 1: the window. In the light, the figure of a man
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  Speaker 1: could be seen looking out the window at us. I
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  Speaker 1: put the car in drive, did a U turn, and
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  Speaker 1: sped down the dirt road, getting out of there as
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  Speaker 1: fast as possible. After some discussion, Mikey convinced us to
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  Speaker 1: call the police, but the police found nothing in the house.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever was there had moved out and probably took everything
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  Speaker 1: with them. When I think back on it now, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just happy that we didn't try too hard to search
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  Speaker 1: for any more rooms when we were up there. If
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  Speaker 1: we did, I wouldn't doubt it if whoever was hiding
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  Speaker 1: in there was prepared to take drastic measures not to
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  Speaker 1: be found.