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3 True McDonald's Horror Stories That Will Never Let You Look at Fast Food the Same · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: I was just looking for a quick snack run that night.
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  Speaker 1: The exams were killing me and I needed a short break,
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  Speaker 1: so I went to the nearby convenience store. The fluorescent
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  Speaker 1: lights flickered slightly as I walked down the aisles, my
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  Speaker 1: cart rattling with the basics, instant noodles, a few energy drinks,
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  Speaker 1: and gums. I turned into the chip's aisle, scanning for
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  Speaker 1: my favorite pringles. That's when I saw the crazy girl.
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  Speaker 1: She stood there, disheveled and jittery, her hair a tangled mess,
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  Speaker 1: wearing a skimpy, worn out one piece. Her eyes were wide,
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  Speaker 1: almost manic. Darting around from left to right, she was
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  Speaker 1: muttering to herself a strange, repetitive chant.
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  Speaker 2: Gotta get some pringles, Gotta get some pringles, Gotta get
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  Speaker 2: some pringles.
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  Speaker 1: She said it over and over, her voice rising and
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  Speaker 1: falling in pitch, sometimes whispering, sometimes nearly shouting. I tried
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  Speaker 1: to ignore her, but it was hard not to feel easy.
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  Speaker 1: Her presence was unsettling, a sense of crazy shooting from her.
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  Speaker 1: I cautiously reached for a can of pringles, thinking maybe
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  Speaker 1: it would calm her down if she saw that I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't interested in taking.
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  Speaker 3: All of them.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as my fingers wrapped around the can, her
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  Speaker 1: eyes locked onto mine for a moment, time seemed to
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  Speaker 1: freeze her chance stopped abruptly, and silence filled the aisle.
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  Speaker 3: Seconds passed, and then dread.
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  Speaker 1: Set in when I realized that she wasn't even blinking.
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  Speaker 1: Then she lunged at me, her hands clawing at my face.
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  Speaker 1: I stumbled back. The pringles can flew from my hands.
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  Speaker 1: She screeched a sound that was more animal than human,
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  Speaker 1: and then dug her nails across my cheek, drawing blood.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what had.
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  Speaker 1: Happened, but I was just paralyzed by her sudden outburst.
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  Speaker 1: I grabbed a nearby shelf, trying to steady myself, but
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  Speaker 1: she was relentless.
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  Speaker 3: What the hell get off me?
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  Speaker 1: I tried to push her away, but she was stronger
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  Speaker 1: than she looked. She grabbed a bag of chips and
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  Speaker 1: swung it at my head. The bag burst open, chips
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  Speaker 1: flying everywhere, but she didn't stop and started throwing more.
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  Speaker 1: She grabbed another and another, pummeling me with each one.
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  Speaker 1: I was still confused as what to do. The aisle
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  Speaker 1: was deserted as well, so there was no one around.
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  Speaker 1: In a desperate attempt to defend myself. I grabbed a
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  Speaker 1: jar of salsa from the shelf and smashed it against
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  Speaker 1: her hands.
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  Speaker 3: She screamed in pain, but she didn't back down.
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  Speaker 1: She picked up a metal shelf bracket that had fallen
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  Speaker 1: loose and swung it at me. I felt a sharp
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  Speaker 1: pain in my arm as it connected, and I knew
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  Speaker 1: I was bleeding.
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  Speaker 3: Help. Someone help.
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  Speaker 1: I backed up against the shelves, looking for anything I
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  Speaker 1: could use to defend myself. My hand found a can
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  Speaker 1: of soup and I hurled it at her. It hit
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  Speaker 1: her square in the chest, knocking her back just enough
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  Speaker 1: for me to make a run for it. Stumbled down
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  Speaker 1: the aisle, my vision blurry, blood dripping from my arm
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  Speaker 1: and face. I could hear her behind me, her footsteps erratic,
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  Speaker 1: her voice a high pitched wail.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta get some wrinkles.
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  Speaker 1: I turned a corner, nearly slipping on the tiled floor.
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  Speaker 1: Ahead of me, I saw the store security guard rushing
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  Speaker 1: towards us, his face a mix of confusion and determination.
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  Speaker 1: He tackled her just as she was about to reach me,
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  Speaker 1: bringing her down to the floor. She fought him, screaming
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  Speaker 1: and thrashing, but he managed to pin her down.
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  Speaker 3: It's okay, I got her.
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  Speaker 1: Two store boys also came running in and helped in
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  Speaker 1: pinning the woman down. She screamed at the top of
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  Speaker 1: her lungs, shaking her body and tossing all over the floor.
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  Speaker 1: I collapsed against the shelf, my breath coming in ragged gasps.
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  Speaker 1: My entire body ached, and I could feel the warm
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  Speaker 1: trickle of blood down my face and arm. Other shoppers
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  Speaker 1: had gathered their eyes wide with shock. The police arrived quickly,
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  Speaker 1: and paramedics soon followed. They took her away in coughs,
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  Speaker 1: while she still screamed the same.
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  Speaker 3: Thing, gotta get some springles.
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  Speaker 1: As they patched me up, I could hear the murmurs
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  Speaker 1: around me, people speculating about who she was and why
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  Speaker 1: she had attacked me. I don't understand. She just snapped.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning, it was all over the news. They
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  Speaker 1: described her as a local drug addict with a history
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  Speaker 1: of mental illness. She was apparently under the influence and
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  Speaker 1: hadn't eaten in three days. In her high she had
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  Speaker 1: entered the store and got lost between the aisles, just
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  Speaker 1: remembering to eat pringles. Gotta tell you the truth. Lots
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  Speaker 1: of crazy surround in the world right now. My friends
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  Speaker 1: and I were obsessed with the occult. Back in school.
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  Speaker 3: We spent countless nights hunched over dusty books of satanic
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  Speaker 3: cults we could get our hands on the web, seeking
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  Speaker 3: the thrill. It was Jimmy who discovered the bizarre fact
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  Speaker 3: about the founder of Pringles, whose ashes were buried in
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  Speaker 3: a Pringles can. Dust kids trying to avoid homework sounded
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  Speaker 3: like the perfect setup for a seance. One Friday night,
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  Speaker 3: we gathered in Jimmy's basement when his parents were out.
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  Speaker 3: The place was dimly lit by flickering candles, the air
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  Speaker 3: thick with the scent of incense. An old Ouiji board.
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  Speaker 1: Lay on the floor between us, next to a can
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  Speaker 1: of pringles. The ritual was Jimmy's idea. He claimed he
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  Speaker 1: found it in an ancient grimoire online. We each took
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  Speaker 1: turns eating a pringle, then placed the can in the
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  Speaker 1: center of our circle.
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  Speaker 3: We joined hands.
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  Speaker 1: The atmosphere electric with anticipation. Spirits of the beyond, We
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  Speaker 1: summon thee We seek the spirit of Frederick Bauer, creator
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  Speaker 1: of Pringles, Reveal yourself to us, His voice echoed through
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  Speaker 1: the basement.
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  Speaker 3: For a moment, nothing happened.
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  Speaker 1: We had tried these online rituals before, and they were
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  Speaker 1: usually a hog. But just as I was about to
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  Speaker 1: laugh it off, a chill ran down my spine. The
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  Speaker 1: candle flames flickered violently, casting twisted shadows on the wall.
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  Speaker 3: Frederick Bauer show yourself.
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  Speaker 1: The Ouiji Board's planned chet began to move, spelling out
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  Speaker 1: words we couldn't understand. The temperature suddenly dropped, and a low,
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  Speaker 1: guttural growl filled the room. Suddenly, the pringles can toppled over,
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  Speaker 1: rolling towards me as if pushed by an unseen hand. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: this doesn't feel right. Before I could finish, the lights
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  Speaker 1: went out. The basement was plunged into darkness. The only
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  Speaker 1: sound are panicked breathing. Then the haunting began. The first
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  Speaker 1: instance was subtle. We heard whispers incomprehensible and eerie echoing
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  Speaker 1: through the basement. At first we thought it was just
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  Speaker 1: our imaginations, but when the whispers turned into wailing of
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  Speaker 1: a woman, we knew something.
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  Speaker 3: Was horribly wrong.
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  Speaker 4: We need to end this now.
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  Speaker 1: He tried to close the seance, but the Ouiji board
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't cooperate. The plan chet moved on its own, spelling
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  Speaker 1: out no, over and over. Suddenly, Jimmy was thrown across
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  Speaker 1: the room, his body slamming into the wall with a
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  Speaker 1: sickening thought. He groaned, struggling to stand as we ran
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  Speaker 1: for the door. The basement door slam shut. An invisible
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  Speaker 1: force yanked at my hair, pulling me all the way
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  Speaker 1: down the stairs back into the basement. I screamed, clawing
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  Speaker 1: at the air, but there was nothing to fight against.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy and Sarah grabbed me, pulling me back, but the
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  Speaker 1: force was relentless. My scalp burned as clumps of hair
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  Speaker 1: were ripped out. Suddenly, Sarah's arm was twisted at an
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  Speaker 1: unnatural angle, bones cracking under the pressure of an unseen grip.
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  Speaker 1: She cried out in pain, tears streaming down her face.
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  Speaker 1: We watched in horror as dark bruises formed on her skin.
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  Speaker 3: We need to get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: We scrambled towards the basement door again, but it wouldn't budge.
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  Speaker 1: The candles reignited on their own, their flames turning blue. Slowly,
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  Speaker 1: we saw four to five shadows walking across and slowly
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  Speaker 1: merging into a dark humanoid figure. Its eyes glowing white,
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  Speaker 1: it lunged at us, passing through Jimmy's body. He convulsed,
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  Speaker 1: his eyes rolling back as the spirits seemed to possess him.
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  Speaker 3: Were not straight. His voice was.
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  Speaker 1: A horrible blend of his, and the spirits deep and distorted.
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  Speaker 1: He grabbed Sarah by the throat, lifting her off the ground.
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  Speaker 3: I tackled him.
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  Speaker 1: Breaking his grip, but the spirit was still inside him,
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  Speaker 1: fighting back with inhuman strength. In the chaos, Sarah found
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  Speaker 1: a discarded crucifix among the occult items. She held it up,
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  Speaker 1: chanting a prayer through sobs. Strangely, it worked. The spirit
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  Speaker 1: recoiled and Jimmy collapsed, the dark figure coming out and
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  Speaker 1: dissipating into the air. The three of us rushed to
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  Speaker 1: the door again, and this time it opened.
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  Speaker 3: We managed to.
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  Speaker 1: Drag Jimmy to his dad's car, tying into the seat
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  Speaker 1: with the seat belt. Something told us that it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: safe to be in the house. Jimmy was still thrashing
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  Speaker 1: and screaming, the spirit's influence still lingering, but he finally
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  Speaker 1: calmed down after some time. Exhausted and terrified, we slumped
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  Speaker 1: in the car. None of us even knew how to drive.
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  Speaker 1: And we didn't think any neighbors would believe us, so
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  Speaker 1: we just kept to ourselves. The three of us got
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  Speaker 1: some sleep till Jimmy's dad knocked on the window to
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  Speaker 1: wake us up. Early next morning, we got out and
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  Speaker 1: dropped some excuse, but Sarah glanced at the back seat
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  Speaker 1: and froze the can of Pringles from our ceremony for
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  Speaker 1: the line there. I'd been into the industry as a
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  Speaker 1: model for about two years and didn't really have many friends.
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  Speaker 1: I had few word friends are the ones I would
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  Speaker 1: meet on shoots after months. Since I'm an introvert, I
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  Speaker 1: find it especially hard. So when Josephine invited me for
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  Speaker 1: a road trip with her modeling friends, I said yes.
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  Speaker 1: Josephine was one of the hottest things in the industry
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  Speaker 1: affairs with a late night show host, hooking up with millionaires,
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  Speaker 1: posh brands. She had it all. Of course I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be friends with her. She picked me along with
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  Speaker 1: her friend Melanie and Claire, and we left for a
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  Speaker 1: road trip to Joshua Tree to escape the mundane and
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  Speaker 1: indulge in magic mushrooms. We only stopped once to fill gas.
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  Speaker 1: I bought a can of pringles and some beer before
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  Speaker 1: we were on our way. After only about an hour
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  Speaker 1: of reaching Joshua Tree, we started tripping Beyond the initial euphoria,
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  Speaker 1: The world around me suddenly morphed into a kaleidoscope of
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  Speaker 1: vibrant colors and shapes. Everything was magical. My hands were
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  Speaker 1: suddenly fluffier. Melanie's voice suddenly started sounding like that of
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  Speaker 1: a man, and Josephine's eyes went red while she started
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  Speaker 1: swinging her body like a pendulum while standing. It was
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  Speaker 1: fun until the munchies hit us like a freight train.
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  Speaker 1: Josephine rummaged through our supplies, only to discover that our
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  Speaker 1: snacks were missing. We looked as well, but all that
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  Speaker 1: I could see were vibrant red skies and waves in
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  Speaker 1: the distance which.
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  Speaker 3: Were getting bigger.
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  Speaker 1: Panics set in as we realized that the only thing
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  Speaker 1: left was a single can of pringles in the car.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't enough, Josephine, where did you put the sex?
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  Speaker 1: Josephine's eyes widened, her pupils dilated. She stared at me blankly,
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  Speaker 1: and I could see her grip on reality slipping.
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  Speaker 4: I thought you had the aguel A wave.
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  Speaker 1: Of annoyance searched through me. My voice took on an
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  Speaker 1: accusatory edge.
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  Speaker 4: You were in charge of the snacks.
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  Speaker 3: The tension in the air thickened.
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  Speaker 1: Melanie and Claire sat quietly, their eyes darting between Josephine
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  Speaker 1: and me, Sensing the brewing storm. Josephine's face twisted in
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  Speaker 1: a mix of hallucinations and anger. The drugs had heightened
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  Speaker 1: all of our emotions, and I could see Josephine's mental
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  Speaker 1: stability teetering on the edge.
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  Speaker 2: Don't blame this on me, like you're always so perfect, Adele,
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  Speaker 2: so damn perfect. What are you even talking about? They're
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  Speaker 2: picking you for the Gucci campaign? Bitch, Tony thinks I
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  Speaker 2: lost the X factor? Can you imagine dropping me a literal.
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  Speaker 4: Legend for you? Bitch? You can't even model.
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  Speaker 1: Before I could react, she suddenly lunged at me. She
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  Speaker 1: snatched the can of pringles, her eyes wild, and started
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  Speaker 1: dashing it again my head. I fell to the ground, dazed,
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  Speaker 1: Get off me, you'll lunatic. The desert spun around me,
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  Speaker 1: my vision blurring. I could hear Melanie and Claire shouting,
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  Speaker 1: but their voices seemed distant, like echoes and a canyon.
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  Speaker 1: Josephine continued to assault her hands, clawing at my face.
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  Speaker 1: I felt her nails dig into my skin, ripping and tearing.
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  Speaker 1: Blood ran down my cheeks, mixing with my tears. Stop Josephine, please,
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  Speaker 1: But she was lost in her own world, her actions
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  Speaker 1: fueled by a dangerous mix of drugs and latent rage.
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  Speaker 1: As I struggled, the world shifted. My hallucinations morphed Josephine's
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  Speaker 1: face into that of a Pringle's mascot, a twisted caricature,
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  Speaker 1: grinning down at me with malevolent glee.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, this isn't real, but.
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  Speaker 3: The pain was real. The terror was real.
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  Speaker 1: I fought back, trying to push her off, but she
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  Speaker 1: was relentless. She grabbed a rock, raising it high above
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  Speaker 1: her head. I closed my eyes, bracing for the impact.
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  Speaker 1: In a surge of adrenaline, Melanie and Claire managed to
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  Speaker 1: pull her off me. I gasped for air, my body trembling.
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  Speaker 1: They dragged her to the car, shoving her inside. Josephine
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  Speaker 1: screamed and thrashed, but they managed to tire to the
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  Speaker 1: seat belt, securing her in place.
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  Speaker 4: Adel Are you okay, I.
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  Speaker 1: Nodded weakly, my head throbbing, my vision still hazy. Blood
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  Speaker 1: dripped from the wounds on my face.
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  Speaker 4: We need to wait until she calms down.
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  Speaker 1: We sat in silence, the only sound Josephine's ragged breathing
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  Speaker 1: and the distant call of coyotes. Slowly the effects of
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  Speaker 1: the drugs began to wear off. Josephine slumped in the seat.
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  Speaker 4: The mushrooms must have triggered something at her. We need
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  Speaker 4: to get help.
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  Speaker 1: The desert, which had seemed so enchanting hours before, now
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  Speaker 1: felt ominous and foreboding. I knew that I had to
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  Speaker 1: see a doctor soon, praying that Josephine's attack wouldn't leave
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  Speaker 1: scarring on my face. That is when my eyes fell
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  Speaker 1: on the seat next to Josephine. There, partially hidden under
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  Speaker 1: a blanket, was the bag of snacks we had been
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  Speaker 1: searching for. A tear escaped my eye as I got
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  Speaker 1: in the car and we left