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7 NIGHT DRIVE HOME HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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Speaker 1: This happened to me Wednesday night. So my boyfriend lives
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Speaker 1: in the town over and he orders me lifts back
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Speaker 1: and forth to go and see him. But we've been
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Speaker 1: doing this for over the past seven months without any problems.
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Speaker 1: But we spent the day together and had an amazing
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Speaker 1: time as always. And he ordered me a lift back home.
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Speaker 1: The guy pulls up and my boyfriend puts me in
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Speaker 1: the car and gives me a passionate kiss goodbye. The
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Speaker 1: driver is from Cuba and hardly speaks a lick of English,
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Speaker 1: and is using Google Translate the entire time to talk
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Speaker 1: to me. First, it started off as, do you mind
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Speaker 1: sitting in the front seat? I don't like for people
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Speaker 1: to sit behind me. Okay, no problem. However, instead of
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Speaker 1: letting me out of the car, he asks me to
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Speaker 1: climb over the seat, which made me feel a bit uncomfortable,
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Speaker 1: and then I realized that he was staring at me
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Speaker 1: the whole time that I'm doing so. and he proceeds
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Speaker 1: to tell me, I hope I'm not being too daring,
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Speaker 1: but you're very beautiful. Okay, cool, I get this compliment
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Speaker 1: all the time, so I say thank you, but I'm
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Speaker 1: a bit put off by this, to be honest. He
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Speaker 1: goes on like a regular driver, asking me if the
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Speaker 1: music was okay, and the volume and all that, you know,
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Speaker 1: the regular stuff. Then he starts asking me about the
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Speaker 1: address that I'm going to. Am I taking you to
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Speaker 1: your home? I reply, yes, I'm going home. He then asks,
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Speaker 1: can I go home with you? I laugh at this
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Speaker 1: and say no. He asks about the guy that put
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Speaker 1: me in the car, if he was my boyfriend or
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Speaker 1: my husband. He's my boyfriend, my soon-to-be husband. He asks,
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Speaker 1: can I be your boyfriend too? I say absolutely not.
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Speaker 1: He asks, why not? I say that I'm totally against that.
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Speaker 1: that I'm in love with my boyfriend very much and
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Speaker 1: that I'm extremely loyal and faithful to him. He says
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Speaker 1: he doesn't have to know. In Cuba, we believe in
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Speaker 1: having multiple partners and not all of them know about
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Speaker 1: each other. And I say, well, that's definitely not a
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Speaker 1: thing for me. I don't believe in that one bit.
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Speaker 1: He says, your boyfriend makes the mistake of sending you
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Speaker 1: home alone. I would have taken you myself to make
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Speaker 1: sure you got there safe. I'm getting very upset at
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Speaker 1: this point, And I'm only laughing at what he says,
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Speaker 1: trying to maintain a friendly composure, because I know how
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Speaker 1: ugly things could turn if I start giving this guy attitude.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't speak again for a while, and when he does,
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Speaker 1: he asks me again if he could come home with me.
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Speaker 1: I tell him no again, and he says, you're so beautiful,
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Speaker 1: I really want to be your other boyfriend. I don't
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Speaker 1: even say anything, but shake my head no and start
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Speaker 1: fidgeting with my phone. He tells me that he has
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Speaker 1: a lot of money and that he would take care
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Speaker 1: of me. I told him that I didn't care about
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Speaker 1: that and that I wasn't interested. He asks if he
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Speaker 1: could give me his number so that we could text
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Speaker 1: each other and I say no. After what seemed like
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Speaker 1: an eternity, we pull up to my house and he
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Speaker 1: gets down trying to help me with my bags. I
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Speaker 1: decline his help and he tells me, hold on and
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Speaker 1: pulls out his phone one more time and asks, can
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Speaker 1: I come inside with you? I tell him have a
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Speaker 1: good night and to have a safe trip back, and
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Speaker 1: dart inside as fast as I could, locking all the
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Speaker 1: doors behind me, calling my boyfriend immediately so that he
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Speaker 1: could report this weirdo because I don't want this unpleasant
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Speaker 1: experience to happen to anybody else. In the end, though,
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Speaker 1: the only thing Lyft did was give my boyfriend a
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Speaker 1: $ 5 credit to his account for the unpleasant experience. He
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Speaker 1: wasn't even able to tell him. He really wasn't even
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Speaker 1: able to tell them why it was so unpleasant. And look,
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Speaker 1: I know, stories like this aren't actually the scariest or
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Speaker 1: creepiest ones out there. But if you were a young
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Speaker 1: woman in a stranger's car like this, and they were
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Speaker 1: pressing like this and trying to come into your home
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Speaker 1: and everything, trust me, going through something like this is
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Speaker 1: actually pretty terrifying. So yes, ladies, creepy drivers are definitely
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Speaker 1: a thing. And please be careful out there. So I'm
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Speaker 1: a man living alone in an apartment for reference. I
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Speaker 1: was walking into my building this evening and a lady
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Speaker 1: that I've never talked to before and rarely even seen
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Speaker 1: said hello. I'm personable and polite so I said hello
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Speaker 1: back and went to walk into the building. Then she
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Speaker 1: asked how I was and how the weekend was going
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Speaker 1: and I assumed it was just some friendly small talk
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Speaker 1: so I obliged and then immediately she asked where I
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Speaker 1: worked and how long I've lived in the building for
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Speaker 1: which threw me a little bit but seemed innocent enough.
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Speaker 1: Then about as soon as I finished answering she said
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Speaker 1: no one has ever helped me or offered me help
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Speaker 1: my whole life and I'm just trying to better myself
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Speaker 1: but nobody will help. People don't ask me to go
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Speaker 1: out and do any fun things and I like to
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Speaker 1: do fun things. so I just kind of stammered something
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Speaker 1: about how that's rough or whatever. Again, immediately once I
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Speaker 1: stopped talking, she started up the same thread, a bit
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Speaker 1: frustrated and exasperated. I don't have any friends. No one
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Speaker 1: offers help. I'm just a nice person. I'm paraphrasing, but
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Speaker 1: that was basically it. This whole time she's like barely
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Speaker 1: blinking though, won't break eye contact, and is kind of
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Speaker 1: cornering me as well. My hair on the back of
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Speaker 1: my neck is up and my skin is crawling and
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Speaker 1: my super came out and said that she needed me
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Speaker 1: for something and got me inside. She then told me
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Speaker 1: that I really shouldn't be talking to her. I said
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Speaker 1: that I thought maybe she was just lonely and socially
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Speaker 1: inept but she said to avoid her. Women like this
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Speaker 1: seem to have a good instinct about dangerous or unhinged
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Speaker 1: people so I plan on following her advice but As
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Speaker 1: someone with friends on the spectrum and having worked with
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Speaker 1: the mentally disabled in my life, I at first thought
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Speaker 1: that maybe it was just that. Now, it's been a
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Speaker 1: few hours and honestly, I still cannot shake this uneasy feeling.
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Speaker 1: I thought that I would ask anybody here if they
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Speaker 1: knew what this might be. Or maybe if this is
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Speaker 1: ringing any bells or setting alarms off for anyone. Because
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Speaker 1: I don't want to treat someone who is just eccentric
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Speaker 1: as a pariah. undeservedly too but honestly though I would
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Speaker 1: be lying if I didn't say that my gut is
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Speaker 1: screaming for me to be careful over a year ago
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Speaker 1: I was forced to move out of my apartment due
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Speaker 1: to a serious mold problem that was making people sick
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Speaker 1: and the management refused to remediate it to the extent
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Speaker 1: that we needed them to and they did as little
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Speaker 1: as legally possible basically But because of all of my
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Speaker 1: things that were there essentially were caked in toxic mold spores,
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Speaker 1: it was a huge effort to thoroughly clean what could
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Speaker 1: be cleaned and bring the rest to the dump. We
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Speaker 1: didn't thrift them because, well, the contamination was either too
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Speaker 1: difficult or just not possible to clean certain items like
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Speaker 1: couches and mattresses and things like that. But anyway, my
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Speaker 1: sister-in-law was helping me sort through everything that I owned
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Speaker 1: to determine what was worth keeping and cleaning. I lost
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Speaker 1: most of my belongings at this stage, but while we worked,
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Speaker 1: she kept saying that she felt uncomfortable in certain rooms
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Speaker 1: and couldn't shake the feeling. I didn't think too much
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Speaker 1: of it. We were alone at night, and I suggested
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Speaker 1: that we move out to the brightly lit porch instead.
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Speaker 1: Every now and then, she would turn back inside to
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Speaker 1: grab a box or a tool or whatever. And then
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Speaker 1: she said that she saw some shadow figures. She said
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Speaker 1: that she didn't say anything earlier because it might have
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Speaker 1: been her imagination, but now apparently she was sure. Well,
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Speaker 1: we had done a lot of work, so we decided
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Speaker 1: to just wrap things up and leave in the end. Now,
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Speaker 1: on the way back to the car, she glanced back
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Speaker 1: at the unit and she froze. She then says, look
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Speaker 1: in the windows, you don't see that? I didn't see
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Speaker 1: anything out of the ordinary at first. She then held
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Speaker 1: firmly onto my arm while trembling slightly and said,'' How
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Speaker 1: do you not see that? It's right there.'' She was
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Speaker 1: apparently seeing a shadow figure, clear as day, looking right
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Speaker 1: at us. Now, I may not have seen anything or
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Speaker 1: felt anything, but just the fact that she was just
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Speaker 1: standing behind me, gripping my arm harder and harder, and
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Speaker 1: now had tears in her eyes... This woman is no actor.
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Speaker 1: She was genuinely terrified. so now I was a little
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Speaker 1: bit spooked myself. We got into the car and we left,
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Speaker 1: and she said that the thing followed us with its face.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that she could see discernible eyes, though,
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Speaker 1: as we drove past it. We said some prayers to St.
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Speaker 1: Michael and others, and really, that was about it. Now,
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Speaker 1: could it have just been the mold problem? Maybe, but
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Speaker 1: as far as I know, the mold in there, it
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Speaker 1: really shouldn't have caused anything like that. Could she have
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Speaker 1: just been seeing things? Possibly, but why the reaction like that?
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Speaker 1: To this day, I'm really not sure what happened, but
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Speaker 1: all I know is that it was a bit of
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Speaker 1: a scary experience, and to be honest, I was glad
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Speaker 1: that I was leaving. For a little bit of context,
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Speaker 1: this happened last year around February. I am 17, and
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Speaker 1: I'm a female. So it was a random day. I
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Speaker 1: had just finished school and I was home. I've always
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Speaker 1: been very scared when I'm home alone, but it's not
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Speaker 1: like all the time, but sometimes it just gets to
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Speaker 1: me and I feel very bad and a bit paranoid, really.
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to describe to you as well how
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Speaker 1: my hallway is made so that you can understand the
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Speaker 1: context of this story. So at the beginning of the hallway,
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Speaker 1: there's my bedroom on the left, and after that, there's
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Speaker 1: my parents' bedroom, still on the left, and at the end,
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Speaker 1: there's the bathroom, that is, the toilet. The door to
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Speaker 1: the bathroom is weird, though, because there's sort of a
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Speaker 1: curved window in it, so, like, if I'm inside the bathroom,
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Speaker 1: I can see movements, and vice versa, or if I'm outside,
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Speaker 1: I can also see movements from inside the bathroom, but
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Speaker 1: it's not very clear. Anyway. So I was in my
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Speaker 1: room and I decided to go to the toilet that
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Speaker 1: was in the bathroom. And when I was in it,
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Speaker 1: I didn't close the door or anything because, like I said,
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Speaker 1: I was home alone. And then I heard a sound
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Speaker 1: coming from my parents' room. Like the floor was creaking
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Speaker 1: and somebody was walking towards me. Of course, I locked
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Speaker 1: the door right away. And so, you know, I had
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Speaker 1: like 10% on my phone and all that in all
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Speaker 1: the horror movies. Quite honestly, I have zero survival skills,
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Speaker 1: and I didn't think that it was that serious, so
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Speaker 1: I called a friend on FaceTime and told her everything,
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Speaker 1: but really I was scared, but sort of still laughing.
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Speaker 1: It's what I do when I get terrified. So I
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Speaker 1: decided to approach the said curved window that I mentioned earlier,
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Speaker 1: and that was when I saw a man. I started
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Speaker 1: to scream like I'm calling the police and leave and
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Speaker 1: stuff like this. I didn't have a lot of battery
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Speaker 1: on my phone, but I decided at this point to
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Speaker 1: call my dad, who quickly rushed home. But still, at
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Speaker 1: this point, I had no battery, and I just had
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Speaker 1: to pray for my dad to get home quickly. I
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Speaker 1: was scared, and I imagined that when my dad was
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Speaker 1: going to open the front door, that the man was
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Speaker 1: going to jump on him or something like that. After
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Speaker 1: about 45 minutes, where I was just sitting in the
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Speaker 1: bathroom on the toilet, but holding the door in case
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Speaker 1: the man tried to push it open, my dad finally arrived.
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Speaker 1: And trust me, I heard the floor creak again. And
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Speaker 1: then my dad told me that I could come out
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Speaker 1: and that there was really nothing there. In fact, there
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Speaker 1: were no windows open or anything. I was really confused
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Speaker 1: by that and I think about this whole thing often. Like,
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Speaker 1: did I imagine everything or did something really happen? Just
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Speaker 1: so you know as well, I'm really not into the
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Speaker 1: supernatural stuff or explanations, so... My theory is that somebody
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Speaker 1: actually broke into the house at some point. I happened
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Speaker 1: to come home at around that moment. They hid, they
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Speaker 1: were somewhere around the house, and they got out before
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Speaker 1: my dad got home. Really, that's the only logical explanation
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Speaker 1: for it. Still though, whether paranormal or not, that is
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Speaker 1: a terrifying thought. About six or seven years ago, a
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Speaker 1: friend and I were on our way to visit another
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Speaker 1: friend of ours, who had moved to a small town
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Speaker 1: for a teaching job in a state high school. All
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Speaker 1: of us grew up in the same seaside state capital,
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Speaker 1: and the small town in question is about 120 kilometers
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Speaker 1: of bad road, curvy and slippery, but through it is
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Speaker 1: a very scenic route, as it goes through hills and
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Speaker 1: also a natural reserve. Now, I cannot remember much of
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Speaker 1: the tree-prip per se, but really it doesn't matter too much.
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Speaker 1: I was driving, and we hopped onto the highway that
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Speaker 1: goes inland. Rain was pouring down, and we were listening
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Speaker 1: to Black Flag whilst talking about music when I stopped
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Speaker 1: at a gas station because the gas was getting low,
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Speaker 1: and this friend and I, we're kind of charmers, so
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Speaker 1: we start some small talk with the cashier, and I
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Speaker 1: mention that we're going somewhere. The cashier then mentions a
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Speaker 1: shortcut through a dirt road instead of the usual highway.
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Speaker 1: citing that it would cut 30 minutes short off the trip,
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Speaker 1: but that it wasn't really that safe given the weather conditions.
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Speaker 1: I emphasized that it was raining hard, but we were
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Speaker 1: both idiots and at the time drunk idiots as well,
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Speaker 1: so we kept an eye on the entrance and took
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Speaker 1: the shortcut. It was a rocky road that cut through
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Speaker 1: the Atlantic Forest, probably illegal since it also cut through
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Speaker 1: a national park. Due to the heavy rain, as you
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Speaker 1: can imagine, It was especially rocky and muddy so I
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Speaker 1: had to keep a steady speed of about 5 to
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Speaker 1: 10 kilometers per hour in a Ford Ka 2015 mind you.
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Speaker 1: There was not a single light in sight as well.
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Speaker 1: Not a house, not a street light, only the car
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Speaker 1: headlights showing nothing but water pouring down and a disgustingly
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Speaker 1: horrible road ahead. We were joking about how the rain
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Speaker 1: stopped and My friend said that he wanted to take
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Speaker 1: that chance to take a bit of a leak, so
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Speaker 1: I just stopped in the middle of the road and
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Speaker 1: I told him to hurry up. He then covers his
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Speaker 1: shoes with a pair of plastic bags from the beers
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Speaker 1: that we bought and goes to the front of the car.
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Speaker 1: I honk a few times just for the heck of
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Speaker 1: it to take a few laughs of the situation and
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Speaker 1: he moves a little bit forward where the headlight sort
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Speaker 1: of doesn't hit him anymore. And it took the time
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Speaker 1: to light a cigarette to hear him kind of exclaim...
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Speaker 1: sort of yell in fright, I guess, like when you're
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Speaker 1: taken by surprise by something. And the guy ran back
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Speaker 1: to the car, slipping and falling on the ground and
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Speaker 1: messing up all of my passenger seat with his muddy
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Speaker 1: pants and slamming the door. He then looks at me
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Speaker 1: and says that he saw what he believed was a
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Speaker 1: mountain lion or something like that, and that I should
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Speaker 1: slam the gas and get the heck out of Obviously,
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Speaker 1: I couldn't do that because of the conditions. Also, it
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Speaker 1: would mess up my car's suspension. Instead, I turn off
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Speaker 1: the music, we wait a little bit, and nothing happens.
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Speaker 1: But after about 20 seconds, we both see a huge,
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Speaker 1: and I mean absolutely massive figure move between the trees.
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Speaker 1: It was at least two meters tall or so, and...
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Speaker 1: We couldn't really see much of it, only black fur
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Speaker 1: and the eyes that reflected the car's headlights. But as
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Speaker 1: fast as we saw it, the thing went left and
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Speaker 1: back into the woods. I think that I speak for
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Speaker 1: both of us when I say that we were absolutely
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Speaker 1: frozen and ecstatic all at the same time. To this day,
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Speaker 1: I still don't know how I could remain calm enough
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Speaker 1: to start the car and slowly drive away to our
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Speaker 1: friend's place. We told him about it, and he said
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Speaker 1: that it was probably a mountain lion still, but... I
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Speaker 1: don't know. Mountain lions aren't typically two meters tall. They
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Speaker 1: may be horizontally that long, but not tall. And I
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Speaker 1: swear that I could hear its footsteps as it ran
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Speaker 1: away as well, despite the windows being closed, so... Whatever
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Speaker 1: it was, it was also extremely heavy. Anyway... I just
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Speaker 1: wanted to share this in case anybody out there might
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Speaker 1: know what the heck we saw that night. About a
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Speaker 1: year back, I was standing in my balcony around 3am
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Speaker 1: at night, smoking a cigarette. I was facing the window
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Speaker 1: and in the window I saw a reflection of something
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Speaker 1: sitting on the rooftop of the building opposite, across the street.
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Speaker 1: I turned around and there was nothing. I continued smoking and...
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Speaker 1: As I look up at the roof again, I saw
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Speaker 1: a dark figure sitting on the ledge of the building.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't sitting normal too, kind of like how Spider-Man
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Speaker 1: sits on a light pole, like it was hunting for something.
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Speaker 1: I kept looking at it, trying to figure out what
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Speaker 1: it was and if it's really what I think it
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Speaker 1: is or am I just sleep deprived or something. After
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Speaker 1: like half a minute of me staring though, I felt
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Speaker 1: like it looked back at me and I just kept
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Speaker 1: staring at it, and I was completely lost. It was
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Speaker 1: a little bit dark, but I'm certain that this thing
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Speaker 1: had almost human-like features, but in the most messed up
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Speaker 1: way imaginable. A skin that kind of looked burnt, and
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that it didn't have eyeballs and just two
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Speaker 1: empty eye sockets. When I realized what I was doing,
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Speaker 1: I immediately turned my head down. Just a second later,
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Speaker 1: I looked up again, and it was gone. I went
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Speaker 1: inside and drank some water and I then hear a
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Speaker 1: scream coming from somewhere nearby. I went to my balcony
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Speaker 1: again and the screaming didn't stop. It sounded like a
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Speaker 1: woman but there were no breaks in the scream. It
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Speaker 1: was a continuous loud scream. Me being a bit of
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Speaker 1: an idiot, I went downstairs and started walking towards the sound.
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Speaker 1: The road was dimly lit and not a soul in sight.
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Speaker 1: I walked and I think about maybe 500 meters in,
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Speaker 1: I realized suddenly that the sound was exactly like it
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Speaker 1: was from my balcony. The sound should have been louder,
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Speaker 1: much louder, but it was exactly the same. So I
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Speaker 1: kept walking towards the sound and I walked for a
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Speaker 1: while and still didn't get any louder. Every once in
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Speaker 1: a while I would forget that I was walking or
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Speaker 1: even where and just kept walking and then I would
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Speaker 1: sort of snap back as well. It was a really
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Speaker 1: strange feeling and at this point I realized that I
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Speaker 1: had come quite far from my house to an almost
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Speaker 1: barren area. So I started walking back towards my house
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Speaker 1: and the screaming didn't stop. It was an extremely eerie
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Speaker 1: sound and Almost human but not quite. A human's breath
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Speaker 1: while screaming but whatever it was it didn't sound right.
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Speaker 1: It's almost like I was drawn towards it too. Anyway
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Speaker 1: I eventually reached home and opened a can of beer
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Speaker 1: and after a while I went to sleep. I woke
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Speaker 1: up the next morning and went to that rooftop to
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Speaker 1: see if I could find anything. I first inspected the
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Speaker 1: spot that I first saw and the reflection and then
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Speaker 1: the ledge and there was nothing. I used baby powder
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Speaker 1: as well. Don't judge, I know, kind of cringe. And
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Speaker 1: a transparent tape, too, to see if I could find
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Speaker 1: a fingerprint or find any cells in the sample. But
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Speaker 1: in the end, I found nothing. Now, here's the thing, though.
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Speaker 1: I don't really believe in ghosts or the paranormal, like,
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Speaker 1: at all. I honestly still don't because, well, I'm just
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Speaker 1: a scientist at heart. but I cannot for the life
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Speaker 1: of me find an explanation for this incident. It never
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Speaker 1: haunts me. I didn't lose any sleep over it or anything,
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Speaker 1: but I still wonder what it could have been. I
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Speaker 1: know I wasn't seeing things. I mean, I wasn't drunk
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Speaker 1: or high or anything. I guess the reason that I'm
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Speaker 1: sharing this story after a year is because, well, three
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Speaker 1: days ago, I was sitting with my friends and we
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Speaker 1: were sharing weird things that we haven't told anyone about.
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Speaker 1: I shared this incident with them and they were pretty
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Speaker 1: terrified by it. Especially because they know that I'm the
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Speaker 1: kind of guy who laughs at someone who claims that
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Speaker 1: they saw a ghost or even someone who believes in one.
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Speaker 1: A friend told me that she didn't sleep the night
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Speaker 1: after going home and recommended that I share it here
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Speaker 1: to ask people what they think it was. So, what
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Speaker 1: do you think that it was? I'm sharing this because
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Speaker 1: I found this place tonight and I thought that I
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Speaker 1: would share something that I've experienced, probably around 2005 to 2006,
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Speaker 1: when I was about 10 to 11 years old. I've
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Speaker 1: never told anyone about this and I always felt the
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Speaker 1: need to, though. It's just one of those things that
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Speaker 1: I'll always remember, I guess. So... When I was a kid,
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Speaker 1: we used to go on these monthly vacations in August
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Speaker 1: to a beach town here in Portugal called Sessimbra. It
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Speaker 1: was always very fun, going to the beach every day,
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Speaker 1: playing football with my cousins, going out for dinner to
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Speaker 1: eat seafood. Honestly, it was a really great time to
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Speaker 1: be Portuguese and travel in your own country. Anyways, this
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Speaker 1: old lady would arrange us beachfront apartments every year and
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Speaker 1: it would vary, some worse, some better. There's this huge
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Speaker 1: building at the end of California Beach, though, which seems
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Speaker 1: to be falling off the edge, and there's these sort
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Speaker 1: of wooden stairs that you need to climb to directly
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Speaker 1: access the building from the beach. If you've been there,
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Speaker 1: then you'll know what I'm talking about, but we were
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Speaker 1: spending the monthly vacation on this building specifically, on one
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Speaker 1: of the top floors. I believe it was the 8th floor,
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Speaker 1: and I used to sleep in the living room couch,
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Speaker 1: which had access to the balcony here. I cannot remember
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Speaker 1: sleeping alone on a regular basis, mainly because I was
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Speaker 1: really scared of the dark and being alone at that age.
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Speaker 1: Usually my dad would sleep there as well, while my
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Speaker 1: grandparents stayed in the only bedroom. However, I can't remember
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Speaker 1: why he wasn't there this particular night. But since he
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Speaker 1: worked a full-time job, he would often stay only for
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Speaker 1: two weeks instead of the whole month, so it's probably
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Speaker 1: why I would guess, but anyway... All of that is
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Speaker 1: to say that I was sleeping when I woke up
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Speaker 1: startled and I couldn't move. I was conscious and I
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Speaker 1: don't think it was sleep paralysis or anything like that.
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Speaker 1: I was just terrified because of what I was hearing
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Speaker 1: and seeing. It was a loud buzzing sound and a
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Speaker 1: sort of light blue light covering the whole living room.
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Speaker 1: I swear to you as well that I was so
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Speaker 1: scared that I just couldn't face it. because I felt
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Speaker 1: like this presence, or whatever it was, wasn't good. I
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Speaker 1: don't think it was evil or demonic or whatever, but
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Speaker 1: just terrifying and sort of threatening. It seemed to be
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Speaker 1: some kind of a UFO just hovering near the balcony.
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Speaker 1: I promised myself not to move until it was gone,
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Speaker 1: and then the weirdest thing is that I can not
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Speaker 1: remember if I fell asleep again, or if I simply
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Speaker 1: waited for it to go away, but The next thing
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Speaker 1: that I remember is that it was morning. What I
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Speaker 1: do remember though is thinking to myself, this isn't a dream,
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Speaker 1: this is real and I won't forget that this is
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Speaker 1: really happening. So obviously I remember that part, but as
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Speaker 1: for that time gap, I have no idea what happened. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: this felt good to get it off my chest after
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Speaker 1: so many years and finally voice it and tell some
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Speaker 1: other people. If you have any input or if you
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Speaker 1: would like to share any thoughts, then please do.