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3 Creepy True Food Delivery at Night Horror Stories That Will Keep You Paranoid · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: I signed up for Uber Eats back when it was
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  Speaker 1: really gaining traction in twenty twenty one. I'd just gotten
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  Speaker 1: laid off from my previous job and it seemed nearly
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  Speaker 1: impossible to find any other job quickly, so this was
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a risk that I hoped would work out.
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  Speaker 1: A couple months in, I was enjoying it enough and
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  Speaker 1: it was paying me enough for me to keep with it.
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  Speaker 1: This happened just around a year after I started. I'd
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  Speaker 1: fallen into the habit of waking up late and staying
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: up late, so I hadn't started working until around dinnertime.
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  Speaker 1: By eleven PM, I still hadn't made enough to be
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  Speaker 1: good for the night, so I continued on taking pretty
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  Speaker 1: much any order that popped up. It was at one
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  Speaker 1: am when an order came through that was interesting. It
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  Speaker 1: was a grocery order from a twenty four hour set
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  Speaker 1: an eleven gas station. I still accepted it, but it
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  Speaker 1: was just odd to me that someone would need groceries
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  Speaker 1: from a gas station in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 1: I drove up and parked at the mostly empty gas
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  Speaker 1: station and went into the convenience store. The only person
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  Speaker 1: inside was a kind old man working at the register,
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  Speaker 1: I picked up the bag from him and also got
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  Speaker 1: myself a cup of coffee for the road, then headed
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  Speaker 1: back to my car. I got in and situated myself
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  Speaker 1: before backing out and getting on the road for the
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  Speaker 1: final stretch of the drive. Only a moment after getting
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  Speaker 1: onto the main street, though, I noticed a car's headlights
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  Speaker 1: right behind me. Mind you, this was very late and
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  Speaker 1: almost no cars were out, so I was sure I
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  Speaker 1: would have seen them before they were so close. After
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  Speaker 1: some thinking, I thought they must have been at the
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  Speaker 1: gas station, parked on the side of the building, and
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  Speaker 1: pulled out as soon as I did. I drove along
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  Speaker 1: this same road for a while, reaching the edge of
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  Speaker 1: town when I suddenly felt something wrong with my car.
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  Speaker 1: It was way bumpier than usual and a loud kind
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  Speaker 1: of scraping sound was coming from the right side. After
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  Speaker 1: a minute from noticing this, it became a lot worse,
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  Speaker 1: so bad that I had to pull off to the
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  Speaker 1: side before the car would break down in the road.
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  Speaker 1: I parked on the shoulder with woods on either side
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  Speaker 1: of me, but in the mirror I saw the headlights
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  Speaker 1: of that same car slowing down and pulling in right
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  Speaker 1: behind me. Unsure what was going on. I decided to
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  Speaker 1: get out quickly and see what the problem was. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know if the car behind me was going to
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  Speaker 1: try and help me out or if they had something
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  Speaker 1: else in mind, but I knew I couldn't go anywhere
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  Speaker 1: until I figure this out. I ran around to the
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  Speaker 1: other side of my car and quickly noticed the problem.
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  Speaker 1: My right tire was completely flattened, which was crazy. I
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  Speaker 1: hadn't run over anything, and usually flat tires happening gradually,
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  Speaker 1: not so suddenly like this. I took a closer look,
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  Speaker 1: seeing a gash right on the side of the tire
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  Speaker 1: that didn't look natural at all. Then I heard a
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  Speaker 1: door open from the car behind me. A man stepped
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  Speaker 1: out and waved at me. I'm okay, thank you, I
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  Speaker 1: called out, trying to get them to leave before even approaching,
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  Speaker 1: especially after realizing this was all really sketchy, but the
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  Speaker 1: man kept walking toward me. Once he got maybe ten
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  Speaker 1: feet away, I could see him more clearly. He was older,
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  Speaker 1: with long gray and black hair in a bushy, untamed beard.
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  Speaker 1: He wore basic clothes jeans and a hoodie, but they
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  Speaker 1: were covered in stains and grime. He came up next
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  Speaker 1: to my car and asked if he could help me out,
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  Speaker 1: showing a large smile. I said again that I was okay,
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  Speaker 1: but he only laughed, looking at my tire and back
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  Speaker 1: at me. A few seconds of awkward silence passed as
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  Speaker 1: the man held a smile before I lied and said
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  Speaker 1: I had a friend on his way to pick me up.
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  Speaker 1: Now having rejected his help three times, the man's smile
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  Speaker 1: gradually fell into a straight face. He turned his body
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  Speaker 1: toward the car and very unnaturally looked around. This is
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  Speaker 1: when I got the immediate rush through my body to
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  Speaker 1: get away from this man, and I only had one
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  Speaker 1: option to do so. I bolted off the road into
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  Speaker 1: the tree line, hearing the man follow me into the
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  Speaker 1: pitch black woods. It only lasted for a few seconds
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  Speaker 1: before I lost him. After that, I didn't go very
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  Speaker 1: far at all, still able to see the headlights on
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  Speaker 1: the road, and I could make out the man's figure
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  Speaker 1: moving around by the cars. A few minutes later, he
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  Speaker 1: got in his car and left. By now, I'd had
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  Speaker 1: enough time to pretty much figure out that this was
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  Speaker 1: all a setup from the Uber Eats order. Having been
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  Speaker 1: followed from the gas station where he likely slashed my tire, However,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think it would be so easy to catch him.
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  Speaker 1: His full name and everything on the app turned out
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  Speaker 1: to be real. I guess he didn't think that we
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  Speaker 1: would have tied it all back to the Uber Eats order.
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  Speaker 1: That being said, the punishment wasn't very harsh because he
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  Speaker 1: didn't harm me. He only stole some thing my car.
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  Speaker 1: Though I'm sure that if I had stayed there on
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  Speaker 1: the road, I might not even be here to share
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  Speaker 1: this story. I had some spare time this night, and
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  Speaker 1: having chugged a few coffees earlier in the day, I
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  Speaker 1: figured I'd use this energy to go out and make
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  Speaker 1: some money. I was delivering for door Dash, cruising on
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  Speaker 1: the highway to my next delivery. It was super late,
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  Speaker 1: the roads were empty, and the night was very peaceful,
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  Speaker 1: basically every delivery driver's dream. On my way there, though,
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  Speaker 1: my phone started buzzing. It was the customer calling me,
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  Speaker 1: but before I had a chance to answer it, they
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  Speaker 1: hung up. Since it only rang for a couple seconds,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it must have been an accident, but in
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  Speaker 1: case not, I redialed their number. It rang for a while,
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't answer. I shook my head and blew
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  Speaker 1: it off, not thinking about it for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the drive. I got off the highway and drove into
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  Speaker 1: the neighborhood. It was a very regular street with average houses.
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  Speaker 1: When I got up to the house my delivery was for,
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  Speaker 1: I parked right in the driveway and started walking up
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  Speaker 1: to their porch. As I was setting down the bag,
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  Speaker 1: I saw that the front door was cracked open. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know if it was meant for me or not,
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  Speaker 1: so I just lightly knocked on the door and called
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  Speaker 1: out that I was dropping off their food. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as I did, I heard a somewhat disturbing sound come
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  Speaker 1: from down the hallway. It was a muffled thump that
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  Speaker 1: almost mimicked my knocking, like someone was banging on a door.
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  Speaker 1: A bit shaken, I opened the front door wider and
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  Speaker 1: called out again. I wasn't sure what to say, so
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  Speaker 1: I just repeated myself that I was delivering their food.
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  Speaker 1: A few quiet moments went by. Then I heard a
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  Speaker 1: door open from the back of the house and a
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  Speaker 1: guy came around the corner. He looked distressed and bothered,
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  Speaker 1: but I couldn't tell if it was because of me
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  Speaker 1: or something else. The guy walked down the hall and
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  Speaker 1: right up to the doorway I was in not saying
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  Speaker 1: a word as he started to reach for the bag.
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  Speaker 1: But that's when I heard those thumps again from down
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  Speaker 1: the hallway. I looked past him in confusion as he
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  Speaker 1: turned and looked as well, then quickly turned back and
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  Speaker 1: looked at me, recognizing that I heard it too. Is
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  Speaker 1: everything okay? I asked carefully. The sound echoed through the
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  Speaker 1: walls again, as the man just kind of stared at
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  Speaker 1: me as if we were trying to think of what
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  Speaker 1: to do. Why don't you bring the food inside for me,
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  Speaker 1: he said, almost in a demanding tone. Nervously, I picked
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  Speaker 1: up the bag, but quickly realized how terrible of an
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  Speaker 1: idea this was. I felt threatened like I had to
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  Speaker 1: follow him, but I also had a feeling that if
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  Speaker 1: I did, I wouldn't be making it out of there.
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  Speaker 1: In my hesitation, the guy's face showed he was even
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  Speaker 1: more bothered angry even He then reached out and grabbed
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  Speaker 1: the food right from my hands, then slammed the door
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  Speaker 1: in my face. Stunned, I stood there and listened as
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  Speaker 1: his footsteps went down the hallway and the thumping stopped.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't do anything else at this point, so I
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  Speaker 1: hurried off the porch and got my car. I ended
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  Speaker 1: my door dash after that one, and ended up reporting
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  Speaker 1: the really disturbing scenario to the police. I think what
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  Speaker 1: ended up making me report it was that the man
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  Speaker 1: tried to get me to go inside his house. If
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  Speaker 1: not for that, I may have not felt there was
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  Speaker 1: enough evidence to get me to do anything. Unfortunately, though,
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  Speaker 1: police informed me hours later that the man declined that
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  Speaker 1: anyone else was there and declined their request to search
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  Speaker 1: his home. At that point, there was nothing left to
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  Speaker 1: do other than speculate. I believe there was something truly
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  Speaker 1: horrible going on, and he was possibly ready to do
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  Speaker 1: the same to me, but I don't think we'll ever
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  Speaker 1: know for sure. I used to deliver Chinese food for
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  Speaker 1: a local restaurant. I was just a teenager in high
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  Speaker 1: school at the time, and whatever job I got wasn't
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  Speaker 1: going to be for more than a year or two.
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  Speaker 1: I'd say this job was fairly typical to most first
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  Speaker 1: jobs or retail and food service jobs, because it had
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  Speaker 1: some slow and boring days and some busy and stressful
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  Speaker 1: days as the delivery driver. Though I was always thankful
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  Speaker 1: to not have to be working in the store and
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  Speaker 1: dealing with mobs of customers. On this night, I started
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  Speaker 1: at six pm. It was a Friday, so I was
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  Speaker 1: working a late six to twelve shift. As soon as
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  Speaker 1: I clocked in, I was delivering orders non stop for
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  Speaker 1: the next two hours, with no time to breathe in
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  Speaker 1: between them. At eight, orders were slowing a bit, but
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  Speaker 1: I still had a few more to deliver before I
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  Speaker 1: could take my lunch, so I grabbed the three orders
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  Speaker 1: and set out to get them done before nine. The
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  Speaker 1: first one was close, but the next two were further out.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't uncommon, as our town isn't all packed together.
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  Speaker 1: I got to the second house and dropped it off,
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  Speaker 1: then headed out to the final stop. It was ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes from where I was, and the tag said it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't paid for yet. All I was thinking about during
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  Speaker 1: this drive was the break i'd get afterward. Going back
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  Speaker 1: and forth for three hours straight tired me out more
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  Speaker 1: than usual this night. I pulled into the neighborhood and
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  Speaker 1: followed the GPS until I got to a back portion,
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  Speaker 1: where the whole atmosphere quickly changed. I turned down a
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  Speaker 1: thin road of cracked pavement and potholes with barely visible
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  Speaker 1: small houses on the side, covered by the thick bushes
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  Speaker 1: and unkempt lawns. When the GPS told me i'd arrived,
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  Speaker 1: I stopped the car but didn't see a house. I
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  Speaker 1: turned my brights on, and ever so faintly, I could
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  Speaker 1: see the outline of a small house, pretty far from
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  Speaker 1: the road I was on. I then looked at the
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  Speaker 1: grass leading up to it and realized there was actually
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  Speaker 1: a driveway. It was just engulfed in vines and tall grass.
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  Speaker 1: I would never have seen it if I hadn't seen
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  Speaker 1: the house first. Knowing I would be unable to even
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  Speaker 1: drive on it, I put the car in park and
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  Speaker 1: got out with the bag, then began to walk through
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  Speaker 1: the overgrown driveway. I couldn't believe how awful it was
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  Speaker 1: to walk through, and I couldn't imagine anyone letting their
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  Speaker 1: driveway get to this point. Getting closer, though, I could
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  Speaker 1: see more of the house. It was very small, kind
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  Speaker 1: of like a trailer home, and looked to be in
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  Speaker 1: a matching condition to the driveway, vines growing over the
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  Speaker 1: windows and bushes covering every inch of the nearly decaying house.
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  Speaker 1: As I made my way up to the front door,
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  Speaker 1: I knew something was wrong. I knew it in my
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  Speaker 1: gut and in my head. But I was just some
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  Speaker 1: kid with the first job that was scared to lose it.
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  Speaker 1: So I felt like I had to do my job,
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  Speaker 1: which was to deliver the order to this address. I
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  Speaker 1: pushed all my bad feelings aside and knocked on the door.
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  Speaker 1: Right away, I heard footsteps coming up to the door.
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  Speaker 1: It opened, revealing a young lady behind it. At first,
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  Speaker 1: in the dim lighting, she looked very normal, and I
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  Speaker 1: felt a huge relief, But it only took a few
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  Speaker 1: more seconds to realize that her normal look was eerily
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  Speaker 1: out of place. With the house in this condition, there
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  Speaker 1: was no way she could be so well dressed and
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  Speaker 1: taken care of. As these thoughts scrambled through my head,
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  Speaker 1: she opened the screen door and said, in a creepily
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  Speaker 1: calm tone, come in. Everything hid me in that moment,
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  Speaker 1: as I stumbled back a few steps and decided that
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  Speaker 1: I needed to leave right away. I turned around, and
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: only a second after beginning to leave, I heard a
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  Speaker 1: thud from the side of the house. I looked over,
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: seeing two men running out from behind the house and
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  Speaker 1: sprinting through the bushes toward me. I dropped everything and
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  Speaker 1: started running. I did everything I could to get through
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  Speaker 1: the thick grass and vines, but just as I reached
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  Speaker 1: the end of the driveway, I stumbled to the ground,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: tripping over something. I hurried up, hearing their footsteps closing
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  Speaker 1: the distance on me. I couldn't even get myself to
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  Speaker 1: look back as I ran straight into my car, turning
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  Speaker 1: it on. The men immediately stopped and ran back to
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  Speaker 1: where they came from. With my whole body still shaking
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  Speaker 1: from the adrenaline, I turned the car around and drove away.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, I let my boss know what happened, and
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  Speaker 1: he urged me to call the police and report it.
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  Speaker 1: I was really relieved to know he didn't care about
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  Speaker 1: the order and only for my safety, which looking back
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  Speaker 1: on it, it would have been horrible if there were
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  Speaker 1: any other way. Police interviewed me and my boss and
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  Speaker 1: did a whole investigation, ultimately unable to find any of
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  Speaker 1: the people. The property I was on, though, was actually
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  Speaker 1: state owned, and the trespassing sign at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the road had been dug up and thrown into the
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  Speaker 1: tall grass. Their intentions are unknown, but it seems like
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  Speaker 1: the most obvious possibility is likely the answer. I just
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  Speaker 1: hope nobody else has to go through what I did,
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  Speaker 1: or if they do, I hope they can be as
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  Speaker 1: lucky as I was to get away.