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Deepest Fears · Luke's English Podcast

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Speaker 1: This content may not be suitable for all ages. Listener
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Speaker 1: discretion is advised.
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Speaker 2: I stepped forward as my heart pounded in my chest.
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Speaker 2: I called out if anything was there, not expecting anything,
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Speaker 2: but still hopeful.
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Speaker 3: I see what I think is a large silhouette, and
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Speaker 3: as I get closer, in my eyes adjust, I see
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Speaker 3: Keenan hanging from the ceiling fan.
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Speaker 4: I'm surprised she could even understand what I was saying
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Speaker 4: through my terrified sobs. She tells me to get dressed
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Speaker 4: as fast as possible and get the fuck out of
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Speaker 4: the house.
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Speaker 5: dive into the horror. We open the show with an
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Speaker 5: email submission from Hannah featuring voice work by Danuda Marie,
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Speaker 5: and we try to reconcile the experiences in the house.
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Speaker 2: I've been deciding for some time now whether to share this,
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Speaker 2: but I've been listening to Disturb for quite some time
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Speaker 2: and I love the podcast. After thinking about it for
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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks, I've decided to share my experiences
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Speaker 2: for starters. MY name is Hannah and this story happened
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Speaker 2: to me about ten years ago when I was eleven.
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Speaker 2: My family consists of my parents, my older sister, and
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Speaker 2: then my younger sister. We moved into an old farmhouse
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Speaker 2: in twenty eleven. When I say old, I mean this
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Speaker 2: house was built before the Civil War type of old.
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Speaker 2: It has wood floors and creeks at night. I have
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Speaker 2: always been a horror fan, as has my older sister,
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Speaker 2: who will call Tanya. My younger sister I'll call Rachel
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Speaker 2: has always hated horror and anything scary, So you can
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Speaker 2: imagine the pranks Tanya and I pulled on her. I
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Speaker 2: promise this is relevant to the story. Upon moving into
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Speaker 2: this house, I have always felt weird being here. It
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Speaker 2: feels like there is a heavy weight about it. Many
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Speaker 2: times we will hear footsteps when no one is there,
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Speaker 2: or we will hear banging on walls when no one
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Speaker 2: is around. Furthermore, Rachel had a toy yanked out of
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Speaker 2: her hand by some invisible force. My parents never believed
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Speaker 2: us about the things we were experiencing. This went on
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Speaker 2: for the first year we moved into the house. In
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Speaker 2: the unfinished basement of our house, there are four rooms.
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Speaker 2: The first is filled with boxes, the second holds the
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Speaker 2: water heater and such. The third has gravel on the
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Speaker 2: floor instead of dirt, and the fourth room is to
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Speaker 2: the left of the third, also with gravel flooring. This
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Speaker 2: is important to note. There is a half broken stone
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Speaker 2: wall between the second and third room with black writing
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Speaker 2: and symbols on it. Also, there is an old wooden
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Speaker 2: door with carvings on the front and sides that was
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Speaker 2: left by the old homeowners. The basement made me feel
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Speaker 2: very uncomfortable, and I felt like I was being watched
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Speaker 2: when I went down there. My dog wouldn't even go
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Speaker 2: down there. One day during the summer, while both my
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Speaker 2: parents were at work, I was watching the show Ghost
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Speaker 2: Adventures with Tanya and we decided to see if we
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Speaker 2: could evoke a response from something in our house. Since
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Speaker 2: we all knew something wasn't right. Rachel agreed to participate
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Speaker 2: with us on the stipulation that we wouldn't purposely scare her.
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Speaker 2: We agreed and locked our dogs up so nothing would
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Speaker 2: intervene or cause us to hear something that was caused
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Speaker 2: by our dogs. Now we are the only three home
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Speaker 2: and no one else's due home for several hours. We
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Speaker 2: grabbed Tanya's camera to record one flashlight and open the
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Speaker 2: door to our cellar.
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Speaker 5: We keep all the.
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Speaker 2: Lights off and stumbled down the stairs into the first room.
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Speaker 2: It is completely pitch black and we can't even see
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Speaker 2: our hands in front of our faces until I turned
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Speaker 2: the flashlight on. Rachel hides behind Tanya, who hides behind me,
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Speaker 2: even though she was seventeen at the time. I stepped
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Speaker 2: forward as my heart pounded in my chest. I called
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Speaker 2: out if anything was there, not expecting anything, but still hopeful.
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Speaker 2: We waited nothing, hearts beating, breathing, scarce still nothing. Suddenly
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Speaker 2: there was shuffling along the gravel floor in the third room.
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Speaker 2: Everything inside my body stopped. As I shined the flashlight
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Speaker 2: into the room trying to see something. Rachel grabbed my
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Speaker 2: arm and hissed, stop missing around. I didn't even turn
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Speaker 2: my head to look at her, but instead whispered back, Rachel,
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Speaker 2: that's not me, I haven't moved. I stepped forward and
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Speaker 2: called out timidly Hello. The shuffling stopped. I thought I
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Speaker 2: had imagined it, But then why did Rachel hear it too?
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Speaker 2: I leaned against the cool brick wall and struggled to
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Speaker 2: peer into the room, trying to see if I could
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Speaker 2: spot something anything. I was afraid to move forward just
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Speaker 2: in case there was something. Then I heard a whizzing sound,
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Speaker 2: like something flying through the air. A large brick landed
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Speaker 2: at my feet in the dirt. I stumbled backwards when
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Speaker 2: suddenly there was loud, quick shuffling coming towards us at
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Speaker 2: a rapid pace. I moved my flashlight around rapidly, trying
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Speaker 2: to spot what moved, while backing up hastily into my
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Speaker 2: sisters Lee basically trampled each other as we struggled to
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Speaker 2: get back up the stairs and slam the door shut.
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Speaker 2: My heart was racing, and Rachel was crying. She was
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Speaker 2: convinced we did this all to scare her. But Tania's
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Speaker 2: face was white, and I knew I looked similar. Then
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Speaker 2: I remembered the camera. I grabbed it and opened the
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Speaker 2: video we had taken. All three of us studied it
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Speaker 2: when something came across the stream that made my blood
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Speaker 2: turn to ice. Walking through the doorframe of our third
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Speaker 2: room was a white figure. It looked like it was
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Speaker 2: made of mist. The brick was even seen flying from
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Speaker 2: that room towards us. Rachel cried louder and told us
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Speaker 2: to turn it off. I was terrified that evening. Rachel
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Speaker 2: told our mom, and she made us to leave the video,
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Speaker 2: telling us to stop scaring our sensitive younger sister. There
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Speaker 2: have been many other experiences in this house I have
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Speaker 2: been through, such as a tall, dark figure standing in
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Speaker 2: the corner of my room, or hearing running steps throughout
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Speaker 2: the house. I refuse to go down into the cellar
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Speaker 2: without my dad or someone else. I am twenty one now,
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Speaker 2: and my family still lives in the house, and I
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Speaker 2: stay here when I'm not at college. There are still
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Speaker 2: mysterious happenings in this house. Recently I found out that
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Speaker 2: a girl died in this house, and there is not
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Speaker 2: much known about the other children who used to live here.
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Speaker 2: Even at twenty one, I still find it difficult to
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Speaker 2: sleep at night in this sad house. There are old
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Speaker 2: photos of the children in the cellar, and the black
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Speaker 2: writing on the walls won't go away. I look forward
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Speaker 2: to the day I can move out, when I won't
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Speaker 2: live in a house where a little girl mysteriously died.
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Speaker 3: From when I was about eleven to fourteen years old,
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Speaker 3: I had a best friend named Spencer. Spencer had a
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Speaker 3: decent sized family and a big house. We hung out
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Speaker 3: practically NonStop outside of school, and he was home and
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Speaker 3: I was in public school, and during the summer I
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Speaker 3: practically lived at their house. Now, Spencer had an older
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Speaker 3: brother named Keenan. Keenan was about five years older than him,
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Speaker 3: and I thought he hung the moon. He was so cool.
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Speaker 3: He listened to great music and played guitar and I
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Speaker 3: always wanted to be around him. One summer, when I
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Speaker 3: was thirteen, Keenan went to summer camp. He was supposed
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Speaker 3: to visit the Grand Canyon and go kayaking and do
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Speaker 3: a ton of fun stuff.
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Speaker 1: We were jealous.
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Speaker 3: It was weird not having him around all the time,
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Speaker 3: since I basically stayed at their house the entire time. Finally,
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Speaker 3: the day came where Spencer's dad was supposed to go
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Speaker 3: to the airport to pick Keenan up. He were super
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Speaker 3: stoked to hear all about camp. So his dad drove
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Speaker 3: up and he ran downstairs to greet them, and we
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Speaker 3: didn't see Keenan. His dad had tears running down his
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Speaker 3: face and he exclaimed, he didn't make it. He didn't
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Speaker 3: make it, you guys. My heart dropped into my stomach
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Speaker 3: and I started to panic, and Keenan walked up right
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Speaker 3: behind behind him and they both started laughing. It was
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Speaker 3: a huge dick move. Anyway, We helped him unload his
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Speaker 3: luggage and stayed up until midnight talking about his summer.
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Speaker 3: He had so much to say. He said he had
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Speaker 3: the time of his life and told us all about
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Speaker 3: how he almost went overboard while water rafting, and how
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Speaker 3: he surely would have drowned if he did. As two
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Speaker 3: thirteen year old boys, we were enamored by Keenan and
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Speaker 3: everything he did. We talked about, oh, Spencer and I
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Speaker 3: were going to go to the same camp once we
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Speaker 3: turned eighteen. It had been a long day and it
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Speaker 3: was time for all of us to go to bed.
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Speaker 3: Keenan told us he would tell us more in the morning.
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Speaker 3: When we woke up, I had fallen asleep been awoken
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Speaker 3: in a cold sweat because of a nightmare I had
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Speaker 3: in my dream. Spencer and I went about our entire
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Speaker 3: day just as we had before, except when their dad
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Speaker 3: showed up and joked about Keenan dying on his trip.
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Speaker 3: He actually did die. This is practically my idol, and
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Speaker 3: the dream was so vivid I needed to go get
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Speaker 3: some water just to calm myself down. Afterwards, checked my
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Speaker 3: phone before I headed to the kitchen, and it was
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Speaker 3: three thirty am. The house was so dark, and I
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Speaker 3: had to tiptoe to be quiet and make sure not
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Speaker 3: to wake anyone up. As I walked through the den
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Speaker 3: on my way to the kitchen, I see the moonlight
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Speaker 3: spilling into the living room, the only light in the house.
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Speaker 3: I see what I think is a large silhouette, and
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Speaker 3: as I get closer and my eyes adjust, I see
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Speaker 3: Keenan hanging from the ceiling fan. I freak out and
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Speaker 3: run across the room in a dead sprint and turn
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Speaker 3: on the light to see if my eyes were deceiving me.
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Speaker 3: It was him, except he was sleeping and standing in
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Speaker 3: the middle of the room underneath the fan with one
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Speaker 3: of his arms raised straight up over his head. I
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Speaker 3: never knew Keenan to sleep walk before, and luckily he
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Speaker 3: snapped out of it before I tried to wake him up.
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Speaker 3: He looked at me, super confused, looked around and noticed
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Speaker 3: where he was and said, oh, yeah, I forgot to
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Speaker 3: tell you guys, I guess I developed a bit of
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Speaker 3: a sleepwalking habited camp.
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Speaker 4: I was a junior in high school at the time,
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Speaker 4: sixteen seventeen year old, typical rebellious teen with an older
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Speaker 4: eighteen year old's boyfriend who had his own apartment. As
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Speaker 4: an eight teen girl, would I lied to my parents
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Speaker 4: on a regular basis, telling them I'd be sleeping at
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Speaker 4: a friend's house when really I was staying at my boyfriend's.
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Speaker 4: I'm sure they knew that, but that's beside the point.
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Speaker 4: And one day I came home from my boyfriend's, and
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Speaker 4: I think it must have been a Saturday, because I
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Speaker 4: didn't have school that day. I opened the side door
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Speaker 4: that would lead into my parents' garage. Now, something to
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Speaker 4: say about my parents' house is that there was multiple
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Speaker 4: cars in the driveway at any given time, my mom's,
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Speaker 4: my dad's, my brothers, mine, and an suv my daddy's
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Speaker 4: for hunting. Now, when I entered the garage, I saw
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Speaker 4: BB gun pellets built all over the floor, and at
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Speaker 4: the time, I just thought my brother made the mess
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Speaker 4: and my dad was going to come home and be
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Speaker 4: furious at him for leaving it there. So I go
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Speaker 4: inside and I don't give a second thought to the
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Speaker 4: BB gun pellets at the time. My parents had three dogs,
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Speaker 4: all small, very obvious when someone came into the house,
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Speaker 4: as all three would start barking at once. My room
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Speaker 4: was right across the hall from the laundry room, the
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Speaker 4: room that you walk in when you enter through the garage.
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Speaker 4: I say hello to the dogs, go to the front
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Speaker 4: of the house and let them all outside. When I
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Speaker 4: entered my bedroom. I saw my bedroom window was slightly
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Speaker 4: open and that my comforter was hanging haphazardly out of it. Again,
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Speaker 4: I just assumed my brother had maybe snuck in through
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Speaker 4: my window the night before. I pull the comforter in
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Speaker 4: and shut the window. I go and let all the
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Speaker 4: dogs in and go back to my parents' master bedroom
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Speaker 4: in the back of the house to take a shower.
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Speaker 4: Take my shower, and as I go back into my
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Speaker 4: room to get dressed, I open my underwear drawer to
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Speaker 4: find it completely empty. No underwear, no bras, no bathing suits, nothing.
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Speaker 4: All of the blood drains from my body, and I
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Speaker 4: suddenly realized there's something very, very wrong here. I immediately
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Speaker 4: call my mom in hysterics. I'm surprised she could even
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Speaker 4: understand what I was saying through my terrified sobs. She
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Speaker 4: tells me to get dressed as fast as possible, get
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Speaker 4: the fuck out of the house. My mom calls nine
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Speaker 4: one one and her best friend, who could get to
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Speaker 4: my house faster than my mom could from work. So
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Speaker 4: here I am cold, wet, and trembling outside my house.
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Speaker 4: When my mom's best friend and the sheriff show up,
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Speaker 4: I hug my mom's friend and wouldn't let her let
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Speaker 4: me go until my mom got there. The sheriff goes in,
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Speaker 4: guns drawn and clears the house. He asks me the
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Speaker 4: typical questions, do you know why anyone would do this?
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Speaker 4: Do you have any upset ex boyfriends, etc? I of
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Speaker 4: course tell him no, and that is pretty much the
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Speaker 4: end of it. My mom takes me to get newbras
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Speaker 4: and underwear that night and lets me stay the night
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Speaker 4: at my boyfriend's apartment just to feel safe. Fast forward
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Speaker 4: two weeks later and another girl down the street from
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Speaker 4: my house has the same thing happened to her, someone
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Speaker 4: broke in and still all arounderwear too. Two more weeks
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Speaker 4: go by and a girl that lives off of a
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Speaker 4: rural road the kind that you would really need to
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Speaker 4: know where you are going to get to, and the
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Speaker 4: same thing underwear stolen along with some jewelry. Come to
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Speaker 4: find out, this asshole's father finds the jewelry and calls
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Speaker 4: the cops to report it. As they're investigating, he admits
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Speaker 4: that he broke into our homes and stole all of
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Speaker 4: our underwear. They go to his mother's home, which mind you,
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Speaker 4: is three doors down from my house, and they find
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Speaker 4: all the underwear in a duffel bag, which means that
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Speaker 4: this guy was watching my house to see who drove
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Speaker 4: what car and when the best time would be to
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Speaker 4: execute this plan. Mind you, my father is an avid
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Speaker 4: hunter and a butcher by trade. I can't imagine what
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Speaker 4: would have happened if this man broke in while we
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Speaker 4: were home, or what could have happened to me if
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Speaker 4: I were home alone when this happened. From what the
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Speaker 4: police told my family, he had a drug dealer at
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Speaker 4: the time request for women's underwear as payment for drugs. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: you got that right, used women's underwear for drugs. The
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Speaker 4: cops asked if we wanted our stuff back and learn
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Speaker 4: quickly that all three of us wanted nothing to do
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Speaker 4: with any of that. I can't remember exactly what happened,
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Speaker 4: but he did go to jail for this, so needless
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Speaker 4: to say, I'm a little uneasy now as an adult
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Speaker 4: being home alone. I check every window, every door, look
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Speaker 4: under every bed, and check behind every shower curtain.
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Speaker 6: true kind of show, and I get a notification on
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Speaker 6: my video camera and it was my ex's car in
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Speaker 6: my driveway. I come outside and I don't see him.
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Speaker 6: I just see the car. So I sit down to
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Speaker 6: have a cigarette, and sure enough, he comes up to
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Speaker 6: me and starts strangling me, pulled me into the house
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Speaker 6: and brutally attacked me, almost killed me, and at one
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Speaker 6: point I was so tired of the torture that I
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Speaker 6: begged for him to kill me. The other one that
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Speaker 6: stands out is back in June, I had broken up
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Speaker 6: with him. I was at a movie theater and he
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Speaker 6: said something that made me think, okay, he's going to
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Speaker 6: break into my house. So I went home. I didn't
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Speaker 6: see him. I was out on the street, and then
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Speaker 6: all of a sudden, out of nowhere people around in
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Speaker 6: broad daylight, he puts me over his shoulder and starts
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Speaker 6: dragging me to my house. I kicked him off, or
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Speaker 6: me off, I guess, but ran back to the street
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Speaker 6: and he grabbed me again, dragged me to the stairs,
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Speaker 6: up the stairs, got into my house and then pulled
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Speaker 6: me by my hair while beating me. I mean my face.
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Speaker 6: He was hitting my face, he was hitting my body,
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Speaker 6: dragging me by my hair. I thought he was going
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Speaker 6: to kill me. I thought to myself, if you are
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Speaker 6: going to do this, I'm gonna make sure you don't
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Speaker 6: get away with it. And so I scratched his face
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Speaker 6: as hard as I could. He spit on my face
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Speaker 6: and rubbed it in and then continued beating me until
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Speaker 6: I told him he was going to kill me. First reason.
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Speaker 6: I don't know if he got tired or bored, but
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Speaker 6: he kicked me two times, one on my side and
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Speaker 6: one of my back and left just like that. Police
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Speaker 6: we're going to charge him with tempted murder, kidnapping, false imprisonment,
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Speaker 6: and battery, but they dropped the charges. And yeah, I
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Speaker 6: never really recovered from that. I looked like I had
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Speaker 6: gotten into a car accident. But now I try and
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Speaker 6: share my story where I can to help other people
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Speaker 6: who go through this kind of stuff feel understood, not
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Speaker 6: so alone, I guess. And I'm a strangulation expert at
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Speaker 6: a domestic violence center, so I'll take the good. But
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Speaker 6: there's no fear like looking at the person you love
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Speaker 6: while they kill you.
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Speaker 5: A big thanks to Kira for sharing her story. And
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Speaker 5: if you or someone you know is suffering from domestic abuse,
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Speaker 5: help is available. You can call the National Domestic Violence
24:06
Speaker 5: Hotline at one eight hundred seven ninety nine safe. That's
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Speaker 5: one eight hundred seven nine nine seven two three three.
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Speaker 5: And we finish up with an email submission from Cheyenne
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Speaker 5: featuring voice work by Nicole Dulan, and we learn the
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Speaker 5: terrible truth And as a trigger warning, this story contains
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Speaker 5: mention of sexual abuse.
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Speaker 7: I live in a small town in northeast Ohio and
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Speaker 7: this was back in twenty seventeen. I was twenty years
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Speaker 7: old and my daughter was about six months old at
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Speaker 7: the time, me, my daughter, and her father mine now
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Speaker 7: ex head. He just moved into a new apartment. It
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Speaker 7: was a big house that was cut into four apartments.
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Speaker 7: There was a hallway both upstairs and downstairs that went
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Speaker 7: from the back of the house to the front that
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Speaker 7: split the house right down the middle. There were also
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Speaker 7: porches out back, upstairs and downstairs, and the upstairs had
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Speaker 7: steps leading up to theirs. This is important, I promise.
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Speaker 7: We moved in around April of twenty seventeen. We lived
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Speaker 7: in the bottom left, the bottom right was empty, the
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Speaker 7: top right had a woman, her fiance, her two young daughters,
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Speaker 7: ages seven and nine, and her youngest, a son, age five,
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Speaker 7: And the top left apartment was an older man who
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Speaker 7: turned out to be the father of the man and
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Speaker 7: the other upstairs apartment. Me, my boyfriend, and the guy
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Speaker 7: that was living with his fiance and her children. All
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Speaker 7: eventually introduced ourselves. He was a very friendly guy, His
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Speaker 7: girlfriend was a little quiet, and the kids were always
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Speaker 7: so friendly and loved coming out to see my daughter
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Speaker 7: when I would have her in our small backyard, playing
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Speaker 7: or anything. I was a stay at home mom at
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Speaker 7: the time, so in the mornings, after I laid my
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Speaker 7: daughter down for a nap, I would grab my coffee
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Speaker 7: and baby monitor, and wo'd go in the upstairs hallway
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Speaker 7: and smoke quick with my neighbor, the man we will
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Speaker 7: call him Mark. We would usually just have random conversations.
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Speaker 7: Sometimes he would just say some weird and at times
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Speaker 7: perverted things, but him or his fiance didn't seem happy,
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Speaker 7: and I thought he was just being a man. He
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Speaker 7: was in his early to mid thirties. One day, MARKA
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Speaker 7: told me that a pub he worked for was looking
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Speaker 7: for some extra help. He was a bar back there
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Speaker 7: and the other bar back had just quit, so he
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Speaker 7: was working seven nights a week. Long story short, I
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Speaker 7: ended up getting a job there as another bar back,
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Speaker 7: so the nights he didn't work, I did. One summer night.
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Speaker 7: I can't remember how, but we both ended up having
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Speaker 7: the night off and were supposed to go to our
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Speaker 7: work and grab a quick drink. He kept trying to
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Speaker 7: convince me to skip going out to the pub and
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Speaker 7: that he had buddies not too far away where we
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Speaker 7: could go and have a bonfire and get really messed up.
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Speaker 7: I just kept telling him that was okay, and I
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Speaker 7: was really looking forward to going.
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Speaker 5: To the pub.
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Speaker 7: I really liked all of my coworkers and the pub
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Speaker 7: had great food. Plus I just wanted to stay close
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Speaker 7: to home in case my boyfriend at the time needed
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Speaker 7: help with our daughter. But one of his fiance's kids
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Speaker 7: weren't feeling well or something, so he ended up canceling.
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Speaker 7: A couple of nights later, he shows up at our
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Speaker 7: back door and asks if we wanted to smoke real quick.
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Speaker 7: Our daughter was down for bed, so we said sure.
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Speaker 7: He seemed upset and like he needed to talk. He
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Speaker 7: told us about how his fiancee had took the kids
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Speaker 7: and just step left. We let him get it all
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Speaker 7: out and comforted him, and he went home. A day
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Speaker 7: or two later, my sister came over to see our
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Speaker 7: new apartment and her niece. She wasn't there, but only
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Speaker 7: for a few minutes before we heard a bunch of
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Speaker 7: banging from upstairs. We stepped out front to see what
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Speaker 7: was going on and saw the detective unit in hazmat's
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Speaker 7: suits breaking down our upstairs neighbor's door. Yes, Mark and
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Speaker 7: his fiancees. We saw them carrying out stuff from the apartment,
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Speaker 7: and not soon after my sister had to take off.
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Speaker 7: Then my phone rang. It was my manager at the pub.
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Speaker 7: She asked if there was any way I would be
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Speaker 7: able to come in because Mark had just been arrested.
28:43
Speaker 7: I got ready and went into work. My first question,
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Speaker 7: what the fuck's going on? My boss said there was
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Speaker 7: a huge investigation going on, and all he can say
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Speaker 7: is quote, the bastard should hang. A couple weeks go
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Speaker 7: by and the story is finally out. He had been
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Speaker 7: trying to buy rufies online, more than likely to use
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Speaker 7: on his co workers at the bar. Myself included. My
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Speaker 7: first thought went to the night we were supposed to
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Speaker 7: go out drinking and how he kept trying to get
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Speaker 7: me to go out to his buddies, but when I declined,
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Speaker 7: he ended up having to bail. But that wasn't all,
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Speaker 7: And as a mother to a beautiful little girl, this
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Speaker 7: breaks my heart to say he had been raping his
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Speaker 7: fiance's two daughters and possibly the sun as well. He
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Speaker 7: got twenty years in prison, ten years for each of
29:36
Speaker 7: the poor girls. I thank God every day that I
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Speaker 7: am a protective mother and never let him babysit my
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Speaker 7: girl like he also always used to offer. But one
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Speaker 7: question that still haunts me. Though his fiancee was also
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Speaker 7: a stay at home mom and a rape victim for
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Speaker 7: when she was younger, There's no way she didn't know,
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Speaker 7: and I believe she should be in prison as well.
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Speaker 7: But to the poor children, I am so sorry you
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Speaker 7: had to go through everything you did and I hope
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Speaker 7: you are safe now. But to the mother and especially Mark,
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Speaker 7: I hope we never meet again.
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