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Top 3 SCARIEST unwanted guests Halloween Scare-A-Thon (part 5) · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: In the spring of twenty thirteen, a young woman named
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  Speaker 1: Melissa finally moved out of her mother's house and got
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  Speaker 1: her own place across town. For the first few months
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  Speaker 1: she was living there, she never noticed anything strange. But
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  Speaker 1: about three months into living there, things started to get
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  Speaker 1: a little bit weird. It started with a whole bunch
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  Speaker 1: of hang up calls where someone from different numbers would call.
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  Speaker 1: She'd answer and she could hear them breathing, but they
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  Speaker 1: weren't saying anything. And then she started getting these huge
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  Speaker 1: bouquets of flowers delivered to her front step, but they
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  Speaker 1: were delivered from anonymous. Then after that she started noticing
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  Speaker 1: things in her kitchen and her living room were going missing,
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  Speaker 1: things like plates, cups, drink coasters, salt shakers, forks and knives,
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  Speaker 1: little things. But since she lived alone and she was
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  Speaker 1: the only one moving these things, they really stood out.
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  Speaker 1: Melissa had this habit that every time she went to bed,
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  Speaker 1: she would unplug her TV. She had this irrational fear
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  Speaker 1: if she didn't do that, then it would spark a
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  Speaker 1: fire and her house would burn down in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the night. So she was pretty obsessive compulsive about
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  Speaker 1: always making sure the TV was unplugged before she went
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  Speaker 1: upstairs to bed. And so one night around the same
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  Speaker 1: time she's getting these hang up calls and there's flowers
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  Speaker 1: being sent to her door and things are going missing.
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  Speaker 1: She unplugs her TV and she goes up to bed.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning, she gets up and comes downstairs and
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  Speaker 1: the TV's plugged in again. She convinces herself that, well,
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  Speaker 1: she must have got to unplug the TV. As rare
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  Speaker 1: of an event as that is, it has to be
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  Speaker 1: what happened. And so that night she unplugs the TV
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  Speaker 1: and remembers looking directly at the plug, confirming that yes,
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  Speaker 1: I've unplugged the TV, and then she puts it down
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  Speaker 1: and looks again at the outlet. It's not plugged in.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely not plugged in, and then she goes upstairs
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  Speaker 1: to bed. The next morning, when she walks downstairs, she
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  Speaker 1: had the sense of dread that when she turned the corner,
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  Speaker 1: because her TV was right at the bottom of the stairs,
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  Speaker 1: that when she turned the corner, it would be plugged
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  Speaker 1: in again and her worst nightmare would come true, that
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  Speaker 1: something is happening on my first floor when I'm asleep
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  Speaker 1: at night. And as she comes down the stairs and
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  Speaker 1: turns the corner, what does she see? The TV is
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  Speaker 1: plugged in again. She's horrified but has no idea what
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  Speaker 1: to do. It's not some malicious act, and she's telling herself, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I forgot again. But then she's like, no, I
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  Speaker 1: remember last night staring at the plug. I definitely unplugged it.
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  Speaker 1: And so she flies around her first floor to make
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  Speaker 1: sure one everything is locked, but two no one else
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  Speaker 1: is in here. And when she's satisfied that, yup, it's
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  Speaker 1: empty down here and two everything is locked, she sits
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  Speaker 1: there thinking, well, now what do I do? Which I
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  Speaker 1: call the police and say someone's plugging in my TV.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she can't do anything. And it was at
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  Speaker 1: this point that Melissa developed a very real fear of
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  Speaker 1: her first floor, and she began going to bed so
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  Speaker 1: early at night because she could not be on that
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  Speaker 1: floor when it started to get dark. And so, imagine
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  Speaker 1: living alone, being afraid of going down to your first floor.
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  Speaker 1: How scary it would be at night when you're laying
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  Speaker 1: in bed, your door's shut, and any noise you hear
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  Speaker 1: in the house you're gonna attribute to your first floor.
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  Speaker 1: And so Melissa was living this absolutely wretched life where
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  Speaker 1: she's scared of everything outside of her bedroom. And so
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  Speaker 1: with that as context, Melissa goes to bed one night,
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  Speaker 1: super early, play like three o'clock. The sun's not even
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  Speaker 1: down yet, but she's upstairs. But eventually it does get
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  Speaker 1: dark outside and she still has not fallen asleep, and
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  Speaker 1: so she sits up in bed and she turns on
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  Speaker 1: the TV and right away the channels on the screen
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  Speaker 1: start to change, and she's thinking, oh, I must be
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  Speaker 1: laying on the remote, But then she remembers the remotes
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  Speaker 1: in my hand, so she's looking at the remote, and
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  Speaker 1: then she's looking at the TV. She's not touching her remote,
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  Speaker 1: and the channels are still cycling. Now, Melissa had what's
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  Speaker 1: called a skybox, which means her downstairs TV was connected
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  Speaker 1: to her upstairs TV and vice versa. If one was
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  Speaker 1: changing the channel in real time, the other changed the channel.
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  Speaker 1: And so as she's looking at her remote and not
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  Speaker 1: touching it and looking at the screen as the channels
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  Speaker 1: are changing, it dawns on her that someone downstairs is
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  Speaker 1: changing the channels, and so, frozen in fear, all she
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  Speaker 1: can think to do is turn off her TV, because
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  Speaker 1: that's the one function that does not have any impact
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  Speaker 1: on the other TV. So she turns the TV off,
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  Speaker 1: and so in total darkness and how she's already terrified
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  Speaker 1: of she is straining her ears to try to hear
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  Speaker 1: some sign that this is either something someone's down there
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  Speaker 1: flipping through channels, or this is nothing. And I just
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  Speaker 1: happened to turn the TV on when the skybox was malfunctioning.
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  Speaker 1: And as she's sitting there, all she can hear is
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  Speaker 1: her own breathing, and she can feel the pounding of
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  Speaker 1: her heart in her t but she doesn't hear any
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  Speaker 1: sounds in her house. She doesn't hear the TV on.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't hear footsteps, doors opening, none of that. It's
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  Speaker 1: silence in the house. So, after what probably felt like
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  Speaker 1: an eternity, she just grabbed a pillow and clutched it
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  Speaker 1: in front of her and put her head into the
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  Speaker 1: pillow and just laid like that until she eventually fell asleep.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning, when she gets up, the sun is out,
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  Speaker 1: and it's this huge relief because suddenly, with the sunlight
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  Speaker 1: pouring in the windows, it was like the house wasn't
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  Speaker 1: scary anymore. And she's telling herself, you know what, that
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  Speaker 1: had to have been just some anomaly with the skybox.
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  Speaker 1: I bet I go downstairs and the TV's unplugged. And
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  Speaker 1: so she goes downstairs and the TV is unplucked, and
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  Speaker 1: so that for her kind of confirms that, Okay, the
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  Speaker 1: paranoid is getting to me. I'm losing my mind a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. I gotta tell someone what's going on. And so,
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  Speaker 1: as it happens, that day, she was going to a
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  Speaker 1: family birthday party, and so when she gets there, she
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  Speaker 1: pulls her older brother aside and says, here's the strange
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  Speaker 1: things that are happening in my house with the skybox
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  Speaker 1: and all this and at first he looked at her like, really,
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  Speaker 1: this is what's going on. You're seeing ghosts in your house.
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  Speaker 1: But when she really focused on these specific things that
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  Speaker 1: were happening, like the plog going back into the wall
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  Speaker 1: two separate times, and then the skybox thing, so the
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  Speaker 1: TV's kind of wrapped up in the weirdness that's been
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  Speaker 1: happening in her house and the missing items in her house,
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  Speaker 1: and so for the brother it all kind of added
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  Speaker 1: up to, Okay, this does seem a little bit weird,
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  Speaker 1: and he offered to live with her for a few
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  Speaker 1: days and just see it for himself. And as they're talking,
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  Speaker 1: their younger brother happens to walk by overhears the conversation
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  Speaker 1: and says, oh, I'll stay there too. For four days,
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  Speaker 1: the two brothers lived on the first floor of Melissa's house,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't see anything, they don't hear anything. It's
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  Speaker 1: completely ordinary. And Melissa at first was reassured, but then
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  Speaker 1: started to think, does that mean whoever's been doing this
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  Speaker 1: stuff is watching my house really closely and knows that
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  Speaker 1: I have, you know, protection at my house right now
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  Speaker 1: and they're staying away. Does that mean I'm being watched
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  Speaker 1: really closely, and so finally, when her brothers are getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to leave after the fourth day, she was practically
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  Speaker 1: begging them to stay. She couldn't stand the idea of
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  Speaker 1: staying in this house. Her brothers reassured her that she
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to worry about, but if she experienced anything
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  Speaker 1: weird anytime, any day, just call or texts and they
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  Speaker 1: would be there in a heartbeat, although she did not
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  Speaker 1: feel reassured. It was starting to get late, at least
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  Speaker 1: by her standards. It was like three o'clock, so the
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  Speaker 1: sun's getting close to going down, so she needs to
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  Speaker 1: go upstairs. So she goes back in her house and
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  Speaker 1: does like twenty trips around her house to confirm everything
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  Speaker 1: is shut, everything is locked, no one's in the house,
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  Speaker 1: everything is safe, and then she goes upstairs to bed.
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  Speaker 1: But like most nights, she was so scared of everything
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  Speaker 1: outside of her bedroom door that she couldn't sleep. And
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  Speaker 1: as she's laying there in utter silence in her room,
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  Speaker 1: she hears the unmistakable sound of her back door opening,
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  Speaker 1: and she hears footsteps walking through her first floor, and
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  Speaker 1: then she hears the TV turn on and her brothers
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  Speaker 1: have been watching her TV last and they had the
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  Speaker 1: volume set really really high, so as soon as the
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  Speaker 1: TV went on, it blared all through the house. And
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  Speaker 1: immediately the TV turned back off because whoever it turned
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  Speaker 1: it on knew that that was going to wake up
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  Speaker 1: whoever was in the house. Melissa doesn't know what to do. Before,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the heck was happening in her house was a
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  Speaker 1: little bit subtle. It was like she had to think
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  Speaker 1: about what she was hearing to confirm it was actually happening.
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  Speaker 1: Now this person is just strolling into her house in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the night and flipping on the TV
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  Speaker 1: and blaring it through the house, and so she immediately
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  Speaker 1: is like, oh my god, what do I do? And
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  Speaker 1: she picks up her phone and she calls her brother.
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  Speaker 1: Then he picks up right away, and she goes, someone
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  Speaker 1: is in the house right The brother's like, I will
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  Speaker 1: be there in ten minutes. Do not leave your bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: don't do anything, stay on the phone with me. So
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  Speaker 1: Melissa's shaking out of fear, and she gets up as
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  Speaker 1: slowly as she can, and she walks over to the
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  Speaker 1: window to get as far away from the door, which
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  Speaker 1: was locked, as she possibly could, and she's glancing out
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  Speaker 1: the window waiting to see her brother pull up as
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  Speaker 1: she listens for any sign that this person downstairs has
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  Speaker 1: begun walking upstairs. Finally, Melissa sees out of the corner
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  Speaker 1: of her eye her brother's car pulls up across the street,
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  Speaker 1: and he, along with her younger brother, hop out. They
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  Speaker 1: run across the street towards her house, over the fence,
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  Speaker 1: and they run down the alley between her house and
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  Speaker 1: her neighbors, and they go towards the back out of sight.
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  Speaker 1: She's still on the phone with him, and she's saying,
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  Speaker 1: do you see him? Do you seem? Do Sam do seem?
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  Speaker 1: And he says, hold on. He goes to the back
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  Speaker 1: of the house where he knows you can look in
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  Speaker 1: and basically see the whole first floor. And as soon
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  Speaker 1: as he gets to that spot where she's expecting him
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  Speaker 1: to give her a report, and he pauses, there's silence
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  Speaker 1: on the phone, and she goes, what do you see
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  Speaker 1: And he says, Okay, yep, there is someone in your
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  Speaker 1: living room right now. I'm gonna hang up and call
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  Speaker 1: the police, and I'm gonna call it right back now.
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  Speaker 1: Melissa knew what she heard was very real to her,
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  Speaker 1: but to have it confirmed by her brother right now
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  Speaker 1: took this to a whole nother level of fear. Now
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  Speaker 1: she's legitimately fearing for her life. There is a person
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  Speaker 1: and intruder in my house right now. Confirmed they are
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  Speaker 1: right downstairs, and they've been coming into my house probably
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  Speaker 1: for weeks. And so her brother hangs up the phone
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  Speaker 1: and begins calling the police. Meanwhile, Melissa is just standing
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  Speaker 1: in this room horrified as she listens to a stranger
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  Speaker 1: walk around the first floor of her house. But because
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  Speaker 1: she was hearing the footsteps clearly downstairs, she decided she
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  Speaker 1: would just walk over to her door and look through
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  Speaker 1: the keyhole, which was oversized on her doors, and if
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  Speaker 1: you look through it and over to the left, you'd
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  Speaker 1: actually look downstairs to the first floor. You'd only see
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  Speaker 1: a sliver of the first floor. And so very carefully
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  Speaker 1: she walks her way over to the door, and as
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  Speaker 1: she kneels down to look through the keyhole, her phone rings.
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  Speaker 1: It was in her pocket and it wasn't on silent,
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  Speaker 1: it was on loud, and it was her brother calling back,
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  Speaker 1: and she kind of fumbles for her phone. She drops
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. It's still ringing, and she finally silences
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  Speaker 1: it and then reflexibly she pokes her head back and
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  Speaker 1: looks through the keyhole, and standing at the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the stairs looking up at her is a man with
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  Speaker 1: a hat pulled over his eyes who's clearly heard the sound,
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  Speaker 1: and he begins walking up the stairs. She's falling over backwards,
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  Speaker 1: screaming at the top of her lungs to get her
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  Speaker 1: brothers inside. She hears them come charging inside. She hears
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  Speaker 1: this epic struggle on the stairs, and she hears this
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  Speaker 1: person who's in her house because there's a voice she
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  Speaker 1: had recognized, screaming I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, and
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  Speaker 1: then it's quiet, and so she opens that door because
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  Speaker 1: she wants to help if she can. And she looks
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  Speaker 1: and she sees her brothers have this man pinned on
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  Speaker 1: the stairs. He's not moving, and she sees her younger
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  Speaker 1: brother is holding something and he holds it up to
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  Speaker 1: her and he just shakes his head and it's a
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  Speaker 1: frickin' knife. And then she puts it together that the
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  Speaker 1: stranger in her house was carrying this knife. And before
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  Speaker 1: she can even take that information in, the older brother
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  Speaker 1: takes the hat off of this guy and it's their
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  Speaker 1: mother's ex boyfriend from ten years ago, the same one
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  Speaker 1: they all believed had an inappropriate attraction to Melissa. Police
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  Speaker 1: show up and take him away, and he quickly admitted
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  Speaker 1: to sneaking into her house four months. They don't know
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  Speaker 1: how he got in, and he would never tell them,
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  Speaker 1: but he admitted that yep I was breaking in almost
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  Speaker 1: every single night, but he never gave a good reason
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  Speaker 1: why he just started doing it. Police cited mental illness
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  Speaker 1: as the likely culprit for why he was doing it,
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  Speaker 1: and the family believed this could be something more sinister,
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  Speaker 1: but either way, he was given three years in jail
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  Speaker 1: and the family once again cut all ties with him.
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  Speaker 1: In February of twenty thirteen, a young woman named Kim
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  Speaker 1: finally moved out of her parents' house and she moved
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  Speaker 1: into this tiny, little apartment that she absolutely loved. Kim
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  Speaker 1: had severe social anxiety. She could not stand being out
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  Speaker 1: in public talking to people she didn't know, and so
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  Speaker 1: she would do everything in her power to stay indoors.
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  Speaker 1: She had a job that didn't require her to travel,
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  Speaker 1: and so having this little apartment was like her little oasis.
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  Speaker 1: When she was there, she was safe. If she had
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  Speaker 1: to leave, she was practically running to her car and
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  Speaker 1: running back, so she didn't have to talk to anybody
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  Speaker 1: in those first few weeks she was living there. As
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  Speaker 1: much as she tried to avoid all contact with other people,
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  Speaker 1: there was one person she was kind of forced to
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  Speaker 1: have an interaction with, and that was her landlord. But
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  Speaker 1: her landlord turned out to be this awesome old woman
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  Speaker 1: named Olivia who really took a liking to Kim and
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  Speaker 1: kind of looked at Kim as like her daughter. And
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  Speaker 1: Kim was surprised at herself for one to interact with Olivia.
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  Speaker 1: She was very comforting and she was this really nice lady,
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  Speaker 1: and so even though they didn't actually interact that much,
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  Speaker 1: they developed this relationship where Olivia liked to make food
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  Speaker 1: and she'd come over to Kim's door and she'd knock
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  Speaker 1: and she'd leave it outside of her door, and she
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  Speaker 1: didn't expect Kim to come out and talk to her.
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  Speaker 1: She knew Kim was uncomfortable being on in public, and
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  Speaker 1: so she didn't push her to do that. Instead, she
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  Speaker 1: just expected her to eat some nice food, and whenever
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  Speaker 1: Kim was done eating, to put her dishes back outside
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  Speaker 1: the door, and Olivia would take it up and she
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  Speaker 1: would go clean it. And that was that, and so
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  Speaker 1: Kim really grew to love Olivia and was very happy
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  Speaker 1: to have her there. It was like she made her
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  Speaker 1: feel safe. Two months after moving into this tiny, little
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  Speaker 1: new apartment, Kim started taking a new medication for her anxiety. Now,
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  Speaker 1: historically she had taken a whole bunch of different medications
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  Speaker 1: and knew when you start a new one, it's not
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  Speaker 1: uncommon to have a whole bunch of side effects that
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  Speaker 1: you're just not used to and they're kind of awful
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  Speaker 1: and you need some time to get used to them.
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  Speaker 1: So at the same time she's taking this new medication,
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  Speaker 1: she starts to notice that she's forgetting things. Things in
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  Speaker 1: her apartment are being put in places she does not
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  Speaker 1: remember putting them, and things are going missing and she
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  Speaker 1: can't remember where she put them. And so even though
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  Speaker 1: she was expecting side effects from this new drug, she
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  Speaker 1: was really frustrated with the memory loss. She also noticed
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  Speaker 1: this medication made her exceptionally drowsy, to the point where
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  Speaker 1: most days she had to take a nap for two
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  Speaker 1: or three hours in the middle of the day just
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  Speaker 1: to get through the day. Because Kim had such intense
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  Speaker 1: anxiety about being out in public, she did not want
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  Speaker 1: to go to the doctors to get a different prescription
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  Speaker 1: or to even talk to the doctor about you know,
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  Speaker 1: is this normal, because that doctor's visit would necessitate a
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  Speaker 1: whole bunch of interactions with people she doesn't want to
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  Speaker 1: interact with. And so she decided, you know what, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just going to take my medication. I'm gonna let myself
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  Speaker 1: adjust to this new normal and everything will be just fine.
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  Speaker 1: During the time period that she's experiencing all these side
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  Speaker 1: effects that she is attributing to her new medication, she
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  Speaker 1: got a delivery from Olivia. It was a Greek salad
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  Speaker 1: that she knew, Kim loved, and Kim psyched about this
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  Speaker 1: Greek salad. She brings it in her apart and she decides,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna have a
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  Speaker 1: nice day to myself. I'm gonna go in my bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna turn on Netflix, and I'm gonna eat this
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  Speaker 1: salad in bed. It's gonna be awesome. And so she's
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  Speaker 1: sitting in bed, she's eating her salad, She's watching Portlandia,
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: and then she falls asleep right in the middle. Like
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: as she's eating her salad, she's falling asleep. She's so tired.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: When she woke up, she's like, Wow, I've never fallen
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: asleep that hard and that fast before. And she's literally
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: still a got the fork in her hand from eating
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: her salad. And then she notices on the other side
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: of the bed, the left side of the bed, these
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: sheets are all disturbed, like someone has been laying there.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: And Kim always sleeps on the right side of the bed.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: It was almost like a compulsion for Kim that she
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: could never sleep on the left side, like it was
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: bad luck. And she reaches her hand out and she
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: feels that side of the bed where it's been disturbed,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: and it's still warm, and so she quickly thinks to herself, well,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: I guess I must have rolled over and laid on
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: that side of the bed and then rolled back to
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: this side, just miraculously, right back in the same position
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: I was in, with the salad fork still in hand.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: And that's what It kind of clicks in her head,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: like that's not possible. That's not possible. So what does
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: that mean? Does that mean someone's in my apartment right now?
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: And so she leaps out of bed, she gets her phone,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: she enters nine one one, and she's ready to dial it,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: and she flips on all the lights in her apartment.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: She's running around and there's no one in her apartment.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: The apartment's still locked, everything is normal, and so she
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: puts her phone away and her heart's still racing. She's
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: very stressed out about what's just occurred because in her mind,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: in the back of her mind anyways, she knows she
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: didn't roll over, that didn't happen. This is when Kim
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: began to wonder, are all these strange happenings in my
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: apartment connected to what just happened now? Because this incident
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: right here does not feel medication side effect driven, and
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: so all of a sudden, she's looking at the other
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: weird things in her apartment, like the missing toothbrush and
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: the missing shoes and things getting moved around as suddenly connected,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: and it dawns on her that maybe she's been blind
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: to something else happening. Maybe someone is breaking into my apartment.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: So for the next couple of days, Kim watched her
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: apartment like a hawk to see if there was any
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: indication of somebody breaking into her apartment at any point,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: and there was nothing. She always locked the door, she
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: always kept the windows shut. The only thing that stood
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: out to her was when she woke up in the mornings,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: her bedroom had a very distinctive smell to it. It
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: wasn't her smell, and it wasn't a smell she was
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: used to. It was like another person's smell, and it
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: really freaked her out. She decided, it's time to tell
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: my parents. And so when she tells her parents and
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: she's describing out loud what's been going on in her apartment,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: it's the first time she's hearing herself say the stuff
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: out loud, and it sounds way more creepy and way
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: more scary than it did in her own head. And
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: so as she's telling them, she's becoming scared to go
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: back to her apartment, and her dad picks up on
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: that and says, hey, I'll go back with you. We'll
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: look around your apartment and we'll make sure it's safe
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: and secure, and then on the way out, we'll check
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: in with your landlady and we'll let her know what's
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: going on. So she's brought in and everything's going to
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: be fine. They go back to her apartment, they go inside,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: and when they walk in, everything looks normal. They kind
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: of do a walk through the apartment looks normal. Before
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: her dad leaves, he says, hey, let me just do
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: a closer inspection of your whole apartment. Let me look
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: everywhere and make sure there's not like some special way
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: to get in here, just to give you a peace
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: of mind. And so he went into her bedroom and
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: he starts looking around, and he's lifting up the mattress
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: and looking underneath, and then he opens up her closet,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: which is this big closet, lots of clothes in there.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: It's not quite a walk in closet, but it's big
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: enough that you can easily stand in there. And her
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: father reaches in and splits the clothes, and he uses
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: his light to look at all of the back wall,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: and he pushes on it and he taps on it,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: and he sees if there's any sort of special compartment.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: There's not. But before he walks out again, he notices
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: a little blurb of writing on the bottom right corner
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: of the inner wall, an area that you could only
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: see if you were standing in the closet looking for
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: strange things. On the wall of the inside of his closet.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: He kneels down to take a look at it, and
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: it's this little tiny blurb of text that says, come
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: back here so I can look at you. And the
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: only way you could write it is if you were
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: laying down in this tiny little corner facing the exit
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: of the closet. And that's when her father looks at
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the closet and one of the slats
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: on the closet door was missing. And so in theory,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: if you were someone that was writing this message, you'd
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: be laying down where your eyes would be looking through
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: that slat right at her bed. Her father put it
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: together and he stood up. He walked out to his
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: daughter and he said, come over here. He showed her
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: what's in her closet and he said did you write that?
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: And she goes no, and he goes, all right, it's
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: time to leave. They walk outside, they go to his
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: truck and he calls the police and he says, someone's
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: breaking into my daughter's apartment. Police show up and using
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: CCTV footage, they capture a grown man regularly going into
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Kim's apartment in the middle of the night, and he
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: clearly has a key. It would turn out to be
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Olivia's grown adult son named Henry who lived with her,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: who apparently as soon as he saw Kim for the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: first time, he fell madly in love with her and
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: became very obsessed with her, and he developed this fake
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: relationship in his mind where he believed he and Kim
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: were dating, even though Kim didn't even know Henry existed.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: She didn't even know he he was living with Olivia,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: she had never seen him before. During questioning, Henry said,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: what he did is he got sleeping pills and he
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: ground them up. And anytime his mother was delivering food
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: to Kim, which she loved to do, and she was
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: always excited about it, so she was talking about it
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: so he would know what was happening, he would put
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: sleeping pills in her food. He would mix it in
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: and then he knew as soon as it was delivered,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: she would be asleep, and he would use his mother's
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: spare key to go into the apartment. And what he
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: said he did is he never touched her. He never
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: laid a hand on Kim. Instead, he laid next to
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: her in bed or watched her from inside the closet.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: So for the four months that Kim lived in this apartment,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: where she believed every time she came inside and shut
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the doors, that she was kind of away from society,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: she could just be alone in her bubble, while in
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: reality there was some psychopaths just a few feet away
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: from her almost the entire time. When Olivia found out
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: about all of this, she made a point to tell
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Kim she had nothing to do with it, and she
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: was terribly sorry, but their friendship ended. On October seventeenth,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: nineteen forty one, seventy three year old Philip Peters was
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: supposed to join his friends for dinner, but he never
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: showed up. His neighbors knew Phil was living alone at
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the time because his wife had recently fallen and broken
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: her hip and was in the hospital, and so they
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: were worried about Phil being on his own, and they thought,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: you know what, let's just be sure. Let's call the
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: police and have them go over and check on him.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: When the police arrived at his house, they knocked in
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the door, no answer. They tried the door handle, it
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: was locked. They tried the other door that was locked.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Two they looked in the windows. It was all dark,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: and they had to get another neighbor who had a
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: key to open the door for them. When they stepped inside.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: There was blood everywhere, on the walls, on the ceiling, everywhere,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and in the middle of the kitchen is Phil Peters,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: face down. He has been bludgeoned to death. The police
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: immediately draw their weapons, and they're looking around the house,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: thinking someone could still be here, and they cleared the
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: whole house and there's no one there, and so a
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: whole bunch of detectives converge on the house and they
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: start investigating, and they realized pretty quickly how strange the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: scene was. Nothing in the house was vandalized, nothing in
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the house was stolen, and Phil himself was just a
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: very modest, retired auditor. He certainly didn't have any enemies,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: and so the revenge angle didn't necessarily make much sense.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: But then you got to remember that when police first
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: got there, before they discovered his body, the house was
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: shut and locked and there was no sign of forced entry,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and so whoever was in there with Phil at the
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: time of his death must have known Phil enough to
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: have a key of their own or have Phil open
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: the door for them. So it made investigators wonder what
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: would motivate some person that's in Phil's inner circle to
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: commit such a heinous crime when the obvious angles such
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: as theft, vandalism, revenge have basically been crossed off. Not
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: to mention, there was virtually no evidence of who could
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: have done this, with the exception of the murder weapon,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: which was this big piece of metal called a stove shaker,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: but the person who had used it to kill him
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: had taken the time to meticulously wipe it off, so
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: there was nothing on it, no fingerprints, know anything. So
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: for months detectives over this case, but they got nowhere.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Nine months later, a housekeeper was hired by Phil's widow
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: to help round the house now that Phil was gone,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and she said, as soon as she moved in, she
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: started hearing strange tapping sounds all through the house, but
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: didn't think anything of it. And so that day, the
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: day she's calling police, she's alone in the Peter's residence,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: and she hears the tapping and it's coming from the
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: kitchen and she thinks, oh, it's got to be a
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: woodpecker just outside the house. Outside the window, and she said,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: as she looked into the kitchen. On the other side
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: of the kitchen was a door that opened up to
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: a flight of stairs that went to the second floor,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and she said it was slowly opening, and out from
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: behind comes this white hand that reaches the side of
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: the door and begins to pull it open, and she screams,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: and the hand of tracks back into the space, and
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: then she hears it storm up the stairs and run
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: around on the upstairs before going silent again. She ran
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: out of the house and she ran to a neighbor's
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: house to call the police. The police immediately go to
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: the house and then go inside, gun's drawn, and they're
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: looking for this person because they're thinking perhaps the murder
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: is back. And they're looking all through the house and
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: there's nothing. There's not even a sign of a break in,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and so the police go back to the housekeeper and
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Toimus Peters. They explain that we couldn't find anyone, but
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: given the history of your house, we don't think it's
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: safe for you to be in there. And so the
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: housekeeper didn't go back, and Miss Peters was moved back
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to the hospital where she could be looked after during
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the police investigation. At this point, the police decide we're
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: going to permanently stake out this house. We're gonna have
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: two detectives that are outside this house watching it at
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: all times. And so two detectives go and they're sitting
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: outside and for a couple of days they're not seeing anything,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: they're not hearing anything, and they decide to just go
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: inside and have a look around. They both walk into
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the house. They go upstairs, they look around, they don't
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: see anything. They go back downstairs, and as they're standing
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: on the first floor getting ready to leave, they hear
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: what sounds like a doorknob turning upstairs. They both heard it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: So they go upstairs and they start searching different rooms,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and one of the detectives goes into the bedroom and
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: opens up a closet and past all the clothes bottom
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: left hand corner, he sees a foot dark into a
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: little space in the back corner of the closet, and
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: without any hesitation, this guy jumps headfirst into the closet
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and grabs the foot of this mystery person who's crawling
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: into a tiny little panel in the back of a closet.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: And he holds onto this person who's fighting with their
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: life to get away, and he starts pulling them out
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: and he's yelling for his partner to come over. He
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: comes charging in. They both grab this person and they
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: gank this person out, and they would describe him as
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the strangest looking person they had ever seen. He was
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: super tall, but rail thin, and his skin was so
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: dirty it appeared gray. His name was Theodore Coney's and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: he had been living in this house for a year
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: before Cony's moved in. He had fallen on hard times.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: He was sleeping in alleyways, and as it started to
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: get colder in September of nineteen forty one, he decided
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: he would approach his longtime friend Phil Peters and he
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: would ask him for some money and maybe an opportunity
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: to crash at his house for a couple of days.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: But as it happened, when he got to Phil's house,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Phil wasn't there. Phil was at the hospital visiting his
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: wife broken hip, and so the house was vacant, and
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Cony saw an opportunity and he broke in. And at
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: first his plan was just to steel food, get warmed
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: up a little bit, and then leave. But he noticed
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: when he was looking through the house for things to take,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: that in the back of one of these closets was
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: a panel that led to this tiny, little, almost secret
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: attic space that wasn't being used for anything, because it
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: was impossibly small. You'd have to be incredibly skinny just
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: to get through the little square opening that would bring
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: you into this little space. And then once you got in,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: you could only get in by slithering headfirst in. You
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: couldn't stand up, you'd be laying the entire time. You
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: couldn't extend your legs all the way if you're a
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: full grown adult, so you're kind of tucked up in,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: almost like a pseudo fetal position. But Cony saw this
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: as a huge upgrade from living in the streets, and
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: he decided that this is where he's going to live
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: for the winter. And so he went around the house
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: gathering supplies between blankets and food and water, and he
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: filled his tiny little space. And then he went back
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: downstairs and he locked the front door again, made sure
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: everything looked the way it was when he showed up,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: and he went into his little space and shut the
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: door behind him. And when Phil came home that night,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: he didn't notice anything. And for the next several weeks,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Phil never notice a thing. Every time Phil would leave Coney's,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: would sneak out, go downstairs, make himself some coffee, get
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: it bite to eat, and then go back up to
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: his little space. He even cut into the house's wiring
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: system and stole one of Phil's radios, brought it into
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: the covey with him, attached it to the new wiring,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and he got to listen to the news so he
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: didn't feel so isolated from the outside world. But about
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: a month later, Coney's leaves his little spot to go
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: downstairs because he thinks Phil is gone. He gets to
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the kitchen. He's going through the fridge. When he shuts
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: the fridge, he looks over and there's Phil standing there
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: looking at him, like, what are you doing in my kitchen?
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: In a panic, Coney's grabs the stove shaker and beats
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Phil to death. Not knowing what else to do, he
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: wipes off the murder weapon, leaves it where it is.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: He goes in the fridge, he gets more food and drink,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and he goes right back up to where he lives.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: He would follow the investigation of Phil Peter's death on
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: his radio. Curled up inside of Phil Peter's house. Coney's
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: was quickly found of murder and sentence to life in prison.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: After hearing his sentence read to him, he says out loud.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Now I feel safe, I'll have a better home than
• 28:07
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