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Memories That Grow Scarier With Time · Scary Stories Hub

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  Speaker 1: Back when I was seventeen, I used to bibbysit for
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  Speaker 1: our neighbor, who at the time was a single mother
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  Speaker 1: who happened to be going through a particularly nasty divorce.
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  Speaker 1: She had two young sons, one of which was eight
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  Speaker 1: years old well, the other was only around eighteen months.
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  Speaker 1: They were absolutely adorable and very well behaved kids, but
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  Speaker 1: you could tell that they were going through a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and the older one definitely showed signs of stress over
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing. And I'll never forget the time he
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  Speaker 1: asked me why his daddy couldn't live with them any more,
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  Speaker 1: and it honestly broke my heart, not because I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have an answer for him, but because to hear it
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  Speaker 1: would have just been too much to bear, too much
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  Speaker 1: for any one to bear. Anyway, after a few months
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  Speaker 1: of being alone, she finally decided to get back on
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  Speaker 1: the old dating horse. I was so happy for her
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  Speaker 1: after such a rough time. She deserved to find happiness again,
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  Speaker 1: to find someone who had the wherewithal to be a
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  Speaker 1: real father to these two adorable little boys. So one
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  Speaker 1: night she leaves on her dates and say she'll be
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  Speaker 1: back around midnight, and not a moment later, only she
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  Speaker 1: doesn't tell me exactly where she's going, and I have
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  Speaker 1: no way to contact her because this was back in
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  Speaker 1: the eighties and no one had a cell phone. Well
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  Speaker 1: they did exist, but not in the available commercial sense.
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  Speaker 1: It was all landlines back then. Otherwise this might not
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  Speaker 1: have gone the way it did. So on the night
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  Speaker 1: in question, I'm chilling on the couch, absent mindedly flicking
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  Speaker 1: through the TV channels. I put the kids to bed
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  Speaker 1: an hour previous. They're sleeping like rocks, and everything seems
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  Speaker 1: fine and dandy, when suddenly there's a knock at the
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  Speaker 1: front door. I wasn't expecting anyone, but then again, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't my house, so I felt kind of obligated to
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  Speaker 1: answer and take a message or whatever. Only as I
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  Speaker 1: started walking down the hallway towards the front door, whoever
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  Speaker 1: is on the other side starts banging against it and
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  Speaker 1: cursing up a storm. Eryll, I know you're in there,
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  Speaker 1: open the door. What was exactly said, I don't remember,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not keen on repeating some of the words
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  Speaker 1: they used. It was really, really harsh, So I'm just frozen,
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  Speaker 1: looking at the door in total fright. When the oldest
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  Speaker 1: boy came flying out of his room and down the stairs,
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  Speaker 1: running to the door and yelling, Daddy's home. I grab
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  Speaker 1: him pull him away from the door. I had no
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  Speaker 1: idea what this guy's intentions were, and after all, they
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  Speaker 1: were probably divorce for a freaking reason. But I almost
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  Speaker 1: fainted with fear when I hear the words I got
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  Speaker 1: my shotgun in my truck and tonight I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: teach you a lesson you'll never forget. He screams this,
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  Speaker 1: but then I hear his footsteps move up the gravel path.
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  Speaker 1: It appeared he wasn't bluffing at all, and if that
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  Speaker 1: was the case, then her lives were clearly in danger.
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  Speaker 1: When he gets back, he's banging on the door and
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  Speaker 1: threatening to start shooting through it if no one opens.
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  Speaker 1: I grabbed both kids and run out the back door
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  Speaker 1: and across the street to my house, where my mom
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  Speaker 1: calls the police. When the police arrived a few minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: they actually find the ex husband taking a massive dump
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  Speaker 1: on Cheryl's porch. He was arrested, and I wait with
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  Speaker 1: the kids at my house for their mom to show up.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone was in tears by that point, even my mom,
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  Speaker 1: who was normally a pretty reserved woman. I mean, maybe
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  Speaker 1: he was just having a manic episode and no one
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  Speaker 1: was in real danger, but honestly, it was one of
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  Speaker 1: the most terrifying nights of my entire life. When my
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  Speaker 1: grandfather was younger, he became the principal of an elementary school.
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  Speaker 1: He was in his late twenties early thirties at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and despite being young, he was a born leader. He
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  Speaker 1: was a great principle and everyone loved him. I can
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  Speaker 1: attest to that, as I attended multiple award ceremonies for him.
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  Speaker 1: In The respect and admiration he received was crazy. There
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  Speaker 1: was a young boy at the school who was having
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  Speaker 1: behavioral issues in class, and my grandfather saw that the
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  Speaker 1: kid didn't have a lot of parental support, so he
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  Speaker 1: called in his father and had talked with him about
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  Speaker 1: spending more time with his son and just a general
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  Speaker 1: parenting session. It turned out that all the boy needed
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  Speaker 1: was his dad's attention, and after a few weeks, he
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  Speaker 1: was a happy, model student. Whenever my grandfather would leave
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  Speaker 1: school late, he would see the dad was playing basketball
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  Speaker 1: with his son after he got home from work. It
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  Speaker 1: was one of those moments that he took pride in
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  Speaker 1: being able to make a difference in people's lives. However,
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  Speaker 1: not everything had such an easy solution, and my grandfather
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  Speaker 1: found himself having to deal with an employee, Stanley the janitor,
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  Speaker 1: who was showing up to work drunk. Stanley was an
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  Speaker 1: alcoholic with a mean streak, and my grandfather tried on
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  Speaker 1: multiple occasions to deal with his behavior. Finally, one day,
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  Speaker 1: Stanley showed up so drunk that my grandfather sent him
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  Speaker 1: home and called the superintendent to let him know he
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  Speaker 1: was going to be firing him the next morning after
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  Speaker 1: he sobered up. He then warned them to let him
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  Speaker 1: deal with it when Stanley was sober, because he was
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  Speaker 1: not a stable person, as it goes in these kinds
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  Speaker 1: of stories. The superintendent was furious and decided that he
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  Speaker 1: was going to call Stanley himself and fire him. Despite
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  Speaker 1: my grandfather's warning. No one called my grandfather to tell
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  Speaker 1: him about it either, so he was completely in the
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  Speaker 1: dark and thought he could deal with it in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Stanley was furious and went to the school that evening.
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  Speaker 1: He searched the offices my grandfathers included and tore things
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  Speaker 1: apart until he finally had what he wanted. He was
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  Speaker 1: in a blaze of fury, and on his way out,
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  Speaker 1: he saw the father and his son playing basketball. He
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  Speaker 1: walked towards them and pulled something out of his trousers.
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  Speaker 1: It was a gun. He then proceeded to shoot the
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  Speaker 1: little boy, killing him instantly. The father was so upset
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  Speaker 1: was hysterically crying, but somehow managed to get the gun
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  Speaker 1: away from Stanley and shoot him. My grandfather was called
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  Speaker 1: to the elementary school immediately by the police because there
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  Speaker 1: were two dead bodies. The little boy and Stanley were dead.
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  Speaker 1: What was even worse was the crying from the father
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  Speaker 1: and him saying that he couldn't save his son. It
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  Speaker 1: was clear that he could never forgive himself for that day.
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  Speaker 1: My grandfather was pulled aside by one of the police
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  Speaker 1: who would search Stanley for evidence. They had found a list,
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  Speaker 1: a hit list of people that he was going to
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  Speaker 1: kill and all the addresses of those people that he
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  Speaker 1: had retrieved when he searched the offices. My grandfather was
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  Speaker 1: number one on that list. So if it weren't for
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  Speaker 1: that father, it's likely that I would never been able
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  Speaker 1: to meet my grandfather, and possibly my mother and grandmother
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  Speaker 1: would have been killed. If Stanley had been able to
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  Speaker 1: complete his mission. To this day, I get goosebumps whenever
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  Speaker 1: I hear that story, and it's just so chilling. My
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  Speaker 1: grandfather never uttered a single word about this after his
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  Speaker 1: initial recount, and my mother made me swear to never
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  Speaker 1: tell him. I knew he carried the weight of that
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  Speaker 1: boy's death on him until the day he died. I
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  Speaker 1: live in a house compound, and one day me and
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  Speaker 1: my family were visiting a friend's house. After a couple
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  Speaker 1: of hours, my mom and my friend's mom ask us
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  Speaker 1: to go fetch something from my house, so we go
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  Speaker 1: back to my home, which is a long way from his,
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  Speaker 1: and the walk seemed uncomfortably long and creepy and had
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  Speaker 1: an eerie atmosphere for some reason. After ages of walking,
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  Speaker 1: we reached my house and we get the thing they needed,
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  Speaker 1: which was inside the house. So I unlocked the door
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  Speaker 1: and got the object, and I noticed the bathroom door
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  Speaker 1: was lit and the exhaust van was on, which we
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  Speaker 1: usually turn off unless someone is using the toilet, but
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  Speaker 1: I didn't give that any attention and thought my dad
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  Speaker 1: was using the toilet since he wasn't in my friend's
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  Speaker 1: house when we left, So me and my buddy decided
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  Speaker 1: to wait outside the house for my dad to finish,
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  Speaker 1: and I occasionally went to the small window outside the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom and called for my dad, but I didn't get
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  Speaker 1: an answer. But I heard someone humming and singing, so
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  Speaker 1: I thought that he was having a good time. After
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  Speaker 1: a good half an hour passed, I started feeling uneasy
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  Speaker 1: and told my friend we had to leave because our
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  Speaker 1: parents are probably angry now. When we arrived at his house,
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  Speaker 1: we were shocked to see my dad sitting and talking
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  Speaker 1: to my friend's parents. We asked him where were you
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  Speaker 1: and he said I didn't go anywhere. I just stayed
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  Speaker 1: here since we first came. This made me scared because
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  Speaker 1: my family had been here for three hours and we
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  Speaker 1: just waited for my dad for one hour. I go
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  Speaker 1: ask my sister the same question and to get the
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  Speaker 1: same response. Someone was surely in my bathroom. After the
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  Speaker 1: visit is done, we'd go back home just to find
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  Speaker 1: the front door, which I locked and unlocked, and the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom door was wide open. My family acted normally, but
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  Speaker 1: I was completely freaking out and I couldn't get any
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  Speaker 1: sleep that night. First and the last time I babysat,
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  Speaker 1: back when I was sixteen, in the early eighties. I'd
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  Speaker 1: just gotten a driver's license and needed gas and insurance
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  Speaker 1: money for the old beat up car i'd bought. I
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  Speaker 1: was watching two boys about six and ten. Will parents
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  Speaker 1: went out to celebrate some anniversary or something. They had
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  Speaker 1: promised to be home at eleven At the time. Cell
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  Speaker 1: phones were pretty rare, so no way to contact them
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  Speaker 1: other than calling the restaurant. Evening was going great, and
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  Speaker 1: about nine thirty when they're large aggressive doberman goes crazy,
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  Speaker 1: running around the house, barking and growling before running into
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  Speaker 1: the basement refusing to come up. Sort of freaks me
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  Speaker 1: out a bit because this dog is huge, aggressive and
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  Speaker 1: very protective of the house and kids. I do a
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  Speaker 1: quick check of the house and kids and everyone was okay.
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  Speaker 1: I let the dog stay in the basement, put kids
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  Speaker 1: to bed at around ten, as instructed by the parents'
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  Speaker 1: job done, so, I'm watching TV at around ten thirty
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  Speaker 1: when suddenly I begin to smell something burning, running into
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  Speaker 1: the youngest boy's room and find the oldest boy in
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  Speaker 1: bed with him. Both are asleep, so I wake them
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  Speaker 1: both and tell them that we need to get the
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  Speaker 1: dog and go outside. But the dog just straight up
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  Speaker 1: refuses to leave the basement, and I had to prioritize,
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  Speaker 1: so I get the kids outside and tell them to
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  Speaker 1: sit in the front yard while I go in to
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  Speaker 1: call the fire department. Not showing good judgment here, but
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  Speaker 1: I was sixteen. Oldest says, left a candle burning under
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  Speaker 1: my bed. As I go back in, yep, a candle
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  Speaker 1: under their bed, since apparently monsters couldn't live anywhere where
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  Speaker 1: there's light. I know, dumb kids. As I open the
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  Speaker 1: door to go back in, there's this huge explosion behind
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  Speaker 1: me across the street and power goes out. The kids
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  Speaker 1: starts screaming and follow me back into the house. I
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  Speaker 1: grab the phone, but there's no dial tone. I get
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  Speaker 1: the kids out of the house again, onto the back
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  Speaker 1: porch this time and make it really clear that there's
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  Speaker 1: stay there. But I can still hear the dog whimpering
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  Speaker 1: in the basement. I run to the oldest kid's bedroom
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  Speaker 1: with the fire extinguisher and flashlight from the kitchen and
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  Speaker 1: look under the bed through hazy smoke. The offending candle
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  Speaker 1: has gone out, but has burnt a hole in the
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  Speaker 1: box spring, which also has gone out. I flip the
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  Speaker 1: box spring and blast it with the extinguisher just in case.
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  Speaker 1: I then run to the front porch to see the
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  Speaker 1: transfermer on a telephone pole hat exploded a lightning pole,
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  Speaker 1: what lighting the pole on fire and taking out the
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  Speaker 1: phone and electricity service for the street. I run and
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  Speaker 1: check on the box springs, which are still out. I
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  Speaker 1: open the bedroom windows to air out the room, then
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  Speaker 1: get the kids off the back porch into the living
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  Speaker 1: room onto the couch, where they both are just crying
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  Speaker 1: their eyes out. The oldest was apologizing for the fire,
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  Speaker 1: but insisted that if he didn't keep the candlelight then
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  Speaker 1: of course monsters would get him. Fire department shows up
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  Speaker 1: for the transformer at around eleven. Kids fall asleep on
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  Speaker 1: the couch at around midnight after watching the firemen across
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  Speaker 1: the street put out the transformer fire and the power
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  Speaker 1: comes back on at about one thirty a m. The
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  Speaker 1: parents show up at two thirty a m. When they
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  Speaker 1: were supposed to be back by eleven. They're somewhat buzzed
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  Speaker 1: and start complaining that the kids are not in bed
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  Speaker 1: and the oldest room is trashed with a flipped over
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  Speaker 1: mattress and dry fire extinguisher powder covering the box springs
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  Speaker 1: and to add insult to injury. They straight up refuse
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  Speaker 1: to pay me. The situation gets really tense, and would
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  Speaker 1: you believe it, the doberman picks this time to come
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  Speaker 1: out of the basement and starts aggressively growling at me.
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  Speaker 1: Walked out with a dollar to my name, and I
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  Speaker 1: never baby sat again.