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3 True Stories That Still Send Shivers Down Spines · Paranormal Activity

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  Speaker 1: This happened on June seventh, twenty thirteen, when I was
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  Speaker 1: a freshman in college. It was a regular day where
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  Speaker 1: I had three classes. I finished one class and had
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  Speaker 1: an hour between one class and the beginning of another.
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  Speaker 1: I always went to our campus library, but on my
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  Speaker 1: way to the library, I received a call from my brother.
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  Speaker 1: He told me that he saw a man shooting at
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  Speaker 1: a bus in the middle of the street. I expressed
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  Speaker 1: to him how crazy I thought that was. He also
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  Speaker 1: told me that the car sped away. He doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: where they went. I got to the library and I
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  Speaker 1: told him that I would call him back. As I
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  Speaker 1: was sitting in the library with my head in the book,
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  Speaker 1: I happened to see a random car park in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of our campus and two people got out, one
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  Speaker 1: man and one woman. The woman was running frantically, and
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  Speaker 1: the man got out wearing all black what looks like
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  Speaker 1: a rifle in his hand. I then thought back to
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  Speaker 1: what my brother just told me, thinking that this might
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  Speaker 1: be the same person. At the same time, I thought
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  Speaker 1: to myself, why is this police officer getting out of
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  Speaker 1: that random car. He was dressed just like a swat
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  Speaker 1: officer sort of. I sat there trying to figure out
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  Speaker 1: what was going on as this man walked across the courtyard.
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  Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, he walked up to this woman,
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  Speaker 1: who I knew from one of my classes, and without hesitation,
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  Speaker 1: he shot her and continued to walk toward our building.
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  Speaker 1: I began to yell out to everyone that he has
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  Speaker 1: a gun, and I were pointing outside. I saw a
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  Speaker 1: few people reacting when I did due to the sound
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  Speaker 1: of the gunshot, they began to yell also. It all
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  Speaker 1: happened so fast, and a lot of us began to
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  Speaker 1: hide because we couldn't get out. Some people got out,
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  Speaker 1: but we didn't have time to. I hid in an aisle.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the man enter through the automatic doors with
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  Speaker 1: his rifle to his side. He was yelling out that
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  Speaker 1: he was a police officer, but he didn't hold his
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  Speaker 1: weapon like one. But once he said that, a few
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  Speaker 1: students came out from hiding. He grabbed his weapon and
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  Speaker 1: they ran, but he didn't shoot. I peeked my head
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  Speaker 1: out more as the man walked to the front desk.
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  Speaker 1: I could see the librarian and peek her head around,
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  Speaker 1: but she looked confused. The man saw her as he
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  Speaker 1: were walking past the desk. He stopped. He looked to
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  Speaker 1: where she was, but she just so happened to move away.
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  Speaker 1: She actually walked away instead of run For some reason.
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  Speaker 1: He walked through the doors into a hallway where she
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  Speaker 1: went into. I came off from hiding and placed myself
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  Speaker 1: where I could see the hallway. All the way down
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  Speaker 1: the hallway, he followed the librarian. She went into a
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  Speaker 1: closet with other people, and the shooter started to bang
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  Speaker 1: on the door, but he kept saying that he was
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  Speaker 1: the police. He told them to open within a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes or he'll shoot, But within a few seconds he
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  Speaker 1: began to fire into the door. I heard people screaming,
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  Speaker 1: and I wanted to help, but I felt that would
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  Speaker 1: be suicide for me, being that I didn't have a weapon.
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  Speaker 1: I heard people saying that the police are coming. The
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  Speaker 1: man stopped shooting and started to bang on the door
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  Speaker 1: even more. He didn't left that door, heading back toward us.
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  Speaker 1: I went back into hiding, but could still see. He
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  Speaker 1: walked through the room where we were, and he went
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  Speaker 1: out into the first set of doors, and the cops
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  Speaker 1: were right there. The cops and the shooter began to
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  Speaker 1: fire at the same time, and then it all stopped.
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  Speaker 1: The cops dragged a man outside and escorted all of
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  Speaker 1: us outside out there. It was pretty chaotic. Eventually we
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  Speaker 1: found out who the shooter was. His name was John Soari.
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  Speaker 1: He went on the shooting spree within our city that day.
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  Speaker 1: This happened in twenty and thirteen, but it still feels
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  Speaker 1: like it just happened yesterday. This happened on the day
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  Speaker 1: after Christmas in the year of two thousand. I worked
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  Speaker 1: at Edgewater Technology in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The day started off
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  Speaker 1: pretty normal. I clocked in and went to my station.
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  Speaker 1: We all did I remember that the aura of the
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  Speaker 1: day was off, but I might just be saying that
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  Speaker 1: due to what happened that day. After working for a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, I had to run to the bathroom due
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  Speaker 1: to my Christmas food from the day before. TMI. I know.
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  Speaker 1: I was ringing a magazine using the restroom, and out
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  Speaker 1: of nowhere I heard people yelling and running saying that
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  Speaker 1: he has a gun. Then I heard the rounds go off.
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  Speaker 1: It scared the crap out of me. Literally, I got
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  Speaker 1: up without wiping. Then I heard more shots, but they
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  Speaker 1: were closer than you before a few people burst through
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom door and they were saying that he's right there.
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  Speaker 1: They closed the door and they put the trash can
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  Speaker 1: in front of the door while pushing against it. They
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  Speaker 1: were also saying that Mike has gone crazy or heard
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  Speaker 1: someone stop right by the door. But he was pleading.
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  Speaker 1: And then we heard another shot, but he was still
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  Speaker 1: making noises. Then another shot, and then we didn't hear
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  Speaker 1: him any more. Then they got silent. He was right
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  Speaker 1: in front of our door. We heard a gun and
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  Speaker 1: get cocked and someone touching the door handled but he stopped.
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  Speaker 1: There was no more shooting, but we could hear screaming
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  Speaker 1: in the fire alarm going off. Everyone in the bathroom
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  Speaker 1: was crying, and it got worse when the blood was
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  Speaker 1: coming in the bathroom from under the door from the
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  Speaker 1: person that was laying there. About a minute later, we
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  Speaker 1: heard police in the hallway and they were in front
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  Speaker 1: of our door, but we were still afraid until we
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  Speaker 1: heard them assess the person that was bleeding by our door.
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  Speaker 1: They said he was gone. They opened the door and
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  Speaker 1: told us it's okay. They got him. The shooter was
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the cops in our reception area. His name
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  Speaker 1: was Michael Morgan McDermott. He actually worked with us. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why he did what he did, but I
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  Speaker 1: can say that it was the worst day of my life.
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  Speaker 1: But what I won't forget is to scene once we
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  Speaker 1: left the bathroom. So many people were hurt, and the
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  Speaker 1: looks and the faith of those who got in his
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  Speaker 1: way would never leave my memory. What really confuses me
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  Speaker 1: is that I saw Michael right before this happened, and
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  Speaker 1: he was joking around with everyone. This situation really made
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  Speaker 1: me not be so quick to trust individuals, no matter
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  Speaker 1: how long I've known them. This is the worst day
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  Speaker 1: of my life. I was eight years old in the
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  Speaker 1: third grade, and my younger brother, Lucas, was in kindergarten.
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  Speaker 1: Our school had three different lunch times kindergarten first grade
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  Speaker 1: first period, second and third grade second period in fourth
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  Speaker 1: and fifth grade third period of lunch. Once the first
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  Speaker 1: period of lunch was over, I remember we were doing
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  Speaker 1: a weekly assignment. Usually those take about twenty to forty
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  Speaker 1: minutes to finish. Forty minutes later, right as I had
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  Speaker 1: finished it, I remember the dean's voice played on the speaker.
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  Speaker 1: He sounded scared and panicked as he said, all students
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  Speaker 1: and staff, this is not a drill go in a lockdown.
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  Speaker 1: I felt worried and started to panic myself, as my
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  Speaker 1: somewhat cool and laid back teachers seemed a panic as
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  Speaker 1: well and rushed to the door to lock it, closed
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  Speaker 1: the blinds, and whispered to hide in a blind spot
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  Speaker 1: away from the windows. As we all sat in silence
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  Speaker 1: for what seemed like hours, we heard a knock on
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  Speaker 1: the door. A few girls and boys, including me, all
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  Speaker 1: jumped a bit. The slight knocking soon turned into loud banging.
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  Speaker 1: A few girls started to panic, to only make the
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  Speaker 1: already scary situation worse. Minutes felt like hours for him
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  Speaker 1: to finally leave. After fifteen minutes of hiding in pure terror,
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  Speaker 1: the dean finally came over the PA system, telling us
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  Speaker 1: to walk in the single foul line to the entrance
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  Speaker 1: of the school to be greeted by police. By the
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  Speaker 1: time me and my brother Lucas went into our mom's car,
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  Speaker 1: I looked to my brother. He was pale and looked
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  Speaker 1: around frantically. When we got home, I asked what was wrong,
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  Speaker 1: and he said something that still scares me to this day.
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  Speaker 1: When that guy was pounding on my brother's class from door,
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  Speaker 1: my brother peeked out from the sink, he saw a
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  Speaker 1: tall man looking through the window. He said his teacher
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  Speaker 1: literally pushed his head down frantically to hide him so
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  Speaker 1: he wouldn't be seen. He mentioned that the door had
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  Speaker 1: a window, it was barely covered. I also want to
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  Speaker 1: say that this was twenty thirteen, so I vaguely remember
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  Speaker 1: most of the details, and how to ask my friend
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  Speaker 1: if he remembered the whole incident. I want to show
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  Speaker 1: you the layout of the school. The yellow line is
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  Speaker 1: where my class is. The red is where my brother's
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  Speaker 1: class was. Now we came to the conclusion that he
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  Speaker 1: either entered into the where the orange line is or
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  Speaker 1: the blue line. To give you context on where those
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  Speaker 1: lines are located. The orange line leads to the back entrance,
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  Speaker 1: where there is a fence that is easily able to
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  Speaker 1: climb over. The blue line shows the way back between
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  Speaker 1: in the school grounds and some houses. There's a tiny
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  Speaker 1: gay which is also easy to hop over. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: want to clarify that those were assumptions on how he
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  Speaker 1: could have entered the school. If he went through the
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  Speaker 1: orange line, he must have went to my classroom, then
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  Speaker 1: hit a few more classrooms, then went to the kindergarten area,
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  Speaker 1: which is where my brother's class was, or he did
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  Speaker 1: vice versa if he were to in there where the
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  Speaker 1: blue line was. Since this was back in twenty thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't remember if this guy was caught or not,
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  Speaker 1: but all I hope is that he was called. My
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  Speaker 1: name is Shelley, and ten years ago, I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: make my own money because I was tired of asking
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  Speaker 1: my parents for money. I put in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: applications and I ended up getting hired at Chick fil A.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to lie. I was definitely excited because
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  Speaker 1: of all of the chicken nuggets I was going to
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  Speaker 1: to be eating. Anyways, After I got hired, I started
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  Speaker 1: to get the hang of the job. It was pretty easy.
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  Speaker 1: I worked outside in the drive through line a lot
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  Speaker 1: because we were the busiest fast food restaurant in our
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  Speaker 1: town and people really liked my personality. After working there
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  Speaker 1: for a few months, my dad's creepy friend Tyler, would
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  Speaker 1: come there every day at the same time and go
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  Speaker 1: to the same drive through line, which was weird because
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  Speaker 1: I worked there after school and there were two drift
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  Speaker 1: through lines. The drive through line he'd always go to
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  Speaker 1: was mine and he would always call me Shellshell, which
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  Speaker 1: I've hated since I was a small kid. The thing is,
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  Speaker 1: he'd always order small stuff like a small fry or
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  Speaker 1: small cookies and creams, milkshake. A few times he came
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  Speaker 1: into the line pull up to me, and then he'd
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  Speaker 1: say that he forgot his debit card and he would
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  Speaker 1: just try and talk to me. I'm not dumb. I
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  Speaker 1: knew exactly what he was doing. Ever since I turned thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: he always acted weird toward me, telling me that I'm
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  Speaker 1: growing up into a woman, or that I looked like
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  Speaker 1: a young woman. Now, there was this time when my
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  Speaker 1: parents were having to get together. It was family and friends,
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  Speaker 1: and I yelled out to my parents that I had
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  Speaker 1: to pee, and I ran upstairs. I swear a few
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  Speaker 1: seconds later, Tyler burst through the door, looked at me
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  Speaker 1: and said wow and stared at me. Then he straightened
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  Speaker 1: up real quick and said sorry, my bad, and closed
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  Speaker 1: the door. Like I said, he was weird. So we
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  Speaker 1: closed at ten PM, but we always take orders up
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  Speaker 1: until around nine fifty nine. One day we were inside
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  Speaker 1: cleaning up and it was around ten thirty pm. There
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  Speaker 1: were about five or six of us in Chick fil ay.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, I was mopping the floor and a
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  Speaker 1: few of us saw a car pull up to the
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  Speaker 1: drive through, but turned around at the entrance because we
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  Speaker 1: put cones out there. After ten pm. The car drove
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  Speaker 1: around our parking lot at least ten minutes, and I
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  Speaker 1: noticed that it had temporary tags on it. After a while,
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  Speaker 1: our manager went outside and went up to the car
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  Speaker 1: due to its stopping in front of one of our
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  Speaker 1: windows every time it drove aund. I watched the manager
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  Speaker 1: walk to the car as a driver rolled down the window.
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  Speaker 1: The window was all the way down before my manager
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  Speaker 1: reached the car, and to my surprise, it was Tyler,
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  Speaker 1: my dad's friend. He had a new car that I
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  Speaker 1: didn't recognize. But what made this very weird was that
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  Speaker 1: even when he rolled the window down, he never looked
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  Speaker 1: at my manager. He was staring directly at me talking
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  Speaker 1: with my manager. I was standing behind the entrance door.
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  Speaker 1: He saw me looking at him looking at me, but
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  Speaker 1: he never turned away like a normal person would. A
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  Speaker 1: manager walked back in and told me and my coworkers
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  Speaker 1: to hurry up so we can get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: I was the last person to get done with my clothing,
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  Speaker 1: so it was just me and my manager. My manager
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  Speaker 1: told me to make sure the doors are locked. I
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  Speaker 1: told him okay, and I went to the bathroom. I
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  Speaker 1: figured out lock on once I'm done. As usual, I
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  Speaker 1: was on my phone while using the bathroom and the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom door opens. I thought it was weird because my
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  Speaker 1: manager is the only other person in the building and
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  Speaker 1: he's a guy. I yelled out that he's an idiot
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  Speaker 1: and he's in the wrong bathroom. But the thing is,
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  Speaker 1: he never left. It got weirder because I can hear
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  Speaker 1: him breathing by the door. But then I heard shell Shell,
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  Speaker 1: it's me, Tyler, poof are you in here? I picked
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  Speaker 1: up my feet so he couldn't see them, But then
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  Speaker 1: he started to push open every star door, saying my name.
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  Speaker 1: I texted my boss and it literally said it helped
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom. Then Tyler got to my stall. He attempted
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  Speaker 1: to push the door open, and then he laughed. He
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  Speaker 1: said that he knows that I'm in there. He looked
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  Speaker 1: in the crack of the door and said, there you are.
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  Speaker 1: He then got down on his hands and knees, reached
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  Speaker 1: his hand under the door and attempted to unlock the stall.
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  Speaker 1: I kicked his arm and he said, it's me Uncle Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: As he said that, he proceeded to crawl under my
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  Speaker 1: star door. I started to climb above my stall. Then
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  Speaker 1: my manager burst through the door. As I was screaming
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  Speaker 1: and crying, Tyler, my manager, began to fight. I called
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  Speaker 1: the cops. After a few seconds, Tyler was unconscious on
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom floor. When the cops in the MS got there,
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  Speaker 1: he was cuffed and loaded up into the ambulance. He
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  Speaker 1: was hit with a few charges and was recently released
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  Speaker 1: from jail. That situation just heightened my awareness of my surroundings.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: Back when I was living on the streets were technically
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  Speaker 1: in my car. I would always post up bout fast
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  Speaker 1: food restaurants because people would always give me their change
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  Speaker 1: or some of the food that they had recently purchased.
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  Speaker 1: One day, I posted it the entrance of a plaza,
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  Speaker 1: and in that plaza, the busiest place was a Chick
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  Speaker 1: fil A. Throughout the day, I received a few bucks
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of chicken nuggets. After being out there
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  Speaker 1: for a few hours, I noticed a car that left
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  Speaker 1: a few times and came back to parking the Chick
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  Speaker 1: fil A parking lot with covered license plates. But the
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  Speaker 1: person never got out of the car. Of course, I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was weird, but I didn't think anything of it.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout the day, I take my food to my car
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  Speaker 1: and not eating. Around eight pm, most of the plaza
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  Speaker 1: was closing up and the traffic started to slow down. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: when Chick fil A slowed down for a few minutes,
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  Speaker 1: a man in the car got out and he walked
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  Speaker 1: up to the door of the restaurant and took a
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  Speaker 1: picture of the inside. A few seconds later, what looks
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  Speaker 1: like the manager came outside and it looked like she
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  Speaker 1: was arguing with the guy. She went back inside and
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  Speaker 1: the man got back in his car, got on his phone,
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  Speaker 1: and left. About five minutes later. Fy I was parked
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  Speaker 1: at about twenty five feet away from the Chick fil
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  Speaker 1: A parking lot. It could see everything that was going on.
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  Speaker 1: So a few hours go by and the place was closed.
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  Speaker 1: From the outside, it looked as if the employees were
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  Speaker 1: cleaning up. I was trying to fall asleep. Then I
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  Speaker 1: saw that car from earlier pull up. Then it walked
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  Speaker 1: me all the way up. There were two cars left
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  Speaker 1: in the parking lot, his car and some other car,
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  Speaker 1: and some people left. The only person I saw inside
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  Speaker 1: with the woman that he was talking to. Earlier, I
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  Speaker 1: saw the man get out of his car. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: he was wearing dark colors and with gloves on, and
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  Speaker 1: I saw the lights get turned off. Inside of Chick
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  Speaker 1: fil A. The man was standing on the side of
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  Speaker 1: the building by dumpster, but in a way where he
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  Speaker 1: can't be seen. He was in the shadows. At that point,
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  Speaker 1: I leaned my seat all the way back so when
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  Speaker 1: no one could see me. The woman walked out, turned around,
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  Speaker 1: and began to lock the door. As soon as she
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  Speaker 1: turned around, that man sprinted toward her, yanked her hair,
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  Speaker 1: and started to yell at her as he took her
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  Speaker 1: back inside. I leaned up a little bit to get
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  Speaker 1: a better look, but I couldn't see anything. There was nothing.
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  Speaker 1: For about ten minutes into the man walked back outside.
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  Speaker 1: He went straight to his car, but instead of driving away,
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  Speaker 1: he drove up to the door and went back in
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: with his trunk left open. A few minutes later, I
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  Speaker 1: saw something that I would never forget. The man was
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  Speaker 1: dragging the woman's body, but there was no head. He
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: struggled to get her in the trunk, but eventually he
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: got her there. He went back in there and came
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  Speaker 1: out with a Chick fil A bag full of something
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  Speaker 1: and threw it in his trunk. He went back inside
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  Speaker 1: again for what seemed like twenty minutes. He came back out,
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  Speaker 1: locked up Chick fil A, and drove away. Someone else
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  Speaker 1: came back for the other car in the parking lot.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: A few days later, I went into the Starbucks to
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  Speaker 1: use the restroom and on the news was a story
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  Speaker 1: about a missing woman that showed the picture and it
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  Speaker 1: was the woman who worked at Chick fil A. They
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: were interviewing her husband, who was crying during the whole interview.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: What created me out is that her husband was the
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: man that I saw with her that faithful night. I
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: know he killed her, but he was on the news
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: as if he didn't have anything to do with it,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: and like he doesn't know. Seeing that lady that night
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: has hunted me since it was Halloween of twenty twelve
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: and I was closing at work, which is Chick fil A.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: We were a new establishment in the area that we're
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: in and the neighborhood was pretty bad in and out
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: all afternoon and evening. I saw hundreds of people dressing
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: their costumes all of the cliche costumes Jason freddie Krueger
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: and Michael Myers. At around seven point thirty, there was
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: a long line inside and out of nowhere, there was
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: some commotion. My manager came out to break it up.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: When he broke up, some guy in the ghost face
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: costume from Scream ran out of the door. That person
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: that ran out of the door got into it with
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: a woman that was dressed as Meg Meg from Family Guy.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: At least that's what I thought she was until she
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: told us that she wasn't in costume. She was just
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: ugly anyway. This woman told our manager and the cops
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: that some person in the ghost face costume tried to
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: lure her seven year old daughter out of the building
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: to his car. The little girl was running back and
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: forth between her mother, who was in line in the
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: play area inside. I guess the man in the Scream
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: costume told the girl that her mom told her to
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: wait in his car, and he grabbed her. The mom
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: turned around and saw it. Then she started to yell
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: and scream. A few hours later, we locked the doors
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: and then some guy knocked at our drive through window.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: He had on a ghost face costume from the movie Scream,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: but I don't know if it's the same guy from earlier.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I yelled out that we're closed, and this guy tries
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: to bus through to drive through window. I screamed and
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the manager ran out. That man ran to our front
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: door banging, Then he stopped and just stared at us.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: At that point, it was just my manager and I.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: My manager called the cops and the man left and
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: popped his trunk of his car. He grabbed something out
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: of his trunk and put it under his costume. He
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: then walked back up to the front door. He stared
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: for another thirty seconds and pulled out a gun from
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: under his costume, aimed it and pulled the trigger. We
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: both ducked and screamed, but nothing happened. We looked up
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: and he was fumbling with his gun. He was loading, unloading,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: and reloading. It had jammed. Then the cops showed up
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: with their guns drawn. He got on the ground and
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: they arrested this guy. We found out that this was
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: a dangerous guy and he had a huge rap sheet,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and we were pretty lucky that nothing happened to us
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: that night. It may be cowardly, but I'll quit that
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: job soon after that happened, because of the neighborhood that
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Chick fil A was in.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I'm originally from Mexico. For reasons that will become very obvious,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I wish to remain anonymous. I used to be involved
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: in the Mexican Cartel. I mainly transported drugs across the
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: border into the United States. To make a long story short,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: I was caught and cooperated with the FEDS in exchange
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: for immunity and asylum. Before I go any further, you
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: can go ahead and label me a snitch if you
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: want to. I don't care. I personally feel pretty good
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: about writing out a bunch of drug dealing murderers that
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: work for an organization that is responsible for destroying so
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: many of my fellow Mexicans lives. I was forced into
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: this life at a young age. I've always hated the
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: cartel and was already plotting away to flee Mexico with
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: my mother and two younger sisters. You could say that
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: it was a good thing that I ended up getting caught.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: The story is not about how I got out of
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: the cartel. It's about the closest call I ever had
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: during my time with the cartel. This happened during the
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: early days. It was the summer of two thousand and five.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I remember the date specifically because I had just turned
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: eighteen a day prior. Even though I was barely an adult,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: I was a very intimidating looking guy. I come from
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: a long line of very physically strong men. I've been
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: lifting weight since I was a child. I'm an even
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: tempered guy, and I don't consider myself to be an
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: aggressive person, but I will put somebody through the wall
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: if they pissed me off. It was because of my
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: physical presence and my piece of shit father, who was
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: also in the cartel, made me a target for recruitment.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: When I first started out, myself and two other guys
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: would drive around Mexico City and collect debts and packages
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: from people who owed money to the cartel or one
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: of our distributors. It was on the fourth or fifth
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: run that we ran into some trouble. There was this
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: particular club we frequented where a lot of business was conducted.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: To make things simple, an exchange will go down in
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: a back room and we would come shortly after and
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: collect the revenue and drop it off to our capo.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: So that night we entered the club and began making
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: our way to the back room. It was a fairly
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: busy night for the club. This djay from out of
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: town was performing there, so people from all over were
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: there to see him. To get to the back room,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: we had to go through the main dance floor to
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: the opposite side of the building. There were some renovations
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: that prevented us from using the back entrance. We got
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: out on to the dance floor and started making our
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: way through the crowd. When we were about half way there,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I saw something out of the corner of my eye.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: It was the barrel of a shotgun being pointed directly
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: at me. I quickly ducked, and not a second later
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: I heard the gun go off. Unfortunately, an innocent girl
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: who was standing beside me caught the bullet. She was
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: shot at point blank range. And I don't mean to
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: be insensitive when I say this, but the poor girl's
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: head was blasted apart. I remember several things happening simultaneously.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: After the shotgun went off. All of the partygoers immediately
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: fled the club. From my position on the ground, all
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: I saw was a wave of moving legs. When I
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: stood up, I saw a deserted club. My two co
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: workers with their guns drawn, cursing up a storm, and
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: unfortunately the corpse of the young girl who was just shot.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: I assumed that the shooter got away in the chaos.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: We quickly busted into the back office to find another
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: bullet rooting corpse. It was a club owner who was
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: our contact. We immediately fled the scene before the police
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: showed up. I was never informed as to what happened
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: with the club owner and who almost took my head
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: off off with a shotgun. I was on the lowest
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: rank of the cartel, and they kept us in the
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: dark about a lot of things. I'm grateful that I'm
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: no longer a part of that life. I would like
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: to end things by saying a big fuck you to
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: that asshole who tried to kill me and ended up
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: shooting an innocent girl that night, and to all of
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: those cartel members who got locked up because of me.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: You got what you deserved and I'll see you in hell.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I'm a twenty year old male and this happened to
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: me in the winter of twenty eighteen. The day after Christmas.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Me and my parents were on vacation in Maine visiting
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: my grandmother. As you can probably imagine being in the
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: state of Maine during the winter. It was freezing. We
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: came up from Texas, so this was definitely not my climate,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: if you know what I mean. My parents had gone
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: out to visit a friend who lived in the area,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: while me and my grandmother stayed back and watched some movies.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: My grandmother turned in at about eight o'clock and I
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: eventually got bored of watching TV, so I decided to
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: put on my coat and go for a walk outside.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: My grandmother's neighborhood has this neat stone maize, complete with
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: angel statues and fountains. It was really cool and something
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: you really don't see a whole lot in neighborhoods these days.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: My grandmother's neighborhood was one of those fifty plus communities.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I doubt you could have something like this in a
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: neighborhood full of kids without getting defaced with spray painted
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: pictures of penises or something. For me, I actually admired
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: works of architecture like this and was impressed by the
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: amount of effort it must have taken to construct it.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: It was open from dusk till dawn. However, my grandmother
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: told me that there was no neighborhood security during the holidays,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: and no one would say anything if I wanted to
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: go through the maize after hours, so I did just that.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: I brought a flashlight with me, of cour and it
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: took me about five minutes to reach the entrance of
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: the maze from my grandmother's place. The maze wasn't massive,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: but it was big enough that you could get turned around,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: at least for a little bit. If I could give you,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: guys a somewhat accurate visual of this maze, think of
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: the maze and resonate Evil four where Leon had to
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: fight off those dogs and gather puzzle pieces. That's roughly
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: the same size as this maze. When I walked through
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: this maze during the daytime, I would usually listen to
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: my headphones, but something told me not to put them
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: on that night, and it's a good thing that I
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: followed my instincts. After I'd say it was about ten minutes,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I suddenly heard the sound of metal scraping against the
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: stone walls. As soon as I heard the sound, alarm
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: bells went off in my head. I froze in place
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: and carefully listened for any other sounds. The scraping noise
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: came again, except this time there was a deep voice
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: that followed it, abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: This sent chills down my spine, realizing that I was
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: now in a maze at night with a possible maniac.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: The maze had these areas where a statue or a
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: fountain would be. In these locations, there was shrubbery that
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: lined the maze walls. There was just enough space between
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: the wall and the bushes for a small person like
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: me to hide behind, and since I didn't know the
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: best route to exit the maze from where I was,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: I decided that the best course of action was to hide.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I made my way into the area where a statue
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: of David the Archangel was, and I quickly took cover
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: behind the shrubbery that lined the walls. The street lights
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: located outside of the maze provided enough light for you
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: to see your surroundings. However, it was still dark enough
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: to obscure the details of objects and people. I feel
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: that I needed to point that out because from my
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: hiding spot, I could see the corridor that I entered from.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: After about a minute, I watched a dark figure emerge
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: from the shadows and make its way in front of
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: the statue. I remember thinking how awesome it would be
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: if the statue came to life and helped me out
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: of this situation, but that thought quickly faded when the
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: figure made its way directly in front of me. I
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: could now see that it was holding something in its hands.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: I know that I said that you really couldn't tell
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: any distinguishing features of objects because of the poor lighting. However,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: it was obvious what the figure was holding. Even in
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: the dark. I could make out the distinct shape of
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: a pickaxe. As the figure moved slowly through the area,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I heard what I could only describe as teeth clattering.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: This only disturbed me even more as the dark shadow
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: moved to the other side of the area and disappeared
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: into the opposite corridor. After a few minutes of gathering
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: my wits, I was reasonably sure that if I went
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: back down the way I came, I could backtrack and
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: make my escape. I cautiously moved out from my hiding
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: spot to the corridor. I stopped in my tracks as
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: I heard the sound of metal scraping again. It was
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: coming from the opposite corridor where the figure had vanished.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Before I could turn to look, I heard that same
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: deep voice cut through the silence.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I see you.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: I turned my head to see the figure running towards me,
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: pick axe raised above its head. That's when I took
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: off through the corridor and frantically made my way through
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: the dark maze. There was no time to navigate through
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: the maze properly, so I just had to guess my
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: way through the labyrinth as a lunatic, with the pick
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: axe closed in behind me. After about five minutes of
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: twists and turns, I finally saw the exit. I tore
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: through the snow covered ground and towards the opening. Just
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: before I crossed the threshold, I heard a loud smash
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: coming from right behind me. I gave a quick glance
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: to see the pick axe lying in the snow by
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: the entrance. What I think happened was that my pursuer
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: saw that I was about to exit the maze and
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: decided to heave his pick axe at me, but missed.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: As soon as I was outside of my grandmother's house,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: I pulled out my phone and called the police, but
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: like with most stories like this, they arrived too late.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Having experienced this myself, I can tell you that this
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: outcome does make sense. My assailant failed to capture or
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: kill me, so I don't think that they would stick
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: around for the police to show up. The officers took
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: my statement and did a thorough search of the area.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: They also had a squad car patrolling through the neighborhood
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: for the rest of that night. I didn't tell my
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: parents or my grandmother what happened until the next day.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: I figured that there was no need to worry them
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: that night. I consider myself to be a pretty level
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: headed person, and that's mainly why I chose to share
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: my story. Situations like this are terrifying, but you have
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: to try to keep your wits about you. If I
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: had lost my composure in that maze, I'm pretty sure
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: that pickaxe would have found its way into my skull.