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5 Housemate/Neighbor Horror Stories That Will Make You Fear Your Neighbors · True Horror Stories

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Speaker 1: I'm a female living in New England. This took place
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Speaker 1: several years ago in a decent neighborhood. The day before
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Speaker 1: my tenth birthday, I was arriving home with my mother
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Speaker 1: and my younger brother from one of his soccer games.
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Speaker 1: When we pulled in, my brother noticed a yard sale
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Speaker 1: next door. This house was run down. Apparently some police
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Speaker 1: activity went on there before I was born, but that
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Speaker 1: was over with now right. A man walks up to
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Speaker 1: us and introduces himself. We'll call him Ray. Now. Ray
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Speaker 1: was renting from the woman who owned the place. Basically,
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Speaker 1: this woman had a house with four bedrooms, one for her,
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Speaker 1: one for her disabled son, and the other two rooms
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Speaker 1: were rented out. Ray seemed nice. He played a bit
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Speaker 1: of soccer on the sidewalk with my younger brother and
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Speaker 1: spoke kindly with my mother. He looked a bit trashy,
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Speaker 1: but I didn't care. I just wanted to go inside
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Speaker 1: and place some minecraft, not thinking much about the ordeal.
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Speaker 1: That was in October. A few months later, in late January,
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Speaker 1: I was barely awake when my dad came into my
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Speaker 1: room and picked me up out of bed and carried
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Speaker 1: me to the master bedroom, where my mom and brother
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Speaker 1: were The master bedroom is the furthest room away from
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Speaker 1: the house next door. I didn't like being disturbed, so
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Speaker 1: I ran back to my bedroom. My dad then yelled
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Speaker 1: at me, saying that there were police next door and
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Speaker 1: that I should go back into the other room. I
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Speaker 1: did as I was told. I was scared. Apparently, Ray's
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Speaker 1: X had gone over to the house to pick up
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Speaker 1: some of her things, and she brought her new boyfriend
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Speaker 1: along with her. Ray started stabbing the boyfriend and the
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Speaker 1: police recalled, guns drawn and all. I thought that was
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Speaker 1: a one time instance and that we would be safe
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Speaker 1: after that. March rolls around. My mom picked me up
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Speaker 1: from school as usual. My brother was staying after school
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Speaker 1: for some guitar lessons. She would get him later. I
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Speaker 1: threw my backpack in the trunk, and I asked her
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Speaker 1: why there were so many suit cases back there. She
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Speaker 1: cheerfully explained that we were staying at a hotel for
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Speaker 1: the night. We drove around town, and finally she said
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Speaker 1: my dad would take me back home, and suddenly we
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Speaker 1: were no longer staying at a hotel. I thought all
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Speaker 1: of this was very strange. I came home with my dad.
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Speaker 1: I noticed that there was police tape on our lawn.
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Speaker 1: My dad said that they had found drugs in Ray's house.
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Speaker 1: That comment didn't really settle in until later. The full
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Speaker 1: story was Ray was doing p c P on his
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Speaker 1: front steps, so when noticed and called the cops. The
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Speaker 1: police came half chased Ray into the next town over
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Speaker 1: investigated the house. An officer picked up a package with
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Speaker 1: and immediately begins to have a bad reaction. A biohazard
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Speaker 1: unit had to be called, and they found a drug
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Speaker 1: lab inside the house. The police advised my parents to evacuate.
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Speaker 1: It turns out it wasn't meth, so we could come back,
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Speaker 1: but he was manufacturing PCP right next door. My mom
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Speaker 1: arrives home with my brother a few hours after me
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Speaker 1: and dad, and that's when reality sets in. I had
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Speaker 1: an anxiety attack. I couldn't eat, and I sat behind
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Speaker 1: our couch using it as a makeshift bunker. I couldn't
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Speaker 1: get any sleep on that night. After Ray was released
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Speaker 1: from jail, he goes right back to his illegal lifestyle.
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Speaker 1: Apparently the evidence room was tampered with so he couldn't
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Speaker 1: be convicted. Meanwhile, my family has bought a new house,
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Speaker 1: a large dog, security cameras, and plenty of weapons. My
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Speaker 1: brother and I were already attending therapy, but now our
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Speaker 1: sessions happen to be more frequent. We would be moving
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Speaker 1: out in two months. During this time, Ray would watch
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Speaker 1: us from his back porch, just sitting there and staring
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Speaker 1: at us. My dad confronted him once and Ray started
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Speaker 1: shouting death threats at him, which upset me even more.
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Speaker 1: The day we moved, Ray let his pit bull loose.
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Speaker 1: It was in the evening and he didn't know that
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Speaker 1: we had already left. He just knew it was around
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Speaker 1: the time that we usually walked our dog. A month
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Speaker 1: after moving out, Ray strolled into a local food store.
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Speaker 1: Jacked up on PCP, he tried to kidnap a small child. Thankfully,
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Speaker 1: the kid's parents noticed. Ray dropped the child and tried
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Speaker 1: to hide, but the police eventually caught up with him.
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Speaker 1: But here's a real kicker. He was released from jail
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Speaker 1: a month later because the cells were too full, no transfers, nothing.
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Speaker 1: It was like he was acquitted of all charging in
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Speaker 1: legal terms. I'm not sure what the outcome of this
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Speaker 1: whole ordeal was. But if he was capable of kidnapping,
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Speaker 1: what could he have done to me or my younger brother.
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Speaker 1: I have pushed this from the back of my mind
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Speaker 1: in the past couple of months because any activity has
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Speaker 1: seemingly stopped. Yet somehow I knew this silence was too
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Speaker 1: good to be true, and eventually we would hear from
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Speaker 1: him again. Sooner or later. It all started a few
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Speaker 1: months ago a guy messaged me on Facebook, and unlike
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Speaker 1: the usual creepy messages, I get, this one sounded intelligent
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Speaker 1: and funny. We started chatting from time to time, talking
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Speaker 1: about anything and everything. He said. He was divorced with
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Speaker 1: one child, and I kind of empathized every time he
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Speaker 1: would complain about his ex wife, even though it also
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Speaker 1: kind of bothered me that he would tell all of
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Speaker 1: these personal details to a virtual stranger. After all, no
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Speaker 1: matter what happened be between them, she was still the
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Speaker 1: mother of his kid. Please have some respect. We continued
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Speaker 1: chatting and I'm getting more relaxed. We were at the
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Speaker 1: stage where we would often discuss our daily lives, and
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Speaker 1: inevitably I talked about my best friend, with whom I'm
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Speaker 1: extremely close with. We were like sisters, but at that
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Speaker 1: particular time, she was very busy with changes happening at
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Speaker 1: her work. She was also having issues with the guys
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Speaker 1: she had met, and things were complicated, and she promised
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Speaker 1: me that she would explain everything in detail when there
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Speaker 1: was more time to meet. Now keep in mind that
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Speaker 1: under normal circumstances, I would have known every little detail
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Speaker 1: about it, but as it happened, then there wasn't sufficient
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Speaker 1: time to properly see each other and talk, so I
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Speaker 1: only knew the basics, no names or pictures, etc. So
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Speaker 1: I'm talking to for the sake of the story, we'll
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Speaker 1: just call him Jake, and I'm beginning to notice that
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Speaker 1: every time we have a conversation, he would casually direct
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Speaker 1: the discussion towards my best friend, we'll call her Jenna.
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Speaker 1: I have mentioned to him that we've known each other
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Speaker 1: since we were babies and practically grew up together, so
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Speaker 1: he would always ask me to tell him funny stories
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Speaker 1: about our childhood in our teenage years, then proceeded inquiring
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Speaker 1: about what she's like now and what kind of guy
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Speaker 1: she goes for, etc. I would jokingly ask if he
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Speaker 1: got tired of me, would he want her number? But
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Speaker 1: he would deflect with awkward humor, so I didn't really
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Speaker 1: read too much into it. Some time had passed and
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Speaker 1: things are a bit calmra at Jenna's work, so we
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Speaker 1: finally got a chance to meet it for drinks. Inevitably,
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Speaker 1: we start talking about Jake. I told her about him,
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Speaker 1: and she's smiling and nodding until I take out my
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Speaker 1: phone and show her his pictures. Her face goes pale.
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Speaker 1: She grab my phone and says, this is him. This
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Speaker 1: is the guy I told you about. At first, I
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Speaker 1: assumed that she was joking. She is prone to messing
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Speaker 1: with me, but she looks dead serious, so I began
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Speaker 1: asking questions. It turns out she met him on her
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Speaker 1: dating app and when they talked, she was under the
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Speaker 1: same impression that I was, that he was smart, charming,
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Speaker 1: and cultured, so when he eventually asked her out, she
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Speaker 1: gladly accepted. They went out, had some drinks and talked,
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Speaker 1: and everything was fine until by the end of the evening,
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Speaker 1: when he got a bit too grabby with her and
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Speaker 1: was insistent for more than just a good night kiss.
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Speaker 1: He offered to drive her home, even though she had
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Speaker 1: taken her own car there, and suggested that he could
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Speaker 1: pick her up in the morning and they could go
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Speaker 1: back together and get her car. Since Jenna didn't want
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Speaker 1: him to know where she stayed. She was annoyed by
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Speaker 1: his advances, she refused and managed to escape him somehow.
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Speaker 1: She told me that she was afraid that Jake would
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Speaker 1: follow her home, so instead she went to a bar
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Speaker 1: where a friend of hers worked at. The Next day,
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Speaker 1: he called her and apologized for his behavior, blaming it
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Speaker 1: on the alcohol and the stress from his job, and
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Speaker 1: then told her that he had to admit something to
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Speaker 1: her because he really liked her and wanted to be honest.
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Speaker 1: She agreed and they met up again. That's when he
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Speaker 1: admitted that he was actually in the process of getting
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Speaker 1: a divorce but hadn't filed for it yet, and he
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Speaker 1: was still living with his wife and the small child
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Speaker 1: because she didn't have a job and he couldn't just
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Speaker 1: leave her alone. This was only a temporary thing until
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Speaker 1: she got financially stable. Jinna, being the blunt girl that
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Speaker 1: she is, called bullshit on his story and accused him
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Speaker 1: of being yet another married man out to cheat on
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Speaker 1: his wife and using false excus uses for sympathy. The
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Speaker 1: guy worked in sales, so he was really smooth talking
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Speaker 1: and convincing, so I don't know how he managed to
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Speaker 1: appease her doubts, at least to the point of not
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Speaker 1: cutting him off right then and there. But some time
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Speaker 1: passes and he chants to her own line, calls her
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Speaker 1: and they talk, but Jenna tells him that the only
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Speaker 1: way that they would ever be intimate with each other
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Speaker 1: is that she sees proof that he is actually divorced
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Speaker 1: and lives separately from his ex wife. One day, he
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Speaker 1: calls her up and tells her that he will put
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Speaker 1: his wife on the phone to prove even though they
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Speaker 1: live together, they sleep in separate rooms and are technically separated.
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Speaker 1: A woman's voice actually confirms that, but this leaves Jenna
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Speaker 1: more puzzled than reassured. She's conflicted because despite everything, she
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Speaker 1: really likes this guy why, and is therefore worried not
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Speaker 1: to get herself into a mess if she falls deeper.
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Speaker 1: She still hesitant to accept his invitations to meet, so
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Speaker 1: one day he m accidentally walks past her workplace at
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Speaker 1: exactly the time she's done with her shift. What are
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Speaker 1: the chances, right, she agrees to. You'll grab a drink
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Speaker 1: with him as long as they act platonic, he promises,
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Speaker 1: and apparently that is also when she tells him more
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Speaker 1: about her life, childhood, et cetera, and that's where I'm
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Speaker 1: brought up. In that conversation, he listens to her carefully,
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Speaker 1: and when she compares both timelines, it turns out a
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Speaker 1: few days after that, Jake begins to message me on Facebook.
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Speaker 1: We were both livid, so we decided to confront him
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Speaker 1: separately and then compare notes. When I got back home,
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Speaker 1: I texted him asking why he had lied to me
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Speaker 1: about being divorced when he was clearly still living with
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Speaker 1: his family, and more importantly, why he even started talking
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Speaker 1: to me when he was apparently seeing my best friend.
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Speaker 1: He was unprepared for that, but he bounced back and
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Speaker 1: gave me some bullshit excuse about how he was just
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Speaker 1: curious about me when he had heard so much from
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Speaker 1: Jenna and wanted to see what I looked like. So
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Speaker 1: he went through her Facebook friends and found me. Mind you,
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Speaker 1: she hadn't added him on Facebook, so he basically stalked
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Speaker 1: her profile to gather that information, just like when she
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Speaker 1: didn't tell him exactly where she worked, yet he had accidentally,
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Speaker 1: by some miracle, walked past there. When Jenna confronted him,
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Speaker 1: he told her that he was just curious and wanted
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Speaker 1: to hear about her from the person who knows her best.
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Speaker 1: She told him that it was wrong and creepy on
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Speaker 1: so many levels, but he insisted that he had no
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Speaker 1: bad intentions and he just allowed his curiosity to get
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Speaker 1: the better of him, et cetera. When we compared notes
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Speaker 1: after that, Jenna and I just decided to stop talking
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Speaker 1: to him altogether. Because this guy was clearly a pathological
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Speaker 1: liar and also extremely creepy. We each tell him that
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Speaker 1: we don't want to talk to him or see him
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Speaker 1: ever again, and even though he was shocked and tries
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Speaker 1: to convince us otherwise, he eventually accepts that and says
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Speaker 1: that if we ever change our mind, we'll be happy
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Speaker 1: to talk. We think it's ober. Oh how naive we were.
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Speaker 1: At first he seemed to take it well, but then
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Speaker 1: he would again quote accidentally send a picture or message
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Speaker 1: that was intended for somebody else but mistakenly sent it
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Speaker 1: to me or Jenna so we could initiate a conversation.
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Speaker 1: He would attempt to ask her or me out again
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Speaker 1: and get denied, and then retreat it again until the
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Speaker 1: next message or call. Then the random bumping into each
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Speaker 1: other ensued whenever we would go out on my way
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Speaker 1: to work, or to the market, to the cafe, or
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Speaker 1: Jenna's jem he would be there. Of course, all of
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Speaker 1: this was random coincidence. We were more annoyed than scared.
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Speaker 1: At this point. We still thought he was a lying
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Speaker 1: piece of shit, but ultimately harmless, so there wasn't much
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Speaker 1: that we could do except wait it out and hope
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Speaker 1: that he would eventually move on. Wrong. One day, Jenna
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Speaker 1: comes to my place freaked out. She tells me that
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Speaker 1: she was on a date with a new guy and
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Speaker 1: she saw Jake passing by the restaurant she was in,
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Speaker 1: and then later called her in hysterics, screaming at her,
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Speaker 1: Look what you did. I can't get you out of
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Speaker 1: my mind because of you. I got so angry and
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Speaker 1: hit my che child and chased my wife out of
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Speaker 1: the house. She got fed up with him and responded
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Speaker 1: and told him to never bother her again and go
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Speaker 1: seek a therapist because he clearly has issues, and then
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Speaker 1: she blocked him. That creeped us both out, because not
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Speaker 1: only was he not moving on, he seemed to have
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Speaker 1: been escalating and becoming aggressive. I told her that if
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Speaker 1: he calls her again, she should threaten to call the
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Speaker 1: police and report him for being allegedly abusive toward his family.
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Speaker 1: We were in the middle of discussing this when I
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Speaker 1: got a call from an unknown number. I normally don't
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Speaker 1: pick those up, but I was also waiting for a
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Speaker 1: package to be dropped off and thought that it might
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Speaker 1: be the delivery man, but it was Jake. He was
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Speaker 1: crying into the phone, sobbing and pleading with me to
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Speaker 1: convince Jenna to unblock him. That it wasn't fair and
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Speaker 1: I had to help him. He sounded insane. I was
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Speaker 1: shocked to hear him in this state. It was such
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Speaker 1: a contrast to his normally smooth demeanor, so I calmly
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Speaker 1: told him to start acting like a grown man and
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Speaker 1: to calm down. It wasn't my place to convince Jenna
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Speaker 1: of anything after she hadn't made up her mind, especially
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Speaker 1: after him acting crazy and the claims about hitting his
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Speaker 1: child and chasing his wife out. He then told me
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Speaker 1: that he didn't really do that, but just wanted to
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Speaker 1: make Jenna feel guilty and scare her into talking to him.
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Speaker 1: He began to apologize profusely and said that he was
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Speaker 1: at his wits end and didn't know what to do.
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Speaker 1: I told him that he had gone way too far
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Speaker 1: and that if he ever proceeded to contact or stalk
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Speaker 1: us again, we would go to the police. I hung
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Speaker 1: up on him and blocked him as well. The police
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Speaker 1: threat seemed to work, and we haven't heard from him
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Speaker 1: in about two months. But yesterday Jenna and I were
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Speaker 1: at a mutual friend's birthday party and guess who was
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Speaker 1: the birthday girls plus one.
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Speaker 2: This is something that happened back when I was in
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Speaker 2: high school. During that time, I lived at home with
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Speaker 2: my parents and brother. We also had two dogs. Usually
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Speaker 2: just about every day the dogs would be walked. It
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Speaker 2: would either be me, my brother, or my parents walking them.
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Speaker 2: One night, it was probably like eight pm and the
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Speaker 2: sun was setting. The weather was pretty nice though, and
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Speaker 2: the dogs needed to go for their walk. My parents
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Speaker 2: decided to take them and my brother was at his
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Speaker 2: friend's house. I was having a hard time with my homework,
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Speaker 2: so I stayed home alone when they left. When my
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Speaker 2: parents walked the dogs, I never really quite knew how
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Speaker 2: long it would be. Our neighborhood was pretty quiet, but
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Speaker 2: it was also pretty large. There were lots of streets
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Speaker 2: and houses in the general area, and there was also
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Speaker 2: a park not that far away. Sometimes it would be
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Speaker 2: like twenty to thirty minutes for the walk, and other
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Speaker 2: times it would be over an hour. I was up
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Speaker 2: in my bedroom when my parents and told me they
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Speaker 2: were leaving, and I said by from up in my
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Speaker 2: bedroom and then heard them walk out. After that, I
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Speaker 2: tried hard to focus on my homework. It was some
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Speaker 2: math assignment and I just couldn't seem to understand it.
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Speaker 2: I was trying my best to figure it out, though,
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Speaker 2: and I lost track of time. The next thing I knew,
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Speaker 2: I heard the front door downstairs opening. I automatically assumed
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Speaker 2: that it was my parents getting back, and I remained
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Speaker 2: focused on what I was doing. But several moments later
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Speaker 2: I realized that that wasn't right. If my parents were home,
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Speaker 2: I would have heard the dogs with them. The only
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Speaker 2: thing that I had heard when the door opened was
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Speaker 2: somebody walking inside. I never heard my parents' voices, or
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Speaker 2: the dogs or anything. I stopped doing my homework. Then
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Speaker 2: I stood up and walked to the doorway. I listened
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Speaker 2: closely to who was inside of our house. I heard
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Speaker 2: nothing but silence. Now I didn't know what was going on. Clearly,
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Speaker 2: it wasn't either of my parents, and I knew that
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Speaker 2: it wasn't my brother either. I thought about going downstairs
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Speaker 2: to look around, but for some reason, I just felt
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Speaker 2: like that it was a really bad idea. Instead, I
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Speaker 2: quietly shut my door and went back inside of my room.
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Speaker 2: I couldn't really focus any more on school work. I
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Speaker 2: was replaying in my head, hearing the door open and close,
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Speaker 2: and wondering if I had imagined the whole thing looking back.
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Speaker 2: I was starting to question myself. Then out of nowhere,
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Speaker 2: I heard the sound of somebody walking up the stairs.
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Speaker 2: The footsteps reached the top and then started to approach
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Speaker 2: my bedroom. I began to panic and was really scared
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Speaker 2: that whoever it was would go into my room. I
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Speaker 2: did not have a lock on my door, so they
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Speaker 2: would be able to just walk right in if they wanted.
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Speaker 2: When the footsteps reached my room, they walked right past
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Speaker 2: whoever it was was, going to the end of the
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Speaker 2: hallway back. There was a bathroom in my parents' bedroom,
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Speaker 2: as well as the guest bedroom my brothers was right
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Speaker 2: across the hall. I heard whoever it was reach near
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Speaker 2: where my parents' bedroom and the guest bedroom were, and
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Speaker 2: without even giving it much thought, I ran to my doorway,
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Speaker 2: opened it, and sprinted for the stairs. I didn't look
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Speaker 2: at all to see who was actually inside of that house.
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Speaker 2: I felt like this was my best opportunity to get away.
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Speaker 2: When I had raced down the stairs, I ran directly
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Speaker 2: for the front door. I then went outside and started
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Speaker 2: running for the street. I couldn't tell you if whoever
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Speaker 2: was in the house with me when after me or not.
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Speaker 2: My memory of it all is just a blur. When
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Speaker 2: I got back out to the street, I just started
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Speaker 2: jogging until I saw my parents with the dogs. They
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Speaker 2: saw me running and wanted to know what was up.
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Speaker 2: I told them that somebody went inside the house. My
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Speaker 2: dad called the police and we waited a distance away
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Speaker 2: until they arrived. My parents had left the door unlocked
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Speaker 2: after leaving. Our neighborhood was not known to have crime, really,
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Speaker 2: so this was a big deal. The police got there
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Speaker 2: and only then did we return to our house. When
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Speaker 2: we got back, whoever had been inside the house was
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Speaker 2: now gone. They didn't even steal anything. After that experience,
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Speaker 2: we always locked our doors. In the weeks that followed,
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Speaker 2: there were two reports of burglaries just a few blocks away.
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Speaker 2: I think that it was probably the same person. I
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Speaker 2: know a guy was caught in connection with them, but
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Speaker 2: I really don't know if he was the same person
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Speaker 2: who went inside our house or not. I don't really
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Speaker 2: know if there's a way to prove it either. I'm
21:08
Speaker 2: just glad I got out of there when I did.
21:10
Speaker 2: There was no way I was going to stay in
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Speaker 2: the house with the guy just down the hallway from me.
21:14
Speaker 2: That was one of the scariest moments of my life.
21:22
Speaker 2: A strange thing happened to me a couple of years ago.
21:26
Speaker 2: At the time, I lived in an apartment by myself.
21:29
Speaker 2: It was a one bedroom, one bathroom place, and I
21:32
Speaker 2: lived on the second floor of the building. Overall, the
21:35
Speaker 2: apartment was not the nicest and it didn't have that
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Speaker 2: many units in it either. I knew a few of
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Speaker 2: my neighbors, but not all of them. One night, I
21:43
Speaker 2: was at home by myself, like usual. It was some
21:46
Speaker 2: time at night. I really don't know exactly the time,
21:49
Speaker 2: but there was a knock on my door. I walked
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Speaker 2: over and answered it without giving it that much thought.
21:55
Speaker 2: A man was standing there. He was kind of short
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Speaker 2: and had dark brown hair. The man told me that
22:01
Speaker 2: he was my neighbor from down the hallway, and he
22:03
Speaker 2: pointed away to the left. He asked me if he
22:06
Speaker 2: could come inside of my apartment to make a phone call.
22:08
Speaker 2: He said that his WiFi was not working and he
22:11
Speaker 2: didn't have any service on his phone at the time,
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Speaker 2: so without the Wi Fi, he couldn't make any calls.
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Speaker 2: I was not comfortable with this. I told the man sorry,
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Speaker 2: but no. He said that he would be really fast,
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Speaker 2: and I told him that I really couldn't help him.
22:26
Speaker 2: He kind of came across as a little bit sketchy
22:28
Speaker 2: to me for some reason. The man turned to walk
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Speaker 2: away and I closed my door. I was really curious afterwards.
22:35
Speaker 2: I had never seen the man before, and had seen
22:37
Speaker 2: most of the people who lived in the building because
22:39
Speaker 2: it wasn't all that big. I thought maybe the guy
22:42
Speaker 2: would knock on another person's door, and I quietly opened
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Speaker 2: my door and looked around the corner to see him
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Speaker 2: walking away. He walked all the way to the end
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Speaker 2: of the hall and then he went inside of the elevator.
22:52
Speaker 2: I was suspicious that he didn't even live here. At
22:55
Speaker 2: one point or another, I had seen just about every
22:57
Speaker 2: one that lived on my floor. After the man left,
23:01
Speaker 2: I went to one of the windows in my place.
23:03
Speaker 2: I looked out of it and to the guest parking
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Speaker 2: lot where the main doors open up to. Now, there
23:08
Speaker 2: are assigned parking spaces for all the residents, and those
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Speaker 2: are under the building. There's a small guest parking lot
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Speaker 2: with like ten spaces out front. I saw the man
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Speaker 2: leave the building and then walk to an older looking
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Speaker 2: car in the guest parking lot and drive away. He
23:22
Speaker 2: definitely didn't live here, so why would he lie to
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Speaker 2: me and claim that he did. I didn't know, but
23:28
Speaker 2: the fact that he wanted me to let him inside
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Speaker 2: of my apartment kind of creeps me out. He certainly
23:32
Speaker 2: made up the whole story about his WiFi being down
23:35
Speaker 2: and him not having any cell phone service. I'm not
23:38
Speaker 2: sure how he got into the building in the first place,
23:40
Speaker 2: but most likely somebody else let him in when they
23:42
Speaker 2: were entering. After that night, I never saw him again.
23:46
Speaker 2: That pretty much confirmed me that he didn't live there.
23:49
Speaker 2: I'm really glad that I didn't let him inside of
23:51
Speaker 2: my apartment. I'm a female who's currently thirty years old,
24:05
Speaker 2: and this took place late last year. In early November.
24:10
Speaker 2: My fiance and I had just bought a boating company
24:12
Speaker 2: in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. At the time, we lived in
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Speaker 2: LA and because we had bought the company, we had
24:20
Speaker 2: to move to Florida to maintain it. Life was kind
24:24
Speaker 2: of what you'd expect for Florida. It rained a lot
24:28
Speaker 2: and was almost tropical during the summer months. If you've
24:32
Speaker 2: been to Florida or live there, you'll probably relate to
24:35
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Anyway, we had moved into a large,
24:39
Speaker 2: one storied home appropriate for a family of four. We
24:43
Speaker 2: didn't have kids, but the house wasn't too expensive and
24:47
Speaker 2: we needed to find a new place. For the first
24:50
Speaker 2: month or so, the move had been well and we
24:53
Speaker 2: started to adapt to the new environment. In other words,
24:57
Speaker 2: things were going well for the most part. One day,
25:01
Speaker 2: my fiance had gone into the office while I was
25:03
Speaker 2: homesick with the flu. At one point during the day,
25:08
Speaker 2: I remember going into the kitchen to get a snack,
25:11
Speaker 2: to just have something in my stomach. Upon entering the
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Speaker 2: kitchen full of unopened boxes, I for some reason get
25:19
Speaker 2: a weird feeling. It wasn't a bad feeling, but rather
25:23
Speaker 2: a feeling that made me alert or something. You know,
25:27
Speaker 2: that feeling you get when you feel like someone's watching you. Yeah,
25:31
Speaker 2: I had that in spades. I hesitate before looking out
25:36
Speaker 2: the sliding glass door to see someone walking around my
25:39
Speaker 2: vegetable garden. By the looks of it, they looked like
25:43
Speaker 2: a younger adult and all black, wearing a satchel. Now,
25:48
Speaker 2: this house had a gate on the side that only
25:50
Speaker 2: opened if you had the password. However, the password wasn't working,
25:55
Speaker 2: which indicated that he jumped the fence. The thing that
25:59
Speaker 2: really caught my was that he appeared to be pouring
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Speaker 2: something around the garden. My initial instinct was to call
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Speaker 2: my fiancee, but realized that he would get worried and
26:09
Speaker 2: try to take this into his own hands. Without any
26:13
Speaker 2: other options, I pick up the phone to call the police.
26:18
Speaker 2: The operator said they'd try to have someone there soon,
26:20
Speaker 2: but to just stay hidden in the meantime. This person
26:24
Speaker 2: continues to look around the garden as I run to
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Speaker 2: my room and lock my door. All the while I'm
26:31
Speaker 2: on my bed praying to God that he doesn't come
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Speaker 2: inside or break in. Minutes felt like hours before hearing
26:38
Speaker 2: the police sirens from down the road. They got louder
26:42
Speaker 2: as they pulled into my house, where I then heard
26:44
Speaker 2: some sort of commotion going on. Upon going outside, I
26:49
Speaker 2: see four police officers restraining this kid, who appeared to
26:52
Speaker 2: be an older teen. However, he didn't try to get away.
26:58
Speaker 2: He kind of just stood there, accepting his defeat. As
27:02
Speaker 2: I spoke with the police, I then learned a shocking
27:05
Speaker 2: truth I didn't expect to hear.
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Speaker 1: While they were restraining him, they managed to find several
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Speaker 1: traces of liquid mercury, which is what he was using
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Speaker 1: to put in our garden.
27:18
Speaker 2: It was then where I called my fiance, where he
27:20
Speaker 2: had to leave work to come home. Turns out this
27:24
Speaker 2: teenager was actually our next door neighbor's son. Both his
27:29
Speaker 2: parents were devastated and apologizing to us for his actions.
27:34
Speaker 2: While we understood their pain, we ended up filing charges
27:38
Speaker 2: against the Sun for attempted murder. How he got a
27:42
Speaker 2: container of mercury we have no idea. I'm still very
27:47
Speaker 2: thankful I caught him in the act, as I'm not
27:49
Speaker 2: sure if i'd still be writing this had I eaten
27:52
Speaker 2: the vegetables. He was arrested and put in jail for
27:56
Speaker 2: ten years, according to his parents.
27:59
Speaker 1: Later that same day, his parents had told us that
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Speaker 1: their son was innocent and that he was just looking
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Speaker 1: at our garden.
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Speaker 2: Me nor my fiancee wanted to hear it