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Crazed Clowns · Luke's English Podcast

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Speaker 1: This content may not be suitable for all ages. Listener
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Speaker 1: discretion is advised.
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Speaker 2: I get across the tracks, then roughly twenty feet through
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Speaker 2: the pass and I hear a houler.
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Speaker 3: It was more of a whoop, a very demonic and
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Speaker 3: malicious whoop.
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Speaker 4: My heart was racing from the impact and now seeing
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Speaker 4: what I could only assume to be a person.
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Speaker 5: At this point, I was just too scared to even
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Speaker 5: lift a finger. And even though I didn't understand everything
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Speaker 5: that was going on, I knew it wasn't okay.
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Speaker 3: This week.
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Speaker 6: I'm bringing you five true horrifying tales and a listener
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Speaker 6: voicemail that will frighten and disturb. So sit back and
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Speaker 6: listen close as we dive into the horror as we
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Speaker 6: creep along through the spookiest month of the year. I'm
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Speaker 6: here to remind you that next week is our annual
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Speaker 6: Halloween Special, and it's there's one you won't want to miss,
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Speaker 6: so be ready now. Then we open the show with
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Speaker 6: a listener submission from Trevor featuring voice work by Matt Bradford,
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Speaker 6: and we have a run in with the crazy clowns.
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Speaker 2: I was living in a little city in northeastern Utah
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Speaker 2: with my then fiancee on our newborn sun. We live
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Speaker 2: close to my place of work, and since we currently
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Speaker 2: only had one vehicle, I would leave it for her
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Speaker 2: in case of emergency and walk my happy ass to work.
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Speaker 3: Each early morning.
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Speaker 2: Now around this time is when there was the crazy
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Speaker 2: clown shit going on, and random people and clown costumes
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Speaker 2: with weapons were found in crazy places and would chase
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Speaker 2: the people they encountered.
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Speaker 3: In our area.
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Speaker 2: There was a police warning of these crazy clowns being
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Speaker 2: everywhere on Halloween morning, especially in train stations, so as
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Speaker 2: it goes, I had to walk through a train station
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Speaker 2: on my path to work on Halloween morning. I'm aware
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Speaker 2: that these clowns have already been seen nearby more than
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Speaker 2: a couple times. I did my best to prepare myself.
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Speaker 2: I woke up and got ready for work, made sure
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Speaker 2: to grab my biggest knife roughly six inch hunting knife
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Speaker 2: and my baton just in case. I'm walking as quickly
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Speaker 2: as I can, telling myself that everything is okay and
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Speaker 2: there's absolutely no fucking way I'm going to encounter one
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Speaker 2: of these loons. As I approach the train station, my
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Speaker 2: mouth goes dry, my heart beat quickens tenfold, my palms
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Speaker 2: get sweaty, and I grasp the hill to my main
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Speaker 2: line of self defense, my knife. I get to the
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Speaker 2: station and start walking across to continue on my path,
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Speaker 2: scanning back and forth sporadically, thinking I was just moments
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Speaker 2: away from death, but no clowns in any direction. I
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Speaker 2: take a breath of relief, let go of the hilts,
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Speaker 2: and shake my head, telling myself I was stupid for
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Speaker 2: worrying myself like that. I get across the tracks, then
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Speaker 2: roughly twenty feet through the pass and I hear a holler.
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Speaker 3: It was more of a whoop, a very demonic and
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Speaker 3: militia whoop.
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Speaker 2: I had dan near shit myself and froze you, knowing
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Speaker 2: I had to turn around to see whatever made that sound,
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Speaker 2: but couldn't get myself to move.
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Speaker 3: After what felt like a lifetime, I.
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Speaker 2: Was able to turn my head just enough to see
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Speaker 2: not one, but two of these fucking clowns standing behind me.
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Speaker 3: I mean, where the hell did they come from?
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Speaker 2: So I immediately started running as fast as I possibly could.
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Speaker 2: Now I was in steel toe work boots, with a
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Speaker 2: backpack and a water jug in my hold. I wasn't
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Speaker 2: moving fast enough, and they were closing in quick. And
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Speaker 2: one of them had a grizzly mass that looked like
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Speaker 2: a broken faced demon with bright green hair and was
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Speaker 2: holding what appeared to be a machete, and the other
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Speaker 2: looked like the queen from fucking Wonderland, and she was
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Speaker 2: holding a damn sword. Not like a dagger or not
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Speaker 2: like a catana, but I'm talking of full fledged King
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Speaker 2: Arthur Excalibur's sword.
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Speaker 3: I swear to you, I thought I was gonna die.
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Speaker 2: I ran for my life and made it to the
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Speaker 2: entrance of my work just as they were catching up
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Speaker 2: to me. I immediately ran to my boss, out of
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Speaker 2: breath and crying.
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Speaker 3: I told him what just happened to me.
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Speaker 2: He gathered the crew that had already arrived, and as
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Speaker 2: an angry mob would they went together outside, but there
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Speaker 2: were no clowns to be seen. I don't know where
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Speaker 2: they went. Hell, i don't even know where they came from.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure if anything would have happened had they
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Speaker 2: caught me.
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Speaker 3: But to the.
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Speaker 2: Crazy ass people that thought they were clowns roaming the
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Speaker 2: streets at four in the morning, stop doing drugs, and
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Speaker 2: I sincerely hope no one ever meets you again.
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Speaker 1: Are you listening alone? Rather? Brave of you?
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Speaker 6: Up next week, check in with Reddit user Hello World
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Speaker 6: five five five at ten eighteen, featuring voicework by Sarah Thomas,
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Speaker 6: and we learn a valuable lesson about helping strangers.
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Speaker 4: For the purposes of this post, I'm using a throwaway
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Speaker 4: account and will use a fake name. This happened a
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Speaker 4: few days ago while I was on my way home
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Speaker 4: from visiting my friend's house. I was driving on a
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Speaker 4: back road late at night in my Tesla Model three
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Speaker 4: while it was on auto drive. I'll admit that I
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Speaker 4: was not paying attention to the road and I was
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Speaker 4: on my phone while I had my music in the
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Speaker 4: car playing. The ride was okay and chill for a while.
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Speaker 4: But I'm not really sure of other details because I
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Speaker 4: was not paying attention to the time. Out of nowhere,
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Speaker 4: my car immediately braked and made an alarming sound. I
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Speaker 4: was scared shitless and immediately took control of the wheel
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Speaker 4: and looked through the windshield. When I looked, I saw
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Speaker 4: a figure standing inches from my car, barely avoiding being hit.
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Speaker 4: My heart was racing from the impact and now seeing
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Speaker 4: what I could only assume to be a person. They
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Speaker 4: didn't even flinch from the sight of almost being hit.
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Speaker 4: I looked at them for a good ten seconds before
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Speaker 4: I put my car in part and turned on the
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Speaker 4: megaphone to ask them, are they okay. They didn't respond
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Speaker 4: and proceeded to walk near my window. I locked my
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Speaker 4: doors while they were approaching because I was terrified. They
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Speaker 4: asked me if I could roll the window down to
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Speaker 4: speak to them, but I refused and told them that
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Speaker 4: I could hear them from the other side. I then
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Speaker 4: asked them why they were out here all alone in
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Speaker 4: the cold, and they told me that their car had
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Speaker 4: broken down and that they were hoping someone would stop
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Speaker 4: to help them. As they were talking, I got a
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Speaker 4: good look at their face and they appeared to be
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Speaker 4: twenty five, thirty years old. After the small talk they attempted,
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Speaker 4: I told them that I would be calling someone to
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Speaker 4: come assist them with their situation. They weren't happy with
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Speaker 4: that and insisted that I dropped them off to a
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Speaker 4: friend's house who lived nearby. That's when I became really
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Speaker 4: freaked out and suspicious. They had told me they were
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Speaker 4: waiting for someone, and now they needed to be dropped off.
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Speaker 4: I then put my car back into drive and told
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Speaker 4: them again from the window, since the megaphone is not
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Speaker 4: available in park, that I would call someone to come
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Speaker 4: help them. They then tried to reach for the door handle,
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Speaker 4: but I guess they forgot that Tesla handles are embedded
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Speaker 4: into the car. When they did that, I immediately stepped on
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Speaker 4: the pedal and went flying down the road. I didn't
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Speaker 4: even look into my rear view mirror or put the
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Speaker 4: car back into autopilot the whole ride back. I was
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Speaker 4: scared shitless. I just got back onto the main road
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Speaker 4: where I hoped to see cars, and just floored at home.
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Speaker 4: I couldn't get my mind off of it for the
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Speaker 4: rest of the night. I have suspicions that that guy
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Speaker 4: was not alone and that there were other people with them.
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Speaker 4: I pray that they didn't get someone else who wasn't
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Speaker 4: as lucky as me. I will never in my life
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Speaker 4: stop to help some random person ever. Again.
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Speaker 6: Coming up next, we have a listener submission from Sierra
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Speaker 6: featuring voice work by Tanya Ebe and we meet the
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Speaker 6: man they call Logan.
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Speaker 7: My family, mom, stepfather, twin sister, and myself twenty two female,
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Speaker 7: moved to a rural town in Illinois when I was
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Speaker 7: ten years old. My twin sister and I weren't exactly
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Speaker 7: thrilled about the move, and what we heard about the
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Speaker 7: previous owner definitely didn't make settling in any easier. A
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Speaker 7: family friend of the previous owner, who tended the garden
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Speaker 7: out back, told us that the old man who lived there,
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Speaker 7: whose name was Logan, died in the house. Nothing crazy,
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Speaker 7: just old age and health issues, I guess, but it
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Speaker 7: was enough to freak my twin and I out, especially
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Speaker 7: when little, unexplained things started happening around the house. The
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Speaker 7: first time I noticed anything weird was a few months later.
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Speaker 7: I was walking up the basement stairs when I just
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Speaker 7: felt someone staring down at me from the top landing.
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Speaker 7: I froze for a moment, hoping that it was just
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Speaker 7: my ten year old imagination getting the best of me.
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Speaker 7: I booked it up the stairs and back into the house,
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Speaker 7: trying to shake the feeling, but I couldn't stop thinking
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Speaker 7: about it for months. Little things like that happened pretty
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Speaker 7: regularly for about four years, but didn't really escalate until
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Speaker 7: my twin moved out and went to live with our dad.
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Speaker 7: Then it started to get a little creepier. I would
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Speaker 7: be doing the dishes after the sun went down, facing
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Speaker 7: the window that looked out to the back garden when
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Speaker 7: I'd see a person's silhouette in the reflection of the
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Speaker 7: glass standing in the doorway to the spare room. The
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Speaker 7: room didn't have a door, so it was just pitch
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Speaker 7: black beyond the door frame, but this silhouette looked like
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Speaker 7: it was level with it looking out at me. While
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Speaker 7: I finished my chores, I whipped around to see who
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Speaker 7: was behind me, knowing that it wasn't my mother because
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Speaker 7: it was too tall and my stepfather was at work.
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Speaker 7: I told myself that I was freaking myself out. Watching
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Speaker 7: too many creepy pasta videos before bed, or maybe I
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Speaker 7: was just really tired, But deep down I knew that
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Speaker 7: there was someone watching me. More often than not, it
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Speaker 7: kept happening. Every time I was in the kitchen after
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Speaker 7: dark or in the upstairs bathroom. Someone was always watching me.
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Speaker 7: I never felt threatened by it, but it always sent
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Speaker 7: chills up my spine. I always got the feeling that
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Speaker 7: it was an old man, the old owner.
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Speaker 6: Of the house.
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Speaker 7: So eventually I started telling Logan that he was creeping
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Speaker 7: me out and to leave me alone. It worked for
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Speaker 7: a while. The last experiences I had were right before
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Speaker 7: I moved out after graduation, and they're the ones that
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Speaker 7: I think about almost every day. There was a mirror
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Speaker 7: at the end of the hall upstairs, and on the
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Speaker 7: other end was the bathroom. The door was installed wrong
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Speaker 7: or at an angle or something, so it always closed
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Speaker 7: on its own, but stad cracked open so you could
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Speaker 7: just barely see inside. It was early afternoon this particular day,
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Speaker 7: and I had just finished getting ready to hang out
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Speaker 7: with friends, so I was doing whatevery gen Z girl
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Speaker 7: does in her spare time, taking mirror selfies. I was
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Speaker 7: trying to find the right pose for the most epic
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Speaker 7: snapshot of my cute outfit. When something absolutely bone chilling happened.
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Speaker 7: In the reflection of the mirror, I saw someone's shadow
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Speaker 7: cross the bathroom. It was just me and my mom
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Speaker 7: at home, and she was downstairs right below me in
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Speaker 7: the living room watching TV. I sprinted down the stairs
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Speaker 7: and told my mom what I saw, and all she
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Speaker 7: said was, Oh, it's just a logan, with a little
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Speaker 7: laugh and an unconcerned shrug. I avoided the upstairs bathroom
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Speaker 7: at all costs after that, even though my bedroom was
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Speaker 7: about ten steps away from it. The last one isn't
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Speaker 7: the creepiest, but I'm not the only one who experienced it.
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Speaker 7: I'd be up early in the morning, around four or
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Speaker 7: five a m. For work and hear someone clinking something
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Speaker 7: against the bathroom sink, like when a man shaves andps
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Speaker 7: his razor on the sink to get the excess hair
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Speaker 7: off the blades. I heard it often up until the
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Speaker 7: day I moved out, and to this day, my mom
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Speaker 7: and I still talk about it, even though neither of
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Speaker 7: us live there anymore. I tell myself that it wasn't
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Speaker 7: something sinister to make me feel better, but who knows
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Speaker 7: if it was logan or something else. I don't think
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Speaker 7: I want to find out.
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Speaker 6: Next up, we have an anonymous listener voicemail and we
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Speaker 6: potentially meet. It's an old friend, the hat Man.
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Speaker 9: Hey disturbed. I love listening to your guys' podcast. I
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Speaker 9: thought i'd go ahead and submit a story of my
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Speaker 9: own that happened a few years ago at my at
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Speaker 9: one of my grandma's houses. I'm going to get started
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Speaker 9: by saying the way this backyard was set up, because
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Speaker 9: that's where everything mostly takes place. You walk out of
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Speaker 9: the back door, and if you look to the right,
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Speaker 9: there's the gate that leads to the driveway, and if
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Speaker 9: you look to your left, they have their pool. You
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Speaker 9: go forward a little bit more and look to the right,
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Speaker 9: it has like a lounge area that has like a TV,
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Speaker 9: some chairs, and then like a ton of like stuff
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Speaker 9: in there that they're keeping. And then if you walk
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Speaker 9: forward towards the back of the backyard, towards the back,
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Speaker 9: there's like a fire pit, like a really big fire
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Speaker 9: pit with some chairs around it, and then there's a
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Speaker 9: shed that has like wood glass and like tons of tools,
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Speaker 9: and then all of the suspensed off. And the only
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Speaker 9: people that stay there is my grandma, one of her
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Speaker 9: friends and my dad used to stay there for a
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Speaker 9: little bit, and she has two dogs, and one of
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Speaker 9: the dogs is a decently big dog. I don't remember
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Speaker 9: what Breedy is, but he's a mixed breed. And then
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Speaker 9: the other one is the jack Russell. The jack Russell's
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Speaker 9: name is Mason, and then the other bigger dog is Rebel.
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Speaker 9: So they had left me there alone because they were
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Speaker 9: all going to go out to eat and I didn't
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Speaker 9: really want to go with And this was during the summer,
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Speaker 9: so I brought myself suit with so I could swim.
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Speaker 9: And you know, I was swimming until it got decently
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Speaker 9: late and it was getting kind of dark, but she
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Speaker 9: had like lights set up out there so that you're
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Speaker 9: to sleep. And while I was swimming around, I thought
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Speaker 9: I heard something, but I figured it was probably just
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Speaker 9: the dogs because they were sitting around like by the
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Speaker 9: pool and I was splashing someone around the ground so
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Speaker 9: that they could get some since they couldn't really swim,
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Speaker 9: but they liked the water. I went under the water
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Speaker 9: and swim around for a bit, and when I got back,
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Speaker 9: oh and looked at the dogs. They were growling in
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Speaker 9: an attack position and looked really alert while they were
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Speaker 9: staring at the shed that's near the back right of
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Speaker 9: the backyard. I was trying to look over there and
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Speaker 9: see what they're staring at. And I couldn't see anything
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Speaker 9: because it was all dark, so I kind of just
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Speaker 9: kept swimming, but I didn't go under the water in
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Speaker 9: case something happened, and I wanted to at least be
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Speaker 9: able to see. While I was taking the goggles off
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Speaker 9: that I had, they started barking at the back of
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Speaker 9: the shed, like they moved closer. They really little bit closer,
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Speaker 9: and we're just barking, mildly barking, and they were growling.
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Speaker 9: So I went ahead and got out and got a
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Speaker 9: towel to just wrap around me. I was going to
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Speaker 9: bring them back inside until I heard like a twig
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Speaker 9: snap or some of the wood that's behind there. I
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Speaker 9: heard something snap, and when I looked over there, it
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Speaker 9: was that tall figure. It was the top hat guy
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Speaker 9: that a lot of people have seen before, just standing
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Speaker 9: there like peering over the side of the shed like
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Speaker 9: he was looking from behind it, or at least from
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Speaker 9: the side. I screamed and ran back inside the house,
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Speaker 9: along with the dogs like following me in because I
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Speaker 9: was holding onto their collars. And once I got in,
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Speaker 9: I saw that he had moved all the way out
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Speaker 9: from the shed and was just standing there at the
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Speaker 9: back of the yard. So I got in, locked the door,
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Speaker 9: and turned most of the lights off and hid in
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Speaker 9: the living room. And I was debating on calling the cops,
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Speaker 9: but since I already had known what that thing is
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Speaker 9: and it's supposed to be dark energy or bad energy
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Speaker 9: something like that, cops can't help at all. So I
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Speaker 9: just waited and waited and until I thought it was
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Speaker 9: safe enough to at least turn the lights back on.
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Speaker 9: I started hearing a knocking or like a tapping on
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Speaker 9: the backyard door, and this door has one of the
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Speaker 9: screen doors. I opened the screen door up to try
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Speaker 9: and like see out of the people, and I couldn't
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Speaker 9: see him, but I knew he was there because I
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Speaker 9: couldn't see him ayhere else and there was no one
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Speaker 9: home besides me and the dogs, and they weren't supposed
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Speaker 9: to be back until like later. I tried to peer
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Speaker 9: out from one of the windows that was near there,
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Speaker 9: and I still couldn't see him. But as I was
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Speaker 9: walking back to the living room, the dogs were staring
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Speaker 9: at the window by the front door, and they were
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Speaker 9: growling like they were when they were in the backyard,
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Speaker 9: and he was there again. He was staring through that window,
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Speaker 9: but he was decently far away and by the tree
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Speaker 9: that's in the front. He was standing by that and
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Speaker 9: almost peering around it like he was with the shed.
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Speaker 9: So I went on hood and called my dad so
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Speaker 9: that I could tell him, Hey, there's like there's some
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Speaker 9: creepy shit going on. I need you guys to get
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Speaker 9: back I don't really feel comfortable staying here anymore, and
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Speaker 9: by myself. So they got back, and the thing had
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Speaker 9: disappeared a few minutes before they got back. It walked
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Speaker 9: off into like the backyard again, and it wasn't there anymore.
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Speaker 9: And there was always some creepy shit that happened at
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Speaker 9: this house anyway, so it wasn't anything out of the ordinary,
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Speaker 9: because there was a lot of paranormal things that happened.
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Speaker 9: I went ahead and told them all. I told my grandma,
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Speaker 9: her friend, and my dad what happened. The dogs were
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Speaker 9: still a little bit on the watch and on guard
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Speaker 9: for what had happened, but they were calming down. But yeah,
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Speaker 9: that's my story. Hope you enjoyed it.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 6: A couple things on this one, because it might be
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Speaker 6: a new twist on our friend the hat man. You
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Speaker 6: mentioned you heard a twig snap and saw the figure. Now,
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Speaker 6: was this figure solid in nature, that is to say,
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Speaker 6: as clear as you would see any other person, or
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Speaker 6: did it appear to be more of an entity, less solid,
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Speaker 6: transparent or blurred in any way? I think answering that
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Speaker 6: might help clear up things in regards to if this
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Speaker 6: was just an actual person lurking around your property, or
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Speaker 6: if it really was our old pal the hat Man,
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Speaker 6: who has a bit more supernatural element to him and
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Speaker 6: has been mentioned in many cases of sleep paralysis, which
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Speaker 6: clearly isn't the case here. So Anonymous, if and when
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Speaker 6: you hear this, give us a call back on the
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Speaker 6: hotline and let me know how solid this figure really was,
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Speaker 6: and I'll be sure to update everyone on those developments.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 6: Next up, we check in with Reddit user rasell two
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Speaker 6: twenty two, featuring voice work by Addison Peacock, and we
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Speaker 6: have a terrifyingly close call.
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Speaker 5: When I was a kid, my mom worked as a
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Speaker 5: teacher and she was very close to a coworker of
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Speaker 5: hers who had a son around my age and with
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Speaker 5: whom I as well was very close. When my mom
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Speaker 5: or her friend would head out for the night, the
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Speaker 5: other would take care of both of us kids, and
23:36
Speaker 5: basically it meant I spent half my time over there
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Speaker 5: and my friend spent half his time at my house,
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Speaker 5: which was perfect and fun for us. We lived in
23:44
Speaker 5: different cities, but since that kind of system had been
23:46
Speaker 5: going on pretty much since forever, I grew up knowing
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Speaker 5: my friend's city just as well as mine. His mom
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Speaker 5: was well aware of that, so that being said, whenever
23:55
Speaker 5: we were going on a walk in that area, she'd
23:57
Speaker 5: let us wander around because she knew we'd always find
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Speaker 5: our way back to her. My mom, though, was more
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Speaker 5: cautious and always kept an eye on us as she'd
24:05
Speaker 5: walk behind us to make sure she'd always be able
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Speaker 5: to see us. I just wish her friend would have
24:10
Speaker 5: done the same. One day, I had to be around
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Speaker 5: six or seven. We were going on a walk with
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Speaker 5: my friend Marcus and his mom, Katie. It was a
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Speaker 5: very sunny day, and I was wearing a dress with
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Speaker 5: embroidered flowers, and I had my blond, long hair down.
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Speaker 5: I often heard that I was a pretty kid, even
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Speaker 5: from strangers in the street, and besides making me and
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Speaker 5: my parents somewhat uncomfortable, nothing bad ever happened during that walk.
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Speaker 3: Katie was walking.
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Speaker 5: Ahead of us, and I was chatting and just fooling
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Speaker 5: around with Marcus when he suddenly remembered something urgent to
24:41
Speaker 5: tell his mom, as urgent as something.
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Speaker 3: Can be for an eight year old boy.
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Speaker 5: He ran up to her and left me strolling behind
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Speaker 5: for a couple of minutes, just as had already happened
24:49
Speaker 5: one hundred times prior that time.
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Speaker 3: Though.
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Speaker 5: We were circling around a big camping site, and we
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Speaker 5: walked by the white vans and camping cars. One of
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Speaker 5: those vands had its back doors open, and there was
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Speaker 5: a man probably in his mid forties, smoking a cigarette
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Speaker 5: and leaning on the vehicle. He locked eyes with me
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Speaker 5: as I was approaching, then saw that Katie and Marcus
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Speaker 5: weren't paying much attention to me, as they were already
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Speaker 5: a couple of meters ahead. Then he proceeded to pull
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Speaker 5: me by my arm close to him, and so I
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Speaker 5: found myself with my body touching his. So weird it
25:22
Speaker 5: out that I didn't even say a word, although I
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Speaker 5: knew Katie would have heard me if I called for help.
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Speaker 5: He leaned toward me, as he was obviously much taller
25:31
Speaker 5: than I was muttering something I didn't get, and he
25:34
Speaker 5: winked at me and kissed me on the lips, and
25:37
Speaker 5: then pulled me to the open doors of his van.
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Speaker 5: At this point, if he had pushed me just a little,
25:42
Speaker 5: I would have fallen in the truck. At this point,
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Speaker 5: I was just too scared to even lift a finger,
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Speaker 5: and even though I didn't understand everything that was going on,
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Speaker 5: I knew it wasn't okay. He put his hands on
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Speaker 5: the doors as if to close the vehicle, and I
25:55
Speaker 5: felt my heart sink. At that exact moment, some other
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Speaker 5: man jawed toward us, in his forties as well, leaving
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Speaker 5: hello to me and saying something along the lines of
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Speaker 5: I lost sight of you for a bit. I was
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Speaker 5: so so scared. He had a very friendly look on
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Speaker 5: his face and was staring at me with great insistence
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Speaker 5: and with a huge reassuring smile, and the vanman awkwardly
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Speaker 5: laughed and yanked me out of the way of the car,
26:19
Speaker 5: slamming the door shut. I ran to Katy as I
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Speaker 5: heard the van go off, and just acted as if
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Speaker 5: nothing happened. To this day, I never told that story
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Speaker 5: to anyone, not to Katie or Marcus, not to my mom, nobody.
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Speaker 5: I'm twenty two years old today, so to the friendly
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Speaker 5: guy who obviously didn't lose sight of me or whatever,
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Speaker 5: but just probably saw everything and wanted to interfere. From
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Speaker 5: the bottom of my heart, thank you to the pedophile
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Speaker 5: who surely would have abducted me, and who was strangely
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Speaker 5: okay with kissing a kid in public and in broad daylight.
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Speaker 5: I'm not even in the mood to add anything to
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Speaker 5: what happened, but everyone thinks the same thing as I do.
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Speaker 5: And I wish you hell, and let's not ever meet again,
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Speaker 5: though I think I'd be too old for you.
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Speaker 1: Are you terrified yet you will be?
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Speaker 6: And finally, we close out the show with a listener
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Speaker 6: submission from Sydney, featuring voice work by Nicole Dulin, and
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Speaker 6: we get tracked down.
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Speaker 8: My name is Sydney, and I have been listening to
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Speaker 8: the podcast for a while. I am just an average
27:36
Speaker 8: teenager from Indiana, where nothing exciting happens very often, So
27:41
Speaker 8: when this happened to me, I got the attention of
27:42
Speaker 8: a good amount of people in my small town. I
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Speaker 8: want people to hear my story so they can be
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Speaker 8: wary and remember to always be vigilant. On August fifth,
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Speaker 8: twenty fifteen, I was at home alone that evening, while
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Speaker 8: my older sibling was at work and my parents were
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Speaker 8: out on a date, I was in the main living
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Speaker 8: room of my tri level house messaging my friends on
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Speaker 8: my phone at the time. For some backstory on this,
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Speaker 8: previous to the event, I had been getting messages from
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Speaker 8: a man from Canada whom I didn't know on Snapchat.
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Speaker 8: He was twenty three and had been sending me lude messages,
28:17
Speaker 8: but I showed my parents and I blocked him. He
28:20
Speaker 8: kept persisting, though he made multiple other accounts just to
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Speaker 8: harass me. He sent messages like I will go to
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Speaker 8: your house and gut you like a pig if you
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Speaker 8: don't talk to me darling. Seeing all of these messages
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Speaker 8: scared me to death, but eventually he stopped making new
28:36
Speaker 8: accounts and sending threats to me, so I just left
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Speaker 8: it at that. Keep in mind that I stupidly kept
28:42
Speaker 8: my location on at all times on Snapchat and completely
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Speaker 8: forgot about it, so that evening of August fifth, I
28:50
Speaker 8: was just relaxing, texting my friends and taking care of
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Speaker 8: my dogs. But as I was messaging my friends, I
28:56
Speaker 8: received a message saying I'm here for you. It was
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Speaker 8: super weird to me at the time, but now it
29:03
Speaker 8: makes a lot of sense. But either way, it made
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Speaker 8: me super paranoid. So I went up to the front
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Speaker 8: door and locked it, then walked to the front blinds.
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Speaker 8: Before I could close them, though, I froze solid. There
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Speaker 8: was a man in my driveway staring directly at me.
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Speaker 8: I just stood there and stared at him until he moved,
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Speaker 8: and he sure did. He started moving towards the side
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Speaker 8: of my house, and I quickly closed the blinds and
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Speaker 8: went for the back door, locking that too. It was glass,
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Speaker 8: so I was scared that he would get to the
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Speaker 8: back and break it. My dogs were going wild at
29:38
Speaker 8: this point and they weren't going to stop. I tried
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Speaker 8: to hush them, but it didn't work. I was looking
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Speaker 8: down at my dogs when I was trying to hush them,
29:46
Speaker 8: but whenever I looked back up at the glass door,
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Speaker 8: the man was right there. I screamed loudly and stumbled backwards.
29:54
Speaker 8: I was petrified. He started banging on the glass and yelling,
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Speaker 8: let me in love. He was saying it in a
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Speaker 8: loving manner at first, and it treaked me the fuck out.
30:06
Speaker 8: Then he started yelling in an angered tone, open the door,
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Speaker 8: you fucking slut. I will kill you if you don't.
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Speaker 8: When he said that, I immediately just pulled up my
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Speaker 8: phone and took a picture of him. I don't know
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Speaker 8: what made me do this, but the only sense I
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Speaker 8: can make of myself doing that is if I were
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Speaker 8: to get murdered or kidnapped and they couldn't find the
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Speaker 8: person who did it, they could just look through my
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Speaker 8: phone if they had it. But after taking the picture,
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Speaker 8: I immediately called the police. I luckily lived only a
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Speaker 8: few streets away from the police station in my town,
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Speaker 8: so they could get to my house fast. When he
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Speaker 8: saw me on the phone, he ran off somewhere into
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Speaker 8: my backyard and hid. Then I hid. The police arrived
30:46
Speaker 8: shortly after and went into the back They found the
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Speaker 8: man hiding behind my willow tree in the corner of
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Speaker 8: my backyard. They took him in and my family arrived
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Speaker 8: home quickly. I never heard from the man again, and
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Speaker 8: I don't know if he is in jail or not.
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Speaker 8: But either way, to the man who came to my
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Speaker 8: house and threatened me, let's never meet again.
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