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3 True Night Shift Alone at Work Horror Stories | Vol. 5 That Will Keep You Paranoid · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: I own a janitorial business that specializes in cleaning office
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  Speaker 1: buildings for mid to large sized companies. Due to the
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  Speaker 1: nature of the job, we start our shifts at six
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  Speaker 1: pm on weekdays because most offices didn't want us inside
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  Speaker 1: during business hours while their employees were working. So on
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  Speaker 1: this day, I got to the scheduled office building at
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  Speaker 1: six point thirty, putting in the keypad passcode and getting
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  Speaker 1: all my equipment in, then locking the doors behind me.
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  Speaker 1: The building was only two stories, which was smaller than most,
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  Speaker 1: but both floors were really long and there was a
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  Speaker 1: smaller basement level. I started on the second story to
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  Speaker 1: work my way down. I went around, grabbing all the
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  Speaker 1: trash and getting anything off the floors that would get
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  Speaker 1: in my way. Then I tied up the bags and
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  Speaker 1: brought them out to the dumpsters at the back of
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  Speaker 1: the building to toss them. While I was out there, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I saw two parked cars. Neither of them were on
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  Speaker 1: But what was really odd about it was that this
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  Speaker 1: was the only nearby building, and supposedly nobody was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be here right now. I just didn't know why
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  Speaker 1: they would be parked out in the back of the
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  Speaker 1: building or where they could even be if not in
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  Speaker 1: their cars. I went back inside and just double checked
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  Speaker 1: that all the doors were locked up, then continued with
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  Speaker 1: my work. Occasionally I checked out the windows to see
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  Speaker 1: if there were any changes with the cars out there,
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  Speaker 1: but it was the same. I finished up with the
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  Speaker 1: top floor and moved my way down to the first floor,
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  Speaker 1: doing the same process, but this time, when I went
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  Speaker 1: out to toss the trash in the dumpster, I noticed
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  Speaker 1: a single light was on in one of the cars.
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  Speaker 1: Almost as soon as I stepped out, though it turned off.
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  Speaker 1: This made me uneasy, so I quickly everything and went
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  Speaker 1: back in. Seeing that someone was actually in there made
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  Speaker 1: it a lot more odd. I tried to work faster,
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  Speaker 1: finishing the floor by eleven PM, which was much quicker
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  Speaker 1: than the previous. Then it was just the small basement
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  Speaker 1: level and I'd be done. I moved everything down and
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  Speaker 1: got to work. This level was mostly full of boxes.
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  Speaker 1: It was more of a storage warehouse area. While I
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  Speaker 1: was down there, I heard a thud at go through
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  Speaker 1: the building. It came from one of the floors above me,
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  Speaker 1: so I couldn't tell much of what the sound was
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  Speaker 1: or where on those floors it sounded from. I put
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  Speaker 1: down my things and started walking up the steps, but
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  Speaker 1: stopped halfway through when I heard voices coming down the
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  Speaker 1: upper hallway, two men talking back and forth at a
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  Speaker 1: regular volume, like they weren't even afraid of me being
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  Speaker 1: in here. I started to back down the stairs and
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  Speaker 1: moved behind some of the boxes, then dialed nine one one.
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  Speaker 1: Before I had a chance to say anything, though, footsteps
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  Speaker 1: began making their way down to the basement. I only
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  Speaker 1: saw the man's shadow on the wall before I completely
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  Speaker 1: hid myself behind the shelf of boxes. I heard him
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  Speaker 1: walk around a little bit, then yell upstairs to the
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  Speaker 1: other man, No, I don't see anyone. I think we're good.
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  Speaker 1: He walked up the steps and I peered out one
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  Speaker 1: more time, seeing his shadow again, but I could tell
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  Speaker 1: he was holding something small in his hand, which just
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  Speaker 1: made me even more scared than I already was. I
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  Speaker 1: reconnected with nine one one and explained what I could,
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  Speaker 1: then waited there for several minutes. During this time, I
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  Speaker 1: think the men were mostly on the top floor, but
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  Speaker 1: then they moved back to the first and suddenly one
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  Speaker 1: of them yelled, their van is still here. Both of
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  Speaker 1: their footsteps started rushing around, but not leaving they were
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  Speaker 1: looking for me. It was hard to control and quiet
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  Speaker 1: my breathing hearing them running throughout the building and moving
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  Speaker 1: things around right above me. Then heavy footsteps rushed down
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  Speaker 1: the basement stairs as one of them started tossing boxes
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  Speaker 1: around and looking everywhere. But the faintest sound of sirens
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  Speaker 1: approaching caught the other man's attention, who alerted the one
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  Speaker 1: in the basement, and both of them ran away. I
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  Speaker 1: stayed hidden until an officer came down to get me.
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  Speaker 1: It only took two hours for the two suspects to
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  Speaker 1: get caught. They declined to share why they'd broken in,
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  Speaker 1: but a few stolen items were found in their cars.
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  Speaker 1: It's safe to say they weren't the smartest, as they
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  Speaker 1: seemed to just guess whether I'd left, rather than just
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  Speaker 1: starting by looking for my van to see if I
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  Speaker 1: was there. Regardless, them not leaving after finding out I
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  Speaker 1: was inside was probably the scariest thing I'll ever experience,
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  Speaker 1: but thankfully I don't have to know what would have
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  Speaker 1: happened if they found me. I've been a police officer
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  Speaker 1: for my county for almost a decade. I've seen some
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  Speaker 1: crazy and disturbing things, sometimes making me question why I
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  Speaker 1: even chose this career path. But what happened on this
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  Speaker 1: night still sticks with me and is often the event
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  Speaker 1: that I think about the most. It was nearing the
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  Speaker 1: end of winter, but where I'm located it stays cold
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  Speaker 1: until about mid spring. This night, I was set to
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  Speaker 1: be on patrol of the major highway for most of
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  Speaker 1: my shift. On a typical night, I would probably stop
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  Speaker 1: two or three cars for speeding and otherwise wouldn't do
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  Speaker 1: much else. Sometimes a call for backup would come in,
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  Speaker 1: but usually patrol shifts were the most boring and uneventful.
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  Speaker 1: I was driving along the highway doing the usual circle
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  Speaker 1: until about two am, when I passed a car on
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  Speaker 1: the side of the road that wasn't there before. Its
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  Speaker 1: lights were off and it was far on the shoulder
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  Speaker 1: of the highway, so I didn't see it until I
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  Speaker 1: was already passing it. I turned off the next exit
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  Speaker 1: and made an entire circle, taking fifteen minutes before I
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  Speaker 1: got back to where I'd seen it. I was under
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  Speaker 1: the assumption it was just an abandoned, broken down vehicle
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  Speaker 1: that maybe I didn't notice before, so I wasn't in
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  Speaker 1: a rush. I pulled in behind it, parking about fifteen
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  Speaker 1: feet away and leaving my headlights on. I called into
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  Speaker 1: report that I was investigating a presumably empty vehicle on
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  Speaker 1: the southbound highway. Then I got out with my flashlight
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  Speaker 1: and walked up to the car. My first impression was
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  Speaker 1: of how old it was. It looked like something from
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  Speaker 1: the nineties and was rusted all over, along with deents
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  Speaker 1: and scratches. I walked up to the driver's side window
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  Speaker 1: and held my flashlight up. Nobody was inside, but as
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  Speaker 1: I shined it around, I happened to notice some really
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  Speaker 1: worrying signs. There was a pile of clothes in the
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  Speaker 1: back seat, looking like they belonged to a young woman,
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  Speaker 1: but the way they were scattered around just didn't look right.
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  Speaker 1: I moved around to the other side of the vehicle,
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  Speaker 1: but a faint sound from behind me caught my attention.
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  Speaker 1: I quickly turned and pointed my flashlight out into the
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  Speaker 1: woods surrounding the highway, and immediately the sound stopped, but
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  Speaker 1: I had heard enough to know that it was footsteps.
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  Speaker 1: Someone was walking out there, maybe even watching me. I
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  Speaker 1: yelled out, directing them to move into the light with
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  Speaker 1: their hands raised. A moment passed, then I yelled again,
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  Speaker 1: but it was silent. I felt my heart beating in
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  Speaker 1: my chest as I called in to update on the
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  Speaker 1: situation and get back up to come. I stood there,
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  Speaker 1: staring into the woods and honestly fearing for my life.
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  Speaker 1: If something had happened here, there would be reason for
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  Speaker 1: whoever was out there to try and stop me from
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  Speaker 1: finding out. I held up my firearm and moved further
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  Speaker 1: behind the car, still keeping an eye on the tree line,
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  Speaker 1: but not exposing my whole body. The next five minutes
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  Speaker 1: were brutally nerve wracking, but finally another officer pulled onto
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  Speaker 1: the scene, and right away I heard footsteps renting further
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  Speaker 1: into the woods. We immediately got to searching the vehicle,
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  Speaker 1: and it was clear that something was going on, but
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  Speaker 1: searching the woods in the middle of the night, while
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  Speaker 1: someone likely dangerous was out there was not a safe option.
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  Speaker 1: Along with indicators of violence, we found an empty AMMO package,
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  Speaker 1: so it's also likely that they had a firearm on them.
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  Speaker 1: Knowing someone was out there watching me the whole time,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even having me in the sights of their weapon,
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  Speaker 1: is one of the most unnerving feelings even to just
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  Speaker 1: think about. The following day, we were able to get
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  Speaker 1: more information and run a more thorough investigation, but the
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  Speaker 1: car was untraceable, and although some shoe prints were found
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  Speaker 1: in the woods, they faded out pretty quick without any direction.
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  Speaker 1: What really happened that night still remains an open case
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  Speaker 1: with no leads on suspects or victims, which now has
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  Speaker 1: just left me unable to stop thinking about it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a twenty four year old male, and a few years
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  Speaker 1: ago I picked up a job at a local grocery store.
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  Speaker 1: I was doing community college and just wanted some money
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  Speaker 1: to help pay for food and going out with friends.
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  Speaker 1: After a couple months of working there, I started to
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  Speaker 1: get used to the regular customers that came in a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Most of them were nice or otherwise just average people,
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  Speaker 1: but this one guy always had something weird about him.
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  Speaker 1: He came in most nights around nine, which was an
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  Speaker 1: hour before closing, and would walk around the store for
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  Speaker 1: a long time before eventually getting one or two items
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  Speaker 1: and checking out. For how long he would spend walking
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  Speaker 1: around almost every night, it was really weird that he'd
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  Speaker 1: only end up with a couple things. He didn't never
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  Speaker 1: talk much, but I had assumed he was living on
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  Speaker 1: the streets or out of his car, and that would
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  Speaker 1: explain why he only got a few things. His clothes
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  Speaker 1: were never clean, and he just looked unkempt all around. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: this went on for several weeks, if not months. I
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  Speaker 1: never thought too much on it after a while because
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  Speaker 1: it was such a normal part of work now. But
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  Speaker 1: then one night he came in as usual, but instead
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  Speaker 1: of walking around the store, he came right up to
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  Speaker 1: the register I was at. I asked if he needed
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  Speaker 1: help with anything, and the man just looked at me
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  Speaker 1: for a second before asking if I drove the old
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  Speaker 1: Toyota that was out in the parking lot. Immediately, I
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  Speaker 1: found it a bit weird that he would know that,
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  Speaker 1: but I said yes because I didn't see where this
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  Speaker 1: was going. I thought maybe there was something wrong with
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  Speaker 1: my car, but the man kept his straight face and
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  Speaker 1: walked away from the register. Obviously, this was really weird,
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  Speaker 1: so I asked my coworker to watch over the registers
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  Speaker 1: for a moment. Then I went to the front of
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  Speaker 1: the store and looked out into the parking lot. My
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  Speaker 1: car was right where I'd parked it and didn't seem
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  Speaker 1: to have anything wrong with it. I went back inside
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  Speaker 1: and to the register, thinking I would just ask the
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  Speaker 1: man when he came to check out, but he never did.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know when he left, but the store closed
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  Speaker 1: without him ever coming to the register like he usually would.
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  Speaker 1: That night, when I left, I checked all around my
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  Speaker 1: car and nothing seemed off. It left me just confused.
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  Speaker 1: The next day, I planned again to ask the man,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't come in. For the next whole month,
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  Speaker 1: the man never showed up again. I was just left
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  Speaker 1: to wonder about why he asked about my car, seemingly
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  Speaker 1: out of nowhere and for no reason. Then on a
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night, I clocked out of work. As usual, this
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  Speaker 1: was the one night of the week where I'd be
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  Speaker 1: the only cashier, so at the end of the night
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  Speaker 1: I always left by myself. But when I began walking
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  Speaker 1: through the parking lot toward my car, I got this
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  Speaker 1: really strange feeling in my gut. Maybe I just remember
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  Speaker 1: it wrong, or maybe there really was some intuition about something,
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  Speaker 1: but I just felt that something was off. I walked
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  Speaker 1: quickly and got my car, glancing around the parking lot,
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  Speaker 1: it was pretty much empty and had nothing to give
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  Speaker 1: me reason to believe something was wrong. I turned my
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  Speaker 1: car on and just before I put it in drive,
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  Speaker 1: I heard the slightest sound from right behind me. Then
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  Speaker 1: out of the corner of my eye, I saw something
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  Speaker 1: move in the mirror that was facing my back seat.
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  Speaker 1: I left the car running as I said, sprinted out
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  Speaker 1: and stood a few spaces away from my car, looking
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  Speaker 1: back at the window of the back seat and seeing
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  Speaker 1: a figure moving around. I turned and ran for the store,
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  Speaker 1: going back in and calling the police. By the time
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  Speaker 1: they arrived, my car was empty. There were no signs
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  Speaker 1: of forced entry either, so they had to have some
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  Speaker 1: illegal key copy or I'd have to have left the
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  Speaker 1: doors unlocked by accident. I'm fairly certain it was the
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  Speaker 1: strange man from weeks ago, but I didn't know why
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  Speaker 1: if it was him, though, maybe he had been trying
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  Speaker 1: to get in for the entire month that I hadn't
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  Speaker 1: seen him and was waiting for me to forget to
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  Speaker 1: lock the doors. I do think that I locked them
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  Speaker 1: that night, but every once in a while I probably
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  Speaker 1: forget without even knowing, so I can't write it off completely. However,
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  Speaker 1: the man that was back there clearly wasn't trying to
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  Speaker 1: just rob the car, and even tried to stay hidden
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  Speaker 1: after I'd gotten in and turned it on. It's horrifying
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  Speaker 1: knowing that I was so close to having left that
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  Speaker 1: parking lot and driving away unknowingly with him in the
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  Speaker 1: back seat. And once we were gone, who knows what
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  Speaker 1: would have happened. They might have waited until I pulled
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  Speaker 1: into my house, or I might have never even gotten
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  Speaker 1: home that night.