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3 Creepy True Airbnb Horror Stories (Vol. 2) · Paranormal Activity

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Speaker 1: Being a relatively young and shy person, I've started using
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Speaker 1: dating apps to help me meet more people and hopefully
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Speaker 1: find a lasting relationship. I struggle with putting myself out there,
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Speaker 1: especially in public with people i've never met, so apps
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Speaker 1: like Tinder are great for me to get comfortable talking
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Speaker 1: with someone before actually meeting them in person. For reference,
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Speaker 1: I'm a female in my early twenties and I've been
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Speaker 1: using Tinder for a little over a year at the time.
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Speaker 1: Most of my interactions up until this point had been fine,
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Speaker 1: usually either ending up dating for a couple months or
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Speaker 1: just becoming friends. All of the breakups had been mutual
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Speaker 1: and had no hard feelings anyway. This began a couple
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Speaker 1: months after my last relationship. I was talking to a
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Speaker 1: guy who while referred to as Peter, for about two
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Speaker 1: weeks on Tinder. From our back and forth texting, he
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Speaker 1: seemed like a nice, somewhat shy person, but part of
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Speaker 1: me like that because I was shy as well. Eventually,
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Speaker 1: he finally asked me out on a date and we
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Speaker 1: met up at a local restaurant later that week. Upon
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Speaker 1: meeting him in person, nothing seemed off at first. One
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Speaker 1: of my biggest fears is that they'll look nothing like
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Speaker 1: they did in the pictures. But Peter didn't look any different,
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Speaker 1: and he was just as soft spoken as he was
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Speaker 1: over text. Our conversation at dinner that night was really awkward,
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Speaker 1: though he barely spoke and kept looking around. Me, not
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Speaker 1: being a big talker either, was trying really hard to
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Speaker 1: get him to open up a bit, but he would
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Speaker 1: give simple, one word answers. At one point, he even
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Speaker 1: left the table, saying he forgot something in his car
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Speaker 1: and didn't come back for almost fifteen minutes, leaving me
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Speaker 1: there alone. So, of course, when dinner was done with
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Speaker 1: I kindly told him that I didn't feel a great
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Speaker 1: connection and didn't want to continue further in a relationship
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Speaker 1: with him. He stood quietly and nod, then walked to
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Speaker 1: his car. I felt bad, but that's just how it was.
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Speaker 1: I got my car and headed home that night. I
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Speaker 1: thought about Peter a few times, feeling weird now that
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Speaker 1: I didn't have anyone to text, but I sat down
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Speaker 1: and turned on a movie to clear my mind. It
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Speaker 1: was nearly eleven PM when I heard soft footsteps coming
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Speaker 1: up to my front door and stopping. I muted the
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Speaker 1: TV and turned to face the door, still sitting on
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Speaker 1: the couch. I was tired, but I knew I had
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Speaker 1: heard someone. Thirty seconds of anticipation went by before a
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Speaker 1: few loud knocks banged on the door. It startled me,
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Speaker 1: even though I was half expecting it. I got up
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Speaker 1: and looked through the peepole, and to my surprise at
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Speaker 1: the time, Peter was standing there. I opened the door
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Speaker 1: a crack and stuck my head out, what are you
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Speaker 1: doing here, Peter. Peter looked at me, then turned away
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Speaker 1: for a moment looking around. This made me feel really uneasy,
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Speaker 1: and I just shut the door and locked it, hoping
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Speaker 1: he'd get the hint to leave my property. After a
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Speaker 1: few seconds, I heard footsteps departing towards the driveway and
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Speaker 1: a car turning on and leaving. I checked the window
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Speaker 1: to make sure he was gone, then sat back on
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Speaker 1: the couch. I think I was just too tired to
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Speaker 1: realize in the shock of the moment, but it wasn't
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Speaker 1: until I sat back down that I realized that I
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Speaker 1: had never given Peter my address. A really bad feeling
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Speaker 1: surged through my body, and I went to check the
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Speaker 1: window again to be safe. I didn't necessarily feel in
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Speaker 1: danger at this point, but just worried that Peter may
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Speaker 1: have something wrong with him and had grown too attached
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Speaker 1: to me. I went to bed not long after and
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Speaker 1: slept well through the night. In the morning, I made
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Speaker 1: coffee and breakfast, and due to the cold, snowy weather,
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Speaker 1: I stayed inside most of the day. It wasn't until
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Speaker 1: I was bringing the trash out to the that I
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Speaker 1: noticed a set of footprints around the side of the house.
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Speaker 1: Following them, they went around both sides of the house
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Speaker 1: and right up to the gate to the backyard, then
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Speaker 1: off to the road. I tried to rethink what happened
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Speaker 1: last night, but I was sure I heard Peter only
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Speaker 1: walk up to the door and not around the house,
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Speaker 1: so these footprints had to have been from the middle
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Speaker 1: of the night while I was sleeping. Standing in my
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Speaker 1: living room now, I was getting extremely uncomfortable and nervous.
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Speaker 1: I know it sounds dumb, but my social anxiety was
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Speaker 1: really trying to look for every reason not to call
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Speaker 1: nine one one at that time. Though I'm very thankful
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Speaker 1: that my panic overtook my anxiety and got me to
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Speaker 1: call the police. This decision is very likely what saved
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Speaker 1: my life. Holding my phone after talking to a dispatcher.
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Speaker 1: I stared at the ground and took deep breaths to
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Speaker 1: keep my head straight. I'd never dealt with something like this.
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Speaker 1: My mind wasn't prepared to handle the stress. But as
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Speaker 1: I stood there trying to calm my head, I heard
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Speaker 1: footsteps in the snow outside the living room window. I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure what else to describe how I felt, other
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Speaker 1: than just completely scared. The footsteps stopped outside the window,
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Speaker 1: and I began to back up, slowly, trying to get
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Speaker 1: to the kitchen. Then came a slight scraping sound, likely
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Speaker 1: a knife being wedged between the window trying to pry
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Speaker 1: it open. It was an unfortunate reaction of mine to
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Speaker 1: scream from the terror of it. Immediately the footsteps ran
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Speaker 1: around to the side of the house, followed by the
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Speaker 1: forceful sound of the gate breaking open. I grabbed the
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Speaker 1: first knife I saw in the kitchen and sprinted upstairs,
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Speaker 1: turning the corner. Though I saw a glimpse of Peter
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Speaker 1: outside the glass back door, trying to force it open.
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Speaker 1: I locked myself in the bathroom, crying and clutching onto
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Speaker 1: the kitchen knife as I listened to the harsh banging
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Speaker 1: scraping and beating on the back door. It sounded like
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Speaker 1: a bear trying to claw and smash its way inside.
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Speaker 1: This went on for maybe two or three minutes, which
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Speaker 1: felt like forever. I thought of all the horrible things
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Speaker 1: he planned on doing when he made his way inside,
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Speaker 1: making me even more emotional. But then a knock at
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Speaker 1: the front door. Overcame the sound of the banging at
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Speaker 1: the back door, which immediately stopped. An officer called out
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Speaker 1: and I ran straight to the front door. While Peter
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Speaker 1: had run off. They were able to find him pretty quickly,
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Speaker 1: and he admitted to his crimes, though he gave little
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Speaker 1: reasoning for doing them. He truly just seemed crazy and unstable.
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Speaker 1: It's terrifying to think how this happened from seemingly meeting
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Speaker 1: up with a normal, friendly guy. This whole thing has
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Speaker 1: given me terrible trust issues, and I stopped using dating apps.
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Speaker 1: One of the scariest things was that the back door
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Speaker 1: was almost completely destroyed, barely hanging on by the latch. Likely,
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Speaker 1: if the police had shown up just minutes later, Peter
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Speaker 1: would have made it inside, and who knows what he
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Speaker 1: would have done if he had gotten to me. I
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Speaker 1: broke things off of my ex a few years ago.
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Speaker 1: He became a reckless person, unable to hold a job
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Speaker 1: or any responsibilities, so it just didn't work out. Even
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Speaker 1: being the person he was, though, I never thought he
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Speaker 1: would do something like this. The few months after the
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Speaker 1: breakup were quiet and peaceful. I was enjoying my single life,
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Speaker 1: just going through the days. One night, though, I was
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Speaker 1: driving back home from work later than usual, and as
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Speaker 1: I pulled into the driveway, I saw a man wearing
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Speaker 1: all black standing outside a window on the left side
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Speaker 1: of my house as if they were trying to look inside.
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Speaker 1: This was obviously really creepy, and I pulled back out
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Speaker 1: of the driveway and parked further down the road, calling
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Speaker 1: the police. I waited for them to show up, then,
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Speaker 1: once they informed me that whoever it was had left,
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Speaker 1: I was able to go inside. They asked if I
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Speaker 1: had any idea who it could have been, but at
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Speaker 1: the time I said no. Again, I never thought of
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Speaker 1: my ex as that kind of person, and there was
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Speaker 1: nobody else I thought it could be. The next week
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Speaker 1: went by without any problems as well, though I made
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Speaker 1: sure all the windows were locked every night. One morning, though,
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Speaker 1: I woke up to the sound of movement outside my
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Speaker 1: bedroom window. It sounded like an animal moving around in
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Speaker 1: a bush, though my immediate thought was of that man
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Speaker 1: I'd seen peering through the windows last week. I jumped
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Speaker 1: out of bed and put some clothes on. The blinds
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Speaker 1: were covering the windows, so I knew nobody could see anything,
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Speaker 1: but now I felt the need to see for myself
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Speaker 1: if somebody was there or not. I didn't want to
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Speaker 1: call the police again just because a squirrel was hanging
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Speaker 1: out in a bush, so I pulled the blinds open. Nothing.
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Speaker 1: I leaned my head closer to the window so I
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Speaker 1: could see down the side of the house, and still
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Speaker 1: nobody was there. I sighed immediately, feeling safer, and continued
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Speaker 1: about my morning as usual, then went off to work,
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Speaker 1: getting home rather late again. I was exhausted and cooked
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Speaker 1: up a small dinner, then watched a bit of TV
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Speaker 1: before deciding to go to bed early. I got up
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Speaker 1: and walked down the hallway toward my bedroom, but in
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Speaker 1: the corner of my eye I saw something horrifying. The
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Speaker 1: window was open, just a small crack at the bottom,
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Speaker 1: but I knew I had kept it locked, so either
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Speaker 1: way someone had broken it. I walked over and looked
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Speaker 1: at it from up close, then pushed it shut. The
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Speaker 1: latch that was used to lock it was gone, as
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Speaker 1: if it had been ripped away. I felt trapped and scared,
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Speaker 1: like I wasn't even in my own home anymore. I
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Speaker 1: knew I had to call the police, but I began
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Speaker 1: to fear, making noise as the possibility of someone being
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Speaker 1: in my house became more prevalent in my mind. I
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Speaker 1: was just standing there for I don't know how long,
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Speaker 1: listening to the silence of the house, before the sharp,
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Speaker 1: sudden sound of my phone beeping made me shiver. I
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Speaker 1: pulled it out of my pocket quickly, and immediately my
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Speaker 1: stomach dropped. It was a text for my ex asking
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Speaker 1: how I was doing. I stared at it, just in
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Speaker 1: shock and trying to piece it together in my mind.
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Speaker 1: Was this just a huge coincidence or was it not
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Speaker 1: a coincidence at all? Was he watching me right now?
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Speaker 1: Fear was taking over my body. I looked around frantically,
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Speaker 1: shoving myself in a corner of the room so nobody
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Speaker 1: could sneak up behind me. Then another text came in.
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Speaker 1: He said, we need to talk. I was trying to
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Speaker 1: hold in my tears as I turned my phone on silent.
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Speaker 1: I started making my way slowly to the front door.
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Speaker 1: As I approached, I turned the knob and tried to
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Speaker 1: open it quietly, though it made a rather loud creak. Immediately,
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Speaker 1: a loud thump came from behind the door to my bedroom.
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Speaker 1: I threw the front door open and sprinted outside and
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Speaker 1: down the road. I hit on the side of a
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Speaker 1: neighbor's house and called the police. They actually made it
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Speaker 1: pretty quickly, and I walked over to my driveway when
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Speaker 1: they arrived. After two officers went in, they came out
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Speaker 1: a minute later, holding my ex and dragging him into
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Speaker 1: their car. He was pleading, saying he just wanted to
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Speaker 1: talk to me and that he knew what he was
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Speaker 1: doing was wrong, but he wasn't going to do anything
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Speaker 1: other than talk to me. Unsurprisingly, though, he had a
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Speaker 1: knife shoved in his pocket. That was hopefully the last
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Speaker 1: time I'll ever see or hear from him again. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: I don't believe that he just wanted to talk, but
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Speaker 1: that was the story he stuck with, so I'll never
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Speaker 1: know what he was actually trying to do. But him
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Speaker 1: waiting in my bedroom like that with a knife, I
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Speaker 1: know I was lucky to get out as safely as
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Speaker 1: I did. A lot of people have ex boyfriend or
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Speaker 1: girlfriend's stories, but mine was actually just a friend. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to call him Brian to keep everything private. We
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Speaker 1: had met my junior year of high school through a
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Speaker 1: mutual friend and had become pretty close relatively fast. We
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Speaker 1: didn't go to the same school, as he lived about
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Speaker 1: a half hour away from me, but we hung out
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Speaker 1: every weekend, got fooed, drove around and just talked. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: we'd go to concerts and parties together too. I'd say
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Speaker 1: we were each other's best friend for a really long time.
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Speaker 1: He's always been a bit weird, though. He'd text me
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Speaker 1: all the time, and I mean sometimes six or seven
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Speaker 1: times in a row if I didn't respond quick enough.
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Speaker 1: But I knew he had a lot going on in life,
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Speaker 1: or so I thought. Me and the mutual friend who
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Speaker 1: introduced us while call Holly, were talking one night, and
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Speaker 1: she said she thought he might have been lying about
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Speaker 1: some pretty serious stuff. He had told both of us
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Speaker 1: when we first met that his sister had cancer, but
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Speaker 1: when him and Holly hung out and it was brought up,
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Speaker 1: his story was different. When Holly told me this, we
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Speaker 1: decided to look through his mom's Facebook, who I just
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Speaker 1: recently added, and she posts basically everything. We couldn't find
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Speaker 1: anything and something that big definitely would have been posted.
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Speaker 1: I've never met his sister since we never really hung
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Speaker 1: out at his house, but I did. I didn't find that
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Speaker 1: weird because I didn't want anyone at my house either.
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Speaker 1: While talking about this, we both shared other things that
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Speaker 1: seemed a bit off to us, such as him saying
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Speaker 1: that he might have cancer, or that he was in
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Speaker 1: the hospital for a very serious reason but then would
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Speaker 1: be completely fine just a few hours later. After going
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Speaker 1: through everything with each other, we couldn't believe how much
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Speaker 1: of a liar he was. I felt heartbroken that, so
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Speaker 1: when I called my best friend would lie about such
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Speaker 1: awful things. We agreed to talk to him about it
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Speaker 1: and afterwards distance ourselves from him. I wanted to talk
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Speaker 1: in person, but Holly had texted him first, and that's
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Speaker 1: when I was bombarded with messages. It all started with
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Speaker 1: him saying he had a seizure, which after everything, I
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Speaker 1: obviously didn't really believe him. He called me so many
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Speaker 1: times while I was at work it got to be
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Speaker 1: too much. I decided to call Holly and see what
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Speaker 1: was happening. When I did, she said he also went
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Speaker 1: crazy on her. She ended up blocking his number because
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Speaker 1: it got so bad. I didn't want to just ghost him,
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Speaker 1: but this behavior was honestly disturbing. I decided to text
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Speaker 1: him that I didn't want to be friends with someone
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Speaker 1: who lies, especially about such sensitive stuff. After that, I
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Speaker 1: didn't text him anymore. I didn't block him though, I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure why, but I just couldn't do it. I
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Speaker 1: muted his notifications and calls, and that was that. A
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Speaker 1: few more days went by of more muted calls and texts,
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Speaker 1: until my dad called me. He sounded really worried, asking
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Speaker 1: if I was okay. I said yeah, calmly, asking why.
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Speaker 1: He said that Brian called him and was asking about me,
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Speaker 1: and apparently Brian told him that some pretty serious stuff
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Speaker 1: happened to me. I told him to block his number
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Speaker 1: and don't answer him anymore after explaining everything. It's even
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Speaker 1: weirder because I don't know how how he got my
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Speaker 1: dad's number. Not long after that, my brother also told
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Speaker 1: me that Brian messaged him on Instagram saying he was
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Speaker 1: going to hurt himself if I didn't answer him. He
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Speaker 1: also texted one of my best friends all the same
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Speaker 1: thing to make everything so much worse. He said he
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Speaker 1: was going to end himself the same way that my
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Speaker 1: oldest brother had done, and he knew that that was
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Speaker 1: the last straw for me, and I decided to text
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Speaker 1: him one more time all of my thoughts and feelings,
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Speaker 1: and then I immediately blocked him after it was delivered,
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Speaker 1: I thought that was the end, and for months it
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Speaker 1: was until one day while I was working, I saw
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Speaker 1: him walk in through the front doors. My department was
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Speaker 1: in the back of the store, so I could see everything.
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Speaker 1: I slipped in the back and told my manager. If
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Speaker 1: anyone should ask, say that I do not work there anymore.
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Speaker 1: Lo and behold, he did actually ask my manager if
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Speaker 1: I was there. I had to be escorted out by
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Speaker 1: a coworker the rest of the week just to make
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Speaker 1: sure he wasn't waiting in the parking lot when I
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Speaker 1: got out of work. There was one night about a
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Speaker 1: month later where his car was parked on the side
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Speaker 1: of the street by my house. When I got home
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Speaker 1: from work, no one else was home, so I went
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Speaker 1: to a friend's house for a few hours to be safe.
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Speaker 1: I didn't think he would actually hurt me. I just
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Speaker 1: didn't want to talk to him though. While I didn't
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Speaker 1: think he would hurt me, I also felt like I
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Speaker 1: didn't really know who he truly was, which was scary.
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Speaker 1: After that incident, I called his mother and told her everything.
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Speaker 1: I didn't want him to stop by my house or
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Speaker 1: my work anymore, and I didn't want to get the
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Speaker 1: police involved. I loved his family, which made the situation
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Speaker 1: really difficult. To this day, he makes fake accounts on
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Speaker 1: sites to try and talk to me or requests to
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Speaker 1: follow me. It happens maybe twice a year. I know
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Speaker 1: he's not mentally there, and I truly wish that he'd heal,
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Speaker 1: but I want to share my story and let others
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Speaker 1: know that your friends can be just as toxic as
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Speaker 1: any intimate partner can be, and when people show you
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Speaker 1: their true colors, try not to make excuses for them.
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Speaker 1: Do what's best for you and your mental health, and
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Speaker 1: make sure to keep yourself safe