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3 True Scary Christmas Horror Stories That Will Ruin Your Holiday · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: I lived in Upper Canada at the time, in a
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  Speaker 1: well sized cabin type home. The holiday season was always
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  Speaker 1: my favorite time of the year, as my family would
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  Speaker 1: gather at one of our homes and celebrate Christmas together.
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  Speaker 1: Living alone, this was always something to look forward to.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't mind being alone, but it was just nice
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  Speaker 1: to see some friends and family, sometimes being in a
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  Speaker 1: relatively sizable home. Our small family would often either gather
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  Speaker 1: at my place or my brother's place, usually taking turns
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  Speaker 1: each year. This year it was my turn to host
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  Speaker 1: the family gathering. Most of my family lived on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of Canada, though, making it a long drive
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  Speaker 1: or a costly plane ride. Typically, though, everyone tries to
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  Speaker 1: arrive on Christmas Eve, so come December twenty third, I
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  Speaker 1: called up my brother to make sure everything was going
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  Speaker 1: as planned. He informed me that our parents may arrive
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  Speaker 1: early Christmas morning due to a flight delay, but he
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  Speaker 1: was driving and should make it by the night of
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Eve. Wishing him safe travels, I said good night
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  Speaker 1: and went back to bed. Now, if you've ever lived
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  Speaker 1: in Canada, especially further north, you know the winters are
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  Speaker 1: brutally cold and long, often snowstorms and blizzards. Can form
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  Speaker 1: suddenly and last for a varied amount of time. That
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  Speaker 1: being said, the next day, heavy snowfall covered the grounds
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  Speaker 1: in the morning and was accompanied by rushing winds in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon. I received a call from my brother around
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  Speaker 1: six pm notifying me that he was going to have
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  Speaker 1: to stay at a motel for the night due to
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  Speaker 1: the snowstorm covering the roads. I agreed that it was
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  Speaker 1: the safe decision, though I was a bit upset that
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  Speaker 1: I'd have to spend the day before Christmas alone, but
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  Speaker 1: I tried to stay positive, looking forward to Christmas Day
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  Speaker 1: with my whole family. At ten o'clock, I got ready
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  Speaker 1: for bed and set an early alarm for five a m.
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  Speaker 1: Just in case my parents arrived at the airport early.
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  Speaker 1: The wind howl outside the house gave me trouble falling
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  Speaker 1: asleep as it was shaking the whole room and making
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  Speaker 1: the whole house creak. But as I lay there, annoyed
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  Speaker 1: and awake, a soft and rhythmic sound approached from outside
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  Speaker 1: the cabin. The wind blowing in all directions at random speeds,
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  Speaker 1: made the soft one to two of the footsteps stand out.
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  Speaker 1: They were slow, as you would expect in this kind
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  Speaker 1: of weather, but they continued all the way until they
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  Speaker 1: reached the wall on the left side of my house.
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  Speaker 1: I just laid there with my eyes open, listening to
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  Speaker 1: this strange person walking during a blizzard in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the night. A lot of things ran through my head,
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  Speaker 1: such as complete confusion and fear of a possible attack. However,
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  Speaker 1: I began wondering if it was my brother. Maybe something
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  Speaker 1: had happened and his phone didn't have service, maybe he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't find a hotel. The more I had these thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: the more I felt I had to find a way
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  Speaker 1: to see who it was. In wather like this, nobody
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  Speaker 1: could last more than an hour without serious consequences, and
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  Speaker 1: I definitely didn't want my brother and his family stuck
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  Speaker 1: out there. As I was putting on some heavier clothes,
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  Speaker 1: a knock came from downstairs. The odd thing about it
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  Speaker 1: was that it was a single knock, and it didn't
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  Speaker 1: come from the front door. Hesitantly, I opened my bedroom
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  Speaker 1: door and peeked down the stairs. It was far too
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  Speaker 1: dark to see anything, but I didn't want to give
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  Speaker 1: away my position if it was someone dangerous, so I
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  Speaker 1: left the lights off. I walked blindly down the stairs
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  Speaker 1: still listening for any footsteps or sound, but heard nothing
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  Speaker 1: aside from the strong winds. As I got to the bottom,
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  Speaker 1: I made my way to the front door. While the
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  Speaker 1: knock didn't seem to come from the front, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: really know what else to do. I'm not sure why,
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  Speaker 1: but this was when I really started to get nervous, afraid.
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  Speaker 1: Even I don't usually say I scare easy, but something
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  Speaker 1: just felt very wrong. Approaching the door in silence, I
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  Speaker 1: leaned forward and moved the small blinds on the side
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  Speaker 1: of the window. A man stood there looking at the door,
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  Speaker 1: looking calm and emotionless, but as soon as he noticed me,
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  Speaker 1: he began screaming for me to help him, banging on
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  Speaker 1: the window. As he stared me in the eyes, I
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  Speaker 1: jumped back, not expecting such a sudden reaction. My heart
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  Speaker 1: started pounding my chest. The man didn't look well as
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  Speaker 1: in he looked crazy, and he had one hand in
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  Speaker 1: his pocket like he was hiding something. I didn't feel
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  Speaker 1: at all comfortable opening the door, but I also didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to have the man's blood on my hands for
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  Speaker 1: not helping him during a storm like this. Uh, what's wrong?
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  Speaker 1: How did you get here? I yelled? A few second
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  Speaker 1: pause followed before the man answered calmly, I got lost.
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  Speaker 1: I just needed somewhere to shelter. His shift in attitude
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  Speaker 1: was alarming. I stood there thinking for a bit before
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  Speaker 1: the man asked me again to let him in, then
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  Speaker 1: again and again, getting more aggressive with each word, before
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  Speaker 1: beginning to hit the door, pounding on it over and over.
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  Speaker 1: I ran to the other room to grab my pistol
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  Speaker 1: that I kept in cases of home defense. Then I
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  Speaker 1: went back to the front door, though I stood a
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  Speaker 1: good distance away and held my ground, hoping he would
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  Speaker 1: just leave if I ignored him. He continued banging for
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  Speaker 1: well over a minute, but as I stood there anxiously waiting,
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  Speaker 1: I heard again the crunch of footsteps walking around my house.
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  Speaker 1: Knowing now that this was for sure a bad situation,
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  Speaker 1: I ran upstairs and locked myself in my bedroom. I
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  Speaker 1: heard two men start talking soon after, followed by a
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  Speaker 1: window shattering and footsteps entering my home. The footsteps scattered
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  Speaker 1: around downstairs. I heard things moving and objects clattering before
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  Speaker 1: someone began climbing the stairs. My bedroom was the only
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  Speaker 1: room upstairs aside from a half bathroom in closet, shaking
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  Speaker 1: uncontrollably and praying in my head. I held my gun
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  Speaker 1: up and aimed at the door as a man approached
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  Speaker 1: the other side. Yeah, he's got to be in here,
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  Speaker 1: the man yelled, almost in a cheerful way. He punched
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  Speaker 1: the door once, though it sounded heavy, as if he
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  Speaker 1: had hit it with a hammer or maybe even a gun.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't help but make a quiet gasp from the
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  Speaker 1: terror of it. The man let out a sick, chuckling laugh.
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  Speaker 1: Then the other man downstairs yelled something, and both of
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  Speaker 1: their footsteps faded away. I sat there with my gun
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  Speaker 1: held at the door for probably fifteen minutes, with nothing
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  Speaker 1: but the sounds of winds blowing downstairs. Clearing the house carefully,
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  Speaker 1: I made sure they were gone, then put a small
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  Speaker 1: wooden board over the broken window to keep the snow out.
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  Speaker 1: The men had taken a few expensive things around the
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  Speaker 1: house and a bit of a mess, but no other
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  Speaker 1: harm was done. The blizzard had settled by morning, and
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  Speaker 1: I informed my family and the police of the encounter.
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  Speaker 1: My brother was angry at himself for not having been
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  Speaker 1: there for me, but I assured him it was okay,
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  Speaker 1: and he made the right call to not drive in
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  Speaker 1: a snowstorm. Despite having the most horrifying encounter in my
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  Speaker 1: entire life, I actually had a really enjoyable Christmas with
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  Speaker 1: my family. People these days are cruel and awful humans,
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  Speaker 1: and to do something like that, To put someone through
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  Speaker 1: something like that, especially during the holiday season, is just
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  Speaker 1: another level of insanity. Christmas was always a big event
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  Speaker 1: in my family. Every year, we'd drive out to my
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  Speaker 1: aunt and uncle's house, where I'd get to see all
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  Speaker 1: of my cousins as well as my grandparents. There's one
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  Speaker 1: year I still think about a lot, though, because something
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  Speaker 1: happened that I still can't get out of my head.
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  Speaker 1: I was only ten at the time, and I was
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  Speaker 1: a relatively shy kid, so meeting new people wasn't enjoyable
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  Speaker 1: at all. This year, though. When we arrived at my
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  Speaker 1: uncle's house, my oldest cousin introduced all of us to
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  Speaker 1: her boyfriend, Drew. Apparently they'd been together for a few
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  Speaker 1: years and things were getting pretty serious, so she wanted
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  Speaker 1: the whole family to get comfortable with him. From what
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  Speaker 1: I heard, they met at the college they both went to,
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  Speaker 1: which wasn't far, but Drew was from out of state,
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  Speaker 1: so my uncle offered him to stay at his house.
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  Speaker 1: During winter break. Anyway, over the next couple days, I
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  Speaker 1: remember avoiding him as much as possible. I really didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to some stranger I didn't know, and
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  Speaker 1: I definitely didn't want him to act like he was
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  Speaker 1: my big brother. However, my younger brother, who was only six,
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  Speaker 1: was talking to him all the time. It was like
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  Speaker 1: they had just become best friends in just two days.
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  Speaker 1: My parents thought it was cute that my little brother
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  Speaker 1: was looking up to him, but I found it to
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  Speaker 1: be weird. I don't know, something about it just made
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  Speaker 1: me feel uncomfortable. During the nights, I shared a room
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  Speaker 1: with my brother, and I'm assuming Drew my cousin shared
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  Speaker 1: a room on the other side of the house. I
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  Speaker 1: asked my little brother as we were getting ready for bed,
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  Speaker 1: why he like Drew so much, and he just talked
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  Speaker 1: about how cool he was. I don't really know what
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  Speaker 1: I expected my six year old brother to say, but
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  Speaker 1: when he responded, it kind of clicked in my mind
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  Speaker 1: that I really should be wondering why Drew wanted to
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  Speaker 1: talk to my brother so much, not the other way around.
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  Speaker 1: I know this all sounds like it may just be
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  Speaker 1: taken into bad context when it could just be a
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  Speaker 1: loving soon to be cousin in law. But it was
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  Speaker 1: just a feeling in my gut that told me something
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  Speaker 1: was off. And just four days after we had arrived,
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  Speaker 1: and on the night of Christmas Eve, my gut feeling
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  Speaker 1: was proven to be right. I specifically remember going to
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  Speaker 1: bed that night noticing my brother having a lot more energy,
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  Speaker 1: way more than he should have at that time of night.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was because he was excited about Christmas morning,
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  Speaker 1: as I was too, and I went to sleep soon after.
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  Speaker 1: Some time hours later, I woke up. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what actually woke me up, as the house seemed silent,
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  Speaker 1: but I instantly noticed my brother was not in his bed.
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  Speaker 1: My eyes widened and I looked all around the room,
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  Speaker 1: calling out his name in a whisper. I felt protective
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  Speaker 1: of my little brother, and I was really worried about him.
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  Speaker 1: I almost wanted to cry when I saw that his
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  Speaker 1: jacket was missing. We both had been hanging them up
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  Speaker 1: on the handles of the closet door, but his was gone.
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  Speaker 1: I grabbed mine and rushed downstairs. From the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the steps was a hallway. On one side was the
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  Speaker 1: front door, and on the other was the back door.
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  Speaker 1: Looking at the back door, The screen door was closed,
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  Speaker 1: but the actual door was open. I remember being scared,
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  Speaker 1: but more than anything, I wanted to make sure my
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  Speaker 1: little brother was okay. So I walked outside. Out in
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  Speaker 1: the field behind the house, I could see two figures,
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  Speaker 1: one large and one small. They seemed to be walking
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  Speaker 1: away from the house, but it was dark and hard
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  Speaker 1: to tell. I walked a bit closer, then gathered the
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  Speaker 1: courage to yell my brother's name. Both figures stopped for
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  Speaker 1: a moment, and then the smaller one started running towards me.
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  Speaker 1: My baby brother ran into my arms. His eyes were watery.
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  Speaker 1: I looked back up and the other figure was still
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  Speaker 1: standing in the field, looking in our direction. I led
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  Speaker 1: my brother back inside and up to our bedroom. I
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  Speaker 1: asked what had happened and what he was doing outside.
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  Speaker 1: All he would say was that he was scared of
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  Speaker 1: the dark, but Drew wanted to play a game. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know what that meant, but I didn't care. Waking
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  Speaker 1: up a six year old and leading them outside in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the night was not okay. I kept
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  Speaker 1: my brother close for the rest of the holiday, but
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  Speaker 1: now I wish I had told someone about it. I
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  Speaker 1: was a shy kid that didn't want to be the
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  Speaker 1: center of any drama, and I didn't think anyone would
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  Speaker 1: believe me, so I kept my mouth shut about it.
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  Speaker 1: That was a horrible Christmas, though, and I think about
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  Speaker 1: it a lot. I've asked my brother years later what
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  Speaker 1: that Drew guy was doing, but even now he says
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't remember. He only remembers being scared. My cousin
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  Speaker 1: never brought him to any more gatherings, so I'm assuming
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  Speaker 1: things didn't work out. I'm glad I saved my brother
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  Speaker 1: from whatever was going to happen that night, but I
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  Speaker 1: think back to it a lot, wishing that I had
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  Speaker 1: done more. Christmas for my family is probably similar to
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  Speaker 1: most other families. My wife and I tell our son
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  Speaker 1: that Santa brings presence on the night of Christmas Eve,
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  Speaker 1: and then on Christmas Morning we wake up our son
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  Speaker 1: and let him open the presence. It's a very typical Christmas. So,
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  Speaker 1: of course, on Christmas Eve, my kid wanted to make
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  Speaker 1: cookies for Santa, and we left out a small plate
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  Speaker 1: alongside a cup of milk before I sent him to bed. Then,
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  Speaker 1: after waiting an hour to make sure he was asleep,
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  Speaker 1: I began putting all the gifts under the tree. Once
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  Speaker 1: I was finished piling them up, I went over to
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  Speaker 1: the small coffee table and took a few bites of
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  Speaker 1: the cookies to make it look like Santa came. Feeling
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  Speaker 1: satisfied with my work, I turned all the lights off
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  Speaker 1: and joined my wife in bed. The next morning, my
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  Speaker 1: wife woke our kid up, and he ran downstairs to
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  Speaker 1: open his presence. He was so excited, screaming that Santa came.
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  Speaker 1: I always loved seeing his reaction to the gifts, but
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  Speaker 1: it was over after about an hour. He went off
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  Speaker 1: to play with his new toys, and my wife and
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  Speaker 1: I started cleaning up the wrapping paper and boxes. But
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  Speaker 1: that's when I noticed the cookies, well, the lack of cookies. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: they were all gone. We had put out a whole
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  Speaker 1: plate and I had only eaten one. Confused, I walked
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  Speaker 1: over to my wife and asked her about it, though
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  Speaker 1: I knew she was in bed the whole time. She
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  Speaker 1: laughed at me, making a joke as if I ate
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  Speaker 1: the entire plate, but her smile faded when she realized
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  Speaker 1: my concern. I went over to my son and asked
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  Speaker 1: him if he had some cookies this morning, but his
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  Speaker 1: response only frightened and confused me more. He said he
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  Speaker 1: saw Santa eat them last night. Of course, I asked
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  Speaker 1: him what he meant, to which he replied that he
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  Speaker 1: woke up in the middle of the night and saw
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  Speaker 1: some one eating the cookies. I acted calm in front
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  Speaker 1: of him, making sure not to give the big secret
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  Speaker 1: away as he was only six, But I was seriously
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  Speaker 1: worried now by the looks of it. My wife was too.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a weird, silly situation, but in reality it
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  Speaker 1: was also terrifying knowing that some one was inside our home.
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  Speaker 1: I took a quick look around upstairs, then searched the
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  Speaker 1: main floor before going over to the basement. Honestly, I
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  Speaker 1: hadn't been in the basement for months. It was unfinished,
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  Speaker 1: small and dirty. The year before, we had our washer
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  Speaker 1: and dryer moved from the basement to the ground level floor.
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  Speaker 1: Ever since, we had no reason to go down there,
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  Speaker 1: so we just left it as an empty storage room. Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I opened the door and turned on the dim lights.
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  Speaker 1: I waited several seconds before going down, thinking that if
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  Speaker 1: someone was there, they would make themselves known with no
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  Speaker 1: other noises. I descended into the basement. From my initial look,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see anything out of ordinary. There were boxes
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  Speaker 1: and dust just like it had been left, But looking closer,
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  Speaker 1: a stack of the boxes seemed strangely put together. It
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  Speaker 1: kind of reminded me of when I was a kid
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  Speaker 1: and would position boxes to make a fort or a wall.
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  Speaker 1: I took a few steps closer before I could hear
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  Speaker 1: heavy breathing from behind the wall of boxes. I frozen,
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  Speaker 1: shocked and scared, hoping that whoever was there stayed hidden
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  Speaker 1: so I could peacefully go back upstairs and call the police.
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  Speaker 1: I was not so lucky, though. A disgusting, scrawny, middle
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  Speaker 1: aged man stood up, looking me directly in the eyes.
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  Speaker 1: I was so shocked I didn't even move. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: until the man quickly began climbing over the boxes that
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  Speaker 1: I turned around and sprinted as fast as I could
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  Speaker 1: up the stairs. His footsteps were not far behind mine
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  Speaker 1: as I pushed through the doorway and slammed the door
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  Speaker 1: behind me. Seeing a glimpse of the man just a
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  Speaker 1: few steps down, I turned the lock and blocked the
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  Speaker 1: door with a nearby chair. My wife screamed and panicked
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  Speaker 1: at the chaos of the situation. She grabbed our son
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  Speaker 1: and ran upstairs while I stood by the door and
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  Speaker 1: called the police. It's funny, though, because my first thought
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  Speaker 1: while dialing nine one one was how bad I felt
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  Speaker 1: for having to call someone on Christmas morning. Then again,
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  Speaker 1: my family's life was in danger. As I waited for
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  Speaker 1: the cops to show up, the man tried to persuade
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  Speaker 1: me to let him go and that he meant no harm.
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  Speaker 1: At one point, it even sounded like he was talking
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  Speaker 1: to himself. The guy sounded insane. I almost felt sorry
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  Speaker 1: for him when the officer finally made it. He arrested
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  Speaker 1: the man with ease, and I filled out a report.
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  Speaker 1: We tried to not let this ruin the rest of Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: but it was difficult to get back into the joyful mood.
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  Speaker 1: It turned out he'd been squatting in our basement for
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  Speaker 1: anywhere between several days in a couple weeks. He'd been
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  Speaker 1: taking some of our food and drinks while we were gone, too,
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  Speaker 1: which just made me feel sick thinking back. I'd even
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  Speaker 1: remembered things missing, stupid things like the last granola bar
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  Speaker 1: being gone and everyone claiming it wasn't them. These are
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  Speaker 1: just normal things that you just chalk up to being
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  Speaker 1: anything other than someone living in your house and stealing
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  Speaker 1: your food. Now I get a bad feeling in my
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  Speaker 1: gut every time some thing goes missing, as I remember
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  Speaker 1: that creepy guy staring at me and chasing me out
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  Speaker 1: of the basement