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Homes That Felt Watched During Storms · Scary Stories Hub

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  Speaker 1: Sometime last year, I was hold up in my house
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  Speaker 1: for a whole day and night. My city had a
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  Speaker 1: huge storm come through that put everyone on lockdown inside
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  Speaker 1: for almost an entire twenty four hours. Houses and roads
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  Speaker 1: were flooding, and on the news there were even reports
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  Speaker 1: of wind damaging windows and ripping roof panels off of homes.
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  Speaker 1: I was alone at the time, spending the day on
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  Speaker 1: my phone, keeping up with the news and just listening
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  Speaker 1: to the chaos going on outside. Around five or six,
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  Speaker 1: the power started flickering, turning off for just a few moments,
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  Speaker 1: then turning back on. Then, maybe just an hour after
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  Speaker 1: this had started, the power fully shut off. I waited
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  Speaker 1: for a few minutes, expecting it to come back on,
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  Speaker 1: but after a while I realized it probably wasn't going
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  Speaker 1: to come back until after the storm was over. I
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  Speaker 1: sat on the couch and started scrolling through the news
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  Speaker 1: again on my phone for any updates, until there was
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  Speaker 1: a heavy knock on the front door. It scared me
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  Speaker 1: being so loud in the midst of such a crazy storm,
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  Speaker 1: but also because I was not expecting anyone to be
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  Speaker 1: outside in this weather. I stayed where I was for
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  Speaker 1: a minute, debating whether to even see who it was.
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  Speaker 1: But then the thought rolled through my mind that maybe
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  Speaker 1: it was just a neighbor needing help or wanting to
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  Speaker 1: ask if my power was out too. It was still
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  Speaker 1: absurd for anyone to be outside, but I went up
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  Speaker 1: to the door and looked out the people. Nobody was there.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps I had waited too long to check, but looking out,
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  Speaker 1: a really unnerving feeling came over me. I went back
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  Speaker 1: to the living room and opened a window, letting the
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  Speaker 1: minimal amount of light in from outside. I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: any way to charge my phone, and I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a flashlight, so I kind of just sat there and
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  Speaker 1: stared out the window. Then, out of the blue, I
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  Speaker 1: swear I heard a voice outside. I swung my head
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  Speaker 1: around behind me, looking toward where I thought i'd heard
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  Speaker 1: it from, but of course I couldn't hear it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I waited again, but figured it had to have just
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  Speaker 1: been the wind making strange noises, so I turned back around.
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  Speaker 1: Almost right on cue, though I heard it again, just
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  Speaker 1: a quick few words, like someone was talking to someone else.
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  Speaker 1: I got up and went to a nearby window, looking out.
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  Speaker 1: It was so dark and rainy, there was nothing really
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  Speaker 1: for me to see. Still, I stared out into the rain,
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  Speaker 1: and a sudden flicker of lightning lit up the area
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  Speaker 1: for a second, and in that second I made out
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  Speaker 1: a figure not far from my house. I had no
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  Speaker 1: way to know what he was doing, or really anything
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  Speaker 1: at all. I just saw a figure for a split second,
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  Speaker 1: and now that it was dark again, I couldn't see anything.
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  Speaker 1: Getting more unnerved, I closed up the windows and decided
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  Speaker 1: to go upstairs to the bedroom. Despite this, I was
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  Speaker 1: still nervous about the knocking and the guy I saw
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  Speaker 1: standing out in the middle of such a brutal storm.
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  Speaker 1: It was hard not to wonder what they were doing
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  Speaker 1: or who they were talking to. Hours went by with
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  Speaker 1: nothing more happening, just the sounds of the storm outside
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  Speaker 1: as I sat in the room. Then, just when I
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  Speaker 1: had started to forget about it all, a sudden sound
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  Speaker 1: faintly echo from downstairs. It was a door opening. I
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  Speaker 1: could feel my face go pale as I tried to listen,
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  Speaker 1: but it almost felt like the storm had grown louder,
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  Speaker 1: and I knew there would be no way I could
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  Speaker 1: hear any footsteps at all. I just had to sit
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  Speaker 1: there in my own thoughts and wait, horrified in the small,
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  Speaker 1: barely lit bedroom. A minute passed, and then another, and
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  Speaker 1: eventually I got the courage to call nine one one,
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  Speaker 1: though I knew it'd be a long time for them
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  Speaker 1: to arrive. From the time I heard the door open
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  Speaker 1: to the time the police showed up, it had been
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  Speaker 1: over thirty minutes, and yet there were no other sounds,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody ever came up to the room I was in.
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  Speaker 1: All the cops found was an open front door in
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  Speaker 1: wet shoe prints inside the house. There were no indications
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  Speaker 1: of any intent after entering my home. It almost seemed
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  Speaker 1: like they broke in, looked around for a minute, then
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  Speaker 1: just left. To this day, there's been no answers to
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  Speaker 1: the events of that night. This was almost five years
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  Speaker 1: ago from today. At the time, I was living in
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  Speaker 1: a small, one bedroom apartment when my parents bought a
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  Speaker 1: new house about an hour from the city I lived in.
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  Speaker 1: It was a really nice, way too big, countryside home
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  Speaker 1: with a ton of land, but due to their work
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  Speaker 1: schedules and just how complicated moving long distance was, they
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  Speaker 1: had to ship all of their stuff and have movers
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  Speaker 1: drop it off about a week before they would get there.
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  Speaker 1: To help out, I offered to houseit during that in
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  Speaker 1: between time and make sure the move was all good.
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  Speaker 1: I got to the house on Saturday morning, greeting the
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  Speaker 1: movers and letting them haul everything inside, and they finished
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  Speaker 1: by sundown. All the stuff was piled in the corner
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  Speaker 1: of the rooms, with really just the couch set up
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  Speaker 1: for me to chill on. Seeing the house with everything inside, though,
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  Speaker 1: really put into perspective how large the place was. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: to me, at least, it felt like a mansion, huge wide,
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  Speaker 1: open rooms with long empty hallways without anything else set up.
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of unsettling. After eating some left over
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  Speaker 1: dinner that I brought with, I decided to check out
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  Speaker 1: the back yard. It had a large patio with a
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  Speaker 1: fire pit built in, and had a bunch of random
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  Speaker 1: outdoor furniture scattered along the side of the house. I
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  Speaker 1: grabbed a small lawn chair and put it by the
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  Speaker 1: fire pit, then sat back and relaxed. The night was
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  Speaker 1: a little breezy, especially way out in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the open fields, but it was really quiet and peaceful.
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  Speaker 1: It was probably around eleven and I was out there
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  Speaker 1: for at least an hour or so, when just out
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  Speaker 1: of nowhere, a man appeared in the distance. He was
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  Speaker 1: walking way out in the field. I looked to where
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  Speaker 1: he came from and saw nothing but open land. Then
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  Speaker 1: I looked toward where he was heading and saw the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. I watched this man walk all the way
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  Speaker 1: down until the fog covered him up, but the whole
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  Speaker 1: time I had no clue what he was doing out there.
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  Speaker 1: Several minutes went by as I looked out into the fog,
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  Speaker 1: still just thinking about this man, when again he emerged
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  Speaker 1: from the dark, this time walking the way he had
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  Speaker 1: come before. He was slightly closer this time, well enough
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  Speaker 1: to where it was a little uncomforting. I ended up
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  Speaker 1: going back inside, not wanting to be seen. I stayed
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  Speaker 1: in for an hour, mostly scrolling on my phone, but
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  Speaker 1: also checking the windows a couple of times and not
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  Speaker 1: seeing anything of concern. Around twelve thirty, I grabbed a
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  Speaker 1: blanket from one of the boxes and passed it on
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  Speaker 1: the couch, laying down and falling asleep in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the living room. When I woke up, something immediately
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  Speaker 1: felt off. I was confused and uneasy, opening my eyes
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  Speaker 1: and trying to figure out why I'd woken up and
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  Speaker 1: why I felt like this. The whole house was dark,
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  Speaker 1: and silent, and the shadows of the random stacked up
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  Speaker 1: boxes made it difficult to see. But only a moment
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  Speaker 1: after looking around, a bright glare shined into the room.
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  Speaker 1: Squinted from the brightness as the light moved around the room,
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  Speaker 1: then suddenly shifted away. Opening my eyes again, I saw
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  Speaker 1: another small glare moving outside the front window. Then it
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  Speaker 1: suddenly shifted again, coming through the window, lighting up the
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  Speaker 1: whole living room and directly shining into my eyes. By
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  Speaker 1: the time my eyes adjusted, the light was gone and
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  Speaker 1: the window had nothing behind it. I got up and
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  Speaker 1: picked up my phone as I went up to the
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  Speaker 1: window and tried to see who was out there, but
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  Speaker 1: they were long gone, having turned their light off and
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  Speaker 1: faded out into the foggy night. I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: was out there or what they wanted. What I'd say
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  Speaker 1: my best guess is that they had seen the movers
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  Speaker 1: and were trying to rob the place, whatever it was.
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  Speaker 1: Though I think I got lucky because if I hadn't
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  Speaker 1: woken up from the light, it's likely I would have
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  Speaker 1: had to find out their intentions the hard way. It
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  Speaker 1: was just a regular Friday night after getting out of
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  Speaker 1: a long closing shift at work, I made a quick
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  Speaker 1: microwave meal, then hopped online with some of my buddies
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  Speaker 1: and started gaming. I had an energy drink and some
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  Speaker 1: snacks and was ready to stay up late and enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the night. We gamed for a while. I never even
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  Speaker 1: checked the time, but at some point there was a knock.
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  Speaker 1: At first, I just told my friends to hold on
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  Speaker 1: as I took my headset off and stood up. But
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  Speaker 1: when I turned around from my desk, I realized how
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  Speaker 1: dark it was inside and outside, seeing only the light
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  Speaker 1: from my computer. I stood there, understanding now how completely
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  Speaker 1: out of the norm it was for someone to be
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  Speaker 1: at my this late into the night. And that's when
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  Speaker 1: I saw a man looking at me through the window.
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  Speaker 1: I froze when I saw him, feeling my stomach drop
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  Speaker 1: out of the eeriness of him staring at me. Then
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  Speaker 1: the man yelled through the glass, asking me a question,
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  Speaker 1: but I was too out of it to understand him
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  Speaker 1: what I said. Walking closer to the window, the man
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  Speaker 1: repeated himself, asking me if I was someone he knew
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  Speaker 1: named Jake or Jack or something. I didn't catch the name,
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  Speaker 1: but it definitely wasn't me. I shook my head no,
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  Speaker 1: and the man said nothing as he walked away from
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  Speaker 1: the window and disappeared past my front yard. Being a
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  Speaker 1: bit shaken, I immediately shut the blinds, then went back
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  Speaker 1: to the computer and told my friends about what just happened.
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  Speaker 1: They all didn't even believe me at first, but I
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  Speaker 1: think they heard the shakiness of my voice as I
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  Speaker 1: started asking a lot of questions, which only made me
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  Speaker 1: even more creeped out. I took their advice, going around
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  Speaker 1: and making sure all the doors were locked, then also
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  Speaker 1: locking the windows, which I'd never even bothered to do before.
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  Speaker 1: Then they assured me everything was okay, and we got
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  Speaker 1: back what we were doing. A couple hours passed, and honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I'd completely forgotten about what had happened. I think I
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  Speaker 1: assumed that if they were to do something, it would
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  Speaker 1: have been right after he'd shown up. But then a
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  Speaker 1: loud knock from behind me almost shook me off my chair.
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  Speaker 1: This time it was definitely from the front door. I
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  Speaker 1: told my friends, whispering into the headset. They said to
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  Speaker 1: see who it was and just call the cops. Doing
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  Speaker 1: as they said, I quietly walked over to the door
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  Speaker 1: and looked out onto the porch. It was him again,
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  Speaker 1: standing there and waiting for me to answer. I watched
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  Speaker 1: for a minute, and oddly he kept looking to his right,
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  Speaker 1: as if he were looking at something or someone. I
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  Speaker 1: backed away and got my phone, calling the cops and
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  Speaker 1: whispering to them what was going on. Another knock came
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  Speaker 1: as I made my way back to the door and
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  Speaker 1: looked out, seeing the man looking off to the side again.
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  Speaker 1: Then he made a small gesture with his hand before
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  Speaker 1: knocking one more time. But the night was quiet enough
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  Speaker 1: for me to hear someone else's footsteps moving around to
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  Speaker 1: the side of the house. I followed the sound with
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  Speaker 1: my eyes until it stopped right under one of the windows.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the glass shift up slightly before getting stuck
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  Speaker 1: on the lock and falling back down. They tried again,
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  Speaker 1: but the window didn't give in. After this, there was
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  Speaker 1: probably a whole minute that went by where I didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear anything. I just stood there and listened to the operator,
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  Speaker 1: updating me on the arrival of the officer. As I
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  Speaker 1: stared at the window, a loud, dull sound came from
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  Speaker 1: outside the window, like something being wedged into the wood.
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  Speaker 1: I could see the entire frame around the glass moving
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  Speaker 1: As I backed away and tried to think of what
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  Speaker 1: to do, but suddenly a set of footsteps ran from
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  Speaker 1: the front door to the side window, followed by both
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  Speaker 1: of them running away. Only a moment later I saw
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  Speaker 1: the flashing red and blue lights coming through the windows.
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  Speaker 1: As for what happened afterwards, there wasn't much. Police had
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  Speaker 1: nothing to really go off of. I gave them a
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  Speaker 1: detailed description of one of the men, but that just
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  Speaker 1: wasn't enough. However, it's been over a year since that
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  Speaker 1: night and there's been no signs of them having ever
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  Speaker 1: come back.