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3 Disturbing Close Encounters Horror Stories | Alone at Night That Will Leave You Paranoid · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: I was eighteen and I had just moved into a
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  Speaker 1: new state to start college soon. I only had a
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  Speaker 1: few days before classes started, but I wanted to explore
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  Speaker 1: a little while I had the chance. The area around
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  Speaker 1: the campus was full of forests and hills with tons
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  Speaker 1: of outdoorsy stuff to do, so I found a trail
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  Speaker 1: that I thought looked nice and drove down one afternoon
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  Speaker 1: to walk it. Online it said it was only a
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  Speaker 1: two hour trip, so I didn't bring much, only a
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  Speaker 1: camelback for water. There were no other cars parked at
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  Speaker 1: the specific spot, which made me assume nobody else was
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  Speaker 1: on it. But not far in, I walked past another hiker.
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  Speaker 1: He was sitting on a fallen tree off the side
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  Speaker 1: of the trail and nodded his head at me as
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  Speaker 1: I passed by. It looked like he was on his
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  Speaker 1: way out because he was sweating and looked somewhat dirty,
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  Speaker 1: like he'd been outside for a while already. I kept
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  Speaker 1: walking for about thirty more minutes, just keeping to myself
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  Speaker 1: and listening to music, when out of nowhere, I heard
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  Speaker 1: a man's voice yelling. I turned around and saw that
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  Speaker 1: same person i'd passed waving at me to get my attention.
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  Speaker 1: I stopped and waited as he jogged up to me.
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  Speaker 1: He said the trail name I was on in a
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  Speaker 1: questioning manner, and I responded, yeah, that's the one I'm following.
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  Speaker 1: He then pointed to my right. I looked out, and
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  Speaker 1: going into the trees was another trail. It looked pretty
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  Speaker 1: much identical, as neither trail was more than just some
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  Speaker 1: thin line of dirt. People tend to get lost in
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  Speaker 1: this section going down the wrong way. I smiled and
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  Speaker 1: thanked him, but it definitely was a bit odd. He
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  Speaker 1: seemed nice enough, though, and not meaning to be anything
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  Speaker 1: but helpful, and as I started walking down the trail
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  Speaker 1: he told me to He continued along behind me. He
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  Speaker 1: explained that he's lived here for years and walks this
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  Speaker 1: path almost every day and hates to hear about new
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  Speaker 1: hikers getting lost out there. I guess it made sense
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  Speaker 1: to me at the time, and I kept up with
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  Speaker 1: the small talk, not really having any choice since he
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  Speaker 1: was right behind me. But after a few minutes the
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  Speaker 1: conversation fizzled out and we just walked in silence for
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  Speaker 1: a while, still right by each other, but just not talking.
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  Speaker 1: The trail went straight for a long time, and it
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  Speaker 1: was after a good forty five minutes that I realized
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  Speaker 1: how far Wheat walked. Knowing it was only supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be a two hour trail, I thought by now it
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  Speaker 1: would have started looping around. While I was just starting
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  Speaker 1: to think about this, I stumbled over something. It was
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  Speaker 1: a rusty railroad track, half buried in the dirt. I
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  Speaker 1: was surprised and looked back up, seeing not too far
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  Speaker 1: away from the trail an abandoned mine. It was this
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  Speaker 1: small hole going into the hill with three old wooden
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  Speaker 1: beams around the entrance in some railway tracks going into it.
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  Speaker 1: I walked up and looked inside, but the light from
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  Speaker 1: outside didn't go very far at all. It was pitch black,
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  Speaker 1: with no way to know how far down it went.
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  Speaker 1: As I stood outside the entrance, the man came up
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  Speaker 1: behind me. I turned around and saw him standing just
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  Speaker 1: a couple feet from me. But his face was straight,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know how to describe it, but he
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  Speaker 1: no longer had that harmless look. Go, he said, in
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  Speaker 1: an eerily monotone voice that was nothing like how he
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  Speaker 1: was speaking before. It was demanding and terrifying. I took
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  Speaker 1: off running without hesitation. He tried to reach out and
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  Speaker 1: stop me, but once I got a few feet away,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't hear him chasing me. As I entered the trees,
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  Speaker 1: I looked back and the man was gone. He must
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  Speaker 1: have went right into the abandoned mine. I ran all
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  Speaker 1: the way back to the first part of the trail,
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  Speaker 1: then got back to my car and left the forest.
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  Speaker 1: That being my first real experience outside of my hometown,
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  Speaker 1: was really unfortunate, but I think it taught me a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I blindly trusted a random person I just met, and
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  Speaker 1: it could have been the last thing I ever did.
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  Speaker 1: If I went into that mine, I don't think I
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  Speaker 1: would have ever left. This was in twenty sixteen. I
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  Speaker 1: was living alone in a small home on the countryside.
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  Speaker 1: Rarely would anyone come by my house unless it was
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  Speaker 1: a delivery person. This day, I had gotten out of
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  Speaker 1: work at eight and made the long drive home, arriving
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  Speaker 1: around nine. As I went down the dirt driveway and
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  Speaker 1: got up to my house, though a woman was standing
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  Speaker 1: at the front door, I was rightfully startled to see
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  Speaker 1: someone at my house so late in the day and
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't even a car anywhere. I parked on the
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  Speaker 1: driveway and got out cautiously looking around as I walked
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  Speaker 1: up to the front door. The woman looked like she
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  Speaker 1: was in her late twenties and had a large smile
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  Speaker 1: on her face, waving at me as I approached her.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing here? I think you have the
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  Speaker 1: wrong house, I said, stepping past her and putting myself
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  Speaker 1: between her and the front door. She said she was
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  Speaker 1: trying to get some directions from here to get into town.
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  Speaker 1: It was a strange request since she had no car,
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  Speaker 1: and it didn't answer the question as to why she
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  Speaker 1: was way out here at my house. Regardless, I told
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  Speaker 1: her to go down to the road and make a left,
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  Speaker 1: and that it would take her all the way into
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  Speaker 1: the center of town. She looked at me, still smiling,
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  Speaker 1: and thanked me, but instead of walking away, she tried
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  Speaker 1: to keep talking to me. It was unmistakably in a
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  Speaker 1: flirty manner, which in this context was almost creepy in
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  Speaker 1: a way. I tried to cut off the conversation multiple times,
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  Speaker 1: but then she asked if she could stay with me
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  Speaker 1: and warm up for a little bit. I obviously said no.
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  Speaker 1: She still smiled though, and tried to convince me, but
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  Speaker 1: I again stated that I would not let her in.
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  Speaker 1: Then I opened the door, going inside and locking it
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  Speaker 1: behind me. I even debated calling the police because everything
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  Speaker 1: about this was really strange. However, I heard her walk
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  Speaker 1: off the porch and watched out the window as she
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  Speaker 1: went down the driveway and faded out into the dark,
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  Speaker 1: heading toward the road. Seeing she finally left, I left
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  Speaker 1: the window and grabbed a drink, then sat on the
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  Speaker 1: couch and tried to forget about it. I opened my
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  Speaker 1: laptop and put on a Netflix show while I wound
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  Speaker 1: down for the night. I was really tired and I
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  Speaker 1: dozed off maybe fifteen minutes it's in, but shot awake
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  Speaker 1: to a knock at the door. There was only a
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  Speaker 1: few seconds before they knocked again, and then a woman's
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  Speaker 1: voice called out, asking for me to come to the door.
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  Speaker 1: I knew it was the same woman from earlier, but
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  Speaker 1: I got up and rather than going to answer the door,
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  Speaker 1: I went to the window. I was just going up
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  Speaker 1: to confirm it was her before calling the police to
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  Speaker 1: take care of this. But when I looked out of
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  Speaker 1: the window, there were almost a dozen men standing outside
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  Speaker 1: my house. Some were scattered around in the trees on
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  Speaker 1: the side of the driveway, and others were right up
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  Speaker 1: near my house, waiting by the porch. I called the
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  Speaker 1: police and was literally shaking as I waited, hearing them
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  Speaker 1: moving around the house and talking to each other. One
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  Speaker 1: of them mentioned something about another house, but I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: figure out anything else on why they were here. They
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  Speaker 1: never tried to break in, though the woman kept knocking
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  Speaker 1: and calling out for me, but that was all. When
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  Speaker 1: a patrol car finally came down the driveway, all of
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  Speaker 1: them sprinted into the woods in a direction that led
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  Speaker 1: to nothing but denser woods. Eventually, though, three days later,
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  Speaker 1: I found out some unfortunate and horrifying news. One of
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  Speaker 1: my neighbors that lived in a house down the road
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  Speaker 1: was missing. After no sign of him, they found his
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  Speaker 1: front door unlocked and his house looked normal, like there
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  Speaker 1: was no forceful break in. I think he may have
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  Speaker 1: fallen victim to exactly what happened to me, which makes
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  Speaker 1: my encounter with those people even more terrifying, knowing that
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  Speaker 1: I could have been missing. Right now. I'm an uber
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  Speaker 1: driver in my city and was working a later shift
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  Speaker 1: than usual this night. I had something come up in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, so I didn't get started until well past
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  Speaker 1: eight pm. This was my first time ever working this late,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't really know what to expect as far
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  Speaker 1: as how busy or not busy it was going to be.
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  Speaker 1: I got my answer pretty quick, though, because by eleven
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  Speaker 1: i'd only done four drives. I was even thinking about
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  Speaker 1: switching over to Uber Eats for the night and seeing
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  Speaker 1: if I had better luck there. But then another pickup
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  Speaker 1: request came through. It was a thirty five minute drive,
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  Speaker 1: which was good for me because it meant i'd get
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  Speaker 1: paid more. I accepted it and pulled into the pickup location.
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  Speaker 1: It was a train station a few minutes from me.
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  Speaker 1: I drove through the parking lot slowly looking around for
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  Speaker 1: any signs of the person I was supposed to pick up.
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  Speaker 1: After making a full circle through the lot and still
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  Speaker 1: not seeing them, I parked and just waited. There wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a single car in the parking lot, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: even think any passenger trains were running at this time
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  Speaker 1: of night. I thought they might have even set the
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  Speaker 1: wrong location, But before I texted them, I saw a
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  Speaker 1: man coming up to my car. He had a dark
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  Speaker 1: sweatshirt on with the hood over his head, and aside
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  Speaker 1: from confirming the ride was for him, he didn't speak.
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  Speaker 1: I began the drive, and the man stayed quiet in
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  Speaker 1: the back seat, not even taking his phone out or anything.
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  Speaker 1: He just sat there looking ahead. I didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: be that that always tried to make conversation, so I
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  Speaker 1: just drove and stayed quiet as well. While driving, a
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  Speaker 1: couple times I quickly glanced at him in the mirror.
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  Speaker 1: His eyes were staring directly back at me. This wasn't
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  Speaker 1: an uncommon occurrence when driving people around, but for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: with this guy, it felt really unnerving. He didn't look
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  Speaker 1: away either. He stared at me until I looked away.
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  Speaker 1: After a pretty unsettling thirty five minute drive, I finally
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  Speaker 1: got to the drop off location. It wasn't an address,
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  Speaker 1: it was a specific location that the man had pinpointed
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  Speaker 1: on the map. This specific location was at the end
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  Speaker 1: of an open field that was covered in dense fog.
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  Speaker 1: I looked back in the mirror, seeing the guy staying
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  Speaker 1: in the car and not moving get out. Not sure
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  Speaker 1: if I heard him right, I turned my body and
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  Speaker 1: looked at him. He looked me in the eyes with
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  Speaker 1: a terrifying stare and set it again. Get out. I
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  Speaker 1: felt my body tense up and before I could think
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  Speaker 1: of what to do. I saw from the corner of
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  Speaker 1: my eye multiple other guys running up to my car.
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  Speaker 1: There were two or three of them, all holding bats
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  Speaker 1: or knives and wearing dark hoodies that covered their faces.
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  Speaker 1: They swarmed my car just as I put it in drive,
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  Speaker 1: but they were able to get the two back doors
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  Speaker 1: open and tried to jump in. The man inside the
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  Speaker 1: car was yelling at me and trying to reach over
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  Speaker 1: and open my door, probably to push me out. As
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  Speaker 1: I started gaining some speed though and getting away from
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  Speaker 1: the group, the man inside fell into the back seat
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  Speaker 1: again and then jumped out onto the road. All the
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  Speaker 1: men disappeared to the fog right after that. I kept going,
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  Speaker 1: pulling into a gas station a few miles down the road.
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  Speaker 1: Both of the back doors were still open and swinging around,
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  Speaker 1: and there were dents all over my car that I
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  Speaker 1: think they did while I was driving off. An officer
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  Speaker 1: met me at the gas station to take my report,
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  Speaker 1: and another went to the field that happened at, but
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  Speaker 1: the whole group was nowhere to be found. They did
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  Speaker 1: find a phone on the road, though, which was the
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  Speaker 1: one used to book the uber. It probably fell out
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  Speaker 1: of the guy's pocket. When he jumped from my car,
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  Speaker 1: but it turned out to be a phone that was
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  Speaker 1: reported stolen not even an hour before I picked up
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  Speaker 1: the guy. This seemed to all be an elaborate plan
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  Speaker 1: to rob a bunch of people, including me. Though it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to assume they would have just let me go
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  Speaker 1: with no harm done and let me contact the police
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  Speaker 1: right away, they probably would have done something to ensure
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  Speaker 1: they had the time to get away in my car
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  Speaker 1: without getting caught. I don't know what would have happened,
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  Speaker 1: but I know I barely got away that night.