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Top 3 SCARIEST true stories Spooky Stories Part 2 · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share three stories that scared me.
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. In 2010, Kayla was a
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Speaker 1: senior at the University of California Santa Barbara, a big
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Speaker 1: party school. And one Friday evening, Kayla and her friends
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Speaker 1: were at a big party, and Kayla was having a
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Speaker 1: great time, but she was starting to feel really tired.
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Speaker 1: And so she asked her friends if maybe they wanted
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Speaker 1: to leave early, but none of them did. And so
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Speaker 1: Kayla left on her own. Luckily, her house was just
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Speaker 1: down the road, and so she was at her front
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Speaker 1: door in a matter of minutes. That night, her two roommates,
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Speaker 1: who were also college seniors... had decided to stay in
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Speaker 1: and just have a nice night with a couple of
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Speaker 1: friends having some wine. And so when Kayla walked inside,
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Speaker 1: she happened to turn to the right, and she looked
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Speaker 1: on the closest wall where there was a sofa, and
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Speaker 1: she saw there was a guy laying there with a
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Speaker 1: blanket up to his chin, and his eyes were wide open.
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Speaker 1: She didn't recognize him, but he was staring at her,
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Speaker 1: and she figured, oh, he must be a friend of
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Speaker 1: her roommate's. But as she walked across the room, she
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Speaker 1: kind of glanced back at him, and he had pulled
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Speaker 1: the covers down slightly, and he had lifted his head up,
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Speaker 1: and he was staring at her kind of menacingly. And
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Speaker 1: so Kayla got a really bad vibe from this guy
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Speaker 1: and just kind of hustled into her room, shut the
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Speaker 1: door behind her, and locked it, something she never did.
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Speaker 1: And a few minutes later, she was in her bed,
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Speaker 1: and she was passed out. A couple of hours later,
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Speaker 1: she woke up to what sounded like tapping on wood.
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Speaker 1: And so she sat up in her bed, and she's
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Speaker 1: kind of looking around. She had a couple drinks the
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Speaker 1: night before, and she's half asleep, so she's a bit disoriented.
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Speaker 1: But finally, when she gets her bearings, she realizes this
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Speaker 1: tapping sound is the sound of someone drumming their fingers
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Speaker 1: on the outside of her door. And so she's looking
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Speaker 1: at her door, wondering who would be doing that, and
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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden the drumming stops, and it's
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Speaker 1: replaced by the sound of this person scratching on the
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Speaker 1: outside of the door. And so now Kayla's thinking, okay,
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Speaker 1: you know, is this guy who was out on that couch,
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Speaker 1: is he playing a joke on me? And so she's
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Speaker 1: sitting there wondering if she should just go over there
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Speaker 1: and open the door and tell him to stop. But
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Speaker 1: before she gets out of her bed, the scratching gets
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Speaker 1: louder and louder and louder until it's so loud that
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Speaker 1: it's kind of menacing. And so Kayla decides she's not
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Speaker 1: going to go out there. And so instead, she pulls
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Speaker 1: out her phone and she texts her roommate and says, hey,
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Speaker 1: can you please come out in the living room and
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Speaker 1: take care of your friend who's harassing me? But she
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Speaker 1: doesn't get a response from that roommate. And the scratching
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Speaker 1: is just still loud as ever. And so she texts
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Speaker 1: her other roommate the same message. Come out and take
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Speaker 1: care of your buddy here. But again, she doesn't get
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Speaker 1: a response. And now the scratching on the door has stopped,
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Speaker 1: and it's been replaced by jiggling of her doorknob. And
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Speaker 1: so now Kayla is just mad, because this is obviously
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Speaker 1: a prank, and it's a dumb prank. And so she
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Speaker 1: yells out, hey, stop! But it doesn't do anything. And
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Speaker 1: so now Kayla's like, okay, I gotta call my roommates,
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Speaker 1: wake them up, they'll come out, and they'll handle it.
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Speaker 1: And so she calls one of her roommates and they
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Speaker 1: do pick up this time. And Kayla angrily tells them, hey,
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Speaker 1: come out into the living room and tell your friend
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Speaker 1: to knock it off. He's totally harassing me. And her
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Speaker 1: roommate was confused. She's trying to make sense of what
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Speaker 1: Kayla's saying. And she says, Kayla, you know, what are
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Speaker 1: you talking about? What friend are you talking about? And
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Speaker 1: Kayla says, the guy sleeping on the couch, the guy
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Speaker 1: in our living room sleeping on the couch. And her
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Speaker 1: roommate said, Kayla, we didn't have anybody over last night.
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Speaker 1: Is somebody out there? You need to call the police.
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Speaker 1: Kayla's adrenaline surged, and she very calmly told her roommate,
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Speaker 1: lock your door immediately. And right then she noticed the
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Speaker 1: jiggling of her doorknob and the scratching, and it all stopped.
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Speaker 1: And Kayla's wondering, you know, where did this guy go?
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Speaker 1: And then after a couple of seconds, she heard extremely
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Speaker 1: loud banging coming from across the house where her two
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Speaker 1: roommates shared a room. And it was the sound of
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Speaker 1: this guy trying to smash down their door. And so
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Speaker 1: Kayla's screaming. Her roommates are screaming. Kayla manages to dial
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Speaker 1: up 911. And before long, there are sirens outside. And
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Speaker 1: Kayla hears the sound of this guy run across the house.
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Speaker 1: And she hears the sliding door open and shut. The
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Speaker 1: police come inside. They search the property. And there's no
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Speaker 1: sign of this guy. And so Kayla and the roommates
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Speaker 1: come outside. They talk to the police. And the police
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Speaker 1: bring them over to their side door. And they show
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Speaker 1: them on the outside, there was all sorts of scratch
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Speaker 1: marks all over the doorknob. and right around the latch.
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Speaker 1: And they said it looks like he was able to
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Speaker 1: jimmy his way into your house through this door. And
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Speaker 1: so then they asked the girls to give their statement
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Speaker 1: about what happened, and they started with Kayla. They went
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Speaker 1: over to her bedroom door so she could demonstrate what happened,
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Speaker 1: and that's when they noticed there were all these scratch
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Speaker 1: marks and gouge marks all over the outside of her
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Speaker 1: bedroom door, and all over the doorknob, and all over
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Speaker 1: the latch. And on the ground was a pair of
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Speaker 1: scissors and a knife. And the police told Kayla that
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Speaker 1: it looks like he used those scissors and that knife
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Speaker 1: to open up the side door, and he was trying
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Speaker 1: to use those tools again to open up her door,
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Speaker 1: but for whatever reason, he just couldn't do it. They
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Speaker 1: told Kayla that most likely when she went in the
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Speaker 1: front door, she caught this guy off guard. Maybe he
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Speaker 1: was trying to rob the place, maybe he had just
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Speaker 1: broken in, but either way, Kayla got in and ruined
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Speaker 1: his plans. And so he leapt onto that sofa, the
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Speaker 1: one against that inner wall, to kind of tuck himself
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Speaker 1: away in hopes that maybe Kayla wouldn't look over and
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Speaker 1: see him. And they told her that most likely when
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Speaker 1: she made eye contact with him, she became a witness
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Speaker 1: and therefore a target of opportunity. And had she not
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Speaker 1: locked her door, who knows what would have happened. In 2004,
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Speaker 1: 16-year-old Misty Tasker was a typical American teenager living in
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Speaker 1: Live Oak, Florida, which is a small rural town right
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the state. One Saturday evening in January,
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Speaker 1: she and her mother attended a church service. Afterwards, they
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Speaker 1: hopped in her mother's truck and they got on the
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Speaker 1: country highway and began making their way home. Their house
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Speaker 1: was just 20 minutes down this highway, it was a
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Speaker 1: straight shot, and this highway was pretty desolate. There were
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Speaker 1: no street lights, it was actually a dirt road despite
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Speaker 1: being a highway, and it was just thick forest on
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Speaker 1: both sides of the road the entire way. There were
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Speaker 1: no buildings or houses, between the church and their neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: Misty's mother was already a very anxious driver who would
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Speaker 1: keep both hands on the wheel. She would sit up
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Speaker 1: and kind of hunch over the wheel and keep her
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Speaker 1: eyes intently focused on the road. But at night, her
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Speaker 1: driving anxiety would shoot through the roof because she had
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Speaker 1: really bad eyesight. And so she would go to great
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Speaker 1: lengths to not drive at night to avoid that high
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Speaker 1: level of anxiety. But the church service they had just
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Speaker 1: come from had run a little bit long. And so
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Speaker 1: now Misty's mother is driving with the sun starting to
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Speaker 1: set And she's going as fast as she can to
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Speaker 1: try to get home before it gets too dark. And
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Speaker 1: so as they're bombing down this road at about 55
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Speaker 1: miles an hour, despite it being about a 40 mile
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Speaker 1: per hour zone, Misty, who's in the passenger seat, just
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Speaker 1: happens to look over at her mother for no particular reason.
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Speaker 1: And as she's looking at her, she notices out her
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Speaker 1: mother's window, it looks like there's a little girl sitting
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Speaker 1: on the side of the road. What's a child doing
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Speaker 1: out here in the middle of nowhere? She says to
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Speaker 1: her mom, I think I just saw a little girl.
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Speaker 1: And Misty's mother, who's high up on the wheel, she
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Speaker 1: did not hear Misty the first time. She's just focused
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Speaker 1: on driving and trying to get home. And so Misty
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Speaker 1: says again, I think I just saw a little girl.
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Speaker 1: We need to go back. I don't know what she's doing,
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Speaker 1: but I feel like we need to go back and
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Speaker 1: make sure she's okay. And so Misty's mom looks over
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Speaker 1: at her and she's not prepared to turn the car around.
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Speaker 1: That means staying out later. And it means she's going
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Speaker 1: to be driving in even darker conditions. And so she's like,
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Speaker 1: did you really see someone? Cause we got to get home.
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Speaker 1: And Misty's like, mom, I'm pretty sure I saw a
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Speaker 1: little girl. We have to go back. And so finally
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Speaker 1: Misty's mother, she's very annoyed, but she stops the car.
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Speaker 1: She does a three point turn. and she begins driving
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Speaker 1: back up the road where they came from towards this girl. Now,
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Speaker 1: they had only made it about a half mile from
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Speaker 1: where Misty believed she had seen this girl. And so
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Speaker 1: pretty quickly, they slowed down because Misty said, I think
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Speaker 1: she's in this area. And they both began scanning the
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Speaker 1: right side of the road because that's where she's going
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Speaker 1: to be now that they've turned around. Now, it was
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Speaker 1: starting to get very dark outside, but there was enough
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Speaker 1: light and they had headlights. They were pretty confident they'd
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Speaker 1: be able to spot this girl. And so as they're
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Speaker 1: slow rolling down the road, they both see this girl
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Speaker 1: a little ways up on the right-hand side. Her back
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Speaker 1: was to the road. She had her knees tucked up
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Speaker 1: to her chest and she was rocking back and forth.
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Speaker 1: Misty's mother made a comment that, it was a little
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Speaker 1: bit surprising that this girl was out here. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's really nothing around here. There's no houses, there's no buildings,
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Speaker 1: there's no trails to be walking in in this forest
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Speaker 1: on either side. It was just kind of thick forest.
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Speaker 1: And so she just thought it was very strange that
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Speaker 1: this girl would even be out here, especially because there's
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Speaker 1: not any traffic on this road. And so Misty's mother
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Speaker 1: began slowly rolling up to her and she told her
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Speaker 1: daughter that instead of just stopping right away, let's just
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Speaker 1: drive past her and get a look at her. and
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Speaker 1: then we'll turn around and see if she needs any help.
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Speaker 1: And so as they got right up next to her,
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Speaker 1: they realized she was not a little girl. She was
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Speaker 1: a young teenager, but she was not a young, young child.
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Speaker 1: And as they drove right past her, they would expect
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Speaker 1: her to turn around and acknowledge the car creeping up
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Speaker 1: on her, considering there's no other traffic in the area,
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Speaker 1: and you're just some person sitting on the side of
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Speaker 1: the road. You should definitely turn around and see what's
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Speaker 1: behind you. But the girl did not acknowledge them. She
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Speaker 1: just continued to have her knees up to her chest
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Speaker 1: and rocked back and forth. And so Misty and her
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Speaker 1: mother are a little bit freaked out by this, but
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Speaker 1: they drive past her about 50 meters. Misty's mother does
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Speaker 1: a three-point turn. And when they're looking back down the
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Speaker 1: road where the girl should now be on their left-hand side,
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Speaker 1: they're oriented back towards their house now. She wasn't there anymore.
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Speaker 1: But there were no streetlights. It was now almost completely
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Speaker 1: pitch dark outside. And so all they had was the headlights.
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Speaker 1: And so Misty told her mom, you know, drive up
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Speaker 1: a little ways. Maybe the girl stood up and moved
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Speaker 1: and we just can't see her because she's not in
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Speaker 1: the headlights. And so Misty's mom began driving down the
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Speaker 1: road and kind of turning slightly towards the left to
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Speaker 1: shine the light more to the left, but there was
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Speaker 1: no sign of this girl. For good measure, they turned
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Speaker 1: right slightly to shine the lights more to the right-hand
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Speaker 1: side of the road, but there was no sign of
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Speaker 1: this girl. And so Misty and her mother just slow
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Speaker 1: roll back down the road, kind of keeping their eye
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Speaker 1: out on both sides. but after traveling for several minutes,
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Speaker 1: going about 5-10 miles an hour, and seeing no sign
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Speaker 1: of this girl, they decided that, well, she must have
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Speaker 1: just gone back into the woods and gone back to
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Speaker 1: wherever it was she came from. And so Misty's mom
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Speaker 1: began picking up speed, and before long, they had gone
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Speaker 1: maybe two or three miles away from where they had
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Speaker 1: seen this girl, And they were coming up to this
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Speaker 1: four-way intersection with stop signs all around. And as they
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Speaker 1: were getting close, Misty's mother gasped because on the other
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Speaker 1: side of the intersection, on the right-hand side, was this
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Speaker 1: girl sitting on the side of the road. She's got
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Speaker 1: her back to the road, her knees are up, and
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Speaker 1: she's rocking back and forth. And so Misty's mother pulls
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Speaker 1: up the stop sign and then just sits there. And
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Speaker 1: both women are just stunned at what they're looking at.
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Speaker 1: They had just seen her two, three miles back down
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Speaker 1: the road. It wasn't possible for her to get all
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Speaker 1: the way up here. And so Misty's mother looks at
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Speaker 1: her daughter and says, you know, do you think it's
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Speaker 1: a different girl? And Misty's like, no, that's the same girl.
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Speaker 1: So they just sat there for a minute until Misty
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Speaker 1: started to panic. And she said to her mom, mom,
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Speaker 1: don't stop. I got a bad feeling about this girl.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on, but You can't stop
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Speaker 1: next to this girl. But Misty's mom, she was definitely
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Speaker 1: weirded out by the situation, no doubt. But she didn't
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Speaker 1: feel good about abandoning this girl in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the night on the side of the highway. And so
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Speaker 1: even though she felt a little bit hesitant herself, she
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Speaker 1: told Misty, you know, we have to at least drive
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Speaker 1: past her and ask if she's okay. That's the least
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Speaker 1: we can do. And Misty was not having it. She said, mom,
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Speaker 1: do not stop. I got a bad feeling about this.
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Speaker 1: Don't stop near this girl. But Misty's mom let up
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Speaker 1: off the brake. began slow rolling past this intersection and
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Speaker 1: now at this point Misty is just absolutely terrified and
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Speaker 1: so she takes her seat belt off and she goes
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Speaker 1: down into the footwell right in front of her seat
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Speaker 1: and she closes her eyes and covers her ears and
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Speaker 1: she just continues to beg her mother to just please
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Speaker 1: keep going don't stop but her mother just continues on
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Speaker 1: until she stops right next to this girl who's still
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Speaker 1: just sitting on the side of the road with her
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Speaker 1: back to the road she's got her knees up she's
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Speaker 1: rocking back and forth She's not acknowledging Misty or her mother.
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Speaker 1: And so Misty's mother turns to her daughter and says,
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Speaker 1: please roll down your window. And Misty refuses. She's still
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Speaker 1: down in the footwell, still in the fetal position. She's
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Speaker 1: crying and she's still begging her mother to please just
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Speaker 1: go home. And so Misty's mother, frustrated, reaches across the
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Speaker 1: passenger seat and grabs the knob to roll down the
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Speaker 1: window manually. So she rolls the window down and Misty,
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Speaker 1: who's down in the footwell, all she remembers is sitting
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Speaker 1: there covering up her ears and she's crying and she
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Speaker 1: opens her eyes and And she's looking up towards her
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Speaker 1: mom who's reaching over the seat. And her mom yells
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Speaker 1: out to this girl. And Misty remembers looking at her
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Speaker 1: mom who suddenly recoils in horror and screams. And then
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Speaker 1: they take off like crazy, flying down the road. Misty
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Speaker 1: jumps out of the footwell and she's looking at her
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Speaker 1: mom and she's like, what's happening? What just happened? What
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Speaker 1: did you see? And her mom's got her hand over
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Speaker 1: her mouth and she's speeding down the road and she's
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Speaker 1: crying now. And she's looking at Misty and she just
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Speaker 1: doesn't have the words to describe what she just saw.
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Speaker 1: And so Misty's asking her mom, what did you see?
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Speaker 1: What happened? And finally, her mother just said, She didn't
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Speaker 1: have a face. She didn't have a face. It was hollow.
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Speaker 1: There was nothing on her face when she looked at me.
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Speaker 1: And so Misty screams, and she's crying, and her mom
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Speaker 1: is crying, and they speed home. They're home just a
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Speaker 1: couple of minutes later, and they run inside, practically falling
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Speaker 1: over each other to get in the house. And as
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Speaker 1: soon as they get inside, Misty's mom calls 911, and
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Speaker 1: she didn't even know how to describe what she just saw.
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Speaker 1: But she knew it was too embarrassing to try to
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Speaker 1: describe it as some girl without a face sitting by
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Speaker 1: the highway. And so she just told the police that
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Speaker 1: they had seen a girl they think needs help. And
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Speaker 1: so the police, they went out and they searched that
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Speaker 1: entire stretch of highway. They looked for any sign of
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Speaker 1: anybody out there, but there wasn't. There was never any
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Speaker 1: trace of that girl. In 2016, a 25-year-old Wall Street
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Speaker 1: banker named Matt was camping near Mount Rainier in Washington State.
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Speaker 1: His job was so hectic that in the rare times
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Speaker 1: he got a chance to, he would disappear into the
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Speaker 1: wilderness for a few days to clear his head. Despite
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Speaker 1: living in one of the biggest cities in the world,
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Speaker 1: Matt was actually a very competent outdoorsman. And so for
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Speaker 1: this trip, he decided he would stay way off any
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Speaker 1: trail deep in the back country in random locations. On
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Speaker 1: the first night, he found a nice clearing in the trees,
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Speaker 1: and so he set up his campsite there. He ate
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Speaker 1: some food over his fire, he pitched his tent, climbed inside,
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Speaker 1: and within a few minutes, he was fast asleep. Several
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Speaker 1: hours later, Matt woke up to some strange sounds coming
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Speaker 1: from outside of his tent. It sounded like a couple
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Speaker 1: of animals or maybe one animal moving around right outside.
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Speaker 1: And so after a while of just hearing this constant sound,
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Speaker 1: He rolled over and he barely unzipped his tent flap
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Speaker 1: just to look out and see if he could see
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Speaker 1: whatever animal it was. And what he saw shocked him.
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Speaker 1: There was a man sitting in front of his fire pit.
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Speaker 1: There was no fire in his fire pit. And the
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Speaker 1: guy was just sitting there with his hands on his
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Speaker 1: knees looking straight down. And periodically he would just kick
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Speaker 1: his feet in the ashes of the fire pit. And
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Speaker 1: Matt didn't even know what to do. So he's just
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Speaker 1: looking at him through this little tiny gap in his tent.
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Speaker 1: And this man all of a sudden looks up directly
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Speaker 1: at Matt and makes eye contact with him. And the
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Speaker 1: guy's eyes go wide, and he stands up, turns around,
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Speaker 1: and runs away from Matt's campsite. Matt has no idea
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Speaker 1: how to react to this, and so he just quickly
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Speaker 1: unzips his tent, jumps outside, and shines his light into
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Speaker 1: the forest, looking for this guy. He's thinking to himself,
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Speaker 1: who is this guy? I am in the middle of
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Speaker 1: nowhere in the backcountry of Washington State. How long was
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Speaker 1: he sitting outside there for? What does he want? And
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Speaker 1: so as Matt is trying to make sense of this
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Speaker 1: totally weird thing, he's thinking, okay, I'm going to look
15:32
Speaker 1: out and I'm going to see his flashlight somewhere. Or
15:34
Speaker 1: I'm going to see his campsite. You know, maybe he's
15:37
Speaker 1: set up nearby and he's looking around into the total darkness.
15:40
Speaker 1: He's looking through all the trees, any light source, anywhere
15:44
Speaker 1: out there he would see. And there's not one. There's
15:46
Speaker 1: no fire. There's no flashlight. There is nothing. And so
15:49
Speaker 1: eventually Matt goes back inside of his tent. He zips
15:52
Speaker 1: it up and he's just left kind of dumbfounded. He
15:55
Speaker 1: can't understand how some person was just sitting outside of
15:59
Speaker 1: his tent for no apparent reason and then vanished into
16:02
Speaker 1: the forest without even turning on a flashlight. And so
16:04
Speaker 1: after a very restless night, finally the sun came up
16:08
Speaker 1: again and Matt was very relieved. He stepped outside. And
16:11
Speaker 1: after a little bit of time now from this strange incident,
16:14
Speaker 1: Matt started to tell himself that all that was is
16:17
Speaker 1: some guy happened to set up his campsite nearby. It
16:20
Speaker 1: is possible, albeit rare, because we're in the backcountry. And
16:23
Speaker 1: maybe he was just intoxicated and he wandered over here and,
16:27
Speaker 1: you know, stranger things have happened. So that's probably all
16:29
Speaker 1: it was. And so Matt felt like there was nothing
16:32
Speaker 1: to worry about. He packed up his campsite and he
16:34
Speaker 1: began hiking into the forest. Matt didn't have a planned route. Instead,
16:38
Speaker 1: he had a map and a compass. And he began
16:40
Speaker 1: just kind of wandering in the forest, kind of exploring
16:42
Speaker 1: wherever he wanted to go. And over the next two days,
16:45
Speaker 1: he covered at least 10, maybe 15 miles in kind
16:49
Speaker 1: of random zigzag directions. He found a nice clearing, and
16:52
Speaker 1: he set up another campsite. That night, he set up
16:55
Speaker 1: a fire, and he was eating some food near his fire,
16:57
Speaker 1: and then as he's sitting there, he hears rustling coming
16:59
Speaker 1: from behind him. He's pretty sure it's an animal, so
17:02
Speaker 1: he turns around, and he doesn't see anything. And he
17:04
Speaker 1: goes back to eating his food. And then a little
17:06
Speaker 1: while later, he hears some more rustling behind him. And
17:08
Speaker 1: this time, he can't really just write it off. Clearly,
17:10
Speaker 1: there is something behind him that's moving around. And so
17:13
Speaker 1: he stood up, turned around, and remained motionless and just listened,
17:17
Speaker 1: expecting to see maybe a deer come out of the woods.
17:19
Speaker 1: But instead, he hears a man's voice come out of
17:22
Speaker 1: the darkness that says, Do you know how to get
17:25
Speaker 1: to Bell's Canyon? And Matt's heart starts racing. He knows
17:28
Speaker 1: that even though he can't see him, it has to
17:31
Speaker 1: be the same guy he saw two days ago. Because
17:33
Speaker 1: they are in the middle of nowhere. He hasn't seen
17:36
Speaker 1: any other hikers or campers or anyone. And clearly this
17:39
Speaker 1: guy has the ability to sneak up on him. And
17:42
Speaker 1: so he's thinking, what does this guy want? I just
17:44
Speaker 1: spent the past two days hiking in random directions for
17:48
Speaker 1: 15 miles and he must have followed me. And so Matt,
17:52
Speaker 1: not knowing what else to do, just says, I don't
17:54
Speaker 1: know where Bell's Canyon is. And then there's silence. And Matt,
17:58
Speaker 1: one part of him is thinking, I hope this guy
18:00
Speaker 1: does not come into the light. I hope he just
18:02
Speaker 1: goes away. The other part of him is thinking, well,
18:04
Speaker 1: you know, maybe this is a different person that is lost,
18:08
Speaker 1: and they're looking for this place called Bell's Canyon, and
18:10
Speaker 1: they'll come into the light, it'll be a big relief,
18:12
Speaker 1: I'll send them on their merry way, and everything will
18:14
Speaker 1: be fine. But as Matt is having this wishful thinking,
18:17
Speaker 1: the voice from the shadows does not come any closer...
18:20
Speaker 1: but instead asked the same question a bit more forcefully
18:24
Speaker 1: this time. Do you know how to get to Bell's Canyon?
18:26
Speaker 1: This time Matt did not respond. Now he was scared.
18:29
Speaker 1: This is not some friendly hiker looking for directions. There's
18:32
Speaker 1: something wrong. And so Matt, knowing he's all alone out here,
18:35
Speaker 1: he knew he had to do something to try to
18:37
Speaker 1: take control of this situation. And so he took a
18:40
Speaker 1: deep breath, he reached down and grabbed his flashlight, and
18:43
Speaker 1: in one swift motion he lifted his light up and
18:45
Speaker 1: shined it in the direction of this guy's voice. And
18:48
Speaker 1: what he saw was this guy from two days ago
18:51
Speaker 1: looking out from behind a tree right in Matt's direction.
18:54
Speaker 1: He was hiding from him. And when the light hit him,
18:56
Speaker 1: the man barked at Matt to aim it away. And
18:59
Speaker 1: Matt kind of instinctively lowered his light. But now he
19:01
Speaker 1: was too scared to raise it again. And now he
19:04
Speaker 1: knows it's the same guy. This guy has been following
19:08
Speaker 1: me for two days. And so for several minutes, Matt
19:11
Speaker 1: just stood there absolutely terrified. And this guy, he just
19:15
Speaker 1: stayed out there. Matt didn't hear a move. It was
19:17
Speaker 1: just a complete standstill. And then the silence was broken
19:21
Speaker 1: yet again by this voice, except somehow he had moved
19:25
Speaker 1: even closer to Matt. And when he came through, asking
19:28
Speaker 1: the same question, Do you know how to get to
19:30
Speaker 1: Bell's Canyon? His voice was so close to Matt that
19:33
Speaker 1: Matt got scared and raised his light up, and the
19:36
Speaker 1: man was standing just a few feet away from him.
19:38
Speaker 1: And this time, the man's eyes got wide like they
19:40
Speaker 1: did the first time they saw Matt, and he turned around,
19:43
Speaker 1: and he ran into the forest again. Matt, not knowing
19:46
Speaker 1: any better, just began running after him, but he only
19:48
Speaker 1: ran for about 30 seconds, before he realized the terrain
19:52
Speaker 1: out here is so rough. He's gonna fall, get hurt,
19:54
Speaker 1: he's gonna get lost, and this guy's already long gone.
19:57
Speaker 1: He somehow managed to run immediately so far away, and
20:01
Speaker 1: so Matt just goes back to his campsite, and he's
20:03
Speaker 1: thinking to himself, what do I do? I have no
20:06
Speaker 1: cell phone service. I'm at least three days away from
20:09
Speaker 1: my car and I'm in the middle of nowhere. No
20:12
Speaker 1: one even knows where I am because I didn't chart
20:14
Speaker 1: a course. I didn't tell anyone where I was going
20:16
Speaker 1: to be. And so Matt just grabbed his knife and
20:18
Speaker 1: stood in the middle of the campsite. And for hours
20:21
Speaker 1: and hours, he just kept looking around expecting this guy
20:24
Speaker 1: to just show up again or start speaking to him
20:27
Speaker 1: from somewhere out in the darkness. It was absolutely horrifying. Finally,
20:31
Speaker 1: by about three in the morning, Matt was so tired.
20:34
Speaker 1: that he had to go to sleep. He hadn't heard
20:36
Speaker 1: this guy again, he didn't see him again, and he figured,
20:39
Speaker 1: I need a little bit of sleep because tomorrow he's
20:42
Speaker 1: going to pack up his campsite and begin this epic
20:44
Speaker 1: journey back to his car. So he climbed in his tent,
20:46
Speaker 1: and he had a very restless next couple of hours,
20:49
Speaker 1: and the sun came up, Matt jumped out of his tent,
20:52
Speaker 1: packed up his stuff, and began practically running in the
20:55
Speaker 1: direction of his car. All day, as he was hiking,
20:57
Speaker 1: Matt kept looking over his shoulder, expecting to see this guy,
21:00
Speaker 1: because clearly he had followed him for multiple days over
21:03
Speaker 1: 15 miles, and so the likelihood that he's still following
21:07
Speaker 1: him was really high. And so all day, Matt just
21:10
Speaker 1: felt like he was being watched, he was totally terrified,
21:13
Speaker 1: and then the sun started to go down, and Matt
21:15
Speaker 1: knew he would have to camp out again. And so
21:17
Speaker 1: he found a clearing in the trees, he set up
21:19
Speaker 1: his campsite, and he was so tired from running basically
21:23
Speaker 1: all day and being so mentally exhausted from this experience
21:27
Speaker 1: that he just got in his tent and fell asleep
21:29
Speaker 1: very quickly. But several hours later, he woke up to
21:32
Speaker 1: the sound of somebody walking around his tent. And he
21:35
Speaker 1: knew it had to be this guy. He's still in
21:37
Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere. He's not even close to the
21:39
Speaker 1: parking lot yet. And so this guy is still following him.
21:43
Speaker 1: And so Matt sat up in his tent, he clutched
21:45
Speaker 1: his knife, And for hours and hours and hours all night,
21:49
Speaker 1: this guy just walked around his campsite. And then around
21:52
Speaker 1: 4 or 5 in the morning, he scampered off. When
21:54
Speaker 1: the sun finally came up, Matt leapt out of his tent,
21:57
Speaker 1: packed up his stuff, and literally just began running in
22:00
Speaker 1: the direction of his car, hoping that maybe he could
22:03
Speaker 1: get there before needing to camp out one more night.
22:05
Speaker 1: And so all day as he moved, he's looking over
22:07
Speaker 1: his shoulder, knowing this guy is following him. At this point,
22:11
Speaker 1: it's not even a question. He's somewhere in the forest,
22:13
Speaker 1: but he could never see him. And unfortunately, as the
22:16
Speaker 1: sun was setting, he knew he was not going to
22:18
Speaker 1: be able to make it to his car. He was
22:20
Speaker 1: just too far away. And so at some point, when
22:23
Speaker 1: it got too dark to keep moving, he had to
22:25
Speaker 1: find a clearing and set up his tent again. And
22:27
Speaker 1: so once his tent was set up, he just climbed inside,
22:29
Speaker 1: grabbed his knife, and sat there, knowing this guy was
22:33
Speaker 1: somewhere out there. And so Matt climbed inside of his tent,
22:35
Speaker 1: he zipped it up behind him, he grabbed his knife,
22:38
Speaker 1: and he sat there, expecting to hear this guy come
22:40
Speaker 1: walking around. But after several hours, he didn't hear him.
22:44
Speaker 1: And Matt started to wonder, maybe this guy has left
22:46
Speaker 1: me alone, finally. Maybe he's not following me anymore. And
22:49
Speaker 1: so Matt, who was totally exhausted, laid down to go
22:52
Speaker 1: to sleep. And then, as he's laying there from somewhere
22:54
Speaker 1: out in the woods... Do you know how to get
22:56
Speaker 1: to Bell's Canyon? Matt immediately sat up. His heart began
22:59
Speaker 1: racing so fast that he actually was concerned he might
23:02
Speaker 1: have a heart attack. And he didn't know what to do,
23:04
Speaker 1: he didn't know what to say, so he just sat
23:05
Speaker 1: there holding his knife. And then this guy began running
23:09
Speaker 1: past his campsite, making animal sounds... and he would stop
23:12
Speaker 1: periodically and moan and grunt and he'd pick up leaves
23:16
Speaker 1: and then he'd run past his campsite again over and
23:19
Speaker 1: over and over again until the sun finally came up
23:22
Speaker 1: and this guy scampered off back into the woods. Matt
23:24
Speaker 1: didn't waste any time. He leapt out of his tent,
23:26
Speaker 1: packed his stuff up and ran all the way back
23:29
Speaker 1: to his car. When he finally got inside of his car,
23:32
Speaker 1: shut the door and locked it, he cried tears of joy.
23:35
Speaker 1: He was so unbelievably relieved and he peeled out of
23:38
Speaker 1: the parking lot, he got to a nearby hotel He
23:41
Speaker 1: finally got cell phone reception and he considered calling the
23:44
Speaker 1: police about this guy, but he thought, you know, what
23:46
Speaker 1: am I going to tell them? He didn't commit a crime.
23:48
Speaker 1: He was just terrifying. And so he decided not to
23:51
Speaker 1: call the police. He finally flew back to New York
23:53
Speaker 1: and he just had to accept that there was some
23:56
Speaker 1: strange guy out in the wilderness of Washington state who
23:59
Speaker 1: was able to hunt him over three days and 30
24:02
Speaker 1: miles in rugged terrain without the use of a flashlight,
24:06
Speaker 1: without any gear. And all he ever said to Matt was,
24:09
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24:11
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