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3 True Rainy Night Drive Horror Stories Vol. 2 | Alone at Night That Will Leave You Paranoid · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: This happened when I was eighteen, making the road trip
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  Speaker 1: from my hometown to my new college. I had all
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  Speaker 1: my stuff shoved into the trunk and back seat of
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  Speaker 1: my cheap SUV. This was not only my first long
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  Speaker 1: road trip alone, but was also going to be my
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  Speaker 1: first time being away from my family for an extended
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  Speaker 1: amount of time, so my nerves were reasonably high. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the directions I was taking said it was six hundred
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  Speaker 1: miles total, which I split into two days of driving.
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  Speaker 1: I was taking whatever route the maps had me take,
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  Speaker 1: and it estimated i'd make it to the hotel at
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  Speaker 1: eleven p m. But with possible traffic, gas stops, and
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  Speaker 1: getting food, I knew i'd likely get there much later.
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  Speaker 1: By seven, the sun was fully gone and most of
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  Speaker 1: the cars were gone too. Every once in a while
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  Speaker 1: a car would pass by and I'd see their headlights
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  Speaker 1: slowly fade out in front of me, but for most
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  Speaker 1: of the drive it was just me. This actually made
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  Speaker 1: me really tired and bored. Around ten, I decided i'd
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  Speaker 1: stop at the next gas station before making the final
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  Speaker 1: stretch of the drive. About ten minutes later, I exited
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  Speaker 1: the road and entered a gas station, Being so far out.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't a town or anything. It was literally just
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  Speaker 1: a gas station with a few pumps in a tiny
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  Speaker 1: convenience store. I didn't see any other cars on the
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  Speaker 1: road or in the lot, and not even any lights
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  Speaker 1: from any nearby houses or buildings in the distance. I
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  Speaker 1: pulled right up to a pump and got out to
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  Speaker 1: start topping off my tank, and as I looked around,
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  Speaker 1: I almost got jump scared by a guy walking up
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  Speaker 1: to me. In comparison to myself, he was much older,
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  Speaker 1: probably fifties if I had to get and he honestly
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  Speaker 1: looked homeless. But regardless, being approached out here wasn't something
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  Speaker 1: I was expecting, and his short smile didn't make me
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  Speaker 1: feel any more comfortable. I do you need something, I said,
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  Speaker 1: hoping he wouldn't walk any closer. The man stopped a
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  Speaker 1: few feet from my car and looked around almost cautiously,
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  Speaker 1: before responding, take the exit back onto the highway. I
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  Speaker 1: looked at him, confused, not sure if I was understanding
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  Speaker 1: him right. He pointed behind me at the exit I
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  Speaker 1: came from and repeated himself, take the exit back onto
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  Speaker 1: the highway. After a second, I said okay, and the
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  Speaker 1: man walked off, but I was still really confused. The
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  Speaker 1: exit I came from that he wanted me to take
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  Speaker 1: again was a one way road, so by his logic,
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  Speaker 1: he wanted me to drive on the wrong side of
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  Speaker 1: the road and do a U turn back onto the highway.
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  Speaker 1: It just didn't make any sense. I looked out at
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  Speaker 1: the entrance road, the obvious one that I was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to take, and there were no signs of any construction
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  Speaker 1: or anything blocking it. It just looked like an empty
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  Speaker 1: ramp back onto the highway. As I put the pump
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  Speaker 1: back and got in my car, I glanced over at
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  Speaker 1: the man who was now just sitting against the side
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  Speaker 1: of the convenience store. The more I thought about it, though,
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  Speaker 1: the more crazy that man seemed just to be sitting
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  Speaker 1: out here saying nonsense. I thought maybe this was some
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  Speaker 1: kind of trap or something, so I went with my
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  Speaker 1: instinct and drove out of the lot and toward the
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  Speaker 1: entrance to the highway. As I merged onto it, though
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  Speaker 1: I realized pretty much all the street lights were out,
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  Speaker 1: I slowed down, thinking maybe this was a construction zone
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  Speaker 1: or something. I kept my eyes focused on the road
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  Speaker 1: directly ahead, making sure to be cautious of anything, but
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  Speaker 1: while I made my way through the unlit road, I
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  Speaker 1: saw only a brief outline of a figure to my
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  Speaker 1: left before a pickup truck came out of nowhere and
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  Speaker 1: stopped right in front of my car. Every door opened
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  Speaker 1: as four men jumped out of the truck and started
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  Speaker 1: running up to my car, holding weapons of all kinds,
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  Speaker 1: metal bats, machetes, knives, and not even anything covering their faces.
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  Speaker 1: They just had this emotionless gaze, like they felt nothing
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  Speaker 1: of what they were doing. I quickly started backing up
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  Speaker 1: as they got just a few feet away from my windows,
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  Speaker 1: and once I got far enough back, I suddenly saw
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  Speaker 1: the outline of dozens of people coming out of the
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  Speaker 1: shadows off the side of the road. A few even
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  Speaker 1: tried chasing my car as I frant reversed out of there.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as I could, I turned around and sped off.
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  Speaker 1: I called nine one one once I felt I was safe,
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  Speaker 1: but for some reason I never got a call back,
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  Speaker 1: no update on it at all, almost like they didn't
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  Speaker 1: even check on it. Ironically, though, it was the creepy
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  Speaker 1: old guy at the gas station that tried to prevent
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  Speaker 1: me from even getting caught up in that mess, or
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  Speaker 1: at least that was what I assumed he was doing.
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  Speaker 1: Either way, I was incredibly lucky to get out of
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  Speaker 1: that with my life, as I have no idea what
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  Speaker 1: that was or what they were all planning to do.
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  Speaker 1: It was a typical Friday after my college classes were
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  Speaker 1: out and I was spending the night doing door dash.
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  Speaker 1: This was my regular routine, dashing on the weekends to
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  Speaker 1: help me pay for all my living expenses while on campus.
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  Speaker 1: The night started well, getting a lot of orders done
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  Speaker 1: and making a good amount, and then it hit a
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  Speaker 1: stalemate after the big dinner rush, very few orders were
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  Speaker 1: showing up, and the ones that did they were very
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  Speaker 1: low paying, basically waste of time orders. But then, after
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  Speaker 1: an hour of aimlessly driving around, an order came through
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't too bad. It was eight miles away, but
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  Speaker 1: the payment was well worth it. It was nothing absurd,
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  Speaker 1: but enough to make it not a rip off like
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the other ones were. I accepted the
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  Speaker 1: order and ran into the restaurant to grab the bag,
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  Speaker 1: then hopped in my car and started driving. The map
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  Speaker 1: said it would take thirty minutes, which I think was
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  Speaker 1: the longest of any orders I'd done. Up until this point,
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  Speaker 1: most of the houses were right aroun on campus, because
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  Speaker 1: any further than fifteen to twenty minutes out it becomes
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  Speaker 1: pretty much just bare fields of grass. As I got
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  Speaker 1: to that twenty minute mark, it became just that very
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  Speaker 1: few houses, mostly sitting far out in fields of crops
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  Speaker 1: and nothing else. The rest of the ten minute drive
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  Speaker 1: was on this empty road going along these farms. Then
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  Speaker 1: I made it to the house. There was a dirt
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  Speaker 1: driveway connecting to the road, leading through a large field,
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  Speaker 1: and in the far back was a small house. Driving
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  Speaker 1: through the field felt very eerie. Even though I'm not
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  Speaker 1: one to get nervous without reason, this felt different. As
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  Speaker 1: I got further out from the road, the only sound
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  Speaker 1: was the low rumbling of my car on the dirt.
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  Speaker 1: I parked out front and got the back ready, then
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  Speaker 1: left the car on. As I stepped out, the night
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  Speaker 1: was quiet and the house was dark, having only the
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  Speaker 1: porch light on to illuminate the outside. I walked through
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  Speaker 1: the unkempt grass and up to the porch, knocking on
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  Speaker 1: the door. As I waited, I looked back at my car,
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the dark with the field of pitch black
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  Speaker 1: behind it. A moment went by. Then I knocked again,
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  Speaker 1: but there was no response, not even the sound of
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  Speaker 1: anyone inside. It didn't take long for me to realize
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  Speaker 1: the strangeness of the situation, seeing no lights on in
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  Speaker 1: the windows and noticing how decayed the house looked up close.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing that made me think it couldn't be
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  Speaker 1: abandoned was that I had an order for this address
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  Speaker 1: and the porch light was on. I looked at the light,
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  Speaker 1: thinking why would that be the only light? But I
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  Speaker 1: some odd chance I happened to recognize the top portion
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  Speaker 1: of the casing having a cheap solar battery. It was
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  Speaker 1: just an automatic light that charges during the day and
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  Speaker 1: turns on in the evening, meaning nobody had to be
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  Speaker 1: here to turn it on. Just as I was piecing
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  Speaker 1: this all together, though, I heard a rumbling sound behind me.
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  Speaker 1: I turned, seeing a car driving down the dirt path
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  Speaker 1: and coming up right behind my car. I stood there
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  Speaker 1: and stared at their headlights until a man stepped out.
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  Speaker 1: I yelled from the porch, asking if this was his order,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't reply. He just stood right next to
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  Speaker 1: his car and didn't move or speak. I felt my
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  Speaker 1: adrenaline spike as I began realizing how horrible this situation
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  Speaker 1: likely was. The silence of the night only reminded me
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  Speaker 1: that there was nobody here to help. I was stuck
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a field, between an empty house
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  Speaker 1: and a stranger. In a split second instinctual reaction, I
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  Speaker 1: dropped the bag and sprinted off the porch, running behind
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  Speaker 1: the house and straight into the field of grass. I
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  Speaker 1: looked back, seeing the man coming up behind me. Frantically,
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  Speaker 1: I continued running, and the further route I got, the
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  Speaker 1: thicker and taller the grass became, until it was covering
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  Speaker 1: all views of direction. By then I knew the guy
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  Speaker 1: had no chance in following me. I slowed down, catching
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  Speaker 1: my breath as I carefully moved through the crops and
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  Speaker 1: tried to be quiet in case the man was still
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  Speaker 1: trying to find me. Eventually I made it to someone
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  Speaker 1: else's yard, and from there I got to a road
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  Speaker 1: where I had enough signal to call for help. Police
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  Speaker 1: picked me up and went to check on my car,
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  Speaker 1: but of course the man was gone by then. I
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  Speaker 1: was surprised, though, because my car hadn't been looted and
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  Speaker 1: the bag of food was still on the porch of
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  Speaker 1: the abandoned house, but that could only mean that the
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  Speaker 1: man had other intentions, likely far worse than just robbing me.
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  Speaker 1: I was delivering a truckload to a company on the
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  Speaker 1: far west coast, coming from the East coast. The route
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  Speaker 1: across the country is what I've taken many times before,
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  Speaker 1: being a truck driver for almost twenty years. It's always
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  Speaker 1: the same every time I make one of these drives.
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  Speaker 1: Same roads, same truck stops, and same everything. Over these
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  Speaker 1: twenty years, though, I've never really had anything crazy happen.
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  Speaker 1: I've had a few odd scenarios, but they'd never amounted
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  Speaker 1: to anything. So when I was driving this route again,
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  Speaker 1: I had no worries in my mind. It was just
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  Speaker 1: another day on the job. About twenty hours into the route,
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  Speaker 1: a storm started coming over and slowing down my driving.
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  Speaker 1: It was late too, so by then I was already
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  Speaker 1: looking for the next truck stop to sleep at. As
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  Speaker 1: I drove, though, a very sudden light appeared behind me.
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  Speaker 1: The road I was on was flat and straight, so
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  Speaker 1: I would have seen them coming in my mirror, but
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  Speaker 1: it was all of a sudden that they were right
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  Speaker 1: behind me. Maybe they had just turned on their lights
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  Speaker 1: or something. I didn't know, but they very quickly came
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  Speaker 1: right up to the back. I kept my eyes on
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  Speaker 1: them until they got so close that they were completely
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  Speaker 1: covered by the trailer. All I could see were their
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  Speaker 1: head lights reflecting off the back, but then their lights
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  Speaker 1: shut off. I maintained my speed and kept looking back
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  Speaker 1: at my mirrors, trying to see if they were still
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  Speaker 1: behind me, but I had no way to know. For
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  Speaker 1: someone to turn off their lights in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: a heavy storm was insane, though, and to be tailing
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  Speaker 1: behind me so close was just as insane. Thankfully, the
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  Speaker 1: sign showed a truck stop was only five miles ahead,
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  Speaker 1: so at least I knew I was close to getting
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  Speaker 1: away from whatever this was. I didn't want to jump
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  Speaker 1: to conclusions based on just some weird behavior, but as
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  Speaker 1: a trucker, it's hard not to think about the possibility
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  Speaker 1: of it being an attempted robbery, especially when alone on
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  Speaker 1: the road at night. For the rest of the five miles,
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  Speaker 1: I saw no signs of them behind me. I was
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  Speaker 1: still on edge because I couldn't really see see anything anyway,
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  Speaker 1: but I started feeling less worried as I was coming
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  Speaker 1: in on the truck stop. I pulled in, trying to
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  Speaker 1: check my mirrors to see if they followed, but with
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  Speaker 1: the rain and lack of lighting, it was really too
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  Speaker 1: hard to tell. The truck stop was mostly empty, though
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  Speaker 1: aside from a few trucks at the gas pumps. I
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  Speaker 1: pulled off to the side and parked in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the lot. After waiting a minute and getting some
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  Speaker 1: of my stuff organized, I opened the truck door and
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  Speaker 1: leaned my head out, looking along the side of the trailer.
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  Speaker 1: I was drenched from the rain in just a matter
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  Speaker 1: of seconds, but from what I could tell, there was
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  Speaker 1: no car behind me. I closed the door and finally
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  Speaker 1: felt a bit of relief. Grabbing my pillow and blanket
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  Speaker 1: from the passenger side, I locked the doors, turned off
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  Speaker 1: the truck, and tried to get some shut eye. The
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  Speaker 1: rain pounding on the metal roof made it easy to
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  Speaker 1: fall asleep, blocking out any possible sounds coming from other
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  Speaker 1: trucks pulling in and out. When I woke up, though
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  Speaker 1: I felt I had only been asleep for a few minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I looked around, seeing it was still dark out and
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  Speaker 1: the storm was the same, if not worse. But before
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  Speaker 1: I could check my mirrors, a loud thump shook the truck.
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  Speaker 1: My eyes opened wider. I reached for the door handle
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  Speaker 1: and opened it. Looking out at the back of the
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  Speaker 1: trailer through the rain, I could barely see the outline
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  Speaker 1: of a car with its headlights off and two men
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  Speaker 1: moving around in front of it. Terrified, I hesitated to
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  Speaker 1: step out and confront them, and as I sat there
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  Speaker 1: in that moment of hesitation, the door suddenly slammed against
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  Speaker 1: my body, shoving me back further into the driver's seat.
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  Speaker 1: Another man stood outside, yelling at me to stay where
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  Speaker 1: I was, then slamming the door again. His right hand
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  Speaker 1: was shoved in his hoodie, and with two other men
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  Speaker 1: behind the truck, I was in no position to try anything.
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  Speaker 1: I could feel the truck's shake as I just sat
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  Speaker 1: in place, with the guy outside my door watching my
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  Speaker 1: every move. He didn't even look away for a second.
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  Speaker 1: This went on for a few minutes. Then they ran
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  Speaker 1: back to their car and drove off. I was still
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  Speaker 1: in shock watching their car disappear onto the road. I
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  Speaker 1: called the police and put in a report, but no
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  Speaker 1: information ever came up on who the men were. All
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  Speaker 1: I know is that if I had been any less
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  Speaker 1: aware and had just tried to drive off at first
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  Speaker 1: sight of the men. I probably wouldn't have been able
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  Speaker 1: to make it out as safely as I did.