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3 True Scary Stories for a Rainy Night Alone That Will Keep You Awake · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: My name is Caleb Fletcher. I'm sixteen years old and
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: this took place around eight to nine months ago. On
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  Speaker 1: the twenty fourth of August, which was a Saturday. School
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  Speaker 1: had been going on for about two weeks, so to
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  Speaker 1: destress a little, I decided to see if my friends,
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  Speaker 1: whoile called Griffin and Broley, wanted to hop on fortnite.
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  Speaker 1: My mom and sister were out shopping, my dad was working,
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  Speaker 1: and that was bored. It was around eight pm when
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  Speaker 1: we finally got on to play because I had decided
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  Speaker 1: to make pizza rolls beforehand and ended up burning the batch.
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  Speaker 1: After a few rounds, I could tell my friends were
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  Speaker 1: getting tired of losing, so they got off after only
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  Speaker 1: an hour. I planned on just lying down with my
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  Speaker 1: phone and going to bed. That was until I heard
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  Speaker 1: my two dogs barking outside. It's not unusual for them
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  Speaker 1: to bark, given how people typically walk on the side
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  Speaker 1: of the road, but I still looked anyway just to
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  Speaker 1: make sure I didn't see anybody. But seconds after looking
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  Speaker 1: out the window, I heard our garage door open and shut.
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  Speaker 1: That usually means my dad is home from work, but
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see his van outside, and he had texted
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  Speaker 1: me earlier, telling me that he would be working late tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I decided to walk downstairs into the dining room and
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  Speaker 1: look out the window to get a better view. From there,
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  Speaker 1: I could see that our driveway was empty. There wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a person or vehicle in sight. I wasn't the type
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  Speaker 1: to go investigate, so I ran back up to my
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  Speaker 1: bedroom and texted my family group chat to ask if
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  Speaker 1: anybody was home. I told my mom about the garage door,
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  Speaker 1: and she told me to turn off the lights, lock
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  Speaker 1: my bedroom and stay there until she got home. So
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  Speaker 1: I did just that. About fifteen minutes later, I thought
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  Speaker 1: I heard our wooden floor downstairs creaking, like someone was
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  Speaker 1: trying to be sneaky. I didn't have anything to use
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  Speaker 1: as a weapon, so I unclipped my microphone's boom arm
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  Speaker 1: from my desk and quietly opened the door. I walked
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  Speaker 1: out onto our upstairs balcony and looked over, trying to
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  Speaker 1: see if I could spot anyone hiding or anything suspicious.
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  Speaker 1: I stupidly yelled is anybody there? Like they were really
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  Speaker 1: going to answer. I thought everything was fine, though, until
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  Speaker 1: I saw a large silhouette of someone standing underneath the balcony.
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  Speaker 1: I panicked and ran to the closest room with the door,
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  Speaker 1: which happened to be my small bathroom. The intruder must
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  Speaker 1: have known I noticed them, because I heard loud and
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  Speaker 1: fast footsteps running up our stairs as I locked myself
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  Speaker 1: in the bathroom. I had stupidly left my phone in
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  Speaker 1: the bedroom, which was the room right next to me.
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  Speaker 1: After I built up enough courage, I bolted into my bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: locking the door as soon as I got in. My
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  Speaker 1: sister's room was right across from mine, and its door
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  Speaker 1: was open, so I figured the intruder must have been
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  Speaker 1: in there. After locking my bedroom door, I grabbed my
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  Speaker 1: phone and typed nine one one into it. Just before
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  Speaker 1: I called, I noticed that the storage room in my
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  Speaker 1: wall was open just a tad. I saw a dark
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  Speaker 1: brown eye peeking through the crevice, staring into my soul.
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  Speaker 1: The pure terror I felt in that moment is something
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  Speaker 1: I'll never forget. I booked it down the stairs and
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  Speaker 1: out my front door, running up the hill to my
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  Speaker 1: neighbor's house. He was a police officer. He alerted the
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  Speaker 1: other cops while I stayed with his wife, and he
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  Speaker 1: went down to investigate. I told him exactly where the
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  Speaker 1: intruder was hiding in my bedroom. Minutes later, I ran
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  Speaker 1: back down the hill to see if the intruder had
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  Speaker 1: been caught. When I walked in, I saw a tall,
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  Speaker 1: skinny man with a gray beard and a dirty black
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  Speaker 1: coat being pushed onto the floor by my neighbor as
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  Speaker 1: he was getting handcuffed. I'm not allowed to be home
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  Speaker 1: alone anymore, and we have better security around our house now.
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  Speaker 1: My family was just happy to know I wasn't hurt,
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  Speaker 1: and they were thankful for my neighbor's bravery. I don't
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  Speaker 1: wish an experience like this on anybody, not even my
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  Speaker 1: worst enemy. This was a few months ago while driving
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  Speaker 1: for door Dash. I only drive as a side gig,
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  Speaker 1: maybe ten to fifteen hours a week. This night, I
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  Speaker 1: was only doing a couple orders since it was already late,
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  Speaker 1: and I had picked up a small order around one am.
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  Speaker 1: It was to be delivered to a business building somewhere
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  Speaker 1: across town, which was apparent by the address. This was
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  Speaker 1: a normal thing, usually for overnight workers or whatever. When
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  Speaker 1: I pulled into the parking lot, though it was empty,
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  Speaker 1: no cars at all, and it didn't look like there
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  Speaker 1: was a parking lot behind the building either. I parked
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  Speaker 1: in a spot near the front and got out with
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  Speaker 1: the food. The place was definitely an office building of
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  Speaker 1: some kind and was smaller than most, being only two
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  Speaker 1: stories and not very wide. All the lights were off
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  Speaker 1: in the windows, though aside from one light behind the
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  Speaker 1: front door. I walked up to the door and checked
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  Speaker 1: the app, seeing it has specific drop off instructions to
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  Speaker 1: enter the main hallway and leave the bag outside of
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  Speaker 1: room two thirty two. I looked through the door in
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  Speaker 1: the building, seeing this hallway with a bunch of closed
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  Speaker 1: doors on either side delivering to specific rooms. I'd only
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  Speaker 1: done at hotels, so this was kind of new for me.
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  Speaker 1: I tested the door, pushing on it, and it was unlocked,
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  Speaker 1: so I stepped inside. I expect to hear people working,
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  Speaker 1: moving around, or talking, but instead didn't hear anything. There
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a single sound in the whole building. It was
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  Speaker 1: just white noise from the overhead lights buzzing above me.
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  Speaker 1: As I passed the first few doors, though they were
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  Speaker 1: all numbers in the one hundreds, like one hundred two
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  Speaker 1: and one oh six. The room the instruction said to
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  Speaker 1: leave it at was in the two hundreds, so I
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  Speaker 1: assumed that meant it was on the second floor. In
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the hallway was the doorway leading to
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  Speaker 1: the staircase. It was held open with a wedge door
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  Speaker 1: stopper on the floor, but the lights weren't on. I
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  Speaker 1: stepped in and up to the bottom of the staircase,
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  Speaker 1: then looked up. The whole stairwell was pitch black. Not
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  Speaker 1: even any light was coming from above where the room
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be for me to drop it off
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  Speaker 1: at Again, I started to notice the eerie silence, and
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  Speaker 1: it sent a chill through me. I was always one
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  Speaker 1: to do whatever the instructions say so I'd get good reviews,
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  Speaker 1: but this was the first time I told myself that
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  Speaker 1: this was too sketchy. I stepped out of the stairwell
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  Speaker 1: and back into the hallway, and just as I did,
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  Speaker 1: the door right across from me opened. The lights in
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  Speaker 1: that room were off, but a man emerged from behind
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  Speaker 1: the door and stepped into the hallway. He was wearing
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  Speaker 1: street clothes and just didn't look like an office worker
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  Speaker 1: at all. But he stood in front of me and
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  Speaker 1: pointed past me at the stairwell two thirty two up there.
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  Speaker 1: I nodded but didn't move, and neither did he. He
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  Speaker 1: just looked me in the eyes with a look like
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  Speaker 1: he was suppressing his anger. After an intense few seconds,
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  Speaker 1: I dropped the bag on the ground and started quickly
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  Speaker 1: walking to the exit. The man didn't follow me, but
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  Speaker 1: I heard his footsteps go into the stairwell and up
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  Speaker 1: the stairs as I left the building, I got in
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  Speaker 1: my car and left. I didn't know what that was
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  Speaker 1: or if I was maybe overreacting about it, so I
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  Speaker 1: didn't call the police. The following day, though the police
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  Speaker 1: actually called me. Apparently the office reported a break in,
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  Speaker 1: and in the CCTV footage they saw my car and
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  Speaker 1: license plate, tracking it back to me. They also had
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  Speaker 1: footage of the break in, and so they called me
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  Speaker 1: in to question me about any information I might have.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have much to give, but it turned out
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  Speaker 1: there were actually three people that broke inside. One was
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  Speaker 1: downstairs who I saw, but the other two were shown
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  Speaker 1: on the cameras to be hiding at the top of
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  Speaker 1: the stairs, seemingly waiting for me to go up. Disturbingly,
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  Speaker 1: several other delivery orders were made to that same office
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  Speaker 1: that night. All of the other drivers were smarter than
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  Speaker 1: I was, though, leaving the orders outside by the front door.
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  Speaker 1: What would have taken place in that office had any
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  Speaker 1: of us gone up to the second floor is unknown,
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  Speaker 1: but hopefully police can find the three men before anyone
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  Speaker 1: falls victim to it. I'm a manager at a middle
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  Speaker 1: sized grocery store. I do ten hour shifts and work
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  Speaker 1: mostly overnights. At the time, our store was having some
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  Speaker 1: staff issues that made pretty much every department understaffed and overworked,
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  Speaker 1: and overnight stocking was no exception. I had one guy
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  Speaker 1: that would help me five nights a week, but that
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  Speaker 1: was it other than me. This was on his day off,
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  Speaker 1: so it was only me working. I got in at
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  Speaker 1: ten and was alone by ten point fifteen. After running
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  Speaker 1: some numbers in the office, I started pulling out loads
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  Speaker 1: of boxes to the aisles to start unpacking and stocking.
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  Speaker 1: Even though I had no help this night, I still
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  Speaker 1: had to get everything done, so I was working hard
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  Speaker 1: and as quickly as I could. I didn't even stop
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  Speaker 1: for a break or anything. But suddenly a tap sound
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  Speaker 1: echoed through the store. I stopped and listened, hearing it
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  Speaker 1: happen again, and it sounded just like someone tapping on
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  Speaker 1: a window at the front of the store. I looked
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  Speaker 1: at my watch for the first time since I started working,
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  Speaker 1: and it was two a m. Time had flown by,
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  Speaker 1: but there was no reason anyone should be here. I
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  Speaker 1: walked down the aisle and to the front, where I
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  Speaker 1: quickly saw someone outside the store. He was leaning against
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  Speaker 1: the window and trying to look inside. He spotted me
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  Speaker 1: as I walked up and stared at me. When I
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  Speaker 1: was just on the other side, I asked what he wanted.
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  Speaker 1: The man, looking like he was homeless, told me to
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  Speaker 1: open the door. He had a straight face, no smile
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  Speaker 1: or anything. I said we were closed and he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: be here, then turned to walk away, but the man
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  Speaker 1: immediately banged on the window, not tapping like he was before.
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  Speaker 1: This was now harsh banging. I looked back at him
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  Speaker 1: and he was clearly enraged, with his fist against the glass.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking the sky was crazy, I told him I'd call
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  Speaker 1: the cops if he doesn't leave, then started pulling my
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  Speaker 1: phone out to show how a serious and only then
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  Speaker 1: did he step away from the window. He still had
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  Speaker 1: that angry look as he walked away and into the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot. Seeing him leave, I put my phone away
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  Speaker 1: and got back to work. We get a lot of
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  Speaker 1: crazy customers around here, so I didn't think on it
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  Speaker 1: too much, and again I had to focus on getting
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  Speaker 1: my work done. I was only able to get a
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  Speaker 1: small cart of boxes stocked, so it was maybe fifteen
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  Speaker 1: minutes later when a sudden sound echoed through the store.
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  Speaker 1: It sounded like something metal snapping or scraping. I quickly
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  Speaker 1: dropped what I was doing and ran up to the front.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody was at the windows, so I went up to
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  Speaker 1: the entrance door. It was one of those revolving glass doors,
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  Speaker 1: which uses a bolt lock on the top to keep
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  Speaker 1: it from opening when we closed the store for the night.
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  Speaker 1: Right away I saw that that bolt was missing, like,
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  Speaker 1: not even just unlocked, the entire bolt was gone. I
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  Speaker 1: pressed my hand on the door and it glided around
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  Speaker 1: completely allowing anyone to get in. I could feel my
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  Speaker 1: face turned white as I realized what this meant, and
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  Speaker 1: I knew I need to call the police immediately. I
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  Speaker 1: turned around to go to the front office, but was
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  Speaker 1: instantly looking into the face of that guy from before.
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  Speaker 1: He was only a few feet from me, still having
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  Speaker 1: that enraged stare. I didn't hesitate to run out the
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  Speaker 1: revolving door, hearing the guy follow close behind me As
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  Speaker 1: I ran out into the parking lot. An old van
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  Speaker 1: came speeding up to the front. It nearly hit me,
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  Speaker 1: but I just kept running until I got to my car.
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  Speaker 1: When I rushed in, I noticed the guy wasn't chasing
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  Speaker 1: me anymore, and the van was now speeding out of
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  Speaker 1: the parking lot. I called the cops and spent the
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  Speaker 1: next couple hours explaining what happened. It wasn't until the
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  Speaker 1: next day that we got security footage of the man
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  Speaker 1: breaking inside, but it wasn't the best image quality. We
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  Speaker 1: can say almost for sure that they were trying to
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  Speaker 1: get me into their van, but we have no way
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  Speaker 1: to know why. I'm sure if I'd not been as quick, though,
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  Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't have ever been seen again.