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Speaker 1: In 2011, I moved to a college in Colorado during
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Speaker 1: the winter for my master's degree in psychology. The school
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Speaker 1: had a really good program, and a master's was mandatory
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Speaker 1: for my career. My financial aid covered housing, and I
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Speaker 1: had a single dorm that sat right on the edge
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Speaker 1: of campus. Most of my classmates were nice, and my
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Speaker 1: professors were some of the best of the best, especially
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Speaker 1: at an Ivy League school. Mid-semester, I had my midterm
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Speaker 1: coming up and had a lot of homework to do.
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Speaker 1: Living in a one-bedroom dorm with basically no friends, I
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Speaker 1: decided that I'd take a walk to the woods beside
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Speaker 1: the dorms. It was nicknamed Jordan's Forest. I still don't
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Speaker 1: know who Jordan was or why it was called that,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of students would commonly go there to
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Speaker 1: smoke and stuff. I was never into that and hoped
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Speaker 1: for a moment to myself with nobody around. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: there I am, heading down the trail, keeping to myself
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Speaker 1: when I decide to sit down by the old fountain
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Speaker 1: hidden deeper into the woods. Apparently the fountain used to
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Speaker 1: belong to a fraternity at one point. However, I guess
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Speaker 1: they haven't used it in a while, as the fountain
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Speaker 1: was hanging by a thread and appeared to have been
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Speaker 1: unkept for years. As I'm sitting by the fountain, just
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Speaker 1: reflecting on life, I hear footsteps in the snow from
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Speaker 1: behind me. I turn around and standing there is a
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Speaker 1: man with a jacket and hat on. He gives me
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Speaker 1: a friendly gesture as a way to say hello and me,
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Speaker 1: being the shy person I was, gave him a quick smile.
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Speaker 1: He then comes up to me and introduced himself as Doug.
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Speaker 1: As I said, I wanted to be alone with myself
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Speaker 1: at the moment and having someone else nearby really killed
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Speaker 1: the mood. However, I didn't want to come off as rude,
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Speaker 1: so I tell him my name and went on my
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Speaker 1: phone to act busy. Right away, something seemed off about him,
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Speaker 1: and he didn't exactly look like a college student. If
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Speaker 1: I had to guess, I'd say he had to be
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Speaker 1: in his late 30s or maybe early 40s. He proceeds
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Speaker 1: to sit down beside me while keeping a short distance
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Speaker 1: before saying, So, is this your first time on campus?
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Speaker 1: he said. Yeah, I just started my master's, I said.
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Speaker 1: He looks at me with a smirk and says, Oh,
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Speaker 1: I see. Well, you'll love it here. You seem so
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Speaker 1: young and bright. You'd do fine. I thank him for
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Speaker 1: the compliment and tend to my phone to try and
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Speaker 1: talk to him the least I could, hoping he'd get
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Speaker 1: the hint. After some minor small talk, I finally say
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Speaker 1: it's getting colder and that I was going to head
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Speaker 1: back to my dorm. As I'm walking away, I could
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Speaker 1: just feel his eyes glued to the back of me,
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Speaker 1: and the minute I turned around, I saw him staring
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Speaker 1: at me. It wasn't until then where I started walking
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Speaker 1: a little faster, hoping he wasn't following me. When I
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Speaker 1: created a safe enough distance, I checked behind me once
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Speaker 1: more and didn't see him. I breathed a sigh of
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Speaker 1: relief and entered my dorm to continue studying for my midterms. However,
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Speaker 1: as I was studying, I couldn't stop thinking about that man.
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Speaker 1: I'm not one to be judgmental or anything, but he
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Speaker 1: didn't strike me as a student at all. I'm not
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Speaker 1: saying older people don't go back to school, they do,
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Speaker 1: but there was indeed something off about him. I study
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Speaker 1: for another two hours or so when I decide to
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Speaker 1: call it there and settle in for the night. I
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Speaker 1: freshen up in the shower when my friend from my
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Speaker 1: homestay calls me via FaceTime. This is someone who I
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Speaker 1: haven't spoken to in weeks, so I step out of
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Speaker 1: the shower with my robe on and gladly answer it.
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Speaker 1: She was mentioning about how she got a new job
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Speaker 1: and how she just moved in with her boyfriend. Basically
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Speaker 1: a bunch of life stuff. We're talking on the phone
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Speaker 1: for a good hour or so when I decide to
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Speaker 1: lean my phone against some books so the camera is
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Speaker 1: on me. She continues her story and such when she
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Speaker 1: suddenly stops mid-sentence and looks at me strangely. When I
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Speaker 1: ask her what was wrong, she says that there's someone
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Speaker 1: looking into my room from the window. My blood ran
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Speaker 1: cold and I turn around and see what I can
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Speaker 1: only describe as Doug peeking through my window. The second
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Speaker 1: he spots me, he ducks down out of view. I
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Speaker 1: begin telling my friend that I had met this man
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Speaker 1: earlier and didn't know who he was. She recommended I
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Speaker 1: call campus security and I did just that. I even
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Speaker 1: had my friend still on the phone with me as
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Speaker 1: a way to make me feel like I was with someone.
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Speaker 1: As I'm on the phone with security, I hear my
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Speaker 1: doorknob start to move and someone trying to open it.
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Speaker 1: Thankfully it was locked, but I'll never forget the voice
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Speaker 1: Doug made while trying to open my door. It was
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Speaker 1: this low and gravelly voice, telling me that he could
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Speaker 1: easily break this door down with one kick. I'll admit,
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Speaker 1: I started to shed tears right then, just wanting security
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Speaker 1: to get here. When they did, they had arrived with
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Speaker 1: the police who then placed him under arrest. Turns out
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Speaker 1: Doug had actually been a student here once and has
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Speaker 1: since been homeless for over five years. His girlfriend died
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Speaker 1: while they were both in school and had chose to
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Speaker 1: live near campus as a way to cope, as this
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Speaker 1: was the last memory of her and him together. I
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Speaker 1: will say I did feel some sympathy for him, but
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Speaker 1: I couldn't allow him to continue what he did to
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Speaker 1: me to others. Up until recently, he was released from
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Speaker 1: prison for good behavior, and the university has since banned
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Speaker 1: him from being on campus grounds. I graduated with honors
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Speaker 1: a year later, and I haven't returned to campus since.
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Speaker 1: I'm a 27-year-old male now, but this story takes place
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Speaker 1: when I was around 14 or so. I lived in
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Speaker 1: North Carolina, and I've lived there my whole life, even
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Speaker 1: when this happened. I'm not a huge guy by any means,
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Speaker 1: so at 14, I was thin as a toothpick with
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Speaker 1: little to no muscle. This will be important in the
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Speaker 1: story later. The following events took place around early December
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Speaker 1: of 2011. It was late at night in Raleigh, North Carolina,
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Speaker 1: and I was home alone. My mom was working in
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Speaker 1: urgent care that night, and my dad was out of
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Speaker 1: state on a business trip for work. Seeing as my
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Speaker 1: mom worked late, I had the house to myself, and
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Speaker 1: with it being winter break, I spent most of my
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Speaker 1: night playing video games. Everything from COD all the way
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Speaker 1: to Minecraft. After playing for quite some time, I take
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Speaker 1: a look at the time and see that it's well
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Speaker 1: past 9pm. Me, being the skinny kid I was, decided
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Speaker 1: to head downstairs and fix myself a snack. As I'm
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Speaker 1: heating up my food, I look to my left and
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Speaker 1: notice the door that led into the basement was open. Now,
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Speaker 1: my family is very strict when it came to leaving
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Speaker 1: doors open, and I always made sure to close them.
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Speaker 1: Mind you, I rarely go into the basement, so I
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Speaker 1: was surprised that my parents left it open. Having OCD myself,
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Speaker 1: I preferred things organized, so I went over to close
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Speaker 1: the door when my heart sank. I almost didn't notice it,
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Speaker 1: but at the end of the stairs was a black
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Speaker 1: figure sitting on the bottom step. By some stupid luck,
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Speaker 1: he was facing the other way, so he didn't see me.
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Speaker 1: I felt my heart legitimately sink into the pit of
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Speaker 1: my stomach as I realized what was happening. While I
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Speaker 1: didn't see their face, I did see the back of them.
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Speaker 1: They appeared to be male and wore torn clothing with
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Speaker 1: gray messy hair. With not many options to choose from,
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Speaker 1: I run upstairs and hide under my bed not making
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Speaker 1: a sound. I didn't have a cell phone at the
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Speaker 1: time and I sure as hell wasn't going into the
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Speaker 1: kitchen to get the home phone. With nothing to do,
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Speaker 1: I just stayed in my room, hiding under my bed
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Speaker 1: when I hear footsteps coming up the basement stairs. At
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Speaker 1: this point, I knew whoever this person was knew I
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Speaker 1: was here. In my innocent 14-year-old head, I prayed he
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Speaker 1: would just leave if he knew there was someone else here. However,
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Speaker 1: that simply wasn't the case. Instead of accepting that there
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Speaker 1: was someone else here, he took it a step further
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Speaker 1: and proceeded to walk upstairs to my room. I hear
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Speaker 1: him coming and I come up from under my bed
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Speaker 1: with my mind racing on what to do. Now, this
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Speaker 1: is where my lack of strength comes into play. I
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Speaker 1: was trapped in my room, I didn't have a weapon,
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Speaker 1: and I wasn't sure what this person was capable of doing.
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Speaker 1: With no other option, I go to my window and
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Speaker 1: attempt to open it as a way to escape. However,
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Speaker 1: the cold weather from outside made it more difficult for
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Speaker 1: me to open the window as the frame was basically frozen.
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Speaker 1: All the while, I'm trying to get it open and
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Speaker 1: I hear the footsteps walk up the stairs and stop
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Speaker 1: at my door. He then proceeds to knock, followed by
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Speaker 1: him mumbling something I couldn't understand. What freaked me out
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Speaker 1: the most about this was the way he knocked. It
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Speaker 1: was slow and steady, almost as if he were trying
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Speaker 1: to intimidate me somehow. He tried twisting the doorknob, but
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Speaker 1: it didn't budge, as I thankfully remembered to lock it.
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Speaker 1: In that moment, I had a hard time getting the
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Speaker 1: window open when I suddenly hear a loud bang and
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Speaker 1: see my door is now open. At that point, I
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Speaker 1: pushed the window with all my strength and finally managed
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Speaker 1: to get it open. I took that chance to climb out.
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Speaker 1: and as I did, I caught a glimpse of the
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Speaker 1: man's face before falling to the snow below. Fortunately, I
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Speaker 1: was able to get away to the neighbors with only
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Speaker 1: a sprained ankle where police were then called. While the
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Speaker 1: neighbors were nice, they let me call the police myself
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Speaker 1: as they didn't want to get involved. A bit strange,
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Speaker 1: I thought, but I could understand why. The police were
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Speaker 1: very patient with me, but even after searching the house,
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Speaker 1: they were unable to find him. What police had concluded
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Speaker 1: was that he had entered the house through a breezeway
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Speaker 1: door and was likely hiding from the cold. My mom
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Speaker 1: came soon after, and we spent the next three days
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Speaker 1: at my uncle's house. I'm much older now, and I
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Speaker 1: have moved past it. My parents still live in that
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Speaker 1: same house, but have installed various security systems and even
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Speaker 1: have a dog. I still think about this incident from
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Speaker 1: time to time, but I'm doing alright. Back before my
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Speaker 1: girlfriend Eliza and I started dating, we hung out all
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Speaker 1: the time as good friends. We both obviously didn't have
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Speaker 1: the same feelings for each other back then, but we
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Speaker 1: did enjoy each other's company. This happened around the time
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Speaker 1: where we both started to feel that there was something
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Speaker 1: more to our relationship than friends. It was the winter
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Speaker 1: of 2018 and we both had planned a skiing trip
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Speaker 1: up to Vermont. Vermont had really good slopes and with
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Speaker 1: us having some experience with skiing, we were up for
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Speaker 1: a challenge. We rented out a hotel room close to
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Speaker 1: the ski resort as it seemed the most convenient for us.
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Speaker 1: We took the gondola ride up to the mountain and
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Speaker 1: had a great time skiing. As much as people don't
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Speaker 1: like the idea of skiing, it was actually really fun
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Speaker 1: if you practiced. That being said, we spent most of
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Speaker 1: the day skiing and having a blast. Apart from the
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Speaker 1: ski resort was a hiking trail and lodge for people
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Speaker 1: who either didn't want to go skiing or if people
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Speaker 1: wanted a break. It was nearing the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: and Eliza suggested we take the hour-long hike around the mountain. Now,
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Speaker 1: this hike was sort of a do-it-at-your-own-risk type of hike.
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Speaker 1: meaning there was no trail guide or anything like that.
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Speaker 1: The only thing we had as a guide was some
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Speaker 1: painted markings around the trees to know where we were going.
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Speaker 1: Even though it was a beginner's hike, it was still
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Speaker 1: really easy to get lost in these woods. Eliza and
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Speaker 1: I started our hike, just enjoying ourselves and whatnot. We're
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Speaker 1: about 20 minutes into the hike when she has the
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Speaker 1: urge to pee. It wouldn't be for another 50 minutes
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Speaker 1: or so before we reached an actual bathroom, so she
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Speaker 1: said she'd go into the woods and that she'd be back.
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Speaker 1: I watch as she walks off the path and into
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Speaker 1: the woods before disappearing behind a large tree. She went
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Speaker 1: pretty far off, but I thought she just needed extra privacy,
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Speaker 1: especially us being on our first trip together. However, as
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Speaker 1: the minutes passed, she never returned to the path and
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Speaker 1: I didn't even see her. I then thought to myself,
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Speaker 1: What could she possibly be doing that's taking her so long,
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Speaker 1: I thought. At this point, she had been gone for
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Speaker 1: a good ten minutes, and that's when I started to
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Speaker 1: get worried. I step out of the trail and follow
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Speaker 1: her footpath to try and find out where she went.
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Speaker 1: Thank God I see her standing by a small clearing
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Speaker 1: with her phone out. Then she motions for me to
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Speaker 1: go to her. When I walk up to her, I
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Speaker 1: see what she stopped for. In this small clearing was
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Speaker 1: what I could only describe as huge bones. Maybe bear,
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Speaker 1: maybe horse, I don't know. The majority of the bones
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Speaker 1: were organized in circles, and even some formed into a
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Speaker 1: teepee of sorts. There were also some smaller bones hanging
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Speaker 1: from trees by some string. I asked Eliza what the
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Speaker 1: hell this was. As expected, she didn't know, and we
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Speaker 1: began to wonder if the resort knew about this. There
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Speaker 1: was also what appeared to be a half-formed humanoid snowman-type
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Speaker 1: sculpture next to the bones, indicating that someone had recently
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Speaker 1: been here. All of a sudden, we both began to
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Speaker 1: get a strange feeling that we were being watched, and
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Speaker 1: we got out of there ASAP. We were not going
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Speaker 1: to stick around to find out who or what made this,
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Speaker 1: as it didn't strike me as anything good. We told
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Speaker 1: the resort, but we never heard anything back from them
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Speaker 1: after our trip. And the off chance that the bones
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Speaker 1: were fake, it could have very well been someone easily
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Speaker 1: pranking us. However, I'm not sure if I believe that.
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Speaker 1: We're now a couple and plan on getting married soon,
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Speaker 1: but we'll always have this story to share. It was
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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve 2016. My friend Kevin had invited me
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Speaker 1: over to his place to come watch fireworks with his girlfriend.
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Speaker 1: Buying fireworks wouldn't be necessary, as his next-door neighbors had
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Speaker 1: put on quite a show every year. They basically did
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Speaker 1: one for the whole neighborhood, so that people didn't have
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Speaker 1: to leave their homes or go out and buy fireworks.
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Speaker 1: They would obviously be setting off fireworks right at 12,
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Speaker 1: and Kevin had allowed me to arrive much earlier, giving
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Speaker 1: us time to chill. New Year's Eve was on a Saturday,
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Speaker 1: and neither of us had to work the next day,
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Speaker 1: so that meant I could stay longer. For reference, we
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Speaker 1: were both in our late 20s, so naturally we were
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Speaker 1: more able to stay out late. Kevin had ordered us
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Speaker 1: some pizza for dinner and even grabbed a few cold
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Speaker 1: ones for the special new year. I hadn't seen Kevin
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Speaker 1: nor his girlfriend in a while, primarily due to work,
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Speaker 1: so we all wanted to make this night special for
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Speaker 1: the three of us. We all sat down in the
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Speaker 1: living room waiting for the ball drop, which was also
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Speaker 1: when the neighbors would start their fireworks. We still had
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Speaker 1: a good two hours before the new year and that's
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Speaker 1: when Kevin said he was gonna go buy some more
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Speaker 1: beers at the gas station since we didn't have enough.
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Speaker 1: His girlfriend and I stayed at the house while he
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Speaker 1: was out. At one point, I'm in the living room
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Speaker 1: and his girlfriend is out back talking on the phone
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Speaker 1: with someone. I found myself watching TV when I hear
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Speaker 1: what sounded like a door shut from upstairs. This was
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Speaker 1: weird as Kevin had mentioned it would only be the
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Speaker 1: three of us at his house tonight I look at
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Speaker 1: his girlfriend, but she didn't appear to hear it as
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Speaker 1: she was still on the phone. The minute she got
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Speaker 1: off the phone, I go up to her and ask
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Speaker 1: if she heard a door close from upstairs. She replied
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Speaker 1: with a no and that it was likely the wind
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Speaker 1: as she had apparently left a window open up there earlier.
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Speaker 1: That seemed to have explained it and I went back
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Speaker 1: to the living room before Kevin had come back with
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Speaker 1: the remaining beers. By this point, we only had about
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Speaker 1: an hour left, and we used that time to play Uno,
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Speaker 1: a game both of them played every New Year's Eve
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Speaker 1: as a sort of tradition. Kevin and his girlfriend were
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Speaker 1: on their fourth beer, so they naturally got drunk, making
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Speaker 1: everything funnier for them. Anyway, we finished the game and
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Speaker 1: go outside getting ready to watch the fireworks. Keep in
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Speaker 1: mind that we were so close to the neighbors that
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Speaker 1: we could practically see them get ready, so we basically
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Speaker 1: had front row seats. Kevin had set up his tripod
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Speaker 1: and camera to film the fireworks, as he did every year.
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Speaker 1: We turned on the TV outside and counted down to
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Speaker 1: the new year, wishing each other great success, new memories, etc.
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Speaker 1: Several fireworks began to shoot up into the sky, lighting
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Speaker 1: up the night with vibrant colors with the loud sound
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Speaker 1: vibrating in us. It was honestly a great experience so far,
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Speaker 1: and I wanted to walk out to the backyard to
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Speaker 1: get a clear shot with my phone. The whole show
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Speaker 1: lasted a good 10 minutes or so, and once it
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Speaker 1: was over, I turned around to face the house, and
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Speaker 1: that's when I saw someone in the upstairs window. Both
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Speaker 1: Kevin and his girlfriend were still on the porch, and
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Speaker 1: I told Kevin to call the police and that someone
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Speaker 1: was in the house. He was still a little tipsy
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Speaker 1: from the alcohol, but when he snapped out of it,
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Speaker 1: he ran upstairs with a kitchen knife. All the while,
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Speaker 1: I was expecting to hear some sort of commotion going on,
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Speaker 1: but it never did. All I heard was a few
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Speaker 1: doors opening and closing and Kevin coming downstairs a few
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Speaker 1: minutes later. He told us that he didn't find anyone
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Speaker 1: up there and wanted to make sure if what I
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Speaker 1: saw was actually a person. I told him I was sure,
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Speaker 1: even by pointing out which room I saw them in,
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Speaker 1: who was probably now gone. I mean, what else would
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Speaker 1: it have been, I thought. Me, Kevin, and his girlfriend
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Speaker 1: searched the entire house looking for the supposed intruder, but
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Speaker 1: ultimately found nothing. Seeing as I had a few drinks
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Speaker 1: myself while also being tired, I accepted the fact that
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Speaker 1: it was all in my head at the end of
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Speaker 1: the night when I went home. They didn't call the
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Speaker 1: cops because, well, there really was no point. Days went
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Speaker 1: by and I went on with life as usual and
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Speaker 1: I began to sort of forget about the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: That was until a week later, where I received a
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Speaker 1: phone call at 1 in the morning from Kevin. I
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Speaker 1: was nearly half asleep at that point, but he said
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Speaker 1: that he was sorry for not believing me about the
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Speaker 1: person I saw on New Year's. Turns out, Kevin had
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Speaker 1: gotten home from work early and caught a homeless man
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Speaker 1: drinking a milk carton from his fridge. The person I
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Speaker 1: saw in the window that night was him. There's really
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Speaker 1: no point in explaining what directly happened after that. But
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Speaker 1: let's just say Kevin took it into his own hands.
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Speaker 1: The man simply admitted to sneaking into his house a
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Speaker 1: day after Christmas through his garage door. His reason being
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Speaker 1: because of the cold outside and wanted to find warmth.
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Speaker 1: For context, we live in Wisconsin, meaning we have some
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Speaker 1: of the coldest winters in the U.S., He was arrested
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Speaker 1: and taken in, which according to Kevin didn't seem like
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Speaker 1: the worst idea, as at least he'd have food and
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Speaker 1: a bed. The most disturbing part, however, was that he
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Speaker 1: was caught with two pairs of Kevin's girlfriend's underwear in
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Speaker 1: his pocket. I'm guessing this was the reason as to
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Speaker 1: what made Kevin did what he had to, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Kevin and I are still friends till this day, but
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Speaker 1: had broken up with his girlfriend for reasons I won't
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Speaker 1: go into. However, every year we still look back on
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Speaker 1: this incident and will continue to do so for what
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Speaker 1: may be the rest of our lives.