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Chilling Tales of Escape and Bravery - Scary Paranormal Story · Shallow Nights: Scary Bedtime Stories

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  This happened when I was 15 years old.
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  My best friend Anthony wanted me to come over for the night since
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  his parents would be gone all weekend.
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  I rode my bike over and put it in his backyard before letting
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  myself in through his back door. We played basically every video
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  game he had from FIFA all the way to Call of Duty with popcorn
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  and other junk food spilled out all over the floor.
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  As the night progressed, we moved from video games, to
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  watching half a movie and getting bored to doing prank
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  calls. At close to 10:00, Anthony made
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  a few calls to different pizza places.
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  When it was my turn, I just dialed a few random numbers in
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  hopes to get someone at their house.
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  On say my fourth attempt, I finally reached somebody.
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  A guy with a deep and rough voice picked up, answering with
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  a yeah instead of a hello. Anthony's laughing in the
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  background and made me stumble with my words mid sentence,
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  ultimately cracking up into laughter.
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  I had never done a prank call, so I sucked at it.
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  The guy on the other end was silent.
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  I regained a straight face and tried to continue with the call.
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  It went something like this. Sir, would it be all right if I
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  borrowed one of the wheels from your car?
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  What's your name, kid? My name is Bob.
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  Really. You sure it's not Anthony?
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  It hit me like a brick. I looked up at Anthony, whose
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  face was noticeably full of fear.
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  I hung up the phone, not wanting to be on the line with whoever
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  that was for another second. Anthony, who the hell was that?
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  I asked him. I, I don't know, He told me.
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  Does your caller ID info display your name or something?
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  No, it shows my dad's name. We hopped on the computer and
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  did some research, trying to figure out how it was possible
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  to get someone's name through their phone number.
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  It didn't make sense how he could get Anthony's name so
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  quickly. He was way too young at the time
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  to be on any of those personal information sharing websites.
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  We ended up asking a question on Yahoo Answers since no one had a
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  similar experience. The question turned up no
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  answers. I suggested he call his dad, but
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  he said he wasn't supposed to have anybody over for the
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  weekend so he didn't want to call.
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  We planned on sleeping in the living room, so we just resumed
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  watching the movie that we hadn't finished from earlier.
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  Right after the phone call had left my mind, me and Anthony
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  looked at each other when we heard his front storm door
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  opening, and then the doorknob to the front door began to turn.
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  It only was able to turn about halfway before the lock
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  restricted it. Anthony turned off the TV and I
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  went over to the window to see who it was.
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  I spread the blinds open. There's a tall guy standing
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  outside. He noticed the blinds moving and
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  turned to look at me. I practically threw the blinds
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  back into place. Me and Anthony hid in the
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  kitchen listening for any more noises.
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  We heard the sound of the gates of the backyard opening as it
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  was right outside the kitchen window.
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  God damn it. I said.
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  I forgot to shut the back door. Anthony urged me to run and shut
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  it. I headed to the hallway leading
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  to his back door and froze. It was a silhouette standing
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  outside the back door. I don't think he noticed me, but
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  he was surely looking into the house.
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  He opened the door and stepped inside.
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  I tiptoed to the kitchen and motioned for Anthony to follow
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  me upstairs. We made into his room as quietly
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  as possible, pulling the door shut to avoid making any noise.
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  We crawled under his bed. He had cloth covering the bottom
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  of his bed, so you couldn't see anything under it unless you
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  actually moved the cloth. The doors downstairs all opened,
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  each one getting closer to the stairs.
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  Thumps finally began up the stairs and he was right outside
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  the door now. The door to the room opened.
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  I could hear Anthony's breathing, it was too loud.
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  Footsteps moved over to the closet and then the closet
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  opened. I could hear the coat hangers
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  being slid around as the fabric of the jackets and coats rubbed
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  against each other. Footsteps moved over to the bed
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  and stopped. I felt like my heart was about
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  to explode out of my chest. Anthony's breathing was too
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  loud, I had to cover his mouth with my hand.
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  Nothing but silence in the room now.
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  We laid still for so long I almost thought he wasn't even in
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  the room anymore. I moved my hand away from
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  Anthony's mouth and whispered in his ear.
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  You think we can make a run for it?
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  He was about to answer when the most disturbing, memory haunting
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  scream I'd ever heard filled my ears as Anthony was seemingly
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  dragged out from under the bed. I crawled out and saw him
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  struggling with the man. I desperately looked around for
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  anything to use as a weapon. I settled with the screwdriver
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  sitting on his night stand. I hurried over to the man and
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  drove the screwdriver into his back.
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  He let go of Anthony as he let out a scream of agony, giving us
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  time to get the hell out of the house.
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  Running onto the road would give away our position too easily.
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  It would take too long to make it to his neighbor's house.
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  We dope for the tree line in the woods and took cover behind a
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  Bush, watching the house. The back door opened as the man
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  stepped outside looking around the backyard.
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  He then looked out to the woods. I felt his eyes pass me as he
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  scanned through the tree line. It seemed that it was too dark
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  for him to see us. Then he turned his head back in
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  our direction. I ducked behind the Bush.
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  Joe, he's coming. What?
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  Dude, get up. We got to run.
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  He was right. The man was approaching us fast.
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  How could he have seen us? We ran through the woods with
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  the leaves crunching under us, giving away our position.
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  When Anthony tripped over something, I crouched down with
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  him, hoping we had run far enough.
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  Not even 20 seconds later, oncoming footsteps from the
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  direction we were running from came fast.
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  They slowed down only two trees away from us as we lay face down
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  in the leaves. Moments later, the footsteps
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  take off in another direction. We waited until we could no
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  longer hear them and took off back in the direction of the
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  house. While running over the sound of
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  leaves crushing and my heavy breathing, I could swear I heard
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  leaves crushing from behind us. We made it back to his backyard,
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  into his house and this time remembering to shut the back
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  door we were now able to call the police.
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  Anthony stayed on the line with them while I patrolled the back
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  windows making sure nobody was out there.
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  It was so dark though I couldn't see anything.
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  So I did something that seems stupid today.
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  I turned on his backyard lights and immediately in the distance
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  over by the woods I saw him standing in front of a big tree.
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  He turned off back into the woods and disappeared out of
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  sight. That was the last time me or
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  Anthony ever saw him. I would be lying if I told you
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  we heard the occasional knocks at our windows or something.
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  Cliche. No, that was it. 5 years have
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  passed and nothing has happened. Do I wonder if it was somehow
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  linked to the prank hole? Maybe.
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  Does it make sense? Not really, but yeah, this was
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  the story of how me and my still best friend Anthony almost died
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  during a break in.