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TRUE Scary Story Trip to Las Vegas - Mr. Nightmare · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: I was 23 years old when this happened. I'm 27 now,
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  Speaker 1: and there hasn't been a week that has gone by
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  Speaker 1: that I haven't thought about this trip. To celebrate our
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  Speaker 1: friend Andrew's 21st birthday, we were taking him on a
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  Speaker 1: trip to Vegas. He was always a laid-back and kind
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  Speaker 1: of shy dude, and we all knew that he hadn't
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  Speaker 1: yet done the deed, so we planned on getting him
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  Speaker 1: really drunk and to just, to put it bluntly, get
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  Speaker 1: him laid. We checked into the Carriage House Hotel, which
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  Speaker 1: was one of the more affordable hotels that we could find.
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  Speaker 1: We had two separate rooms as there were seven of
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  Speaker 1: us in total. There were four of us in the
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  Speaker 1: room that I was in. Andrew was in the room
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  Speaker 1: with us. The first thing we did was eat, of course,
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  Speaker 1: as we were all starving. We then hit the casinos
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  Speaker 1: just to say that we did it. Out of the
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  Speaker 1: seven of us, only one of us left with more
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  Speaker 1: money than entering. We checked out a bunch of different
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  Speaker 1: bars and as the night went on, Things got more
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  Speaker 1: blurry and everything got funnier. We got into a nightclub
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  Speaker 1: that was going wild. We caught two of our friends,
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  Speaker 1: John and Eddie, walking out with girls. They shot us
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  Speaker 1: the about-to-get-lucky look and we understood. The rest of us
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  Speaker 1: were trying to pressure Andrew into approaching a girl. But
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  Speaker 1: even in his drunk and somewhat loosened-up state, he was
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  Speaker 1: still too shy to approach anybody or even dance. We
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  Speaker 1: got to the point where we were desperate to find
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  Speaker 1: somebody for Andrew. We could already foresee that he wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: meet any girls at this rate the whole trip. We
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  Speaker 1: left the club in search for a working girl. You
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  Speaker 1: may think our actions were weird, but as most people
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  Speaker 1: were by that time, we were completely hammered. We approached
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  Speaker 1: a girl walking alone, acting like a couple of retards,
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  Speaker 1: asked the girl if she would be interested in hanging
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  Speaker 1: out with our friend Andrew, who was very noticeably not
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  Speaker 1: quite as messed up as us, but still intoxicated nonetheless.
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  Speaker 1: The girl wasn't anything special, I could say that even
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  Speaker 1: in the state I was in, but we wanted Andrew
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  Speaker 1: to have a good time. I don't quite remember what
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  Speaker 1: she said in direct response to me, but I remember
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  Speaker 1: her voice being slightly deep to the point that I
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  Speaker 1: looked at my friend. I also have this slight memory
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  Speaker 1: of her analyzing Andrew from head to toe. Again, I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember what she said. but it led to her
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  Speaker 1: grabbing Andrew's arm and the two of them walking off
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  Speaker 1: down the sidewalk. We laughed as we could see how
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  Speaker 1: awkward Andrew already felt. None of us thought it was
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  Speaker 1: weird what just happened, though. But just out of curiosity,
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  Speaker 1: to see what was going to go down, we decided
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  Speaker 1: to trail behind them. They didn't seem to exchange any words.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, it appeared as if the girl was pulling him.
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  Speaker 1: We followed for about 15 minutes, I would guess. It
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  Speaker 1: could have been much longer, but I wouldn't really know.
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  Speaker 1: It was a darker and quieter street. The two of
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  Speaker 1: them stepped into what we assumed was an apartment building,
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  Speaker 1: and we all laughed. But we were so proud and
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  Speaker 1: happy for him, too. There was no point in us
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  Speaker 1: waiting there, so we went back to the club. At
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  Speaker 1: around two in the morning, we headed back to the hotel.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew wasn't in either of the rooms. I was starting
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  Speaker 1: to sober up a little, and a bit of concern
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  Speaker 1: began to arise in me, John and Eddie, who weren't
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  Speaker 1: with us earlier, were shocked to hear about what happened.
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  Speaker 1: We all kind of assumed Andrew was just spending the
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  Speaker 1: night with the girl. Still, it was out of character
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  Speaker 1: for Andrew doing anything like this, so it was just weird.
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  Speaker 1: I texted him and tried calling him. He never answered,
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  Speaker 1: but my friends told me to relax. I crashed minutes later.
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  Speaker 1: I walked to a ringing sound. At first, with my
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  Speaker 1: mind still in sleep mode, I assumed it to be
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  Speaker 1: an alarm clock and tried tapping at my phone to
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  Speaker 1: turn it off. As my head began to return to reality,
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  Speaker 1: I realized the phone was ringing. It was Andrew's number.
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  Speaker 1: I literally felt my heart drop for whatever reason. I
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  Speaker 1: told my friends who were already awake from the ringing.
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  Speaker 1: I answered and was greeted to heavy breathing on the
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  Speaker 1: other end. It was Andrew. and he sounded as if
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  Speaker 1: he were having some kind of panic attack. I put
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  Speaker 1: him on speakerphone so everyone could hear. Andrew began whispering
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  Speaker 1: into the phone. Most of it was incomprehensible, but we
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  Speaker 1: made out some of what he said. We heard him whisper,
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  Speaker 1: It was that woman. Guys, you gotta get over here
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  Speaker 1: right now. We tried to engage him, but he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: answering anything we were saying. The other end went silent.
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  Speaker 1: We were all basically screaming into the phone Asking if
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  Speaker 1: he was alright, where he was, what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: I was already shaking in my skin at that point.
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  Speaker 1: But what happened next only made it ten times worse.
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  Speaker 1: Something broke the silence on the other end. The sound
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  Speaker 1: of a door being opened with force, followed by the
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  Speaker 1: shrill and horrific screaming of Andrew, before the sound of
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  Speaker 1: the call ending. We were all freaking the fuck out.
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  Speaker 1: I called the police and tried to remember the address,
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  Speaker 1: or at least the street. We were so messed up
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  Speaker 1: last night that I couldn't even remember the route that
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  Speaker 1: we took. One of my friends claimed he did, though.
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  Speaker 1: The police came over to the hotel, and they escorted us.
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  Speaker 1: My friend seemed to remember exactly where the building was.
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  Speaker 1: He guided the police past the club, down the side roads,
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  Speaker 1: and eventually to the building. Two officers from the front
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  Speaker 1: car went inside. We were to wait by the other car.
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  Speaker 1: A few minutes felt like hours, waiting in anticipation and
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  Speaker 1: in fear of the worst. One of the officers stepped out.
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  Speaker 1: She came over to us and asked us to come
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  Speaker 1: inside to confirm if the dead body belonged to Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like the entire world just collapsed on my
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  Speaker 1: head as John and Jerry both started crying. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to go in, so I followed the officer into
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  Speaker 1: the building, which turned out wasn't an apartment at all,
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  Speaker 1: rather some kind of dark, abandoned storage building. There was
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  Speaker 1: the dead body, leaning out from the open closet. The
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  Speaker 1: emotionless face, mouth lifelessly hung open, staring up at the ceiling.
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  Speaker 1: It was horrible. But it wasn't Andrew. I knew it
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  Speaker 1: right away. The most noticeable feature, this boy had blonde
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  Speaker 1: hair while Andrew had black hair. The officers had already
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  Speaker 1: scoped the whole place out, so they didn't know what
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  Speaker 1: to do. I took a look in the closet that
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  Speaker 1: I had a feeling Andrew was hiding in. Nothing. Not
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  Speaker 1: even his cell phone. We all did our best to
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  Speaker 1: forget about it, but a little more than a month later,
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  Speaker 1: I got a phone call during the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: night once again. I picked up. There was a bad
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  Speaker 1: reception and nobody was saying anything. I was about to
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  Speaker 1: hang up when a faint yet familiar voice said, Jesse? Andrew?
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  Speaker 1: I yelled. The sound of a door slamming in the
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  Speaker 1: background on the other end was the last thing I
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  Speaker 1: heard before the call ended. He didn't pick up after
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  Speaker 1: the five times I tried ringing him. So what did
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  Speaker 1: I do? I called the police and had them trace
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  Speaker 1: the call. The call was not coming from Nevada at all. No,
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  Speaker 1: it was coming from New Jersey. In fact, our own town,
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  Speaker 1: and a house not too far away. They said they
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  Speaker 1: were sending somebody to the house, but that wasn't enough
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  Speaker 1: for me. I had to go there myself. I GPSed
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  Speaker 1: that address, hopped in my car, and floored it the
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  Speaker 1: whole five minutes it took to reach the address. It
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  Speaker 1: was a vacant house on a corner. I sneaked up
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  Speaker 1: to the front door and put my ear against it
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  Speaker 1: to listen for anything inside. Nothing. I crawled around back
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  Speaker 1: where I found an open window. I listened for a moment.
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  Speaker 1: There were the sounds of small snaps and cracks from upstairs.
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  Speaker 1: The kinds of sounds you hear from somebody standing or
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  Speaker 1: moving on wood. I was sure that he was in there.
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  Speaker 1: I hopped inside. but I didn't even get to begin
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  Speaker 1: my search before noticing something at the edge of the hallway.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody was standing there, facing me, but I couldn't see
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  Speaker 1: their face. All I could see were their pale, exposed
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  Speaker 1: legs and long black hair down past their shoulders. It
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  Speaker 1: was a woman. I was feeling sick to my stomach,
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  Speaker 1: anticipating her charging up to me like in some kind
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  Speaker 1: of horror movie, but instead, she turned and ran in
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  Speaker 1: the opposite direction. I heard the sound of a door
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  Speaker 1: slamming shut, followed by footsteps stomping down stairs, and then yelling,
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  Speaker 1: yelling of a man and woman. There was an even
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  Speaker 1: heavier pair of footsteps now stomping up the stairs. That
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  Speaker 1: was my cue to run. I left the house and
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  Speaker 1: dove into the bush. Not even five seconds later, someone
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  Speaker 1: stepped out onto the porch, and for the first time
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  Speaker 1: in months, it seemed as if luck was finally on
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  Speaker 1: my side as a police car pulled up to the curb,
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  Speaker 1: flashing its sirens. I heard the guy in the stoop mutter, shit,
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  Speaker 1: before slamming the door behind himself. The police followed inside.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently the idiot didn't even lock the door. I stayed hidden,
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  Speaker 1: as I didn't want to startle the cops and end
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  Speaker 1: up with a bullet in my skull. I waited by
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  Speaker 1: the car out front, and minutes later, one of the
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  Speaker 1: officers came outside with the guy in cuffs. I introduced
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  Speaker 1: myself and warned that there was also a woman in there,
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  Speaker 1: but they never found the woman. In fact, one of
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  Speaker 1: the bedroom windows were completely open, which implied that she escaped.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew was found upstairs, locked in a closet. He was
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  Speaker 1: in horrible shape, malnourished, hair long and dirty. You could
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  Speaker 1: smell him from a mile away. The police ran the
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  Speaker 1: records for the man. He was never married, so they
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  Speaker 1: really had no way of finding out who the woman was.
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  Speaker 1: He even claimed that he had only known her for
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  Speaker 1: a day. Nothing made sense, and it still doesn't. Andrew
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  Speaker 1: admitted that he was raped, beaten, and hardly fed. I
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  Speaker 1: can't even imagine admitting something like that to someone. The
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  Speaker 1: girl that originally escorted him to that building was only
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  Speaker 1: there to collect payment from what he described as the operators.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason, they forced Andrew to give them his
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  Speaker 1: hometown and addresses of everyone that was with him that night,
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  Speaker 1: which explained why they were in our town, but not
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  Speaker 1: actually why they were in our town. Like, what their
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  Speaker 1: intentions were. To kill us? to add us to whatever
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  Speaker 1: kind of sex slave operation they were running? I'm the
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  Speaker 1: only person he's told out of our group of friends,
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  Speaker 1: and whenever somebody asked about it, I just said I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what happened. Things were finally starting to look up,
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  Speaker 1: when a few days later, I got a text message
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  Speaker 1: from a random number one late night, saying, fuck you.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever it was blocked me, as I couldn't respond, so
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  Speaker 1: I just blocked them back. It happened again the next week,
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  Speaker 1: and then the next month. Sure, I had the idea
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  Speaker 1: that it had something to do with the incident, but
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea it would be taken as far
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  Speaker 1: as it was. I woke up one night with a
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  Speaker 1: hint of brightness in my room. There was light from outside,
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  Speaker 1: in the backyard, shining ever so slightly through the closed blinds.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't sunlight. It was the backyard porch light. I
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  Speaker 1: could see a shadow moving in front of the blinds.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody was definitely out there. I couldn't really see out
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  Speaker 1: of the crack at the bottom of the blind, so
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  Speaker 1: I inched it up ever so slightly. There was somebody
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  Speaker 1: standing by the window, looking right at me, as if
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  Speaker 1: they were waiting for me. But they were gone before
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  Speaker 1: I could even think about grabbing my phone to get
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  Speaker 1: a picture of them. I strongly believe it was that
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  Speaker 1: woman I saw in the house. That was the last
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  Speaker 1: time I saw or heard from anyone involved in this shit.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing of this whole situation has made a single ounce
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  Speaker 1: of sense, even with the best explanation Andrew could give me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see a point in getting into how Andrew
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  Speaker 1: and everyone else is doing, as it's nothing interesting. The
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  Speaker 1: only thing I can say is I'm waiting for the
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  Speaker 1: next time I see any of these animals, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: be ready to call the police or take them on myself.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.