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10 Terrifying TRUE Stories (Volume 4) - Mr. Nightmare · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: A few years ago, something very weird happened with my
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  Speaker 1: best friend and I. I was 15 years old. One
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  Speaker 1: night I decided to sleep over at my friend's house.
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  Speaker 1: After a night of scary movies, we were in the
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  Speaker 1: mood to do something exciting. Not far from my friend's
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  Speaker 1: house was a demolishing site. A block of houses in
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  Speaker 1: a very terrible state that would be demolished the day
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  Speaker 1: after tomorrow. The local government would demolish them to make
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  Speaker 1: room for new houses. The whole site was fenced in
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  Speaker 1: and warning signs saying do not enter hung everywhere. The
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  Speaker 1: houses were boarded up by planks. Doors and windows were
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  Speaker 1: sealed shut. No one could get in. We decided to
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  Speaker 1: go for a walk on the old block and take
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  Speaker 1: some random photographs. My friend knew a spot where we
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  Speaker 1: could enter the old block. When we walked there, we
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  Speaker 1: noticed that every house was boarded up tight so we
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get in. We noticed a house with a window
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  Speaker 1: on the top floor that wasn't very well boarded up.
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  Speaker 1: We could see into the room. We took a photo
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  Speaker 1: with a digital camera. Later we went home and took
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  Speaker 1: a look at the pictures we made. Suddenly we came
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  Speaker 1: across the photo of the window. We saw a woman
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  Speaker 1: dressed in a brown raincoat with white skin and black
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  Speaker 1: hair as long as we could visibly see. The woman
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  Speaker 1: looked very sad. We hadn't seen any woman up there
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  Speaker 1: when we took the picture. Moreover, the windows and doors
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  Speaker 1: were boarded. We went back to the house to see
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  Speaker 1: if that was correct. After investigation, it really was. Everything
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  Speaker 1: was tied shut, and there was no woman. This story
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  Speaker 1: isn't mine, but rather of my friend from Japan. I'll
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  Speaker 1: call him Rita. It happened back when Rita was only
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  Speaker 1: about 11 or 12 years old. Rita was a rather
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  Speaker 1: attractive kid and had his fair share of admirers. One
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  Speaker 1: girl was extreme with her crush though. I'll call her Ayano.
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  Speaker 1: Ayano was a lot older than Rita. She was 17.
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  Speaker 1: She was an acquaintance of Rita and lived down the
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  Speaker 1: road from him. Rita hadn't thought much of her until
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  Speaker 1: she started stalking him. Every day and every night, she
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  Speaker 1: would be following him one way or another, whether it
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  Speaker 1: be in person or online. Rita first started getting the
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  Speaker 1: creeps when she would start messaging him over 20 times
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  Speaker 1: a day. Stuff like, be safe, are you alright, sleep well, etc.
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  Speaker 1: This was a little weird, but he overlooked it. Then
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  Speaker 1: the messages started getting creepier. Instead of the usual checkup emails,
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  Speaker 1: they got more personal. Things like, you should eat your lunch,
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  Speaker 1: if he skipped lunch, or I think your sister is hungry,
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  Speaker 1: when his little sister was crying. Rita stopped using both
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  Speaker 1: his phone and social media at this point, but it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't end there. Rita's mother was almost never home, so
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  Speaker 1: he was frequently looked after by babysitters. One day, he
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  Speaker 1: had a new babysitter. It was Ayano. Nothing was particularly
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  Speaker 1: strange as she looked after him and his siblings, but
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  Speaker 1: she did get a lot closer to his mother than
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  Speaker 1: he would like. One day at school, Ayano approached Rita
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  Speaker 1: and told him that his mother would be out of
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  Speaker 1: the country for a week and that she told her
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  Speaker 1: to let Rita stay at her house. Rita was hesitant
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  Speaker 1: at first, but hey, it was his mother's wish. He
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  Speaker 1: couldn't go against that. Ayano told him that his mother
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  Speaker 1: had already left, so he could go home with her
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  Speaker 1: after school that day. Rita reluctantly agreed and went home
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  Speaker 1: with her. When he got there, her parents weren't home.
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  Speaker 1: Things get a little blurry here as my friend choked
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  Speaker 1: up telling the story as it still scares him today.
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  Speaker 1: He said Ayano would play weird games with him, stuff
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  Speaker 1: like family, where she insisted she was the wife and
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  Speaker 1: he was the husband, as well as things like cops
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  Speaker 1: and robbers, and games to see who would get scared first,
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  Speaker 1: where she would blindfold him and leave him in a
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  Speaker 1: silent room for hours on end. It was five days
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  Speaker 1: into staying at her house, and Ayano had gone to
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  Speaker 1: her part-time job. She had left the doors locked and
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  Speaker 1: the windows were too high to jump from, so he
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  Speaker 1: just stayed in front of the TV. where he saw
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  Speaker 1: a chilling news report. It was a missing child report.
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  Speaker 1: The missing child being him. Before he had the time
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  Speaker 1: to catch the number to call, the TV switched off,
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  Speaker 1: and Ayano was standing behind him with the remote in
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  Speaker 1: her hand. Rita had freaked out, crying and screaming. Ayano
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  Speaker 1: held him, but he managed to wiggle from her grasp
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  Speaker 1: just in time to open a window and cry for help.
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  Speaker 1: Luckily for him, a couple were walking past, heard his
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  Speaker 1: cries and called the police. Within an hour, police arrived
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  Speaker 1: and found him locked in her bedroom with a blindfold
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  Speaker 1: and his hands tied. Due to Ayano still being a minor,
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  Speaker 1: Rita is unsure of what happened to her. He says
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  Speaker 1: he only remembers the police taking her away while his
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  Speaker 1: mother was hugging him. He moved to Australia after this
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  Speaker 1: and hasn't seen his kidnappers since, but he still cowers
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  Speaker 1: at the sound of her name. About five years ago,
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  Speaker 1: I lived downtown in a major city in the US.
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  Speaker 1: I've always been a night person, so I would often
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  Speaker 1: find myself bored after my roommate, who was decidedly not
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  Speaker 1: a night person, went to sleep. To pass the time,
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  Speaker 1: I used to go for long walks and spend the
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  Speaker 1: time thinking. I spent four years like that, walking alone
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  Speaker 1: at night, and never once had a reason to feel afraid.
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  Speaker 1: I always used to joke with my roommates that even
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  Speaker 1: the drug dealers in the city were polite. but all
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  Speaker 1: that changed in just a few minutes of one evening.
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  Speaker 1: It was a Wednesday, somewhere between 1 and 2 in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, and I was walking near a police-patrolled park
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  Speaker 1: quite a ways from my apartment. It was a quiet night,
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  Speaker 1: even for a weeknight, with very little traffic and almost
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  Speaker 1: no one on foot. The park, as it was most nights,
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  Speaker 1: was completely empty. I went down a short side street
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  Speaker 1: in order to loop back down my apartment when I
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  Speaker 1: first noticed him. At the far end of the street,
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  Speaker 1: on my side, was the silhouette of a man dancing.
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  Speaker 1: It was a strange dance, similar to a waltz, but
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  Speaker 1: he finished each box with an odd forward stride. I
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  Speaker 1: guess you could say he was dancewalking, headed straight for me.
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  Speaker 1: Deciding he was probably drunk, I stepped as close as
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  Speaker 1: I could to the road to give him the majority
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  Speaker 1: of the sidewalk to pass me. The closer he got,
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  Speaker 1: the more I realized how gracefully he was moving. He
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  Speaker 1: was very tall and lanky and wearing an old suit.
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  Speaker 1: He danced closer still until I could make out his face.
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  Speaker 1: His eyes were open wide and wild, head tilted back
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  Speaker 1: slightly looking off at the sky. His mouth was formed
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  Speaker 1: in a painfully wide cartoon of a smile. Between the
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  Speaker 1: eyes and the smile, I decided to cross the street
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  Speaker 1: before he danced any closer. I took my eyes off
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  Speaker 1: of him to cross the empty street, As I reached
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  Speaker 1: the other side, I glanced back and then stopped dead
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  Speaker 1: in my tracks. He had stopped dancing and was standing
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  Speaker 1: with one foot in the street perfectly parallel to me.
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  Speaker 1: He was facing me but still looking skyward, smiles still
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  Speaker 1: wide on his lips. I was completely and utterly unnerved
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  Speaker 1: by this. I started walking again but kept my eyes
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  Speaker 1: on the man. He didn't move. Once I had put
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  Speaker 1: about half a block between us, I turned away from
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  Speaker 1: him for a moment to watch the sidewalk in front
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  Speaker 1: of me. The street and sidewalk ahead of me were
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  Speaker 1: completely empty. Still unnerved, I looked back to where he
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  Speaker 1: had been standing to find him gone. For the briefest
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  Speaker 1: of moments I felt relieved, until I noticed him. He
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  Speaker 1: had crossed the street and was now slightly crouched down.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't tell for sure due to the distance and
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  Speaker 1: the shadows, but I was certain he was facing me.
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  Speaker 1: I had looked away from him for no more than
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  Speaker 1: 10 seconds, so it was clear that he had moved fast.
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  Speaker 1: I was so shocked and I stood there for some time,
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  Speaker 1: staring at him, and then he started moving toward me again.
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  Speaker 1: He took giant, exaggerated, tiptoed steps, as if he were
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  Speaker 1: a cartoon character sneaking up on someone, except he was
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  Speaker 1: moving very, very quickly. I'd like to say at this
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  Speaker 1: point that I ran away or pulled out my pepper
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  Speaker 1: spray or cell phone or anything at all, but I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I just stood there, completely frozen, as the smiling man
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  Speaker 1: crept toward me. And then he stopped again, about a
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  Speaker 1: car length away from me, still smiling his smile, still
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  Speaker 1: looking to the sky. When I finally found my voice,
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  Speaker 1: I blurted out the first thing that came to mind.
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  Speaker 1: What I meant to ask was, What the fuck do
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  Speaker 1: you want? In an angry, commanding tone. What came out
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  Speaker 1: was a whimper. What the fuck? Regardless of whether or
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  Speaker 1: not humans can smell fear, they can certainly hear it.
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  Speaker 1: I heard it in my own voice. That only made
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  Speaker 1: me more afraid. But he didn't react to it at all.
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  Speaker 1: He just stood there, smiling. And then, after what felt
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  Speaker 1: like forever, he turned around, very slowly, and started dancewalking
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  Speaker 1: away Just like that. Not wanting to turn my back
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  Speaker 1: to him again. I just watched him go, until he
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  Speaker 1: was far enough away to almost be out of sight.
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  Speaker 1: And then I realized something. He wasn't moving away anymore,
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  Speaker 1: nor was he dancing. I watched in horror as the
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  Speaker 1: distant shape of him got bigger and bigger. He was
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  Speaker 1: coming back my way. He was coming back my way.
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  Speaker 1: And this time he was running. I ran too. I
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  Speaker 1: ran until I was off the side road and back
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  Speaker 1: onto a better lit road with sparse traffic. Looking behind
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  Speaker 1: me then, he was nowhere to be found. The rest
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  Speaker 1: of my way home, I kept glancing over my shoulder,
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  Speaker 1: always expecting to see his stupid smile. But he was
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  Speaker 1: never there. I lived in that city for six months
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  Speaker 1: after that, and I never went out for another walk.
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  Speaker 1: There was something about his face that always haunted me.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't look drunk. He didn't look high. He looked
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  Speaker 1: completely and utterly insane. And that's a very, very scary
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  Speaker 1: thing to see. In the mid-80s, my mom was a
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  Speaker 1: cleaner in Australia. She would clean houses in suburban areas
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  Speaker 1: and would sometimes do houses in rural or wine regions.
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  Speaker 1: She would leave business cards at the local shops and
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  Speaker 1: got most of her business this way, and some through
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  Speaker 1: referrals and word of mouth. One day she got a
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  Speaker 1: call from a lady who sounded like she was around 60,
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  Speaker 1: asking mom to clean her old farmhouse. She made a
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  Speaker 1: lot of odd demands, and mom would usually meet clients
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  Speaker 1: before taking on new business. In this case, the lady
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  Speaker 1: did not want to meet my mom, and said she
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  Speaker 1: would leave the keys under the front doormat. Mom agreed
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  Speaker 1: mainly because the lady was quite obviously wealthy and was
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  Speaker 1: offering to pay Mom substantially more than she would reasonably expect.
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  Speaker 1: Mom went to the house on a Monday morning and
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  Speaker 1: said she already felt unnerved by the long driveway. The
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  Speaker 1: house was essentially in the middle of a very large
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  Speaker 1: and very empty property. She found the keys and started cleaning.
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  Speaker 1: About an hour into the clean, she hears the back
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  Speaker 1: door shut. Mom was told no one would be at
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  Speaker 1: the house. so she immediately felt unsafe. She stood frozen
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  Speaker 1: in the kitchen for what she said felt like three
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  Speaker 1: or four minutes, although she said it could have been
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  Speaker 1: much longer. There was no other car on the property.
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  Speaker 1: She wanted to leave immediately, but had two rooms left
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  Speaker 1: to do. Both were bedrooms. She said as time passed
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  Speaker 1: and she heard nothing else, she decided that perhaps it
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  Speaker 1: was nothing, or perhaps something had fallen and it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the door after all. She walked up the hallway and
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  Speaker 1: stepped into the bedrooms, All over the bed were black
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  Speaker 1: and white photos. As mom got closer, she realized that
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  Speaker 1: the photos were all of her. Some were taken at
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  Speaker 1: our family home and others were taken at other houses
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  Speaker 1: mom would clean. Some through windows or over fences. She
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  Speaker 1: used the house phone to call the police and immediately
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  Speaker 1: drove to the end of the driveway. The lady ended
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  Speaker 1: up being investigated but continued to claim that it was
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  Speaker 1: a break-in. After some time, the police stopped with their
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  Speaker 1: searching and we ended up moving to a new town
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  Speaker 1: four months later. I'm 22, and this incident happened a
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  Speaker 1: year and a half ago. I had just moved into
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  Speaker 1: my first apartment and was in the process of moving in.
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  Speaker 1: The door that led to my apartment locks itself automatically
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  Speaker 1: when closed. So... I was going to the entrance of
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  Speaker 1: the apartment complex to get my mail while talking on
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  Speaker 1: the phone with my friend. I returned to the apartment
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  Speaker 1: and sat on the bed while opening the mail while
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  Speaker 1: using the phone. I dropped the phone on the floor
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  Speaker 1: and it landed under the bed, so I had to
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  Speaker 1: lie on the floor and stretch for it. I saw
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  Speaker 1: something that caught my eye. There was someone under my bed.
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  Speaker 1: My eyes widened and I choked the urge to scream.
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  Speaker 1: The person under my bed was lying still with his
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  Speaker 1: back towards me and his head to his chest, so
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't see his face, and he didn't see me.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to be rational while so many thoughts rushed through
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  Speaker 1: my head, I picked up the phone, said, The bathroom
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  Speaker 1: is right by my bed, so I hastily walked in,
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  Speaker 1: quietly locked the door, turned the shower on, jumped out
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  Speaker 1: my window, and called the police. They told me to
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  Speaker 1: wait nearby, but to go across the street and see
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  Speaker 1: if anybody comes out the door of the apartment complex.
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  Speaker 1: This was during the summer and it was still light out.
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  Speaker 1: I placed myself across the street, hiding behind a car
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  Speaker 1: while watching my open bathroom window and the entry door.
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  Speaker 1: I called my friend and he came over just before
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  Speaker 1: the police. I gave them my keys and they went inside.
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  Speaker 1: Only moments later, two cops came out holding a thin
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  Speaker 1: and tired looking man. His eyes looked crazy. but he
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  Speaker 1: didn't try to get away. The policeman that stood beside
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  Speaker 1: me and comforted me while the police searched through my
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  Speaker 1: house told me that the man stood outside my bathroom
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  Speaker 1: door with one of my kitchen knives waiting for me
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  Speaker 1: to come out. This man had somehow crept in my
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  Speaker 1: entry door while I was getting my mail and hid
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  Speaker 1: under the bed. The man that was trying to hurt
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  Speaker 1: me turned out to be a homeless person and was
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  Speaker 1: placed in a mental hospital When I was 21, me
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  Speaker 1: and my girlfriend were upstate in my family's vacation mobile home.
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  Speaker 1: It was during a snowstorm, and we were sitting on
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  Speaker 1: the couch next to the heater, snuggling and watching late-night TV.
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  Speaker 1: We were surrounded by absolutely nothing but forest in all directions,
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  Speaker 1: and all that was keeping us from the outside was
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  Speaker 1: a wooden door that had a broken lock. The last
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  Speaker 1: time my grandparents came up, my grandpa put a few
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  Speaker 1: cinder blocks by the door to use as a kind
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  Speaker 1: of barrier in the meantime, since the door opened inwards. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: while we were watching TV, my girlfriend started shaking me,
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  Speaker 1: telling me she heard something outside. I assured her it
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  Speaker 1: was most likely a deer or a bear or something,
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  Speaker 1: but then five minutes later, my girlfriend looked at me again.
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  Speaker 1: I heard it too. I muted the TV so we
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  Speaker 1: could hear it better. It sounded like someone was messing
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  Speaker 1: around in the little lawnmower shed outside. My car was
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  Speaker 1: parked outside and all the lights were on inside. If
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  Speaker 1: there was anybody out there, They knew we were inside.
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  Speaker 1: My girlfriend was urging me to go outside and check
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  Speaker 1: it out, but I told her she must be crazy
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  Speaker 1: to think that I was going out there. The sound
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  Speaker 1: stopped and there was nothing but the sound of the
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  Speaker 1: storm outside now. After a few minutes, I felt it
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  Speaker 1: safe to shut the inside lights and open the blinds
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  Speaker 1: to take a quick look outside, but it was too
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  Speaker 1: dark to see anything. I turned on the porch light
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  Speaker 1: and I was able to see a good portion of
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  Speaker 1: the front yard outside. There were footprints in the snow.
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  Speaker 1: Not animal footprints. They were clearly shoe prints, and they
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  Speaker 1: were headed in the direction of the backyard. I went
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  Speaker 1: to open the curtains to the backyard window, and when
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  Speaker 1: I did, I felt the urge to scream, but my
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend did instead. Even though there were no lights in
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  Speaker 1: the backyard, we could see a man dressed in all
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  Speaker 1: black and wearing a vendetta mask facing the window. I
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  Speaker 1: immediately shut the blinds and told my girlfriend to go
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  Speaker 1: hide in the bedroom. While I grabbed my grandpa's hunting
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  Speaker 1: rifle out of the closet, I pushed the cinder blocks
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  Speaker 1: and a bunch of other heavy objects in front of
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  Speaker 1: the door as a barricade, shut all the blinds and lights,
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  Speaker 1: and went to hide with my girlfriend in the corner
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  Speaker 1: of the bedroom. There was a bang at the front door.
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  Speaker 1: He was trying to bust open the door. I don't
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  Speaker 1: even think he tried the knob, but it didn't matter
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  Speaker 1: either way. After a few futile bangs to the door,
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  Speaker 1: it seems the man finally gave up. I stayed up
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  Speaker 1: that whole night with the gun by my side while
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  Speaker 1: my girlfriend slept. We packed and left first thing in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, but the scary thing, there was a fresh
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  Speaker 1: set of footprints leading from the front yard window out
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  Speaker 1: into the woods. I haven't been up there since, but
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  Speaker 1: my grandparents have, and they said that there was no
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  Speaker 1: sign of a break-in or anything missing. I don't plan
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  Speaker 1: on ever going back up there. Back when my grandma
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  Speaker 1: was still alive, I would always walk down the block
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  Speaker 1: to her house every day to help with various chores.
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  Speaker 1: There was this one day that I walked over to
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  Speaker 1: her house the same time I always did and decided
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  Speaker 1: to let myself in. I was surprised she left the
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  Speaker 1: door unlocked. She was a very paranoid old lady and
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  Speaker 1: normally kept everything locked. I saw her bedroom door was
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  Speaker 1: opened upstairs and I heard her opening and closing drawers
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  Speaker 1: and cabinets. I walked upstairs calling grandma. and as I
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  Speaker 1: was about five feet from the door, she slammed her
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  Speaker 1: bedroom door shut. I knocked, asking if everything was alright,
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  Speaker 1: and at that moment my cell phone began to ring.
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  Speaker 1: It was my grandma's phone number. I was so confused,
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  Speaker 1: but I picked up the phone anyway. My grandma was
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  Speaker 1: on the other end, telling me not to come over
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  Speaker 1: that day, as she was walking over to her senior's club.
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  Speaker 1: I felt my heart skip a beat as she told
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  Speaker 1: me this. I hung up the phone before she could
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  Speaker 1: say anything else, remaining silent. I knew exactly what was
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: going on. I played dumb and said, Grandma, I'll be downstairs,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and made my way to my grandma's kitchen to grab
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: a knife and dial 911. It remained silent in the
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: bedroom after what happened. The police arrived and burst into
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the bedroom, and the loud and sudden bang of a
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: gunshot caught me off guard. When the paramedics arrived and
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: wheeled out the intruder, I recognized the man's face. It
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: was my grandma's next-door neighbor. Apparently, he saw that my
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: grandmother had left the house and broke in to look
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: for jewelry. And when the police broke into the bedroom,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: they found the man hiding next to the door with
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: a large knife in hand. If I had walked into
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: that bedroom, I would have been as good as dead.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: The most haunting memory of my life. Me and my
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: wife were getting home from dinner out, and as soon
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: as we stepped out of the car, We noticed that
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: our front door to our house was open. I told
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  Speaker 1: my wife to wait outside while I ran inside and
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: ran straight up to our bedroom where I hid the shotgun.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: I loaded the gun and scanned every single room upstairs.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: There was no sign of anybody. I made my way
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  Speaker 1: down to scanning the main floor followed by the basement.
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  Speaker 1: There was no sign of anybody and there was nothing
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: missing or moved. I called the cops and when they
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  Speaker 1: arrived I told them what happened. and they began to
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: investigate some rooms upstairs, followed by the basement. Nothing was
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: turned up. They made a case of asking us if
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: we were positive that we shut the door when we left.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I myself was starting to have doubts, not completely sure
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: if I had, but my wife remained confident that we
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: had shut the door. The police seemed sure that if
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: somebody had broken in, they didn't stick around long, as
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: there didn't seem to be any signs of burglary. My
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: wife was worried sick, crying that she wasn't comfortable being
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: in the house. I comforted her the best I could,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: assuring her that whoever broke in the house left in
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: a hurry. I finally fell asleep after hours of rolling
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: around in the bed, but my sleep was immediately cut
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: short by the disturbing scream of my wife. I looked
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: at her, and she was staring intently in the direction
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: of the closet. It hit me like a bullet just then.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I had forgotten to check the second closet. I looked
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: over and saw for the briefest second a man poking
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: his head out of the closet before closing the closet door.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Within five seconds I had the shotgun loaded in hand
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: and cocked it back to let the intruder know that
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I was armed. I screamed for him to come out
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: and just like that the closet door opened but instead
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: of showing submission he made a mad dash for the
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: front door of the house. I could have shot him,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: but I didn't have it in me. He was never caught.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: He got away with it scot-free. I think having that
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: gun saved us from a terrible fate. About a year ago,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: while still living under my parents' roof, I started experiencing
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: some weird occurrences in my house, specifically my bedroom. While
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I was laying awake in my bed one late night,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I heard a creaking sound coming from across the bedroom.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: My closet door had somehow been opened. When I got
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: up to check it, I subconsciously checked for anybody inside
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: my closet, even though I was 26 years old. Of
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: course there was nobody inside, so I shut the door
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and went back to bed. Later that same night, I
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: would hear rumbly rattling noises coming from up above the ceiling.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: It sounded like something in the air ducts. It was
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: a very strange sound. I really had no idea what
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: to think about it. but as soon as it stopped,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I kind of forgot about it quickly and fell asleep.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: In the morning, I did tell my dad about sounds
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: in the attic the previous night, but annoyingly, he didn't
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: seem too interested, or he just didn't take me very seriously.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: That night, I again lay in my bed awake, reflecting
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: on life, when yet again, the slow creak of the
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: closet door creeping open broke the silence. This time, I felt...
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: genuinely afraid. I knew the door was completely shut. It
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: would take somebody twisting the doorknob for it to be
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: able to push open. This time I took an extra
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: careful look inside the closet for anybody even though it
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: wasn't a big closet and there really wasn't anywhere somebody
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: could hide. I rationalized it as being a broken doorknob
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: or something and that same night I again heard the
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: rattling sounds coming from above the ceiling. It was exactly
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: what happened the previous night. The next morning, I convinced
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: my dad to take a look at my closet door,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: but he quickly determined that the door was fine. When
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: it was closed, he pulled on it, and it showed
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: no signs of coming off the latch. Of course, he
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: suggested that I was simply leaving the door unlatched, but
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I knew I wasn't. That night, I sat up, waiting
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: for it to happen again, and right on cue, the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: closet door creaked open. I waited for the sounds above
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: the ceiling, but there was just a long silence. I
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: turned on my lamp and looked up to the air
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: vents in my room, and I screamed at the top
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: of my lungs. I could distinctly see two wide-open eyes
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: peering through the vents at me. My parents barged into
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: my room asking if I had gone insane. I explained everything,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and they looked at each other like I had completely
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: lost it. Not surprisingly, They dismissed it as a dream
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: or the fact that I was too tired and was
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: seeing things. They even began to lecture me about staying
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: up too late. But to this day, I know I
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: hadn't imagined it. It was too real. And the closet
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: opening routinely? I know for a fact that wasn't in
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: my imagination. I have never been a believer in the paranormal,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: but I still have absolutely no other explanation for those
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: three nights. I live in the Poconos with my wife
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: and kids. There's a small lake about a quarter mile
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: away from our backyard. I commonly take my kids down
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: there to go swimming. Up until last week, that is. Now,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I'm never letting them go down there again. I haven't
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: told anyone about this in fear of sounding crazy. It
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: was last Saturday. We went over to the lake and
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: set up our chairs on the sand. It's like a
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: little private beach in our own backyard. It's been amazing.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Me and my wife sat in our beach chairs enjoying
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: the sun while our kids were splashing around in the water.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I always tell them not to go too deep. They're
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: still young, six and eight. We sat there for a
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: good two hours that day. Neither of us were in
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the mood to get wet. Eventually, my wife got tired
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: and decided to walk back home. I agreed to stay
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: with the kids a little while longer, as they were
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: somehow still having so much fun playing in the sand
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and water. The sun was setting at this point, and
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I was getting tired. They were going a little too deep,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: so I called at them to come back closer to
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the shore. They couldn't hear me, apparently, so I stood
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: up and got closer. Before I could call them again,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I noticed something in the water. It looked like a black,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: roundish object, and it was moving, moving closer to my kids.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I ran into the water closer to my kids, calling
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: them to come out. When they got close enough, I
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: dragged them out myself. When I turned back to the water,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the object was gone. My kids were confused as hell.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't know what to tell them, so I just
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: told them it was time to go home. We packed
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: up and walked back to the house, but I wasn't
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: happy when I got home. I was uncomfortable with what
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I just saw. That thing looked like no sea creature
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: known to man. Dinner was waiting for us when we
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: got home. I ate really slow, thinking about the object
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: in the water. and whether or not to tell my wife.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: My wife asked me what's wrong. She noticed that I
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: was eating slow. Eh, I decided not to tell her
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: right then. After dinner, I took a flashlight with me
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: and walked back down to the lake. By then, it
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: was already dark out. I got to the lake, but
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: to be honest, I didn't even know what I was
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: expecting to find. I shined the flashlight all around the
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: surface of the water, searching for the black object. And
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: just then, I heard a large splash come from somewhere
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: in the lake. The kind of splash of something emerging
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: out of the water. I thought it might be some
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: kind of animal in the lake. I shined the light
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: all over the place, searching for the source of the sound.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: And then I found it. And I realized I was
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: dead wrong. There was a silhouette of a humanoid figure
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: with long black hair covering its whole face. It just
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: stood there, facing me, but not staring at me. Not
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: that I could tell. I dropped the flashlight in horror
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: and sprinted all the way back up to my house,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: slamming the door shut behind me. I haven't told anybody
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: about this. What kills me is that that leak is
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: only a quarter mile away from my house. And for
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: all I know, that thing could be watching me through
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: my window right now as I write this. Thank you.