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3 True Desolate Cabin-in-the-Woods Horror Stories · Paranormal Activity

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  Speaker 1: I had just gotten out of work at eleven PM
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  Speaker 1: and was heading back to my house. It's about a
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  Speaker 1: forty five minute drive to get home. Usually, as I
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  Speaker 1: lived several miles outside of the city, It's always very
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  Speaker 1: quiet and the roads are pretty empty once I start
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  Speaker 1: to get further out and closer to home. I always
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed the drives back from work. I found them peaceful
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  Speaker 1: and just a nice way to wind down after a
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  Speaker 1: long day. I was twenty minutes away from home and
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  Speaker 1: just turned down alongside road that pretty much leads directly
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  Speaker 1: to my house. This was my usual route home that
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  Speaker 1: I'd been taking for years now, and I'd never had
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  Speaker 1: anything happen before. I will admit though it was a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a creepy road at night. It was very
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  Speaker 1: dimly lit and the sides of the road were surrounded
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  Speaker 1: by a dense forest. To mention, it would often get
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  Speaker 1: foggy during the later hours of the night, making things
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  Speaker 1: only visible within a few feet ahead. Again, though barely
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  Speaker 1: anyone is on this road at night and there's no
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  Speaker 1: turns or anything, so visibility is never too much of
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  Speaker 1: an issue. Though a couple minutes down the road, I
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  Speaker 1: see through the fog a small blinking light. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: really tell how far ahead it was or even what
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  Speaker 1: side of the road it was on. I slowed down,
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  Speaker 1: and as I started to get closer, the light turned
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  Speaker 1: off completely. At this point, I was maybe going fifteen
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  Speaker 1: to twenty miles per hour when out of the fog,
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  Speaker 1: a small car pulls out from the side of the
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  Speaker 1: road and stops directly in front of me. I tried
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  Speaker 1: to break, but I was too close already, and my
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  Speaker 1: car tapped the back of theirs. I was kind of
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  Speaker 1: in shock at first as to how suddenly it all happened,
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  Speaker 1: but I noticed neither of our cars really had much damage.
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  Speaker 1: Not really knowing what to do, I opened my door
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  Speaker 1: and stood beside my car, waiting for them to get
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  Speaker 1: out as well. I could see them moving around in
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  Speaker 1: the front seat, but I couldn't tell what they were doing.
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  Speaker 1: As I stood there, I looked at his car, noticing
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  Speaker 1: how old and worn it was and that the headlights
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  Speaker 1: were all turned off. Eventually, a man got out of
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  Speaker 1: the car slowly and began making his way over to me.
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  Speaker 1: From what I could see, he looked like a middle
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  Speaker 1: aged man and was a pretty large guy. I decided
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  Speaker 1: to start off and asked, is everything okay? You pulled
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  Speaker 1: out pretty quick. He was acting a little strange and
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  Speaker 1: looking all around and never making eye contact with me.
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  Speaker 1: After a couple seconds, he replied, yeah, sorry. I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: really sure how to respond, but he was starting to
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  Speaker 1: really make me uncomfortable, and I didn't want to be
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  Speaker 1: out on an empty road alone with him. I told
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  Speaker 1: him that there was no real damage to either car,
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  Speaker 1: so I was going to get back on the road
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  Speaker 1: and head home. But as I began reaching for my
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  Speaker 1: car door, he told me to wait. He told me
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to check his car out for damage before
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  Speaker 1: I left. I said okay and stood next to my
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  Speaker 1: car as he looked at his back bumper. But then
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  Speaker 1: he started to walk around this car, pretending to look
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  Speaker 1: at it for damage, which was really weird because I
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  Speaker 1: had only tapped his back bumper. As he started to
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  Speaker 1: make his way to the passenger side, I saw a
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  Speaker 1: large figure get up in the back seat and start
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  Speaker 1: moving towards the door. I immediately got in my car
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  Speaker 1: and locked it as a man got out of the
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  Speaker 1: back door, and both of them began waving their hands
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  Speaker 1: at me, telling me to stop. I was panicking at
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  Speaker 1: this point and put the car in drive and went
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  Speaker 1: around them down the road. Looking in the rear view mirror,
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  Speaker 1: I could see their lights turn on through the fog.
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  Speaker 1: I could see their lights for about thirty seconds, but
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  Speaker 1: eventually they faded out. I pulled into a gas station
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  Speaker 1: that was about five minutes from my house and waited
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  Speaker 1: there just to make sure that they didn't follow me home,
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  Speaker 1: but the car never passed by. After waiting for fifteen minutes,
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  Speaker 1: I headed home. I decided not to call the cops
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  Speaker 1: at the time, as I wasn't entirely sure if I
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  Speaker 1: was just overreacting or not. I'm still not sure what
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  Speaker 1: those people really wanted, but the more I think about it,
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  Speaker 1: everything about that situation felt wrong. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: their plan was, but part of me feels like something
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  Speaker 1: very dangerous was about to happen if I had not
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  Speaker 1: gotten out of there in time. Another part of me
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  Speaker 1: wishes I had reported the incident, as I find myself
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  Speaker 1: wondering what if they had stopped following me so that
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  Speaker 1: they could try and lure someone else into their trap.
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  Speaker 1: I used to work for a small trucking company that
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  Speaker 1: would deliver frozen product to stores across several states. For
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  Speaker 1: the most part, I would do three or four deliveries
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  Speaker 1: before heading back to the warehouse and then home. Every
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  Speaker 1: once in a while, though, we would have a long
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  Speaker 1: delivery route where we would end too far to head
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  Speaker 1: back that same day, so we would have to sleep
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  Speaker 1: somewhere overnight before heading back. Usually I had just pulled
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  Speaker 1: the truck into a truck stop and rest for a
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  Speaker 1: few hours and then get back on the road. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: I was scheduled for a long delivery this day, and
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  Speaker 1: I knew I wouldn't get back until pretty late the
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  Speaker 1: next day. I got ready and headed out. Nothing happened
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  Speaker 1: the whole way there. I drove down, unloaded the truck,
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  Speaker 1: and started heading back. It was pretty late though, around
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  Speaker 1: one in the morning. I figured I should rest for
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  Speaker 1: an hour or two before continuing all the way back.
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  Speaker 1: The last sign I saw for a truck stop said
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  Speaker 1: forty miles ahead, so I still had a bit before
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  Speaker 1: getting there. I tend to space out for long periods
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  Speaker 1: of time when driving down long, straight roads, especially this
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  Speaker 1: late at night when nobody else is on the road.
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  Speaker 1: Though I saw something flicker in my side mirror. I
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  Speaker 1: looked over and noticed headlights shining from right behind the trailer,
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  Speaker 1: but I couldn't see the car at all. This usually
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  Speaker 1: means that the car is in my blind spot because
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  Speaker 1: it's too close to the back for me to see.
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  Speaker 1: I continue down the road at the same speed, waiting
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  Speaker 1: for the car to get into the other lane and
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  Speaker 1: pass me, but to my surprise, he stayed right behind me.
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  Speaker 1: This was starting to really bother me, as I knew
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  Speaker 1: if I had to break for any reason, this guy
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  Speaker 1: was for sure going to hit me. The truck stop
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  Speaker 1: was just a few miles ahead, though, so I tried
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  Speaker 1: to ignore them for the rest of the way there. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: I see the sign for the rest area and start
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  Speaker 1: to pull in. As I'm turning, I checked my mirror
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  Speaker 1: and I see the car slow down a little, but
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  Speaker 1: then he continues to follow me into the parking lot.
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  Speaker 1: I honestly wasn't sure what to think at this point,
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  Speaker 1: but I figured I must have accidentally cut him off
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  Speaker 1: a while back and he just wanted to yell at
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  Speaker 1: me about it. I've gotten a lot of angry drivers
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  Speaker 1: in my years of trucking, so I was pretty used
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  Speaker 1: to it, but I've never had anyone follow me like this.
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  Speaker 1: I pulled into an open spot and shifted in the park.
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  Speaker 1: The car slowly trailed behind me and continued to get
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  Speaker 1: closer and closer to the back before eventually stopping again.
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  Speaker 1: He was too close for me to see him, but
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  Speaker 1: at this point it was getting too weird. I got
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  Speaker 1: out and started walking around to the back to question them,
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  Speaker 1: though almost as soon as I slammed my driver door shut,
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  Speaker 1: they put it in reverse and drove away in a rush.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't see too well, but I could tell it
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  Speaker 1: was an older man, and the car was white and
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  Speaker 1: rusted all over. It looked pretty similar to one of
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  Speaker 1: those old police cars with the front bupper bars and everything.
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  Speaker 1: I stood out there by the back of the truck
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of minutes, making sure everything was securely
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  Speaker 1: locked and that he didn't come back. Then I got
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  Speaker 1: back in the truck and turned it off. I double
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  Speaker 1: checked all the doors to make sure that they were locked,
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  Speaker 1: and did one quick glance out all the windows for
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  Speaker 1: any more cars. Then I laid back and closed my eyes.
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  Speaker 1: I woke hearing a bang echoed through my trailer. I
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  Speaker 1: checked my watch, seeing it had been almost two hours
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  Speaker 1: and was a little past three am. Then there was
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  Speaker 1: another bang, but this time louder. I looked over in
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  Speaker 1: the side mirror and saw a very faint shadow moving
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  Speaker 1: around towards the back. This time I got pretty freaked out.
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  Speaker 1: I grabbed a small knife that I kept in the
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  Speaker 1: middle compartment and started making my way to the back,
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  Speaker 1: but this time I left the driver door open as
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  Speaker 1: to not make any noise. As I got closer, I
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  Speaker 1: crouched down a little and looked under the trailer. I
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  Speaker 1: could clearly see someone standing right up against the back
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  Speaker 1: of the truck and their car just behind them with
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  Speaker 1: its headlights off. Once I saw that, a rush of
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  Speaker 1: fear ran through my body, and I decided not to
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  Speaker 1: approach any further and instead shouted out to them. My
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  Speaker 1: voice was a little shaky, but it seemed to do
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  Speaker 1: the trick. They rushed into their car and sped off.
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  Speaker 1: Looking at the back door, there was scratches all over
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  Speaker 1: the lock and clear marks as if he was trying
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  Speaker 1: to cut it open. I looked around to see if
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  Speaker 1: any other trucks could have seen the incident, but the
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  Speaker 1: lot was pretty empty. After a couple minutes, I ended
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  Speaker 1: up just getting back on the road and headed home.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing else happened for the rest of the trip. I've
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  Speaker 1: always assumed the man was just trying to steal from
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  Speaker 1: my trailer, but obviously he didn't know that I was
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  Speaker 1: on my way back from a delivery and the whole
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  Speaker 1: trailer was empty. Anyways, it's still the most unnerving thing
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  Speaker 1: that happened to me during my years of trucking, and
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  Speaker 1: I still get paranoid sometimes with a feeling that a
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  Speaker 1: car might be following right behind me without me even knowing.
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  Speaker 1: I was attending a popular concert in the South Side
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  Speaker 1: of Chicago last year. As most of you probably know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a pretty sketchy area down there, and the crime
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  Speaker 1: rate is really high. But the tickets were really cheap
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  Speaker 1: and the concert was well populated, so I felt pretty safe.
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  Speaker 1: Plus I decided to go with a couple of my friends.
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  Speaker 1: The concert was great and we all really enjoyed ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: but we knew the drive out would be pretty bad
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  Speaker 1: with all the traffic. It was almost ten pm by
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  Speaker 1: the time we got out of the parking lot and
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  Speaker 1: onto the main road. We realized pretty quick though, that
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  Speaker 1: we were going to be on this road for a while,
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  Speaker 1: as the cars were barely even moving forward, sitting there,
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  Speaker 1: my friends started to look up other routes to get
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  Speaker 1: back to our town, and they found one that could
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  Speaker 1: hopefully get us past all this traffic. After sitting in
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  Speaker 1: basically the same spot for thirty minutes, we agreed we
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  Speaker 1: would try the other route. We turned off the main
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  Speaker 1: road as soon as we could and began going through
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood streets. Surprisingly, there were a lot of people outside
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  Speaker 1: this late at night, just walking around or standing in
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  Speaker 1: their yards. This wasn't normal from where we lived, which
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  Speaker 1: was just a couple hours west. As we continued down
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  Speaker 1: these neighborhood streets, we began to notice that the people
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  Speaker 1: outside would watch us as we drove by, and then
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  Speaker 1: we also started to realize that we hadn't seen any
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  Speaker 1: other cars in probably twenty minutes. This got us a
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  Speaker 1: little bit nervous and we all started to pay more attention.
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  Speaker 1: I asked one of my friends to check where the
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  Speaker 1: nearest main road was, and as he was scrolling through
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  Speaker 1: the map, my other friend pointed out a car at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the street that we were on. It
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  Speaker 1: was parked sideways, blocking both lanes of the road. I
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  Speaker 1: stopped the car immediately and backed out and got onto
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  Speaker 1: the road that we were on previously, then continued down there.
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  Speaker 1: We began to panic a little bit, trying to find
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  Speaker 1: a safe way out to a more public area with
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  Speaker 1: other cars. But just a few seconds later we again
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  Speaker 1: saw at the end of the road a sideways car
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  Speaker 1: blocking both lanes. I stopped the car and I looked
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  Speaker 1: over at my friends. We were all looking at each other,
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  Speaker 1: clueless of what to do. It was too dark and
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  Speaker 1: we couldn't tell if anyone was in the car up ahead,
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  Speaker 1: so we didn't want to approach it. As we were
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  Speaker 1: discussing our options, two men came up from one of
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  Speaker 1: the houses off the street. One of them stood behind
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  Speaker 1: the car, and the other one came up to my window.
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  Speaker 1: He signaled with his hands for me to roll down
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  Speaker 1: the window, and nervously I rolled it down just a
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  Speaker 1: few inches. The man looked at each of us and
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  Speaker 1: scanned the inside of the car, then asked me where
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  Speaker 1: we were headed, Just back to the highway, I said.
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  Speaker 1: He nodded and looked over at his friend, who started
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  Speaker 1: to walk over to the passenger's side. There was a
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  Speaker 1: small moment where it felt like everything went silent and
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  Speaker 1: nobody moved. Then suddenly both men grabbed the doors, trying
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  Speaker 1: to open them repeatedly. I reacted as fast as I could,
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  Speaker 1: putting the car in reverse as everyone was screaming. Just
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  Speaker 1: as I started to back out, the man tried to
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  Speaker 1: stick his arm through the gap in the window and
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  Speaker 1: even got stuck for a second as I pulled the
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  Speaker 1: car back before slamming to the ground. I turned around
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  Speaker 1: and floored it out of the street and went back
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  Speaker 1: to the way we came. We were all in total shock.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to stay calm, but I was shaking uncontrollably.
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  Speaker 1: All agreed we would go back to the same way
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  Speaker 1: we came and just get on the highway from there.
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  Speaker 1: I think we were all pretty shaken by the situation,
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  Speaker 1: but I do think that I handled it pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: Luckily our doors were locked, though, because I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: if I'd be here right now if they weren't.