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6 NIGHT SHIFT HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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Speaker 1: I used to work at a gas station many years ago.
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Speaker 1: I was the clerk in the convenience store that we had,
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Speaker 1: and it was open 24 hours. So, as you can guess,
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Speaker 1: I worked overnights, and when I did, I would be
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Speaker 1: all by myself. Now, the gas station was located across
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Speaker 1: the street from some stores, such as Target and a
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Speaker 1: few others, so the area would get a lot of
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Speaker 1: traffic during the day. A highway was also nearby, and
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Speaker 1: the gas station was on a corner. At night, though,
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Speaker 1: All of the other businesses nearby closed by 10 or 11.
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Speaker 1: Things would be very quiet until probably 6 a.m. or so.
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Speaker 1: I worked almost every night for a while, and was
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Speaker 1: getting used to being there overnights. It was mostly pretty quiet,
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Speaker 1: and the gas station would get cars here and there,
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Speaker 1: but people rarely came inside. Between the hours of midnight
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Speaker 1: and 5 a.m., the average amount of people that came
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Speaker 1: inside was probably about 4 or 5, so roughly 1
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Speaker 1: per hour. One night, I was working, and it was
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Speaker 1: a typical quiet night. By now, it was about 2
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Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning. I was behind the counter, and
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Speaker 1: nobody else was inside. No cars were at any of
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Speaker 1: the gas pumps either. At one point, I saw a
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Speaker 1: car pulling in from the street. It was a white van,
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Speaker 1: one of those typical creepy-looking ones that was kind of
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Speaker 1: old as well. It slowly drove up and parked in
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Speaker 1: one of the spaces out front. I expected somebody to
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Speaker 1: get out of the van and come inside, but instead,
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Speaker 1: van just sat there for a while. I didn't really
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Speaker 1: have anything better to do other than to watch it,
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Speaker 1: so I did. I couldn't tell who was driving, but
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Speaker 1: soon I realized that they probably weren't going to come inside.
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Speaker 1: After sitting there for maybe 20 minutes, the van eventually
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Speaker 1: backed out. I thought it might leave, but instead it
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Speaker 1: drove around to the side of the building. There was
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Speaker 1: a few more parking spaces there, and it was now
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Speaker 1: out of my sight. I honestly found this a little
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Speaker 1: bit odd, and in the middle of the night, sort
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Speaker 1: of creepy as well. I always tried my best not
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Speaker 1: to let anything scare me, though, working overnights. After the
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Speaker 1: van went to the side of the building, probably an
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Speaker 1: hour or so went by. Now it was well past
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Speaker 1: 3 a.m. Nobody came inside the store, and in that hour,
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Speaker 1: only one car got gas. Then I noticed that somebody
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Speaker 1: was walking on the sidewalk up towards the entrance. It
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Speaker 1: appeared to be a man, and he had come from
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Speaker 1: the side where the van had gone before. Could this
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Speaker 1: be the driver? He was wearing a large black winter jacket,
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Speaker 1: and the hood was up. He was looking down, so
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Speaker 1: I couldn't really see his face at all. He made
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Speaker 1: it to the doors, and then walked inside. After entering,
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Speaker 1: the man walked to the right and away from me
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Speaker 1: at the counter. After disappearing down an aisle, I focused
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Speaker 1: my attention back down to my phone. Several minutes went by.
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Speaker 1: When I looked up again, I noticed that the man
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Speaker 1: was just standing there, about 40 feet away from me.
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Speaker 1: He was facing me and looking in my direction with
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Speaker 1: an angry look on his face. His hands were in
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Speaker 1: his pockets and I was confused as to what he
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Speaker 1: was doing. After glaring at me for like 10 seconds,
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Speaker 1: he didn't move or look away. I said hi to
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Speaker 1: him and asked him if I could help him with anything.
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Speaker 1: He didn't answer me and just kept standing there. Then
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Speaker 1: I asked him if he was okay. The man still
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Speaker 1: didn't answer me. I was really confused and not sure
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Speaker 1: what to do. After standing there for a few more seconds,
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Speaker 1: The man then turned and slowly walked out. Then he
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Speaker 1: walked back down the sidewalk and returned to the side
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Speaker 1: of the building. Less than a minute later, I saw
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Speaker 1: the white van drive away. I was really glad that
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Speaker 1: he was gone. The rest of my shift was pretty quiet. Eventually,
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Speaker 1: a few more people came in. I was trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out what that guy was doing though for the
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Speaker 1: rest of my shift. His behavior was just really strange.
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Speaker 1: I worked almost every night back then. And probably three
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Speaker 1: nights later, I was working, and it was about 2 a.m.
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Speaker 1: or so. Once more, I was by myself, and there
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Speaker 1: were no customers. It was very quiet. Then I saw
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Speaker 1: a car pulling into the gas station, and I soon
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Speaker 1: realized that it was an old white van, just like
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Speaker 1: the one from the other night. I remembered what had
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Speaker 1: happened the other night, and I just hoped that it
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Speaker 1: was not the same guy. I was already feeling creeped out.
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Speaker 1: The van slowly drove around the gas pumps and over
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Speaker 1: to the parking spaces out front. Then it turned and
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Speaker 1: started to back into one of the spaces. After it parked,
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Speaker 1: the van sat there for several minutes. But all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, I heard a car door open and soon
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Speaker 1: saw what appeared to be the same man walking around it.
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Speaker 1: He went to the very back of the van and
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Speaker 1: opened it up. A short time later, he emerged holding
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Speaker 1: something that looked like a crowbar. Then he closed the
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Speaker 1: back doors to his van and started slowly walking to
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Speaker 1: the entrance. He was wearing the same thing as the
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Speaker 1: time prior, I had a bad feeling as I watched
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Speaker 1: him slowly walk into the entrance doors. After getting inside,
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Speaker 1: he then turned and started walking towards the back of
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Speaker 1: the store. Quickly, he went out of my sight, and
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Speaker 1: everything in the store became extremely quiet. About five minutes
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Speaker 1: went by. Then, all of a sudden, I heard a
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Speaker 1: crashing sound. It seemed like the man had hit something,
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Speaker 1: probably with his crowbar. I heard another sound after that.
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Speaker 1: It was like he was just whacking stuff. Several seconds
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Speaker 1: into this, he seemed to move closer and then I
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Speaker 1: saw him appear in an aisle a ways away. I
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Speaker 1: got out from behind the counter and ran out of
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Speaker 1: the store. They weren't paying me enough to stay in
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Speaker 1: there and deal with it. I ran all the way
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Speaker 1: to my car and got inside of it. Then I
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Speaker 1: called the police. I waited there with the doors locked,
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Speaker 1: watching the store. I was parked behind the gas pump,
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Speaker 1: so I was a decent ways away from the store.
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Speaker 1: Probably about three or four minutes after I called the police,
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Speaker 1: I saw the guy leaving. He slowly walked out and
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Speaker 1: went back inside of his van. Then he drove off.
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Speaker 1: Less than a minute after he left, the police arrived.
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Speaker 1: I told them that the man was gone, and we
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Speaker 1: went inside the store to see that lots of things
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Speaker 1: were off the shelves. It was all messed up from
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Speaker 1: the guy whacking it with his crowbar. It was like
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Speaker 1: he had gone on a rampage. We watched the whole
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Speaker 1: thing unfold on surveillance tapes, and the guy was just
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Speaker 1: whacking stuff. Then he calmly left. It was the craziest
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Speaker 1: thing that I had ever seen. After that incident, the
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Speaker 1: police investigated to try to look for the guy. They
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Speaker 1: also had a police officer at the store overnights for
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Speaker 1: the next week or so. The guy didn't come back,
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Speaker 1: and I didn't work there for much longer either. I'm
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Speaker 1: glad that I quit that job, because ever since it happened,
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Speaker 1: I was really nervous working there at night. This happened
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Speaker 1: back in 2003. I used to work at a Walgreens.
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Speaker 1: and if anybody doesn't know, it's a popular pharmacy store
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Speaker 1: chain that also sells lots of other items. The stores
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Speaker 1: are not that large usually, and generally never too busy either.
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Speaker 1: Most of the time, there's a pretty calm feeling inside.
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Speaker 1: The store that I worked at used to be open
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Speaker 1: 24 hours. I'm not sure if it still is, but
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Speaker 1: I know that it was when I worked there. So usually,
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Speaker 1: when I was working overnights, I would be all by
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Speaker 1: myself for most of my shift. There really wasn't a
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Speaker 1: need to have anybody else there, because I could handle everything,
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Speaker 1: and we never got that many overnight customers. I was
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Speaker 1: also able to walk to and from work, which was
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Speaker 1: very nice. I had an apartment that was just down
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Speaker 1: the street and a couple of blocks over, so it
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Speaker 1: would only take me about 10 minutes. Usually, I worked
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Speaker 1: 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., and it wasn't that late
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Speaker 1: yet when I walked to work, and wasn't too early
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Speaker 1: when I walked back. One time when I was working
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Speaker 1: an overnight shift, everything was going normal, and it was
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Speaker 1: about 1 a.m., I believe. I remember that I heard
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Speaker 1: the automatic doors opening and glanced over to see a
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Speaker 1: woman entering the store. She appeared to be about 40,
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Speaker 1: had dark brown hair, was maybe 5'2 or 5'3, and
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Speaker 1: pretty thin. After entering, the woman looked in my direction
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Speaker 1: and said hi, and I said hi back to her.
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Speaker 1: She then walked down one of the aisles, and I
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Speaker 1: focused my attention elsewhere. I was just standing behind the
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Speaker 1: counter at the checkouts. We only had two check lanes,
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Speaker 1: but most of the time only had one open. Several
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Speaker 1: minutes went by, and I occasionally saw the woman, but
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Speaker 1: I wasn't watching her or anything. She just seemed to
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Speaker 1: be shopping normally. But at one point, I was just
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Speaker 1: casually looking around, and I saw the woman standing like
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Speaker 1: half behind an aisle. She was holding a small video camera,
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Speaker 1: it appeared, and holding it in a way that it
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Speaker 1: looked like she was filming me or taking my pictures.
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Speaker 1: I looked at her, wondering what was going on. It
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Speaker 1: was like she was kind of trying to hide it too,
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Speaker 1: because she was about halfway obscured. I found this really strange.
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Speaker 1: After a couple of seconds of this, her camera went
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Speaker 1: down suddenly, and she disappeared behind the aisle. I thought
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Speaker 1: that it was odd, but not the biggest deal. About
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Speaker 1: a minute later, the woman walked up to the left
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Speaker 1: near the exits. She said goodnight to me as she
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Speaker 1: walked out, without even buying anything. I said goodnight to her,
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Speaker 1: but was a little bit weirded out by the whole experience.
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Speaker 1: But after she was gone, I quickly forgot about it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it was strange that she was filming
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Speaker 1: me or whatever, but it's not the creepiest thing in
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Speaker 1: the world. Hours went by, and several more customers came in.
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Speaker 1: All of them were pretty normal. When 6 a.m. arrived,
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Speaker 1: I was off, and another co-worker was there. I left
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Speaker 1: Walgreens and then headed back to my apartment by walking
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Speaker 1: along the sidewalk. It was still dark out, and things
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Speaker 1: were very quiet, Just the occasional car would pass me
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Speaker 1: by on the road. As I was walking back, though,
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Speaker 1: one thing that was a little different was that I
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Speaker 1: heard somebody walking a ways behind me. It was footsteps,
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Speaker 1: but a good distance away. I was sort of curious,
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Speaker 1: but didn't look back until I crossed over one block.
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Speaker 1: As I did, I glanced over and the same woman
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Speaker 1: was walking. I found this really strange. After I crossed
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Speaker 1: the street, I crossed another, and then went along that
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Speaker 1: sidewalk that would take me all the way back to
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Speaker 1: my apartment. I didn't think the woman would do the same,
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Speaker 1: but she did. That's when I started to get really
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Speaker 1: creeped out. Her whole personality just seemed kind of mysterious,
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Speaker 1: even when she had spoken to me saying hi and bye.
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Speaker 1: The woman continued to walk behind me, but was a
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Speaker 1: long ways back. Soon, I reached my apartment. I was
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Speaker 1: really glad to see that she hadn't seemed to gain
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Speaker 1: on me or anything. She was still about the same
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Speaker 1: distance behind. Now, you had to use your key to
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Speaker 1: enter the apartment building, and then I had a separate
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Speaker 1: key for my unit, This made me feel better if
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Speaker 1: I could just get inside. Who knows why this lady
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Speaker 1: was following me, but I knew that she didn't live here.
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Speaker 1: I entered my building and then went up to my
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Speaker 1: apartment which was on the second floor. My apartment was
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Speaker 1: at the front side of the building so I could
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Speaker 1: look out onto the street where the woman had been walking.
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Speaker 1: After I got inside, I went to the window and
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Speaker 1: looked out. I saw the woman standing there on the sidewalk.
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Speaker 1: She had her camera out again and was appearing to
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Speaker 1: take a video of me at my window. This was
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Speaker 1: just really strange. I ducked down to get out of
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Speaker 1: her sight. Now she was just taking a video of
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Speaker 1: my apartment window. What was the point of this? After
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Speaker 1: several minutes, I looked again, and she was gone. I
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Speaker 1: went on with my normal routine after that. I would
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Speaker 1: relax after work and eventually fall asleep. Obviously, my hours
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Speaker 1: of being awake were very different than most people with
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Speaker 1: me having to work overnight hours. So I fell asleep
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Speaker 1: that day, probably at around 9 o'clock in the morning
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Speaker 1: or so. When I woke up, I remembered that it
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Speaker 1: was almost 2 p.m. That was a little bit earlier
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Speaker 1: than I usually woke up. But then, I remember hearing
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Speaker 1: the sound of somebody trying to open my apartment door.
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Speaker 1: I walked over to the door and then looked through
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Speaker 1: the peephole. What I saw was a woman walking away.
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Speaker 1: I just barely saw her, but it was the same
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Speaker 1: woman from before. I was now extremely creeped out by this.
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Speaker 1: After she left, I didn't know what to do. I
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Speaker 1: watched her leave the building and then walk away down
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Speaker 1: the sidewalk rather quickly. I really don't know how she
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Speaker 1: got in. Probably snuck in as somebody else was leaving,
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Speaker 1: which is very possible. I decided to call the police
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Speaker 1: and tell them everything. They came out to investigate, and
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Speaker 1: I gave them all the information that I could. I
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Speaker 1: didn't really know what else to do. They said they
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Speaker 1: would look into it, and after that, I never heard
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Speaker 1: anything more. I also never saw the woman again. It
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Speaker 1: still creeps me out when I think about it. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: I don't work at Walgreens anymore and haven't for many years.
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Speaker 1: I also don't live in that apartment or even the
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Speaker 1: same city anymore. I still wonder what that woman was doing, though.
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Speaker 1: A few years back, I was working as an overnight
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Speaker 1: security guard at a company. I don't remember exactly what
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Speaker 1: company it was, but it wasn't that popular or anything.
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Speaker 1: I worked at a lot of different places back then
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Speaker 1: doing security. It was an easy job because I would
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Speaker 1: just sit at a desk all night. Literally nothing ever happened.
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Speaker 1: Most shifts, I wouldn't even talk to anyone. Sometimes one
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Speaker 1: or two at most. I could just go on my
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Speaker 1: phone and look around and get paid for it. But
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Speaker 1: at this one particular company, it was a pretty standard
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Speaker 1: office building for the most part. Now inside was a
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Speaker 1: lobby and I would sit at a desk in there
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Speaker 1: and had a computer with some basic information. The building
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Speaker 1: was not really near anything else in particular and was
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Speaker 1: slightly more secluded. The only other people there overnight was
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Speaker 1: a security guard and a janitor. The other security guard
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Speaker 1: would mostly just be outside and I knew both him
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Speaker 1: and the janitor and didn't see them very much other
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Speaker 1: than when I would arrive or leave or when the
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Speaker 1: janitor cleaned the lobby. When I was working behind the
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Speaker 1: desk one night, I would guess that it was around
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Speaker 1: 1 o'clock in the morning or so. As I sat
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Speaker 1: behind the counter, I occasionally would look around. My view
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Speaker 1: was mainly of the front door and window next to it.
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Speaker 1: Outside of that was a parking lot which was empty.
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Speaker 1: Behind the parking lot was a fence. I was just
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Speaker 1: casually looking around when all of a sudden I saw
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Speaker 1: this guy walk to the door. He looked right inside
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Speaker 1: and faced me. It was really strange to see. because
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Speaker 1: nobody had ever come to the door before, but I
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Speaker 1: then realized that this man who was standing at the
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Speaker 1: door was smiling the creepiest smile I had ever seen.
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Speaker 1: His eyes were so wide, like they were about to
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Speaker 1: pop out of the sockets. It was very unsettling. He
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Speaker 1: had to be joking or something. The man did not
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Speaker 1: try to enter the building, though. He just stood there
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Speaker 1: at the door and kept staring at me. I wasn't
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Speaker 1: sure what to do, so I waved at him. He
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Speaker 1: did not wave back to me. He then moved out
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Speaker 1: of sight and I couldn't see him anymore. I was
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Speaker 1: really confused by what had just happened. I had no
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Speaker 1: idea where the guy had come from or what exactly
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Speaker 1: he was doing. I tried to brush it off and
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Speaker 1: figured the outside security guard would soon see the guy,
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Speaker 1: so I called him to let him know, but he
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Speaker 1: hadn't seen the guy at all. I got up and
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Speaker 1: walked over to the door, but the guy was now
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Speaker 1: out of sight. I went back to my desk and
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Speaker 1: was there for the next 30 minutes or so. Then
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Speaker 1: the guy was back. I just looked up, and there
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Speaker 1: he was, standing at the door and staring at me
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Speaker 1: again with the same creepy smile. This time, I got up,
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Speaker 1: but as soon as I stood up, he moved out
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Speaker 1: of sight. I walked over to the door and opened
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Speaker 1: it up. The man was now gone. He must have
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Speaker 1: run off somewhere. I walked around outside until I found
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Speaker 1: the other security guard. I told him about what had happened,
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Speaker 1: and we talked for a while. Neither of us knew
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Speaker 1: where the guy had gone. We looked all around the
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Speaker 1: property after that, but he must have left. Then I
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Speaker 1: went back inside. The property was large enough that he
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Speaker 1: could have easily evaded us. And don't ask me why,
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Speaker 1: but there were hardly any security cameras outside. There were
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Speaker 1: a bunch inside, but only like two outside that didn't
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Speaker 1: even cover that much space. For the rest of the night,
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Speaker 1: I didn't see him. In fact, I never saw him again.
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Speaker 1: I still wonder who he was and what he was doing.
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Speaker 1: I used to work at a small convenience store in
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Speaker 1: the city. It wasn't quite downtown, but was pretty close.
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Speaker 1: There would be lots of people walking down the sidewalk
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Speaker 1: during the day, and at night there would still be
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Speaker 1: a decent amount of people out, especially after the bars
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Speaker 1: closed nearby. So our store was open 24 hours. It
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Speaker 1: was pretty small, but loaded with all kinds of snacks
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Speaker 1: and drinks and things like that. There were probably five aisles,
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Speaker 1: and then I would be behind the counter at the
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Speaker 1: far end of the store near the doors. I worked
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Speaker 1: at the shop for several months and usually worked overnights.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes it would be pretty busy and other times it
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Speaker 1: would be really quiet. You never really knew and it
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Speaker 1: depended on a lot of things, but between the hours
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Speaker 1: of 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. they were generally the quietest.
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Speaker 1: So sometime I was working and I was by myself
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Speaker 1: on a typical night. It was a little bit after
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Speaker 1: 3 a.m. and the store was empty. Occasionally I would
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Speaker 1: look out the window to the street and it seemed
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Speaker 1: dead quiet. I was just sitting there behind the counter
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Speaker 1: going on my phone, and pretty soon I heard the
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Speaker 1: door open and saw a woman walking in. She entered
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Speaker 1: the store and walked down one of the first aisles.
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Speaker 1: Several minutes went by, and she seemed to just be
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Speaker 1: shopping around like normal. Eventually, when she came up to
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Speaker 1: the counter, she put several items down. When I was
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Speaker 1: starting to scan them, she told me that she only
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Speaker 1: had three dollars and asked me if I could give
18:05
Speaker 1: her a deal. I don't remember exactly what she was buying,
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Speaker 1: but I remember that it added up to like $ 15 total.
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Speaker 1: I told her that I couldn't do that. Obviously, she
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Speaker 1: would have to put some things back. I said she
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Speaker 1: would only be able to get things that added up
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Speaker 1: to $ 3. It seemed like common math to me. The
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Speaker 1: woman got angry though and said that she wasn't going
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Speaker 1: to pay for anything. I told her to leave then
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Speaker 1: and she stormed out of the store in anger. Every
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Speaker 1: now and then, customers would be rude or try to
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Speaker 1: get free stuff. I mean, being in a city in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the night, all kinds of people would
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Speaker 1: come in. I was somewhat used to less than ideal
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Speaker 1: customers and thought that I knew how to deal with them.
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Speaker 1: Probably 20 or 30 minutes went by. No more customers
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Speaker 1: came in during that time. Then the door opened and
18:54
Speaker 1: I saw the woman come back, but behind her was
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Speaker 1: a man. This guy was like 6'5, had long stringy
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Speaker 1: hair and a goatee. I'm assuming he was the woman's
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Speaker 1: husband or boyfriend. He walked right up to me, looking
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Speaker 1: all angry, and then accused me of being rude to
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Speaker 1: the woman. I don't remember what her name was, but
19:13
Speaker 1: the guy started cursing me out and didn't really give
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Speaker 1: me any chance to talk. I could smell the alcohol
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Speaker 1: in his breath as he verbally ripped into me. The
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Speaker 1: woman was just standing back a few feet and adding
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Speaker 1: in a few words of insults here and there to me.
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Speaker 1: I remember that after them yelling at me for like
19:29
Speaker 1: a minute straight, the man wanted to, quote, take it
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Speaker 1: outside with me. I told them both to get out
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Speaker 1: of my store before I called the cops. That's when
19:37
Speaker 1: the guy suddenly shoved me backwards from over the counter.
19:41
Speaker 1: I wasn't ready for it, and to be honest, he
19:43
Speaker 1: was a strong dude. I fell back and it knocked
19:46
Speaker 1: me over. When I got up, I saw the man
19:48
Speaker 1: was right up at the counter wanting to fight me.
19:51
Speaker 1: I moved over to the right and we had an
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Speaker 1: alarm back there which I pulled. It was a very
19:55
Speaker 1: loud alarm and the sound filled the entire store. It
19:59
Speaker 1: was also super annoying and the guy then backed away
20:01
Speaker 1: from the counter and grabbed some random things off the
20:04
Speaker 1: shelf and threw them. He then knocked over a stand
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Speaker 1: of drinks I went into an aisle and grabbed some
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Speaker 1: more things off the shelves. He stuffed them in his pockets,
20:12
Speaker 1: and the woman at the same time grabbed some stuff
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Speaker 1: with him. Then they both left, stealing a bunch of
20:18
Speaker 1: random things. I called the police, and they got there
20:21
Speaker 1: several minutes later. The man and woman were long gone, though.
20:25
Speaker 1: The only thing I could do was give a description
20:27
Speaker 1: in my account of what happened. Luckily, neither of them
20:31
Speaker 1: came back while I was working again. A few years back,
20:45
Speaker 1: I worked at a hotel. When I started, I was
20:48
Speaker 1: working at the front desk during overnight hours. The hotel
20:52
Speaker 1: was pretty average size, maybe a little bit large. We
20:56
Speaker 1: don't have any restaurants or bars connected or anything like that,
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Speaker 1: but have lots of rooms. I would sit behind the
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Speaker 1: front desk, and most of the time overnights, nothing happened.
21:07
Speaker 1: Here and there, people would come or go, but most
21:09
Speaker 1: people didn't need to talk to me. This made my
21:12
Speaker 1: job really easy and I didn't mind being up all night.
21:16
Speaker 1: The event that I'm going to tell you about occurred
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Speaker 1: at just after 2 o'clock in the morning one night.
21:22
Speaker 1: I was working behind the front desk, and I faced
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Speaker 1: the lobby and elevators. To my left, there was a
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Speaker 1: lounge area and a hallway that led to rooms on
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Speaker 1: the first floor. Everything was very quiet until a man
21:35
Speaker 1: entered the hotel. He walked inside and went right past me.
21:39
Speaker 1: I assumed that he was staying at the hotel and
21:41
Speaker 1: was just returning to his room. The guy was pretty
21:44
Speaker 1: average height, light brown hair, mid-thirties. He walked down the
21:49
Speaker 1: hallway and was gone. About five minutes later, though, he
21:53
Speaker 1: walked by again, this time going to the other hallway.
21:56
Speaker 1: I still didn't think anything of it, but I soon
21:59
Speaker 1: saw him another time. He was once again walking past
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Speaker 1: from one hallway to another. It was sort of behind me,
22:05
Speaker 1: but still in plain sight. It seemed a little bit odd,
22:08
Speaker 1: but there was nothing wrong with it. But several minutes later,
22:12
Speaker 1: I went to go get some water. There was a
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Speaker 1: dispenser in the lounge and you had to walk past
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Speaker 1: the hallway to get there. As I was passing by,
22:21
Speaker 1: I noticed somebody in the hallway a ways down. I
22:24
Speaker 1: looked and noticed that it was the same guy. He
22:27
Speaker 1: was standing outside of a door and it appeared as
22:29
Speaker 1: though he couldn't get inside but was trying to. I
22:32
Speaker 1: thought maybe he was locked out of his room or
22:35
Speaker 1: possibly he was trying to get into somebody else's. I
22:38
Speaker 1: started to walk over to him and was going to
22:40
Speaker 1: ask him if he needed help with something. When I
22:43
Speaker 1: got a few steps closer to him, he stopped and
22:45
Speaker 1: looked at me. Before I could say anything, the guy
22:49
Speaker 1: turned and then walked away in the other direction. Then
22:52
Speaker 1: he disappeared around a corner. It was really suspicious. I
22:57
Speaker 1: started to figure that the guy probably didn't even have
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Speaker 1: a room here. I went back to my front desk
23:02
Speaker 1: and decided to look at the security monitors. We had
23:05
Speaker 1: cameras in every single hallway. Unfortunately, the video quality was
23:10
Speaker 1: honestly quite bad. Many details were hard to make out.
23:15
Speaker 1: I looked around until I spotted the guy on one
23:17
Speaker 1: of the cameras. He walked past it down a hallway.
23:21
Speaker 1: Then he went to a door and appeared to try
23:23
Speaker 1: to open it. It looked like possibly he was knocking
23:26
Speaker 1: on the door then or something. He was standing at
23:29
Speaker 1: it for a while. Then he paced around a little
23:32
Speaker 1: before returning to the door. This was too suspicious and
23:36
Speaker 1: I decided to go ask him what was going on.
23:39
Speaker 1: I got up and walked over to where the guy was.
23:42
Speaker 1: The hallways could get a little bit complicated on the
23:44
Speaker 1: first floor. The second and third floor was very simple,
23:48
Speaker 1: but the first floor had more hallways. I walked to
23:51
Speaker 1: the one that the man was at. When I reached
23:53
Speaker 1: the beginning of the hallway, I saw him. He was
23:56
Speaker 1: a ways down, probably almost a hundred feet. Almost as
24:00
Speaker 1: soon as I was within sight of him, he looked
24:02
Speaker 1: over to me. I asked him what he was doing.
24:05
Speaker 1: The guy just started sprinting towards me then. He appeared
24:08
Speaker 1: to be running as fast as he possibly could. This
24:11
Speaker 1: wasn't what I was expecting, and I moved back and
24:13
Speaker 1: started heading towards the front. The guy was still running
24:16
Speaker 1: and quickly approaching me. By the time I got back
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Speaker 1: to the lobby, he was a lot closer. I could
24:21
Speaker 1: hear him running. I decided to run out of the
24:24
Speaker 1: hotel and see if the man would. After I made
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Speaker 1: it outside, I realized that he did in fact follow
24:30
Speaker 1: me out, and he was also a lot closer than
24:32
Speaker 1: I expected, now only about 40 feet away probably. I
24:36
Speaker 1: didn't think that I would be able to get to
24:37
Speaker 1: my car on time if he was chasing me. So
24:40
Speaker 1: I ran across the street. Across the street and a
24:43
Speaker 1: little ways down was a 24-hour gas station. So I
24:46
Speaker 1: ran all the way there, and when I got there,
24:48
Speaker 1: I went inside. The guy hadn't crossed the street and
24:52
Speaker 1: stayed in the hotel parking lot. I think he went
24:54
Speaker 1: back in the hotel after that, but I called the police.
24:58
Speaker 1: I reported a suspicious man trying to enter hotel rooms
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Speaker 1: and chasing me when I confronted him. The police were
25:04
Speaker 1: very quick to respond and got there only like a
25:06
Speaker 1: minute later. They entered the hotel, which the man was
25:10
Speaker 1: still inside of. He tried running away, but was caught
25:13
Speaker 1: and removed from the hotel. He wouldn't say what he
25:16
Speaker 1: was doing there or why he was trying to get
25:18
Speaker 1: inside of rooms. After that, I talked with police for
25:22
Speaker 1: a while and then returned to work. I was really
25:25
Speaker 1: creeped out by the whole situation, but grateful to be alright.
25:28
Speaker 1: That was an experience that made me want to stop
25:31
Speaker 1: working overnights, and I did shortly after.
25:52
Speaker 2: Last night my boyfriend and I were driving home from
25:55
Speaker 2: Universal Studios in Orlando. We were rerouted away home we've
25:58
Speaker 2: never went before and were traveling in basically the middle
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Speaker 2: of nowhere. My boyfriend's speedometer is broken on his car
26:04
Speaker 2: and he has to press the button to reset the
26:06
Speaker 2: miles after he gets gas. This will be very important soon.
26:10
Speaker 2: We were driving on a deserted road in the middle
26:12
Speaker 2: of absolute nowhere without a single car in sight. My
26:15
Speaker 2: boyfriend realized we hit the 130 mile mark on his odometer.
26:20
Speaker 2: We needed gas. but there was literally not one gas
26:22
Speaker 2: station in sight. I put search gas stations nearby and
26:26
Speaker 2: we found one. It turned out to be closed. In
26:29
Speaker 2: a hurry we found another gas station five minutes up
26:32
Speaker 2: the road. This is where the story gets weird. My
26:35
Speaker 2: boyfriend thought he closed his gas cap and we're once
26:37
Speaker 2: again driving along this deserted road. We heard a loud
26:41
Speaker 2: bang and he realized he forgot to put the gas
26:43
Speaker 2: cap back on so we're driving around this dark road
26:46
Speaker 2: looking for the gas cap. He finally pulls over and
26:49
Speaker 2: realizes somehow The gas cap is still attached to the car.
26:53
Speaker 2: We get back on track to the other gas station.
26:56
Speaker 2: Out of nowhere I had a horrible thought about something
26:58
Speaker 2: going wrong at that gas station. I pushed it aside
27:01
Speaker 2: because I knew we needed gas and AAA is not
27:03
Speaker 2: an option where we were at the moment. We get
27:05
Speaker 2: to this gas station and the lights are kind of on.
27:08
Speaker 2: This road literally leads to a dead end with a
27:10
Speaker 2: gas station on it. The only way to leave this
27:13
Speaker 2: area was to turn left or go straight out of
27:14
Speaker 2: the gas station. My boyfriend got out of the car
27:17
Speaker 2: to see if we could get gas and the feeling intensified.
27:20
Speaker 2: I have literally never felt like that in my life,
27:23
Speaker 2: my stomach dropped into my butt. I have been in
27:26
Speaker 2: very disturbing situations such as almost being kidnapped twice, being
27:29
Speaker 2: followed home, watching someone be taken away in a body
27:32
Speaker 2: bag after being hit by a car, and even a
27:35
Speaker 2: paranormal situation, but I have never felt like this before.
27:39
Speaker 2: I saw a white car pulling up to the road
27:41
Speaker 2: to make a left. Keep in mind there is literally
27:43
Speaker 2: no one on this road. He pulls up and notices
27:46
Speaker 2: my boyfriend and backs up with his windows down. I
27:49
Speaker 2: found this very strange because my boyfriend has a very
27:51
Speaker 2: nice sports car and my mind immediately went into panic mode.
27:55
Speaker 2: I started screaming his name and the man realized that
27:58
Speaker 2: someone else was in the car, turned left and sped off. Sadly,
28:01
Speaker 2: I didn't get his license plate because of how dark
28:03
Speaker 2: it was. This situation frightened me more than you can
28:06
Speaker 2: even imagine. It may not seem too scary but it
28:09
Speaker 2: was easily one of the most terrifying things to watch
28:12
Speaker 2: because I didn't know if I was going to witness
28:14
Speaker 2: my boyfriend being robbed at gunpoint or something like that.
28:17
Speaker 2: The feeling and thought I had just 10 minutes earlier
28:20
Speaker 2: is what also made the situation even worse. We found
28:23
Speaker 2: a gas station with actual human life around and we
28:25
Speaker 2: made it home safe and sound. Once I got home,
28:28
Speaker 2: my dad told me that the road we were driving
28:30
Speaker 2: on was famous for the many bodies being found on it.
28:33
Speaker 2: I hope no one ever gets put into this situation.
28:35
Speaker 2: And to the man who was planning to do something
28:37
Speaker 2: to my boyfriend, let's never meet.