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7 TACO BELL_ CHUCK E CHEESE Horror Stories Animated · Martin Animations

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  Speaker 1: I'm a female, and I worked at Chuck E. Cheese
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  Speaker 1: during my senior year of high school. Plenty of weird
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  Speaker 1: things happened in my time working there, but one was
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  Speaker 1: particularly creepy. I had already been working there for a while,
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  Speaker 1: and one night after school, I was working a 4 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: to 9.30 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: Shift.
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  Speaker 1: My main job was usually to stand behind the counter
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  Speaker 1: and help any customers. Occasionally, I would clean stuff, too,
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  Speaker 1: but for this night, I was mainly behind the counter.
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  Speaker 1: About an hour in, I remember some guy came up
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  Speaker 1: and started talking to me. He came off as a
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  Speaker 1: little too friendly and slightly creepy to me. I even
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  Speaker 1: wondered if he was drunk after a while based on
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  Speaker 1: the way he was talking. He told me he was
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  Speaker 1: there with his son and had given his son a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of tokens so he'd probably be there for a while.
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  Speaker 1: I was nice and friendly back to him at first,
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  Speaker 1: but after he talked to me for a good five
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  Speaker 1: minutes straight, it seemed a little weird. He also started
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  Speaker 1: to ask me more personal questions, and once I saw
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  Speaker 1: there was somebody in line behind him, I let the
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  Speaker 1: man know I needed to help the other customers. After this,
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  Speaker 1: he finally walked away. but he ended up coming back
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  Speaker 1: and trying to talk to me some more about an
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  Speaker 1: hour later. I didn't want anything to do with this guy,
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  Speaker 1: and kind of tried to avoid him after that. When
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  Speaker 1: it was finally almost 9pm, and we were getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to close, I happened to notice that the man was
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  Speaker 1: still there. He was just sitting kind of near the exit,
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  Speaker 1: and he was all by himself. I realized he must
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  Speaker 1: have been there for at least four hours. He was
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  Speaker 1: looking at me, and I quickly looked away when we
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  Speaker 1: made awkward eye contact. There really wasn't anybody else there
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  Speaker 1: besides him, so it was really weird, I decided to
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  Speaker 1: go out into the arcade and see if anybody else
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  Speaker 1: was there at all. We closed in five minutes now,
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  Speaker 1: and I would have to let anybody still there know
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  Speaker 1: that we were closing and they would have to leave.
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  Speaker 1: When I went over there, though, nobody was in the
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  Speaker 1: arcade at all. I returned to the front desk after
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  Speaker 1: that and saw the guy still sitting there and looking
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  Speaker 1: at me again. I thought that he said he was
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  Speaker 1: there with his son, but I realized maybe he didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a son at all. It was a creepy thought,
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  Speaker 1: but I really just wanted the guy to leave. I
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  Speaker 1: saw one of my co-workers, Aaron, start to walk over
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  Speaker 1: to the man and say that we were now closing.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the man talk with Aaron for a second,
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  Speaker 1: and then he left, which was a huge relief for
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  Speaker 1: me to see that. After that, it was 9pm, and
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  Speaker 1: I would get off in just 30 minutes. I stayed
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  Speaker 1: after to clean a little bit, and did my usual
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  Speaker 1: cleaning of the arcade area, and then some of the
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  Speaker 1: dining areas. When 9.30 came, I was finally done, and
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  Speaker 1: I clocked out and left. I walked out the front
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  Speaker 1: door to the parking lot, which was practically empty. It
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  Speaker 1: was dark and quiet out there, but as I was
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  Speaker 1: approaching my car, I suddenly heard something behind me. It
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  Speaker 1: sounded like footsteps. I kept walking, but realized that they
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  Speaker 1: were fast approaching me. I turned around and saw a
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  Speaker 1: man walking extremely fast in my direction. Almost immediately, I
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  Speaker 1: recognized him as the man who was talking to me
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  Speaker 1: inside the Chuck E. Cheese. I ran for my car,
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  Speaker 1: and luckily already had my keys in my hand. I
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  Speaker 1: was able to unlock my car and get inside before
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  Speaker 1: he reached me. As quickly as I could, I locked
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  Speaker 1: the doors, but the man reached my window a second
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  Speaker 1: later and then started knocking on it. He tried my
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  Speaker 1: door handle as well. I yelled at the man to
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  Speaker 1: go away, but he didn't listen. At this point, I
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  Speaker 1: really wanted to drive away, but the man seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be holding onto my door handle. I began honking the
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  Speaker 1: horn on my car repeatedly. This went on for probably
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  Speaker 1: 30 seconds straight, and finally, I noticed a car on
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  Speaker 1: the road outside of the parking lot we were in
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  Speaker 1: start to slow down. They seemed to be wondering what
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  Speaker 1: was going on. and this caused the man to back
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  Speaker 1: away a little. As soon as he did, I sped off.
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  Speaker 1: I drove all the way home, and once I got home,
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  Speaker 1: I called my boss and told her all about it.
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  Speaker 1: I gave a description of the man and was told
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  Speaker 1: if I ever saw him again to call her. Luckily,
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  Speaker 1: I never did see him again. The first and only
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  Speaker 1: time I ever went to Chuck E. Cheese was back
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  Speaker 1: in the year 2005. I was a little kid at
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  Speaker 1: the time, and I remember that my older brother got
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  Speaker 1: invited to one of his friend's birthday parties, which was
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  Speaker 1: going to be at the Chuck E.
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  Speaker 2: Cheese.
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  Speaker 1: My parents were invited as well, so they said that
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  Speaker 1: I could come with. I was excited to go there
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  Speaker 1: because I had always wanted to. It seemed like so
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  Speaker 1: much fun with the arcade games, the pizza, and everything.
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  Speaker 1: I remember that the party was on a Sunday, I think,
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  Speaker 1: and when we got there, my parents got a pizza
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  Speaker 1: and my brother went to hang out with his friends.
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  Speaker 1: I knew some of the kids that were there, but
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  Speaker 1: they were mostly my brother's friends, so I could kinda
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  Speaker 1: do my own thing. My brother's friend who the party
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  Speaker 1: was for was named Tyler, and his parents got a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of tokens for everyone. They gave me a little
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  Speaker 1: paper cup with a bunch of tokens in it, and
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  Speaker 1: I began going around playing some of the machines. I
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  Speaker 1: was trying to find the best machines that would have
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  Speaker 1: the best payout of tickets. I saw that the Chuck E.
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  Speaker 1: Cheese had some pretty cool prizes you could win with
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  Speaker 1: the tickets. After playing maybe half the arcade games they
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  Speaker 1: had in there, I found this one in the corner
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  Speaker 1: that I really liked a lot. I was getting on
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  Speaker 1: a winning streak, and after the second time playing it,
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  Speaker 1: I had quite a few tickets, and played it for
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  Speaker 1: a third time. I was right in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the game, when all of a sudden, the whole thing
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  Speaker 1: suddenly went black and froze. It was really strange. I
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  Speaker 1: pushed some of the buttons and messed around with it
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, but nothing worked. The screen was completely black,
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  Speaker 1: and nothing I did seemed to affect it. I was
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  Speaker 1: a little kid, so I didn't really know how the
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  Speaker 1: machines worked, but I just figured it was broken. Then,
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  Speaker 1: I saw a man appear next to the machine. He
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  Speaker 1: was wearing a shirt with a Chuck E. Cheese logo
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  Speaker 1: and asked me what had happened. I told him the
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  Speaker 1: machine was broken, and he took a look at it
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  Speaker 1: and saw how it wasn't working. He pushed a few
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  Speaker 1: of the buttons and then went around to the back
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  Speaker 1: of the machine. It seemed like he was working on it,
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  Speaker 1: and a short time later, he returned and said that
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  Speaker 1: it appeared as though the machine was broken and it
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  Speaker 1: would be out of order for a while. Then he
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  Speaker 1: apologized to me. and told me he could get me
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  Speaker 1: the tickets that I would have won, and some extra
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  Speaker 1: tokens for the trouble. I was glad to hear this,
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  Speaker 1: because I would have already won a good amount of
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  Speaker 1: tickets from the game before it broke. The guy started
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  Speaker 1: to walk away, and told me to follow him. We
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  Speaker 1: went off to the side of the room, and then
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  Speaker 1: into a hallway which led to the back. I stopped
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  Speaker 1: at the entrance of the hallway that said, Employees Only,
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  Speaker 1: but then I was told to keep going. I followed
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  Speaker 1: the guy down the hall, and then we reached a
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  Speaker 1: side door. The guy then backed up, and grabbed my
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  Speaker 1: arm tightly, He opened the door, which turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be an exit of the building. I could see outside,
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  Speaker 1: and he pulled my arm and forced me to follow him.
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  Speaker 1: I asked the man what was going on, but he
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  Speaker 1: didn't answer me. I was starting to panic. The guy
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  Speaker 1: had a strong grip on my arm, and it looked
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  Speaker 1: like we were going out to his car. I really
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to go any further, and I was desperate.
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  Speaker 1: As we got closer, I suddenly took my leg and
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  Speaker 1: kicked the man right in the groin area. It really
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  Speaker 1: took him by surprise. and he dropped to his knees
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  Speaker 1: for a second, and his grip became much looser. I
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  Speaker 1: pulled away from the man and started running back, but
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  Speaker 1: I decided to go around to the front of the
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  Speaker 1: Chuck E.
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  Speaker 3: Cheese.
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  Speaker 1: Once I had made it around to the front, I
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  Speaker 1: went in the entrance doors and ran back inside to
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  Speaker 1: my parents. When I got there, they saw me and
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  Speaker 1: asked me what was wrong. After I told them what
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  Speaker 1: had happened, they decided to call the police and talk
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  Speaker 1: with the managers as well. I remember I had to
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  Speaker 1: talk with the police for a while. Looking back at
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  Speaker 1: that day, I realized that the man didn't work at
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  Speaker 1: Chuck E Cheese at all, and he most likely just
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  Speaker 1: unplugged the game I was playing himself.
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  Speaker 1: I used to work at a Chuck E. Cheese. I
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed the job a lot. It was a fun place
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  Speaker 1: to work. Maybe because I had a lot of good
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  Speaker 1: memories of going there as a kid. I would do
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of everything there, including quite a bit
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  Speaker 1: of maintenance and cleaning. One night, I was working on
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  Speaker 1: a quieter evening. I was in the process of cleaning
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  Speaker 1: up a table area when I saw a customer approaching me.
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  Speaker 1: I stopped what I was doing and saw that there
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  Speaker 1: was a pretty average-looking guy standing in front of me.
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  Speaker 1: The guy told me that he had just been in
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  Speaker 1: the men's bathroom in the back, and he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: let me know that it was really dirty and could
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  Speaker 1: use a cleaning. I told the guy thanks for letting
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  Speaker 1: me know, and then he walked away. Keeping the bathroom
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  Speaker 1: clean was one of my jobs, and it wasn't one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite parts of the job, but it actually
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  Speaker 1: usually wasn't that bad. After I was done clearing the table,
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  Speaker 1: I walked down the hallway to our little cleaning closet
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  Speaker 1: where I got a cleaning cart that I would use
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  Speaker 1: for the restrooms. By this time of night, the place
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  Speaker 1: wasn't too busy and there were only a few kids
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  Speaker 1: and parents in the arcade or eating areas. When I
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  Speaker 1: got to the men's bathroom in the back, I went
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  Speaker 1: inside and saw that it was empty and nobody else
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  Speaker 1: was in, which was good, but when I looked around,
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  Speaker 1: everything seemed fine. I was happy to see this, but
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  Speaker 1: also confused. The more I looked around after going all
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  Speaker 1: around the bathroom, I saw that it was completely clean
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  Speaker 1: and nothing was dirty at all. After that, I took
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  Speaker 1: my cart and went to leave. But when I tried
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  Speaker 1: opening the bathroom door to get out, it wouldn't move.
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  Speaker 1: All I had to do was push it open, but
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  Speaker 1: it seemed like there was someone or something on the
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  Speaker 1: other side blocking it and holding it back because no
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  Speaker 1: matter how hard I pushed, it just wouldn't budge. I
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  Speaker 1: kept trying, but nothing was happening. Then suddenly, all the
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  Speaker 1: lights went out. It was pitch black in there, and
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't see a thing. I kept on trying the door,
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  Speaker 1: but nothing was happening I started banging on the door
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  Speaker 1: and yelling at that point, hoping that somebody would hear me. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: after about a minute straight of this, the door suddenly
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  Speaker 1: burst open and I went flying outside. there and fell
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  Speaker 1: flat on my face on the other side of the doorway.
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  Speaker 1: I looked around, but didn't see anybody nearby. I saw
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  Speaker 1: one of my coworkers, Jake, not too far away, kind
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  Speaker 1: of walking towards me. He came up and asked if
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  Speaker 1: I was okay, looking confused. I told him what had
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  Speaker 1: just happened to me. Jake said he had seen me
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  Speaker 1: go through the door, and he had heard somebody yelling,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why he was approaching the bathroom. He said
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  Speaker 1: when he got towards the bathroom doors, he saw a
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  Speaker 1: large man running away. I was really creeped out when
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  Speaker 1: I heard this. I actually looked around after that for
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  Speaker 1: the guy who had told me that the bathrooms were dirty,
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  Speaker 1: but I couldn't find him anywhere. I ended up just
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  Speaker 1: working the rest of the night like normal after that.
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  Speaker 1: I've often wondered what exactly happened there.
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: When I was around the age of 20, I had
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  Speaker 4: just recently gotten my first ever paying job at my
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  Speaker 4: 24-hour local Taco Bell. The job was okay, it wasn't
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  Speaker 4: a well-paying job, and the other workers were somewhat rude,
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  Speaker 4: but it's better than not having a job. My first
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  Speaker 4: few months of working there went pretty well of me
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  Speaker 4: being the cashier. I'd collect the money and take customers' orders,
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  Speaker 4: and the job was actually pretty easy, and I was
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  Speaker 4: fine with it. One day, my manager told me that
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  Speaker 4: I had to work the night shift for a week.
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  Speaker 4: 8pm to 3am. I was pretty upset but I couldn't
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  Speaker 4: argue with him so I took the shift. The first
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  Speaker 4: few nights went okay. After around 11pm people would stop
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  Speaker 4: coming in and I had maybe 3 or 4 people
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  Speaker 4: come in at around 1 for a taco or something.
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  Speaker 4: One night, it was around 12.30am and it was just
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  Speaker 4: me and two other workers who made the food. I
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  Speaker 4: was sitting down in one of the chairs playing a
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  Speaker 4: game on my phone when I heard the door open.
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  Speaker 4: I looked to see a man, I'd say in his
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  Speaker 4: mid-forties with a hat and jacket on. He had a
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  Speaker 4: long beard and his hair was all messy and greasy.
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  Speaker 4: I politely welcomed him and asked if I could take
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  Speaker 4: his order, but he didn't say anything. He just stood
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  Speaker 4: in front of me, looking at me with a blank
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  Speaker 4: expression on his face. I assumed that he was on
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  Speaker 4: something or had some sort of disability. But just then,
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  Speaker 4: he started to walk away and out the front door.
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  Speaker 4: I have to admit that I was a bit freaked
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  Speaker 4: out but really thought nothing of it and continued to
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  Speaker 4: do my shift and whatnot. However, I then started to
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  Speaker 4: get the feeling that I was being watched somehow and
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  Speaker 4: was getting paranoid. Finally, 2AM came around and the other employee,
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  Speaker 4: we'll call her Michelle, came in for her shift. Her
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  Speaker 4: and I were really good friends so we chatted for
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  Speaker 4: a bit while I was finishing cleaning the counters. At
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  Speaker 4: some point in the conversation, she said that she'd be
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  Speaker 4: right back and that she had to use the restroom.
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  Speaker 4: A few minutes went by, which then turned into 10
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  Speaker 4: minutes and eventually into 20. I then thought to myself,
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  Speaker 4: what could she possibly be doing in there that's taking
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  Speaker 4: her so long? At this point, I was starting to
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  Speaker 4: get worried and thought that something might have happened to her.
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  Speaker 4: I slowly walked over to the women's restroom and opened
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  Speaker 4: the door just a bit. However, I noticed that all
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  Speaker 4: of the lights in the women's restroom were off when
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  Speaker 4: they should have been on at all times. I turned
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  Speaker 4: them on and yelled out, Michelle, are you okay? There
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  Speaker 4: was no response from her. I wanted to let her
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  Speaker 4: have privacy, but I had the strong feeling that something
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  Speaker 4: wasn't right. I went inside, calling Michelle again and again.
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  Speaker 4: Once I passed the stall, I heard what sounded like
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  Speaker 4: a light cry and whimpering. I opened the stall door
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  Speaker 4: and was shook with fear. I saw the same exact
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  Speaker 4: man from earlier holding Michelle while putting his hand around
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  Speaker 4: her mouth. That's not the most disturbing part though. The
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  Speaker 4: man was holding a large knife against Michelle's throat. Her
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  Speaker 4: eyes were filled with fear and was crying like crazy.
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  Speaker 4: She was scared for her life. The man then said
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  Speaker 4: in a raspy voice, If you don't get all of
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  Speaker 4: that money from the register, I will slit her throat
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  Speaker 4: and blood will be all over this room. I was
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  Speaker 4: so scared that I couldn't even speak. I could tell
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  Speaker 4: that the more time I stood there, the more angry
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  Speaker 4: he got. I ran to the register and took all
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  Speaker 4: of the cash out in a bag and went to
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  Speaker 4: the bathroom and gave it to him. He then let
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  Speaker 4: go of her and pushed her to me. He ran
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  Speaker 4: out the front door, never to be seen again. All
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  Speaker 4: the while, Michelle was crying on me and thanking me
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  Speaker 4: for saving her life. We of course called the cops,
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  Speaker 4: but nothing became of the man. And the cameras we
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  Speaker 4: had in the store didn't help as the footage was
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  Speaker 4: too blurry to identify who the man was. Michelle and
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  Speaker 4: I quit a week later and both started working at
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  Speaker 4: a grocery store. However, sometimes I think that what would
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  Speaker 4: have happened to her had I not went into the
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: bathroom to check on her. That still freaks me out
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  Speaker 4: till this day. When I was around 10 years old,
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  Speaker 4: the most horrifying thing happened to me. I was still
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  Speaker 4: in elementary school at the time, and I was definitely
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  Speaker 4: no popular kid. I had a few acquaintances here and there,
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  Speaker 4: but I would overall not really talk to anyone. One day,
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  Speaker 4: my mom said that she was going to pick me
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  Speaker 4: up from school early that day, as we were going
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  Speaker 4: on a vacation to visit family that was about six
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  Speaker 4: hours away. That day, at around one, I left school
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  Speaker 4: early and got into my mom's car. She had packed
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  Speaker 4: all the clothes, bathroom utilities, and stuff you would need
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  Speaker 4: for a long road trip. For the first few hours,
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  Speaker 4: I was listening to my iPad and eventually ended up
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  Speaker 4: taking a nap. Around, I'd say, the four-hour mark, it
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: was basically around 5 or 6 p.m., and it was
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  Speaker 4: getting dark fast, and we both were hungry and wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: be at our relative's house for a good two hours,
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  Speaker 4: so my mom and I decided to stop at a
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  Speaker 4: nearby Taco Bell. Not my favorite fast food restaurant, but
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  Speaker 4: I could live with it. We stepped inside and placed
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  Speaker 4: our orders, and once we got our food, we then
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  Speaker 4: sat down. So I'm sitting down talking to my mom
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  Speaker 4: about what we'd be doing once we got there, but
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  Speaker 4: she didn't seem too focused on what I was saying.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: She was looking over me in different directions as if
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: she were worried or confused about something. I look behind
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: me but saw nothing and brush it off as her
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: being paranoid. So 10 minutes goes by and my mom
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: says she has to step out to take an important
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: phone call and that she'd be watching me through the
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: window and that she'd be right back. So she's on
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: the phone and I'm minding my business when I smell
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: something extremely foul. I look to my left to see
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: a man in his late 50s looking down at me.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: He said in a deep voice, Hey young lady, my
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: name is John, what's yours? My mom was very strict
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: about the whole stranger danger thing and I was taught
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: never to talk to strangers. This guy was very often sketchy.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: He had a long gray beard, cracked yellow teeth, and
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: looked like he hadn't been to the gym in years.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: He said again, Come on, honey, tell me your name.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: I would love to get to know you. Just then,
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: I saw my mom thankfully walking back into the restaurant,
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: and he must have caught my eye and walked away.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: I decided not to tell my mom about any detail
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: of what just happened, as she takes everything very seriously
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: and told her we should go after she was done eating.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: A few minutes went by and my mom told me
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: that if I had to use the restroom that I
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: should go now as we had a long way ahead
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: of us and probably wouldn't be stopping anywhere else. I
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: got up and walked over to the restroom and opened
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: the door. I was about to open one of the
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: stalls when I heard a very familiar voice say, Hey Rachel,
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: wanna come over with me? I have some candy you'll like.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: I froze in fear and realized that it was the
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: same man from earlier. I did not respond. I just
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: simply walked out of the door and my mom and
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: I then left. However, as I was in the car
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: while my mom was pulling out of the parking spot,
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: I looked out the window and there he was. He
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: was still inside waving at me with that creepy smile.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: I didn't look back and I didn't tell my mom.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: I have absolutely no idea as to what his intentions were.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Why was he in the woman's restroom? What would he
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: have done if he had gotten a hold of me?
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: The part that still scares me till this day is
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: how he knew my name That still sends shivers up
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: my spine just thinking about it till this day I
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: hope I don't see that creepy man again My name
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: is Daniel and I was about 20 years old when
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: this happened to me at a Taco Bell I've always
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: been the type of person who would eat fast food
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: almost every day Whether it would be for lunch or
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: dinner or even a snack, I would almost go out
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: for fast food at least once a day. I know,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: not that healthy, but that's just how I live. One night,
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: I had just finished my shift from my full-time job
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: and working over eight hours at a car dealership. I
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: was driving and planning to head home, but thought about
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: doing my daily routine of getting some fast food. The
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: dealership I worked at is kind of in a rural area,
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: which I guess is in the outskirts of my city,
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: which means that there aren't a lot of places around.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: My house is about a 20 mile drive, depending if
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: there's traffic or not. anyway I didn't see a McDonald's
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: or Burger King or anything like that however I decided
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: to take a different way hoping I would find a
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: place to eat that was open late I ended up
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: seeing a Taco Bell up ahead not my favorite fast
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: food place but at least it's food and I couldn't
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: drive home without anything in my stomach I pulled into
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: the parking lot, got out of my car, and walked in.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: I ordered my food, sat down at a table, and
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: enjoyed the tacos I was having. I was there for
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: about a good 15 minutes before I was done and
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: planning on leaving. I walked out of the door with
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: my phone in hand, texting one of my coworkers when
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: some guy ran up to me out of breath. He
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: looked tired and thirsty and was very sweaty as if
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: he just ran a marathon. He said to me while
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: still hyperventilating, Hey man, do you think you'd just spare
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: me a few dollars? I just need a soda or something.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: I told him that I wasn't sure as I don't
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: really carry cash often, but that I would check in
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: the car for a few dollars. I was in my
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: car looking for some money in the backseat when I
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: hear my passenger car door open and then close. I
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: look to see the man in the passenger seat holding
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: a gun in his hands pointing it directly at my face.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: You could imagine the panic I was in, and my
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: blood turned cold, and it didn't help that he had
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: a very angry look on his face. He said these
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: exact words, Now, you are going to listen to exactly
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: as I say, or I won't hesitate to shoot you
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: in the head and blood and the brain matter will
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: be all over the inside of your car. I remained
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: calm and said, Okay, so what do you want me
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: to do here? He said to pull up the GPS
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: on my phone and to drive to a specific address.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: At this point, I'm pissing myself and hoping that one
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: of the employees at Taco Bell would see this, but
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: they didn't notice and I didn't want to risk trying
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: anything to get help. I put in the given address
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: and it was about 10 miles. I put my car
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: into drive and we start making our way over there.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: The more I started to look at him, the more
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: angry he got and the closer the gun got to
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: my head. I then came to a red light and
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: decided to make a decision. I'm a pretty big guy, 6'5,
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: and when I was 10, my grandfather would always take
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: me hunting and even taught me how to take a
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: gun away from someone before he unfortunately passed away. I
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: decided to listen to my grandpa's advice, but it's been
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: so long since he taught me how to take a
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: gun away from someone, but I had to try it,
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: and I knew this was my chance. I tried to
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: remember the steps and attempted to grab the gun from him.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: The gun eventually dropped to the floor, but thankfully I
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: was faster than he was, and I grabbed the gun
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: before he did. I pointed at him and said, now
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: you listen to me. If you don't get out of
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: my car, I will shoot you. He then got out
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: of my car and started walking along the sidewalk, never
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: to be seen again. I finally made it home safe
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: and I felt relieved. I then gave the gun to
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: the authorities, but I don't know what happened to it
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: after that. And I still have no idea where he
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: was leading me to and what would have happened had
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: he gotten the gun first when it fell. I still
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: have nightmares about it happening. So, I guess the lesson
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: is to be careful out there, and not to go
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: to Taco Bell or any other fast food restaurant so
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: late at night. You never know what could happen.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: I've been urged by those close to me to share
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: my account of a recent life-changing event I experienced while
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: working the drive-thru window at my fast food job. Until
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: this happened... I had yet to fall victim to the
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: irrational anger some carry around all day inside of them.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: I was unaware of how easily they can be triggered,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: and now that I have seen it firsthand, I'm not
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: sure I'll ever be able to fully trust another human again. Although,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: at this time, it is still very difficult for me
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: to relive the event, I am encouraged that, to do
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: so through this post, I may be able to begin
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: to take charge of my life again. I guess I'll
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: start at the beginning in order to make what came
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: next make more sense. My name is Zoe Marie, but
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: my friends call me Zo. I'm currently 17 and will
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: soon graduate high school a year early because I was
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: allowed to skip ahead of grade when I was younger.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: In order to instill a strong work ethic into their
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: young daughter, my parents encouraged me to get a job
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: once I had turned 16. Not being one that wanted
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: to disappoint my parents, I soon found a part-time job
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: at a chain burger and fries restaurant near my home.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: I would often ride my bike the two miles after
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: school and work a few hours during the weekdays and
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: longer shifts on weekend evenings. So I had always had
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: all of my things paid for up until that time.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Seeing each check filled me with a mixture of awe
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: and achievement. These feelings appeared to have done exactly what
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: my parents had hoped and fired my will to work
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: even harder. I'm not sure if this desire spawned from
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: a place of greed. I'm sure the argument could be made. Nonetheless,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: I did look forward to each shift. My shift that
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: night had started at the counter, but once the girl
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: working the window ended her shift, I was moved to
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: her station. At the time, I had no preference between
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: counter and window. You came into contact with the rude
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: and crude working both, and this night was no different.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: I'd already had a big fat woman with her three
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: snotty-nosed children in tow scream at me for making a
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: small mistake in her order. Perhaps the only benefit I
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: did have was that I rarely worked after midnight, so
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: I didn't have to deal with many intoxicated customers that
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: came later. The one or two times I did work later,
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: I found it a trying experience. I'll keep my moral
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: views to myself. I will only say that I see
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: those who partake of alcohol as weak, and I'll leave
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: it at that. My shift was ending in around an
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: hour when I met my last customer. From the way
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: the gentleman was speaking, I could tell he had been
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: drinking that evening. The transaction was a string of confusion
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: and chaos. He changed the order multiple times and those
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: in the car with him sounded as confused as him.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: The entire mess came to a head when I informed
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: him that our shake machine was out of order. I'm
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: aware that most drive-thru workers will use that as an excuse.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: but I promised that night it was certainly broken. When
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: I told him this, I was assaulted with a tirade
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: of curses and derogatory names, and then he went silent.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: At first, I had believed that there was something amiss
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: with the headset, but I was wrong. The quiet was
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: shattered by the squealing of tires. The cry of the
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: tires was almost instantly joined by the roar of gunfire.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: I still believe to this day the only thing that
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: saved my life was the sound of the tires. When
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: I heard them, I leaned a bit forward in the window,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: almost putting my head out of the doors. I had
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: only expected an angry confrontation at that second, but coming
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: face to face with the barrel of his gun as
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: he extended his arm from his window, I instinctively ran
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: for cover. The countless bangs from the gun and the
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: screams of my fellow employees seemed to last a lifetime.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: No matter how I tried to drown them out by
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: covering my head with my arms, they remained just as horrifying.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure when the firing finally stopped but I
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: didn't even consider raising my head until another of the
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: employees shook me. I guess at the time he was
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: checking to see if I had been struck by any
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: of the bullets but regardless of his intent I hesitated
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: a moment before I sat upright. To my dismay two
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: of the others working that night had been injured and
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: although neither of them died I couldn't return to that
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: restaurant or any of its kind for quite some time.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Just now Over six months after this happened, can I
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: finally see a business with a drive-thru window without having
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: a panic attack? In the months since the attack, I
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: have spent a large amount of time and energy in
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: counseling in the hopes of regaining my courage and ability
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: to be a useful member of society again. Whether it's
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: due to feelings of guilt or fear, the road has
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: been a hard one, and if it were not for
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: the sense of purpose and the hard work ethic my
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: parents have helped foster in me, I may not have
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: even made it through school. Despite my heartfelt hopes and
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: many prayers, the police have yet to find or arrest
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: the thugs that attempted to take my life because of
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: a freaking shake machine. The best I can do is
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: continue to have faith in law enforcement and the universal
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: force of right. I know someday, some way, they will
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: be made to pay for what they have done. The
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: only real solace I can find is the fact that
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: No one has lost their lives because of something I
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: did or said.