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2 True Home Alone Horror Stories That Will Make You Fear the Night · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: I grew up in a very small town in Montana.
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  Speaker 1: During Halloween one year, my brother and I sold lemonade
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  Speaker 1: by the side of the road because it was unusually
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  Speaker 1: hot that year. We didn't make a lot of money,
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  Speaker 1: but we did have a lot of fun selling lemonade
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  Speaker 1: the people who were passing by. So my brother and
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  Speaker 1: I were standing at our lemonade stand when we noticed
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  Speaker 1: an old, rusty car passed by us two or three times.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, it struck me as a little creepy. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: the car slowed down and stopped right in front of
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  Speaker 1: the stand. There was a woman in a passenger seat
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  Speaker 1: and she rolled her window down. I saw she was
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  Speaker 1: really skinny, with gray hair, and it was staining and silky.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like it was nasty. Honestly, I couldn't see
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  Speaker 1: the man who was driving very well because he never
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  Speaker 1: looked at me. He just stared straight ahead. Both of
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  Speaker 1: them seemed very odd, and their clothes were old and dirty.
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  Speaker 1: The lady smiled, you boys out here selling lemonade all
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  Speaker 1: by yourselves, asked the woman, Yeah, my mom lets us.
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  Speaker 1: I replied, Is your mom home? She asked, yeah, she's
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  Speaker 1: in the house, I said. The woman turned and looked
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  Speaker 1: at the man who was driving. He nodded, still staring
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  Speaker 1: straight ahead. The woman turned back to me and said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'll have some lemonade. That'll be twenty five cents, I said,
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  Speaker 1: as I pulled her glass. She rummaged around in her
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  Speaker 1: purse and I could hear coins clinging. Then she put
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  Speaker 1: out a five dollar bill and held it to me.
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  Speaker 1: A chill went down my spine. Why was she handing
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  Speaker 1: me a five dollar bill if she had coins in
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  Speaker 1: her purse. Something just didn't feel right, so I lied
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  Speaker 1: and said I don't have any change. She said, you
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  Speaker 1: can keep the change, just come and take the five dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Something felt very wrong, but five dollars was a lot
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  Speaker 1: to me at the time. I walked up to the
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  Speaker 1: car and reached out to take the five dollars from
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  Speaker 1: her hand. As soon as my fingers touched it, the
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  Speaker 1: woman suddenly grabbed me by my wrist and began pulling
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  Speaker 1: me into the car. I screamed so loud, and my
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  Speaker 1: brother ran to the house and yelling for help. The
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  Speaker 1: man floored the accelerator and the car lurst forward. I
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  Speaker 1: fought with all my might and managed to wrench myself
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  Speaker 1: free from her grasp. The car stopped and the man
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  Speaker 1: got out, but I was already running for my life.
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  Speaker 1: My brother was pounding on the door and screaming. My
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  Speaker 1: mother rushed out and turned just in time to see
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  Speaker 1: the rusty old car speeding away. We told my mom
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  Speaker 1: what had happened, and she called the police. When my
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  Speaker 1: brother and I calmed down and went back to the
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  Speaker 1: lemonade stand, there was a five dollar bill lying on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. We packed up the lemonade stand and put
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  Speaker 1: it away for good. The year was twenty and eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: I love Halloween more than most as a child. I
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  Speaker 1: loved it as an adult even more. In twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: I started to go trick or treating again in my neighborhood,
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  Speaker 1: as a shorter dot and using a conceiling costume I'm
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  Speaker 1: a woman. I was able to do it year after
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  Speaker 1: year without incident until twenty and eighteen. That year, I
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  Speaker 1: used my favorite costume, a homemade zombie outfit was a
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  Speaker 1: skull mask. For the record, By this time I was
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  Speaker 1: over thirty, but tricker treating was fun for me. My
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  Speaker 1: childhood neighborhood was too rough to tricker treat in anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I've been out for over two hours, going house to
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  Speaker 1: house getting lots of goodies. By this time, I was
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  Speaker 1: sweating pretty heavily, forcing me to pause and dry under
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  Speaker 1: my mask occasionally. Soon I rounded a street corner and
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  Speaker 1: passed a man walking two dogs. The street was clear
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  Speaker 1: and many houses were unlt. I took a few steps
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  Speaker 1: forward and paused. Suddenly, standing in a house's pathway was
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  Speaker 1: an old lady. Where exactly did she come from? She
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  Speaker 1: wasn't there before. She looked to be in her mid seventies,
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  Speaker 1: with white hair, sweater, skirt, low heeled shoes. She smiled
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  Speaker 1: as she approached me. Standing in front of me, she said, hello, dear,
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  Speaker 1: are you out trigger treating? Come with me and I'll
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  Speaker 1: get you some candy. I said to her, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't have to. She chuckled warmly like I
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  Speaker 1: said something funny, nonsense. Come with me and we'll get
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  Speaker 1: you some candy. Sweety. For some reason, I decided to
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  Speaker 1: follow her. As we walked together, I suddenly realized something.
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  Speaker 1: My shoes made noise as we walked well, hers didn't
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  Speaker 1: make any noise. Two houses down, she paused and said,
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  Speaker 1: go on, dear, I'll wait here for you. I did
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  Speaker 1: the trick or treat routine, then turned to thank her.
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  Speaker 1: I frozen shock. The old woman was no longer standing. There.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way she could have left without me hearing her.
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  Speaker 1: I asked the man in the doorway if he'd seen her. Puzzled,
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  Speaker 1: he asked her, you came alone. There's no one with you. Confused,
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  Speaker 1: I said, I must have been seeing things. I walked home,
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  Speaker 1: wondering what had happened. After ten minutes, I stopped in
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  Speaker 1: my tracks and chuckled to myself, saying to myself, holy crap,
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  Speaker 1: I just saw a ghost. My name is Brenton. This
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  Speaker 1: happened when I was eleven years old, when I lived
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  Speaker 1: in a somewhat sketchy neighborhood. This took place on Halloween
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  Speaker 1: with a friend of mine named Carlos. Me and Carlos
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  Speaker 1: were best friend since the second grade, and there was
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  Speaker 1: a two story house of rumor to be unted near us.
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  Speaker 1: We decided that it would be a good idea to
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  Speaker 1: test out the rumor, which had seemed obviously fake to
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  Speaker 1: us at the time, so we thought it had been fake.
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  Speaker 1: We went trick or treating and then left our candy
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  Speaker 1: at my friend Carlos's house. It was close to midnight,
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  Speaker 1: which was the time he intended to be at the
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  Speaker 1: house to make things a little scarier due to the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we love horror movies. It took us a
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  Speaker 1: while to get to the house as it was a
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  Speaker 1: few houses away and it was the second to the
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  Speaker 1: last house on the street. As we arrived at the
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  Speaker 1: house at around eleven fifty six, me and my friend
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  Speaker 1: Carlos then thought it would be a good idea to
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  Speaker 1: trick or treat here, so we rung the doorbell. A
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  Speaker 1: man which looked to be in his mid thirties, dressed
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  Speaker 1: with a hoodie and ripped jeans, answered the door almost
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  Speaker 1: right away. My friend then mentioned the rumor of his
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  Speaker 1: house being hunted. We laughed it out, and he used
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  Speaker 1: a poor excuse which we bought at the time, which
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  Speaker 1: was that he was a very messy and unorganized man.
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  Speaker 1: He then said, you kids are almost little late for Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to end in two minutes. It's almost twelve am.
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  Speaker 1: He said. The candy was in the room and he
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  Speaker 1: offered us to come in. Us, being really anxious at
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  Speaker 1: the time, took the offer. To not be rude, We
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  Speaker 1: sat in the living room on the couch, waiting for
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  Speaker 1: the man as he went upstairs. Carlos' mom didn't text
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  Speaker 1: him to ask if we were going to have a
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  Speaker 1: sleepover that night, which he replied with yes. As the
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  Speaker 1: man was coming back, he insisted on us going upstairs
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  Speaker 1: because he had Reeses, which was my favorite candy at
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  Speaker 1: the time, so me being a pretty mindless eleven year old,
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  Speaker 1: I took the offer. As we went upstairs and into
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  Speaker 1: his hardly lit up room, it appeared as if the
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  Speaker 1: man collected knives. We saw it as a pretty cool hobby,
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  Speaker 1: and the man gave us each to Reese's chocolates. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't thank the man. As we were going downstairs, my
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  Speaker 1: friend Carlos felling down the stairs screaming in pain. I
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  Speaker 1: turned around and the man was holding what appeared to
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  Speaker 1: be a red knife, which was probably one of the
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  Speaker 1: ones from his collection. My fight or flight was immediately
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  Speaker 1: activated and I punched the man in the face. He
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  Speaker 1: stabs my leg, but I managed to hold on in
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  Speaker 1: pain and knock him out with five punches. I take
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  Speaker 1: the knife out of my leg and start limping away
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  Speaker 1: holding Carlos. Then we get out. I called the police
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  Speaker 1: and they arrest the man. A while after he wakes up.
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  Speaker 1: The ambulance takes me and Carlos to the hospital. I
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  Speaker 1: was fine after two days, where Carlos was apparently stabbed
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  Speaker 1: twice in the back and was bleeding out. He took
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  Speaker 1: about a week or two in the hospital to recover.
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  Speaker 1: A while after getting out of the hospital, the police
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  Speaker 1: told us about the man's past. He was a registered
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  Speaker 1: sex offender. I never again went inside a stranger's house,
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  Speaker 1: and to this day, I feared what could have happened
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  Speaker 1: if I was not able to hold on in pain
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  Speaker 1: from being stabbed. On Halloween, when I was in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth grade, I stayed home sick from school. I was
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  Speaker 1: I ain't going to couch watching Hokus Pocus when I
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  Speaker 1: heard the doorbell ringing. It was the postman. He told
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  Speaker 1: me I had a package to deliver, but it was
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  Speaker 1: so big that he needed me to help him carry
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  Speaker 1: it in. I don't know why, but I knew something
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  Speaker 1: wasn't right. I didn't see his truck parked out front,
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  Speaker 1: and when I asked him where it was, he told
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  Speaker 1: me it was around the corner. I asked him why
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  Speaker 1: the regular postman wasn't here, and he said he was
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  Speaker 1: visiting family. He kept telling me to open the front door.
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  Speaker 1: I said I was sick and I wasn't allowed to
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  Speaker 1: leave the house. I told him my parents would pick
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  Speaker 1: up the package from the post office, but he said
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  Speaker 1: that would be too much hassle and told me my
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  Speaker 1: mom would want me to take the package now. I
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  Speaker 1: told him I had to get my shoes first and
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  Speaker 1: then I would come out and help him. Then I
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  Speaker 1: closed the front door, locked it, and ran to the
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  Speaker 1: back door and locked that one too. I called our neighbor,
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  Speaker 1: who was the close family friend, and begged her to
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  Speaker 1: come over my house right now. Then I stood at
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  Speaker 1: the front window and stared at the man. When he
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  Speaker 1: saw me, he yelled through the door, asking if I
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  Speaker 1: found my shoes yet. I yelled back, telling him that
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  Speaker 1: I called my neighbor to come and help carry the
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  Speaker 1: package because she was older and stronger. At that point,
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  Speaker 1: he just turned around and ran off. They never caught
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  Speaker 1: the guy, and I always wonder if he ever managed
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  Speaker 1: to trick some other kid. Story took place about a
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  Speaker 1: year ago. Me and my three friends saw Fernando and
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  Speaker 1: AJ decided to take a trip to Universal Studios for
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  Speaker 1: the yearly event Halloween Horror Night's event. The trip to
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  Speaker 1: our destination was not too long, so we got there
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  Speaker 1: in about two hours or so. When we got there,
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  Speaker 1: it was full of guests, but we managed to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the rest of it day and got to go through
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  Speaker 1: different attractions in mazes. The theme park was set to
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  Speaker 1: clothes at two am, so we started heading back to
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  Speaker 1: our town. We took the ramp to the freeway and
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  Speaker 1: began our way back once again. I was so tired
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  Speaker 1: from walking all day. We were all falling to sleep,
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  Speaker 1: except for my friend Fernando, of course, he was the driver.
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  Speaker 1: One hour on the road and we decided to stop
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  Speaker 1: at the nearby Denny's off the freeway. We went inside,
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  Speaker 1: ordered food and ate. It was all normal once again.
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  Speaker 1: A few guests were still eating too, and it was
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  Speaker 1: almost three am. We finished our meals, paid and went
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  Speaker 1: out the door to the parking lot. As we stepped outside,
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  Speaker 1: I noticed a strange man standing next to a car
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  Speaker 1: across from ours. He just looked like he was staring
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  Speaker 1: blankly at us. From what I could see was that
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  Speaker 1: he was wearing a trench coat. As we were about
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  Speaker 1: to get into the car, the man started walking slowly
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  Speaker 1: toward us, and there I could notice alone scar across
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  Speaker 1: his face. Suddenly, my friend Saw asked the man, yo,
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  Speaker 1: did you lose something? The stranger stood there with an
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  Speaker 1: evil like smile and slowly started taking a knife out
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  Speaker 1: in his pocket. We all hurried back into the car
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  Speaker 1: and told our friend Fernando to floor it. As we
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  Speaker 1: were exiting in the parking lot, I turned my head
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  Speaker 1: back and noticed that the guy was still standing there,
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  Speaker 1: waving his knife at us. I'm just thankful that this
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  Speaker 1: story didn't end up worse, as God knows what plans
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  Speaker 1: that man had. Honestly, that was just a weird experience.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Eric and this happened to me when
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  Speaker 1: I was around seven or eight years old. One summer,
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  Speaker 1: my dad took me to a campsite for a long weekend.
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  Speaker 1: When we arrived, there were some kids around my age
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  Speaker 1: playing in a small park. I looked at my dad
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  Speaker 1: and he said go ahead. So my dad unpacked the
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  Speaker 1: car and I went to maybe make some friends. There
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  Speaker 1: were two boys in a small park. I said hello,
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  Speaker 1: and they said hello back. Their names were Kevin and Graham.
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  Speaker 1: Graham had to go shortly after because his parents were
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  Speaker 1: calling for him, so Kevin and I hung around and
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  Speaker 1: we talked about things we liked and how long we
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  Speaker 1: were staying at the campsite. After about an hour, Kevin's
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  Speaker 1: mom was calling for him, so we had to leave.
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  Speaker 1: I was about to head back to my dad when
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  Speaker 1: a boy appeared from the woods. He said hello, I
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  Speaker 1: said hi back. He introduced himself as Daniel. He seemed
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  Speaker 1: like a nice kid, and we got along pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: He asked me if I wanted to play hide and seek,
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  Speaker 1: so I said yes. We played hide and Seek at
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  Speaker 1: the campsite for maybe forty five minutes until I told
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  Speaker 1: him I had to go. So I went back to
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  Speaker 1: my dad and went to the camper. I told my
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  Speaker 1: dad I made some friends, and my dad asked where
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  Speaker 1: their campers were. I told him where Kevin and Graham's were,
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  Speaker 1: but I never asked where Daniel was. I thought maybe, well,
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  Speaker 1: i'll see him the next day and I'll ask him.
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  Speaker 1: So the next day I went outside to see if
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  Speaker 1: any of the kids wanted to play. Kevin and Graham
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  Speaker 1: were both unavailable. I was about to just return back
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  Speaker 1: to my camper when Daniel appeared out of nowhere out
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  Speaker 1: the woods. We greeted each other and I asked him
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  Speaker 1: if he wanted to play hide and Seek again. He
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  Speaker 1: said yeah, but he said we should play at his house.
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  Speaker 1: I asked him where his house was. He told me
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  Speaker 1: it's not far. It's just through the woods. I followed
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  Speaker 1: Daniel and the woods toward his house. We were walking
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  Speaker 1: for ages, and one thing that I found than usual
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  Speaker 1: was the more we walked, the less talkative and distant
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  Speaker 1: Daniel became. Eventually we exited the woods and Daniel said,
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  Speaker 1: here we are. He pointed at a Rundown old house
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  Speaker 1: with a white van park beside it. He started walking
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  Speaker 1: toward it. I slowly followed, and now it's Daniel, So
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  Speaker 1: this is your house, he replied by saying yeah, let's
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  Speaker 1: go play hide and seek. I got this bad feeling.
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  Speaker 1: It became worse the closer we got to the house.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't look like a normal house. I started to
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  Speaker 1: notice that there were people standing by the windows inside
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  Speaker 1: the house. I asked Daniel if that was his dad
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  Speaker 1: in the window, and he said yeah, yeah, yeah, don't
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  Speaker 1: worry about him, he's harmless and just continued walking. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what it was, but something made me slow down.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel was by the front door, at this point, and
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  Speaker 1: when he turned around asked me if I was coming.
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  Speaker 1: I told him I had to go. I turned around
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  Speaker 1: and ran through the forest and back to my camper.
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  Speaker 1: I spent the next few hours watching TV. Then I
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  Speaker 1: got bored and decided to go back outside. I knocked
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  Speaker 1: on Graham's door, but he wasn't available. I knocked on
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  Speaker 1: Kevin's door, and his dad told me he was already
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  Speaker 1: out with some boy named Daniel. So I went back
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  Speaker 1: to the camper and did something else was my time.
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  Speaker 1: Late that night, there was a knock on our door.
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  Speaker 1: It was Kevin's parents. I asked her if we had
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  Speaker 1: seen Kevin anywhere, as he's been gone for hours. I
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  Speaker 1: asked his mom if she had checked Daniel's house, and
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  Speaker 1: she said no because she didn't know where Daniel lived.
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  Speaker 1: I showed Kevin's parents, along with my dad and a
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  Speaker 1: few other people through the woods to Daniel's house. When
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  Speaker 1: we got there, the van was gone, and when we
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  Speaker 1: knocked on the door there was no answer, and the
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  Speaker 1: whole house was empty and abandoned. We didn't find Kevin
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of our time at the campsite, and
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  Speaker 1: he's still missing to this day. As far as I know,
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  Speaker 1: I thought then and still think today that Daniel was
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  Speaker 1: some kind of bait to lure kids in the same
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  Speaker 1: age as him to be kidnapped. And I'm thankful my
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  Speaker 1: guts since danger and told me to leave. My name
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  Speaker 1: is Jack, and growing up, my younger brother and I,
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  Speaker 1: who's two years younger than me, had a complicated and
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: somewhat difficult childhood. I'm won't go too much into details
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  Speaker 1: private and personal, but there were a lot of occasions
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  Speaker 1: where my brother and I, whose name is Brian, we'll
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  Speaker 1: move around the country and live with different relatives and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes friends. This one time, I think I was about
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  Speaker 1: ten and Brian was eighty. Our dad was driving us
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  Speaker 1: across the country for a reason I can't remember. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what time it was, but I know it
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  Speaker 1: was dark and late. When we finally stopped for the
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  Speaker 1: night at a motel, it was even darker. After checking
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  Speaker 1: into our room, which was on the ground floor, our
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  Speaker 1: dad said he was leaving to do something and he'll
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  Speaker 1: be back soon. He said he'll bring back a pizza
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  Speaker 1: and told us to not leave the room. There was
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do in our room, and we didn't know
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  Speaker 1: how to work with TV. So I suggested that we
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  Speaker 1: play hote and seek. Brian was to be the seeker.
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  Speaker 1: I left the room and ran upstairs to the floor
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  Speaker 1: above us around the corner behind an ice machine and waited.
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  Speaker 1: I had a clear view over the motel and could
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  Speaker 1: see Brian looking around for me. I remember standing behind
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  Speaker 1: the ice machine giggling and watching my brother walk around
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  Speaker 1: the motel in the pool area looking for me. Then
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  Speaker 1: the door behind me slowly creaked open, revealing a large
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: man that looked to be in his late forties, had
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  Speaker 1: a dirty white tank top on, and he seemed overweight.
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  Speaker 1: He asked me in a friendly voice what I was doing.
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  Speaker 1: I told him I was just playing hide and seek.
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  Speaker 1: He then asked me if I was playing with my parents.
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  Speaker 1: I told him no, just my younger brother. At this point,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Brian was upstairs and found me talking to the man.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: The man asked if our parents knew we were playing
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: hide and seek. Brian spoke up and said no, our
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: dad left us. The man then asked Brian and I
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: if we wanted to come inside to watch cartoons, and
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: he had some cookies and milkshakes for us as well.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Me and Brian looked at each other and then looked
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: back at the man and said okay, and we entered
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the man's motel room. We sat down on the bed
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: and the man turned the TV on and he put
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: on some cartoons. I can't remember what cartoons it was, though.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: He then said he would be right back and was
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: going to get our milkshakes and cookies. The man went
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: into the bathroom. I got up and I took a
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: look into the bathroom to see what the man was doing.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I was confusing why he didn't go in the kitchen.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: He had two glasses of water and then put a
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: little bit of white powder in each glass. Thinking at
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: the time it was just the ingredients to make a milkshake.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I sat back down on the bed. When the man
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: finally came out of the bathroom, he handed me and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Brian the glass each He said, here's your milkshakes. It
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: didn't look like milkshakes at all, at least not one
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: that I've ever had. It looked like it was just
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: water with white powder floating around. I suddenly had this
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: bad feeling and a pit of my stomach, telling me
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I was definitely in danger and we needed to leave.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Brian was about to take a sip of his drink.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I stopped him, and the man was still watching us,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: just silent, no where. The man just asked us, what's wrong?
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Drink your milkshake, this time in a much less friendlier
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: tone than he had been speaking to us before. I
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: looked at the man and he was looking at me,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: waiting for me to speak. I then said, we always
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: eat cookies first before we drink our milkshakes. The man
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: let out an irritated sigh and went back into the bathroom.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I put the glass down on the floor and quietly
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: did the same with Brian's. I grabbed Brian's arm and
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: quickly exited the man's room. We ran around the corner
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: and down the stairs into our motel room. I turned
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: out the lights and I kept watching out the window.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: After about five minutes, the man came down the stairs
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and started his car. I was feeling a bit of
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: a relief, thinking he was just about to leave the motel,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: But he got out of the car and looked directly
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: at the window I was looking through, and started approaching
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: our room. I remember panicking at the moment, thinking that
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the man was about to take us. He was getting
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: closer to our door when our dad pulled up and
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: asked the guy what he was doing. The man didn't
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: say anything and just walked away and went to his
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: car and drove off. We never saw him again. When
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: our dad asked us who that man was, we told
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: him we didn't know. Brian and I never spoke about
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: this incident again to anyone. I sometimes have nightmares about
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: if we did drink that man's drink and what would
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: have happened to us if we did, or if our
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: dad didn't come back in time.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: When my grandfather was younger, he became the principal of
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: an elementary school. He was in his late twenties early
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: thirties at the time, and despite being young, he was
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: a born leader. He was a great principal and everyone
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: loved him. I can attest to that as I attended
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: multiple award ceremonies for him, and the respect and admiration
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: he received was crazy. There was a young boy at
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: the school who was having behavioral issues in class, and
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: my grandfather saw that the kid didn't have a lot
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: of parental support, so he called in his father and
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: had talked with him about spending more time with his
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: son and just a general parenting session. It turned out
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: that all the boy needed was his dad's attention, and
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: after a few weeks he was a happy, model student.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Whenever my grandfather would leave school late, he would see
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: the dad was playing basketball with his son after he
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: got home from work. It was one of those moments
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: that he took pride in being able to make a
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: difference in people's lives. However, not everything had such an
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: easy solution, and my grandfather found himself having to deal
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: with an employee, Stanley the Janitor, who was showing up
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: to work drunk. Stanley was an alcoholic with a mean streak,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: and my grandfather tried on multiple occasions to deal with
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: his behavior. Finally, one day, Stanley showed up so drunk
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: that my grandfather sent him home and called the superintendent
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: to let him know he was going to be firing
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: him the next morning after he sobered up. He then
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: warned them to let him deal with it when Stanley
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: was sober, because he was not a stable person, as
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: it goes in these kinds of stories. The superintendent was
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: furious and decided that he was going to call Stanley
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: himself and fire him. Despite my grandfather's warning, no one
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: called my grandfather to tell him about it either, so
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: he was completely in the dark and thought he could
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: deal with it in the morning. Stanley was furious and
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: went to the school that evening. He searched the offices
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: my grandfathers included and tore things apart until he finally
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: had what he wanted. He was in a blaze of
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: fury and on his way out, he saw the father
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: and his son playing basketball. He walked towards them and
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: pulled something out of his trousers. It was a gun.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: He then proceeded to shoot the little boy, killing him instantly.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: The father was so upset was hysterically crying, but somehow
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: managed to get the gun away from Stanley and shoot him.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: My grandfather was called to the elementary school immediately by
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: the police because there were two dead bodies. The little
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: boy and Stanley were dead. What was even worse was
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: the crying from the father and him saying that he
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: couldn't save his son. It was clear that he could
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: never forgive himself for that day. My grandfather was pulled
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: aside by one of the police who would search Stanley
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: for evidence. They had found a list, a hit list
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: of people that he was going to kill, and all
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: the addresses of those people that he had retrieved when
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: he searched the offices. My grandfather was number one on
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: that list, So if it weren't for that father, it's
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: likely that I would never be able to meet my grandfather,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: and possibly my mother and grandmother would have been killed
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: if Stanley had been able to complete his mission. To
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: this day, I get goosebumps when whenever I hear that story,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: and it's just so chilling. My grandfather never uttered a
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: single word about this after his initial recount, and my
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: mother made me swear to never tell him. I knew
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: he carried the weight of that boy's death on him
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: until the day he died.