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3 Creepy True Airbnb Horror Stories (Vol. 2) That Will Make You Reconsider Your Stay · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: I owned an Airbnb house for several years. I stopped
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  Speaker 1: due to the stress of keeping up with it as
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  Speaker 1: well as maintaining my actual job. The benefit of using
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  Speaker 1: Airbnb instead of renting the place out like you normally
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  Speaker 1: would is that you would have the chance to make
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  Speaker 1: a lot more money if your house gets booked a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Being in a relatively high traffic area for vacations, Airbnb
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  Speaker 1: was a great option for us. My wife and I
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  Speaker 1: were excited in the beginning, but it got more demanding
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  Speaker 1: as more people booked the house. We needed to keep
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  Speaker 1: everything on schedule and higher cleaning services after the first
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  Speaker 1: customers left and before the next ones came, as well
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  Speaker 1: as be sure to respond to their messages and emails
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  Speaker 1: in a timely manner. But things were going well for
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years before we had what we thought
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  Speaker 1: was a young couple staying at the house. Just like
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  Speaker 1: every other time, when they arrived, at them the unlock
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  Speaker 1: code for the door. I almost never actually see the customers.
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  Speaker 1: After they let me know that they were inside and
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  Speaker 1: everything was good, I sat back and relaxed for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of my day off. I should also mention that
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  Speaker 1: I almost never even talked to the customers more than
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  Speaker 1: just a couple texts. Usually they text me when they
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  Speaker 1: get there and when they leave, and sometimes an occasional
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  Speaker 1: question about the house. But that's usually it. But as
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  Speaker 1: nine o'clock came around and I was just about to
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  Speaker 1: get ready for bed, I got a text from the
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  Speaker 1: young man staying at the house. It was short, saying
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  Speaker 1: he was going to call me in a minute, and
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  Speaker 1: then a minute later he called. I already had a
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  Speaker 1: bad feeling when I saw the text, but what he
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  Speaker 1: said still surprised me. He said that the water wasn't
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  Speaker 1: working in the house. Of course, I apologized, though I
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  Speaker 1: didn't understand how that could be possible, But living in
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  Speaker 1: a house without water is unacceptable, so I knew I
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  Speaker 1: had to get it fixed immediately. I asked if I
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  Speaker 1: could come check it out really quick so that I
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  Speaker 1: could have someone come in the morning to fix it.
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  Speaker 1: He agreed, being very polite about the whole thing, and
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  Speaker 1: I drove over there a few minutes later. Pulling into
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  Speaker 1: the driveway, I noticed two cars. At the time, this
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  Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily a red flag, but more just an odd
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  Speaker 1: thing I noticed because they were apparently a young couple
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  Speaker 1: on vacation for a single night, so I didn't understand
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  Speaker 1: why they would rent two separate cars. I thought someone
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  Speaker 1: must be visiting them, which actually isn't allowed, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't mind so much. I walked up to the front
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  Speaker 1: door and knocked before entering the code and walking inside.
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  Speaker 1: It was very quiet. I expected them to be waiting
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  Speaker 1: for me, but they weren't anywhere that I could see.
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  Speaker 1: I probably should have looked around for them first, but
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  Speaker 1: I was tired and just wanted to get this over with.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing I wanted to check was the main
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  Speaker 1: water valve to make sure there was a leak or
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  Speaker 1: a flood. So I went down to the basement and
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  Speaker 1: over to the valve. Everything seemed normal, no water anywhere
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  Speaker 1: or signs of damage. I was confused, but then I
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  Speaker 1: fiddled with the valve and immediately heard water start rushing again.
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  Speaker 1: I turned it more, realizing it had been completely shut
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  Speaker 1: off manually. I stayed in the basement for another minute,
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  Speaker 1: trying to understand why this was done before I started
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  Speaker 1: to get a really uncomfortable feeling, especially since I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even see the people when I walked inside. I just
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  Speaker 1: couldn't see how it could have been anyone other than
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  Speaker 1: them who turned off the water, which meant they were
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  Speaker 1: trying to get me to come over on purpose, or
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  Speaker 1: maybe give them a discount on their stay for the inconvenience.
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  Speaker 1: I decided I was going to leave and get my car,
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  Speaker 1: then try calling them back. Just to be safe. I
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  Speaker 1: got up and started walking towards the stairs until I
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  Speaker 1: heard the basement door open, followed by multiple sets of
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  Speaker 1: footsteps walking down. When they got to the bottom, three
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  Speaker 1: men stood there. Is it fixed, one of them said,
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  Speaker 1: sounding like the same man I talked to on the phone,
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  Speaker 1: though all of these men were much older than the
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  Speaker 1: young man that I thought was staying at the house.
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  Speaker 1: I told him it should be working now, and that
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  Speaker 1: the valve must have just tightened on its own. I
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  Speaker 1: was trying not to point any blame, since the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing was making me so uncomfortable. I just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get out of that basement and away from these guys.
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  Speaker 1: They all just kind of stood there looking at me,
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  Speaker 1: not saying anything. After that, Well, let me know if
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  Speaker 1: you need anything else, I said, walking between them trying
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  Speaker 1: to get to the stairs. They still just stood there
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  Speaker 1: watching me walk around them. But as I went past
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  Speaker 1: the third guy closest to the stairs, I spotted a
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  Speaker 1: gun shoved in the back of his pants. It made
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  Speaker 1: me freak out a little, and I rushed a bit
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  Speaker 1: quicker up the stairs, but they didn't follow. They stayed
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  Speaker 1: in the basement as I quickly walked out the door
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  Speaker 1: and drove away. When I got home, I woke up
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  Speaker 1: my wife and told her what had happened. She convinced
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  Speaker 1: me to call the police to check up on them.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't the people we thought were staying there, and
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  Speaker 1: the situation was strange, so it felt justified. I think
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  Speaker 1: we waited twenty minutes before a call came from an
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  Speaker 1: officer claiming nobody seemed to be home and that he
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  Speaker 1: may need me to open the door. I gave him
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  Speaker 1: the code instead, and he called back another twenty minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: saying that there was no signs of anyone still being there.
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  Speaker 1: The next day we found out the card the man
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  Speaker 1: paid with was stolen, and after looking around the house,
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  Speaker 1: they had stolen some expensive decorations and appliances as well.
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  Speaker 1: I guess there never actually was a young couple either.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing that was left unexplained was their whole
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  Speaker 1: plan with the water not working. I think they either
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  Speaker 1: wanted me to not charge them for their stay so
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  Speaker 1: that hopefully they could use the stolen car for longer,
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  Speaker 1: or they were planning on robbing me at gunpoint. But
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  Speaker 1: then that makes me question why they didn't. Three dangerous
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  Speaker 1: unidentified men blocking my exit in the basement after leading
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  Speaker 1: me into a trap, and they just let me go.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense to me. But after that, I
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  Speaker 1: never went to the house while customers were home, and
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  Speaker 1: a few months later we stopped using Airbnb and just
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  Speaker 1: put the house up for rent. I was taking a
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  Speaker 1: solo trip to Salt Lake City last year. I'd never
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  Speaker 1: actually had the chance to go on many vacations before,
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  Speaker 1: and when I did, it was always with my family.
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  Speaker 1: This was the first time I was finally going to
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  Speaker 1: get to enjoy my time somewhere else all by myself.
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  Speaker 1: I know it sounds a bit weird, but being alone
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  Speaker 1: is fine with me, especially since I'd never get to
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  Speaker 1: be alone anyway. I looked up both hot tells in
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  Speaker 1: airbnbs in the area, and surprisingly the airbnbs were a
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  Speaker 1: lot nicer and less pricey. However, all the cheaper ones
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  Speaker 1: were a bit further away from the city, I was
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  Speaker 1: driving my own car, though, so I didn't care too
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  Speaker 1: much about having to travel a bit to the city
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  Speaker 1: and went with a nicely sized airbnb. It was small,
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  Speaker 1: but the kitchen and bedroom were nice, which was all
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  Speaker 1: I really cared about. I got there at six on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday morning. The owner texted me the password and I
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  Speaker 1: brought all of my stuff inside. It was really nice,
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  Speaker 1: much better than the small apartment I shared with my roommate.
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  Speaker 1: Once I got everything inside and set up, I hopped
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  Speaker 1: on the couch and turned on the TV. It was
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  Speaker 1: a ten hour drive, so I was looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: chilling for the night and enjoying the silence. I fell
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  Speaker 1: asleep pretty quickly, but it was only around seven o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: so my body woke me up a few hours later.
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  Speaker 1: The time was just past ten and the TV was
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  Speaker 1: still on. I grabbed the remote and turned it off,
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  Speaker 1: then got up to get a glass of water before
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  Speaker 1: going to the bedroom. As I walked from the living
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  Speaker 1: room to the kitchen, I felt a strong cold breeze
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  Speaker 1: brush against me. With my tired eyes, I looked to
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  Speaker 1: my right and saw the front door was fully open.
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  Speaker 1: My eyes shot open and my heart pounded. I stared
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  Speaker 1: at the door for a moment, then looked around the room.
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  Speaker 1: I knew I had closed it and locked it, so
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  Speaker 1: this was really freaking me out. I walked over to
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  Speaker 1: the door and closed it softly, listening intently for any
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  Speaker 1: sounds of someone being inside. For reference. I'm not the
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  Speaker 1: biggest guy in the world, but I am fairly tall
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  Speaker 1: and in shape, so unless an intruder had a gun,
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  Speaker 1: I felt confident I could force them away. I grabbed
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  Speaker 1: a kitchen knife, still being quiet, and walked room to room,
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  Speaker 1: checking every inch of the house. Nobody was there. This
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  Speaker 1: only confused me more, and I sent a text to
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  Speaker 1: the homeowner asking if someone was supposed to come over
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  Speaker 1: tonight or something, explaining what happened. It was late, though,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't expect a response right away. I went
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  Speaker 1: around to every door, locking each one, then quickly checked
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  Speaker 1: the house again. While more awake than I was before,
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  Speaker 1: I was still really tired. I went to bed and
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  Speaker 1: fell asleep with no trouble. When I woke up, though,
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  Speaker 1: I was much less calm than I was before. I
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  Speaker 1: heard something from outside, not outside the house, but outside
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  Speaker 1: my bedroom door. I didn't know what to do and
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  Speaker 1: kind of just froze, waiting for whoever was outside the
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  Speaker 1: room to do something first. As I sat there in bed,
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  Speaker 1: I thought about how the person could have possibly gotten in.
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  Speaker 1: The only person who would have the password to the
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  Speaker 1: door was the homeowner, so honestly, in that moment, I
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  Speaker 1: was sure it was him. This gave me more courage,
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  Speaker 1: thinking it must be some creepy guy who likes the
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  Speaker 1: spy on the people who stay at his airbnb. I
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  Speaker 1: got out of bed, still not having heard anything else,
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  Speaker 1: and grabbed my phone from the nightstand to call the cops.
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  Speaker 1: I must have made too much noise, though, because almost
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  Speaker 1: right away someone started running away from the door and
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  Speaker 1: toward the front of the house. That only frightened me more,
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: knowing the intruder was standing right next to the bedroom
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  Speaker 1: door the entire time I dialed nine one one, But
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: during the time it took for the cops to arrive,
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  Speaker 1: nothing else happened. The person had left. I found a
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  Speaker 1: hotel to stay at for the rest of the vacation.
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  Speaker 1: But what's crazy is that the owner of the airbnb
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  Speaker 1: gave me a refund as he was able to prove
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't him. He was very concerned about it and
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  Speaker 1: he was actually a really nice old man. It was
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  Speaker 1: already creepy enough when I thought it was the owner,
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  Speaker 1: but knowing that it was just some random guy makes
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  Speaker 1: it even worse. I don't know how he was able
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  Speaker 1: to get in or why he was stalking me, but
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  Speaker 1: it still gives me chills thinking about it. The part
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  Speaker 1: I think about the most is waking up and seeing
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  Speaker 1: the front door open. Now that I know that someone
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  Speaker 1: was actually in the house, that meant that whoever it
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  Speaker 1: was came in and saw me asleep on the couch,
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: then proceeded to do whatever it was they came there
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  Speaker 1: to do. It's just really unnerving and creepy and makes
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  Speaker 1: me never want to be at an airbnb alone. I
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: was staying at a small, two bedroom Airbnb during a
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  Speaker 1: vacation I took last year. This place was on the
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  Speaker 1: way to another airbnb that I was going to stay
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  Speaker 1: at for the main portion of the vacation, but this
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  Speaker 1: was more of just a rest for the night. The
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  Speaker 1: place was clean and empty, just as expected. When I arrived,
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  Speaker 1: I walked around the whole house to check it out
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  Speaker 1: before bringing in my luggage and sitting on the couch.
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  Speaker 1: It was probably eight pm by this time of night.
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  Speaker 1: As I sat dozing off a little, the doorbell ringing
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  Speaker 1: made me jolt awake. I looked over at the front door,
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  Speaker 1: confused and alarmed. I was a pretty small young girl,
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  Speaker 1: so it's safe to say I'm often scared easily and
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  Speaker 1: don't like talking the strangers, especially at night when I'm alone.
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  Speaker 1: I got up and walked over to the door, hearing
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  Speaker 1: two men whispering to each other on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: The door didn't have a safety lock or anything, so
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  Speaker 1: I just kept the door shut and called out to them. Hello, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're here for the Airbnb. Can you open the door?
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: A man called out. I loudly asked what they meant,
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: not understanding what being here for the Airbnb be was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to mean. He responded saying that he had the
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  Speaker 1: place booked for the night. I knew there had to
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: be some sort of mistake, so I told him, still
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: yelling through the door, that I had it booked as well,
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  Speaker 1: and that he needed to contact the owner. The man
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  Speaker 1: didn't seem happy about that, although if I were in
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  Speaker 1: his position, I'd be pretty upset too. I heard one
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  Speaker 1: pair of footsteps walk away from the door while the
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  Speaker 1: other man asked again if I could open the door
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  Speaker 1: so that we could talk about it. I was about
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  Speaker 1: to give in, putting my hand on the doorknob, thinking
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  Speaker 1: that he seemed believable, but something came over me, telling
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  Speaker 1: me to just play it safe. I said my husband
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  Speaker 1: would be down to figure it out in a few minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want them to think I was alone, so
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  Speaker 1: I was hoping that I would catch him off guard
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  Speaker 1: if something was bad. The man didn't respond, though, I
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  Speaker 1: waited for another minute because I didn't hear any footsteps leaving,
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  Speaker 1: but then I moved the show curtained to the side
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  Speaker 1: and looked out the small window. The man I'd seemingly
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  Speaker 1: been talking to was facing towards his car parked in
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  Speaker 1: the driveway, and passed him. Was one of the most
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  Speaker 1: terrifying things I've ever seen. A group of maybe five
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: people was standing further down the driveway, kind of hiding,
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: as if waiting for a signal. They all had some
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  Speaker 1: form of face coverings, and I couldn't see the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the door, but I assumed there were even
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: more people over there. Knowing that this was very likely
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  Speaker 1: a gang. Due to the city I was staying in,
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: I was completely horrified. I backed away from the door,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: fully panicked and trying not to hyperventilate. I then went
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  Speaker 1: to the bedroom to get my phone and call the police,
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: and I could hear more footsteps all around the house.
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  Speaker 1: It was like I was surrounded by a pack of
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  Speaker 1: wolves who at any minute could crush the windows and
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  Speaker 1: break inside. I took my phone into the bathroom with
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: me and nine, trying to remain calm. The operator also
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  Speaker 1: told me to be quiet and stay calm, as they
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: were sending a group my way and would be there
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  Speaker 1: in just a few minutes. I stayed on the line,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: still hearing footsteps walking around outside the place, until the
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: horrible sound of wood bending and then snapping came from
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  Speaker 1: the front door. I was crying profusely, now trying to
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: muffle my mouth with my hand. I listened as a
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: whole group of people ran inside, opening doors and cabinets.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Before one approached the bathroom door and tried the handle. Here,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: he yelled, then walked away. The group continued looting the
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: house before sirens were heard in the distance and they
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: began to scatter out of the place. They had all
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: left by the time the police got inside, and all
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: of my luggage was gone, and my car had its
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: windows shattered and was looted as well. One of the
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: off sat with me to discuss some details, and he
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: informed me that they've been having problems with large groups
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: or gangs breaking into homes recently. They don't think the
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: main goal is to hurt the residents at all, but
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: rather to just rob them of everything, so that's likely
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: why they left me alone in the bathroom, knowing I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a threat. Whether their intentions were to harm me
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: or not, it was still terrifying. I know it likely
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  Speaker 1: had little to do with me staying at the airbnb
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  Speaker 1: that night, but it has still made me really anxious
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  Speaker 1: every single time I stay at an Airbnb now