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Your locks and alarms can't save you from this · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: We all like to believe that when we are home,
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  Speaker 1: behind our shut and locked doors and shut and locked windows,
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  Speaker 1: tucked away inside of our bedroom under our covers that
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  Speaker 1: were safe, that our family members and their bedrooms, they're
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  Speaker 1: all safe.
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  Speaker 2: But in reality that's not true.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the time it is, and most of the
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  Speaker 1: time that illusion of safety is enough that you don't
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  Speaker 1: think about it very often that someone actually could probably.
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  Speaker 2: Break into your house if they wanted to. Not all houses.
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  Speaker 1: Some people are much more prepared than others, but most
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  Speaker 1: people never have to worry about that actually becoming a reality,
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  Speaker 1: someone breaking into their home. But there are people that
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  Speaker 1: do live that nightmare when the place they look at
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  Speaker 1: as safe becomes unsafe. Today's story is about someone who
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  Speaker 1: believed they lived in a safe house in a safe neighborhood,
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  Speaker 1: but in a moment's notice, that illusion was shattered. Before
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  Speaker 1: we get into today story. If you are a fan
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  Speaker 1: into today's story. In twenty seventeen, a woman had just
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  Speaker 1: moved in to a beautiful home in northern California that
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  Speaker 1: was just outside the suburbs. It was in kind of
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  Speaker 1: a more rural area. You know, there wasn't any street lights.
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  Speaker 1: She did have neighbors, but they were pretty far away
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  Speaker 1: from where she was actually staying.
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  Speaker 2: But she loved it, and it was this beautiful area.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: She'd go outside at night on our porge and she'd
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  Speaker 1: look up and because there wasn't much light pollution, you know,
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  Speaker 1: she could see the stars.
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  Speaker 2: And she just loved it.
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  Speaker 1: And even though she didn't see her neighbors very often,
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  Speaker 1: she knew them. They were older, they were really nice.
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  Speaker 1: It was just like a really warm, welcoming neighborhood. Albeit
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  Speaker 1: people enjoyed their space, but it was it was safe,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a place that she truly loved and
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  Speaker 1: didn't expect to move anytime soon. Later that year, in
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  Speaker 1: the winter, she got home from work one day. She'd
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  Speaker 1: had a long shift. She was exhausted, and she pulls
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  Speaker 1: into her driveway and when she steps out, she immediately
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  Speaker 1: smelled cigarette smoke. She didn't smoke. She didn't think her
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  Speaker 1: neighbors smoked. It was not a high trafficked area. I
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  Speaker 1: mean they're in kind of this rural part of northern California,
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  Speaker 1: and her street the only people that really ever went
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  Speaker 1: on it were her and her neighbors, and so she
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  Speaker 1: was thinking, like, who was smoking near my house? But
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  Speaker 1: it was really really foggy this day. She could barely see,
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  Speaker 1: you know, even when she was pulling into her driveway,
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  Speaker 1: she could only see what her headlights had illuminated on
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  Speaker 1: her house. I mean, it was like no visibility. She
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  Speaker 1: kind of glanced around, but she was like, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so tired. I just want to go and go
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  Speaker 1: to bed. So she just kind of forgets about the
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  Speaker 1: cigarette smoke, wasn't really that concerned about it, and goes
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  Speaker 1: in her house and even though it's like seven o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: she's like, I'm just going to go to bed. So
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  Speaker 1: she heads upstairs, takes a shower, and gets in bed.
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  Speaker 1: A couple hours later, she wakes up because she thinks
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  Speaker 1: she hears something.
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  Speaker 2: On her first floor.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, she had a close friend that was
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  Speaker 1: taking classes in the city but working outside of the
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  Speaker 1: city and sometimes didn't have enough time to get back
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  Speaker 1: to his house to shower and clean up before work,
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  Speaker 1: and so she'd actually given him a set of her
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  Speaker 1: keys so that at odd hours when he was going
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  Speaker 1: between classes and work, he could just come to her house,
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  Speaker 1: take a shower, get changed. It was just a lot
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  Speaker 1: easier for him, and they were close enough it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a big deal, but he always texted her before he
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  Speaker 1: came to her house as a courtesy.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I'm going to be there taking a shower, you know,
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  Speaker 2: using your house just for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: And they rarely actually ran into each other because his
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  Speaker 1: hours were so strange. So when she wakes up and
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  Speaker 1: here's commotion downstairs, the first thing she does is check
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  Speaker 1: her phone for a text message, because she's assuming that
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  Speaker 1: it's her friend who's just you know, stopped by to
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  Speaker 1: use the shower or change or whatever he's gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: So she reaches over to her bedside table, grabs her phone,
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  Speaker 1: and she opens it and it blinded her because she's
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  Speaker 1: just woken up, and she kind of squinted at her
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  Speaker 1: phone and she couldn't really tell if there was any
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  Speaker 1: unread messages from him or not. But she just put
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  Speaker 1: her phone down and decided she would yell out just
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  Speaker 1: a lot faster than trying to read this text message.
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  Speaker 1: So she yells out to him, and there's silence downstairs,
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  Speaker 1: and she yells out again, hey, is that you? And
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  Speaker 1: there's silence, and then all of a sudden, she hears
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  Speaker 1: very loud footsteps running across the first floor charging.
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  Speaker 2: Up the stairs.
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  Speaker 1: She instinctively leaps out of bed, runs into her closet,
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  Speaker 1: which is right across from her bed, and as soon
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  Speaker 1: as she's literally stepping into the closet, she can hear
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  Speaker 1: whoever was downstairs now is in the hallway upstairs. And
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  Speaker 1: so the layout upstairs is there's a bedroom, left, a
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  Speaker 1: bedroom on the right of the hallway, and straight ahead
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  Speaker 1: at the end there's a bathroom. And the two bedroom
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  Speaker 1: doors were shut, the bathroom door was open. This person
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  Speaker 1: bombed up the stairs and ran right past the bedroom doors,
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  Speaker 1: one of them she was.
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  Speaker 2: In, straight to the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: It allowed her an opportunity to pop open the attic
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  Speaker 1: crawl space that the access was inside of her closet.
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  Speaker 1: She pops that open and is able to clamber up
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  Speaker 1: into the attic and is literally her feet are still
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  Speaker 1: being sucked up into the attic as whoever that was,
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  Speaker 1: they realized she's not in the bathroom and they started
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  Speaker 1: charging back down. They punch open the door that she's
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  Speaker 1: in and they charge into her bedroom. She's trying to
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  Speaker 1: suck her legs up into the attic crawl space. She
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  Speaker 1: gets them up just in time, and as her knees
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  Speaker 1: sucked up against her chest when he comes into her bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: flips on the light and opens the closet. From her
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  Speaker 1: vantage point, she's looking down and just because of the
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  Speaker 1: way the view was obscured, she could only make out
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  Speaker 1: that it was someone wearing like kind of tattered jeans
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  Speaker 1: with the cups rolled.
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  Speaker 2: Up and dirty work boots.
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  Speaker 1: This was definitely not her friend, And as she's looking
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  Speaker 1: at his shoes and pants, wondering if he's gonna poke
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  Speaker 1: his head in and look up and see this crawl
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  Speaker 1: space where she is, and she has nothing she can
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  Speaker 1: do if he decided to reach up and get her,
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  Speaker 1: there's nowhere for her to go. She didn't have her phone,
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  Speaker 1: it was on the bedside table, and she's just hoping
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  Speaker 1: that he doesn't see her. Luckily, he turns around and
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  Speaker 1: starts rummaging through everything in her bedroom basically looking for her.
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  Speaker 1: Flips the bed over, knocks over the dresser, and then
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  Speaker 1: he screams this loud scream of frustration, and as he's screaming,
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  Speaker 1: she pushes.
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  Speaker 2: The little crawl space cover over the spot.
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  Speaker 1: So now she's completely tucked away inside of the crawl
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  Speaker 1: space and she can't see anything. And for the next
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  Speaker 1: several hours, this person was literally screaming and running around
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  Speaker 1: the house, punching walls, screaming where are you, running down
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  Speaker 1: the hall, reopening the bathroom, going into the other bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: clearly knocking things over, just going crazy looking for this girl.
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  Speaker 1: And then it slowed down and she heard him walking
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  Speaker 1: around the house and he would say periodically, far you,
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  Speaker 1: And she started smelling cigarette smoke. He was smoking inside
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  Speaker 1: of her house, and then she realized that he was
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  Speaker 1: probably at her house when she first got in. That's
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  Speaker 1: why she smelled the cigarette smoke. For hours, she huddled
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  Speaker 1: inside of this attic crawl space that realistically is a
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  Speaker 1: little bit obscured inside of the closet. You would need
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  Speaker 1: to be looking for it to see it. And she
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  Speaker 1: just hoped that he didn't find her, and so she
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  Speaker 1: started counting. She figured, if I can just count to
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  Speaker 1: a thousand with silence downstairs, if I can do that,
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  Speaker 1: that means he's probably gone.
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  Speaker 2: And so she would.
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  Speaker 1: Start counting and she'd get to like two hundred, and
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  Speaker 1: then she'd hear him whispering or yelling or knocking something over,
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  Speaker 1: and she'd go back down to zero. And so all
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  Speaker 1: night she basically would try to count to a thousand
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  Speaker 1: until finally she did without it being interrupted. And it's
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  Speaker 1: probably like five or six in the morning, so it's
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  Speaker 1: been hours and hours of this guy looking for her
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  Speaker 1: in her house. And she believed that it was safe
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  Speaker 1: enough for her to open up the attic crawl space
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  Speaker 1: and kind of peek back into the room. And so
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  Speaker 1: she moves the attic crawl space, the little square piece
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  Speaker 1: of wood that blocks the crawl space, she lifts it
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  Speaker 1: up and moves it. And she can now see that
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  Speaker 1: just from her little vantage point to where his feet
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  Speaker 1: were that she could see before that clearly things have
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  Speaker 1: been broken. There's glass on the ground, she can see
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  Speaker 1: there's clothes on the ground, and she wriggles down.
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  Speaker 2: There's no sign of him.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a while since she heard him, and she
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  Speaker 1: darts across her now destroyed bedroom. Her beds and flip
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  Speaker 1: things have been broken, there's holes in the wall. She
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  Speaker 1: gets her phone and goes right back in the crawl space.
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  Speaker 1: She calls the police and is like whispering, and she's
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  Speaker 1: talking to them because now she's worried that maybe he
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  Speaker 1: heard her and.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna come back. She really doesn't know if he's gone.
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  Speaker 1: She just knew she had to call the police otherwise
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  Speaker 1: she was dead if he was still there. She gets
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  Speaker 1: the police in the phone. They say, we'll be right there.
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  Speaker 1: Stay where you are. The police show up and she
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  Speaker 1: can hear them entering the house. They're yelling police for
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  Speaker 1: coming inside. They search the whole house and they start
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  Speaker 1: yelling for her. They start yelling for her by name,
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  Speaker 1: and at this point she feels come opening up the
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  Speaker 1: crawl space and coming down to show herself. Sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: there's the police and they're like, nobody here. Do you
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  Speaker 1: want to walk around the house and see if anything
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  Speaker 1: was taken? Every room was completely trashed, holes in the wall.
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  Speaker 2: Things broken.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever this was was looking for her everywhere in the
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  Speaker 1: house and was basically rummaging through everything to try to
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  Speaker 1: find her. And the police are like, you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: very lucky that you thought to jump into that crawl space,
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  Speaker 1: because we found a number of your knives from your
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  Speaker 1: butcher block had been taken out. They were scattered around
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  Speaker 1: the house, and it seems like he might have grabbed
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  Speaker 1: a knife and then infrustration, was maybe looking for you
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  Speaker 1: and slashing at different things. Then he'd throw a knife
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  Speaker 1: and get another one. It's pretty clear this person was
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  Speaker 1: trying to do you harm, and you're very lucky that
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  Speaker 1: you had the wherewithal to immediately when you heard those
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  Speaker 1: running footsteps charge into the closet and hide in the attic.
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  Speaker 2: That almost definitely saved your life.
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  Speaker 1: Although she would stay at this house for another three
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  Speaker 1: years after the incident, it ultimately proved to be too
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  Speaker 1: different occult to stay in that house. She was constantly
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  Speaker 1: afraid that it was going to happen again. It was
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  Speaker 1: very traumatic, and so she ultimately moved. So it just
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  Speaker 1: goes to show that while we believe we are safe
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  Speaker 1: when we are home, the reality is is all those
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  Speaker 1: locks and cameras and all the stuff we install around
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  Speaker 1: our house to keep ourselves safe. That's really just to
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  Speaker 1: keep the honest people out. The monsters out there, the
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  Speaker 1: evil people that want to do us harm. They don't
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  Speaker 1: care about breaking windows and forcing their way in. So
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  Speaker 1: you should always have a plan of what you would
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  Speaker 1: do if someone broke into your home, how you would
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  Speaker 1: handle it, whether it is an escape plan or even
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  Speaker 1: concealed weapons, but you should do something to protect yourself
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  Speaker 1: and have a plan in case the worst case scenario
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  Speaker 1: happens to you.
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