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Craigslist Story ANIMATED - Mr. Nightmare · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: I was looking for a car to buy for my
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  Speaker 1: son for his 18th birthday. I was searching all the
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  Speaker 1: typical car websites, cars.com, eBay Motors. They were all overpriced
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  Speaker 1: as expected. Craigslist was the only place to find an
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  Speaker 1: actual deal. About a week into my search, I found
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  Speaker 1: an 03 Toyota Camry. It had 67,000 miles, no accidents,
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  Speaker 1: no damage, and good condition for only $ 3, 500. 00. This seemed
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  Speaker 1: like a steal for such a reliable car with such
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  Speaker 1: low mileage. The seller lived about 10 miles from me,
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  Speaker 1: which was a reasonable drive when looking for a car.
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  Speaker 1: I gave him a call to set up a time
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  Speaker 1: to come check it out. The man sounded normal on
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  Speaker 1: the phone. He assured me that there were absolutely no
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  Speaker 1: problems with the car. He introduced himself as Bob. I
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  Speaker 1: brought along $ 3, 500 in cash, even though I planned on
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  Speaker 1: wiggling down the price as much as possible. I pulled
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  Speaker 1: up the dirt road to Bob's property about 15 minutes early.
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  Speaker 1: It was a tiny little house with a decent-sized property,
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  Speaker 1: only because it was a bit far from the nearest neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: The garage was open, so I walked over to see
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  Speaker 1: if anybody was inside, but except for an unusual amount
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  Speaker 1: of car parts, it was empty. The car was nowhere
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  Speaker 1: in sight. The only car on the property was an
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  Speaker 1: old pickup truck. I went over to the front door
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  Speaker 1: to check the house numbers. It was the right address.
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  Speaker 1: The doorbell button was missing, so I knocked on the
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  Speaker 1: front door. I knocked for exactly five minutes before deciding
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  Speaker 1: to give the man a call. So I dialed his number,
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  Speaker 1: and I heard the sound of a cell phone ringing
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  Speaker 1: from inside the house. I was extremely confused at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Now I knew I had the right house. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: understand why, if he was home, why he wasn't answering.
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  Speaker 1: I decided I had to take a peek through one
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  Speaker 1: of the windows to see if anybody was inside. Peering
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  Speaker 1: through the glass, I couldn't really see much as it
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  Speaker 1: was pretty dark inside the house. I saw a very
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  Speaker 1: old-fashioned dining room set, but across from that, I saw
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  Speaker 1: somebody standing at the back door of the house, staring outside.
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  Speaker 1: I figured that must have been Bob, so I knocked
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  Speaker 1: on the window, but he didn't even move. There was
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  Speaker 1: no gate or anything to the backyard. It was just
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  Speaker 1: a wide open yard since this wasn't a rural area.
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  Speaker 1: I simply walked around the house to the backyard. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't understand how he couldn't hear me. When I got
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  Speaker 1: to the back door, I made a shocking realization. The
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  Speaker 1: figure standing by the door was a taxidermied human being.
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  Speaker 1: I ran straight back the way I came and back
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  Speaker 1: to my car. I looked up one last time before
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  Speaker 1: driving off. The blinds to the window I had peeked
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  Speaker 1: into had been shut, but I could see two of
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  Speaker 1: the blinds bent open. Somebody was at that window watching me.
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  Speaker 1: You can probably guess I had the gas pedal to
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  Speaker 1: the floor the whole way home. The whole situation still
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  Speaker 1: makes no sense. All the car parts, the fact that
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  Speaker 1: there was no Toyota Camry, the taxidermied human being, the
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  Speaker 1: fact that there was no car there leads me to
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  Speaker 1: believe that whoever that man was wasn't planning on selling
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  Speaker 1: me anything. And that also leads to the disturbing thought
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  Speaker 1: that I was very close to becoming a lifeless statue
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  Speaker 1: staring out that man's back door.