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7 HALLOWEEN NIGHT HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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  Speaker 1: This happened around four years ago when I was in
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  Speaker 1: eighth grade. It was Halloween 2017, and I was going
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  Speaker 1: with my two best friends. For the sake of this story,
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  Speaker 1: we'll call them J and A. For some context, we
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  Speaker 1: all live on the same street. J's house is first,
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  Speaker 1: then mine, and then A's. We were in eighth grade,
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  Speaker 1: so our parents always let us go by ourselves. We
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  Speaker 1: left around six. and we had planned to stay out
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  Speaker 1: until 9.30, but that didn't happen. Now, for the first
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  Speaker 1: 90 minutes, things were going fine. We got to one
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  Speaker 1: road that was kind of far away from the rest.
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  Speaker 1: It was fine until we got about halfway down the street.
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  Speaker 1: We got to this one house that wasn't really decorated
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  Speaker 1: like the rest. There was only one pumpkin on the
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  Speaker 1: front porch. We rang the doorbell. And this dirty looking
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  Speaker 1: man answered the door. He just seemed really creepy to me.
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  Speaker 1: I could tell that my friends were getting creeped out too.
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  Speaker 1: He just kept asking us if we wanted to go inside.
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  Speaker 1: And at one point, he even tried to grab A's hair.
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  Speaker 1: She pulled away and we left. We decided to just
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  Speaker 1: go home as our bags were already pretty full. About
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  Speaker 1: halfway to our street, I then heard footsteps behind us.
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  Speaker 1: I just thought it was some other kids trick-or-treating, so
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  Speaker 1: I kept walking. But when they didn't stop following us,
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  Speaker 1: I turned around, and in my absolute horror, I saw
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  Speaker 1: that creepy man from that house following us. I then
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  Speaker 1: screamed for my friends to run. We all ran into
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  Speaker 1: Jay's house, since his house was the closest. His mom
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  Speaker 1: had asked us what was going on. We told her
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  Speaker 1: what was going on, and she called the police. While
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  Speaker 1: she was on the phone with the police, I looked
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  Speaker 1: out the window, and what I saw next almost made
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  Speaker 1: me cry myself. I saw the same man walking down
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  Speaker 1: the street. I told Jay's mom. After I told her,
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  Speaker 1: we heard the police show up. To my knowledge, all
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  Speaker 1: that really happened was he received some kind of warning
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  Speaker 1: from the police. I don't really know of anything else,
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  Speaker 1: but we haven't had any more trouble with him since.
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully it stays that way. This happened last year
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  Speaker 1: on Halloween. I was 18 at the time, and my
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  Speaker 1: best friend Andrew was 17. We both thought at the
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  Speaker 1: time that we were too old for trick-or-treating, but we
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  Speaker 1: also thought handing out candy was lame. I then came
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  Speaker 1: up with an idea. There was this old abandoned house
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  Speaker 1: that was close to mine. I wanted to go look
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  Speaker 1: around inside the house because I thought it would be
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  Speaker 1: a good idea for Halloween. However, Andrew didn't think it
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  Speaker 1: was a good idea. But being an idiot, I told
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  Speaker 1: him to stop being a baby. We then waited until
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  Speaker 1: it was trick-or-treating time before heading to the house. We
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  Speaker 1: were carrying flashlights with us so we could see. When
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  Speaker 1: we headed out of my house into the abandoned house,
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  Speaker 1: I noticed all the kids trick-or-treating and I felt like gagging. Somehow,
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  Speaker 1: one part of me always really hated Halloween, and I
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  Speaker 1: never understood why. I really didn't know why. Maybe it
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  Speaker 1: was just because I thought Halloween sucked, but this abandoned
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  Speaker 1: house thing was really making me excited. But anyways, eventually
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  Speaker 1: we both got to the old house, and I smiled,
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  Speaker 1: looking up at it. Of course, since it was abandoned,
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  Speaker 1: it was a huge mess, and a few of the
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  Speaker 1: windows had boards over them. Andrew then mentioned that we
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  Speaker 1: should just go home because he didn't want to spend
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  Speaker 1: the night in jail. I told him to stop being
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  Speaker 1: a baby. And then, without another word, I headed up
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  Speaker 1: to the front door. I then reached for the doorknob.
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  Speaker 1: I was half expecting the door to be locked, because
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  Speaker 1: that is what most people did. But the door actually opened,
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  Speaker 1: and then me and Andrew just looked at each other.
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  Speaker 2: I was worried.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew told me we couldn't back down. so we walked
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  Speaker 1: into the house. I followed behind him, and then we
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  Speaker 1: were standing in the front hall, and then I noticed
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  Speaker 1: the house had two floors. We turned on our flashlights,
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  Speaker 1: and they were very bright, so their light actually covered
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  Speaker 1: most of the area up. Andrew told me he was
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  Speaker 1: going to look upstairs, and he told me to stay downstairs,
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  Speaker 1: and without another word, he headed up the stairs. I
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  Speaker 1: sighed deeply before heading off and I then walked into
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  Speaker 1: an empty room. All of the furniture was gone. There
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  Speaker 1: wasn't anything in the room, and for some reason, I
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  Speaker 1: was hoping to see something creepy, or at least a
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  Speaker 1: bug or bat. Suddenly, I thought I heard a loud
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  Speaker 1: noise behind me. I then turned around and noticed something,
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  Speaker 1: but I couldn't see anything because I wasn't using my flashlight.
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  Speaker 1: After realizing that, I used my flashlight and aimed it
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  Speaker 1: at the noise, but whatever made the noise was gone.
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  Speaker 1: I walked out of the room, into the hallway, wondering
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  Speaker 1: what my eyes had seen, or if I just imagined it.
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  Speaker 1: I started mumbling about how stupid this was, and I
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  Speaker 1: decided it was time to go find Andrew and leave.
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  Speaker 1: But I noticed the room in front of me, and
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  Speaker 1: I then realized it was probably the kitchen, and decided
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  Speaker 1: to go check it out. I headed off and then
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  Speaker 1: poked my head into the room, moving my flashlight around.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really see anything but the normal kitchen stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I then walked into the kitchen, wondering if there was
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  Speaker 1: anything else in there and not just dust and cobwebs.
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  Speaker 1: Just then, I stepped on something that almost caused my
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  Speaker 1: foot to shoot out from under me, but I moved
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  Speaker 1: back and looked down using my flashlight and I noticed
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  Speaker 1: it was a big kitchen knife I wanted to bend
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  Speaker 1: down and pick it up, but I then realized I
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  Speaker 1: probably shouldn't do that, so I didn't touch it. I
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  Speaker 1: then wondered why a knife was inside an abandoned house,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't question it, and so I headed out
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  Speaker 1: of the room and back to the hallway. I was
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  Speaker 1: just about to go explore more of the rooms, when
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  Speaker 1: I then heard a loud scream, and I realized it
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  Speaker 1: was Andrew. I ran upstairs, and I heard Andrew yelling
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  Speaker 1: at something. sounding terrified. When I got to where the
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  Speaker 1: screaming was, which was a dark empty bedroom, I used
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  Speaker 1: my flashlight and I then noticed Andrew. I then noticed
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  Speaker 1: Andrew was sitting in the back corner of the room
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  Speaker 1: and I then noticed that there was also someone else
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  Speaker 1: in the room. For some reason, the other person didn't
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  Speaker 1: seem to notice me and I saw Andrew holding his
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  Speaker 1: flashlight like a teddy bear. I actually cleared my throat
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  Speaker 1: And the person turned around, and I noticed they were
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  Speaker 1: taller than both me and Andrew. I couldn't really tell
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  Speaker 1: if it was a male or female, because they had
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  Speaker 1: some kind of creepy Halloween mask on. But they weren't
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  Speaker 1: holding a weapon for some reason. Hey, leave my friend alone!
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  Speaker 1: I then shouted at the person, which was probably a
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  Speaker 1: bad idea, because the person actually laughed, and I felt
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  Speaker 1: anger bubbling up inside of me. I knew what I
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  Speaker 1: was about to do was a stupid idea, but it
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  Speaker 1: was the only thing I could think of. So I
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  Speaker 1: then threw my flashlight as hard as I could at
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  Speaker 1: the person. The flashlight hit the person in the face,
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  Speaker 1: which made them shout in pain, giving Andrew enough time
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  Speaker 1: to get away from them. We both ran downstairs and
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  Speaker 1: I could hear the person yelling at us, but we
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  Speaker 1: didn't look back as we just ran out of the
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  Speaker 1: house and down the street before stopping. We then stopped
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  Speaker 1: on the sidewalk. I bent over, breathing heavily, and I
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  Speaker 1: groaned under my breath. Then Andrew pulled out his cell phone,
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  Speaker 1: saying he was going to call the police about what happened.
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  Speaker 1: A few minutes later, I had saw Andrew looking annoyed.
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  Speaker 1: He told me that the police thought it was a
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  Speaker 1: joke because it was Halloween. I was annoyed because we
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  Speaker 1: both knew it wasn't a trick, but I decided to
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  Speaker 1: check up on it. We then headed back to my house.
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  Speaker 1: where I then grabbed a laptop I had and started
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  Speaker 1: working on it. Well, about five minutes later, I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: find anything. I just sighed softly before shutting the laptop
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  Speaker 1: and groaning under my breath. After that, we both kind
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  Speaker 1: of just looked at each other. I realized that the
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  Speaker 1: person must have been using the house because it was
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  Speaker 1: empty and there was no one else living in it.
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  Speaker 1: And even if the person was a thief or killer,
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  Speaker 1: they were probably using that house as a hideout. After that,
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  Speaker 1: me and Andrew decided we weren't going to do anything
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  Speaker 1: crazy anymore for Halloween. And then moving forward, we're just
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  Speaker 1: going to help my parents hand out candy. And that's
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  Speaker 1: probably for the best. This happened when I was in
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  Speaker 1: elementary school. We had a physical education teacher in first grade.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone thought he was cool because we used to play
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  Speaker 1: games with him. And I think everyone can agree that
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  Speaker 1: as a kid, you really liked that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: The thing was, he was giving certain girls these really
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  Speaker 1: gross looks. I'm a woman myself. and now that I
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  Speaker 1: think about it it's anything but comfortable everything was normal
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  Speaker 1: or my classmates and I thought the school year was
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  Speaker 1: coming to an end and the teacher informed us that
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  Speaker 1: we would get a new physical education teacher because our
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  Speaker 1: old one would no longer be teaching Everyone in my
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  Speaker 1: class was sad. I forgot about this teacher for the
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  Speaker 1: past few years, until an old schoolmate told me why
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  Speaker 1: the teacher was fired. When I found out why he
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  Speaker 1: was fired, chills ran down my spine. As it so happens,
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  Speaker 1: the teacher got fired for doing bad things to kids.
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  Speaker 1: He always had a camera with him, which I found
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  Speaker 1: really strange at the age of six, but I didn't
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  Speaker 1: really think much about it then. He would photograph girls
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  Speaker 1: doing sports exercises. But if you think that's the whole story,
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  Speaker 1: then you're wrong. So anyways, here's the part that you
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  Speaker 1: all came for. A few years passed, and my friends
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  Speaker 1: and I had a Halloween party. We went everywhere to
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  Speaker 1: go trick-or-treating. Well, we rang the bell at a house,
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  Speaker 1: and then my old PE teacher answered the door. He
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  Speaker 1: gave us a really disgusting look, and then said, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my children, how you have grown so much. You girls
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  Speaker 1: have turned out so beautiful. And he had looked at
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  Speaker 1: our breasts. I was disgusted, and I think it showed
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  Speaker 1: on my face. He then looked at me and asked
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  Speaker 1: me in a kind of baby voice, Why are you
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  Speaker 1: looking like that? Haven't you missed me? And then he laughed.
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  Speaker 1: No one else even laughed. and he just stood there
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  Speaker 1: leaning against the door and looked at us for what
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  Speaker 1: felt like five minutes. Then one of my friends said, Um,
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  Speaker 1: are you going to give us some candy or not?
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  Speaker 1: He then turned and handed us some Snickers.
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  Speaker 2: We left his.
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  Speaker 1: Property and walked on. After a few more feet, I
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  Speaker 1: turned around and I saw him walking behind us. I
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  Speaker 1: then said to my friends, Um, could it be that
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  Speaker 1: he's following us? They all turned and we started walking faster.
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  Speaker 1: We went to some more houses and got some more treats.
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  Speaker 1: I had a strange feeling in my stomach though, but
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think anything of it. I turned to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that no one was behind us. There he was.
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  Speaker 1: He had walked behind us at a great distance. I
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  Speaker 1: turned back to my friends and then said for fun,
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  Speaker 1: does he want our sweets or something? Why is he
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  Speaker 1: chasing us? My best friend turns around after a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes and then yells, Guys run! He's following us and
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  Speaker 1: it looks like he has a knife in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: We ran as fast as we could and hid behind
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  Speaker 1: the bushes. We then saw him run past us with
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  Speaker 1: the knife. I really got goosebumps. After what seemed like forever,
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  Speaker 1: we dared to get out of the bushes and then
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  Speaker 1: ran to my best friend's house. We didn't say a
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  Speaker 1: word about what just happened. To this day, we haven't
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  Speaker 1: talked about it. That evening, we all drove home, afraid
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  Speaker 1: that he was still outside looking for us. I'm really
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  Speaker 1: glad that I got out of this situation safely and
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  Speaker 1: that I wasn't murdered. This happened in Brisbane, Australia, and
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  Speaker 1: I was 15 at the time. It was Halloween night.
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  Speaker 1: and me and my siblings were getting ready to go trick-or-treating.
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  Speaker 1: The night started off pretty good, and we got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of candy. I wasn't expecting to get a lot
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  Speaker 1: of candy, as the town we were in wasn't really
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  Speaker 1: the safest. There was a lot of teenage crime happening
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  Speaker 1: at the time. Anyway, we get to this one street,
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  Speaker 1: and straight away it just looked suspicious as hell. I
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  Speaker 1: was on alert, but being the only guy, I had
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  Speaker 1: to be sure that if anything happened, I would protect
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  Speaker 1: my siblings at all costs. Back around that time, I
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  Speaker 1: was doing a lot of Muay Thai and had been
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  Speaker 1: in many fights at that point, so I wasn't too
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  Speaker 1: scared about anyone trying to come after us. Anyways, we
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  Speaker 1: get to this one house and it had trash all
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  Speaker 1: over the driveway as well as junk all over the lawn.
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  Speaker 1: My sibling knocked on the door And then this old,
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  Speaker 1: out of shape, trashy looking guy answered the door. He
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  Speaker 1: just stared at my sibling before then asking.
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  Speaker 2: How much candy did you get tonight? That's a very
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  Speaker 2: pretty costume.
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  Speaker 1: After this small talk, he went on to say that
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  Speaker 1: the candy's inside. And if we wanted candy, we'd have
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  Speaker 1: to walk inside his house to retrieve it. I kind
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  Speaker 1: of just looked at him like, uh, what? Thinking it's
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  Speaker 1: a joke. But then he says it again, that we
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  Speaker 1: have to come inside for it. I looked at my sister,
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  Speaker 1: and she's frozen with fear, and so are the other kids.
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  Speaker 1: That's when I yelled a run, and we all just
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  Speaker 1: run down the street, getting the hell away from that
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  Speaker 1: creepy-ass old man and whatever he had planned. Thankfully, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't come after us. When I knew we were safe
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  Speaker 1: and had enough distance between us and the man, I
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  Speaker 1: then called my dad and I told him what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Thankfully he was just around the corner. Apparently a few
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  Speaker 1: people had heard our screams and had actually witnessed the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing when we had ran away from the creepy
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  Speaker 1: old man's doorstep. And not wanting to risk it, they
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  Speaker 1: had called the cops for us. My dad and stepmom
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  Speaker 1: went to their house and started yelling at the creep
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  Speaker 1: and his 30 year old son. The cops did show
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  Speaker 1: up and we gave them all the information and we
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  Speaker 1: told them what he said to us. As you can imagine,
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  Speaker 1: Since legally the man didn't actually do anything to us,
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  Speaker 1: just tried to persuade us into his home, really not
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  Speaker 1: much could be done. The cops just gave him a warning,
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  Speaker 1: and they told him not to try something like that again,
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  Speaker 1: or else there would be real consequences the next time.
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  Speaker 1: They also warned kids to stay away from his house
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  Speaker 1: on Halloween for the future. So yeah, that's my Halloween story.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a night shift police officer in a small southern town.
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  Speaker 1: On Halloween night 2021, I experienced fear in a way
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  Speaker 1: that I never even thought possible. I patrol the south
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  Speaker 1: side of town, which is especially rural with little population.
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  Speaker 1: A river flows and acts as a boundary in between towns.
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  Speaker 1: Near the river is a rather dark stretch of highway.
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  Speaker 1: It only has two destinations. a dual-building senior center, and
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  Speaker 1: an old abandoned car wash. The car wash in question,
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  Speaker 1: called Looper's, is locally famous. It has a rich and
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  Speaker 1: terrifying history that begins in the early 2000s. The original
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  Speaker 1: owner died in a tragic fire. His widowed wife, Susan,
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  Speaker 1: then took over. According to the myth, Susan intentionally set
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  Speaker 1: the fire, killing him to collect the life insurance. After
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  Speaker 1: Susan took over, she birthed their child. The stress of
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  Speaker 1: running a business and raising an infant was way too much,
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  Speaker 1: so she set fire to the car wash. A true pyro,
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  Speaker 1: I'd say, but she wasn't so lucky the second time.
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  Speaker 1: She was charged with arson and insurance fraud. Well, she
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  Speaker 1: apparently killed herself before going before a judge, and it
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  Speaker 1: was never known what happened to the baby. Teenagers visit
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  Speaker 1: the car wash year-round. It's tradition to talk to Susan
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  Speaker 1: through a Ouija board. They often call 911, adamant that
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  Speaker 1: they saw Susan. They claim to hear babies crying, children playing,
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  Speaker 1: and women screaming, etc. You know, the usual paranormal cliches.
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  Speaker 1: I never believed any of it. I'd never witnessed anything paranormal,
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  Speaker 1: and without proof, refused to play along. It's safe to
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  Speaker 1: say that I'm a believer now. It was around 3 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: on Halloween night.
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  Speaker 2: All of the.
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  Speaker 1: Trick-or-treaters were sound asleep and the city was quiet. I
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  Speaker 1: received a call for suspicious circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: The location?
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  Speaker 1: You guessed it. The creepy old car wash that was
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  Speaker 1: undoubtedly being visited by obnoxious teenagers. The caller had stated
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  Speaker 1: that there was apparently a baby crying in the area.
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  Speaker 1: The caller was asked to stay on scene until I arrived,
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  Speaker 1: but refused. They didn't want their parents to uncover their
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  Speaker 1: curfew-violating shenanigans. I arrived to the pitch-black area. The dim
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  Speaker 1: light from the senior center across the street just barely
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  Speaker 1: lit the lot. The senior center was nearly as dead
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  Speaker 1: as the people inside. I slowly walked the area, half
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  Speaker 1: expecting to find a teenager separated from their group. I
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  Speaker 1: discovered a portion of the car wash that appeared to
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  Speaker 1: be a former supply closet. It was covered in graffiti,
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  Speaker 1: as was most of the building. I opened the door
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  Speaker 1: and found nothing but bricks and trash. It was a
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  Speaker 1: small room with scribbles on the walls. I didn't find
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  Speaker 1: any hooligans, scary ghosts, or crying kids, so I decided
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  Speaker 1: to leave. But just as I walked away, I heard
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  Speaker 1: that sound that stole whatever innocence was left in my
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  Speaker 1: 25-year-old body.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: It was the faint sound of a baby. At first,
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  Speaker 1: it was so vague that I just figured it was
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  Speaker 1: an animal of sorts. But as I listened closer, mixed
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  Speaker 1: with my booming heartbeat, was unquestionably the cries of a baby.
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  Speaker 1: I stepped towards the same room I exited, and sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: the sound was inside. I was frightened, but even more baffled.
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  Speaker 1: I attempted to turn on my body camera, But of course,
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  Speaker 1: the battery had died. I knew whatever was happening was
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  Speaker 1: not explainable, so I rummaged through my phone and started
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  Speaker 1: a video. Confused and terrified, I walked closer to the door.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: The sound became louder. It was clear as day. I
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: attempted to open the door, but for some reason, it
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: was jammed. The attached video is the short sequence of events.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: the craziest part of this experience?
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: That's easy.
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  Speaker 1: I have no memory of turning around, stepping away, and
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: looking towards my patrol vehicle. Furthermore, I never even ended
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the video. I never even touched it. It was positioned
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: in my vest pocket below my radio, hands free. The
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  Speaker 1: video doesn't show me prying the steel door open. When
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I did, there was nothing inside, and the noise had stopped.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Adding to the strangeness, the room was significantly colder than before.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: It was a mid-50s night, but that room felt sub-30.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I left in a hurry, and I didn't tell a
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: single soul. I've watched the video twice, and that's it.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: And it still shocks me. Before this, my wife was
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the only other viewer of the video. She believes that
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I may have been a target of a cruel prank.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Maybe a group of teenagers set up speakers and just
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: hid them very, very well. I suspect that she only
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: says that to make me feel better, though. Sometimes when
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I'm sleeping, I wake up to the sound of crying,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: unsure whether it was a nightmare or reality. All I
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: know is I am never, ever going back to that
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: car wash.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: It was Halloween 2012, my senior year of high school.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: I went to a Catholic school, so we always had
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: the day off after Halloween because it was considered a
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: church holy day. So my friends were game to start
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: our weekend early. On nights where we didn't go to parties,
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: we usually do the same thing. We sit on our
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: front steps for a couple of hours and joke around.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Then we would walk the neighborhood and usually end up
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: at this shitty pizza place across town because the prices
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: were so cheap. Since a few of us had recently
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: broken up with our girlfriends, We weren't in much of
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: a party mood, so we did our usual. It's around 10, 10.30
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: at night, and the pizza joint is closing up for
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: the night. There were three of us, me, my friend Pat,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: and my friend Jack. We finish our food, refill our drinks,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: and head out. To get back to my house, we
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: had to cross this large mall parking lot that's about
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: four football fields long and two wide. I should mention
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: at this point that We aren't dumb, naive kids. We
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: all had grown up in the city and had our
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: fair share of urban experiences. All three of us were
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: pretty streetwise and were confident on the street by ourselves.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: But we experienced something this night that we were totally
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: unprepared for. So we're walking through this parking lot and
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: it's absolutely desolate. Not a soul in sight. Suddenly we
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: see a white tradesman van creeping slowly behind us about
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: 100 yards back. I know the old white van cliche,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: but I swear it's a real story. I pointed out
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: to my friends and we pick up our pace. We
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: pop the collars on our jackets and we hunch our
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: shoulders out to make us seem a lot bigger than
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: what we were. In an instant, the van speeds up
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: and cuts off our path. Everything in the van is
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: pitch black, so we can't see anyone in there. That's
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: when someone calls out in a non-threatening voice. Hey, man.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Happy Halloween. You guys like Halloween? Despite the jovial manner
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: in which this was said, a van doesn't cut you
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: off in a parking lot unless it had bad intentions.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: We had nowhere to go. We could run, but they're
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: in a van. They would catch up easily and we'd
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: have to turn our backs to them. He says it again.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Hey man, you guys like Halloween? I respond trying to
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: sound tough. Yeah, but it's over now, alright? So, we're
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: heading home and you're on our way. Nah, dude, it
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: ain't over. We still got tons of candy in here.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: The tone suddenly shifted and still we can't see anyone
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: in the van. Three of us puff our chest out
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: and get ready for a fight. After a brief silence
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: that felt like it dragged on for hours, Jack cuts
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: the tension by sternly saying, Hey, listen up, man. I
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: don't know what you think you're about to do, but
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: if you don't leave, it's going to be a problem.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Once he said that, the back door of the van
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: swung open and two very tall men stepped out. They
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: had black suits on with black leather gloves and were
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: well built and strong looking. But the most menacing thing
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: was that they were both wearing these cheap Mitt Romney masks.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: That's when we realized this wasn't a Halloween prank. At
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: that moment, all three of us went to take off.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: But the van started driving circles around us. We had
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: no idea how we were going to get out of
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: this situation. I have no idea what these guys were
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: planning to do with three 18 year old men. But
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: they seemed like they knew what they were doing. And
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: we were all getting ready for the fight of our lives.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: The van stopped. And it looked like they were about
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: to make the move. This was it. I mentioned that
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: there was three of us that night. It was at
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: this moment that our friend Pat The one who had
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: stayed silent up to this point leaned into the both
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: of us and quietly said, Hey, this is a Hail Mary,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: but get ready to run when I say go, alright?
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: He then picked up one of our sodas, which was
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: in the cup, and threw it with all his might
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: at the driver's side window. The window was open, and
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: the cup miraculously connected with the driver's head. Pat screamed run,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: and we took off across the parking lot. The van
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: swelled off in the other direction and we hurried our
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: asses home. Jack and I were both confused as to
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: why a simple cup of soda got them to give
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: up their plans. Then we found out what actually happened.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: While we were panicking, Pat kept his cool. He nonchalantly
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: dumped out the drink that was in his hand and
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: slipped a big ass rock into the cup. Then he
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: waited for the right moment. The driver thinking that this
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: kid just threw a drink at him. wound up getting
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: pegged in the head with a rock it probably knocked
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: him out cold or at least brought us enough time
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: to put some distance between us all that was left
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: after that was pulling off a miracle and getting the
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: rock to hit maybe a guardian angel or god himself
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: took care of that i'm still amazed by it but
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: moral of the story kids don't panic when you're in
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: a tight spot if you lose your cool you lose
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: your fight.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Our first Halloween in our new home was something that
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: my girlfriend and I had been looking forward to. We
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: had never lived in a suburb before, and therefore, didn't
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: usually get many trick-or-treaters. So we were excited to give
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: out candy and see all of the costumes while we
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: sat at home eating some candy ourselves and watching classic
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: horror films. The night went great, and we honestly had
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: more visitors to our door than we had initially expected.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: And by around 8 o'clock, we were out of candy.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: So we did what we were always taught growing up,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: and we turned out the porch light. This seemed to
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: get the message across that we were out of candy,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: because for a few hours after that, we hadn't received
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: any visitors. That is, not until we were getting ready
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: for bed. It was around 11.30, and we had just
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: finished watching Jeepers Creepers. And by that point, we were
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: pretty tired, so we had decided to turn in. The
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: two of us made our way down the hallway and
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: toward our bedroom. and just as I was about to
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: lay down, I heard a knock at the door. My
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: girlfriend looked at me, and I just told her that
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: they would probably go away if we didn't answer. That
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: was when we heard the sound of knocking again, only
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: this time, it seemed a bit louder. I decided that
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: I should check it out, and I began making my
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: way down the hall when I heard whoever was at
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: the door the third time, and this time I could
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: hear them yell out, TRICK OR TREAT, afterward. The strange
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: thing was their voice didn't sound like children. It almost
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: sounded like young adults at the door. So to be safe,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: instead of opening it, as I approached the door, I
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: simply yelled out, I'm sorry, we're all out of candy.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I hope you have a good night, and thought they
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: would just leave it. Boy, was I worried. wrong. Out
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: of nowhere, the knocking on the door turned into banging,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: and before I could even react, my girlfriend came running
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: down the hallway yelling at me that she had seen
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: someone trying to look into our bedroom window. I told
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: her right away to call the police. As the loud
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: banging on the door continued, I looked down at the
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: lock to make sure it was secure, and then I
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: began running toward the other door toward the back of
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: the house to make sure that it was locked as well.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I'm glad I did because as I got to the door,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: I could see the doorknob moving as if someone were
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: trying to open it. I yelled to whoever it was
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: outside my house that the police were on their way,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: in hopes that my girlfriend had gotten a hold of them. Suddenly,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: all of the banging and slamming stopped. and there was
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: silence outside of the house. I could hear the phone
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: call from the other room and was reassured that police
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: were in fact on their way. I walked toward the
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: front of the door and began listening for anything that
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: I could hear outside. When out of nowhere, I heard
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: the sound of glass shattering as a large stone was
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: thrown through our living room window. I ran right over
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: to the window and looked outside. and I was able
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: to see what looked like three grown men in various
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: masks running toward the end of my driveway. I yelled
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: out that the police are on their way, to which
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: I was surprised that one of the men replied, Don't worry,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: we'll see you soon. By the time the police arrived,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: all three of the men were gone, and they weren't
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: anywhere to be found around the neighborhood. Thankfully, they never
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: came through on their threat, and we never saw those
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: three people again.