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3 Creepy True Neighbor Horror Stories · Paranormal Activity

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Speaker 1: I'm twenty six and live in a town home in
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Speaker 1: the far suburbs of a small city. I work closing shifts,
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Speaker 1: usually getting out at ten or eleven PM, and spend
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Speaker 1: most of my time at home staying up late and
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Speaker 1: gaming all night with my buddies. It was sort of
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Speaker 1: the same thing over and over every day, but a
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Speaker 1: couple months ago, I was having a pretty stressful week
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Speaker 1: at work and wasn't in the mood to really hang
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Speaker 1: out with my buddies that night or even hop online
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Speaker 1: with them. But I also couldn't sleep. I stayed up
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Speaker 1: until two am, being bored and watching YouTube before deciding
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Speaker 1: to take a break and go for a walk. I
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Speaker 1: didn't go for many walks, although every time I did,
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Speaker 1: I always found it to be calming and enjoyable, so
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Speaker 1: I don't know why I didn't go more often, especially
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Speaker 1: at night when nobody else was out. It felt like
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Speaker 1: I had the whole town to myself, which in this
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Speaker 1: context sounds a bit eerie, but I liked it, or
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Speaker 1: at least I used to. I grabbed a hoodie and
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Speaker 1: locked up my place, then started walking. I had no
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Speaker 1: plans of how long or far i'd go, but I
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Speaker 1: started out by going the way I typically went, which
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Speaker 1: left the townhomes area and went into the neighborhood with
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Speaker 1: regular houses. None of us living out here had a
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Speaker 1: great though, so all the houses were older and not
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Speaker 1: so special and mostly crowded together. Still better than walking
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Speaker 1: around the town homes, though as I walked it felt
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Speaker 1: like the whole town was asleep. Every house was dark
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Speaker 1: and quiet, and there weren't any sounds at all. For
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Speaker 1: the first little while, I found it very peaceful, just
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Speaker 1: what I needed to de stress. But as I continued
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Speaker 1: walking down the street, I realized I hadn't ever turned,
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Speaker 1: like I'd just been walking straight the whole time, which
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Speaker 1: brought me even further to the outskirts in the street
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Speaker 1: very abruptly turned into a thinner road, leading to much
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Speaker 1: more spread out houses in a very wooded area. Since
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Speaker 1: none of their houses had lights on except for the
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Speaker 1: occasional porch light, I couldn't even really see them as
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Speaker 1: they were so well hidden in the trees past the
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Speaker 1: dim lights above the road. It was a much different
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Speaker 1: vibe than where I was just walking, but I was
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Speaker 1: interested enough to keep going. I got maybe half a
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Speaker 1: mile in when suddenly I heard a scream It was
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Speaker 1: a male voice, and it wasn't a scream like they
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Speaker 1: were calling for help. It sounded more like a scream
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Speaker 1: to get someone's attention. It was hard to say for sure, though,
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Speaker 1: and with no other noises, their voice echoed through the
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Speaker 1: whole forest, almost sounding like it was coming from all directions.
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Speaker 1: I stopped after hearing it and didn't see anything. After
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Speaker 1: thirty seconds of waiting, I continued walking. Didn't know what
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Speaker 1: that was, but I knew I'd never be able to
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Speaker 1: figure it out, so I just didn't bother even trying to.
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Speaker 1: Even aside from the scream I heard, the street I
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Speaker 1: was walking down gave me a slightly uneasy feeling. The
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Speaker 1: further I went down it, the street lights felt like
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Speaker 1: they got dimmer and further apart, and the houses that
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Speaker 1: I could see looked a lot older and more deteriorated.
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Speaker 1: They looked neglected and honestly not even lived in. Even
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Speaker 1: the road was getting more disheveled, like no one ever
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Speaker 1: used it anymore. I knew this side of town wasn't
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Speaker 1: in the best shape financially. I mean, even I was
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Speaker 1: broke like everyone else, but I didn't know this section existed.
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Speaker 1: The more I looked at all of it, the more
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Speaker 1: I started to think it really was a fully abandoned neighborhood,
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Speaker 1: which made me really uncomfortable walking around there in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the night. And then I heard that scream again.
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Speaker 1: It was almost the same as the last one, but
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Speaker 1: it sounded closer, and I was almost sure it was
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Speaker 1: from behind me. I stopped and turned around. The street
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Speaker 1: lights barely lighting up the road I just came from,
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Speaker 1: and the lack of any other sounds made me really unsettled.
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Speaker 1: Every little movement in the dark would make me think
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Speaker 1: it was someone out there. I knew in the moment
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Speaker 1: I was getting paranoid and I should just leave. I
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Speaker 1: didn't know how far the road continued, or where it
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Speaker 1: led to, or if it even looped back to my neighborhood,
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Speaker 1: so I knew it would be best just to go
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Speaker 1: back the way I came from. The only problem was
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Speaker 1: whatever the screaming was that I ca kept hearing still,
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Speaker 1: I turned back. My eyes stayed locked on the road
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Speaker 1: as I walked quickly, trying to get out of the
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Speaker 1: wooded area as fast as possible. I made it a
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Speaker 1: couple minutes down before I suddenly heard the scream again,
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Speaker 1: but it was behind me, just where I came from.
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Speaker 1: Whoever it was, I must have walked past them, which
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Speaker 1: means they must have been hiding in the woods. When
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Speaker 1: I turned and looked, I saw a man on the road.
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Speaker 1: He was wearing all black or dark clothes and was
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Speaker 1: walking toward me. I only looked for a second before
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Speaker 1: turning and continuing to hurry down the road. Something about
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Speaker 1: all this wasn't adding up, and if I just stood
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Speaker 1: there and looked at him for too long, I had
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Speaker 1: a feeling something really bad could end up happening. I
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Speaker 1: turned a look several times after that, and despite seeing
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Speaker 1: him walking toward bored me. Before every other time I looked,
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Speaker 1: he wasn't there. Begged the question of where the hell
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Speaker 1: did he go? Maybe he saw me and turned around himself,
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Speaker 1: not wanting to look like he was following me. I
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Speaker 1: thought it makes sense, considering the sort of creepy area
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Speaker 1: we were in. Whatever was going on, I didn't care
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Speaker 1: to stay and find out. I moved quickly, finally making
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Speaker 1: it out of that strange area and back to where
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Speaker 1: all the homes were. It wasn't all that comforting, though,
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Speaker 1: still feeling the eerie sense of being alone, or maybe
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Speaker 1: it was the feeling that I wasn't alone. I eventually
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Speaker 1: made it back to my townhouse. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: that walk was the stress reliever I was hoping for,
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Speaker 1: but I was just glad to be away from that
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Speaker 1: creepy area and whoever was screaming out there. I went
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Speaker 1: to the kitchen and got some water and a snack,
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Speaker 1: then sat at the table minute to catch my breath,
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Speaker 1: and that's when I heard a shuffling sound outside the
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Speaker 1: front door, and then a sudden, heavy knock. I instantly
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Speaker 1: got up from the table and as quietly as possible,
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Speaker 1: walked up to the front door. I first put my
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Speaker 1: ear against it to listen, then I looked out. I
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Speaker 1: didn't have my porch light on, so it was basically
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Speaker 1: pitch black, and all I could see was a dark
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Speaker 1: figure standing there. After a few seconds, I thought I
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Speaker 1: could make out that they were for sure wearing dark clothing,
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Speaker 1: and so I was nearly positive it was the same
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Speaker 1: guy I saw for a moment during my walk. He'd
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Speaker 1: followed me home. I got my phone out and backed
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Speaker 1: away as I called nine one one, trying not to
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Speaker 1: speak too loud. Honestly, I wanted the guy to stay
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Speaker 1: out there long enough for the cops to make it,
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Speaker 1: and that way, hopefully i'd get some answers, because now
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Speaker 1: I was really starting to question the screams that I'd
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Speaker 1: been hearing out in the woods. The man outside the
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Speaker 1: door knocked five or six times while I was on
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Speaker 1: the phone before it went quiet, and eventually I went
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Speaker 1: back to the door and looked, and he was gone.
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Speaker 1: When the officers showed up, they asked questions and stuff,
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Speaker 1: but nothing came of it. I mentioned the screams, and
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Speaker 1: although they thought it was strange, they didn't dig any
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Speaker 1: deeper into it. I don't think I slept at all
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Speaker 1: that night, and while that was mostly the end of
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Speaker 1: everything eventful, over the course of the next month, I
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Speaker 1: kept waking up to knocks at the front door, loud,
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Speaker 1: disturbing knocks, but by the time I could get down
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Speaker 1: there and look, nobody was ever there. It's been a
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Speaker 1: while since his last visit, but I still feel a
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Speaker 1: bit paranoid. I don't know what was going on in
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Speaker 1: that wooded area, who was screaming, or what the man wanted.
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Speaker 1: All I can say is I know in my gut
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Speaker 1: that I was close to being part of something really
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Speaker 1: awful that night. A couple years ago, I was working
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Speaker 1: as a lift driver uber as well, but in my
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Speaker 1: town lift was more popular, so that's what I stuck with. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: Because of the freedom of the job, I never managed
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Speaker 1: to get myself to follow a schedule. At the time,
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Speaker 1: I was in my mid twenties and sometimes stayed up
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Speaker 1: late hanging out with friends or doing whatever, so it
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Speaker 1: would cause me to stay up late on the days
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Speaker 1: i'd choose to work and do long shifts overnight. This
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Speaker 1: night started just the same as any other. I started
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Speaker 1: around eleven ish and did a couple of drop offs
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Speaker 1: before getting another pickup to do. Now, working these late shifts,
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Speaker 1: I couldn't be picky at all with who or what
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Speaker 1: requests I accept. I was usually one of the only
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Speaker 1: drivers working that late, and there were also usually barely
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Speaker 1: any people needing rides. If I were to miss out
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Speaker 1: or not accept a single ride, it would cost me,
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Speaker 1: so I was kind of on autopilot. Every time a
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Speaker 1: request would come through, I'd instantly accept it and start
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Speaker 1: heading there, and only then would I look a bit
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Speaker 1: more into it, like how far they were or where
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Speaker 1: I was dropping them off at. It never made any
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Speaker 1: difference because ninety nine percent of the time it was
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Speaker 1: just to pick up someone from a party, a bar,
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Speaker 1: or an office after working past the train hours. So
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Speaker 1: when this request West came in, I did the same
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Speaker 1: as always, accepting it and heading on routes to their
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Speaker 1: pickup location. It wasn't until I'd say about ten minutes
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Speaker 1: into the drive that I realized it was taking me
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Speaker 1: in a different direction than usual, not toward the main
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Speaker 1: town square with all the stores and offices and whatever.
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Speaker 1: So I checked where exactly I was going, and the
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Speaker 1: location was a little unusual. Of course, I was driving,
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Speaker 1: so I couldn't look too into it, but from a
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Speaker 1: few quick glances at the map, it didn't really look
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Speaker 1: like anything was out there. I thought it was definitely strange,
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Speaker 1: but I wasn't going to cancel or anything. I arrived
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Speaker 1: there fifteen minutes later, I think it was about one
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Speaker 1: or two am by this point in my shift, and
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Speaker 1: the place was just what it looked like on the map,
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Speaker 1: just a very isolated location with literally nothing no houses,
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Speaker 1: side roads, trails or paths. I was thinking maybe the
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Speaker 1: guy's car had broken down or something, but even then
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Speaker 1: I didn't see anything or anyone I pulled off the
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Speaker 1: side of the road and notified the customer, then waited
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Speaker 1: a while. I never got a response or saw anyone outside,
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Speaker 1: and with a bad feeling starting to build up in me,
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Speaker 1: I decided to cancel it and drive away. Definitely sucked
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Speaker 1: wasting my time like that, but it is what it is,
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Speaker 1: just part of the job sometimes. I began driving back
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Speaker 1: toward the center of town because I knew that's where
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Speaker 1: i'd most likely get more pickups from, But just five
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Speaker 1: minutes after starting to drive back, I got another order.
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Speaker 1: It was from almost the exact same place I was
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Speaker 1: just at, but maybe a mile further down the road.
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Speaker 1: Despite this seeming really suspicious, it actually wasn't at all
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Speaker 1: to me. This happened every once in a while where
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Speaker 1: the location was just off or there was a mistake,
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Speaker 1: and so after I decline it, the customer would reorder
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Speaker 1: it right away, and usually the location would fix itself
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Speaker 1: and everything would go smoothly the second time around. I
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Speaker 1: didn't know why the customer didn't just reply to my messages,
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Speaker 1: but whatever, I accepted it actually glad this whole drive
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Speaker 1: wasn't going to be a waste of time now, and
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Speaker 1: turned around to go back. I passed the previous spot
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Speaker 1: and went a mile further again. The whole road was
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Speaker 1: empty and had nothing but sparse forested land on either side. However,
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Speaker 1: this time, when I got to the new location, there
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Speaker 1: was a man standing there on the side of the road.
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Speaker 1: He wore regular jeans and a gray hoodie and had
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Speaker 1: a backpack or duffel bag slung on his shoulders. As
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Speaker 1: I parked in front of him, I looked behind him
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Speaker 1: and saw nothing that he could have come from, no
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Speaker 1: houses or anything. I wasn't sure how he could have
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Speaker 1: gotten here or what he was doing out here. He
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Speaker 1: opened the door and got in. The drop off spot
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Speaker 1: he had marked on the map was only five minutes
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Speaker 1: down the road. I hoped it was at somewhere that
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Speaker 1: made more sense, but from the look of things, he
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Speaker 1: was in just as barren a place as I picked
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Speaker 1: him up from. As I drove, the man stayed quiet
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Speaker 1: in the back seat, but he was looking at me
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Speaker 1: a lot. Every time I'd glance in the mirror, his
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Speaker 1: eyes were already on me. I felt an unsettling tension,
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Speaker 1: and with how odd the situation already was beforehand, I
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Speaker 1: started to overthink everything, like why were we out here,
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Speaker 1: where he came from, and what he had in the
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Speaker 1: duffel bag, all things I normally wouldn't care about or
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Speaker 1: even bother to think about. A few minutes later I
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Speaker 1: got to the drop off spot that was marked on
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Speaker 1: the map. It was nearly identical to the place I
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Speaker 1: picked him up at. Nothing was around there at all.
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Speaker 1: The silence after pulling up both of outside and my
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Speaker 1: passenger had just started to give me a really horrible sense,
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Speaker 1: and before I could say anything, the man told me
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Speaker 1: to get out of the car. I looked back at
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Speaker 1: him in fear to confirm what he just said, finding
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Speaker 1: he already had a gun pointed right at me and
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Speaker 1: an uncanny dead look in his eyes as he pointed
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Speaker 1: at the door and repeated himself. I had no choice.
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Speaker 1: I got out and he followed, going up behind me
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Speaker 1: and telling me to walk. He stayed several feet back,
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Speaker 1: far enough to keep me from trying anything, and he
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Speaker 1: led me off the road and into the forest. I
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Speaker 1: tried to say whatever I could. I mean, I was
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Speaker 1: truly terrified and fearing for my life. The man stayed quiet,
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Speaker 1: though not responding or showing any bit of remorse for
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Speaker 1: what he was doing. We walked deeper and deeper in
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Speaker 1: it started to get more dense with trees and a
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Speaker 1: lot darker. Time didn't feel like it moved at a
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Speaker 1: regular pace during this whole thing, But I think we
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Speaker 1: walked for ten full minutes, just going straight into the
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Speaker 1: depths of this forest. But he suddenly said to stop.
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Speaker 1: I stopped in place and could feel my time coming
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Speaker 1: to a close. I was moments away from never being
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Speaker 1: seen again, and my adrenaline flooded my body and just
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Speaker 1: decided to take a chance and bolt deeper into the trees.
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Speaker 1: He yelled stop again, but I just kept running. I
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Speaker 1: used the darkness to my advantage, knowing that because he
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Speaker 1: dragged me so deep into the woods, once I was
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Speaker 1: farther away, he'd have trouble seeing me. I knew he
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Speaker 1: was chasing, though, because his voice followed behind me, not
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Speaker 1: fading out. And then suddenly there was a gunshot. It
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Speaker 1: rang through the whole forest, and the silence following it
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Speaker 1: was deafening. That was it. He wasn't chasing me anymore.
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Speaker 1: I think he must have fired it out of rage
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Speaker 1: or just to scare me, knowing I'd already escaped. From
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Speaker 1: that point forward, I just walked in whatever direction. My phone,
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Speaker 1: of course, was still in the car, so I was
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Speaker 1: on my own. After a while, I found a small
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Speaker 1: road with a few houses on it and was able
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Speaker 1: to get some guy to answer and help me. My
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Speaker 1: car and everything in it was gone by the time
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Speaker 1: officers were searching the area. Although I don't think this
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Speaker 1: was just a simple robbery, In fact, I'm not even
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Speaker 1: sure that's what he initially planned to do. Unfortunately, though,
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Speaker 1: they never found any traces to lead them to him.
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Speaker 1: Even the account he used on the app ended up
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Speaker 1: a dead end. I worked as a driver for another
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Speaker 1: few months, but during that time I got a couple
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Speaker 1: more pick up requests near that spot that all this
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Speaker 1: went down at, and every time I called the police,
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Speaker 1: only for them to show up and find nobody there.
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Speaker 1: Eventually I realized I was so schitzo and paranoid about
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Speaker 1: it that I just found a different gig. It was
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Speaker 1: a rainy weekend here where I live, and I was
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Speaker 1: inside all day. I kind of liked it when it rained,
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Speaker 1: made me feel better about staying in and not being
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Speaker 1: as productive on my days off, the rain being the
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Speaker 1: excuse for not going out and getting any errands done.
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Speaker 1: I think this was on a Sunday. I was very
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Speaker 1: tired for some reason, maybe didn't sleep super well last night,
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Speaker 1: but regardless, it meant I stayed on the couch all day,
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Speaker 1: and when it came time for dinner, I wasn't really
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Speaker 1: in the mood to cook a meal for myself. I decided,
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Speaker 1: after being cooped up all day, to head out for
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Speaker 1: a drive and pick up something quick from a drive through.
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Speaker 1: It was around ten pm and the rain was pretty harsh.
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Speaker 1: Not many people were out in the roads. I was
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Speaker 1: out for twenty minutes, just getting food to go and
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Speaker 1: driving right back home. As I drove back up to
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Speaker 1: my house, though, I noticed it really stood out. With
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Speaker 1: all the fog and rain, and with every other house
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Speaker 1: on the street having their lights off, it made this
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Speaker 1: single light shining from my upst stairs bedroom window in
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Speaker 1: my house really stand out. I thought it was odd
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Speaker 1: because I always turned off all the lights before leaving.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I hadn't even been upstairs all day, But
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Speaker 1: because I was tired and more focused on pulling in
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Speaker 1: and being careful with the rain, I didn't look at
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Speaker 1: it too much. I sort of glazed over it, not
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Speaker 1: realizing truly how strange it was until I was already
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Speaker 1: in the driveway and had no view of it anymore.
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Speaker 1: I headed inside and turned on the downstairs lights, then
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Speaker 1: dropped my food off in the living room and felt
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Speaker 1: sluggish as I made my way upstairs to turn off
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Speaker 1: the lights. I went up the steps to the upper hallway,
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Speaker 1: and immediately my eyes opened up a bit wider and
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Speaker 1: I sort of woke up. Not only was the bedroom
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Speaker 1: light not on, but none of the upstairs lights were on.
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Speaker 1: All the doors were open, so I could clearly see
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Speaker 1: everything was off. After pausing for second, I walked into
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Speaker 1: the room and looked around. I don't even know what
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Speaker 1: I was looking for. I was kind of just lost,
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Speaker 1: questioning everything. I walked up to the window and looked
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Speaker 1: out at the rainy weather and the dark neighborhood. Maybe
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Speaker 1: my head lights had reflected onto the glass somehow, making
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Speaker 1: it look like there was a light on. I was
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Speaker 1: really regretting and punching myself for not having given it
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Speaker 1: a better look as I was pulling in. Even just
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Speaker 1: a moment of a more direct look at the window
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Speaker 1: would have made me way more confident in what I
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Speaker 1: actually saw. But now I had no clue. I didn't
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Speaker 1: know how it could be possible that the light was
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Speaker 1: actually on, And then in the thirty seconds it took
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Speaker 1: for me to park and head upstairs, it turned off
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Speaker 1: on its own. It had to be a reflection or something.
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Speaker 1: I rubbed my eyes and just tried to get myself
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Speaker 1: out of this tired headspace. I went back downstairs and
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Speaker 1: sat on the couch with my food, opening it up
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Speaker 1: and eating while watching my show. I have to say, though,
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Speaker 1: I must have completely let it go over my head,
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Speaker 1: because after just five minutes I wasn't even thinking about
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Speaker 1: it anymore. Thought it was just a weird occurrence and
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Speaker 1: moved past it pretty quickly. I ate and kind of
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Speaker 1: passed out while watching TV. I kept waking up, though,
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Speaker 1: like I doze off for a couple minutes then wake up,
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Speaker 1: And oddly, every time I woke up, it was with
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Speaker 1: a really unsettling feeling, the kind where it felt like
22:34
Speaker 1: eyes were on me, like someone was watching me. Kept
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Speaker 1: having to look around the room and over my shoulders.
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Speaker 1: After a few times, it got so bad that I
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Speaker 1: got up and turned on the lights in the room.
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Speaker 1: As before it was fairly dark with just the TV
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Speaker 1: lighting up the room. However, this didn't help all that much,
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Speaker 1: because the next time I woke up and got that
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Speaker 1: feeling and look over my shoulders, my eyes were drawn
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Speaker 1: toward the corner of the room. It was the part
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Speaker 1: that led to the hallway where the stairs were, and
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Speaker 1: none of the light from the living room bled into
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Speaker 1: that area of the house, so it stuck out as
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Speaker 1: this dark, shadowy corner. It was really creepy and had
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Speaker 1: me still feeling like someone was watching me. So I
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Speaker 1: got up again and turned on the hallway lights, and
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Speaker 1: while I was up, I just decided to get ready
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Speaker 1: for bad. I turned the TV off and cleaned up
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Speaker 1: the food, then started to head upstairs, and I swear
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Speaker 1: the moment I got to the bottom of the stairwell,
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Speaker 1: a light turned off. I didn't even realize it was
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Speaker 1: on until it suddenly got darker, but it was unmistakably
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Speaker 1: a light from the upstairs room. I felt that sinking
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Speaker 1: got feeling, but for some reason I continued walking up.
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Speaker 1: My mind was racing about how this was possible, and
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Speaker 1: honestly just not believing it. I got to the top
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Speaker 1: and peered into the now dark room. The eerie sounds
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Speaker 1: of rain ticking against the roof and the moonlight beaming
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Speaker 1: into the window made it incredibly uncomfortable, and that feeling
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Speaker 1: still lingered that someone was still watching me. I felt
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Speaker 1: a chill as I took a couple steps in and
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Speaker 1: shakily called out hello. I took a few more steps
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Speaker 1: and then flicked the light back on. I looked back,
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Speaker 1: seeing the light falling into the hallway at the top
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Speaker 1: of the stairs, and knowing this was exactly what I saw.
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Speaker 1: There was no mistaking it this time. Just as the
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Speaker 1: whole thing came together in my head, something moved in
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Speaker 1: the corner of my view. It was the bedroom closet door.
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Speaker 1: It cracked open so slightly and through the gap, and
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Speaker 1: I was looking back at me. We made eye contact
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Speaker 1: for a split second before they knew they'd been caught,
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Speaker 1: and shoved the door open and stepped out. The guy
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Speaker 1: didn't attack me or run at me, though he was
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Speaker 1: walking up to me trying to explain himself and keep
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Speaker 1: me from running. His smile was disturbing and creepy, and
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Speaker 1: he looked deranged and unkempt, but the way he approached
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Speaker 1: was almost like he knew me somehow. Before he got
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Speaker 1: too close, I ran back downstairs and straight out of
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Speaker 1: the house. Thankfully, I still had my phone on me,
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Speaker 1: so I called the police right away. However, as I
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Speaker 1: was standing out in the rain waiting for them to
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Speaker 1: get there, I saw the man run out of the
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Speaker 1: front door and disappear down the road. When police made it,
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Speaker 1: they did a short investigation and found the back door broken.
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Speaker 1: The handle and the lock looked completely bashed and shattered.
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Speaker 1: But I just never noticed it because I never used
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Speaker 1: the back door, and when I saw him in the room,
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Speaker 1: he didn't look dripping wet, so he had definitely been
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Speaker 1: inside my house all night while I was downstairs. I
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Speaker 1: couldn't find anything missing, So why he broke in or
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Speaker 1: what he was doing hiding in my room, I just
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Speaker 1: don't know. The light also really throws me off because
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Speaker 1: there had to be a reason he kept turning it on.
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Speaker 1: Haven't felt safe since then, knowing he's still out there
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Speaker 1: and is capable of randomly breaking into my home and hiding.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully nothing does, but if anything else happens, I'll update you.