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5 TRUE HALLOWEEN HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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Speaker 1: Halloween of 2005 will always have a special place in
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Speaker 1: my memory, but in this case, special doesn't altogether mean good.
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Speaker 1: Me and my circle of high school friends were all
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Speaker 1: high school sophomores, which meant that there was a lot
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Speaker 1: of transitioning going on in our lives and the way
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Speaker 1: we celebrated Halloween was changing too. We'd spent our childhoods
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Speaker 1: trick-or-treating and a lot of the time that was in
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Speaker 1: the company of a chaperone. Then from like 12 to 14,
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Speaker 1: we'd been allowed to go trick-or-treating on our own. But
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Speaker 1: now that we were like 15 going on 16, we
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Speaker 1: figured that we were too old to go begging for candy.
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Speaker 1: And unlike the year before, there was no Halloween parties,
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Speaker 1: at least none we'd been invited to in any way.
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Speaker 1: This meant that we were stuck for something to do
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Speaker 1: on what had become one of our favorite nights of
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Speaker 1: the year, and the way we saw it, we needed
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Speaker 1: to fix that, and fast. I know we could have
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Speaker 1: just met up at one of our parents' places for
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Speaker 1: pizza and horror movies, but trick-or-treating had conditioned us with
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Speaker 1: a need to be outside on Halloween. On such a special,
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Speaker 1: spooky night of the year, we needed to be out there,
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Speaker 1: in the dark, soaking up that feeling of excitement in
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Speaker 1: the air. The night before Halloween was a Sunday that year,
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Speaker 1: and I remember that very well, because I spent almost
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Speaker 1: all day glued to MSN Messenger, checking to see if
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Speaker 1: anyone had found anything fun for us to do. Then,
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Speaker 1: out of nowhere, our friend Brian came in with a clutch,
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Speaker 1: telling us that we could hang out with his older
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Speaker 1: cousin Cody and his friends over at some abandoned school
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Speaker 1: down by the river. Cody and company were a few
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Speaker 1: years older than us, and they went to a different
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Speaker 1: high school, but we'd hung out with them before. And
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Speaker 1: word was that they were getting a few twelve-packs of
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Speaker 1: Bud Light that they didn't mind sharing if we each
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Speaker 1: pitched in a few bucks. And it was music to
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Speaker 1: my ears. Who cared if we weren't invited to some
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Speaker 1: dumb costume party with other sophomores? We were going to
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Speaker 1: have a campfire, tunes, and most importantly, beer. Halloween itself
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Speaker 1: fell on a Monday, and the whole day at school
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Speaker 1: me and my friends were all super psyched for that night.
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Speaker 1: I get home, eat some food, and get some homework done,
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Speaker 1: then right as I'm getting ready to head out, my
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Speaker 1: mom pokes her head into my bedroom and drops a
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Speaker 1: bomb on me. She wanted me to walk my little
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Speaker 1: brother around the neighborhood so he could go trick-or-treating. It
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Speaker 1: meant that I'd be an hour late to our Halloween hangout,
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Speaker 1: at the very minimum, and I was not happy about that.
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Speaker 1: But since mom told me it was that or a
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Speaker 1: face being grounded, I just sucked it up and did
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Speaker 1: as I was asked. Maybe an hour and a half later,
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Speaker 1: I get my brother back home, then immediately rush out again,
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Speaker 1: calling my friends to make sure that they're at the
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Speaker 1: hangout spot. I find out that they are, so I
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Speaker 1: practically run the whole way, hoping there's still a few
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Speaker 1: cans of Bud Light with my name on them. When
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Speaker 1: I arrive at the hangout spot, I find it's this
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Speaker 1: abandoned kindergarten that's all fenced off and derelict. I can
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Speaker 1: hear the music playing already and I can smell the
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Speaker 1: campfire smoke too, but after finding the hole in the
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Speaker 1: fence and rocking up to the hangout, I don't see
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Speaker 1: any beer except for what's in people's hands. And that's
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Speaker 1: when the guys tell me that they've stashed the beers
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Speaker 1: in some abandoned house behind the back fence and that
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Speaker 1: since I was late, it was my turn to go
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Speaker 1: get everyone a fresh one. They said that their logic
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Speaker 1: was that if the cops showed up, they wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: able to take all the bud, just what people were drinking.
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Speaker 1: If we got busted, we could just bail and circle
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Speaker 1: back and grab the beers and carry on with our
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Speaker 1: night somewhere else. This made perfect sense to me at
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Speaker 1: the time, so I go off towards the fence where
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Speaker 1: there's yet another hole in the plastic chain link fence.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what the deal was with there being
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Speaker 1: two abandoned properties so close to each other, but the
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Speaker 1: back of the kindergarten basically led right onto the empty
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Speaker 1: home's backyard. It was all overgrown and stuff, so I
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Speaker 1: had to basically wade through all this long grass as
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Speaker 1: I walked towards the back door and these two big
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Speaker 1: panel windows. It was dark, but I'd been given a
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Speaker 1: flashlight and directions on where the beer was stashed, but
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Speaker 1: then as I'm walking towards the open back door, I
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Speaker 1: hear someone moving on the inside. Seconds later, under the
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Speaker 1: beam of my flashlight, I see a figure emerge in
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Speaker 1: the doorway. They were limping. trying to move as fast
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Speaker 1: as they could, and as soon as they came into view,
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Speaker 1: I recognized them as one of the older kids from
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Speaker 1: Cody's group. Immediately, I'm panicking because not only did they
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Speaker 1: appear to be hurt in some way, but they had
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Speaker 1: this look of absolute terror on their face when they
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Speaker 1: realized that I was there, and he cried out, Dude,
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Speaker 1: help me! I'm too freaked out to even ask what's
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Speaker 1: going on at first. But then right as I'm about
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Speaker 1: to do something, the guy screams as someone behind him
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Speaker 1: starts trying to drag him back into the house. I
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Speaker 1: knew that I had to help, but I also knew
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Speaker 1: that I couldn't do anything just on my own. I
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Speaker 1: had to go get the other guys. I bolted back
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Speaker 1: towards the rear of the yard, pushing myself through both
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Speaker 1: sets of fences, one wood and one plastic chain link,
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Speaker 1: until I'm back at the abandoned kindergarten. I run the
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Speaker 1: whole way there. hurtling around the corner of one of
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Speaker 1: the derelict buildings until I was back in the company
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Speaker 1: of my friends. Then right as I'm about to tell
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Speaker 1: them that we need to go get help, they just
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Speaker 1: crack up laughing. I'm talking wheezing, wailing, screeching, rolling on
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Speaker 1: the floor kind of laughing, and I realize that I'd
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Speaker 1: just been pranked hard. Everyone's all like, you should have
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Speaker 1: seen your face, doing dumb impressions the way I was running,
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Speaker 1: and to be fair, it was pretty funny. At least
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Speaker 1: for a moment or two. I remember just standing there,
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Speaker 1: taking it on the chin, nodding along as if to
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Speaker 1: be like, alright, you got me. Then after a while,
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Speaker 1: one of Cody's buddies calmed down enough to ask me
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Speaker 1: what Jay had done. Jay was the one I'd seen
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Speaker 1: in the doorway, the same guy who had begged for
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Speaker 1: help in such a convincing way that it was nothing
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Speaker 1: short of Oscar worthy. And when I told them all that,
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Speaker 1: they started cracking up again. Apparently they'd been planning to
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Speaker 1: prank me as soon as they found out that I
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Speaker 1: was going to be late and As soon as I'd
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Speaker 1: placed my little confirmation call on the way out, Jay
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Speaker 1: had gone off to hide in preparation for my arrival.
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Speaker 1: But then, I mentioned to the guys how the thing
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Speaker 1: that had made me run was how Jay had gotten
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Speaker 1: grabbed from behind, then dragged back into the house. I
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Speaker 1: assumed that they'd send someone else with him to make
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Speaker 1: the whole thing more convincing, but then when I mentioned
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Speaker 1: the grabbing thing, the laughter started to fade. I remember
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Speaker 1: Cody being all like, what? Who got grabbed? But I
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Speaker 1: took this as him playing dumb. A prank within a prank,
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Speaker 1: if you will. Prankception. I repeated what I said about
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Speaker 1: Cody being grabbed, and the laughter peters out completely. Cody
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Speaker 1: gives one of his buddies this worried look, then turns
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Speaker 1: back to me like, Please tell me you're kidding me.
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Speaker 1: I told him no, swearing that I'd seen someone grab
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Speaker 1: him and that the whole screaming for help thing seemed
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Speaker 1: a little too convincing. And then it hit me. Someone
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Speaker 1: attacking Jay had not been part of the prank. What
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Speaker 1: I'd witnessed wasn't some well executed way of frightening me.
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Speaker 1: It had actually been real. The thought must have hit
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Speaker 1: everyone else right at the same time but instead of
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Speaker 1: standing there all dumbstruck like me they just went hurtling
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Speaker 1: off in the direction of the abandoned house. I followed
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Speaker 1: feeling extremely guilty that I should have done something right
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Speaker 1: there and then instead of rushing back to get help.
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Speaker 2: We pushed our way through.
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Speaker 1: The fences as fast as we could and I can
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Speaker 1: hear the older kids yelling ahead of us.
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Speaker 3: Jay?
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Speaker 2: Jay, where are you, man?
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Speaker 1: Flashlight beams are zooming everywhere as they piled into the house,
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Speaker 1: checking every room until they found him. And when they did,
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Speaker 1: they found a total mess. Jay had been beaten up
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Speaker 1: so bad that I could hardly recognize him. I'd seen
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Speaker 1: his face maybe only a few minutes before, but in
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Speaker 1: that time, someone had seriously worked him over. There was
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Speaker 1: blood all over his mouth, and some of his clothes
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Speaker 1: were ripped, but the thing I really remember was how
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Speaker 1: he was awake, but he'd just been lying there because
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Speaker 1: he said that he couldn't move. Every time someone tried
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Speaker 1: to get him up, he'd clutch his chest and cry out.
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Speaker 1: There were a few seconds where we thought that he
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Speaker 1: might have been stabbed or shot or something, and we
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Speaker 1: had to make sure that the only blood was coming
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Speaker 1: from his mouth before we were able to breathe a
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Speaker 1: small sigh of relief. But still, it was only a
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Speaker 1: small one. If he was hurt so bad that he
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Speaker 1: couldn't get up, there was seriously something wrong with him.
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Speaker 1: Because we were on some old abandoned property, the firefighters
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Speaker 1: had to cut through chains that were holding the gates
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Speaker 1: shut in order to get Jay on the stretcher. And
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Speaker 1: because the 911 call had mentioned some kind of violent assault,
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Speaker 1: the cops showed up not long after the firefighters did. Thankfully,
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Speaker 1: they weren't interested in the fact that we'd clearly been
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Speaker 1: drinking and were much more concerned with how Jay had
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Speaker 1: ended up being taken to the hospital. Obviously, I had
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Speaker 1: the most to tell them but even then, it wasn't
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Speaker 1: much and we had to wait until Jay was out
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Speaker 1: of the hospital to really figure out what happened. Not
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Speaker 1: that we didn't visit him when he was there, he
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Speaker 1: just wasn't in any mood to talk about it. Whoever
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Speaker 1: had attacked Jay broke his ribs, broke the bone around
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Speaker 1: his eye and had kicked him so many times in
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Speaker 1: the stomach that he had internal bleeding. As you can imagine,
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Speaker 1: he was in the hospital for quite a while afterward
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Speaker 1: and in that time, the cops conducted a full investigation.
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Speaker 1: keeping his parents in the loop the whole time so
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Speaker 1: they knew what was happening. Long story short, the empty
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Speaker 1: house across from the derelict kindergarten was being used as
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Speaker 1: a stash house. The other guys said they checked the
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Speaker 1: place out earlier that evening but hadn't heard anyone moving
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Speaker 1: around upstairs so they just assumed the place was empty.
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Speaker 1: Little did they know, there was some guy upstairs, probably
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Speaker 1: some low level dealer or something and of course he's
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Speaker 1: paranoid and losing his mind because he can hear voices
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Speaker 1: coming from downstairs. Then, later on, Jay decided to explore
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Speaker 1: the house a little to work out the best place
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Speaker 1: to jump scare me, which is how he ended up
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Speaker 1: walking up the stairs. He said when he got to
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Speaker 1: the top, it was just like, wham. The guy came
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Speaker 1: out of nowhere and basically kicks him back down the stairs,
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Speaker 1: and that's about the same time I appeared in the
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Speaker 1: garden and turned on my flashlight. Jay gets up, limps
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Speaker 1: to the door, sees my flashlight, and the rest, you
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Speaker 1: already know. I think what happened that night amounts to
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Speaker 1: the single scariest thing that's ever happened to me as
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Speaker 1: a kid, or as a teenager, and to this day,
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Speaker 1: I've never seen anyone look as scared as Jay did.
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Speaker 1: When he looked into the beam of my flashlight, and
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Speaker 1: cried out to me, Help. I just wish I did something.
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Speaker 3: Years ago, when I was a kid, I used to
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Speaker 3: go trick-or-treating with my friend Michael every Halloween. Afterwards, we
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Speaker 3: would hang out and eat our candy that we got
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Speaker 3: while watching scary movies. On this one year, Michael and
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Speaker 3: I went trick-or-treating around my neighborhood, which was pretty big.
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Speaker 3: And afterwards, we got back to my house. Then we
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Speaker 3: put on a movie, and the plan was for Michael
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Speaker 3: to spend the night. Shortly after we got home, my mom,
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Speaker 3: who was the only other person home, said she was
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Speaker 3: going to bed. It was only 9 p.m., but she
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Speaker 3: had work early the next morning. We were watching a
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Speaker 3: scary movie in the living room after that. We got
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Speaker 3: probably about 30 minutes into it when I heard a
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Speaker 3: knock coming from the front door. It really startled me
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Speaker 3: because of the fact that we were watching a scary film. Then,
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Speaker 3: I remembered how it was Halloween, and I stopped being
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Speaker 3: scared because I figured it was just a trick-or-treater, so
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Speaker 3: I started to walk towards the door.
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Speaker 4: But as I got closer, I remembered.
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Speaker 3: How late it was, almost 10 p.m., and there weren't
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Speaker 3: really people trick-or-treating out this late. I decided to just
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Speaker 3: take a look out of the window first to see
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Speaker 3: who it was. I peeked out from behind the blinds
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Speaker 3: and saw a creepy-looking man standing at the front door.
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Speaker 3: He looked pretty tall and was skinny with a little beard.
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Speaker 3: He also had sunglasses on, but didn't appear to be
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Speaker 3: in any kind of costume. I had a bad feeling
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Speaker 3: about it, so I decided not to answer the door,
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Speaker 3: and Michael, who was still on the couch, asked me
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Speaker 3: who it was. I told him a creepy-looking dude was there,
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Speaker 3: and I wasn't answering. I watched as the man looked
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Speaker 3: around for a little while, and then finally walked away.
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Speaker 3: I was really happy to see him go, because as
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Speaker 3: a 12-year-old kid, I got scared pretty easy.
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Speaker 4: I went back and resumed the movie.
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Speaker 3: But I would say just about ten minutes later, we
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Speaker 3: heard a knock coming from the door once again. We
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Speaker 3: ignored it until they knocked again at a louder volume.
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Speaker 3: I wanted to call my mom, but I knew she
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Speaker 3: was sleeping and had to be up early for work,
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Speaker 3: so I didn't. Michael and I both walked quietly over
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Speaker 3: to the window this time and looked out. But as
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Speaker 3: soon as we pulled the blinds back, we saw the
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Speaker 3: man standing at our front step looking directly at us.
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Speaker 4: I made eye.
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Speaker 3: Contact with the man who had an angry look on
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Speaker 3: his face. We quickly covered the window back up and
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Speaker 3: ran away back to the living room. We were just
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Speaker 3: hoping that the man would decide to go away, but instead,
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Speaker 3: we heard the knocking once again, but not at the
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Speaker 3: door this time. Now it moved to the window where
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Speaker 3: we had been looking out of. We couldn't see him
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Speaker 3: from the blinds, but we knew that he was right
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Speaker 3: on the other side. I was starting to freak out,
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Speaker 3: but Michael said maybe it was just some guy trying
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Speaker 3: to scare people on Halloween.
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Speaker 4: I hoped that was the case.
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Speaker 3: And the knocking from the man moved from one window
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Speaker 3: to another. He seemed to be making his way around
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Speaker 3: the house to the back. Then we didn't hear anything
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Speaker 3: for a short time. All Michael and I could really
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Speaker 3: do was sit there and listen. Then suddenly, we heard
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Speaker 3: the loud sound of glass being broken. It sounded like
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Speaker 3: it was coming from the back of the house at
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Speaker 3: one of the basement windows. When we heard this, Michael
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Speaker 3: and I both went running upstairs to my mom's room
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Speaker 3: like five-year-olds. When we got upstairs, we woke her up
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Speaker 3: and told her someone had just broken into the house.
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Speaker 3: My mom got out her phone and called the police,
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Speaker 3: and also locked the door to her bedroom. Michael and
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Speaker 3: I hid under her bed while we heard her talking
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Speaker 3: on the phone to the police. Then we just had
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Speaker 3: to wait for the police to arrive. We heard the
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Speaker 3: man walking around downstairs, but he never came up the stairs. Eventually,
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Speaker 3: we stopped hearing him, and by the time the police
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Speaker 3: showed up, he was gone. This happened my freshman year
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Speaker 3: of college. I went to a pretty big university, and
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Speaker 3: over time, I met a decent amount of people and
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Speaker 3: had a few groups of friends that I would hang
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Speaker 3: out with. By the time Halloween rolled around my freshman year,
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Speaker 3: I had plans to go out with some of my friends.
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Speaker 3: I dressed up as a nerd, and we went out
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Speaker 3: to a few of the bars around campus. As it
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Speaker 3: got later, a few of my friends wanted to go
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Speaker 3: to one of the bars in town that was pretty strict.
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Speaker 3: Being 19 at the time, I figured I wouldn't get in.
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Speaker 3: I told them they should go ahead and I snapchatted
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Speaker 3: a few of my other friends asking what they were doing.
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Speaker 3: One of my friends named John told me about a
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Speaker 3: party he had been invited to. He said it was
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Speaker 3: supposed to be really big and asked if I wanted
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Speaker 3: to go with. To me this was perfect because I
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Speaker 3: wasn't tired yet and still wanted to hang out with people.
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Speaker 3: I told him I'd go and I walked to the
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Speaker 3: edge of campus and met up with him. We then
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Speaker 3: walked a few blocks to where the address was that
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Speaker 3: John told me. We saw what appeared to be the house.
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Speaker 3: We could just barely hear the music coming from inside
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Speaker 3: and saw a kid wearing a basketball jersey and sunglasses
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Speaker 3: sitting out front drinking a beer. We walked up and
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Speaker 3: John greeted the kid, who I guess knew him. He
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Speaker 3: introduced me and the kid said his.
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Speaker 4: Name was Jake.
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Speaker 3: Then we both walked inside the house and the first
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Speaker 3: thing we noticed was a little entryway filled with shoes.
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Speaker 3: We took off ours and then we went through another
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Speaker 3: doorway into a room where we saw a speaker blaring music,
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Speaker 3: but nobody was in the room. Immediately I got a
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Speaker 3: bad feeling, and as I started to walk forward to
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Speaker 3: the next room, I heard footsteps coming from behind us.
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Speaker 3: John and I turned around and saw two large men
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Speaker 3: enter the room with baseball bats. They had on ski
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Speaker 3: masks over their faces, so I couldn't tell anything about them,
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Speaker 3: but they appeared to be well over six feet tall.
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Speaker 3: One of the men shouted that they would hurt us
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Speaker 3: unless we did what they said, then they ordered us
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Speaker 3: to go into the next room that appeared to be
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Speaker 3: at the back end of the house. I was terrified
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Speaker 3: and John looked stunned and pretty scared as well. The
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Speaker 3: next room appeared to be the kitchen. There was a
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Speaker 3: little table with a chair there, and it also had
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Speaker 3: a stove and a sink, then the back door to
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Speaker 3: the house. There was also a wooden door cracked open
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Speaker 3: that led to the basement, which is where the two
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Speaker 3: men told us to go. They stood about six feet
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Speaker 3: behind us with their bats in their right hand and
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Speaker 3: their left hands pointing. As we were walking towards the door,
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Speaker 3: John nudged me, and just as I looked at him,
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Speaker 3: He suddenly darted for the back kitchen door, which I
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Speaker 3: saw him pull the lock back and open it all
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Speaker 3: in the blink of an eye. Without even really thinking,
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Speaker 3: I followed him and ran as quick as I could
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Speaker 3: to the door. I had as strong a rush of
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Speaker 3: adrenaline as I did, and I heard the men behind
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Speaker 3: us start to yell and run after us. I literally
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Speaker 3: rammed into John as he ran out the door, and
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Speaker 3: I almost tripped over him. As I was almost out
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Speaker 3: the door, I could hear the men getting closer, and
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Speaker 3: felt the back of my right leg get hit with
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Speaker 3: probably a baseball bat. It got me in my upper
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Speaker 3: right calf, and it hurt really bad, but the adrenaline
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Speaker 3: kept me going out the door, and I followed John
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Speaker 3: around the side of the house. The longer we ran,
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Speaker 3: the more my leg throbbed, but we seemed to get
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Speaker 3: a little bit farther away from the men who were
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Speaker 3: behind us, and as we passed by two garbage cans
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Speaker 3: that were on the side of the house, I pushed
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Speaker 3: one of them over to try to slow the men down.
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Speaker 4: John started yelling as he.
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Speaker 3: John all the way back to campus, before I basically
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Speaker 3: collapsed from being tired and the pain from my leg.
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Speaker 3: We called the police, and then told them the address
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Speaker 3: of the house and everything. Apparently, by the time they
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Speaker 3: typically rented to students. I'm sure that John and I
18:42
Speaker 3: nearly avoided something terrible that night, and I had a
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Speaker 3: really sore leg for a few weeks, but other than that.
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Speaker 4: I was fine.
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Speaker 3: This story happened two years ago on Halloween, and is
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Speaker 3: one of the most disturbing things to happen in my life.
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Speaker 3: I'm the father of a boy who is now eight
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Speaker 3: years old, but was six at the time of this story.
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Speaker 3: I went out trick-or-treating with him and my wife around
19:41
Speaker 3: our neighborhood, which had quite a few kids in it,
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Speaker 3: and it was a pretty busy night. We stayed out
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Speaker 3: maybe two hours until my son got tired and was
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Speaker 3: satisfied with the amount of candy that he had. Then
19:52
Speaker 3: we balked back home and went inside. We had just
19:55
Speaker 3: left a bowl of candy out front of our house
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Speaker 3: while we were gone, which was empty by the time
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Speaker 3: we got back, even.
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Speaker 4: Though it was only 8 o'clock.
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Speaker 3: Only about a minute after we got back inside, as
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Speaker 3: my son was starting to dig into his candy, the
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Speaker 3: doorbell rang, which I knew was likely another trick-or-treater. I
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Speaker 3: opened the front door to see a little boy about
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Speaker 3: the age of my son and his father standing there smiling.
20:17
Speaker 3: I called to my wife to ask if we had
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Speaker 3: more candy, as the man said hi to me. I
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Speaker 3: noticed that his son was kind of jumping up and down,
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Speaker 3: and the man said he was really sorry, but his
20:26
Speaker 3: son had to use the bathroom, and said they were
20:29
Speaker 3: about a 30-minute walk from their house. I saw my
20:32
Speaker 3: wife give me a look from across the room and
20:35
Speaker 3: I didn't really want to let them in the house
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Speaker 3: but I figured I had to so I told them
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Speaker 3: they could.
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Speaker 4: The boy ran down the hall and I walked over
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Speaker 4: to my wife.
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Speaker 3: She said she didn't like the idea of people just
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Speaker 3: walking into our home and I didn't either but the
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Speaker 3: dad seemed nice enough. I told my wife everything was
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Speaker 3: fine and about a minute later the boy returned with
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Speaker 3: his father who said thank you several times.
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Speaker 4: I handed him a little candy and they went on
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Speaker 4: their way.
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Speaker 3: At that point it was a relief to me that
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Speaker 3: they were gone from the house and the rest of
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Speaker 3: the night we got quite a few more trick-or-treaters.
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Speaker 4: Finally after that we all went to bed.
21:11
Speaker 3: Everything was good until I was woken up in the
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Speaker 3: night to the sound of my son yelling and running
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Speaker 3: to my bedroom. My wife and I got up and
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Speaker 3: saw that he was right outside our room saying that
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Speaker 3: a man had climbed in his window. I ran down
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Speaker 3: the hall into his bedroom and saw his window was
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Speaker 3: wide open with the man who had been in our
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Speaker 3: house earlier getting outside of it. This was a horrible feeling,
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Speaker 3: but I was just glad that my son seemed to
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Speaker 3: be okay. I chased after the man, but he got
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Speaker 3: out of sight, so at that point I decided to
21:41
Speaker 3: call the police. I was quite angry until they arrived.
21:45
Speaker 3: We told them everything, and my wife and I stayed
21:47
Speaker 3: up for the rest of the night. For the next
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Speaker 3: few days, we slept with our son in our bedroom
21:52
Speaker 3: with us, until we finally received news that the police
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Speaker 3: had found the man. We were told that the boy
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Speaker 3: who came into our house to use the bathroom was
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Speaker 3: not the man's actual son, but a boy who had
22:02
Speaker 3: been abducted by him a whole year prior. This news
22:06
Speaker 3: was very disturbing to hear, but the boy was returned
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Speaker 3: to his family, and I'm just glad that the man
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Speaker 3: was brought to justice. Last fall, my girlfriend and I
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Speaker 3: went to a pumpkin patch. It was a yearly tradition
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Speaker 3: for us to carve pumpkins, so we were going to
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Speaker 3: get the best ones that we could find. This pumpkin
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Speaker 3: patch that we went to was owned by a nice
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Speaker 3: old couple that ran it every single year. We had
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Speaker 3: gone the previous year, so we came back again for
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Speaker 3: a second time. We went on a Thursday evening, and
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Speaker 3: it was later in the day when we arrived, which
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Speaker 3: was nice because there weren't a lot of other people there.
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Speaker 3: There were lots of pumpkins in a field that was
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Speaker 3: right next to a large woods. The older couple that
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Speaker 3: owned the place greeted us as we entered, and then
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Speaker 3: we started looking for a good pumpkin. Of course, towards
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Speaker 3: the front, there were not a lot of good pumpkins.
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Speaker 3: Most had been picked over. But the farther you got
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Speaker 3: into the field, you could see some really nice ones.
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Speaker 3: I'm not all that picky about which pumpkin to get,
23:14
Speaker 3: but my girlfriend.
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Speaker 4: Always has to have the perfect ones.
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Speaker 3: So we wandered farther and farther out, until we were
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Speaker 3: around the corner of the field, almost in the woods,
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Speaker 3: to a more secluded area. It was sort of hidden,
23:26
Speaker 3: but when we got there, we saw there were lots
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Speaker 3: of nice pumpkins, and we started looking through them all.
23:33
Speaker 3: I would say we were there for about ten minutes,
23:35
Speaker 3: until it started to get really dark out, so we
23:38
Speaker 3: decided to wrap things up and get our pumpkins. But
23:42
Speaker 3: just as we were deciding on the last one we
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Speaker 3: would get, we heard something coming from just inside the woods.
23:48
Speaker 4: We both looked over to see what was there. We
23:51
Speaker 4: saw what appeared to be the.
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Speaker 3: Old couple standing halfway behind a tree, looking at us.
23:57
Speaker 3: But they both had really creepy smiles on their faces,
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Speaker 3: and their eyes were open super wide. I really couldn't
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Speaker 3: believe what I was seeing for a few seconds. I
24:07
Speaker 3: had no idea what they were doing. They just stood
24:10
Speaker 3: there staring. Finally, I said hello to them, but they
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Speaker 3: didn't answer. They just slowly disappeared behind the tree and
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Speaker 3: then walked deeper into the woods. My girlfriend was just
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Speaker 3: as confused as me and really creeped out. We had
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Speaker 3: no interest to go into the woods and see where
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Speaker 3: they went. Instead, we walked back to the front of
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Speaker 3: the field to the entrance. The couple was gone now
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Speaker 3: and we were the only people there. We decided to
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Speaker 3: leave the pumpkins and just get out of there. We
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Speaker 3: went elsewhere to get our pumpkins that year and haven't
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Speaker 3: returned there since.