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5 Creepy NEIGHBORHOOD Horror Stories Animated · Martin Animations

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Speaker 1: This happened two years ago, and it still puts me
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Speaker 1: on edge thinking about it. My husband, myself, and our
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Speaker 1: then two-year-old daughter moved to Tennessee to get a fresh
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Speaker 1: start on life. We were all exhausted after a long
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Speaker 1: drive and just wanted to get out the mattresses. My parents,
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Speaker 1: who lived in Tennessee already, were helping us unload. Naturally,
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Speaker 1: all the neighbors in our apartment complex came out and
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Speaker 1: said hi. That's when we met Ben. Right away, I
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Speaker 1: got creepy vibes off of him. Our daughter, who to
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Speaker 1: this day is way too friendly to strangers, hid behind
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Speaker 1: my husband and visibly cringed. We made small talk, but
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Speaker 1: mainly paid more attention to unloading our stuff than chatting
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Speaker 1: with our new neighbors. My dad later told me that
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Speaker 1: at one point, he came back to the truck and
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Speaker 1: saw Ben staring at our daughter. My dad called him out,
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Speaker 1: and when Ben denied it, my husband eventually told him
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Speaker 1: to go f- Later that night, me and my husband
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Speaker 1: were still going through our stuff, Our daughter was staying
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Speaker 1: the night at my parents' house. It was about 10.30pm
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Speaker 1: when we heard a knock at the door. Thinking that
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Speaker 1: it was the pizza that I ordered, my husband opened
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Speaker 1: the door and there stood Ben. He asked us if
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Speaker 1: we needed any help. Him showing up at our door
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Speaker 1: so late at night, even for a friendly neighbor, was
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Speaker 1: just creepy. Before we could tell him to get lost,
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Speaker 1: he demanded a cigarette. Not only was he a total weirdo,
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Speaker 1: but now he was just being plain rude. Neither of
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Speaker 1: us smoked, and when we told him, he got a
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Speaker 1: bit pissed. He started yelling and screaming at my husband,
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Speaker 1: and began pounding on the wall. This guy was unhinged. Thankfully,
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Speaker 1: our landlord lived across the way from us at the time,
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Speaker 1: and came out to tell him off. As Ben sauntered away,
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Speaker 1: our landlord explained to us that Ben is the resident pest.
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Speaker 1: and suffered from mental issues, but overall, was harmless as
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Speaker 1: long as he took his meds. Yeah, because that's exactly
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Speaker 1: what you want to hear on your first night in
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Speaker 1: a new place. After that, life kind of fell into place,
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Speaker 1: and we settled in without any further disruptions. We had
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Speaker 1: crazy schedules, and would sometimes work graveyard shifts. I would
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Speaker 1: get home around midnight, and would see Ben standing outside
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Speaker 1: the apartment buildings. He would always seem to be staring
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Speaker 1: at me. I would just ignore him, mainly because I
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Speaker 1: was just too tired and wanted to get to bed.
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Speaker 1: He would always ask me for cigarettes, and I kept
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Speaker 1: telling him that I didn't smoke. My husband said that
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Speaker 1: he did the same thing to him. We would change
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Speaker 1: up our work times just to throw Ben off a little,
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Speaker 1: and at first, it worked, but Ben started to pester
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Speaker 1: us during the day. On our days off, we would
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Speaker 1: take our kid to the park or the mountains. One time,
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Speaker 1: Ben asked to come with us. said that he was
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Speaker 1: great with kids and that we could trust him alone
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Speaker 1: with our daughter. I really should have just let my
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Speaker 1: husband deck him in the face right then and there.
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Speaker 1: When we came back, he was sitting in our parking spot,
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Speaker 1: said that he was making sure no one parked in it.
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Speaker 1: He then tried to hug our daughter and she screamed
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Speaker 1: and clung onto me for dear life. I took her
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Speaker 1: into the house while my husband finally snapped and really
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Speaker 1: gave the guy an earful, telling him just to leave
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Speaker 1: us alone. We told the landlord, but they played the
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Speaker 1: whole mental issues card. And look, I get it. Mental
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Speaker 1: illness is never fun to deal with. But he was
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Speaker 1: constantly harassing and terrifying my daughter, and we have a
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Speaker 1: duty to protect our family. It got to the point
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Speaker 1: where my daughter didn't want to go outside because the
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Speaker 1: bad man would be out there and stare at her.
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Speaker 1: We threatened to cut our lease if something wasn't done
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Speaker 1: about it. I began talking to my other neighbors, and
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Speaker 1: everyone seemed to have the same type of experience. One
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Speaker 1: of my neighbors told me that he and another neighbor
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Speaker 1: saw Ben staring at some of the young girls wearing
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Speaker 1: bathing suits and short shorts by the community pool, and
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Speaker 1: they chased him off. They reported this to the landlord,
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Speaker 1: but nothing was ever done. After about a month, things
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Speaker 1: had quieted down. Ben wasn't spotted outside anymore. In fact,
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Speaker 1: no one really saw him. We figured he moved away
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Speaker 1: or something. Good riddance. We were thinking about moving in
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Speaker 1: with my folks, while we saved up the money for
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Speaker 1: a real house. One night, I came home from work early.
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Speaker 1: My husband was out of town because of work, and
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Speaker 1: my parents had taken our daughter to visit some family.
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Speaker 1: I decided to play Saints Row 4 and relax after
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Speaker 1: working an 11 hour shift. I was deep into the game,
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Speaker 1: when someone knocked on the door. It was about 10pm
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Speaker 1: at this point. If anyone was coming over that late,
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Speaker 1: they would have called or texted first. I got up
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Speaker 1: to see who it was. Before I got to the door,
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Speaker 1: the knob began to shake violently. Then I heard Ben screaming.
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Speaker 2: Let me in!
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Speaker 1: Open this goddamn door! The heavy knocking turned into him
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Speaker 1: slamming his shoulder against the door. He was screaming like
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Speaker 1: a deranged madman. I grabbed my phone the sharpest knife
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Speaker 1: that we had from the kitchen, and hid in the closet. Cliche,
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Speaker 1: I know, but if he managed to get in, there
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Speaker 1: would at least be some distance between us. I called 911,
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Speaker 1: and they said that my other neighbors had called in
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Speaker 1: as well. It was only after I heard the sirens
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Speaker 1: stop and voices yelling outside that I felt safe to
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Speaker 1: come out. I opened my door and saw a cop
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Speaker 1: pinning Ben face down on the ground. The landlord was
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Speaker 1: screaming at the cop to let him go, and he
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Speaker 1: even shoved him. Both of them ended up being arrested.
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Speaker 1: I gave my report, and each one of my neighbors
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Speaker 1: backed up everything I said, and even added in their
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Speaker 1: own experiences. My sweet church lady neighbor called my husband
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Speaker 1: and parents to let them know what was going on,
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Speaker 1: and she even let me stay with her and her
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Speaker 1: family for the night. But after what happened, I couldn't
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Speaker 1: sleep at all. I kept thinking that at any moment
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Speaker 1: I would hear Ben's deranged screaming and pounding from outside.
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Speaker 1: It turns out Ben was a registered sex offender. Rumor
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Speaker 1: has it that the landlord was aware of it, but
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Speaker 1: willingly overlooked it as Ben's family would slip him extra
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Speaker 1: money as long as he was allowed to stay there.
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Speaker 1: That's why nothing was ever done about his behavior. Makes
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Speaker 1: me sick. Ben really did take meds, but had not
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Speaker 1: been on any of them for the past few months.
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Speaker 1: He tried to tell the cops that our daughter was
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Speaker 1: his and that we kidnapped her and that I was
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Speaker 1: having an affair with him.
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Speaker 2: Crazy, right?
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Speaker 1: Last thing I heard, Ben was placed in some institution.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it was prison or a psych ward.
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Speaker 1: The landlord was fired and pretty much chased out of town.
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Speaker 1: Good riddance. We were offered three months rent free for
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Speaker 1: our trouble, but that was ultimately our breaking point. We
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Speaker 1: sold off most of our belongings and moved in with
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Speaker 1: my parents. I'm happy to say that we have a
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Speaker 1: house now, and our daughter is not afraid to go
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Speaker 1: outside anymore. And yes, We checked all of our neighbors
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Speaker 1: for red dots.
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Speaker 2: This story takes place in the early 1990s. I was
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Speaker 2: 10 or 11 at the time. My family and I
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Speaker 2: lived in a rural area near Kansas City. This particular
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Speaker 2: area nowadays is very different from what it was in
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Speaker 2: the 90s. Back in the day, it was a very
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Speaker 2: country-like atmosphere. The road that we lived on was a
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Speaker 2: gravel road. and the traffic was very sporadic. Typically, the
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Speaker 2: only people who drove down our road were people who
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Speaker 2: lived down our street, and there were only a few
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Speaker 2: houses on our street at the time. Across the street
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Speaker 2: from the house that we moved into, there was a
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Speaker 2: large cornfield with a few trees near the road. There
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Speaker 2: were a few other boys my age who lived down
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Speaker 2: our street, and we all thought it would be fun
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Speaker 2: to build a treehouse or a fort of some kind.
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Speaker 2: I was across the street nearly every day, and my
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Speaker 2: friends would often walk to my house and then we
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Speaker 2: would go across the street to play in the fort.
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Speaker 2: Think of that scene in the 1990 TV miniseries of
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Speaker 2: Stephen King's It, where the Losers Club was building that
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Speaker 2: dam in the river outside Derry. Yep, it's just like that.
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Speaker 2: One day, I was across the street with one of
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Speaker 2: the other boys. We noticed that there is a small
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Speaker 2: blue car that would drive up and down the street
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Speaker 2: very slowly. Since our road was very narrow and gravelly,
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Speaker 2: it was not unusual for people to drive kind of slow,
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Speaker 2: but this car in particular was driving extremely slow. I
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Speaker 2: noticed that the driver would look out of his window
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Speaker 2: and just sort of eyeball me every time that he
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Speaker 2: drove by. I saw him at least two or three
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Speaker 2: times that afternoon, but at the time, I remember thinking
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Speaker 2: that he probably either just was curious about our playhouse,
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Speaker 2: or that he was lost and maybe contemplating about asking
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Speaker 2: us for directions. After a while, my friend had to
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Speaker 2: go home, so I was there all by myself. Not
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Speaker 2: long after my friend had left, I saw that same
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Speaker 2: blue car slowly coming down the street once again, but
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Speaker 2: this time, he came to a stop. The driver just
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Speaker 2: sat there and stared at me for a while. I
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Speaker 2: got this uneasy feeling about him. I knew all about
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Speaker 2: stranger danger, even at that age. I began to feel
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Speaker 2: that something bad was going to happen. My dad's words
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Speaker 2: echoed in my head. If a stranger tries to grab you,
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Speaker 2: you run as fast as you can and you scream
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Speaker 2: your head off. I started thinking about which direction I
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Speaker 2: should take off to. I knew that if I ran
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Speaker 2: in the opposite direction of the guy in the car,
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Speaker 2: I would be running into a cornfield that was at
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Speaker 2: least a mile wide in every direction. If I were
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Speaker 2: to run towards my house, I would have to cross
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Speaker 2: the street, meaning that I would have to go past
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Speaker 2: the creepy guy in the car to get to my home.
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Speaker 2: The situation terrified me. My heartbeat escalated as I tried
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Speaker 2: to figure out what the hell I was going to do.
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Speaker 2: While deciding which direction would give me the best chance
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Speaker 2: of getting away, I noticed the man in the car
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Speaker 2: reach down for something. I never did see what he
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Speaker 2: was going for, but something told me that if I
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Speaker 2: didn't start running at that moment, I would be history.
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Speaker 2: I then saw the man open the car door just
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Speaker 2: a crack. I knew my dad was home at the time,
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Speaker 2: so I decided to make a break for it I
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Speaker 2: knew that I was going to have to cross the
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Speaker 2: street and I would have to get past the man's car.
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Speaker 2: I began running as fast as I could alongside the
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Speaker 2: road in the opposite direction of where his car was facing.
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Speaker 2: I could see out of the corner of my eye
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Speaker 2: that the guy had closed his door. When I reached
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Speaker 2: the road, the driver had put his car in reverse.
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Speaker 2: If I had been a second slower, I wouldn't have
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Speaker 2: made it. The trunk of his car barely missed me
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Speaker 2: as I darted away from the street to my driveway.
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Speaker 2: I began screaming as loud as I could while charging
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Speaker 2: towards my house. My dad ran outside to meet me
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Speaker 2: in the driveway. When I had turned around to show
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Speaker 2: my dad the man in the car, he was gone.
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Speaker 2: All I could see was the dust cloud coming off
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Speaker 2: the gravel road as the mysterious man in his blue
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Speaker 2: car sped out of there. That night, I had a nightmare.
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Speaker 2: I was running down a seemingly endless gravel road. I
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Speaker 2: was panting, sweating, terrified. I would look back and see
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Speaker 2: that blue car getting closer and closer. I woke up
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Speaker 2: my parents. Apparently, I had been yelling in my sleep.
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Speaker 2: I had to sleep in their room for a while,
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Speaker 2: but the night terrors eventually did stop. This was nearly
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Speaker 2: two decades ago, but I still remember it very well.
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Speaker 2: There is no doubt in my mind that the man
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Speaker 2: in the blue car was the monsters that your parents
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Speaker 2: tell you about when you're a kid. Had I not
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Speaker 2: run off when I did, I would probably be nothing
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Speaker 2: but a statistic today. I occasionally hear stories about kids
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Speaker 2: who went missing in my area in the 90s, and
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Speaker 2: I wonder if it has anything to do with that
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Speaker 2: man in the blue car. I may never know for sure,
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Speaker 2: but I understand now why my dad always told me
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Speaker 2: to run and scream. I'll be instructing my own children
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Speaker 2: someday to do the same.
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Speaker 1: My mother was 14 in 1986 when this happened. She
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Speaker 1: lived in China at the time with her parents and
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Speaker 1: younger brother. It was deep into winter when this occurred,
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Speaker 1: and the temperature dropped into the negatives. Snow was falling
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Speaker 1: in thick layers onto the ground. It was around 10pm
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Speaker 1: when my mother finished up her classes, and by then
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Speaker 1: it was dark. Bear in mind, in China it's normal
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Speaker 1: for young students to walk home alone without a parent
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Speaker 1: or guardian. About 10 minutes after getting off the bus,
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Speaker 1: she began walking through this old marketplace to get to
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Speaker 1: her apartment. The marketplace was completely quiet and deserted at
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Speaker 1: this time of night. There was also no lampposts around,
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Speaker 1: so it was hard for my mom to properly see
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Speaker 1: where she was going, but she had traveled this route
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Speaker 1: several times before, so she was familiar and knew her
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Speaker 1: way back home. My mother had this feeling that someone
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Speaker 1: was lurking in the darkness of the marketplace. She tried
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Speaker 1: to shrug it off, but the apprehension persisted. She continued
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Speaker 1: to hear her feet crunching on the white snow, but
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Speaker 1: suddenly she stopped, and as she did, she could hear
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Speaker 1: a second pair of feet crunching the snow behind her.
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Speaker 1: My mom panicked, but she continued forward and pretended that
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Speaker 1: she hadn't heard anything. She thought it might have been
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Speaker 1: another student making their way back to their living quarters.
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Speaker 1: This thought made sense, but it didn't stop her from
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Speaker 1: walking faster. As she began to pick up her pace,
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Speaker 1: the crunching snow behind her also began to speed up.
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Speaker 1: My mother couldn't handle the fear any longer and started running,
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Speaker 1: but the thick snow made it difficult for her to
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Speaker 1: run away quickly. She also gave a quick look behind her.
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Speaker 1: She was greeted by the silhouette of a tall man
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Speaker 1: only a few meters away and closing in. The man
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Speaker 1: did not appear to be wearing a coat, despite the
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Speaker 1: freezing temperature. The lack of lampposts made it difficult for
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Speaker 1: my mom to make out anything else. However, that's not
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Speaker 1: what scared my mom the most. She was eventually chased
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Speaker 1: into an area that was lit by a dim light
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Speaker 1: mounted to the side of a merchant stall. When she
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Speaker 1: looked back, she was able to see that her pursuer
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Speaker 1: was carrying a large plank in his hand. Now petrified,
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Speaker 1: she continued to run and refused to look back again. Suddenly,
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Speaker 1: she saw the light of a lamppost was situated on
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Speaker 1: a small street. Luckily that night there happened to be
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Speaker 1: a young couple walking towards her. With her last ounce
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Speaker 1: of energy, my mom ran to them and collapsed. My
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Speaker 1: mom was in hysterics when they asked her what was wrong.
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Speaker 1: She explained to them what happened, but by then, the
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Speaker 1: stranger had vanished. The couple that she ran into was
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Speaker 1: living in the same apartment block as her and was
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Speaker 1: familiar with her father. They accompanied her back home and
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Speaker 1: they told my grandfather where they found her. After the
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Speaker 1: couple left, my mom couldn't stop crying out of shock
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Speaker 1: and fear. From then on, my grandfather would meet my
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Speaker 1: mom at the bus stop where she got off at,
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Speaker 1: and they would walk home together. My mom never found
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Speaker 1: out who her assailant was, and thankfully she never had
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Speaker 1: another encounter with him again. I was reading a story
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Speaker 1: that reminded me of an event From over 20 years ago,
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Speaker 1: it was around the second half of 1998, I had
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Speaker 1: taken a security guard job at a plant that manufactured locks.
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Speaker 1: I usually worked one of three shifts, 4 p.m. to
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Speaker 1: 12 a.m., 7.30 p.m. to 3.30 a.m., 12 a.m. to
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Speaker 1: 8 a.m. The 7.30-3.30 shift was for extra coverage. So
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Speaker 1: there were always two of us from 7.30 to midnight.
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Speaker 1: It was a very routine, boring job for the most part.
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Speaker 1: We did our rounds, logged everything out of the ordinary,
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Speaker 1: and watched a tiny monitor displaying the CCTV feed. Things
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Speaker 1: went by in an almost peaceful manner. I worked, saved,
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Speaker 1: bought a car, and had planned to move. By late
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Speaker 1: March of 1999... I served my notice and prepared to
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Speaker 1: head cross-country. A new hire was brought in to fill
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Speaker 1: my spot, a soft-spoken man named Calvin. As part of
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Speaker 1: his training, Calvin spent time working all three shifts. At night,
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Speaker 1: he was a shadow, working by himself, getting a feel
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Speaker 1: for the plant's nocturnal routines. Most nights he worked with
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Speaker 1: myself and a female guard named Amira, who was around
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Speaker 1: my age. I was 18 at the time. Calvin was
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Speaker 1: about a decade or so older than us. He was
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Speaker 1: quiet and polite, though something seemed to be missing. There's
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Speaker 1: usually a spark that genuinely nice people seem to have,
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Speaker 1: and it just wasn't there. Whenever he went on rounds
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Speaker 1: with me, he would ask questions about the job and
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Speaker 1: make small talk. I noticed that he was a bit odd,
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Speaker 1: laughing at odd times. and changing his tone mid-sentence. At
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Speaker 1: the time, I chalked it up to him just being
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Speaker 1: socially awkward, and that would pass. One night, near the
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Speaker 1: end of his first week, he went on a round
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Speaker 1: with Amira. When they returned to the office, I knew
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Speaker 1: there was something wrong. Amira was normally very talkative, but
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Speaker 1: she would barely say a word. I wasn't sure what happened.
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Speaker 1: I waited until Calvin went to the restroom to ask.
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Speaker 1: During their rounds, everything had been normal until they reached
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Speaker 1: the brass mill. It's a section of the plant that
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Speaker 1: shut down around 6 a.m. There were usually no employees
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Speaker 1: there after that time, and there were no lights on.
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Speaker 1: They were making their way to a checkpoint on a
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Speaker 1: landing atop a flight of stairs when the mood shifted.
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Speaker 1: A mirror told me that She turned around only to
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Speaker 1: find he was right on her. Startled, she backed against
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Speaker 1: the grating at the end of the landing, and he
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Speaker 1: leaned in towards her, his face nearly touching hers. He
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Speaker 1: said something flirtatious to her in a very low voice.
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Speaker 1: When she mentioned his wedding band, he said, It's gonna
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Speaker 1: be over soon. From then on, I did the rounds.
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Speaker 1: taking Kelvin with me each time. The night ended without
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Speaker 1: further incident, and I left a note for our supervisor
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Speaker 1: detailing what happened. The next night came and went with
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Speaker 1: no Calvin. I did the rounds while Amira stayed in
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Speaker 1: the office. On my second to last shift, I came
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Speaker 1: in to find Amira freaking out. She found out why
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Speaker 1: Calvin hadn't been at work. Apparently he had been arrested
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Speaker 1: for murdering his wife. She had been dismembered and burned.
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Speaker 1: Parts of her body had been placed in a pond
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Speaker 1: less than a mile from where we worked. That night
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Speaker 1: and the next, Amira called the jail just to make
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Speaker 1: sure that they were still holding him. Based on the
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Speaker 1: time frame, he had killed his wife months before he
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Speaker 1: even started that job. There is an article linked below.
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Speaker 1: This story didn't happen to me personally. It happened to
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Speaker 1: two of my cousins. They gave me permission to share
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Speaker 1: this story, so I will be telling it from their perspective.
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Speaker 1: My name is Leah. This story happened in April of 2016.
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Speaker 1: I was 29 years old at the time. I live
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Speaker 1: in Atlanta, Georgia. In April, my cousin and I, who
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Speaker 1: I'll refer to as Kate, wanted to go for a
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Speaker 1: Caribbean getaway, but we didn't want to go to the
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Speaker 1: popular tourist destinations. such as the Bahamas, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic,
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Speaker 1: or Puerto Rico. So we chose a lesser-known island called Dominica.
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Speaker 1: It's a small island located between Guadalupe and Martinique, with
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Speaker 1: a population of about 72,000. We booked an Airbnb in
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Speaker 1: the countryside, about 30 minutes away from the capital city.
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Speaker 1: The first two weeks went well. We rented a car,
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Speaker 1: and the Airbnb was perfect. as it was located near
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Speaker 1: a beach. It was the getaway that we needed. We
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Speaker 1: explored the island, visited several waterfall locations, and even made
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Speaker 1: some friends in the village we were staying at. But
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Speaker 1: on the second day of the third week, something horrible happened.
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Speaker 1: One afternoon, we didn't go out, and decided just to
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Speaker 1: spend time at the nearby beach with the locals. Later on,
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Speaker 1: when the people left the beach to go home, Kate
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Speaker 1: wanted to go back to the Airbnb, but I decided
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Speaker 1: to stay there a while longer so I could have
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Speaker 1: some alone time. I closed my eyes and laid down
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Speaker 1: near the beach, enjoying the peace and quiet. I must
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Speaker 1: have dozed off, because before I knew it, it was dark,
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Speaker 1: so I decided it was a good time to head back.
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Speaker 1: I arrived at the Airbnb, but as I was getting
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Speaker 1: my keys to unlock the door... Two men, wearing masks,
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Speaker 1: came out of the bushes and started beating me with batons.
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Speaker 1: One even threw a rock at me while I was down,
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Speaker 1: causing me to scream in pain. Kate came out and
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Speaker 1: tried to defend me, but the men also overpowered her.
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Speaker 1: They ran into the Airbnb and ransacked the entire place.
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Speaker 1: Some nearby villagers saw what was happening. and quickly came
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Speaker 1: to our aid, but by that time, the two men
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Speaker 1: had already fled. They had taken my laptop, my phone,
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Speaker 1: and my wallet. Luckily for us, our passports weren't stolen.
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Speaker 1: We were both bleeding pretty badly. At some point, I
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Speaker 1: felt like I was going to pass out. The police
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Speaker 1: eventually showed up, and after receiving some medical assistance, we
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Speaker 1: told them what happened. They were shocked. Dominica is usually
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Speaker 1: a pretty safe country. Two of the villagers drove us
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Speaker 1: to the hospital, which was located in the capital city
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Speaker 1: of Rozo. We had to stay in the hospital for
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Speaker 1: a while because our injuries were so bad. We even
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Speaker 1: had to change our return flight. Thankfully, we got out alive.
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Speaker 1: As far as I know, the two perpetrators who attacked
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Speaker 1: us were never caught. This event has forever traumatized Kate
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Speaker 1: and I. However, I still like Dominica, and would love
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Speaker 1: to go visit there again someday. But next time, I'll
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Speaker 1: be a lot more cautious.