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1 Hour of Rainy Night Drive Horror Stories | Vol. 1 (Compilation) That Will Keep You Up All Night · True Horror Stories

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Speaker 1: Back in high school, I signed up for door Dash
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Speaker 1: just to see if it was as good as they
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Speaker 1: advertised it. Initially, though, it took me a whole month
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Speaker 1: to finally get myself to take on my first delivery,
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Speaker 1: But from then on I did a couple deliveries a
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Speaker 1: day and was really happy with the results. A couple
0:27
Speaker 1: months after that, I quit my grocery job and started
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Speaker 1: dashing every day after school and even on most weekends.
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Speaker 1: On this night, I was working extra late because it
0:38
Speaker 1: was a holiday weekend. I was driving from eight pm
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Speaker 1: until two am, pretty much just going back and forth
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Speaker 1: from the twenty four to seven McDonald's. A little past two,
0:49
Speaker 1: I picked up another McDonald's order and went en route
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Speaker 1: to the customer. It was set to be delivered at
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Speaker 1: some sort of a warehouse, and in the notes it
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Speaker 1: said to go in through the side doors and drop
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Speaker 1: it off at the front desk. When I got there,
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Speaker 1: I pulled into this huge parking lot. It was mostly empty,
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Speaker 1: only having a few semi trucks in it. The building
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Speaker 1: was definitely an old warehouse, though, being just a large
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Speaker 1: rectangle with a few windows and a single door at
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Speaker 1: the front. I checked one more time to make sure
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Speaker 1: I had it right to deliver it through the side door.
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Speaker 1: Then pulled around to the side and part the side
1:25
Speaker 1: door was one of those really heavy metal doors with
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Speaker 1: a small glass window. I looked through that tiny window
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Speaker 1: and didn't see anything but a small and dark entrance room,
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Speaker 1: but the glare from my car's headlights made the window
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Speaker 1: reflective and hard to see through. I swung it open
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Speaker 1: and was immediately taken back. It was just as dark
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Speaker 1: as it seemed through the window, and it only had
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Speaker 1: a tiny wall light in the corner that was more
1:51
Speaker 1: of a dim safety light. There was no front desk,
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Speaker 1: so I walked around the corner and stood at the
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Speaker 1: end of a long, unlit corridor. I knew that most
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Speaker 1: places that have night shift workers don't keep on the
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Speaker 1: unnecessary lights, but this seemed excessive. I couldn't even see
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Speaker 1: the end of the hallway, so if I were to
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Speaker 1: walk down there, I would be walking into complete darkness.
2:17
Speaker 1: I took my phone out and checked now for a
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Speaker 1: third time to see if I'd gone to the wrong
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Speaker 1: place or through the wrong door. Everything seemed right, but
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Speaker 1: there wasn't any way I was going to walk through
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Speaker 1: that hallway, And the more I thought about it, the
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Speaker 1: more I realized how quiet the whole building was. No
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Speaker 1: machinery moving, were people talking, Not a sound at all.
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Speaker 1: I decided to call the customer. I clicked on their
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Speaker 1: name and had to dial the number, and just a
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Speaker 1: moment later I heard a phone ring echo from the
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Speaker 1: other end of the hallway. After another few seconds, it
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Speaker 1: rang again, but it was closer and louder this time.
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Speaker 1: I stared into this empty corridor and could barely make
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Speaker 1: out the faint glow of someone's phone. Hey, I got
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Speaker 1: an order here from door dash. I'm gonna leave it
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Speaker 1: right here for you, I said, setting the bag down
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Speaker 1: in front of me. The figure of a large man
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Speaker 1: started to come out of the dark corridor, but they
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Speaker 1: didn't say anything. I waited another second, but as they
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Speaker 1: got closer, it just really seemed unnerving the way they
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Speaker 1: were walking so fast and not speaking. I had this
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Speaker 1: feeling like someone was gonna jump out behind me or something,
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Speaker 1: and overall was a little freaked out. I turned around
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Speaker 1: and walked quickly out of the door and back to
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Speaker 1: my car. A few moments later, I saw some movement
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Speaker 1: from behind the small glass window on the door just
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Speaker 1: before I pulled away. That whole thing gave me chills
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Speaker 1: and had me call it a night and go straight home.
4:00
Speaker 1: In the end, I chose to believe it was just
4:02
Speaker 1: a weird situation all around, but nothing really happened, so
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Speaker 1: I blew it off. A couple days would go by,
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Speaker 1: and on Monday evening, while I was driving again, I
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Speaker 1: got a strange call. It was from the police department.
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Speaker 1: What happened next was more complicated than it had to be,
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Speaker 1: but basically they questioned me about why I was at
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Speaker 1: that specific warehouse at two thirty a m. On Saturday morning.
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Speaker 1: Apparently they had security footage of my car pulling up.
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Speaker 1: After explaining I was just a DoorDash driver and I
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Speaker 1: proved it with the delivery receipt, they told me what
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Speaker 1: was going on. They said that the workers came back
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Speaker 1: from their holiday weekend where the warehouse was not in operation,
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Speaker 1: and found a door dash delivery sitting in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the hallway. Whoever was there had broken in and
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Speaker 1: ordered with a fake account, which is all scary in
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Speaker 1: its own right, but the creepiest part is that they
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Speaker 1: didn't even take the bag of food. It's pretty obvious
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Speaker 1: that they were looking for something else. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what they wanted from me, but I can only assume
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Speaker 1: that if I had stayed and waited for the man,
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Speaker 1: something terrible.
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Speaker 2: Would have happened.
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Speaker 1: When this happened, I was twenty three and worked full
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Speaker 1: time at a pizza shop in my local area. I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure if things were going on before this, but
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Speaker 1: as far as I know, everything started and ended on
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Speaker 1: this one night. Me and my best friend Tim worked
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Speaker 1: the night shifts at this pizza place. It was a
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Speaker 1: real small shop, having just three or four tables inside
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Speaker 1: because we specialized in delivery and take out. Both me
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Speaker 1: and Tim got our there while we were in college,
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Speaker 1: but just never left. Being in a quiet rural town too,
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Speaker 1: the job wasn't too much work, never had busy days, really,
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Speaker 1: just a steady flow of orders sometimes. On this night,
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Speaker 1: there was a light storm outside and in return business
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Speaker 1: was slow. There were a few orders here and there,
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Speaker 1: but overall we didn't have much to do. By ten pm,
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Speaker 1: Tim suggested we started cleaning up the place and maybe
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Speaker 1: even clocking out fifteen minutes early. I went with it,
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Speaker 1: grabbing some rags to wipe the tables with. When the
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Speaker 1: phone at the front desk rang I picked up after
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Speaker 1: a few rings.
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Speaker 2: How can we help you today? Hello.
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Speaker 1: I waited another five seconds before putting the phone down
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Speaker 1: and shaking my head. Just some prank call, I thought.
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Speaker 1: I went back to scrubbing the tables, but at the
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Speaker 1: front of the store I saw a glare coming from
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Speaker 1: the window. There was a car parked a few spots back.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't see too well through the window in the rain,
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Speaker 1: but there was definitely a light on in the car,
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Speaker 1: like a cell phone or something. The pizza shop was
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Speaker 1: on an individual lot and there were no other cars,
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Speaker 1: so that was the only reason I noticed them. A
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Speaker 1: moment later, the phone rang again. Tim was closer, so
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Speaker 1: he picked up. This time, I could hear someone's muffled
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Speaker 1: voice coming from the phone, and after a short talk,
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Speaker 1: Tim hung up. At the same time, the light in
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Speaker 1: the car turned off and they drove away. I told
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Speaker 1: Tim what I saw and how it was a little weird,
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Speaker 1: but he shrugged and said it was just some old
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Speaker 1: man who was ordering a pizza for delivery. I looked
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Speaker 1: back at the now empty parking lot. It wouldn't make
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Speaker 1: much sense for someone to order a pizza for delivery
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Speaker 1: from right outside the shop, so I figured Tim was
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Speaker 1: right and it was nothing. He started making the pizza
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Speaker 1: while I continued cleaning. Ten minutes later, Tim boxed it
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Speaker 1: up and handed it off to me to deliver. I
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Speaker 1: ran through the rain to my car, then pulled up
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Speaker 1: the address on my phone eleven minutes away. Not too bad.
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Speaker 1: I pulled out and started making my way there. The
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Speaker 1: roads were dead, nobody out at all. Google Maps took
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Speaker 1: me down to a neighborhood full of large homes, then
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Speaker 1: had me turned down a long driveway that led to
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Speaker 1: a cul de sac where there were three more driveways,
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Speaker 1: each leading to a different house. I went down the
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Speaker 1: one Maps told me to and pulled up next to
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Speaker 1: the home. It was one of those large, expensive houses,
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Speaker 1: but pretty old looking and not very modern at all.
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Speaker 1: I parked the car and double checked the address with
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Speaker 1: the house number, then picked up the pizza and ran
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Speaker 1: up to the front door.
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Speaker 2: Hello pizza delivery.
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Speaker 1: I took a step back and looked at the front
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Speaker 1: of the house. All of the lights were off. I
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Speaker 1: dialed Tim's cell and had him call the guy who ordered.
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Speaker 1: My phone buzzed a moment later, and Tim told me
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Speaker 1: that his call went straight to voicemail. I shook my
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Speaker 1: head in frustration and ran back through the rain to
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Speaker 1: my car and got in. I tossed the pizza on
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Speaker 1: the passenger seat and started backing out. This wasn't out
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Speaker 1: of the ordinary, getting fake orders or dead deliveries, but
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Speaker 1: it still annoyed me every time. When I got back,
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Speaker 1: Tim was cleaning and said there were no more orders,
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Speaker 1: so we were good to finish up and head out.
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Speaker 1: I tossed the pizza in the trash and started helping him.
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Speaker 1: Both of us were in the back cleaning the ovens
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Speaker 1: and wiping the prep counters when a sudden bang came
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Speaker 1: from the front of them building. We looked at each other,
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Speaker 1: then ran to the front. At first we didn't see anything,
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Speaker 1: but then Tim spotted a small crack on the door.
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Speaker 1: I walked over and opened it, and right outside was
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Speaker 1: a heavy rock big enough to throw and do some
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Speaker 1: damage with. I looked around, seeing the parking lot was
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Speaker 1: completely empty and nobody was nearby. Both of us were
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Speaker 1: really confused and kind of freaked out. We talked about
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Speaker 1: maybe calling the cops, but neither of us wanted to
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Speaker 1: deal with that right now. To put things in perspective,
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Speaker 1: it was ten minutes before we were off and if
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Speaker 1: we called, then we'd be here for another hour at least.
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Speaker 2: The crack on the.
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Speaker 1: Door wasn't too big, not really that noticeable, so we
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Speaker 1: chose to wait and just tell our manager the next
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Speaker 1: day instead. We quickly finished up with the cleaning and
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Speaker 1: left through the back door where our cars were part.
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Speaker 1: On the drive home, I rethought all the strange things
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Speaker 1: that happened, and it made me uneasy. I pulled into
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Speaker 1: my driveway and walked inside. It was late, so I
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Speaker 1: knew I had to get in bed soon, but I
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Speaker 1: wanted something to snack on first. I went to the
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Speaker 1: kitchen to see what I had, but before I even
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Speaker 1: opened the pantry, I heard a car splashed through the
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Speaker 1: puddles on the street outside my house. From the sound
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Speaker 1: of it, I could tell.
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Speaker 2: It was parking.
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Speaker 1: I walked over to my window and peeked outside, seeing
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Speaker 1: a car parked right in front of my driveway. It
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Speaker 1: only took me a second to realize it was the
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Speaker 1: same car I'd seen outside the pizza shop. A cold
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Speaker 1: rush went through me, and I stayed in the window
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Speaker 1: to see what they were doing. The car was still on,
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Speaker 1: but I couldn't see through their window. After a minute,
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Speaker 1: of no movement. I took out my phone and called Tim,
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Speaker 1: telling him that I think one of the customers followed
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Speaker 1: me home and was parked right outside my house.
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Speaker 2: Are you serious, You need to call the cops.
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Speaker 1: Something's not right, he said, urging me to hang up
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Speaker 1: and call the police immediately. I don't know why I
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Speaker 1: was so nervous to call the cops, but hearing Tim
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Speaker 1: say it made me feel better about it. I moved
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Speaker 1: away from the window and dialed nine one one. The
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Speaker 1: lady on the line said that they would have someone
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Speaker 1: on their way and that I should stay hidden and wait.
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Speaker 1: I heard a car door open and close, so I
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Speaker 1: quickly said okay and hung up. Looking back out the window,
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Speaker 1: a man was walking up my driveway. He was wearing
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Speaker 1: dark clothes, covering his whole body in a hood covering
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Speaker 1: his face. As he approached the house, I closed the
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Speaker 1: curtains by the window and waited. His footsteps came to
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Speaker 1: the front door. Then they continued across the front of
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Speaker 1: the house until they reached the outside of the window
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Speaker 1: and stopped. The sudden silence made the sound of the
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Speaker 1: rain increasingly louder. I felt like I was standing there
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Speaker 1: quietly for minutes before, I stepped forward and moved the
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Speaker 1: curtain an inch to the side, just enough to peek through.
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Speaker 1: The man's cold eyes stared back at me. I let
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Speaker 1: go of the curtain, and the man banged on the window.
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Speaker 1: I stood a few feet away, terrified to death, and
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Speaker 1: just as quick as it started, it ended. There was
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Speaker 1: no more banging, no footsteps, nothing. All that was left
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Speaker 1: was the sound of the raindrops clicking against the window.
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Speaker 1: Although I never heard the man leave, he was gone
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Speaker 1: when the police showed up, no car or man in sight.
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Speaker 1: I told them all that had happened from the middle
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Speaker 1: of my shift to the end of the night. They
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Speaker 1: looked at me like I was crazy, and part of
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Speaker 1: me felt crazy too. None of it made any sense,
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Speaker 1: and there didn't seem to be any motive for the
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Speaker 1: man to have done what he did. Honestly, because of that,
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Speaker 1: the whole night had me messed up for a while.
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Speaker 1: Going through something as senseless as that was really just
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Speaker 1: fucked with my head. I'm hoping that by sharing this
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Speaker 1: someone may be able to help me understand what happened
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Speaker 1: or why the man did what he did. It sounds odd,
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Speaker 1: but even now, when it gets really quiet, on rainy days,
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Speaker 1: there's an eerie feeling that rushes through me, bringing me back.
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Speaker 2: To that night.
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Speaker 1: I did deliveries for my parents' restaurant when I was
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Speaker 1: in high school. I had just turned sixteen and got
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Speaker 1: my driver's license, and my parents were always wanting to
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Speaker 1: start offering delivery. I didn't want to be a waiter
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Speaker 1: or work at the register, so driving sounded like a
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Speaker 1: good option. When this happened, I had been doing deliveries
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Speaker 1: for a few months, so I was pretty comfortable with it.
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Speaker 1: It was a Thursday, around eight pm, and my dad
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Speaker 1: gave me an order to deliver. I got my car,
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Speaker 1: which was actually my mom's SUV, then started the drive.
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Speaker 1: Google Maps said the house was twenty five minutes away.
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Speaker 1: Our town was small, so twenty five minutes away was
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Speaker 1: actually pretty far. As I drove, I started to recognize
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Speaker 1: the area as being on the edge of town, and
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Speaker 1: I still had ten minutes to go. I'd never been
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Speaker 1: this far out in this direction before, so I was
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Speaker 1: definitely paying attention and keeping my eyes open. I wasn't
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Speaker 1: scared per se, but just felt uncomfortable. The only houses
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Speaker 1: I was passing now were farmhouses far from the main road.
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Speaker 1: When the directions told me to turn. It was down
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Speaker 1: a long, unpaved path going straight to one of these farmhouses.
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Speaker 1: Now I was starting to get a little freaked. A
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Speaker 1: farmhouse this far out at night was probably the last
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Speaker 1: place I wanted to be, But I knew I was
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Speaker 1: probably just spooking myself and it was just a simple delivery.
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Speaker 1: I drove down to the end of the path, which
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Speaker 1: ended and just became a small grass field in front
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Speaker 1: of the house. It wasn't clear whether or not to
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Speaker 1: drive on the grass, so I just parked the car
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Speaker 1: there and got out. It was eerily quiet. All I
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Speaker 1: could hear were my footsteps on the grass.
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Speaker 2: As I walked up to the house.
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Speaker 1: The porch light was on, but no other lights were
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Speaker 1: on inside the house. I was looking over my shoulders
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Speaker 1: constantly and walked quickly. The longer I was out there,
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Speaker 1: the more uncomfortable I was. Just before I reached the porch,
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Speaker 1: I heard something. It sounded like it was coming from
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Speaker 1: the back yard behind the farmhouse, but it was loud,
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Speaker 1: like a wooden door opening. I stepped onto the porch
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Speaker 1: and dropped the bag on the doorstep, then rang the
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Speaker 1: doorbell and started rushing back to the car. I was
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Speaker 1: regretting how far I parked and wished I just drove
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Speaker 1: on the grass, and as I listened to the only
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Speaker 1: sound of my footsteps under me, I started to hear
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Speaker 1: more more footsteps running behind me in my direction. I
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Speaker 1: turned around and saw three men sprinting at me through
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Speaker 1: the grass. I tried to run back to my car,
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Speaker 1: but in seconds I was tackled to the ground.
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Speaker 2: One of them held me down while.
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Speaker 1: Another started taking everything from my pockets. I was yelling
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Speaker 1: and screaming for help, but I knew nobody could hear me.
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Speaker 1: It all happened really fast, and once they looted my pockets,
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Speaker 1: one of the men kicked me in the stomach and
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Speaker 1: they all ran and got in the car, turning around
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Speaker 1: and driving away. I got up and just watched the
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Speaker 1: headlights disappear on the long empty road. I had no phone,
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Speaker 1: then no way to get back. I didn't know what
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Speaker 1: else to do, then just start walking toward the road.
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Speaker 1: When I reached the road, I started walking down the
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Speaker 1: way I came. I had no way of telling time,
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Speaker 1: but I think I was walking for thirty to forty
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Speaker 1: minutes before a patrol car pulled up in front of me.
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Speaker 1: My parents had called for them to check on me
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Speaker 1: because I wasn't responding. To sum it up, the cops
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Speaker 1: found a small barn behind the farmhouse with another restaurant
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Speaker 1: delivery bag inside it. They think they tried to do
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Speaker 1: the same thing to someone before me, but probably missed
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Speaker 1: their chance or chickened out for some reason. Because there
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Speaker 1: were no other reports. The actual owners of the farmhouse
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Speaker 1: were out of town, so they had no involvement. My
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Speaker 1: phone was able to be tracked, though, and was found
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Speaker 1: thrown in a field off the side of the road
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Speaker 1: not too far away. The stolen car, however, took three
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Speaker 1: weeks to be located. It was found nearly four hundred
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Speaker 1: miles away and had been almost entirely emptied.
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Speaker 2: This was almost a year ago.
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Speaker 1: Now, and those three men that attacked me still have
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Speaker 1: yet to be identified. I was driving my delivery van
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Speaker 1: back from a small out of town delivery one night.
19:55
Speaker 1: It was somewhere around eleven PM and it was raining
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Speaker 1: steadily outside. I didn't usually work this late, but every
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Speaker 1: once in a while there would need to be a
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Speaker 1: delivery made after store hours, so past ten p m.
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Speaker 1: The stores I delivered to are spread out so most
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Speaker 1: of the driving is on long highways with nothing interesting
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Speaker 1: the sea. As I went along the road, I saw
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Speaker 1: head lights up ahead. Although going the speed limit, I
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Speaker 1: caught up to them quickly. It was an old pick
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Speaker 1: up truck driving really slow in front of me. It
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Speaker 1: was as if they were scared of slipping on the
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Speaker 1: wet road, but they were going way too slow for
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Speaker 1: it to be practical. After a minute, I was getting
20:41
Speaker 1: impatient and started looking for a chance to go around them.
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Speaker 1: I sped up a little bit, putting on my turn
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Speaker 1: signal so they knew what I was doing, But just
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Speaker 1: before I made my move, their truck suddenly lost control
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Speaker 1: and ran off the road. I slammed on my brakes
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Speaker 1: and pulled over. I stayed in my van looking out
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Speaker 1: the side window. They somehow barely missed a few trees,
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Speaker 1: but they were down a slope and likely stuck. Even
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Speaker 1: though it wasn't my fault at all, I felt really
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Speaker 1: bad and couldn't just leave them without at least calling
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Speaker 1: for help. I tried dialing nine one one, but there
21:27
Speaker 1: was no signal at all. After a minute of not
21:31
Speaker 1: seeing any movement by the truck, I got even more
21:35
Speaker 1: nervous and got out of my van to check on them.
21:40
Speaker 1: I walked down the side of the road through the
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Speaker 1: cold rain and carefully walked down the slope until I
21:47
Speaker 1: reached the trees. The truck was wedged in some bushes,
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Speaker 1: but didn't seem to be too damaged. I approached the
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Speaker 1: driver's side door. The window was fogged over and I
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Speaker 1: couldn't see inside. I knocked, then opened the door. There
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Speaker 1: was a man sitting in the driver's seat, frantically trying
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Speaker 1: to get the truck to turn on.
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Speaker 2: Hey are you okay? Did you want some help? I asked.
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Speaker 1: He looked up at me, not saying a word for
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Speaker 1: a few seconds. Then he responded, can you give me
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Speaker 1: a ride? I told him I could take him to
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Speaker 1: the nearest gas station so he could call for help,
22:29
Speaker 1: but that's as far as I could go. After some thinking,
22:33
Speaker 1: he agreed to it. He stepped out, and I led
22:37
Speaker 1: the way back to my van despite the rain. He
22:42
Speaker 1: walked slowly and seemed to watch my every move. Every
22:47
Speaker 1: time I looked back, he was just looking me in
22:49
Speaker 1: the eyes until I turned my head away. It creeped
22:54
Speaker 1: me out, but maybe he was just trying to make
22:56
Speaker 1: sure that I wasn't creepy myself. We both got inside
23:01
Speaker 1: and I started driving. I really didn't know how close
23:05
Speaker 1: the nearest gas station was, but I was sure it
23:08
Speaker 1: had to be at most fifty to sixty miles out.
23:12
Speaker 1: The first few minutes, I tried to make some small talk,
23:15
Speaker 1: but the man didn't really respond. I thought maybe his
23:19
Speaker 1: head was hurting from the crash, but either way, it
23:23
Speaker 1: made things really awkward. Every once in a while, I'd
23:28
Speaker 1: look over and the man would be staring at me,
23:30
Speaker 1: not smiling or frowning, just staring. I was starting to
23:36
Speaker 1: wonder who this man was that I picked up. I
23:40
Speaker 1: felt like any normal person would be grateful for my
23:43
Speaker 1: help after getting stranded in the middle of nowhere. Thankfully,
23:48
Speaker 1: not long into the drive, I saw the lights of
23:50
Speaker 1: a small town up ahead, But as we got closer,
23:54
Speaker 1: the man only started acting more strange. He was looking
23:59
Speaker 1: around both inside the car and outside the windows. When
24:06
Speaker 1: I pulled into the gas station, I parked the van
24:09
Speaker 1: and asked if he needed help with anything else. He
24:12
Speaker 1: didn't answer, but I felt tension, as if he was
24:16
Speaker 1: contemplating something. I tried to break the silence.
24:22
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'm going to get back on the road.
24:24
Speaker 1: Then, The man took one more look around, then suddenly
24:29
Speaker 1: forced his body over, shoving me against the door aggressively.
24:33
Speaker 1: He started punching me as I opened the door and
24:36
Speaker 1: tried to get out, but just then the passenger door
24:40
Speaker 1: swung open and the man was pulled away from me.
24:45
Speaker 1: I was trying to catch my breath, still not sure
24:47
Speaker 1: what happened until I got out of the van. There
24:52
Speaker 1: were two police cars and some officers holding the man down.
24:57
Speaker 1: They denied giving me all the details, but apparently the
25:00
Speaker 1: man was running away from a serious crime in a
25:03
Speaker 1: stolen truck. Once an officer found the truck crashed on
25:08
Speaker 1: the side of the road, they called in to have
25:11
Speaker 1: some other officers stake out at the gas station and
25:14
Speaker 1: wait for him. They didn't know he was with me
25:18
Speaker 1: when I pulled in, but once they saw me getting attacked,
25:21
Speaker 1: they jumped in to help. I don't know if he
25:25
Speaker 1: attacked me in an effort to steal my van or
25:28
Speaker 1: if it was because he saw the police cars and
25:31
Speaker 1: thought I'd taken him in, but either way, it was
25:35
Speaker 1: a horrifying experience. I knew the man was creepy, but
25:40
Speaker 1: I had no idea how much danger I truly was. In.
25:45
Speaker 1: If those police officers weren't waiting at the gas station,
25:49
Speaker 1: I don't know if i'd be here right now. My
26:02
Speaker 1: name is Tommy, and I started doing Uber eats last
26:05
Speaker 1: year after I lost my part time retail job. I'd
26:08
Speaker 1: seen their ads everywhere about how the job was so
26:11
Speaker 1: relaxing and easy money, and some of my friends were
26:14
Speaker 1: curious about the gig too, so I took one for
26:17
Speaker 1: the team to figure out if all the hype was true.
26:20
Speaker 2: It wasn't.
26:22
Speaker 1: Driving around on a time crunch made the gig really stressful,
26:25
Speaker 1: and sometimes it would be for just a couple bucks.
26:29
Speaker 1: I was only a teenager and my only bills I
26:31
Speaker 1: had to pay were my car payments and car insurance,
26:34
Speaker 1: so making a ton of money wasn't necessary, but it
26:36
Speaker 1: did feel like I was getting ripped off for the
26:38
Speaker 1: amount of time and work it was. I pushed aside
26:42
Speaker 1: getting a different job because I was lazy, but after
26:45
Speaker 1: this happened, I quit right away. I picked up an
26:49
Speaker 1: order from a Chinese place and was heading to the
26:51
Speaker 1: customer's address. I don't remember it being a large order
26:55
Speaker 1: or anything. I think it was just a normal small
26:57
Speaker 1: order with a small payout. On the way to their address.
27:03
Speaker 1: I got a text and the Uber Eats app it
27:06
Speaker 1: was my customer asking where I was. Then another text
27:10
Speaker 1: came in telling me to hurry up. I was driving,
27:14
Speaker 1: so I couldn't respond, but I was just confused and
27:17
Speaker 1: honestly a little annoyed. I just picked up the order
27:20
Speaker 1: a couple minutes prior, so it wasn't like I was
27:23
Speaker 1: running later anything. I shrugged it off and thought it
27:26
Speaker 1: was just a mistake on their part. The address wasn't far,
27:30
Speaker 1: only about ten minutes. It was in the less well
27:33
Speaker 1: off neighborhood in my town, though, with pretty old and
27:36
Speaker 1: small houses. It's actually funny though, because the customers in smaller,
27:41
Speaker 1: cheaper houses usually tipped more.
27:43
Speaker 2: Than the rich people.
27:45
Speaker 1: Anyway, I pulled up next to their driveway and got
27:48
Speaker 1: out of my car holding their bag of food. What
27:51
Speaker 1: caught my attention as I walked up their driveway was
27:54
Speaker 1: that the house had all of its lights off. It
27:57
Speaker 1: wasn't the most scary thing in the world, but it
27:59
Speaker 1: was something I took note of. When I got up
28:02
Speaker 1: to the front door, I knocked quickly and took my
28:05
Speaker 1: phone out to take the picture of it on the porch.
28:08
Speaker 1: But just as I snapped the photo. Hey, a man
28:11
Speaker 1: yelled from my left, standing by the corner of the house.
28:15
Speaker 1: I jumped, then awkwardly said hi. He started walking toward me,
28:21
Speaker 1: taking a key out of his pocket.
28:23
Speaker 2: I don't know what took you so fucking long.
28:26
Speaker 1: He walked right in front of me and held the
28:28
Speaker 1: single key up and unlocked the front door. His attitude
28:36
Speaker 1: had me in disbelief. I didn't know what to do
28:39
Speaker 1: or say, so I just stood there like an idiot.
28:42
Speaker 1: Come here, I need your help. Since you took your
28:44
Speaker 1: time driving, it'll be quick. He waited by the door,
28:48
Speaker 1: holding it open.
28:51
Speaker 2: Uh no, I'm okay. I should really get back to work.
28:55
Speaker 1: The man looked angry and took a step toward me,
28:58
Speaker 1: reaching out like he was trying to grab me. I
29:01
Speaker 1: jolted my shoulder back to avoid his hand, then backed
29:04
Speaker 1: up and walked away from the porch, and just as
29:06
Speaker 1: I got to the driveway, bright headlights flashed over me.
29:11
Speaker 1: The man by the door ran outside and around the house,
29:14
Speaker 1: leaving the front door open. As the car pulled up
29:17
Speaker 1: the driveway, it turned out to be the homeowners returning
29:21
Speaker 1: from dinner. The man I met at the door didn't
29:24
Speaker 1: live there, and the homeowners had no idea who he
29:27
Speaker 1: was or how he had gotten a key to their house.
29:31
Speaker 1: We called the police and explained the situation to them.
29:35
Speaker 1: Knowing everything now though it made more sense why the
29:38
Speaker 1: man wanted me to rush to the house. He probably
29:41
Speaker 1: knew that the homeowners could be back at any minute,
29:44
Speaker 1: and he wanted to have enough time to do whatever
29:46
Speaker 1: it was he was going to do to me before
29:48
Speaker 1: they got back. I still don't have any answers for
29:52
Speaker 1: what happened that night or what was going to happen,
29:56
Speaker 1: and I don't think I ever will. But I have
29:58
Speaker 1: stopped doing delivery. I drive for Postmates three to four
30:09
Speaker 1: days a week, depending on.
30:11
Speaker 2: My other work schedule.
30:13
Speaker 1: Delivery driving is my relaxing side job that I do
30:16
Speaker 1: to help pay for extra things I want, like vacations
30:19
Speaker 1: or clothes, while my other job pays for my more
30:22
Speaker 1: necessary bills like rent. So I never take delivery driving
30:26
Speaker 1: too seriously. I just go about it, and if I
30:30
Speaker 1: don't end up making a lot of money one.
30:31
Speaker 2: Night, it's no big deal.
30:35
Speaker 1: On this day, I started right when I got out
30:37
Speaker 1: of work around eight. By ten, I had actually made
30:42
Speaker 1: a decent amount of cash, more than most nights. Although
30:47
Speaker 1: I'd usually stop around this time, why call it quits
30:50
Speaker 1: when I was doing well, I decided to keep going
30:54
Speaker 1: until I either got too tired or the orders stopped
30:57
Speaker 1: coming in. I accepted the next door or and continued
31:01
Speaker 1: to the restaurant. It was a medium sized order from
31:04
Speaker 1: Wendy's with a regular tip, nothing uncommon. I drove through
31:09
Speaker 1: and picked it up, then clicked start Route on my
31:11
Speaker 1: phone to give me directions to the customer's house. Except
31:15
Speaker 1: it wasn't to a house. It was a GPS location
31:19
Speaker 1: set near a grocery store fifteen minutes away. I'd had
31:24
Speaker 1: plenty of deliveries ordered to grocery stores or other places
31:27
Speaker 1: of work from the employees, but it was only odd
31:30
Speaker 1: because they didn't put the store as the address. They
31:33
Speaker 1: used an exact location instead. Anyway, I started the drive
31:40
Speaker 1: up there. When I got to the parking lot by
31:43
Speaker 1: the grocery store, I noticed it was empty. I pulled
31:47
Speaker 1: right up to the front and parked, then got out.
31:50
Speaker 2: With the food.
31:52
Speaker 1: I took a look around, but was pretty sure the
31:55
Speaker 1: store was closed. I texted the customer, letting them know
31:59
Speaker 1: I was at the store. They replied right away, saying
32:02
Speaker 1: they were around the building in the back and that
32:05
Speaker 1: I should see them right when I rounded the corner.
32:08
Speaker 1: I was definitely skeptical, but I got back in my
32:11
Speaker 1: car and drove around the store. There didn't seem to
32:14
Speaker 1: be anything there, just a couple parked cars in the
32:17
Speaker 1: far back by one of the other stores. I stopped
32:22
Speaker 1: and looked, but still didn't see anyone. This was when
32:26
Speaker 1: I started to get really uneasy feeling. I was thinking
32:29
Speaker 1: this may not be worth it, and put the car
32:32
Speaker 1: back in drive. But then my phone started buzzing.
32:37
Speaker 2: Hey, we're coming up right now.
32:39
Speaker 1: Be there in just a minute, a man said, hanging
32:42
Speaker 1: up right after. I looked around again, feeling even more uncomfortable.
32:49
Speaker 1: Something just wasn't sitting right with me. I made a
32:53
Speaker 1: short u turn and started to go back the way
32:55
Speaker 1: I came until someone ran in front of my car
32:58
Speaker 1: holding their hands out stop motion. I braked and they
33:04
Speaker 1: came up to my window.
33:06
Speaker 2: Hey, you have my order.
33:08
Speaker 1: I grabbed the bag and rolled down the window, handing
33:11
Speaker 1: it to him, but he didn't take it. I felt
33:15
Speaker 1: dumb holding the bag out while he just looked at me.
33:19
Speaker 1: Then I heard a quiet footstep from the other side
33:22
Speaker 1: of the car before the back door suddenly swung open.
33:27
Speaker 1: I dropped the bag outside the window and floored it
33:30
Speaker 1: as the guy by my window yelled at me to stop.
33:34
Speaker 1: I guess whoever was at the back door had jumped
33:37
Speaker 1: into my car. As I pulled away. He reached forward
33:41
Speaker 1: trying to shift my car into park, but after failing
33:44
Speaker 1: a few times, he jumped out of the moving car
33:47
Speaker 1: onto the pavement. I saw him get up and both
33:52
Speaker 1: of them running away as I turned the corner and
33:54
Speaker 1: got out of there. The police were of no help,
33:59
Speaker 1: saying they would do what they could, but never giving
34:02
Speaker 1: me any updates. I was stupid to have fallen for
34:06
Speaker 1: their trap, but I don't think I was the only
34:09
Speaker 1: one doing some research. Just two weeks before my incident,
34:14
Speaker 1: a delivery driver went missing during an active delivery in
34:18
Speaker 1: a nearby town. There were no leads on what happened,
34:22
Speaker 1: as the driver's car was never found either. I think
34:27
Speaker 1: this might have been those same two men doing something
34:30
Speaker 1: terrible that I can't even begin to imagine. I was
34:49
Speaker 1: a delivery driver for Pizza Hut during college. A bunch
34:53
Speaker 1: of my buddies from school also worked there, so it
34:56
Speaker 1: was laid back and sometimes even fun. It would get
35:00
Speaker 1: really busy with deliveries up until seven to eight o'clock.
35:03
Speaker 1: Then it would have a sudden drop off in orders.
35:06
Speaker 1: Our replace accepted delivery orders until eleven that would only
35:09
Speaker 1: accept pick up orders until twelve. It was a Saturday night,
35:14
Speaker 1: so it was busier than most other days, but after
35:17
Speaker 1: nine thirty there were no more orders. We had someone
35:20
Speaker 1: pick up an order round ten fifteen, but we had
35:23
Speaker 1: nothing else until ten fifty, when the phone started.
35:26
Speaker 2: Ringing, Hello, this is pizza hut.
35:32
Speaker 1: I waited for a second. I could hear light breathing
35:36
Speaker 1: on the other side, but they weren't responding Hello. Finally
35:41
Speaker 1: a woman started speaking. She was talking quietly and had
35:46
Speaker 1: a shaky voice. She asked for a small pepperoni pizza
35:50
Speaker 1: to be delivered.
35:51
Speaker 2: To her address.
35:53
Speaker 1: I said okay, and just before I hung up, something
35:56
Speaker 1: in me made me ask if she was okay. There
35:58
Speaker 1: was just something off about the way she was talking.
36:02
Speaker 1: She said she was just fine and hung up. I
36:06
Speaker 1: sent the order through and fifteen minutes later I got
36:08
Speaker 1: on the road. The house was a couple blocks away
36:12
Speaker 1: and there were no other cars out, so I got
36:14
Speaker 1: there in just a few minutes. As I drove up
36:17
Speaker 1: their driveway and parked. I saw a heavy light coming
36:20
Speaker 1: from around the garage where the front door was. I
36:24
Speaker 1: got the pizza on the receipt ready, and as I
36:26
Speaker 1: looked back, I saw the light constantly going in and out,
36:30
Speaker 1: like someone was walking in front of it. I rounded
36:33
Speaker 1: the garage and realized the light was coming from inside
36:36
Speaker 1: the house, shining out the open front door. I stepped
36:40
Speaker 1: onto the porch, and before I even reached the door,
36:44
Speaker 1: I heard footsteps rushing down some stairs inside. Then a
36:48
Speaker 1: man came into the doorway. He was a tall, heavy set,
36:52
Speaker 1: bald man, but what was really weird was that he
36:55
Speaker 1: was completely out of breath. He was taking big, exu
37:00
Speaker 1: fasted breaths and had sweat dripping from his head. Sure
37:04
Speaker 1: he could have just been working out, but the expression
37:07
Speaker 1: on his face just made it all the more unnerving.
37:11
Speaker 1: He looked angry and frustrated, like he didn't want me
37:14
Speaker 1: to be there. I don't think I've ever seen someone
37:18
Speaker 1: that unhappy that their pizza arrived. I asked him if
37:22
Speaker 1: the order was correct, since he obviously wasn't the one
37:25
Speaker 1: who placed it, which then made me think back to
37:28
Speaker 1: the woman on the phone putting everything together. Made for
37:32
Speaker 1: an uncomfortable possible scenario in my head. I said the
37:37
Speaker 1: total and handed the man the receipt.
37:40
Speaker 2: Hold on, I need my wallet, he.
37:42
Speaker 1: Said, walking down the hall toward what I assumed was
37:45
Speaker 1: the kitchen. As I waited for a moment, I heard
37:50
Speaker 1: a quiet sound coming from inside the house upstairs. It
37:54
Speaker 1: was a dull thump, like someone was hitting the wall.
37:59
Speaker 1: I heard it again, louder this time, and seconds later,
38:03
Speaker 1: the man came rushing down the hallway, grabbing the box
38:06
Speaker 1: from my hands and throwing cash at me, then slammed
38:10
Speaker 1: the door in my face. I stood there and shock
38:14
Speaker 1: for a second, hearing the man's footsteps rushing upstairs. I
38:19
Speaker 1: couldn't hear much else, so I walked back to my
38:22
Speaker 1: car while processing everything. Once I got out of their driveway,
38:26
Speaker 1: I drove a minute down the road, then pulled over.
38:30
Speaker 1: I decided it best to call the police and just
38:32
Speaker 1: give them all the information I had, and asked them
38:35
Speaker 1: to just do a check up to make sure it
38:37
Speaker 1: was all okay. When I got back to Pizza Hut,
38:41
Speaker 1: I told my friends about the unusual situation. They thought
38:44
Speaker 1: it was odd too, but none of them seemed worried
38:47
Speaker 1: about it. The rest of my shift went by fast.
38:51
Speaker 1: When I got home at twelve fifteen, not long after,
38:55
Speaker 1: I got a call. It was an officer that did
38:59
Speaker 1: a wellness check on the woman that I said was
39:01
Speaker 1: at that house. Only he said there was no woman
39:05
Speaker 1: at all. He described the man, but he was allowed
39:09
Speaker 1: inside the home and never saw anyone else. The man
39:13
Speaker 1: said he lived alone and had no idea what woman
39:16
Speaker 1: I was talking about. I know what I heard, though,
39:20
Speaker 1: someone else was in that house, and it was definitely
39:23
Speaker 1: a woman that called to place the order. The fact
39:27
Speaker 1: that the man was lying about things that I was
39:29
Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure about made me really uneasy. The
39:33
Speaker 1: cop told me that there wasn't much else to be
39:36
Speaker 1: done unless something else came up. It's been a long
39:40
Speaker 1: time since this all happened, but I still think back
39:43
Speaker 1: to it. I could be blowing it all out of proportion,
39:47
Speaker 1: but there's a big part of me that doesn't think so.
39:58
Speaker 1: I'm a truck driver for a moving company on the
40:00
Speaker 1: East Coast. We specialize in cross country moving, typically moving
40:05
Speaker 1: people to the far West Coast, which can take anywhere
40:08
Speaker 1: from twenty to forty hours depending on the locations. I
40:12
Speaker 1: only did the driving for the company not any of
40:14
Speaker 1: the boxing or loading, so the actual job was one
40:17
Speaker 1: hundred percent just driving and picking up or dropping off
40:20
Speaker 1: the trailer at the houses. I'd been working with this
40:24
Speaker 1: company for almost four years at the time. This job
40:29
Speaker 1: was like every other. I got to the pickup address
40:32
Speaker 1: and loaded up the trailer full of the customer's belongings.
40:37
Speaker 1: This was a thirty hour drive in total, which I
40:39
Speaker 1: would do with two to three short rest stops. The
40:43
Speaker 1: hardest states to drive through are in the Midwest, specifically
40:47
Speaker 1: Iowa and Nebraska. There's absolutely nothing there. It's just dead
40:53
Speaker 1: roads with endless fields of grass beside them. It makes
40:57
Speaker 1: for a very boring and therefore tiring. As I passed
41:02
Speaker 1: through the Iowa border into Nebraska, the sun had just
41:06
Speaker 1: set and I'd been on the road for about twenty hours.
41:10
Speaker 1: I took a short break already a couple states back,
41:12
Speaker 1: but was just about ready for another. My eyes were
41:16
Speaker 1: heavy and I could feel the drowsiness coming in. But
41:19
Speaker 1: a few more miles down I saw something on the
41:22
Speaker 1: side of the road. A car was stopped off to
41:25
Speaker 1: the side of my lane with its headlights on. It
41:29
Speaker 1: was a narrow road, so I slowed down to carefully
41:32
Speaker 1: pass As I did, I noticed the exhaust was steaming,
41:36
Speaker 1: so the car was still running. There was also a
41:39
Speaker 1: man leaning against the driver door and looking right at me.
41:44
Speaker 1: I passed by and gave him a nod, but as
41:47
Speaker 1: I got further down the road, I saw him get
41:49
Speaker 1: back into the car. It was very strange for someone
41:53
Speaker 1: to be sitting on the side of an empty road
41:55
Speaker 1: with a car that still runs. He didn't look like
41:59
Speaker 1: he was in any sort of trouble. He looked like
42:03
Speaker 1: he was waiting. I checked my mirrors often, but the
42:08
Speaker 1: car's headlights disappeared behind me. After a few minutes. I
42:13
Speaker 1: was a bit more awake now, but my eyes still
42:15
Speaker 1: felt heavy. Only a mile or so more down the road,
42:20
Speaker 1: I saw another car. This one was sideways in the
42:24
Speaker 1: middle of the road, and as I got closer, I
42:26
Speaker 1: saw another vehicle on the side. It was a large
42:30
Speaker 1: box van. I wasn't sure exactly of the situation, but
42:35
Speaker 1: seeing that gave me a bad feeling. I eased into
42:39
Speaker 1: my brakes, but the car stayed in the middle of
42:41
Speaker 1: the road, so I was forced to come to a
42:43
Speaker 1: full stop. I was maybe twenty yards away and could
42:48
Speaker 1: see multiple men standing along the road, and one man
42:52
Speaker 1: in front of the car. I'd have to be the
42:55
Speaker 1: dumbest person in the world to not understand what this was.
42:59
Speaker 1: At this point, with no better options, I started moving
43:04
Speaker 1: the truck backward. The men stayed where they were with
43:08
Speaker 1: this horrifying confidence. Then a light shined behind me and
43:13
Speaker 1: a car approached, blocking the way back. A man got
43:18
Speaker 1: out of the car, sprinting at the back of my trailer,
43:22
Speaker 1: and at the same time, all of the men in
43:24
Speaker 1: the front started sprinting at me too. In that instant,
43:29
Speaker 1: my mind went blank and all of my adrenaline took over.
43:34
Speaker 1: I slammed on the gas as I heard a pop
43:36
Speaker 1: on the back of the trailer and the doors swung open.
43:40
Speaker 1: The men in front yelled and tried to stand in
43:43
Speaker 1: my way, but once they saw I wasn't stopping, they
43:46
Speaker 1: jumped on the side of the road. I rammed right
43:53
Speaker 1: into the car, knocking it off the road and completely
43:56
Speaker 1: destroying it. A few gunshots sound in the distance, but
44:01
Speaker 1: none hit. I could hear cargo falling out of the
44:05
Speaker 1: trailer for the next five miles before I was able
44:08
Speaker 1: to call the police and to meet an officer on
44:10
Speaker 1: the road. Of course, this was a total mess, but
44:15
Speaker 1: As it all unfolded, it turned out to be much
44:18
Speaker 1: more than just a random attack and robbery. When police
44:22
Speaker 1: arrived at the scene, the car had slammed into was
44:26
Speaker 1: left behind, being damaged beyond drivable with it. They tracked
44:31
Speaker 1: down one of the members of the attackers, who gave
44:34
Speaker 1: up information on the others. They had information on the
44:39
Speaker 1: rich homeowners that were moving and planned to stop me
44:42
Speaker 1: and steal all of the belongings with their box van.
44:46
Speaker 1: They never said what exactly they would have done to
44:48
Speaker 1: me after they robbed the truck, but I don't think
44:51
Speaker 1: it's a stretch to assume that it would have been
44:53
Speaker 1: a lot easier for them to not leave any loose ends.
45:06
Speaker 1: I was driving for Domino's pizza delivery. It was a
45:10
Speaker 1: slow night, so I was actually spending a decent amount
45:12
Speaker 1: of time inside the shop waiting for orders to come
45:15
Speaker 1: in for me to deliver. Just after ten pm, a
45:18
Speaker 1: man walked in and came up to the counter. He
45:21
Speaker 1: looked like he was in his early thirties, but was
45:23
Speaker 1: extremely sleep deprived and maybe even drunk. My coworker was
45:28
Speaker 1: at the counter helping him with the order, and I
45:30
Speaker 1: was standing in the back organizing the pizza boxes. But
45:33
Speaker 1: after seeing his appearance, I listened in on their conversation.
45:38
Speaker 1: He seemed timid and uneasy about something as he made
45:41
Speaker 1: a simple request for a medium pizza, but then he
45:44
Speaker 1: added on that he'd like it to be delivered, and
45:47
Speaker 1: then handing my coworker a slip of paper. Right after
45:50
Speaker 1: the order was sent through, the man walked out. The
45:55
Speaker 1: paper just had an address written on it, but it
45:57
Speaker 1: was kind of odd because who wouldn't rem their own address. Also,
46:03
Speaker 1: it's not every day that you get a customer coming
46:05
Speaker 1: into the shop to order for delivery to their house. Anyway,
46:10
Speaker 1: ten minutes later, I boxed up the pizza and got
46:13
Speaker 1: on the road. It didn't take long for me to
46:17
Speaker 1: notice a strange car behind me. It was the only
46:20
Speaker 1: other car on the road, and they were constantly speeding
46:23
Speaker 1: up and slowing down like they were having trouble staying
46:26
Speaker 1: at the same speed. Once I saw them swerving too,
46:30
Speaker 1: the first thing I thought was that they were drunk,
46:32
Speaker 1: and how the man at the shop looked drunk too.
46:36
Speaker 1: It seems stupid now, but at the time I really
46:39
Speaker 1: thought it was just a coincidence. When I got to
46:43
Speaker 1: the neighborhood, the car behind me, pulled off to the
46:45
Speaker 1: side of the road and parked. Thirty seconds later, I
46:49
Speaker 1: pulled into the driveway of what looked like any other
46:51
Speaker 1: house and stepped up to the front porch. I knocked,
46:56
Speaker 1: then knocked again, and after a couple minutes of waiting,
46:59
Speaker 1: someone finally answered. It was a different man from the
47:04
Speaker 1: one I'd seen at the shop that ordered the pizza.
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Speaker 2: I had a Domino's delivery for Matthew.
47:10
Speaker 1: The man stared at me with very wide open eyes,
47:13
Speaker 1: and I noticed that he looked very similar to the
47:16
Speaker 1: way the other man looked, sleep deprived and drunk. It
47:21
Speaker 1: took him a few seconds to respond.
47:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, of course.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, he said, quietly, reaching out for the pizza.
47:31
Speaker 1: I gave it to him, and he looked at me
47:32
Speaker 1: like he was going to say something else, but he didn't.
47:36
Speaker 1: He just continued with his dull look. I then turned
47:40
Speaker 1: around and saw a guy in a hood jogging down
47:43
Speaker 1: the sidewalk just two houses away, but he was looking
47:46
Speaker 1: right at us. I quickly went back to my car,
47:51
Speaker 1: and the man at the door stepped out onto the
47:53
Speaker 1: porch like he was going to follow me. I got
47:56
Speaker 1: in and started backing out, but the guy in the
47:58
Speaker 1: hood went right behind my car to block me from leaving.
48:02
Speaker 1: The other one then started running toward me, and in
48:05
Speaker 1: the heat of the moment, I just stepped on the
48:07
Speaker 1: pedal to go and reverse. The guy behind the car
48:10
Speaker 1: jumped out of the way at the last second, and
48:12
Speaker 1: both of them started yelling and chasing my car onto
48:15
Speaker 1: the road. In the street light, it became clear that
48:19
Speaker 1: the man in the hood was the guy who came
48:21
Speaker 1: into the pizza shop. With them still running at the
48:25
Speaker 1: front of my car, though I had to reverse dangerously
48:28
Speaker 1: fast down the street until I could safely make a
48:31
Speaker 1: three point turn and get away. I called the cops
48:35
Speaker 1: and within the hour both men were arrested for attempted robbery.
48:40
Speaker 1: Their plan was clearly made while drunk, because they thought
48:43
Speaker 1: that by ordering at the shop, we somehow wouldn't think
48:46
Speaker 1: it was them because it was a delivery order, even
48:49
Speaker 1: though we had their name and address. It really made
48:53
Speaker 1: no sense, but according to the record, they had pulled
48:56
Speaker 1: multiple robberies before, and one of them resulted in the victory.
49:00
Speaker 1: I'm getting beaten up in a parking lot for no reason.
49:04
Speaker 1: Two drunk guys running at me with bad intentions could
49:07
Speaker 1: have escalated into something horrible, but I was glad to
49:10
Speaker 1: have gotten away without any harm, and thankfully they won't
49:14
Speaker 1: be able to do this to anyone else. I used
49:29
Speaker 1: to work for my best friend's parents restaurant. I did
49:32
Speaker 1: deliveries for them. It would sometimes help clean tables or
49:35
Speaker 1: whatever too. The job in itself was fine, but it
49:39
Speaker 1: felt very uncomfortable to have my friend's parents as my boss.
49:43
Speaker 1: I thought it wouldn't be too bad after a while,
49:45
Speaker 1: but it just never got better. They hated every time
49:49
Speaker 1: something wouldn't go exactly as planned, and they also scheduled
49:52
Speaker 1: me and my friend on opposite days, so it didn't
49:55
Speaker 1: even feel like we worked together, which was the whole
49:58
Speaker 1: point of me taking the job. This happened during my
50:01
Speaker 1: third and final month working there. It was a regular
50:05
Speaker 1: night to start getting a few quick deliveries, but it
50:08
Speaker 1: really slowed down toward the back half of the night.
50:12
Speaker 1: My friend's dad hated it when it was slow because
50:15
Speaker 1: I'd be standing around waiting for orders and he'd always
50:18
Speaker 1: be grumpy about it, even though it wasn't my fault.
50:22
Speaker 1: Around eight thirty, which was an hour since my last
50:25
Speaker 1: delivery and thirty minutes until the end of my shift,
50:28
Speaker 1: he picked up a phone call and I overheard him
50:30
Speaker 1: say that we could deliver afterwards. He made the food
50:34
Speaker 1: and handed me the bag to deliver, but when I
50:36
Speaker 1: searched the address up it was forty minutes away. Of course,
50:41
Speaker 1: I complained because by then my shift was over in
50:43
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes and this delivery would take nearly an hour
50:46
Speaker 1: and a half, but he didn't care. I could tell
50:50
Speaker 1: he was just upset about me waiting around, which again
50:53
Speaker 1: was not my fault. But after a brief argument, I
50:57
Speaker 1: did as he said. Forty minutes was pretty far away
51:01
Speaker 1: for our small town, so I had no idea where
51:03
Speaker 1: this address was. By the time I was two minutes away,
51:08
Speaker 1: it was just before ten pm. There were no houses
51:11
Speaker 1: nearby from what I could see, until the last minute
51:14
Speaker 1: of the drive, when it had me turned down a
51:16
Speaker 1: small street that led to a row of maybe six houses.
51:21
Speaker 1: They all looked old and outdated, and they were the
51:23
Speaker 1: only houses I'd seen in the last five minutes of driving.
51:28
Speaker 1: I slowly passed by each house and looked at their
51:31
Speaker 1: numbers until I found the right one. Then I parked
51:34
Speaker 1: on the street right next to the driveway. I'm not
51:37
Speaker 1: gonna lie this place gave me some spooky vibes. It
51:41
Speaker 1: was so far from everything, and the houses themselves were
51:45
Speaker 1: just old and creepy. I got out and brought the
51:49
Speaker 1: bag up to the doorstep, then rang the doorbell and
51:53
Speaker 1: nobody came to the door, so I tried knocking. It
51:57
Speaker 1: was late and I wanted to get this over with.
51:59
Speaker 1: I was getting impatient as I waited. I looked around.
52:04
Speaker 1: The street had no cars on it or in any
52:07
Speaker 1: of the driveways, and none of the actual lights were
52:10
Speaker 1: on inside any.
52:11
Speaker 2: Of the houses.
52:13
Speaker 1: I carried the bag back to my car and called
52:15
Speaker 1: the customer's cell. They didn't pick up, so I just
52:20
Speaker 1: sat in my car and tried to think of what
52:22
Speaker 1: to do next. They hadn't paid for the food yet,
52:25
Speaker 1: so I couldn't just leave it on their doorstep. Then
52:29
Speaker 1: I saw a light move around inside the house. I
52:33
Speaker 1: got out and saw the light move through the downstairs
52:36
Speaker 1: windows and over to the front door. Then it turned off.
52:41
Speaker 1: A second later, the door opened. There was a young
52:45
Speaker 1: man early twenties, standing in the doorway, holding a large
52:49
Speaker 1: flashlight in one hand and a grocery bag in the other.
52:52
Speaker 1: I walked up and asked if he had ordered the food.
52:55
Speaker 1: He nodded and apologized for taking so long to answer
52:58
Speaker 1: the door. I said it was all right and tried
53:01
Speaker 1: to hand him the bag, but he just held up
53:04
Speaker 1: both of his hands to show me they were full,
53:06
Speaker 1: then asked if i'd kindly put the food on the
53:08
Speaker 1: kitchen table for him. I wasn't sure if he was
53:12
Speaker 1: joking or not at first, because he easily could have
53:15
Speaker 1: just put the flashlight or grocery bag down for a second,
53:18
Speaker 1: but then I realized he was serious. I peeked around him,
53:23
Speaker 1: and from the short entryway, I could tell that there
53:25
Speaker 1: was something off about this place. It was dusty all over,
53:30
Speaker 1: and it looked empty. Once I saw that, and thought
53:33
Speaker 1: about the flashlight being used instead of the regular house lights,
53:37
Speaker 1: I was almost sure that this place was a vacant house.
53:42
Speaker 1: The man was still looking at me and waiting for
53:44
Speaker 1: a response. Sorry, I'm actually in a rush.
53:49
Speaker 2: If you could just pay really quick, then I'll leave
53:51
Speaker 2: the bag right here on your porch.
53:54
Speaker 1: He didn't like that answer, and he showed it with
53:56
Speaker 1: his face. He set down the grocery and took one
54:01
Speaker 1: step out of the doorway and onto the porch. I
54:05
Speaker 1: backed up so as to not be too close to him.
54:08
Speaker 1: There was something in his eyes that told me he
54:10
Speaker 1: was about to do something, and I wasn't going to
54:13
Speaker 1: wait for whatever that was to happen. I dropped the
54:17
Speaker 1: bag and sprinted for my car, driving away as the
54:20
Speaker 1: man watched me intently from the porch. I was shaking
54:25
Speaker 1: for most of the drive back, unsure of what could
54:27
Speaker 1: have just happened. Of course, though, when I told my
54:31
Speaker 1: friend's dad about what happened, all he seemed to care
54:34
Speaker 1: about was that I didn't make the man pay. For
54:38
Speaker 1: that reason, I just quit right there on the spot.
54:43
Speaker 1: I knew my friend would be upset, but I'd had
54:45
Speaker 1: enough of his parents being dixed to me for doing
54:48
Speaker 1: nothing wrong. After that, that was pretty heated, and was
54:52
Speaker 1: thinking more about that than I was about the man
54:55
Speaker 1: who lured me to a vacant house and likely tried
54:58
Speaker 1: to rob me or even worse. Being so distracted, I
55:03
Speaker 1: never called the police, not until it was too late.
55:06
Speaker 2: Anyway.
55:08
Speaker 1: Thankfully I wasn't dumb enough to go inside the house, though,
55:11
Speaker 1: because if I had, I probably never would have returned
55:15
Speaker 1: from that delivery. I'd drive a van for work, delivering
55:33
Speaker 1: products to a few family owned stores around my city
55:37
Speaker 1: on a night. Just four months ago, I was driving
55:39
Speaker 1: my route between three stores to do some after hour deliveries.
55:43
Speaker 1: It was about eleven PM and I had just finished
55:46
Speaker 1: the last delivery for the night. From there, the warehouse
55:49
Speaker 1: I had to drop the van off was thirty minutes away.
55:54
Speaker 1: I drove for maybe five minutes until a car pulled
55:57
Speaker 1: up behind me at an intersection. There were no other
56:00
Speaker 1: cars out, just me and them. When the light turned green,
56:04
Speaker 1: I started driving, and it wasn't until a few more
56:07
Speaker 1: minutes down the road that I realized they were still
56:09
Speaker 1: right behind me. I was in a big, slow van,
56:13
Speaker 1: so most people would just go around me, but they didn't.
56:16
Speaker 1: I wasn't worried or anything, but it was odd. As
56:20
Speaker 1: we continued driving, their head lights steadily got brighter and brighter,
56:24
Speaker 1: until they were so close that the light was being
56:26
Speaker 1: blocked by the back of my van. They had to
56:29
Speaker 1: be just a foot or two away from my bumper.
56:32
Speaker 1: The lane next to us was open, so they could
56:35
Speaker 1: easily just go around, but instead they chose to tailgate me,
56:39
Speaker 1: which then started making me nervous. I slowed down to
56:43
Speaker 1: a stop sign and was going to turn just to
56:45
Speaker 1: get away from them, but just as I stopped, the
56:47
Speaker 1: car behind me bumped into my van. The crash wasn't bad,
56:53
Speaker 1: but it was enough to shake the whole van and
56:56
Speaker 1: push me forward a bit, which I knew had to
56:58
Speaker 1: cause some damage. I put my van in park and
57:02
Speaker 1: unbuckled about to get out to see the damage, but
57:05
Speaker 1: a man was already at my window. He was smiling
57:09
Speaker 1: and motioning to talk to me. I opened the door,
57:12
Speaker 1: and as I stepped out, I saw two more guys
57:14
Speaker 1: at the back of my van, both looking at me.
57:18
Speaker 1: The man started to give excuses as we walked over
57:21
Speaker 1: to look at the bumper, but it became obvious that
57:23
Speaker 1: he was very drunk. His words were hard to make out,
57:27
Speaker 1: and he didn't seem very bothered about crashing into me
57:30
Speaker 1: at all. The other guys looked intoxicated too, just from
57:33
Speaker 1: how they were moving, but I didn't know for sure.
57:37
Speaker 1: My van and his car looked a lot worse than
57:40
Speaker 1: I thought. I asked the man for his insurance and
57:42
Speaker 1: went to get mine, but when I got back, I
57:45
Speaker 1: realized none of them had moved. I asked again for
57:48
Speaker 1: his insurance, but all of them just looked at me
57:51
Speaker 1: without saying anything. There was this moment of me looking
57:55
Speaker 1: at them as they stared at me in silence, before
57:58
Speaker 1: my heart started racing. I turned to run back to
58:01
Speaker 1: my van, but instantly I heard all of their footsteps.
58:05
Speaker 2: Coming up behind me.
58:07
Speaker 1: I didn't even make it to the door before one
58:09
Speaker 1: of them grabbed me and shoved me against the side
58:11
Speaker 1: of the van. The one holding me was making threats
58:15
Speaker 1: while the others went back and forth piling up everything
58:18
Speaker 1: in their car. After a minute of having my head
58:22
Speaker 1: pressed against the side, he shoved me away and started
58:25
Speaker 1: forcing me to walk toward their car. The other guys
58:28
Speaker 1: finished taking what they could and got in the car,
58:31
Speaker 1: telling the man behind me to hurry up. As he
58:33
Speaker 1: opened the back door and tried pushing me into the
58:36
Speaker 1: back seat, I knew that if I let him get
58:39
Speaker 1: me in that car, I would likely never be seen again.
58:44
Speaker 1: I put all of my strength into fighting back, doing
58:47
Speaker 1: everything I could to make it as difficult as possible
58:49
Speaker 1: to get me inside. After a twenty second struggle, he
58:53
Speaker 1: tossed me away and got in himself. Then they drove off.
59:00
Speaker 1: I got up and ran to get my phone from
59:02
Speaker 1: the center console, then called the police. The men who
59:06
Speaker 1: attacked me couldn't be identified and still haven't been, and
59:10
Speaker 1: it was hard to say if it was a one
59:12
Speaker 1: time drunk attack or something they had done before. What
59:17
Speaker 1: they planned to do by bringing me in the car
59:19
Speaker 1: with them is also a mystery, but I think we
59:22
Speaker 1: all know what would have been the most likely outcome