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- 0:04Speaker 1: I'm unmobile, so the format might be a little bit wonky,
- 0:08Speaker 1: and just as a reference, I'm a transgender man and
- 0:11Speaker 1: use he pronouns now. But to make this story easier,
- 0:15Speaker 1: I'm going to refer to myself as a female. At
- 0:19Speaker 1: the time, my name was Samantha. This happened to me
- 0:23Speaker 1: when I was around twelve, so if I'm twenty now,
- 0:26Speaker 1: that would make this about eight years ago. Every summer,
- 0:30Speaker 1: I would spend the time with my grandparents, who lived
- 0:33Speaker 1: up in the mountains in a very small mountainside town.
- 0:38Speaker 1: It was one of those remote little towns where just
- 0:41Speaker 1: about everyone knew each other, but it was as empty
- 0:44Speaker 1: as it was close. We barely had any street lights
- 0:48Speaker 1: at the time, none by my house, you know that
- 0:52Speaker 1: sort of thing. My grandparents were also a tad bit irresponsible.
- 0:57Speaker 1: They would often leave me at the house all alone
- 1:00Speaker 1: whenever they needed to run errands in the city a
- 1:02Speaker 1: few hours away. I was a pretty responsible kid, though,
- 1:06Speaker 1: and so nothing bad ever happened until one summer evening.
- 1:12Speaker 1: One summer's evening, and I took a glass of iced
- 1:15Speaker 1: tea outside so I could sit on the porch and
- 1:18Speaker 1: watch the sun set. I was minding my own business,
- 1:22Speaker 1: sitting there all alone, when all of a sudden, I
- 1:24Speaker 1: heard a voice call out to me, Hey, you, little lady.
- 1:29Speaker 1: The voice was sort of thick and raspy, like this
- 1:32Speaker 1: person had been chain smoking for forty years straight. I
- 1:36Speaker 1: look up, and there's a man at the end of
- 1:38Speaker 1: the driveway. To this day, his images burned into my mind.
- 1:43Speaker 1: He was tall. He towered over me at about six
- 1:46Speaker 1: foot five if I had to wager a guess. He
- 1:50Speaker 1: was wearing a pair of overalls that were caked in
- 1:53Speaker 1: grime and dirt, and when I would later learn to
- 1:56Speaker 1: be animal blood, a white wife beater that was torn
- 1:59Speaker 1: all to muddy black boots, and somehow a completely pristine
- 2:04Speaker 1: silver watch. He was an older man, maybe about fifty
- 2:08Speaker 1: or sixty, and his eyes were a sharp blue. His
- 2:12Speaker 1: face was so wrinkled up that it reminded me of
- 2:15Speaker 1: a walrus. His hair was gray with light streaks of blond.
- 2:20Speaker 1: He had a huge long beard and was mostly balding,
- 2:23Speaker 1: with long hair to his shoulders wherever he wasn't. He
- 2:26Speaker 1: was also missing most of his teeth. If you're wondering
- 2:30Speaker 1: how I got such a good look at him, I'll
- 2:32Speaker 1: get to that in a moment. I didn't automatically assume
- 2:36Speaker 1: the worst, even if this situation was very odd, I
- 2:41Speaker 1: sort of replied with a non committal yeah. He got
- 2:45Speaker 1: closer to me, to the point where we were now
- 2:48Speaker 1: only about ten feet apart. Do you have directions to one,
- 2:52Speaker 1: two three four Forest Lane? He asked? That was my address? Uh,
- 2:58Speaker 1: that's here this Are you looking for my grandparents and
- 3:03Speaker 1: they aren't home today? Big mistake, My naive self thought
- 3:08Speaker 1: nothing bad of this entire situation. He nodded, and this
- 3:14Speaker 1: grin formed on his face. It was positively toothless and
- 3:19Speaker 1: genuinely sinister. It was then that it clicked that something
- 3:22Speaker 1: wasn't quite right. Good, very good. The man looked all around.
- 3:29Speaker 1: It occurred to me that none of my neighbors were home.
- 3:32Speaker 1: Most were out to dinner, were staying late at work.
- 3:36Speaker 1: It was a Friday night. After all. My stomach sank.
- 3:40Speaker 1: The man looked back at me and seemed to scan
- 3:42Speaker 1: me up and down. You're a very pretty girl, he said,
- 3:47Speaker 1: simply too pretty to be under age, I reckon, and
- 3:51Speaker 1: that made me start to shake. I was frozen in
- 3:55Speaker 1: my steps, And here is this man who took a
- 3:58Speaker 1: few steps closer then and asked me a question that
- 4:01Speaker 1: chilled me to my core, and to this day it
- 4:04Speaker 1: still haunts me. Are you afraid to die? Samantha? He
- 4:10Speaker 1: knew my name. I had never seen this man before
- 4:13Speaker 1: in my entire life, but somehow he knew my name.
- 4:18Speaker 1: That's what scared me the most. I very wisely decided
- 4:22Speaker 1: to get the fuck out of Dodge, and I ran
- 4:24Speaker 1: into the house, slamming the glass screen door and locking it.
- 4:28Speaker 1: The side note, our front door is a sliding glass door.
- 4:32Speaker 1: It's weird. I know. He stood maybe about three feet
- 4:36Speaker 1: away from the door, and after that we just stared
- 4:39Speaker 1: at each other. In my head, I thought, I don't
- 4:42Speaker 1: know if any of the other windows or doors are locked.
- 4:45Speaker 1: He knew that I was thinking that, and so we
- 4:48Speaker 1: stood in the standoff, just staring. I got a very
- 4:53Speaker 1: good look at the man, everything from the smallest toe
- 4:56Speaker 1: to the very top of his head. Each of us
- 4:59Speaker 1: stood there, barely moving, seeming to be in an endless
- 5:02Speaker 1: game of red light green light, and whoever moved first
- 5:06Speaker 1: would lose everything. The sun was setting. It felt like
- 5:09Speaker 1: an eternity, but in reality we were maybe only there
- 5:12Speaker 1: for ten minutes. Talks every thirty seconds. It would get
- 5:17Speaker 1: just a little bit darker and darker and darker. The
- 5:22Speaker 1: man was slowly becoming just a silhouette, and then he
- 5:25Speaker 1: was starting to disappear. No street lights, no neighbors, no witnesses.
- 5:30Speaker 1: I began to tear up and shake. I was so scared.
- 5:34Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever been more scared in my
- 5:36Speaker 1: entire life. Was I going to die here? I was
- 5:40Speaker 1: so young, and there was so much I still wanted
- 5:42Speaker 1: to do. If he ran to get in. What would
- 5:45Speaker 1: I do next? Would I go back outside and try
- 5:48Speaker 1: to make a run for the gas station up the street?
- 5:50Speaker 1: Would I try to hide an outlast him until my
- 5:53Speaker 1: grandparents arrived? If so, where could I hide? And then,
- 5:58Speaker 1: by some grace of God, at that exact moment my
- 6:01Speaker 1: grandparents arrived home, the head lights shined on the man,
- 6:06Speaker 1: or at least that's where he should have been. Somehow,
- 6:10Speaker 1: he was already long gone. I ran to my grandparents,
- 6:14Speaker 1: sobbing and telling them the entire story. They called the police,
- 6:18Speaker 1: but there wasn't much they could do. A few years later,
- 6:22Speaker 1: I was at my grandparents' house once again. I woke
- 6:26Speaker 1: up from a good night's sleep and wandered off into
- 6:28Speaker 1: the kitchen, serving myself some breakfast that my grandma had made.
- 6:32Speaker 1: I sat at the table right next to my grandpa. Wordlessly,
- 6:36Speaker 1: he handed me the paper that he was reading. Front page.
- 6:40Speaker 1: Above the fold, there was a mug shot of the
- 6:43Speaker 1: man I had encountered that day. He was a butcher
- 6:46Speaker 1: in a remote town just a few hours away, convicted
- 6:50Speaker 1: for killing and committing necrophilia on the bodies of his
- 6:54Speaker 1: wife and three kids, then butchering them into pieces and
- 6:58Speaker 1: throwing them out deep into the world. He apparently was
- 7:01Speaker 1: also under investigation for various murders, all of which involved dismemberment.
- 7:07Speaker 1: I have no idea if anyone else saw this man
- 7:10Speaker 1: or knows about the case off the top of their heads,
- 7:12Speaker 1: but if you do, it would be really interesting to
- 7:15Speaker 1: hear about and maybe read that news article again. I
- 7:19Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised, since this is so fucking sinister in nature.
- 7:23Speaker 1: Apparently he only killed women, and if he truly did
- 7:27Speaker 1: dismember all those people, I would fit his victim profile
- 7:31Speaker 1: to a t young female, dark hair, dark eyes, and
- 7:35Speaker 1: of Native or Hispanic origin. My grandfather took back the
- 7:40Speaker 1: newspaper after I was done reading it and then trying
- 7:43Speaker 1: to conceal how shaken he was. He put a hand
- 7:46Speaker 1: on my shoulder and said, I'm so happy to have
- 7:49Speaker 1: you here, kidd. To give some background information, this event
- 7:58Speaker 1: occurred a little over a year ago, and I still
- 8:01Speaker 1: haven't been able to even begin to get over it.
- 8:04Speaker 1: I'm a twenty two year old five foot four female,
- 8:07Speaker 1: and at the time I was twenty one. My family
- 8:11Speaker 1: and I had recently moved to a new town. There
- 8:13Speaker 1: was a fair amount more rural than the town I
- 8:16Speaker 1: had previously limped in. Our house was a large ranch
- 8:20Speaker 1: style house with a basement. I was home from college,
- 8:24Speaker 1: and my parents had left for the week to celebrate
- 8:26Speaker 1: their wedding anniversary with their friends who lived several hours away.
- 8:31Speaker 1: Before I continue, I'll give a quick layout of the
- 8:34Speaker 1: house so that you'll be able to imagine the setting
- 8:37Speaker 1: a bit more clearly. There were three doors which led
- 8:40Speaker 1: into the house, one on the front porch, a sliding
- 8:44Speaker 1: glass door on the back porch which did have a
- 8:47Speaker 1: lock in floor length curtains for privacy, and another door
- 8:51Speaker 1: on the other side of the wall, from which my
- 8:53Speaker 1: bedroom led into the garage and basement. When you walk
- 8:56Speaker 1: out of my bedroom and turn, you can see all
- 8:59Speaker 1: the way across the house through the kitchen, living room,
- 9:02Speaker 1: and dining area, to the door of my parents' bedroom
- 9:06Speaker 1: and the stairs leading up from the basement. At this point,
- 9:10Speaker 1: it had been a few days since my parents had left,
- 9:13Speaker 1: and so far I hadn't had any problems, and they
- 9:16Speaker 1: had sent me a couple of messages on Facebook letting
- 9:19Speaker 1: me know that they had arrived to their friend's house
- 9:21Speaker 1: safely and were having a very good time. The day
- 9:25Speaker 1: had gone pretty well, and I was sure to check
- 9:28Speaker 1: that I had locked all the doors of the house.
- 9:31Speaker 1: Once the sun started to go down. It was about
- 9:33Speaker 1: eleven PM and I was doing my nightly routine of
- 9:37Speaker 1: staying in bed and messing around on the computer when
- 9:40Speaker 1: I suddenly got the sinking feeling of dread. It felt
- 9:44Speaker 1: as if I was being watched. It was summer and
- 9:47Speaker 1: we didn't have ac so I had a large box
- 9:50Speaker 1: van in the window blowing the cool night air into
- 9:53Speaker 1: my stiflingly hot room. But once that feeling settled over me,
- 9:58Speaker 1: I decided that maybe I I should remove the fan
- 10:01Speaker 1: and close the window, just to be safe. Once removing
- 10:06Speaker 1: the fan, shutting and locking the window, and pulling down
- 10:10Speaker 1: the curtain, I felt a bit better. However, I still
- 10:14Speaker 1: could not shake the feeling of dread. I lay back
- 10:18Speaker 1: down in my bed and tried to continue what I
- 10:21Speaker 1: was doing, although I never put my headphones back on.
- 10:25Speaker 1: After only a few minutes, I began to hear something
- 10:28Speaker 1: that sounded like light scratching. I sat still in bed,
- 10:32Speaker 1: listening to the sound and trying to pinpoint what it
- 10:35Speaker 1: was and if I recognized the noise at all. Our
- 10:39Speaker 1: new house, although relatively close in distance to our neighbors,
- 10:43Speaker 1: had a fair amount of forest all around it. I
- 10:47Speaker 1: thought the scratching may have been an animal, or just
- 10:50Speaker 1: someone's dog that got loose and wanted to come inside.
- 10:53Speaker 1: After a few minutes, the scratching stopped and everything returned
- 10:57Speaker 1: to complete silence. At this point, and I figured that
- 11:00Speaker 1: I was probably right and that it must have been
- 11:03Speaker 1: an animal. My relief was short lived, though, as soon
- 11:07Speaker 1: after the scratching stopped, from the other side of the wall,
- 11:11Speaker 1: I began to hear footsteps slowly descending into my basement.
- 11:15Speaker 1: This is when I knew I was completely fucked. There
- 11:19Speaker 1: was no way I could get out of the house
- 11:21Speaker 1: without walking past the basement stairs. We didn't have a
- 11:25Speaker 1: house phone, and at the time I was in the
- 11:27Speaker 1: process of getting a new cell phone because mine was
- 11:30Speaker 1: broken beyond repair. I sat there for a few seconds,
- 11:34Speaker 1: just wondering what the hell I should do. I knew
- 11:38Speaker 1: that I would need to get out of the house
- 11:39Speaker 1: as soon as possible, and that the more time I wasted,
- 11:43Speaker 1: the worse it would end up being for me. I
- 11:45Speaker 1: contemplated popping the screen out of my bedroom window and
- 11:49Speaker 1: jumping out, but it was far enough off the ground
- 11:52Speaker 1: that there was a good chance I would end up
- 11:53Speaker 1: getting hurt if I did so. Not to mention that
- 11:57Speaker 1: if I jumped out the window and hurt myself't be
- 12:00Speaker 1: able to run for help, and I would be right
- 12:02Speaker 1: next to the door that whoever was in my house
- 12:04Speaker 1: had just gone in through. I decided very carefully and
- 12:09Speaker 1: quietly to open my door and peek out around the corner.
- 12:13Speaker 1: If the coast was clear, I would make a mad
- 12:15Speaker 1: dash for the front door and sprint to my neighbor's
- 12:17Speaker 1: house for help. I very slowly opened my bedroom door,
- 12:22Speaker 1: letting my eyes adjust to the darkness of the house,
- 12:25Speaker 1: before creeping around the corner and looking to see if
- 12:28Speaker 1: it was safe to make a run for it. What
- 12:30Speaker 1: I saw nearly made me vomit. As my eyes scammed
- 12:35Speaker 1: the house, I noticed that something was off. I squinted
- 12:39Speaker 1: as hard as I could and looked over at the
- 12:41Speaker 1: basement stairs. I started to be able to make out
- 12:44Speaker 1: the shape of a man. What made it worse, he
- 12:47Speaker 1: wasn't just standing at the top of the stairs, he
- 12:50Speaker 1: was crawling up them like some kind of demonic creature.
- 12:54Speaker 1: I quickly backed into my room, again, shutting and locking
- 12:57Speaker 1: the door as quietly as I could. I didn't think
- 13:00Speaker 1: he'd seen me, but there was no way I was
- 13:02Speaker 1: going to make a run for it now. My only
- 13:05Speaker 1: choice was to pop the screen and jump out the window.
- 13:08Speaker 1: As I was unlocking and opening my window, I heard
- 13:11Speaker 1: the handle to my bedroom door turn once the man
- 13:15Speaker 1: realized it was locked, and a sickeningly sweet sing song
- 13:19Speaker 1: voice he coued, I know you're in there. This was
- 13:24Speaker 1: followed by a loud cackle, and what I can only
- 13:26Speaker 1: imagine was him throwing himself at full force against my door.
- 13:31Speaker 1: I ripped the screen out of the window and flung
- 13:33Speaker 1: myself out. Unfortunately, I landed on the wrong side of
- 13:37Speaker 1: my right foot, and I was sure I'd just badly
- 13:40Speaker 1: hurt my ankle. At the time, I couldn't think of
- 13:43Speaker 1: anything other than getting as far away as possible. I
- 13:47Speaker 1: got up and hobbled as fast as I could to
- 13:49Speaker 1: my neighbor's house, knocking on their door in a panicked
- 13:53Speaker 1: frenzy and ringing the bell over and over. I looked
- 13:56Speaker 1: over at my house as I was yelling for my
- 13:58Speaker 1: neighbors to let me in. I swear to fucking God
- 14:02Speaker 1: I could see the man standing at my window waving
- 14:06Speaker 1: at me. My neighbors finally opened the door after what
- 14:10Speaker 1: felt like forever, and I managed to explain well enough
- 14:12Speaker 1: what was going on for them to let me in
- 14:14Speaker 1: and call the police. I stayed with them until the
- 14:17Speaker 1: police arrived. The police searched my house and found that
- 14:21Speaker 1: the lock to the basement had been picked, that the
- 14:23Speaker 1: door in my bedroom was hanging off the hinges. They
- 14:27Speaker 1: weren't able to find the man anywhere, and because I
- 14:30Speaker 1: had only seen him for a split second in the dark,
- 14:32Speaker 1: I couldn't provide them with a good description of him.
- 14:35Speaker 1: Of course, I got into contact with my parents immediately,
- 14:39Speaker 1: and they hurried right home. The police took my statement
- 14:42Speaker 1: and searched the area for the man, but of course
- 14:45Speaker 1: they came up with nothing. After this event, my parents
- 14:49Speaker 1: and I were sure to add dead balt locks to
- 14:51Speaker 1: the door leading into the basement and to the door
- 14:54Speaker 1: leading out of the basement to the rest of the house.
- 14:56Speaker 1: They also helped me pay to get a new phone.
- 15:00Speaker 1: What really bothers me about all of this, though, is
- 15:02Speaker 1: that nothing was stolen. There wasn't even any evidence that
- 15:06Speaker 1: the man had looked through anything all the while he'd
- 15:09Speaker 1: been inside my house. I'm posting this story on a
- 15:17Speaker 1: throwaway because I'm embarrassed about how I handled this whole situation,
- 15:22Speaker 1: and I don't really want it connected to my real name.
- 15:26Speaker 1: I'll start with some background. I'm a twenty year old
- 15:29Speaker 1: college student and my brother is seventeen. This story happened
- 15:34Speaker 1: over summer, so at the time I was home from college.
- 15:38Speaker 1: Our parents were out of town because it was their
- 15:41Speaker 1: twenty fifth anniversary and they decided to take a little vacation,
- 15:46Speaker 1: leaving me and my bro home alone. That was fine
- 15:49Speaker 1: by us, though we spend most of the time drinking
- 15:52Speaker 1: beer and playing Mario Party. During one of our game sessions,
- 15:57Speaker 1: I showed my brother all of these texts I had
- 16:00Speaker 1: been getting from a guy that I had gone to
- 16:02Speaker 1: high school with. I didn't think much of them. They
- 16:06Speaker 1: were mostly just weak attempts at flirting. Occasionally he would
- 16:10Speaker 1: say something about one of my Facebook posts or about
- 16:12Speaker 1: seeing me somewhere around town, but I thought overall it
- 16:16Speaker 1: was pretty harmless. My little brother seemed really concerned, though,
- 16:20Speaker 1: He pointed out that the guy was texting me at
- 16:23Speaker 1: least seven times a day. He told me if I
- 16:26Speaker 1: ever needed him, all I had to do was text
- 16:29Speaker 1: him the word help and he'd come no matter what.
- 16:33Speaker 1: I laughed at him. I said he was being paranoid. Obviously,
- 16:37Speaker 1: that sort of thing could never happen to me. I
- 16:40Speaker 1: was very wrong. Two days after we had that conversation,
- 16:45Speaker 1: my brother was over at his girlfriend's house, which was
- 16:48Speaker 1: about five minutes away, so I was completely alone at home.
- 16:52Speaker 1: Me being the dummy I am. I posted on Facebook
- 16:56Speaker 1: home alone tonight, huh. About forty five seconds after posting it,
- 17:02Speaker 1: I got a message from the guy saying that he
- 17:05Speaker 1: could be over at my house in five minutes and
- 17:07Speaker 1: he really wanted to spend time with me. I told
- 17:11Speaker 1: him no, but thgged him for offering. He responded by
- 17:14Speaker 1: saying it was already too late because he was headed
- 17:17Speaker 1: there already. I told him no again, but he just
- 17:20Speaker 1: kept insisting that I spend time with him. He said
- 17:23Speaker 1: he had something special planned for us tonight. Again I
- 17:27Speaker 1: wasn't interested. He responded, too late, I'm already here. I
- 17:33Speaker 1: went to my front door and opened it, only to
- 17:35Speaker 1: see him standing there, to my surprise, holding a bottle
- 17:39Speaker 1: of very expensive red wine. I noticed that the bottle
- 17:43Speaker 1: had been opened already, but the entire container was still full.
- 17:48Speaker 1: Then we get to the park that I'm a bit
- 17:49Speaker 1: embarrassed about. Somehow, after a while of talking, I let
- 17:54Speaker 1: him convince me to let him inside. Once he was in, though,
- 17:58Speaker 1: I started to know things off right away because he
- 18:02Speaker 1: poured two glasses of wine. I didn't touch mine because
- 18:06Speaker 1: I noticed that he wouldn't touch his at all. He
- 18:09Speaker 1: keipt insisting that I drink mine, to the point of
- 18:12Speaker 1: being angry that I wouldn't even try. It was about
- 18:15Speaker 1: this time that I realized I admit a grave mistake.
- 18:19Speaker 1: I excused myself and went to the bathroom, where I
- 18:22Speaker 1: took the opportunity to text my brother. When I left,
- 18:26Speaker 1: I noticed the man had stood up and his eyes
- 18:29Speaker 1: were locked on to me. He looked furious. He mumbled
- 18:33Speaker 1: something I wish you had just done this the easy way.
- 18:37Speaker 1: He started moving towards me, and I froze. His eyes
- 18:41Speaker 1: looked like those of an animal. I completely froze up.
- 18:44Speaker 1: I wanted to fight and scream, but I just couldn't
- 18:47Speaker 1: move my body at all. He grabbed me and forced
- 18:51Speaker 1: me to the floor, but even still I didn't fight.
- 18:55Speaker 1: I shut my eyes and waited for the inevitable. But
- 18:58Speaker 1: just then a miracle car. I heard the door burst open.
- 19:03Speaker 1: My brother came flying in from the outside, calling out
- 19:06Speaker 1: to me and asking if I was all right. My
- 19:08Speaker 1: attacker stood up and tried to run, but my brother
- 19:12Speaker 1: grabbed him and wrestled him to the ground. He pinned
- 19:15Speaker 1: my attacker down and said the single most intimidating thing
- 19:19Speaker 1: I've heard him say in his life. If you text
- 19:22Speaker 1: her again, I'll hurt you. If you look at her again,
- 19:25Speaker 1: I'll hurt you. And if you touch her, I'll kill you.
- 19:30Speaker 1: He dragged the guy out of our house and threw
- 19:32Speaker 1: him face first to the pavement. Thankfully, I never heard
- 19:36Speaker 1: from the guy again. After talking to my bro later
- 19:39Speaker 1: that night, I learned that his girlfriend's parents weren't home
- 19:42Speaker 1: that night, so he skipped out on definitely having sex
- 19:46Speaker 1: just to come save me, without a single question.