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3 Terrifying Lost at Night Horror Stories That Will Make You Never Want to Get Lost Again · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: When I was twenty one, I went on a vacation
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  Speaker 1: to Washington. It was somewhere I'd been dreaming of going
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  Speaker 1: since I was a kid. My plans were to hang
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  Speaker 1: out around Seattle and stay in the city for the
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  Speaker 1: most part, but I figured it was only right to
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  Speaker 1: go camping in the massive forest and woods that Washington
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  Speaker 1: had to offer. I only wanted to camp for a
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  Speaker 1: night and then head back to the city. I'd been
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  Speaker 1: camping a few times before, but never on my own,
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  Speaker 1: so this was a first. I rented out some camping
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  Speaker 1: gear from a local shop and found a small trail
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  Speaker 1: with camping grounds. I drove down there and got going
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  Speaker 1: as soon as the sun was up. The path to
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  Speaker 1: the camping grounds was very easy, and it took me
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  Speaker 1: less than three hours. It was basically just a flat
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  Speaker 1: plot of land that had some clear signs of previous
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  Speaker 1: campers being there, like old equipment, rusty cooking pots, and
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  Speaker 1: some trash. I set up my tent off to the
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  Speaker 1: side next to a tree where the area was clear.
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  Speaker 1: As far as I knew, there weren't any special sights
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  Speaker 1: to see nearby, so I was just there to chill
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  Speaker 1: and be at peace. At sunset, I got a fire
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  Speaker 1: going and brought out my ziplock bag that I had
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  Speaker 1: prepared full with s'mores ingredients. I made an unhealthy amount,
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  Speaker 1: and when I was done, I just sat next to
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  Speaker 1: the campfire and spent some time thinking. That was until
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  Speaker 1: I was interrupted. A man came up behind me from
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  Speaker 1: seemingly nowhere and sat at the other end of my campfire.
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  Speaker 1: Oh hey, you camping around here too, I asked, trying
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  Speaker 1: to make the strange encounter less awkward. He looked at me,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't respond to my question. I looked around
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  Speaker 1: behind me and to the sides to see if anyone
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  Speaker 1: else was here, but it was just us. A moment
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  Speaker 1: went by before he stood up and walked away. I
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  Speaker 1: don't recall if I was more nervous, creeped out, or confused,
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  Speaker 1: but nonetheless I stayed there and kept my eyes open
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  Speaker 1: for the next hour. Eventually, I put my fire out
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  Speaker 1: and went inside my tent, staying up for another hour
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  Speaker 1: before falling asleep. I woke up in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night to a strange sound, the crackle of a campfire.
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  Speaker 1: I opened my eyes and saw the orange light flickering
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  Speaker 1: in front of my tent. My heart beat grew faster
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  Speaker 1: and louder. As I unzipped the tent. My campfire had
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  Speaker 1: been rekindled, and four men sat around it, all looking
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  Speaker 1: directly at me. One of them was the same man
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  Speaker 1: who'd come by previously. I slowly stepped out of the
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  Speaker 1: tent and looked at each of them in horror. Before
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  Speaker 1: I could say anything, one of them spoke something in
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  Speaker 1: a foreign language, and then two of them got up
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  Speaker 1: and grabbed me, patting me down and taking my phone
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  Speaker 1: in wallet. These guys were way bigger than me, and
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  Speaker 1: there was no pin and resisting. After a good search,
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  Speaker 1: they then dragged me away from the camp site. We
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  Speaker 1: walked for a good twenty minutes out into the woods,
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  Speaker 1: and I was holding back tears, pretty sure this was
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  Speaker 1: the end. But then they shoved me on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: hit me over the head, and ran away. I think
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  Speaker 1: they were trying to knock me out, or at least
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  Speaker 1: dazed me enough to not follow them, but I felt
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  Speaker 1: like it was pretty obvious that, given the circumstances, I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't going to go strolling back toward them. I got
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  Speaker 1: up and immediately started jogging in the direction that I
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  Speaker 1: thought would take me closer to the interstate that ran
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  Speaker 1: between the forest. Once all the adrenaline was out, though
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  Speaker 1: my head was killing me and it was hard to
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  Speaker 1: think straight, not to mention it was pitch black and
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  Speaker 1: I was stumbling over fallen logs and tree roots and
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  Speaker 1: had no way of knowing if I was walking straight
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  Speaker 1: or not. Then, I'd say about thirty minutes into walking,
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  Speaker 1: I passed out. It was likely from a mix of everything.
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  Speaker 1: But when I regained consciousness, I realized that I had
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  Speaker 1: even less of an idea of which direction to go in.
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  Speaker 1: I walked, and what I prayed was the right direction,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that there was a chance that I could just
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  Speaker 1: get even more lost. After an hour of seeing nothing
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  Speaker 1: but large trees in dark woods, I spotted a light
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  Speaker 1: in the distance. It was a flashlight, moving around like
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  Speaker 1: someone was carrying it. As I approached, I screamed for help,
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  Speaker 1: only to see the figure of a man turned toward
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  Speaker 1: me and shine the light in my direction, followed by
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  Speaker 1: three more figures appearing behind him. Without hesitating, I sprinted away,
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't seem to follow me from that encounter,
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  Speaker 1: Although scaring the shit out of me again, I saw
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  Speaker 1: the way they were walking and was able to keep
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  Speaker 1: myself going in that direction. Two more hours of walking,
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  Speaker 1: and at break of dawn, I reached the interstate. After
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  Speaker 1: another half hour, I finally waved down a car and
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  Speaker 1: was safe from there. After getting back to the city
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  Speaker 1: and contacting police, I got my car back and gave
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  Speaker 1: the officers the best description of the events that I
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  Speaker 1: could give. I still had to pay for the lost
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  Speaker 1: rental items, but that was far from the worst of it.
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  Speaker 1: Lucky for me, the men who robbed and attacked me
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  Speaker 1: didn't seem to be in the killing business, but leaving
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  Speaker 1: me out in a vast force like that in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the night was giving me slim chances at best.
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  Speaker 1: As odd as it sounds if I hadn't seen them
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  Speaker 1: for a second time, although as horrifying as it was,
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  Speaker 1: it's likely the only reason I'm still here today. I
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  Speaker 1: was on a road heading back from a job interview
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  Speaker 1: I had across the States. I stayed for an extra
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  Speaker 1: couple days to make it a mini vacation, which was
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  Speaker 1: why I drove instead of taking a plane. Anyway. It
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  Speaker 1: was pouring outside, which would usually make for a relaxing drive,
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  Speaker 1: but it was the middle of the night, so it
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  Speaker 1: made visibility difficult. Most of the drive consisted of going
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  Speaker 1: through dense forest on long one lane roads. The drive
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be around ten hours, and obviously, with rain,
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  Speaker 1: I expected a slight delay. It was just past one
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  Speaker 1: a m. When I checked my phone and saw it
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  Speaker 1: was sixty two miles until the next turn. For some reason, though,
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  Speaker 1: Apple Maps was taking me on a different route from
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  Speaker 1: the way I'd taken before. I didn't see it as
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  Speaker 1: a problem at all, and continued for a while, maybe
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  Speaker 1: thirty minutes before I glanced over at my phone again.
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  Speaker 1: It's still said I was sixty two miles away from
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  Speaker 1: the next turn. I looked closer, and my car wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even moving on the map. I tried clicking on it
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  Speaker 1: and restarting the app, but it was frozen on that screen.
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  Speaker 1: To make things worse, all it said was turn right
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  Speaker 1: in sixty two miles with no road or street name.
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  Speaker 1: Without that, I had no idea where I was going
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  Speaker 1: or when to turn, other than a tiny memory of
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  Speaker 1: a street name and had shown me before. It was
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  Speaker 1: one of those where if I saw the street sign
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  Speaker 1: then I'd recognize or remember it, but I couldn't fully
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  Speaker 1: remember it on my own. Despite the inconvenience. I continued
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  Speaker 1: driving for a while in hopes that it was just
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  Speaker 1: an internet connection thing and once I was out of
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  Speaker 1: the dense forest, it would fix itself. An hour or
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  Speaker 1: so of driving later, I was still in the forest
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  Speaker 1: and the rain was still pouring down. But I saw
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  Speaker 1: an intersection coming up on the connecting street. There was
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  Speaker 1: a truck parked on the side, and I figured they
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  Speaker 1: were probably having the same problem I was having. I
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  Speaker 1: slowed and looked at the street sign, and to my surprise,
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  Speaker 1: I thought I actually recognized it. It could have just
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  Speaker 1: been some coincidence or a false memory due to my
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  Speaker 1: lack of sleep, but I ended up turning and taking
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  Speaker 1: my chances. At first, I was fairly confident in my choice,
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  Speaker 1: thinking I might have actually made the right call. But
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  Speaker 1: after an hour of driving, I was still in the forest.
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  Speaker 1: I knew for sure that I didn't spend even nearly
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  Speaker 1: this much time driving through the forest on the way there,
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  Speaker 1: so something was wrong. I checked my phone and still
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  Speaker 1: had no luck. But up ahead I saw a faint
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  Speaker 1: glow of a billboard sign a motel right there in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of this isolated forest. It seemed like an
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  Speaker 1: odd choice for a motel, but I pulled into the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot so I could safely figure out my situation.
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  Speaker 1: The whole lot was empty, not a single car. A
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  Speaker 1: minute later, though, that same truck i'd seen back at
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  Speaker 1: the intersection pulled in and parked a few spots down.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't see much through the rain, so I just
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  Speaker 1: ignored them and continued with trying to get my phone
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  Speaker 1: to work. I want to say I probably sat there
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  Speaker 1: for fifteen minutes before giving up. Just before deciding to
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  Speaker 1: go into the motel to either ask for help or
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  Speaker 1: get a room, a knock on my window startled me.
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  Speaker 1: Hey can you help me? He yelled through the rain.
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  Speaker 1: I rolled the window down a crack, letting rain splash
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  Speaker 1: all over me. As I asked what he wanted. He
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  Speaker 1: said he needed some directions and told me a very
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  Speaker 1: specific address, as if I were to know where it was. Sorry, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just as lost as you are. He frowned, then
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  Speaker 1: smiled and said to have a nice night, walking back
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  Speaker 1: through the rain to his truck. After a minute, I
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  Speaker 1: got out and ran into the motel. The front room
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  Speaker 1: was dark and empty. Nobody was at the desk. I
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  Speaker 1: leaned over the counter to see if someone was in
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  Speaker 1: the back. But then the front door opened behind me.
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  Speaker 1: I turned and saw that man from the truck outside.
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  Speaker 1: He was soaked with water dripping from his long hair
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  Speaker 1: and beard. The look on his face was cold and sinister,
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  Speaker 1: and he had one hand suspiciously shoved in his pocket.
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  Speaker 1: In that instant, I quickly tried walking past him. He
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  Speaker 1: stayed firmly in my way, but for whatever reason, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't stop me from squeezing past him and out the door.
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  Speaker 1: As I quickly walked to my car, I heard the
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  Speaker 1: man exit the building behind me, and his footsteps catching up.
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  Speaker 1: I got in and turned on my car. Just as
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  Speaker 1: the man came up to my window and through the rain,
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  Speaker 1: I heard the sound of my door latch click. Thank
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  Speaker 1: god my car auto locks, because as soon as I
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  Speaker 1: heard that and looked up at him, he stared at
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  Speaker 1: me with disturbingly rage filled eyes and began forcefully trying
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  Speaker 1: to open the door. He was pulling so hard the
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  Speaker 1: entire car was rocking back and forth. I pulled out
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  Speaker 1: and drove off so fast I almost ran him over.
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  Speaker 1: I got back to the intersection and sped down the
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  Speaker 1: way I was going before. Thankfully, I made it to
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  Speaker 1: a city after twenty miles and was able to get help.
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  Speaker 1: It turned out the motel I was at had closed
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  Speaker 1: down a couple months back, and for some reason the
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  Speaker 1: sign still worked, which nobody could explain to me. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what that man's intentions were and whether or
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  Speaker 1: not he had planned that whole thing out, but one
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  Speaker 1: thing I am sure of is that I got very
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  Speaker 1: lucky with my escape from that motel. I lived on
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  Speaker 1: my own for the first time in my life when
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  Speaker 1: I turned twenty five. It made me want to explore
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  Speaker 1: doing other things by myself too, and one thing I'd
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  Speaker 1: always wanted to do was go for a long hike.
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  Speaker 1: It might sound a little weird, but it was just
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  Speaker 1: something that I thought sounded like an accomplishment to do solo.
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  Speaker 1: I had no experience in any outdoorsy activities, so this
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  Speaker 1: was my first big trail. Online it said it was
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  Speaker 1: eight hours, so I packed as much water and food
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  Speaker 1: as I could, and on Monday morning, I set out
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  Speaker 1: on the hike. The first thing I noticed when I
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  Speaker 1: started walking was how thin the trail was. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know if this was normal or not, but it was
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  Speaker 1: barely wide enough to walk on without stepping on the
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  Speaker 1: borders of the trail. While being thin, it was still
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  Speaker 1: very defined, and I knew i'd be back well before dark,
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  Speaker 1: so I wasn't worried about it. Although I didn't do
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  Speaker 1: much hiking, I was still in decent shape, so walking
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  Speaker 1: long distances wasn't an issue. Most of the way up
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  Speaker 1: the trail, I was feeling great and having no problem,
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  Speaker 1: but as I kept going it did start to wear
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  Speaker 1: me down a bit. I checked my watch constantly, and
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  Speaker 1: once I was six hours and still hadn't reached the end,
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  Speaker 1: I was starting to worry. Supposedly, the end of the
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  Speaker 1: trail was a small overlook of the valley, so there
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  Speaker 1: was no way I could just walk past it or
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  Speaker 1: miss it somehow, but according to the website i'd seen earlier,
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  Speaker 1: I was two hours behind. Then I started to think
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  Speaker 1: maybe it meant the trail was eight hours to complete
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  Speaker 1: one way and was not including the walk back. But
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  Speaker 1: I just knew that I had to turn back at
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  Speaker 1: this point if I wanted to be out of the
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  Speaker 1: forest before dark. I turned around and began walking back
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  Speaker 1: the way I came. As I walked back, I noticed
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  Speaker 1: a few things that I hadn't noticed on the way up. Specifically,
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  Speaker 1: there was a line of prints that went perpendicular to
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  Speaker 1: the path, going right across from one end of the
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  Speaker 1: forest to the other, and just kept going as far
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  Speaker 1: as I could see. I thought maybe I didn't see
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  Speaker 1: it before because of the different point of view, but
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  Speaker 1: I was already a bit worried and this wasn't helping
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  Speaker 1: my case. Then three hours into the hike back, and
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  Speaker 1: nearly nine hours total being in the forest, the trail
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  Speaker 1: I was walking on started to widen. One thing I
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  Speaker 1: knew for sure was that the trail was thin the
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  Speaker 1: entire time up, so when I saw this, my stomach tightened.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know how, but I had gotten onto the
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  Speaker 1: wrong trail, maybe taken a side path accidentally. I stood
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  Speaker 1: there like a terrified child for a few minutes, unsure
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  Speaker 1: of my next move. The sun was already setting, and
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  Speaker 1: if I had taken the wrong turn in the daytime,
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  Speaker 1: how would I make sure to follow my way back
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  Speaker 1: and not make the same mistake in the dark. I
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  Speaker 1: knew my choices were limited, so I had to turn
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  Speaker 1: back again and hope for the best. I started walking,
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  Speaker 1: but not long into it, I saw footprints again, not
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  Speaker 1: the same ones from before, and I knew these weren't
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  Speaker 1: there just ten minutes ago. I looked out to the
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  Speaker 1: forest in the direction they were going, but it was
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  Speaker 1: now too dark to see much. Soon I couldn't see anything.
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  Speaker 1: The moonlight provided a dim overcast, but I hadn't packed
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  Speaker 1: the flashlight. It was the middle of April, too, so
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  Speaker 1: the nights would get pretty cold where I lived. As
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  Speaker 1: I walked, the only sound was my footsteps on the
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  Speaker 1: gravel and the soft noises the forest made. That was
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  Speaker 1: until I heard something ahead, someone else walking on the gravel.
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  Speaker 1: I stopped and stared ahead into the dark, but after
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  Speaker 1: a few steps the sound went away. I carefully moved
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  Speaker 1: forward until I saw the footprints and the gravel going
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  Speaker 1: straight across the trail. I turned my phone light on
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  Speaker 1: and pointed it into the forest. It was still too dim,
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  Speaker 1: but I knew someone was out there. Hello, I called out.
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  Speaker 1: There was nothing but silence. I held my phone light
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  Speaker 1: up still, and after a moment I saw a very
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  Speaker 1: slight fog from some one's cold breath rise from behind
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  Speaker 1: a nearby tree. They were maybe ten feet away from
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  Speaker 1: me into the forest, but seeing as they were hiding
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  Speaker 1: made me scared as to what they were up to
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  Speaker 1: and why exactly they didn't want to be seen. I
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  Speaker 1: quickly walked further down the trail, and after thirty minutes
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  Speaker 1: I found where I had accidentally turned off. Several hours later,
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  Speaker 1: I made it out and got to my car. I
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  Speaker 1: hated myself for weeks after that for having gotten myself
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  Speaker 1: into such a bad situation, but it only got worse.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was exactly three weeks since my hike
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  Speaker 1: when I saw in the news that two bodies were
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  Speaker 1: found in the forest I had hiked in. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: give exact locations, but it was in the area near
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  Speaker 1: the trail I had taken. I don't think they found
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  Speaker 1: who had done it, but I'm almost positive that at
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  Speaker 1: one point I was standing just ten feet away from them,
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  Speaker 1: close enough to see their cold breath in the dark.