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6 ALONE AT WORK_NIGHT SHIFT HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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  Speaker 1: I used to work at my dad's restaurant when I
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  Speaker 1: was in my later teen years. It was just a
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  Speaker 1: regular local place, but was open until 2am every night.
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  Speaker 1: During high school, I would only work after school until 8,
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  Speaker 1: but once I graduated I started working the closing shifts
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  Speaker 1: to save up money for college. The restaurant would be
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  Speaker 1: surprisingly busy at night, all the way up until closing. Mostly,
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  Speaker 1: it was just people picking up online orders, but sometimes
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  Speaker 1: groups of friends would come in and hang out at
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  Speaker 1: one of the tables while they ate. I definitely preferred
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  Speaker 1: working at night, though, as I would be the only
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  Speaker 1: one there and didn't have to listen to my dad
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  Speaker 1: bossing me around. Anyways, after six months of working nights,
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  Speaker 1: things started to get pretty weird. It was almost closing,
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  Speaker 1: around 1.45am, and I was in the back cleaning when
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  Speaker 1: I heard the door ring. I finished up what I
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  Speaker 1: was doing and made my way to the front counter.
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  Speaker 1: There were two young men who looked really tired. One
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  Speaker 1: of them came up to the counter while the other
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  Speaker 1: one stood at one of the tables. Our dining room
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  Speaker 1: is closed for the night, but I can still take
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  Speaker 1: a small order if you want it for takeout. The
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  Speaker 1: man at the counter just stared at the menu and
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  Speaker 1: didn't say anything. I stood there uncomfortably as the man
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  Speaker 1: shifted his gaze to behind me, as if he was
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  Speaker 1: inspecting the place. A few seconds later, the man by
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  Speaker 1: the table quickly walked out and the other guy followed.
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  Speaker 1: It was definitely the weirdest encounter I'd probably had, and
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't really think of any reasonable explanation. I kind
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  Speaker 1: of just assumed that they were planning on robbing me,
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  Speaker 1: but then decided otherwise for some reason. The next morning
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  Speaker 1: I told my dad about it and he said I
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  Speaker 1: could start locking the doors at around 1.45 for the
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  Speaker 1: next few days. Another week went by with nothing unusual
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  Speaker 1: before it happened again. I had a customer picking up
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  Speaker 1: an order around 1.30 and almost as soon as he
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  Speaker 1: left one of the men from last week walked in.
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  Speaker 1: It was the one that was standing at the table
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  Speaker 1: and I noticed right away that he was wearing the
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  Speaker 1: same exact clothing as last time. However, this time he
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  Speaker 1: came up to the counter. He looked me in the
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  Speaker 1: eyes for a second, and then asked me if I
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  Speaker 1: could help him jumpstart his car. The way he said
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  Speaker 1: it was really creepy, and it was very obvious that
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  Speaker 1: there was something else going on here. His face immediately
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  Speaker 1: shifted into a frown. He said it would only take
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  Speaker 1: a minute, and no one would know that I left.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, I knew something was very off, and
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  Speaker 1: I started to panic a little bit in my head.
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  Speaker 1: He started making his way back to the door, gesturing
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  Speaker 1: me to follow him. I honestly wasn't sure what to do,
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  Speaker 1: and was really freaking out, but my fight response was starting,
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  Speaker 1: and my adrenaline was pumping. It's worth mentioning that I'm
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  Speaker 1: not really that big of a guy at all, and
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  Speaker 1: this man was much larger than me. Plus, I was
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  Speaker 1: pretty confident that the other guy was nearby too, probably
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  Speaker 1: ready to jump me if I didn't comply. But I
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  Speaker 1: figured I was screwed either way, so I might as
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  Speaker 1: well try to fight. I grabbed a pair of scissors
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  Speaker 1: we had behind the counter and stood my ground. The
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  Speaker 1: man turned around again once he reached the door, and
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  Speaker 1: this time he looked angry and demanded that I followed him.
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  Speaker 1: At that same instant, a loud bang came from behind me,
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  Speaker 1: followed by the back door slamming open. I ran to
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  Speaker 1: the back, and as soon as the guy saw me,
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  Speaker 1: he bolted right back outside. I turned around quickly and
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  Speaker 1: ran back to the front counter, but the other guy
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  Speaker 1: had left as well. I obviously called the police afterwards
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  Speaker 1: and gave them the security footage, but it was pretty
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  Speaker 1: low quality and hard to make out any identity from them. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: I'm still not really sure why they didn't just attack
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  Speaker 1: me and rob the place, but my best guess is
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  Speaker 1: that they were just trying to rob the store without
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  Speaker 1: harming anyone, so as soon as they saw I was
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  Speaker 1: going to fight, they ran. Those two could have easily
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  Speaker 1: taken me down and made the situation much worse, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad it didn't turn out that way. I work
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  Speaker 1: as a cybersecurity analyst for a large office company in
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  Speaker 1: my town. I had just started off my first job
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  Speaker 1: in the field, so of course I had to work
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  Speaker 1: the shift that nobody else wanted to. Working overnight wasn't
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  Speaker 1: as terrible as I thought, though. It was actually pretty peaceful.
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  Speaker 1: My job mainly consisted of looking through log files to
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  Speaker 1: make sure nothing sketchy happened while the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: crew was sleeping. This meant that I was always pretty
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  Speaker 1: much alone in the office building for several hours. I'd
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  Speaker 1: fall asleep pretty often, as staring at a screen for
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  Speaker 1: hours on end in the middle of the night was
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  Speaker 1: hard on my eyes, and with nobody there to keep
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  Speaker 1: me company, staying awake wasn't very easy. I started setting
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  Speaker 1: soft alarms on my phone to go off every hour,
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  Speaker 1: just to make sure that I didn't sleep through my
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  Speaker 1: entire shift. I had been working this job for about
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  Speaker 1: four months when this happened. and I actually still work
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  Speaker 1: there now. It was a regular night, and my coworker
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  Speaker 1: had just finished his shift at 12 o'clock and left
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  Speaker 1: the building. A couple minutes later, I got up and
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  Speaker 1: started the coffee machine, and then I walked down the
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  Speaker 1: main hallway to do a general check for anyone still
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  Speaker 1: in the building. This was my regular routine, just to
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  Speaker 1: make myself more comfortable. I sat back down at my
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  Speaker 1: desk and took my phone out to turn on the alarms,
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  Speaker 1: and then continued on with my work. It was about
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  Speaker 1: 20 minutes later when I realized I had never heard
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  Speaker 1: the coffee machine beep that it was done, and I
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  Speaker 1: went to check on it. I walked down the hall
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  Speaker 1: to the small coffee desk and saw that there was
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  Speaker 1: no coffee in the pot, and then I saw that
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  Speaker 1: the entire coffee machine was turned off. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was weird, but that's about it. and I just turned
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  Speaker 1: it back on and went back to my desk. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as I sat down, I noticed my phone wasn't
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  Speaker 1: where I had left it on the desk. I patted
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  Speaker 1: down my pockets and ran back to the coffee desk,
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  Speaker 1: but it wasn't there either. I played it back in
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  Speaker 1: my memory, and I knew for sure that I had
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  Speaker 1: placed it right on my desk right next to my keyboard.
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  Speaker 1: I started to get really freaked out and looked around frantically.
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  Speaker 1: The way my desk was set up, It was right
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a large room with other desks
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  Speaker 1: and computers. I felt like I was being watched as
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  Speaker 1: I stood there in the middle, knowing that someone else
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  Speaker 1: had to be in there with me. Nervously, I called
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  Speaker 1: out in a shaky voice to my friend, really hoping
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  Speaker 1: that it was just him playing some dumb prank on me.
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  Speaker 1: I waited for a few seconds, but there was no reply.
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  Speaker 1: As I stood by my desk... Another few seconds went
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  Speaker 1: by before I heard a soft shuffling coming from behind
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  Speaker 1: a desk in the far corner. Almost immediately after, my
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  Speaker 1: phone alarm rang from the opposite corner of the room.
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  Speaker 1: My first thought was that there were probably two unknown
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  Speaker 1: strangers in the room with me, and I instantly started
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  Speaker 1: running for the door out of the building. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear any footsteps behind me as I made it out,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't take any chances. I ran across the
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  Speaker 1: street to a neighboring gas station, and I called 911
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  Speaker 1: with their phone to report the unknown people in our
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  Speaker 1: office building. The police arrived quicker than I thought and
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  Speaker 1: searched the building. They brought out a man after only
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes, though I didn't recognize him at all.
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  Speaker 1: They also retrieved my phone, which they found behind some
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  Speaker 1: boxes in the corner of the office. He was also
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  Speaker 1: found with a small knife in his pocket. The next
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  Speaker 1: day we got a lot more information about what really
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  Speaker 1: took place. Apparently the man was an old employee who
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  Speaker 1: had been fired recently before I started working there. The
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  Speaker 1: man told the police he was trying to scare me
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  Speaker 1: in order to get me to leave the building so
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  Speaker 1: that he could take back his company laptop. Apparently he
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  Speaker 1: had information that he wanted from it. At least those
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  Speaker 1: were his claims. It all seems really weird to me,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not sure if I even trusted his reasonings
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  Speaker 1: to breaking in, but my coworkers did say that they
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  Speaker 1: remembered the guy, and he was definitely a little bit strange.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad I got out of there when I did, though,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm not sure what would have happened if his
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  Speaker 1: plan didn't work and I chose to stay in the building.
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  Speaker 1: I lived in a small apartment for most of my twenties,
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  Speaker 1: as it was all that I could afford since I
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  Speaker 1: lived alone. My complex was small, and only had six
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  Speaker 1: total apartments in it. Most of the people living there
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  Speaker 1: were older and retired, and kept to themselves. I actually
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  Speaker 1: liked the fact that I didn't have to interact with
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  Speaker 1: any of them every time that I needed to go
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  Speaker 1: in or out of the complex, as I'm usually in
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  Speaker 1: a rush or just not in the mood to socialize. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: I lived on the top floor, and the room across
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  Speaker 1: from me had an old couple living there for almost
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  Speaker 1: two years before they moved out. I never talked to them,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't really care to be honest. But several
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  Speaker 1: months go by before someone new moves in, and another
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  Speaker 1: two weeks went by before I actually met them. I
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  Speaker 1: was getting ready for work one morning and preparing my
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  Speaker 1: packed lunch when I hear the neighbor's door open. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't think much of it until another minute went by
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  Speaker 1: and I realized that I never heard the door close.
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  Speaker 1: I finished getting ready and put my shoes on, then
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  Speaker 1: opened my door to leave. I immediately noticed that the
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  Speaker 1: neighbor's door was still open and a tall man in
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  Speaker 1: his 40s or 50s was standing right outside the door
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  Speaker 1: facing me. He smiled and introduced himself. I faked a
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  Speaker 1: short smile and told him my name then said I
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  Speaker 1: had to go to work and began walking past him
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  Speaker 1: but as I started down the stairs he asked me
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  Speaker 1: to come in for a little bit and have breakfast
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  Speaker 1: with him. This was really weird, as I had just
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  Speaker 1: told him that I needed to go to work. But
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  Speaker 1: I just said sorry, and continued down the stairs and
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  Speaker 1: out of the complex. While I was at work that day,
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  Speaker 1: I thought about how strange the interaction was. Thankfully, when
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  Speaker 1: I got back home, I was able to get into
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  Speaker 1: my apartment without any interactions. But the next morning, I
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  Speaker 1: woke up to a knock at the front door. I
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  Speaker 1: was really annoyed because I had work today and now
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  Speaker 1: I was up early, but I quickly got dressed and
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  Speaker 1: opened the front door. My neighbor was there, but strangely
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  Speaker 1: he was standing right in front of his open door again.
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  Speaker 1: He asked me to join him for breakfast again, to
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  Speaker 1: which I obviously declined and told him in a more
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  Speaker 1: aggressive manner to not knock on my door so early.
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  Speaker 1: The man didn't seem very happy about my answer and
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  Speaker 1: just kind of stood there. Then he said that I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have to leave for work for a while, and
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  Speaker 1: I had enough time to eat with him. I knew
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  Speaker 1: that there was something wrong with this guy, as there
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  Speaker 1: was a lot about that response that was creepy. I
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  Speaker 1: firmly said no and then backed away and closed my door,
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  Speaker 1: making sure to lock it. Again, the more I thought
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  Speaker 1: about this guy, the more creepy and disturbing the interactions seemed.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the day went by as usual though,
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  Speaker 1: and I got home around 6. I made some dinner
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  Speaker 1: and watched a movie, then got ready for bed around 11.
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  Speaker 1: I laid in bed for a while, thinking about my
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  Speaker 1: creepy neighbor and wondering what to do about it. I
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  Speaker 1: decided that if anything else happens, I'd contact the owner
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  Speaker 1: of the complex and have him talk to the guy.
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  Speaker 1: Then I leaned over and turned off my lamp and
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  Speaker 1: tried to fall asleep. But a few minutes later, I
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  Speaker 1: heard the neighbor's door creak open. I waited silently. listening
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  Speaker 1: to what the guy was doing, but I couldn't hear
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  Speaker 1: anything else. Again though, I never heard the door close.
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  Speaker 1: I was pretty nervous, unsure of what the man could
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  Speaker 1: possibly be doing this late at night. Eventually though, I
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  Speaker 1: drifted asleep due to not hearing any further noises for
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  Speaker 1: over an hour. I'm not sure how long I slept
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  Speaker 1: before a loud knock at the door woke me up.
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  Speaker 1: but these knocks didn't come from my front door. They
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  Speaker 1: were at my bedroom door. I shot up completely terrified
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  Speaker 1: and turned on the lights. The only thing I had
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  Speaker 1: to defend myself with was a small screwdriver on my nightstand.
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  Speaker 1: I grabbed it and stood next to my bed shaking
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  Speaker 1: in fear before picking up my phone and calling 911.
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  Speaker 1: When they arrived at the front door, I quickly got
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  Speaker 1: out of my room and opened it. I was surprised
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  Speaker 1: the door was even shut. But I told the officers everything,
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  Speaker 1: and all about my suspicions of the neighbor. Unfortunately, though,
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  Speaker 1: there was no real evidence of a break-in, and they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do much at all. I knew what I heard
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  Speaker 1: was real, though, and I did not feel safe in
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  Speaker 1: my apartment anymore. I called my sister later that day,
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  Speaker 1: and she agreed to let me stay at her place
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  Speaker 1: for a few days. Those days went by quicker than
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  Speaker 1: I hoped, though, and I started driving back to my
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  Speaker 1: apartment on Saturday evenings. I tried to stay calm, assuring
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  Speaker 1: myself that the guy had given up by now and
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  Speaker 1: everything would be okay. I pulled into the parking lot
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  Speaker 1: and made my way into the building. The sun had
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  Speaker 1: just set, so the staircase was dim. I slowly made
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  Speaker 1: my way up, trying to stay quiet as to not
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  Speaker 1: let my neighbor know that I was coming up. Once
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  Speaker 1: I reached the top, I saw his door was closed
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  Speaker 1: and I got a big sense of relief as I
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  Speaker 1: quickly made my way through my door and locked it
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  Speaker 1: behind me. I dropped my bag in the hallway and
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  Speaker 1: turned on the lights as I turned the corner into
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  Speaker 1: my living room. I jumped back screaming as the man
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  Speaker 1: was sitting right on my couch staring at me with
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  Speaker 1: a wide, awful smile. I sprinted out of the entire
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  Speaker 1: complex and into my car, then called the police again
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  Speaker 1: and waited for them in a nearby parking lot. When
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  Speaker 1: they arrived about ten minutes later, we drove up to
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  Speaker 1: the complex and they went into the apartment while I
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  Speaker 1: waited by my car. Surprisingly, they came out just a
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  Speaker 1: minute later with the man in handcuffs. They said he
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  Speaker 1: was still sitting on the couch, and that they also
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  Speaker 1: found the small knife in his pocket. The most disturbing
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  Speaker 1: part of this whole situation, though, was that when he
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  Speaker 1: was questioned, he admitted to breaking in three separate times,
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  Speaker 1: and I only knew about the two incidents, which meant
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  Speaker 1: that at one point he was hiding in my apartment,
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  Speaker 1: probably watching me without me even knowing. I have a
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  Speaker 1: little Jack Russell dog named Maggie and she has a
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  Speaker 1: lot of energy so when we go for walks it's
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  Speaker 1: not uncommon for them to spread to the two hour mark.
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  Speaker 1: This particular day I got home from work around 5.30
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  Speaker 1: and the sun doesn't usually set until 6.30 or 7.
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  Speaker 1: Almost immediately after walking through the door I put her
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  Speaker 1: leash on and quickly changed and then we headed out.
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  Speaker 1: The walk went as usual as Maggie just took me
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  Speaker 1: in whichever direction she wanted to walk in Things didn't
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  Speaker 1: start to take a turn until about an hour in,
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  Speaker 1: when the sun was almost fully down, and unfortunately for me,
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  Speaker 1: I had walked further than I'd realized. If you take
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  Speaker 1: your dog for long walks, you know how easy it
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  Speaker 1: is to zone out, especially if your dog rarely stops
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  Speaker 1: to sniff. We had walked in a direction I had
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  Speaker 1: taken normally, but the particular street I was on was unfamiliar,
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  Speaker 1: but I still knew the general direction home. I started
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  Speaker 1: to turn around, but Maggie was standing still, and then
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  Speaker 1: she began whimpering softly, and that's when I saw it.
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  Speaker 1: Through the soft light of the sunset, I could make
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  Speaker 1: out a huge coyote staring at us in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the street. It was roughly the size of a
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  Speaker 1: golden retriever, with matted fur, and with its mouth partially opened,
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  Speaker 1: you could see its disgusting sharp yellow teeth. I knew
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  Speaker 1: exactly what it wanted. I picked Maggie up and started
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  Speaker 1: walking in the opposite direction. I was a bit fearful,
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  Speaker 1: but for some reason I thought it would just go away.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know these streets very well, but what I
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  Speaker 1: did know was that I had to keep moving. As
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  Speaker 1: I quickly continued, the coyote slowly followed, keeping its distance still.
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  Speaker 1: But the darker it got, the more scared I became,
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  Speaker 1: and after walking down random neighborhood roads in the darkness
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  Speaker 1: for a while, I came to the horrifying realization. that
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  Speaker 1: I was lost. All the turns had messed with my
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  Speaker 1: sense of direction, and I had no idea which way
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  Speaker 1: to go. Through the darkness, I could now see the
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  Speaker 1: glowing eyes of the beast, and could now hear it
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  Speaker 1: yipping and howling. As I walked further through the dark
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood streets, every few minutes another set of glowing eyes
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  Speaker 1: would appear behind me, and even more louder howls. I
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  Speaker 1: could tell they were getting closer, too. I was absolutely
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  Speaker 1: terrified at this point, trying to hold back my tears
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  Speaker 1: as I was panicking and fearing for both mine and
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  Speaker 1: my dog's life. Every once in a while, I'd pass
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  Speaker 1: a streetlight and look behind me, revealing the entire pack
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  Speaker 1: walking slowly with their heads down, watching my every move.
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  Speaker 1: After almost 45 minutes of being followed, I began tiring,
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  Speaker 1: and I knew I was far from the safety of
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  Speaker 1: my home. Maggie began whimpering louder, too, which made me
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  Speaker 1: even more emotional as I knew that she was aware
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  Speaker 1: of what may soon happen. The howling and yipping became
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  Speaker 1: more frequent, growing louder and closer. I looked back one
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  Speaker 1: more time to see all of their eyes staring at
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  Speaker 1: me from only 30 to 40 feet away, but suddenly
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  Speaker 1: and strangely, they all began to separate, moving to the
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  Speaker 1: sides of the road. A few moments later, a small
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  Speaker 1: car slowly makes its way between the crowd of coyotes
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  Speaker 1: and stops right next to me. A lady rolls down
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  Speaker 1: her window and asked me if I needed help. I
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  Speaker 1: was so thankful for her and told her to please
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  Speaker 1: take me home. There are almost no circumstances in which
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I would willingly get into a stranger's car, but I
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: really had no other choice. The lady was really nice
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: and seemed terrified for me. I was crying at this point,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: knowing I had just been moments away from a grueling attack.
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  Speaker 1: She kindly dropped me off at my house, which was
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: almost 20 minutes from where she picked me up. I
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: live in a nice neighborhood, one where you don't have
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: to worry about your house being broken into or carjackings.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: The only growing problem in our neighborhood, and many neighboring
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: ones as well, is coyotes. It's been a few years
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: since this incident happened to me. And as time went on,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: there became more and more showing up around town, getting
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: bigger and stronger. The public knows to be cautious, especially
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: in parks where there are tons of trees and places
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  Speaker 1: for them to make home. Signs were put up letting
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: people know of the popular areas where anywhere between 3
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: and 20 have been spotted. There have been news stories
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: coming out, such as groups of coyotes leaping over fences
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: and taking small dogs, and larger animals being found torn
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: apart in kids' parks. Very sad stories, and some even
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: a little scary. But you never think of coyotes as
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: being an immediate danger. until you're being followed in the
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: middle of the night by a pack of the hungry
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: and merciless. I used to work the register at a
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: local gas station, though I've since left as there were
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: a lot of strange things that happened when I would
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: work overnight. But this one situation in particular will stick
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  Speaker 1: with me forever. I only worked the night shift a
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: few days a week, usually Friday and Saturday. My shifts
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: were usually boring and honestly just a game of trying
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: to stay awake. The only thing I really had to
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: do was stock the shelves and occasionally help a customer.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I would get a lot of drunk people or families
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: on road trips and sometimes even whole groups of friends.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: But for the most part, it was pretty quiet. On
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: this night, it was around 2am, and I hadn't had
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: a customer in over an hour, so I was starting
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: to doze off a little bit. The desk was around
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  Speaker 1: the corner from the entrance, and there was a bell
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  Speaker 1: on the door that rang when somebody walked in, so
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: usually falling asleep wasn't too big of a deal. I
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: woke up after a few minutes, hearing the bell ring,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and a few seconds later, saw a customer walk in.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: He looked like a typical 30-year-old man that would come
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: in for some beer or a snack. He walked around
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: for a little bit, down every aisle, looking at everything. Now,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I've worked in retail for a long time, and I
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: know what it looks like when someone is looking for
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: something specific. But this man had nothing in mind. He
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: was just looking at the shelves, browsing the store. During
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: the day, this is pretty normal. but people don't usually
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: come in at 2am to browse the gas station shelves.
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  Speaker 1: I looked out the window to my left to see
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: if he was filling up his car and was maybe
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: just passing the time, but there were no cars outside.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: A couple minutes went by before he eventually looked over
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: at me and said thanks and then walked out. I
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: didn't know what to make of that, but I just
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: figured he stole something small and was just being a
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: dick about it. The whole situation left my mind after
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: a few minutes, and I started to get really tired again.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: This time, I decided to grab my cart of items
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: to stock, and start filling up the shelves to pass
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: the time. I'm not really sure how long I was
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: stocking for, maybe 20 minutes, before I saw a man
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: show up at the end of the aisle I was stocking.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: It made me jump a little, as I never heard
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the door ring. This guy was wearing a large hoodie,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: and dark clothes. I pretty much knew right away that
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: something was very off. The man continued down to the
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: back of the store, and I immediately went back to
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: behind the counter. I tried not to stare, but I
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: noticed that as he walked down the aisles, he wasn't
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: looking for anything. He was just browsing. It clicked in
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: my head immediately that this was the same guy from
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: just a little bit ago, but he had changed clothes
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: for some reason. I also came to the realization that
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: he probably came initially to scope out the place before
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: doing whatever he planned on doing. I started to panic
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: in my head. The man began to come down the
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: aisle closest to the counter, and I could see something
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: heavy in his front hoodie pocket. I made a split-second
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: decision to try and prevent any further escalation, and I said,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Welcome back, sir. Need help finding anything? He made eye
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: contact with me, and I could tell he knew exactly
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: what I was trying to do. He approached the counter,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: not saying a word, and brought his hand out of
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: his pocket, revealing a small handgun. Then he grabbed a
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: small pack of gum from beside the counter and placed
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: it in front of me. He said just this. Confused
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: and in shock as to what was happening, I didn't
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: even react for a few seconds before eventually scanning the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: gum nervously. Still holding the gun, he took out a
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: dollar from his jean pocket and threw it on the counter,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: then said thanks and walked out. I was in total shock,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: trying to wrap my head around what just happened. I
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: ended up reporting the situation to the police and calling
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: my manager, who didn't pick up. No updates ever came
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: out of the situation, but it had me on edge
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: for the last few months that I worked there. I'm
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: still unsure of what really happened that night, or what
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the man's intentions were, but honestly, I'm glad I never
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: found out. I work at a Montessori school, which is
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: basically just a really small school with three to four
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: very tiny classrooms for children. Where I work, the classrooms
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: are on the lower level of a church, and my
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: job is to clean them every night after the classes.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: It would only take me around two hours to clean
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: all the rooms, but I work the closing shift at
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: a nearby grocery store as well, so I wouldn't get
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: to the school until around 10.30 most nights. Something you
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: should also know is that the church shared a parking
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: lot with an old people's home directly across from it.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I will admit, A lot of weird and creepy things
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: have happened at this school, but the weirdest had to
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: be what happened just a couple weeks back. I had
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: just finished cleaning the second room and was beginning to
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: move all of my cleaning supplies to the third room.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: It was probably around 1145 at this time, which meant
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: that I was running a little bit behind, so I
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: was trying to rush. As I crossed the hallway to
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the third room... I hear loud bells echoing throughout the
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: church upstairs. Someone had rung the doorbell. Nobody has ever
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: shown up during any of my shifts before, as it
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: was always so late, and both the school and the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: church were closed hours before. I was a little nervous,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: so I slowly made my way up the stairs and
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: towards the door. It was one of those wooden doors
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: with big tinted glass windows on it. Trying not to
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: be seen, I looked around the corner to see who
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: was outside. I saw an old woman, probably in her
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: 70s or 80s, just standing right outside the door. I
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: backed away before she could notice me. I decided to
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: ignore it and figured she had just wandered off and
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: one of the attendants at the old people's home would
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: pick her up. I started my cleaning again, mopping the
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: floors of the room. But only a few minutes later,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I heard banging echo through the halls. I jumped a little.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Then I stopped to listen. The banging stopped for a
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: few seconds and was followed by the old lady yelling
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: from outside. It was hard to make out what she
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: was saying, so I made my way back upstairs, where
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I could hear clearly what she was calling out for.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: She was calling for someone named Abby. She was just
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: repeating her name over and over. As I got closer
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: to the door, the woman stopped. I looked around the
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: corner and she wasn't outside the door anymore. It was
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: a little bit unsettling, but I assured myself that someone
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: probably came and got her after they heard her yelling.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I turned around and began my way back. Out of
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the corner of my eye, I see the old lady
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: staring at me through the window right beside the stairs.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: She looked me in the eyes and yelled, Abby, help me.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Her eyes were wide open and her hair was long
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: and gray. I immediately ran back downstairs and locked myself
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: in one of the classrooms. I took my phone out
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and called the old people home next door. and I
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: told them the situation, asking if maybe she'd wandered away
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: from them. The lady on the line told me that
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: everyone was there, and they would have noticed if anyone
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: had left, as they're required to check out. She said
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: that she would double-check with security and to stay on
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: the line just in case. While I waited, I heard
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: banging on the window upstairs, and a few seconds later,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the woman on the phone describes the old lady's features
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: and asks if that was her. I said yes and
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: mentioned that she keeps yelling for someone named Abby. There
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: was a small moment of silence. Ma'am, I spoke softly
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: back into the phone. She replied, warning me not to
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: approach her and to find somewhere safe to stay until
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: they could have someone come out and get her. Obviously,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: this just made me even more terrified. I stayed in
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the room, still listening to the repeated banging on the
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: window from upstairs. Now, this was was pretty old, and
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I wasn't sure how long those windows would hold if
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: she kept banging on them. Eventually, I heard some male
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: voices from outside, and after what sounded like a struggle,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: they left. I sat there for a few minutes, just
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: thinking about what had happened. Then I got up and
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: finished cleaning the rooms. The whole situation felt pretty unreal,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and knowing that the old lady is in the building
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: across from me still makes me nervous. I never found
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: out who Abby was, or why the lady was trying
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: to get into the church, but I'm just glad I
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: never opened the door.