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3 Terrifying Lost at Night Horror Stories | Vol. 2 That Will Haunt Your Night · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: A year ago, in early winter, I went hiking for
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  Speaker 1: a weekend in a national park not far from home.
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  Speaker 1: It was supposed to be the last few days of
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  Speaker 1: good weather before the winter cold and snow came in,
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  Speaker 1: so I wanted to get out while I still could.
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  Speaker 1: There was a trail my buddy had told me about
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  Speaker 1: that went up to a nice view of a lake
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  Speaker 1: and wasn't crowded, so I decided to try it out.
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  Speaker 1: But when I got to the trail, it wasn't what
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  Speaker 1: I expected. There were no signs or markings. There was
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  Speaker 1: just a thin path going through some trees. I walked
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  Speaker 1: down a little ways, and while it still had no markings,
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  Speaker 1: it seemed like a straightforward trail to hike along. As
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  Speaker 1: I walked, it was clear that few people came this way.
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  Speaker 1: There were almost no shoeprints in the dirt, and the
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  Speaker 1: path didn't seem professionally made. This didn't frighten me or anything,
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  Speaker 1: but it was just something I took note of. The
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  Speaker 1: forest along the path was really nice, though, full of
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  Speaker 1: wildlife and falling leaves from the changing season. About a
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  Speaker 1: mile in I walked past something interesting, another path leading
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  Speaker 1: off into the woods. I stayed on the trail, but
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really understand why there would be another path
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  Speaker 1: connecting to this already rarely used path. As I kept
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  Speaker 1: on walking, though, more of these side trails started to
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  Speaker 1: show up. They went off in random directions, leading to
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  Speaker 1: what looked like nothing in particular. It was really odd,
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  Speaker 1: and then after about three hours of walking, the trail
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  Speaker 1: I was on ended just like that. There was no
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  Speaker 1: more path to follow. All that was ahead was an
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  Speaker 1: endless row of trees, and then out of nowhere, I
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  Speaker 1: heard footsteps behind me. I turned to see a guy
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  Speaker 1: walking in the distance. He had a ripped up jacket
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  Speaker 1: on and no backpack, and strangely, he was walking across
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  Speaker 1: the trail I was on, onto one of the side paths.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't look like he saw me, he was just
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  Speaker 1: looking down and walking. The way he walked, though, and
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  Speaker 1: how he looked made me a bit creeped out, so
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  Speaker 1: I made sure to not be seen as I watched
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  Speaker 1: him walk into the woods. By then, it looked like
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't much daylight left, and I decided to just
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  Speaker 1: abandon finding the lake and just hike back to my car. However,
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  Speaker 1: it only took me a few minutes to reach an
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  Speaker 1: intersection of paths that I didn't remember before. Immediately I
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  Speaker 1: thought about how the one path ended so abruptly, and
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  Speaker 1: how that probably meant that at some point point I
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  Speaker 1: went onto the wrong trail. I looked down, trying to
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  Speaker 1: see if there were any shoe prints of mine that
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  Speaker 1: I could follow, but I didn't see any. Then I
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  Speaker 1: heard it again, footsteps behind me. I turned and looked
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  Speaker 1: out into the forest in the distance. That same man
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  Speaker 1: was standing and facing me. He didn't move or say anything,
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  Speaker 1: he just stood there as if he were watching me.
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  Speaker 1: After a moment, a chill ran through my body, and
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  Speaker 1: I turned to take whatever trail was in the opposite
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  Speaker 1: direction of the man. I quickly hurried, checking behind me
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  Speaker 1: multiple times, but after a few minutes I'd lost track
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  Speaker 1: of the man. I went down this trail for over
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  Speaker 1: an hour, still worried about both being lost and the
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  Speaker 1: strange man. After a while of walking, and moved off
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  Speaker 1: the path and leaned against a tree, taking a break
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  Speaker 1: to drink some water. And not even a minute passed
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  Speaker 1: before I heard those same footsteps. I stayed where I
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  Speaker 1: was behind the tree as the sound of their shuffling
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  Speaker 1: steps got louder and louder until the man walked right
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  Speaker 1: past the tree I was behind. He looked focused on
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  Speaker 1: the path ahead, like he thought I was still walking,
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  Speaker 1: but there was no doubt in my mind that he
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  Speaker 1: was following me, or at least trying to. Once he
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  Speaker 1: was gone, I took the opportunity to run back the
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  Speaker 1: way I came, getting to the intersection and choosing between
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  Speaker 1: two other paths that were in the right direction. Thankfully
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  Speaker 1: I'd made the right choice, because halfway back to my car,
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  Speaker 1: all I had was the dim moonlight to guide me
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  Speaker 1: through the woods. All I can say is that that
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  Speaker 1: man I saw didn't look like he was out there
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  Speaker 1: just for a hike, and based on the way he
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  Speaker 1: was acting, I think he had some terrible intentions that
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  Speaker 1: I may have just barely avoided. I had just turned
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  Speaker 1: nineteen and was staying at home from college for the
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  Speaker 1: next few months for summer break. My mom lives in
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  Speaker 1: the city in the same house I grew up in,
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  Speaker 1: but my dad moved into a small home outside the city.
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  Speaker 1: It was backed up to the woods, and I always
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  Speaker 1: felt so relaxed while I was there. Just being away
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  Speaker 1: from everything felt very freeing. Anyway, over the course of
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  Speaker 1: the summer, I got the idea to go camping for
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  Speaker 1: just a night, somewhere in the woods behind my dad's house.
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  Speaker 1: I had all the gear already, and I'd gone camping before,
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  Speaker 1: so it just seemed like a harmless, fun night. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't plan on going far out, maybe just walking for
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  Speaker 1: a half hour then finding a good spot to set up,
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  Speaker 1: so I left about two hours till sunset. I walked
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  Speaker 1: with no music or anything, just soaking in the environment
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  Speaker 1: and sounds of nature until I made it far enough
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  Speaker 1: out to start setting up my gear. I pitched my
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  Speaker 1: tent and got a fire going, then relaxed as the
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  Speaker 1: sun set and the woods fell quiet. A couple hours
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  Speaker 1: into the night, I went to bed. I had planned
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  Speaker 1: to leave in the morning, but when I woke up,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like hanging out for a little bit longer.
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  Speaker 1: I went for a casual walk and sat by the tent. Surprisingly,
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  Speaker 1: the day felt to have gone by really fast. Before
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  Speaker 1: I knew it, the sun was making its way down.
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  Speaker 1: I packed up my things and cleaned up, then started
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  Speaker 1: walking back home. I walked between the trees, having a
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  Speaker 1: conversation with myself in my head to pass the time,
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  Speaker 1: but as the sun started getting lower and lower, I
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  Speaker 1: realized it had been a while since i'd left. I
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  Speaker 1: stopped and lifted my head, looking around. I didn't really
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  Speaker 1: recognize the area. Obviously, there was no path, so I
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  Speaker 1: could have just been walking in a slightly different direction,
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  Speaker 1: but something seemed wrong. After an entire minute of looking around, though,
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  Speaker 1: I honestly had no clue which way to go. If
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  Speaker 1: I had been going in the right direction, I should
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  Speaker 1: have been home already, or at least to the road
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  Speaker 1: that my dad's house was on. Racing the sun, though,
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  Speaker 1: I decided to just continue in the direction I was going,
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  Speaker 1: hoping that at some point i'd reach a road. As
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  Speaker 1: I walked, the woods got darker and darker, sending me
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  Speaker 1: into somewhat of a nervous breakdown. I was looking everywhere
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  Speaker 1: for anything to tell me where to go, but now
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  Speaker 1: the woods were too dark to even see anything further
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  Speaker 1: than thirty or forty feet. But then I saw a
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  Speaker 1: light flickering in the distance. I got excited, walking quickly
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  Speaker 1: toward it until I could make out a dark house
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the middle of the trees. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was maybe one of my dad's neighbors, or that it
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  Speaker 1: would at least lead me to a road that I
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  Speaker 1: could walk along, but as I approached the opening in
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  Speaker 1: the woods, I didn't see anything. No roads, no light
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  Speaker 1: from other houses, and not even a gravel driveway. The
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  Speaker 1: house was old looking too, resembling more of a cabin,
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  Speaker 1: but there was a light in the downstairs window that
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  Speaker 1: was on, so it definitely wasn't vacant. I walked around
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  Speaker 1: to the other side of it, staying in the tree
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  Speaker 1: line still, but there were no signs of any roads
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  Speaker 1: or houses on either side. Regrettably, I decided my only
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  Speaker 1: option was to ask whoever lived there for help. I
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  Speaker 1: walked up to the front door, listening for a second
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  Speaker 1: before ringing the doorbell. Immediately I heard footsteps running down
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  Speaker 1: some stairs and right up to the other side. Knowing
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  Speaker 1: they were probably looking at me through the peephole, I
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  Speaker 1: called out to them.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, sorry, I'm just lost. I was hoping you could
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  Speaker 2: tell me which direction the nearest street is.
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  Speaker 1: There was a pause, then they opened the door. Two
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  Speaker 1: men stood there, both looking to be in their forties
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  Speaker 1: and appearing kind of disheveled. One of them took a
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  Speaker 1: step forward and looked outside behind me at the tree line,
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  Speaker 1: as if looking for anyone else. There was a moment
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  Speaker 1: where both of them were quiet. Will help you out,
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  Speaker 1: one of the men said, opening the door wider and
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  Speaker 1: stepping aside.
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  Speaker 2: I'm okay, I just need you to point me in
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  Speaker 2: the right direction, please.
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  Speaker 1: I said, not wanting to go in some random house
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  Speaker 1: in the woods and also not really seeing the point
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  Speaker 1: to it. Both men frowned. Then one spoke, saying he
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to talk about why I was out here.
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  Speaker 1: I told them I was just camping and got lost,
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  Speaker 1: but they looked at each other like I was lying.
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  Speaker 1: Then one of them stepped out and stood pretty close
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  Speaker 1: to me as he looked around at the trees more intently.
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  Speaker 1: When he stepped out, though, he revealed the room behind him,
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  Speaker 1: which only had a small lamp in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the floor, surrounded by nothing but dust. I took a
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  Speaker 1: step away from the man and both of them suddenly
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  Speaker 1: turned cold. Their facial expressions and body language which she
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  Speaker 1: just became empty as they stood there in silence, before
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  Speaker 1: the one lunged at me, trying to tackle me to
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  Speaker 1: the ground. Luckily, I reacted quick enough to slip away
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  Speaker 1: before the other man got to me. I sprinted for
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  Speaker 1: the trees, hearing one of the men's footsteps coming up
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  Speaker 1: behind me. But once I made it into the woods,
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  Speaker 1: the man gave up the chase, and soon after the
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  Speaker 1: lights from the house shut off. Hours passed before I
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  Speaker 1: made it to a road, finding out I had hiked
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  Speaker 1: miles in the wrong direction. I told my dad about
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  Speaker 1: the encounter, though, and he took it to the police
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  Speaker 1: to investigate. But we were terrified to hear that the
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  Speaker 1: house I wandered into was an old vacation cabin that
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  Speaker 1: was abandoned decades ago. Whoever those men were likely used
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  Speaker 1: a generator to power the lights and whatever else they
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  Speaker 1: were doing why they were there, nobody knows. The way
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  Speaker 1: they were acting, though, seemed like they were trying to
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  Speaker 1: not get caught, so if they had succeeded in getting
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  Speaker 1: me into their house, I'm not sure if I ever
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  Speaker 1: would have gotten out. I was driving back to my
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  Speaker 1: hometown from a work trip I had earlier in the week.
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  Speaker 1: I declined the free flight to and from because I
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  Speaker 1: decided to take some time off to myself while I
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  Speaker 1: was there to enjoy a small vacation. Driving long distance
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  Speaker 1: wasn't something I'd ever really done before, though, the most
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  Speaker 1: I'd gone was about ten hours, and that was with
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  Speaker 1: a stop at a hotel halfway. But this road trip
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  Speaker 1: was way longer. It was nearly twenty hours, and I
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  Speaker 1: had only scheduled a single hotel. But just because I'd
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  Speaker 1: never driven that long before didn't make me think I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do it. The drive started out okay, going through
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  Speaker 1: cities and towns and having plenty of other cars around me,
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  Speaker 1: seemingly taking the same route. As I got further out, though,
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  Speaker 1: cars became a lot less common and the towns had
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  Speaker 1: pretty much disappeared. The roads were nothing but fields of
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  Speaker 1: grass on either side or dense forests. By five PM,
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  Speaker 1: the light drizzling that it started earlier became more intense,
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  Speaker 1: pouring rain down hard enough to make it difficult to see.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed like the more I drove into this forested area,
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  Speaker 1: the harder the rain fell. I'd hoped it would stop
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  Speaker 1: by sunset, but it didn't. I was now really focused
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  Speaker 1: on the road, driving really slow and trying to make
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  Speaker 1: sure I navigated the road carefully without sliding into a ditch.
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  Speaker 1: I drove through this off rain for probably an entire
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  Speaker 1: hour past sunset, when I started to realize the road
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  Speaker 1: was getting a lot more winding rather than straight. It
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  Speaker 1: began taking me much deeper into the forest, where the
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  Speaker 1: trees were close together and blocking all views. After a while,
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  Speaker 1: I started getting nervous, thinking this was really odd for
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  Speaker 1: a highway to be like this. I slowed down and
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  Speaker 1: pulled off to the side of the road, stopping on
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  Speaker 1: the shoulder. I took my phone out and tried searching
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  Speaker 1: up the directions, but there was no service. All I'd
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  Speaker 1: remembered of the route was that I had to take
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  Speaker 1: the same highway pretty much the entire way there. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: I was on the right road and was just paranoid,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe I'd been focusing so hard on trying to
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  Speaker 1: see through the rain that I'd accidentally merged onto a
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  Speaker 1: different road. The problem is that I had no way
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  Speaker 1: to figure out which of those two possibilities was right.
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  Speaker 1: I looked out the windows in hopes i'd see a
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  Speaker 1: sign or anything that could give me an idea of
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  Speaker 1: where I was. All I could see through the harsh rain,
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  Speaker 1: where the woods all around me fading into total black
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  Speaker 1: beyond my headlights. But then, only a minute or so
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  Speaker 1: after I had stopped there, a light came up behind me.
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  Speaker 1: I looked in the mirror as it got brighter, rounding
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  Speaker 1: one of the corners and coming toward my car. Their
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  Speaker 1: headlights were so bright I couldn't even see their car,
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  Speaker 1: though all I could see was the beaming glare in
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  Speaker 1: my mirrors. I watched as the light started moving slower
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  Speaker 1: and slower until it stopped right behind my car. Part
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  Speaker 1: of me felt relieved that someone stopped to help me,
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  Speaker 1: but another part of me was thinking of the other possibilities.
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  Speaker 1: A whole minute passed as the car stayed there, leaving
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  Speaker 1: their headlights on and showing no signs of anything, until
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  Speaker 1: a door suddenly opened. It was still too bright to
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  Speaker 1: see much of anything, but the dark outline of a
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  Speaker 1: man emerged from the light and came right up to
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  Speaker 1: my window. The man was wearing a dark hoodie and
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  Speaker 1: seemed unbothered by the rain as he leaned on the
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  Speaker 1: door while I rolled the window down a couple inches.
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  Speaker 1: He asked if I needed help, and I responded by
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  Speaker 1: explaining that I just needed to know where I was
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  Speaker 1: and if I was still on the right highway. He
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  Speaker 1: looked at me, then at my back seat.
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  Speaker 2: As he nodded, yeah, I can help you. Let me
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  Speaker 2: just get my phone.
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  Speaker 1: He began walking off as I rolled my window back
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  Speaker 1: up to block out the rain. There was something off
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  Speaker 1: about my interaction with him, but I couldn't figure out
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  Speaker 1: what it was. It just felt off. Why didn't he
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  Speaker 1: know a road we were on, or if we were
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  Speaker 1: on the highway. I watched in the mirrors until the
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  Speaker 1: man went behind the glaring lights again, but I could
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  Speaker 1: see him shuffling around with something in his car for
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  Speaker 1: a few moments before he came back out. He made
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  Speaker 1: his way over, but in the moments before he reached
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  Speaker 1: my car, I caught a glimpse of something in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: Just as I reacted and put the car in drive,
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  Speaker 1: the man suddenly knelt down by my back tire and
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  Speaker 1: jammed something in it. I slammed on the gas, seeing
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  Speaker 1: the man get visibly startled and jump back as I
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  Speaker 1: drove away as fast as I could. I knew he'd
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  Speaker 1: probably try to catch up, so I drove in a
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  Speaker 1: panic for several minutes, fearing the thought of seeing the
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  Speaker 1: lights come up behind me. Luckily, though they never did.
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  Speaker 1: I made it about three miles before I finally happened
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  Speaker 1: upon an intersection with a sign for a gas station.
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  Speaker 1: Up ahead. When I pulled in, I of course called
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  Speaker 1: the police, but I also found that the man had
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  Speaker 1: stabbed my tire with a screwdriver that was still wedged
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  Speaker 1: into the side of the tire, hanging partially out. That
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  Speaker 1: still being in there and covering the hole is probably
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  Speaker 1: the only reason I was able to make it away
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  Speaker 1: without breaking down on the road. If I had been
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  Speaker 1: even a second too late at driving away, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I would have ever been seen after that night.