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3 True Home Alone Horror Stories That Will Make You Lock Every Door · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: Every year before Christmas, a terrifying feeling grabs my heart
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  Speaker 1: and mind. It's been ten years, but I still can't
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  Speaker 1: erase the haunting memory of one Christmas day. My son
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  Speaker 1: was five years old when this incident happened. After the
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  Speaker 1: separation from my husband, Damien was my everything. He was
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  Speaker 1: always nice to people and good with kids at school.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever I went to pick him up from school, I
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  Speaker 1: always saw him surrounded by friends. I was happy to
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  Speaker 1: see him fitting in nicely with groups. The week before Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: Damien's school stage a children's play. After the show ended,
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  Speaker 1: I was driving home with him. I was praising him
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  Speaker 1: for his excellent performance in the play when he just
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  Speaker 1: told me I made a new friend today. Mom. I
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  Speaker 1: smiled back and said, You've been such a good boy
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  Speaker 1: this year, and I'm sure Santa will bring you lots
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  Speaker 1: of gifts for Christmas. His face lit up when I
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  Speaker 1: told him that. We got back home home and had dinner.
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  Speaker 1: I tucked Damien into bed and he went to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: The Next morning, when I woke up and went to
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen to make breakfast, I noticed the cookie jar
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  Speaker 1: was broken. Shattered glass and cookies were lying all over
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen. Floor. I got really pissed off and called
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  Speaker 1: Damien into the room. Damien was brushing his teeth and
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  Speaker 1: came to the kitchen About ten minutes later. He looked
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  Speaker 1: up at me and said, what is it, mom, I said,
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  Speaker 1: in an angry voice. Did you break the cookie jar
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  Speaker 1: last night? He shook his head and said no, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't me. I said, really, then, who was it? Damien
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  Speaker 1: looked at me and said it was mister Nobody. As
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  Speaker 1: I was in no mood for such jokes, I got
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  Speaker 1: even more angry and said, don't you try to fool me, Damien.
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  Speaker 1: Damien started to sob and said, I am telling the truth. Mom.
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  Speaker 1: I told you I made a friend yesterday. He said
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  Speaker 1: his name was mister Nobody. He was the one who
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  Speaker 1: broke the cookie chart last night. Then he started to cry.
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  Speaker 1: I picked him up into a big hug and decided
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  Speaker 1: to drop the issue. I figured, like every other child,
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  Speaker 1: he too had an imaginary friend, and due to the
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  Speaker 1: fear of being grounded, he was just making up a story.
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  Speaker 1: Christmas was now two days away. My ex husband called
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  Speaker 1: and said that he'd like to join us for Christmas dinner.
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  Speaker 1: I knew how much Damien missed his father, so for
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  Speaker 1: his sake, I decided to put aside our marital issues
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  Speaker 1: for one night. That evening, I was doing house chores
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  Speaker 1: when I heard Damien's footsteps in my room. Damien, how
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  Speaker 1: many times have I told you not to play in
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  Speaker 1: my room? I screamed out loudly. I could see a
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  Speaker 1: shadow moving on the wall opposite my bedroom door. I
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  Speaker 1: rushed to the corridor to scull Damien. I was about
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  Speaker 1: to be inside when I heard Damien's voice from behind me, Mom,
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  Speaker 1: I'm hungry. I was shocked and absolutely terrified at the
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  Speaker 1: same time. I slowly walked towards him and said, did
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  Speaker 1: you go into my room? But Damien said no, I
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  Speaker 1: was in my room and did something really creepy. He
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  Speaker 1: looked over my shoulder as if someone was standing behind me.
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  Speaker 1: I immediately turned around, but didn't see anyone there. Later on,
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  Speaker 1: I checked my room and the entire house, but all
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  Speaker 1: the doors and windows were already locked. Also, there was
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  Speaker 1: no sign of any forced entry. I got really worried
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  Speaker 1: this time and noticed weird things happening around the house.
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  Speaker 1: I started decorating the house as Christmas was knocking on
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  Speaker 1: the door, but sometimes I noticed things being misplaced from
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  Speaker 1: their positions. Like if I kept a lamp beside the
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  Speaker 1: porch in the living room and left for a few minutes,
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  Speaker 1: I always ended up finding it in the corner of
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  Speaker 1: the wall. Damien was too small to lift such a
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  Speaker 1: heavy lamp, and there was no one else in the house.
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  Speaker 1: One night, I went to the kitchen to get a
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  Speaker 1: glass of water and thought to check on Damien on
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  Speaker 1: my way back.
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  Speaker 2: As I got.
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  Speaker 1: Close to his door, I heard his voice talking. He
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  Speaker 1: was speaking to someone. He talked in a very low voice,
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  Speaker 1: but I could still hear him. Damien was saying, you
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  Speaker 1: can't walk around the house at night like this. If
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  Speaker 1: Mom sees you, she won't let you stay with us.
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  Speaker 1: I immediately entered his room, thinking someone broke into our house,
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  Speaker 1: but there was no one inside. Damien was sitting on
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  Speaker 1: his bed nervously. I asked him who were you talking to.
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  Speaker 1: He looked towards his closet and then looked back at me.
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  Speaker 1: I said, in a tense voice, Damien, you are scaring
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  Speaker 1: me now. Is there anyone in your room? He still
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  Speaker 1: didn't say anything and just kept staring at me. I
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  Speaker 1: went to the closet and opened the door with my
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  Speaker 1: trembling hand. There was no one inside. I heaved a
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  Speaker 1: sigh of relief and scolded Damien for staying awake so late.
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  Speaker 1: I tucked him into bed and went to bed myself.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't sleep that night. Damien's weird behavior had me work.
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  Speaker 1: The next day was the day before Christmas, so I
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  Speaker 1: decided to take Damien to the mall to let him
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  Speaker 1: buy things for decorating the Christmas tree. We had a
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  Speaker 1: fun time, and I bought him some ice cream. On
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  Speaker 1: our way back, I asked Damien, how's your friend? Damien?
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  Speaker 1: He said, which friend? Mom? I said, in a hesitated manner,
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  Speaker 1: your new friend, mister Nobody. Damien's face turned sad and
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  Speaker 1: he said I don't think we're friends anymore. Mom. I asked,
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  Speaker 1: why is that. He replied, he doesn't listen to me. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I feel scared of him. I was really quite shocked
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  Speaker 1: to hear him talk about his imaginary friend as if
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  Speaker 1: it were real. After getting back home, I told Damien,
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  Speaker 1: what does mister Nobody look like? Damien, he went to
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  Speaker 1: his room and brought me a drawing he had made.
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  Speaker 1: When I looked at the first page, I saw a
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  Speaker 1: very creepy figure Damien drew himself on the bed and
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  Speaker 1: there was a thin, triangle faced man standing with side him.
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  Speaker 1: The man had a huge smile in his face, like
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  Speaker 1: someone had cut his mouth from one ear to the other.
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  Speaker 1: His eyes were huge and his eyeballs were blood red.
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  Speaker 1: The picture disturbed me to the core. I turned to
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  Speaker 1: Damien and said, how did you meet this guy? He said,
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  Speaker 1: mister Nobody came to watch him play and asked to
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  Speaker 1: come to our house with him. I felt goosebumps on
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  Speaker 1: my skin. I said, in a low voice, do you
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  Speaker 1: mean he lives in our house now? Damien once again
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  Speaker 1: looked behind me and I was about to turn around
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  Speaker 1: when the doorbell rang. The doorbell scared the shit out
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  Speaker 1: of me, but I somehow managed not to let my
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  Speaker 1: fear show. As I opened the door, I saw Paul
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  Speaker 1: standing in the doorway. Paul is my ex husband. We
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  Speaker 1: exchanged smiles and I let him in the house. Damien
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  Speaker 1: was so excited to see him just before Christmas, and
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  Speaker 1: they both started to decorate the Christmas tree. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: shake the terrible feeling about Damien's imaginary friend mister Nobody.
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  Speaker 1: After dinner, as Damien was put to sleep, I.
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  Speaker 2: Told Paul about all of this.
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  Speaker 1: He laughed and told me that I shouldn't be taking
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  Speaker 1: a kid's imagination so seriously. And that's the main thing
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  Speaker 1: I hated about Paul. He never took me serious unless
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  Speaker 1: we got into trouble. The same thing happened in this
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  Speaker 1: case as well. On Christmas morning, we were all feeling excited.
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  Speaker 1: I went to Damien's room and woke him and Paul up.
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  Speaker 1: As Paul was sleeping in his room, we all came
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  Speaker 1: to the living room and witnessed a shocking scene. The
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  Speaker 1: Christmas tree was in complete ruins. It seemed like someone
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  Speaker 1: scratched it with something sharp and pointy. The toys and
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  Speaker 1: ornaments we hung on the tree were all scattered all
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  Speaker 1: over the floor. Paul and I both knew it wasn't Damien,
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  Speaker 1: but Damien started to cry and said, trust me, Mom.
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  Speaker 2: It's mister Nobody.
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  Speaker 1: He broke the Christmas tree. I didn't know what was
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  Speaker 1: going on, neither did Paul. We calmed down our son
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  Speaker 1: and started to rearrange the decorations once again. Around six
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  Speaker 1: o'clock that evening, we had everything.
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  Speaker 2: Back the way it was before.
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  Speaker 1: I cooked a delicious dinner and Damien got excited opening
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  Speaker 1: his Christmas presents, which were filled with toys and candies,
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  Speaker 1: and Damien started smiling again. Damien was watching the Christmas
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  Speaker 1: Day parade on the television while Paul and I sat
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  Speaker 1: at the kitchen table quietly with our glasses of wine.
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  Speaker 1: Paul understood I was still disturbed with everything going on
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  Speaker 1: in the house. He spoke in a low voice, you
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  Speaker 1: should probably leave this house and move somewhere else. I
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  Speaker 1: can arrange that for you and Damien. I was already
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  Speaker 1: thinking about that. I nodded to Paul's suggestion and agreed
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  Speaker 1: to take his help on this matter. We were all
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  Speaker 1: set on leaving the house the next morning and staying
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  Speaker 1: with my parents for a while until we could get
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  Speaker 1: a new house. I tucked Damien into his bed and
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  Speaker 1: went to sleep. Paul wanted to have a few more
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  Speaker 1: drinks and watch some television, so I left him on
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  Speaker 1: his own. Around two am in the morning, I heard
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  Speaker 1: a soft crying voice coming from Damien's room. Damien's room
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  Speaker 1: is on the opposite side of the living room. I
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  Speaker 1: rushed to his room and noticed Paul passed out on
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  Speaker 1: the couch. I thought my son might have had a
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  Speaker 1: bad dream, so I didn't wake Paul. As I stepped
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  Speaker 1: in near his room and opened.
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  Speaker 2: The door, I froze in fear.
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  Speaker 1: I will never be able to forget what I saw
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  Speaker 1: in that room, but I can say with great assurance
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  Speaker 1: that I wasn't imagining it. I saw a thin, triangle
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  Speaker 1: faced man lying on the ceiling over Damien's bed and
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  Speaker 1: looking directly at him with his blood red.
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  Speaker 2: Angry eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Damien was sitting on his bed and sobbing in fear.
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  Speaker 1: He was so horrified that he could barely cry out loud.
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  Speaker 1: I screamed at the top of my lungs at that
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  Speaker 1: demonic figure, who looked at me and howled in his
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  Speaker 1: spine chilling voice by opening his huge, dark mouth. His
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  Speaker 1: howl sounded like it didn't belong in this world. My
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  Speaker 1: scream woke up my husband, and he ran to Damien's room.
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  Speaker 1: By then I had already grabbed my son and came
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  Speaker 1: out of the room. I said, in a crying voice,
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  Speaker 1: get us out of here. I don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: in the house for another second. We all got out
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  Speaker 1: of the house immediately and stayed the night at a
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  Speaker 1: nearby motel. The next morning, we went back to my
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  Speaker 1: house and packed a few necessary things before leaving for
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  Speaker 1: my parents' house. I left Damien inside the car because
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want him to step inside this house ever again.
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  Speaker 1: As we got into the car after getting everything from
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  Speaker 1: the house, Paul started the engine. Damien was sitting behind me.
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  Speaker 1: He looked back at the house and said, look, Mom,
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  Speaker 1: mister Nobody is waving goodbye to us. He's got a
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  Speaker 1: smile back on his face. I don't know who this
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  Speaker 1: mister Nobody was, but my mother said it might have
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  Speaker 1: been a demonic spirit who followed my son home. We
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  Speaker 1: took Damien to a psychiatrist due to my parents pressure.
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  Speaker 1: I also took Damien to see a priest. He conducted
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  Speaker 1: a few rituals, saying it was to bless my son's
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  Speaker 1: aura and soul. Now I don't know how much it helped,
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  Speaker 1: but Damien hasn't seen mister Nobody. After that horrifying Christmas night,
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  Speaker 1: Cherry and her little brother were running excitedly around the
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  Speaker 1: house because it was Christmas morning. She was very excited
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  Speaker 1: as they were gonna go visit their uncle this Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Cherry's mother came to the living room and told her
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  Speaker 1: to pack her bags as early as possible. It was
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  Speaker 1: going to be a five hour drive amidst the mountains,
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  Speaker 1: so they had.
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  Speaker 2: To leave early.
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  Speaker 1: Cherry's brother, Bob was always throwing tantrums. She went over
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  Speaker 1: to him and said, you must hurry up. Oh, mom
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  Speaker 1: will be very angry with us. I'm so excited to
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  Speaker 1: meet Auntie and uncle Auntie. Helena said she's going to
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  Speaker 1: make chocolate custard for Christmas tonight. Bob made a funny
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  Speaker 1: face and said, I'll eat all the custard and you'll
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  Speaker 1: get nothing. Cherry started to scream and said, oh, shut up.
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  Speaker 1: Their mother Kathy said from the bedroom, Oh, stop at
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  Speaker 1: you two. We're already running late. John put the luggage
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  Speaker 1: in his car trunk and said, Kathy, hurry up. We
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  Speaker 1: have to leave now or it'll be dark before we
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  Speaker 1: reach your brother's house. Cherry feels like Christmas is her
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  Speaker 1: most favorite time of the year, so they all hopped
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  Speaker 1: in their car and started their journey. As they were
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  Speaker 1: driving among the mountains and pine trees, as far as
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  Speaker 1: their eyes went, they could see white snow covering nature
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  Speaker 1: all around them. Bob was busy playing with his Santa
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  Speaker 1: and Elf toys. Suddenly, Cherry asked him, what do you
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  Speaker 1: want for Christmas this year, Bob replied, I've asked for
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  Speaker 1: a gumball machine and a huge house made of candies
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  Speaker 1: and cream biscuits. Everyone started to laugh upon hearing his
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  Speaker 1: childish Christmas wishes. Cherry laughed and said, but to get
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  Speaker 1: your Christmas gift, you have to be good for the
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  Speaker 1: entire year, which you obviously haven't the way you mess
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  Speaker 1: with my toys and things, I think this year, instead
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  Speaker 1: of Santa, Crampis will visit you. Bob got really angry
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  Speaker 1: and started a fight with Cherry. Cathy managed to stop
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  Speaker 1: them and asked Cherry, in a surprised voice, how do
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  Speaker 1: you know about Crampis, to which she replied that their
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  Speaker 1: English teacher taught them whoever hasn't behaved nicely throughout the
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  Speaker 1: year will be punished by Crampis. John said, in a
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  Speaker 1: surprised voice. Who's Crampis?
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  Speaker 2: Cherry replied.
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  Speaker 1: Crampis is a half goat, half demon monster that punishes
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  Speaker 1: children who misbehave on Christmas. He's the devilish companion of
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  Speaker 1: Saint Nicholas. Children who did not listen to their parents
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  Speaker 1: or elders will be whipped and beat by Crampis. Kathy replied,
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  Speaker 1: in a comforting voice. Oh, I'm sure this is just
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  Speaker 1: an old scary story that your teacher told you. Cherry.
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  Speaker 1: There's no such thing as Crampis.
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  Speaker 2: Cherry thought to herself.
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  Speaker 1: If Santa Claus is real, then why can't Crampis be real?
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  Speaker 1: But she didn't say anything as her brother was already crying.
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  Speaker 1: Upon hearing about this demon goat, Kathy gave Bob some
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  Speaker 1: chocolate and told him to be nice when they reached
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  Speaker 1: their uncle's house. Around five o'clock, they finally reached Uncle
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  Speaker 1: Sam's house. Uncle Sam hugged Bob and Cherry in his
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  Speaker 1: arms and led them inside. Aunt Helena came over and
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  Speaker 1: hugged Cherry and wished her a merry Christmas. They all
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  Speaker 1: sat down near the fireplace and started to chat. Their
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  Speaker 1: house was beautifully decorated with Christmas items. Shining bells were
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  Speaker 1: hanging from the ceiling, and neon lights were sparkling all
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  Speaker 1: over the walls. Cherry was amazed to see the huge
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  Speaker 1: Christmas tree placed in the middle of the living room.
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  Speaker 1: It was filled with lights, crystal balls, jingle bells, and
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  Speaker 1: all the glittering things in the world. Cherry turned to
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  Speaker 1: her uncle Sam and said in an excited voice that
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  Speaker 1: she loved their house and that they had the most
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  Speaker 1: beautiful Christmas tree in the whole world. Everyone was delighted
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  Speaker 1: to hear such sweet words coming from a seven year
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  Speaker 1: old girl. Bob was busy unwrapping the gift sitting under
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas tree. Just then his father said, Bob, you
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  Speaker 1: should open your gift with your sister, but he didn't listen.
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  Speaker 1: As the night went on, the celebrations grew even more.
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  Speaker 1: The table was filled with delicious dishes. An entire turkey
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  Speaker 1: was roasting and placed in the middle of the table.
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  Speaker 1: There were custards, mashed potatoes, fry porridge, and Cherry's favorite
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  Speaker 1: chicken rice. After dinner, Cherry sat down on the couch
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  Speaker 1: and started to open her Christmas present. It was a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful gown. She started to dance and joy and said,
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  Speaker 1: I knew Santa would fulfill my wish. But on the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, Bob started to cry, saying I didn't ask
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  Speaker 1: for a remote controlled car. Where's my gumball machine. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: started to get busy and decided to ignore the little child.
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  Speaker 1: Cherry went to her little brother and said, let's play
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  Speaker 1: hide and clap. She knew Bob loves to play hide
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  Speaker 1: and clap, hence it will help to distract him for
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  Speaker 1: some time. The house was quite big, so they had
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  Speaker 1: lots of places to hide. As they began their game,
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  Speaker 1: Cathy said, no one will leave the house. Stay inside
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  Speaker 1: and play whatever you like. It's really cold outside. Cherry
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  Speaker 1: could see the snow covered ground from the large glass
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  Speaker 1: window upstairs. There was even a snow man near the
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  Speaker 1: house gate. A heavy wind was blowing outside, which made
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  Speaker 1: the glass window vibrate while making a clinking sound. As
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  Speaker 1: the game began.
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  Speaker 2: Cherry decided to hide first.
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  Speaker 1: And Bob would be the one looking for her. Cherry
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  Speaker 1: hid inside Aunt Helena's bedroom closet and Bob started to
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  Speaker 1: count from one to ten. After he was done counting,
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  Speaker 1: he said in a loud voice, give me the first clap.
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  Speaker 1: The first clap took place, and Bob immediately followed it.
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  Speaker 1: After the second clap, he managed to find Cherry and
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  Speaker 1: yelled in joy. Hi When Hi. When Cherry said, the
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  Speaker 1: game's not over yet. Now it's my turn, you go hide.
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  Speaker 1: Bob wanted to win this game any way he could,
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  Speaker 1: so he went and hid in the attic. He stood
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  Speaker 1: near the attic window waiting for cherries counting to end.
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  Speaker 1: The attic was dark and the howling winds outside started
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  Speaker 1: to scare him. Suddenly, he looked out of the window
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  Speaker 1: and saw a man wearing a big red cloak standing
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  Speaker 1: beside the snowman. Bob got very excited, thinking that Santa
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  Speaker 1: Claus had finally come to visit them. He opened the
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  Speaker 1: glass window and yelled out in a cheery voice, Santa,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here. Did you bring me my gumball machine? The
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  Speaker 1: man wearing the red cloak waved his hand and nodded.
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  Speaker 1: Bursting in joy, Bob silently got down from the attic
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  Speaker 1: and sneaked out of the house. He opened the main door,
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  Speaker 1: making less sound because he knew if anyone saw him
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  Speaker 1: going outside that they would scold him. Bob was adamant
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  Speaker 1: to meet Sanna and ask for his gumball machine, but
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  Speaker 1: he didn't see him anywhere. As he opened the main door,
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  Speaker 1: Bob heard a rustling sound coming from the back of
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  Speaker 1: the house, as if someone was walking. At the back
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  Speaker 1: of the house there stood a deep dark woods filled
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  Speaker 1: with tall pine trees. With his small little feet, Bob
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  Speaker 1: walked towards the back of the house. He stood at
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the back of the house, facing the dark woods all
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: by himself, He started.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: To feel a little scared.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: The trees were bumping into each other as the wind
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: passed through them. He spoke out in a low voice, Santa,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: where are you? Suddenly he heard footsteps behind the nearby
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: pine tree. He saw that same red hooded person peeking
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: out from behind a tree and calling to him. Bob
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: slowly walked towards him. Meanwhile, Cherry was getting bored as
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: she couldn't find Bob anywhere in the house. Even though
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: she kept asking for clap she couldn't hear any The
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: elders were so busy that they didn't notice anything going
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: on with the two kids. Cherry looked out from the
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: window and saw Bob walking towards the forest. She ran
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: to the back gate. By the time she reached the outside,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: she couldn't see Bob anymore. He was nowhere to be found.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Cherry was standing all alone in the freezing cold, staring
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: at the woods. Suddenly she heard a whimpering sound coming
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: from the tree nearby. As she tiptoed in that direction,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: her face turned pale in fear. Bob was laying on
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the ground, and a vicious looking creature was standing in
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: front of him. It was at least seven feet tall,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: with huge, sharp horns on its head. The face of
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: the creature looked like a dead goat. It had a
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: body of a giant human, but its feet were like
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: that of a goat. There was a whip in his
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: one hand and chains on the other. The creature was
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: growling in a muffled way, drenched in fear and terror.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: A word came out of her mouth, Creeps. Hearing its
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: name from Cherry's mouth, Crampis looked at her with its
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: burning red eyes. The huge red tongue came out of
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: its mouth, while saliva started to drip from it. Cherry
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: screamed at the top of her lungs, and Crampis growled
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: in its demonic voice. The growl shook the entire forest,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and the sound echoed into the valley for at least
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: two to three minutes. Kathy ran outside, hearing her children's screams.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: As she came out, she saw Cherry sobbing and hiding
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: her face in her hands while Bob was lying unconscious
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: on the snowy forest ground. The next morning, Bob caught
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: a high fever. Cherry couldn't sleep well, for an entire week.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Kathy and John didn't have.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: The slightest idea what their little kids had saw outside.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: So what do you think did Cherry and Bob really
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: see Crampus that night?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Hi? My name's Shelley, and this incident happened on a
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Christmas night long ago. I was still in high school
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: back then, and I was having lunch with my friends Kate, Matt,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: and Jim at our school's cafeteria. It was just us
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: four and we often hung out together. Being close to Christmas,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: everyone was talking about plans for that day. My friend
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Matt said, well, hey, we can all have a sleep
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: over at my house. My parents will be gone for
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the holiday. We can party and drink as much as
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: we want. Huh. High school life is probably the best
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: time ever for teenagers, so we all got excited upon
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: hearing his plan. I told my mother that I would
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: be spending Christmas night at Kate's place. Kate lived with
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: her grandma, so it was easy for her to sneak
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: out at night for a Christmas party. After school, we
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: all went to the mall to shop for the party.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: The mall was filled with Christmas decorations, jingle bells were
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: hanging all over the mall, and there was even a
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: guy dressed as Sanna giving out candies and gifts to
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: all the kids. Kate and I brought some snacks and
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: decorations and left for Matt's house. Matt's house was a
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: pretty good distance from the mall on our way. Jim
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: called me and said, Hey, have you guys gotten here yet?
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I said no, but we're on our way. When are
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: you going to get over there? Jim said in an
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: excited voice, Oh, I'll be there real soon. I'll see
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: you at the party. As we drove down the road,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: we noticed people having fun with their friends and family.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: The roads were covered with pure white snow and it
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: was really cold, so I rolled my car window up.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: After about ten to fifteen minutes, we left the township
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: area and got onto an old, dusty road. I told
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Kate thank God for GPS, otherwise we'd have gotten lost
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: by now. When we arrived at Matt's house, we saw
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Jim and Matt standing at the front door. The snow
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: covered house was decorated with neon lights and was looking
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: kind of spooky. We went inside and sat near the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: fireplace to warm ourselves up. Matt offered us some wine
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: from his dad's collection. We had a few drinks and
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: started to put up the decorations that we had bought earlier.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Kate got busy hanging all the bells and the sparkling
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: chains all around the living room. Jim attached some neon
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: lights to the already decorated Christmas tree and said, hey, Matt,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: now your tree looks complete. We were all having just
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: a really great time, and to be honest, it was
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: my first night out with my friends. I was having
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: such a good time. We all sat down and started
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: to eat our food when Matt said, hey, what do
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: you think about the existence of spirits? Everyone stopped eating
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: and just kind of looked at him with a shocked
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: look on our faces. Jim replied in a mocking tone, Oh,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: come on, there's no such thing as ghosts. I agreed
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: by saying, yeah, I don't believe in things that I
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: can't see with my eyes, and Kate chimed in last, saying, well,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I don't believe in ghosts right now, but if I
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: saw one, I'd probably start believing in them. Of course,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I imagine all the ghosts are busy partying tonight. And
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: with that she started to let out a big laugh,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and Jim and I joined in with her. Matt got
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: a little embarrassed by our reaction and kept quiet for
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: a few seconds. I looked at him and said, hey,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: you got kind of serious there, but you gotta know
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: there's no such thing as ghosts or spirits. He looked
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: me right in my eyes and said, what if I
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: could prove to you that there are spirits? The air
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: in the room suddenly got very heavy, and we all
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: started to look at each other. Nobody really knew what
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: to say, and then Jim finally woke up. Fine, if
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: you can prove to me the ghosts are real, I'll
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: buy you a soda every day for an entire year.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Matt got out of his seat and quickly left the
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: room without saying anything. A few seconds later, he came
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: back with a candle in his hand and a cardboard box.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: He then dimmed the lights in the room and placed
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the cardboard box in the center. He lit the candle
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: with a match stick and said in a low voice, Well,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna summon a spirit right now, and I'm gonna
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: need all of you to sit in a circle around
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: this box. I said in a hesitant voice, Guys, are
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: we really doing this? Isn't this a bit too much
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: for a Christmas party? Kate looked at me and said, oh,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: come on, Shelley, nothing will happen. Let's have some fun.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: So we all sat quietly, just like Matt had told us.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: The only sound that we heard was the snowy wind
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: hitting the glass windows and nothing else. The candlelight made
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the room look really spooky. Sam said in a low voice,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: First we have to decide who we're going to call.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: We have to choose someone whom we've all seen at
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: least once. That's when Jim said, well, do you remember
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: my distant cousin Tom from my last birthday. We all
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: nodded our head in agreement, and Kate said, yeah, that
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: one shy boy your birthday. I remember him. But is
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: he dead? Jim said in a sad voice, Yeah, he
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: kind of died from an unknown disease. I want to
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: know what happened to him. Let's call him. I was
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: a bit shocked to know about Jim's cousin. He was
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: kind of a shy boy. He barely talked to us
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: on his birthday. I started to feel a bit disturbed
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: that we were actually doing something like this, but I
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: kept quiet because I was kind of interested too. We
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: closed our eyes and held each other's hands. Matt said
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: in a deep, low voice, Tom, can you hear us?
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Nothing happened, so Matt spoke out a again, Tom, we're
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: calling out to you. Can you hear us? We want
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: to know what happened to you. There was no sounds
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: except for the sound of the wind outside and the
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: clinking of the glass windows. Matt called out again, Tom,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: please hear us, we're calling for you. But before he
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: could finish, the candle flickered twice and then went out
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: on its own. The room turned pitch black, and suddenly
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: we heard a heavy knock at the main door. Kate
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: and I almost screamed, and then Matt got up and
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: switched on the lights. Jim said, in a shocking voice, did.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: You guys hear that or was it just me?
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: We said that we had all heard it too. Then
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: the knock happened again, but this time we heard a
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: voice as well. Someone said in a tired voice, Jim,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: open the door, man, it's too cold outside. We all
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: got scared, as we weren't expecting anyone at that time.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Jim was looking even more surprised than the rest of us,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and he rushed to the door. As he opened the door,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: we all received the shock of our lives. It was
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Jim's distant cousin Tom. Jim said, in a gasping voice,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: what the hell are you doing here? Tom gave us
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: a creepy smile and said, I came to your house
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: to visit you for Christmas, but your mom said you
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: were staying at Matt's, so I came here. Merry Christmas, guys.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Kate got really angry and said, in a loud voice,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: you jerk. I can't believe you lied to us like that. Jim,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I hope you burn in hell. God damn it. Matt
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and I also hurled insults at Jim for lying to
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: us about Tom's death. Jim laughed like an idiot and said, sorry, guys,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: but it's like I told you, there's no such thing
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: as ghosts. See and we all sat down to have
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: another drink. Tom sat right beside us and told us
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: about Jim's silly prank. He laughed and then said something
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: which I thought sounded rather odd. Tom said, in a voice, well,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: you would never know if you came face to face
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: with a ghost. I also didn't believe like you guys,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: but I do now. My other friends didn't really pay
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: much attention to what he said, and they all started
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: to laugh about the entire situation. I, on the other hand,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: was feeling very mysterious about Tom's arrival. I looked him
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: over from head to toe. He was wearing a full
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: sleeved T shirt and sweatpants. It was so freezing cold outside.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: How could he have managed to come here just wearing that? Also,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: I didn't hear the sound of a car driving in.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Jim's house was at least twenty minutes away from here,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: so there's no way anyone could walk that distance wearing
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: just a T shirt and sweatpants. We all knew that
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Tom was a really shy guy, but the way he
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: kept smiling with the others seemed really odd to me.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: His behavior was completely different, and it wasn't just his clothes,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: but his face looked different too. His eyes were really
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: big and there was these dark circles under them. He
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: was kind of looking sick to me. Suddenly our eyes met,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: and he smiled at me in a very creepy way
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: and said, it seems you think a lot I was
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: so surprised to see him talk like that. I didn't
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: know what to say, so I got up and went
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: to the kitchen to wash my hands. Kate went along
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: with me. Kate and I were talking about how weird
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: it was to see Tom so suddenly tonight, and then
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Matt and Jim came into the kitchen to get more booze.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: What's up?
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: You two look worried. Kate and I started to tell
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Jim and Matt about this weird coincidence. When Jim's phone rang,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: it was his mom. His hands were stacked with beer bottles,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: so he asked Matt to put the phone on speaker.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: We heard Jim's mom crying over the phone. Jim got
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: nervous and said, what's wrong, Mom? Why are you crying?
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Jim's mom said in a sobbing voice. Aunt Elena called
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: your cousin Tom just passed away. She said Tom was
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: in his room sleeping quiet when she heard him choking.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: She rushed to the room and saw him dead on
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the floor. His eyes were dripping out of his sockets,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: as if he saw something horrible. Please come home. We
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: have to go to their house. Jim's mom couldn't say
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: anything else, and then hung up the phone. We were
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: completely freaking out and horrified by this news. If Jim
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: was dead, then who was sitting in Matt's living room
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: right now? Our forehead started to drip sweat as we
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: all turned towards the living room. There was an empty
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: space between the kitchen and the living room. What we
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: saw next chilled us to our bones with terror. Tom
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: was still standing in the living room, looking directly at
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: the four of us. His eyes were coming out of
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: his face. He smiled horribly and said, in a demonic voice,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: you all called for me, and look I came. Merry Christmas, guys,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and he started to laugh horribly. Kate screamed and fainted
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: on the floor. Jim cried, oh my god. Matt and
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I just kept staring at Tom. We had no words,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: We couldn't believe our eyes. Tom started to walk towards
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the front door and turned to us one last time.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: He said, in that same demonic voice, I hope you
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: all believe now the ghosts are real, And in front
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: of our very eyes, he disappeared into thin air, and
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: we all sat on the floor, shattered with this horrified
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: feeling that our one stupid prank took the life of
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: a young person. Jim spent a lot of time in
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: therapy after that horrible Christmas night. Kate and I never
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: spoke about the incident again. We don't know where Matd
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: is now because he moved out of town after that Christmas.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: But one thing is for sure. I sure as hell
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: believe in ghosts now