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6 HOME ALONE Horror Stories Animated · Martin Animations

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Speaker 1: It was 2019. I lived in a house with two
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Speaker 1: other girls. We were all in our early 20s. The
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Speaker 1: house backed into a park. It was more like an
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Speaker 1: open lot that was accessible through a main road. There
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Speaker 1: wasn't any playground or a barbecue area there, just long
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Speaker 1: thick grass and trees. The backyard fence was only about
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Speaker 1: waist high, and there was a tree on the right
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Speaker 1: hand side, obstructing about half of the view over the
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Speaker 1: fence into the park. One night after I showered and
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Speaker 1: got into my underwear and a baggy shirt, because it
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Speaker 1: was summer, I hear the dog in the backyard going
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Speaker 1: absolutely mad. My housemate was not home at the time,
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Speaker 1: and the dog belonged to her. I fly out of
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Speaker 1: the back door and see that he's baring his teeth
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Speaker 1: and snarling toward the fence. He had caught and killed
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Speaker 1: possums before. so I was concerned that there was one
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Speaker 1: by the tree. I grabbed him by the collar to
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Speaker 1: get him back inside and away from the possum. As
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Speaker 1: I did, I got a shiver and a sense that
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Speaker 1: something wasn't right. He was still going ballistic, and I
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Speaker 1: looked up and saw a figure standing in the dark
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Speaker 1: just on the other side of the fence. It was
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Speaker 1: a man who was about 5'10, and he didn't say anything.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't see his face. I naturally jump and say,
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I didn't even see you there. The
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Speaker 1: man did not reply. He just stood there in his
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Speaker 1: beanie and jacket, staring at me. I kept the dog
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Speaker 1: in front of me as I backed into the house.
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Speaker 1: Once inside, I locked up everything and closed all the windows,
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Speaker 1: and I called my partner to come over. A few
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Speaker 1: small things happened over the next few months, but nothing
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Speaker 1: that really stood out. There was a popped security screen,
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Speaker 1: and we found some computer parts in the lawn that
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Speaker 1: could have been discarded by kids or something. One night,
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Speaker 1: I get home after having drinks and dinner with some friends.
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Speaker 1: It was late, around 10pm. We often left the back
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Speaker 1: door open to let the dog come in and out.
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Speaker 1: We always just kind of assumed that the dog would
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Speaker 1: scare away anyone from breaking in. How naive. When I
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Speaker 1: got into the kitchen, which was next to the back door,
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Speaker 1: I hear the dog barking in the backyard. Again, this
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Speaker 1: has happened many times before, so I ignore it and
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Speaker 1: make myself a drink before going out there and bringing
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Speaker 1: him back inside. I then see a shadow move to
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Speaker 1: my right. inside the f * * * ing house,
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Speaker 1: rounding the corner from the back door into the kitchen.
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Speaker 2: I froze.
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Speaker 1: I then think to myself, what on earth is this
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Speaker 1: man doing? It's summer, and he's in a long coat
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Speaker 1: covering his entire neck to his wrists. And then, panic
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Speaker 1: set in. I back myself up to the counter, and
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Speaker 1: looked down to see that there was a knife in
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Speaker 1: his hand. It was one of our kitchen knives from
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Speaker 1: the block behind me, so now I'm aware he has
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Speaker 1: already been inside this house. This wasn't a robbery. He
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Speaker 1: had already had the chance to steal anything he wanted.
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Speaker 1: There was a scuffle, and he pulled the rug from
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Speaker 1: under my feet, and I hit my head on the counter.
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Speaker 1: I was knocked unconscious. The last thing I remember is
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Speaker 1: the dog barking from behind him It turns out our
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Speaker 1: scary dog was too afraid to attack him, but he
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Speaker 1: was still doing his best to scare him away. The
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Speaker 1: police and detectives eventually came, but there wasn't anything that
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Speaker 1: they could do, because technically there was no breaking and
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Speaker 1: entering since our back door was left wide open. This
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Speaker 1: also meant that it would be difficult to determine what
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Speaker 1: he touched. I also seem to remember that he was
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Speaker 1: wearing gloves, but I'm not 100% sure about that. I
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Speaker 1: did have defensive wounds to my hands and some bruising,
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Speaker 1: but overall I was fine. It could have been a
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Speaker 1: lot worse. Nothing ever came of this. The police suggested
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Speaker 1: that we lock our back door from now on and
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Speaker 1: hope nothing like this would ever happen again. I can't
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Speaker 1: be sure if it was the man I saw by
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Speaker 1: our back fence. Around this time we had a third housemate.
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Speaker 1: One day she asked me for a cigarette because she
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Speaker 1: was stressed out about something. I told her that I
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Speaker 1: didn't smoke, and then she suggested that it must be
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Speaker 1: our other housemate. Confused, I said, What are you talking about?
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Speaker 1: Neither of us smoke. Apparently she had been picking up
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Speaker 1: cigarette butts from outside the front and side doors of
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Speaker 1: our house. for her entire stay. She never said anything
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Speaker 1: about it because she decided it was something that bothered her,
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Speaker 1: but clearly not us, so she didn't mind cleaning them up.
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Speaker 1: She would leave very early in the morning for work
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Speaker 1: before either of us woke up, which is why we
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Speaker 1: never saw them. This is going to be kind of long,
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Speaker 1: so please bear with me. So this happened when I
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Speaker 1: was in high school and still living with my parents
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Speaker 1: and my younger brother in a house in the suburbs.
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Speaker 1: The area I grew up in was very quiet and safe.
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Speaker 1: We lived in the Midwest, and our town was as
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Speaker 1: Midwest as you can get, which means that everyone knew
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Speaker 1: each other. Even the strangers were very kind and eager
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Speaker 1: to help, with some exceptions, of course. Our neighborhood was
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Speaker 1: the kind of place where every third house had the
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Speaker 1: same exact layout, which means everyone was pretty much living
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Speaker 1: on an equal level. For the most part, everyone got
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Speaker 1: along pretty well, and there was hardly any crime since
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Speaker 1: everyone was coming from a similar financial background. So it
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Speaker 1: would be an understatement to say that it felt very
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Speaker 1: safe where I lived. That was until strange things began
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Speaker 1: to happen. At first, it was small things. Pretty inconsequential
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Speaker 1: in the moment. But now when I look back at everything,
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Speaker 1: I always made a connection to the strange events that
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Speaker 1: were going on. It started at the beginning of my
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Speaker 1: junior year of high school. One morning I woke up
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Speaker 1: early to put away my clothes. Because I'm weird about
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Speaker 1: these kind of things, I make sure all my dressers
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Speaker 1: and doors were closed before I left, as I was
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Speaker 1: the last one out of the house. And I happened
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Speaker 1: to have a doctor's appointment on that day. I was
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Speaker 1: the first one back. When I came up to my room,
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Speaker 1: my door wasn't closed all the way and my closet
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Speaker 1: was completely open. I thought it was weird, but I
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Speaker 1: brushed it off. But this happened more than once. I
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Speaker 1: would sometimes be missing shirts or pants after I told
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Speaker 1: myself that I was just being stupid and probably misplaced
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Speaker 1: them somewhere. Another night, after I had gone to bed,
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Speaker 1: I was woken up by the sound of footsteps coming
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Speaker 1: up the stairs. The fifth step always creaked very loudly,
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Speaker 1: and when I heard that, I instantly sat up. I
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Speaker 1: remember it clearly because I could hear it over my fan.
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Speaker 1: After the footsteps stopped, I checked every room upstairs. All
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Speaker 1: of the bedrooms were on the second floor. All the
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Speaker 1: doors were closed and everyone else was sleeping. All of
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Speaker 1: the doors creak pretty loudly when they're opened in the night,
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Speaker 1: so I would have heard something since I was the
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Speaker 1: only one who slept with their door open. I couldn't
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Speaker 1: see much. Everyone was sound asleep. I stayed awake for
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Speaker 1: a while to try to catch it again, but I
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Speaker 1: eventually fell asleep, figuring that my mind was just playing
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Speaker 1: tricks on me. I asked my family about it casually
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Speaker 1: the next morning. but everyone said they slept through the night.
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Speaker 1: All of these small occurrences accumulated into one of the
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Speaker 1: weirdest experiences I've had to date. It was halfway through
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Speaker 1: the year and I had driven myself and my brother
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Speaker 1: home from high school. I threw down my bags on
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Speaker 1: the dining room table and laid down on the couch
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Speaker 1: to watch some TV. My brother went downstairs to take
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Speaker 1: the dog out and then play some video games. I
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Speaker 1: could tell by the fact that there were no other
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Speaker 1: cars in the garage that my parents were still at work.
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Speaker 1: So I put the volume on medium so I could
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Speaker 1: hear them when they got back. My parents used to
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Speaker 1: give me a lot of crap for watching TV after school.
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Speaker 1: Everything was fine, and I actually began dozing off when
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Speaker 1: I heard a very distinct thumping sound coming from upstairs.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was just my imagination. I watch a
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Speaker 1: lot of horror films, so I tend to be pretty
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Speaker 1: jumpy sometimes. I went back to my show, but the
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Speaker 1: thumping continued for about five minutes. That's when I finally
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Speaker 1: decided that something was off. I muted the TV and
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Speaker 1: listened for a few more minutes. It was a rhythmic thumping.
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Speaker 1: and it was coming from directly upstairs. For a second
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Speaker 1: I thought it was just my dog, since he sometimes
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Speaker 1: paced up and down the stairs, trying to find somewhere
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Speaker 1: to lay down. So I called out for him, but
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Speaker 1: my brother shouted that he was downstairs with him. So
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Speaker 1: I walked up the stairs to the top and listened.
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Speaker 1: The noise was coming from directly above me. I started
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Speaker 1: to get scared when I realized that the only thing
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Speaker 1: above me was the attic. And furthermore, I realized that
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Speaker 1: it wasn't thumping that I was hearing. It was footsteps.
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Speaker 1: Like somebody was wearing boots and pacing around the attic.
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Speaker 1: Even though I was thinking the worst, I told myself
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Speaker 1: to be practical. There are only two entrances to the attic,
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Speaker 1: a small panel in the ceiling of my brother's bedroom,
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Speaker 1: and a third-story window. I checked his bedroom, and the
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Speaker 1: panel looked like it hadn't been touched in a very
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Speaker 1: long time. We hadn't even opened it since we moved in,
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Speaker 1: because the previous owners told us it was just insulation
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Speaker 1: and wiring. I then thought about how we were having
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Speaker 1: trouble recently with our satellite dish, and my dad had
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Speaker 1: to call a repairman to come fix it. I opened
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Speaker 1: the front door and went around back, but there wasn't
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Speaker 1: anything on the roof, not that I could see anyway.
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Speaker 1: It was pretty high up. I then went back inside.
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Speaker 1: My brother was standing in the doorway, asking me what
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Speaker 1: was going on. Since he heard the door open, I
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Speaker 1: told him about what I heard and asked him to
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Speaker 1: come check it out with me, just to make sure
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Speaker 1: I wasn't going crazy. When we got upstairs, he gets
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Speaker 1: this weird look on his face. and then asked, What
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Speaker 1: is that? I felt relieved knowing it wasn't just me.
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Speaker 1: I whispered, It sounds like somebody is walking up there, right?
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Speaker 1: He nods and points downstairs, suggesting that we say no
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Speaker 1: more and I should follow him down there. The floors
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Speaker 1: are pretty thin in this house, so in case there
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Speaker 1: was somebody up there, we would want to talk about
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Speaker 1: this out of earshot. Once we were downstairs, I tell
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Speaker 1: him about the roof and the possibility of a repairman
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Speaker 1: being up there, although I didn't see a van outside.
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Speaker 1: My brother shakes his head, saying that the repair people
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Speaker 1: were coming later that week. That's when we decided to
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Speaker 1: call our dad. I explain everything to him. I could
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Speaker 1: tell that he didn't believe us, but was trying to
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Speaker 1: be nice about it. I can't exactly blame him. It
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Speaker 1: was highly improbable for somebody to even want to be
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Speaker 1: in our attic. let alone get up there. He suggested
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Speaker 1: it might have been a bird or a raccoon. We
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Speaker 1: lived near a large patch of woods. I tried explaining
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Speaker 1: to him that no animal could make that kind of
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Speaker 1: thumping sound. If it was a bird, it would have
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Speaker 1: had to have been repeatedly slamming itself into the floor.
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Speaker 1: And even then, that wouldn't explain how the floor was
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Speaker 1: creaking like somebody was shifting their weight. He said just
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Speaker 1: to wait it out, and that he would be home soon.
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Speaker 1: The thumping continued for well over 30 minutes. I decided
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Speaker 1: to camp out in my brother's room until it stopped.
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Speaker 1: After about 15 minutes, I had to use the restroom.
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Speaker 1: There's one right next to his room, and is still
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Speaker 1: under the attic. As I was washing my hands, I
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Speaker 1: realized that the thumping was a lot louder now, and
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Speaker 1: directly above me. It was weird because before, the thumping
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Speaker 1: was loud when I was in my brother's room. It
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Speaker 1: was like the sound had followed me. Sometimes when I
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Speaker 1: get really scared, I get super angry, so I bang
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Speaker 1: twice on the ceiling. I'm a pretty tall girl, so
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Speaker 1: I used my fist. I then shouted, What the f
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Speaker 1: * * * is this? The steps then completely stopped.
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Speaker 1: I was confused for a second. Then clear as day,
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Speaker 1: there were two loud thuds. Like someone stomping their foot
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Speaker 1: twice very loud. I ran out of the bathroom to
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Speaker 1: my brother, who was coming up the stairs. What just happened?
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Speaker 1: The pacing started again, so I quickly explained everything to
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Speaker 1: my brother. He then pulled out his phone and called
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Speaker 1: my dad a second time. As he's trying to explain everything,
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Speaker 1: I can tell that my dad is still not giving in,
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Speaker 1: frustrated and frightened. I take the phone from my brother,
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Speaker 1: put my dad on speaker, and hold the phone up
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Speaker 1: to the attic, then say, Listen to this. Suddenly, all
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Speaker 1: the noises completely stop. Absolutely no sound whatsoever. After about
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Speaker 1: a minute of silence, I hear my dad say, What sound?
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Speaker 1: My brother and I just look at each other and
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Speaker 1: bolt down the stairs. I tell my dad to come
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Speaker 1: home quick and that we would wait downstairs for him.
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Speaker 1: He then said that he was pulling up the driveway,
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Speaker 1: so we opened the door and ran out to him.
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Speaker 1: After my brother and I explained things quickly and nearly
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Speaker 1: out of breath, to my dad's credit we did sound
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Speaker 1: a bit insane, he follows us upstairs to where the
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Speaker 1: sound was coming from But now, there was absolutely no
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Speaker 1: sound at all. And even though we beg him several
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Speaker 1: times to go take a look, he laughs and says
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Speaker 1: that we're just overreacting, and there was nothing there. Taking
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Speaker 1: out the panel might cause some damage to the ceiling.
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Speaker 1: We don't know that for sure because we've never tried
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Speaker 1: to look up there, so he was pretty set on
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Speaker 1: not going up there to check things out, unless he
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Speaker 1: hears it himself. Of course, the steps never came back.
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Speaker 1: at least not when we were around or awake. My
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Speaker 1: brother secretly stayed in my room for a couple of days,
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Speaker 1: because he was still freaked out about the whole thing,
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Speaker 1: and we were never able to prove what happened to
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Speaker 1: our parents. When the repair people finally did come, I
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Speaker 1: noticed that instead of using a ladder, they went around
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Speaker 1: to our backyard, and climbed up to the roof from
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Speaker 1: our deck. They were also able to walk around pretty
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Speaker 1: freely up there, and could easily access the window to
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Speaker 1: our attic. which was around the front of the house.
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Speaker 1: I've always wondered if there was someone secretly living up
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Speaker 1: there and would come down at night without us knowing.
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Speaker 1: But if that was the case, why would they let
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Speaker 1: us know that they were up there that day? It
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Speaker 1: still bothers me that we never checked. My name is
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Speaker 1: Caleb Fletcher. I'm 16 years old, and the story that
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Speaker 1: I'm about to tell is something that I'll never forget.
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Speaker 1: This took place on the 24th of August. School had
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Speaker 1: been going on for about two weeks. So to decompress,
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Speaker 1: I decided to see if my friends Griffin and Broly
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Speaker 1: wanted to hop on Fortnite. My mom and sister were
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Speaker 1: out shopping, and my dad was working. so I was
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Speaker 1: pretty bored. It was around 8pm when we finally got
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Speaker 1: online to play. After a few rounds, I could tell
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Speaker 1: that my friends were getting tired of losing. So they
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Speaker 1: logged off after about an hour. I planned on just
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Speaker 1: lying down with my phone before going to bed. That
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Speaker 1: was until I heard my two dogs barking outside. It's
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Speaker 1: not that unusual for them to bark. given how people
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Speaker 1: walk on the side of the road outside of our
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Speaker 1: front yard. But I still looked anyway, and can never
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Speaker 1: be too careful these days. I didn't see anyone there,
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Speaker 1: but seconds after I looked out of the window, I
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Speaker 1: heard our garage door opening and then closing. That usually
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Speaker 1: meant my dad was home from work, However, I thought
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Speaker 1: it was odd that I didn't see his van outside,
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Speaker 1: and he had even texted me earlier, letting me know
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Speaker 1: that he would be working late. I descended a walk
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Speaker 1: downstairs into the dining room to get a better look.
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Speaker 1: From there, I could see that the driveway was empty.
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Speaker 1: At first I thought, oh shit, could it be a ghost?
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Speaker 1: For context, someone had died on our property many years ago,
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Speaker 1: when there used to be a gas station here. Apparently
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Speaker 1: an old man put too much air into his tire,
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Speaker 1: and it exploded. Now I'm not the type to go
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Speaker 1: investigate strange noises in the night. So I ran back
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Speaker 1: into my bedroom and texted my family group chat to
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Speaker 1: ask if anybody was home. I told my mom about
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Speaker 1: the garage door and she told me to turn off
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Speaker 1: all the lights, lock my bedroom door, and stay in
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Speaker 1: there until she got home. So I did just that.
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Speaker 1: About 15 minutes later, I thought I heard the wooden
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Speaker 1: floorboards downstairs creaking, like somebody was trying to sneak around.
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Speaker 1: I didn't have anything to use as a weapon, so
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Speaker 1: I unclipped my microphone's boom arm from my desk, and
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Speaker 1: quietly opened my door. I walked onto the upstairs balcony,
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Speaker 1: and looked over, trying to see if I could spot
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Speaker 1: anyone hiding, or anything suspicious. I then stupidly called out,
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Speaker 1: Is anyone there? As if somebody was actually going to
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Speaker 1: answer me. For a second I thought I was just
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Speaker 1: being paranoid about this whole thing. until I saw the
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Speaker 1: silhouette of someone standing beneath the balcony. I panicked and
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Speaker 1: ran to the closest room, which happened to be the
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Speaker 1: small bathroom beside my room. The intruder must have known
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Speaker 1: that I saw him, because I heard loud footsteps coming
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Speaker 1: up our stairs as I locked myself inside. I was
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Speaker 1: cursing under my breath that I had accidentally left my
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Speaker 1: phone in my bedroom. After hearing nothing for several minutes,
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Speaker 1: I finally built up enough courage and bolted out of
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Speaker 1: the bathroom into my bedroom, locking the door as soon
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Speaker 1: as I got in. My sister's room was right across
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Speaker 1: from mine, and I noticed that her door was open,
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Speaker 1: so I figured that's where the intruder must have gone.
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Speaker 1: After locking myself in my bedroom, I grabbed my phone
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Speaker 1: and dialed 911. But just before I hit the call button,
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Speaker 1: I noticed that the door to the storage room was
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Speaker 1: slightly ajar. I then saw an eyeball peeking through the crevice.
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Speaker 1: That's when it hit me. The intruder was not in
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Speaker 1: my sister's room. He was here with me. The terror
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Speaker 1: I felt rushing through my body is something that I
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Speaker 1: will never forget. True, genuine fear. I ran out of
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Speaker 1: the bedroom and booked it down the stairs and out
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Speaker 1: my front door. I then ran up the hill to
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Speaker 1: my neighbor's house, who happened to be a police officer.
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Speaker 1: I told him about the intruder hiding in my bedroom,
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Speaker 1: and he immediately alerted the police. Then he set out
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Speaker 1: to go investigate himself. while I stayed behind with his wife.
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Speaker 1: Minutes later, I ran back down to see if the
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Speaker 1: intruder had been caught. When I entered my house, I
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Speaker 1: saw a tall, skinny man I had never seen before.
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Speaker 1: He had a gray beard and a dirty black coat.
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Speaker 1: He was on the ground, being handcuffed by my neighbor.
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Speaker 1: Ever since that night, I'm no longer allowed to be
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Speaker 1: home alone anymore. and we have upgraded our security around
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Speaker 1: the house now. My family is just happy that I
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Speaker 1: wasn't hurt, and are very thankful for my neighbor's bravery.
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Speaker 1: I don't wish an experience like this on anyone, not
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Speaker 1: even my worst enemy.
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Speaker 2: My name is Jim and I've spent a lot and
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Speaker 2: I mean a lot of time on the road as
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Speaker 2: a trucker. Ever since trucking school, I've been driving long
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Speaker 2: distances for hours every day and even with benefits that
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Speaker 2: pay wasn't the best. While it did pay enough to
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Speaker 2: financially support me and my wife, the stress it had
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Speaker 2: on top of me was unbearable. Being in a truck
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Speaker 2: for hours at a time really forced you to make sacrifices.
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Speaker 2: Once in a while, I'd miss out on family events
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Speaker 2: like birthdays and even holidays which didn't feel good at all.
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Speaker 2: On top of that, America is in desperate need for
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Speaker 2: truckers to keep up with demand which made the situation
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Speaker 2: even worse. I'd drive for about 12 hours a day
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Speaker 2: and we couldn't stop for any reason until we reached
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Speaker 2: our destination. Needless to say, I barely had any time
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Speaker 2: with family. One night, I was doing my nightly routine
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Speaker 2: of driving to a warehousing complex to deliver some products
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Speaker 2: for major retail businesses like Target and Best Buy. I
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Speaker 2: was somewhere in a rural area of Wisconsin on this long,
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Speaker 2: empty road that stretched across the state. It's around 6 a.m.,
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Speaker 2: and I'm sipping my coffee trying to keep myself awake.
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Speaker 2: Being a full-time trucker, caffeine was your best friend. If
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Speaker 2: you didn't have it, you were in trouble. So there
25:35
Speaker 2: I am, driving down this road, trying to keep myself
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Speaker 2: awake when I see something big walk across the road
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Speaker 2: from my headlights. I yell at an oh shit while
25:45
Speaker 2: practically slamming my brakes, coming to a complete stop. All
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Speaker 2: the while, I'm cussing to myself, thinking that I just
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Speaker 2: hit a person or possibly a bear. Going back, at
25:58
Speaker 2: first I did think it was a person, but then
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Speaker 2: I remembered that whatever it was, was massive. Nine feet tall,
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Speaker 2: a bulky body, and the movement it was walking looked abnormal.
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Speaker 2: I step outside of the truck with my gun in hand,
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Speaker 2: going to where I saw it. To my surprise, however,
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Speaker 2: there was seemingly nobody on this road. Nobody walking, no roadkill,
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Speaker 2: no nothing. The only thing I did see was faint
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Speaker 2: tire marks on the road from me hitting the brakes
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Speaker 2: too hard. I call out for anybody who might have
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Speaker 2: been nearby, but got no response other than the sound
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Speaker 2: of wind picking up and the truck engine. I get
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Speaker 2: back inside and continue my route, managing to finish it
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Speaker 2: within a few hours, but couldn't get what I had
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Speaker 2: just seen off my mind. Later that same day, I
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Speaker 2: call up one of my other fellow truckers and tell
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Speaker 2: him about what I had just seen on the road.
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Speaker 2: It turns out that he had experienced things that were
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Speaker 2: similar and that it was likely a hallucination given that
27:08
Speaker 2: I was tired. Thankfully, I have a camera that sits
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Speaker 2: next to the interior and was thankfully able to capture
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Speaker 2: a brief second of this creature before it went out
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Speaker 2: of frame. The photo will be on screen now. As
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Speaker 2: you can see, the camera quality isn't that great, but
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Speaker 2: it was likely due to the condensation on the front windshield.
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Speaker 2: Because it was a single road with forest on opposite sides,
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Speaker 2: there was a pretty good chance that it was an animal.
27:39
Speaker 2: My only question is what kind of animal 9 feet
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Speaker 2: tall walks on two legs? I don't know if it
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Speaker 2: was a person, I don't know if it was Bigfoot.
27:50
Speaker 2: One thing I do know, was that I wasn't imagining it.
27:57
Speaker 2: My name is Sarah, and this happened to me a
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Speaker 2: few years ago when I was a sophomore in college.
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Speaker 2: I attended school in one of the most quiet and
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Speaker 2: safest cities in the country. The people were nice, the
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Speaker 2: crime was low, and sirens would almost never be heard.
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Speaker 2: Because of this, I never really had any unsettling encounters. However,
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Speaker 2: little did I know, that would all change in just
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Speaker 2: one night. It was late November of 2021, and my
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Speaker 2: friends and I had decided to go out to a
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Speaker 2: bar to celebrate getting through finals. While the city did
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Speaker 2: have low crime, it was also known to have a
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Speaker 2: lot of bars and pubs. This resulted in a lot
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Speaker 2: of bar fights where cops would be called. Anyway, my
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Speaker 2: friends and I are at the bar taking shots and
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Speaker 2: having a blast. The feeling of relief you get when
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Speaker 2: finishing finals was amazing. At around 1am, I told my
28:56
Speaker 2: friends that I had to go, as I had to
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Speaker 2: finish packing to fly back home the next day. However,
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Speaker 2: they wanted to stay behind and finish their drinks, so
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Speaker 2: I said my proper goodbyes and stumbled out of the bar.
29:09
Speaker 2: Because I was nearly drunk at this point, I went
29:12
Speaker 2: on my phone and decided to order an Uber back
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Speaker 2: to my dorm. Thankfully, one accepted my ride request almost immediately,
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Speaker 2: which wasn't common seeing that it was late. I sit
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Speaker 2: down on the outside bench when I see a car
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Speaker 2: pull up and someone waving their arm out. Even in
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Speaker 2: my drunken state, I assumed that this had to be
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Speaker 2: my Uber, even though the app showed he was still
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Speaker 2: four minutes away. I brush it off, assuming it was
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Speaker 2: a glitch in the app, and got into the car.
29:43
Speaker 2: The very second I get into the car, I immediately
29:46
Speaker 2: notice the red flags. For one, he didn't even say
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Speaker 2: my name, and two, he never greeted me. But it
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Speaker 2: was late, and I was simply too tired to care
29:57
Speaker 2: and just told him my address. As I'm in the car,
30:01
Speaker 2: I also notice that he never put the address into
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Speaker 2: his GPS, which I found odd. Figuring he must have
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Speaker 2: known the area well, I let him do his thing
30:11
Speaker 2: while I just kinda kept to myself. I'd try asking
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Speaker 2: him questions to make small talk, but he'd just reply
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Speaker 2: with one-word answers. It eventually came to a point where
30:23
Speaker 2: I didn't even bother talking to him anymore. At one point,
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Speaker 2: I look out the window and realize he was going
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Speaker 2: in the complete opposite direction of my campus.
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Speaker 1: Hi sir, my college is in the other direction.
30:38
Speaker 2: I see him glance at the rearview mirror while giving
30:41
Speaker 2: me a nod as if he had acknowledged or understood me. However,
30:46
Speaker 2: he didn't turn around and just kept driving until he
30:49
Speaker 2: eventually pulled over beside an old office building. That was
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Speaker 2: when I slowly came back to reality and knew what
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Speaker 2: was going on when I start panicking. The fake Uber
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Speaker 2: driver gets out and tells me to stay put while
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Speaker 2: he goes around the building. I have no idea who
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Speaker 2: or what he was going to get, but whatever it
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Speaker 2: was definitely wasn't good. I grab my cell phone and
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Speaker 2: see that I had several missed calls and messages from
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Speaker 2: the real Uber driver. I knew I didn't have a
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Speaker 2: lot of time, so I slowly opened the door and
31:23
Speaker 2: started running while trying to keep my balance. There weren't
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Speaker 2: many people in this part of the city, so I
31:29
Speaker 2: ran into a nearby shop that was still open where
31:32
Speaker 2: I called the cops. I'd say within a few minutes,
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Speaker 2: two police cruisers pulled up to the office building, but
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Speaker 2: the car that was there was gone. They questioned me
31:43
Speaker 2: and made sure I described the car's description in perfect detail.
31:48
Speaker 2: I'm still unsure if they ever found the car or not,
31:50
Speaker 2: but I'd like to think that they did. A month
31:54
Speaker 2: after this incident, I saw a chilling news report about
31:57
Speaker 2: a couple who had gone missing getting into a car
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Speaker 2: they thought was their Uber. The boyfriend's body was found
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Speaker 2: 20 plus miles away. The girlfriend survived even after suffering
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Speaker 2: from severe bruises. The news said it was someone they
32:13
Speaker 2: apparently knew, but I've always wondered about that. As of now,
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Speaker 2: the car has never officially been found, and the driver
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Speaker 2: has never been identified. For a little bit of context,
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Speaker 2: this happened on July 4th of 2019. I had just
32:33
Speaker 2: started doing both Uber and Lyft as a side hustle
32:36
Speaker 2: to make some extra money for my boyfriend and I.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't the best paying job, but flexibility was through
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Speaker 2: the roof and you didn't have people telling you what
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Speaker 2: to do. It's a chill and steady job, but you
32:50
Speaker 2: always had to stay on top of what you were doing. Anyway,
32:54
Speaker 2: it was the 4th of July and I decided to
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Speaker 2: do some Ubering as I knew there would be a
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Speaker 2: lot of people out. Every 4th of July, my city
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Speaker 2: hosts this annual music festival where thousands of people attend
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Speaker 2: so I was guaranteed to get a few people. Almost immediately,
33:12
Speaker 2: I kept getting requests left and right as people exited
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Speaker 2: the venue. I decided to choose one, and within a
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Speaker 2: few minutes I see a man walk up to my car.
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Speaker 2: He asked if I was his Uber, to which I
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Speaker 2: replied with a yes. He gets in the back seat,
33:28
Speaker 2: and right away, the strong smell of marijuana hit me
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Speaker 2: like a brick. However, I knew that he had just
33:35
Speaker 2: come from the festival where smoking was bound to happen,
33:39
Speaker 2: so I wasn't complaining. Throughout the ride, this guy just
33:43
Speaker 2: stared intently at me, as if he were watching my
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Speaker 2: every move. I'll be honest, it kind of made me uncomfortable,
33:51
Speaker 2: and I just wanted to get this ride over with.
33:54
Speaker 2: At one point, he stops staring at me and gets
33:57
Speaker 2: out his phone to call someone. I just tried to
34:00
Speaker 2: focus on driving, and his destination was only 10 minutes away,
34:04
Speaker 2: which was a relief in my book. As I'm driving,
34:08
Speaker 2: I hear him in the back speaking French. Now, my
34:12
Speaker 2: aunt is French, so while I understand a fair bit
34:15
Speaker 2: of French, I don't speak it. So I hear him talking,
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Speaker 2: but I don't pay attention, as it's rude to eavesdrop
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Speaker 2: on people's conversations. That was until he said something along
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Speaker 2: the lines of, This girl I'm riding with. I felt
34:32
Speaker 2: my blood run cold as he said this, but tried
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Speaker 2: to make it seem like I didn't understand him. What
34:38
Speaker 2: he was saying was unnerving. To sum it all up,
34:42
Speaker 2: he was basically saying after I had dropped him off,
34:45
Speaker 2: he was planning on quote, snatching me up. I knew
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Speaker 2: exactly what that meant, and his stop was only 5
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Speaker 2: minutes away, so I didn't have much time. I'm a
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Speaker 2: 5'3 petite girl that weighs about 150 pounds. This guy
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Speaker 2: was at least over 6 feet and was muscular, so
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Speaker 2: there was no way I could resist him even if
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Speaker 2: I tried. With very little time to spare, I get
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Speaker 2: out my phone to call my boyfriend. My actual plan
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Speaker 2: was to cause a scene and make up an excuse
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Speaker 2: to leave. As I'm driving, I call him and ask
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Speaker 2: what was up where I immediately say, Wait, what? She's
35:27
Speaker 2: bleeding on the floor? Tell her to stay calm, I'm coming.
35:32
Speaker 2: All the while, my boyfriend is completely confused, asking what
35:35
Speaker 2: I was talking about, etc., Thankfully, I used to be
35:40
Speaker 2: in acting school, so I was used to faking a
35:42
Speaker 2: good scene. At that point, I hung up, turned to
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Speaker 2: the man, and said in a worried.
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Speaker 1: Tone, Sir, my grandma just hurt herself. I have to go.
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to drop you off here.
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Speaker 2: I floored it down the road before calling my boyfriend
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Speaker 2: back and apologizing, telling him everything. I ended up reporting
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Speaker 2: the man to Uber, but I'm not sure if they
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Speaker 2: investigated it as of yet. Thank you to my boyfriend
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Speaker 2: for picking up, and thank you to my aunt for
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Speaker 2: teaching me French.