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4 CREEPY VIDEOTAPE Horror Stories Animated · Martin Animations

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  Speaker 1: I'm a police officer who works in a major city
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  Speaker 1: in Australia. I'd rather not say which one. This whole
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  Speaker 1: experience started this past Monday, when I was working my
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  Speaker 1: station's front desk. Our command is in a pretty rough area,
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  Speaker 1: so even around lunchtime on a weekday, the place is packed.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the people in the lobby were there to
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  Speaker 1: report on bail, and that demographic tends to look how
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  Speaker 1: you would imagine. But there was one woman... who stood
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  Speaker 1: out among the rest. It wasn't just her lack of
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  Speaker 1: face tattoos, it was because she appeared to be very nervous.
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  Speaker 1: When it got to her turn, the first thing she
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  Speaker 1: said was, I might need to talk to a detective.
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  Speaker 1: That's usually a pretty good icebreaker in this profession, and
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  Speaker 1: my notebook was out right away. I explained that she
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  Speaker 1: could talk to me first, and that I would see
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  Speaker 1: what I could do. Cops over here are a bit
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  Speaker 1: less jumpy about people pulling black objects out of their
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  Speaker 1: bags than they are in the states. Let's not get political.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just stating facts. However, I was still surprised when
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  Speaker 1: the woman pulled out a VHS tape from her bag
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  Speaker 1: and slid it underneath the glass. It took a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes for me to get the full story out of
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  Speaker 1: her because she seemed to go back and forth between
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  Speaker 1: being utterly horrified then embarrassed. and kept apologizing for wasting
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  Speaker 1: police resources on what she said was probably nothing. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: she told me that a couple of months ago, she
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  Speaker 1: had been jogging around her area when she passed a
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  Speaker 1: whole bunch of furniture and personal items sitting by the
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  Speaker 1: sidewalk outside of a house. Judging by how much stuff
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  Speaker 1: there was, she assumed it was actually there waiting for
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  Speaker 1: a disposal company, and she decided to pick through it
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  Speaker 1: and saw a box with a VCR in it. She
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  Speaker 1: came back later in her car and took it home.
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  Speaker 1: She was going to check to see if it worked
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  Speaker 1: and try to flip it on eBay. It ended up
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  Speaker 1: sitting on her shelf for two months before she finally
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  Speaker 1: got around to testing it out. She bought a random
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  Speaker 1: tape from a thrift store, but when she tried to
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  Speaker 1: insert it, she discovered there was already a tape left inside.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was stupid that she would run out
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  Speaker 1: and buy a tape without at least checking the VCR first.
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  Speaker 1: I took her into one of the interrogation rooms and
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  Speaker 1: had a staff member wheel in one of the TV carts.
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  Speaker 1: Some of our training videos for new recruits haven't been
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  Speaker 1: updated since the 1980s, and we still showed them on VHS.
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  Speaker 1: So we sat down and watched what was on the tape.
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  Speaker 1: It was labeled SEC Camera Club. It began with a
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  Speaker 1: woman tied to a chair inside of a room. The
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  Speaker 1: camera's POV walked around her. Before coming uncomfortably close to
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  Speaker 1: the woman's face, you could hear the camera operator panting
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  Speaker 1: heavily throughout the film. Soon, the tied-up woman began begging
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  Speaker 1: for her life. The woman who was sitting next to
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  Speaker 1: me in the interrogation room, whose name was Jennifer, asked
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  Speaker 1: if she could step out into the hall before the
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  Speaker 1: next part. I granted her request. What was depicted next?
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  Speaker 1: still makes me feel sick just thinking about it. There's
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  Speaker 1: a chance it could have been fake, but by the
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  Speaker 1: way it was shot, and the terrified look on the
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  Speaker 1: tied-up woman's face, it seemed real to me in the moment.
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  Speaker 1: The cameraman pulled out a knife, and you can guess
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  Speaker 1: what happened next. The screams I heard on that tape
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  Speaker 1: still haunt me. I was shocked. I must have looked
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  Speaker 1: like an idiot. because I had no idea what to
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  Speaker 1: tell her when I came back out into the hallway.
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  Speaker 1: In the end, I wheeled the TV into my sergeant's
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  Speaker 1: office and he basically laughed in my face and said
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  Speaker 1: that this was all fake. He had been a cop
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  Speaker 1: for 13 years and had been to dozens of stabbings
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  Speaker 1: and there was never that much blood. The cranky bastard
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  Speaker 1: then got pissed off at me that I had spent
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  Speaker 1: so much time watching a horror film when the lobby
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  Speaker 1: was still full of people. Even before the pandemic, the
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  Speaker 1: sergeant didn't like too many customers waiting around the station.
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  Speaker 1: I relayed what my sergeant told me to Jennifer. She
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  Speaker 1: was both relieved and embarrassed. I tried to give her
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  Speaker 1: the tape back, but she recoiled and told me to
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  Speaker 1: chuck it out for her. She didn't want it. I've
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  Speaker 1: been doing some independent research on what could have been
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  Speaker 1: on the tape. The only thing I can compare it
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  Speaker 1: to is a 1978 horror film called Faces of Death.
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  Speaker 1: It's a film that is presented as if it were
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  Speaker 1: an actual documentary, presenting the viewer with disturbing footage that
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  Speaker 1: depicts various ways of dying. The film is tame by
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  Speaker 1: today's standards, but was very shocking for its time because
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  Speaker 1: of the realistic nature of its presentation. Fair warning, if
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  Speaker 1: you love animals, do not look up that film. Now,
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  Speaker 1: to be clear, it wasn't a scene from Faces of Death,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm wondering if it's something from a similar production.
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  Speaker 1: Referring back to my notes from that day, the video
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  Speaker 1: was well lit, and the woman and the killer were
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  Speaker 1: wearing normal clothing. The walls of the room looked like
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  Speaker 1: corrugated iron, perhaps from a shed or maybe a barn.
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  Speaker 1: Has anyone ever heard of the SEC Camera Club? There
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  Speaker 1: were no serial numbers on the videotape. and my Google
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  Speaker 1: searches have failed to unearth any further information regarding this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming it must have been from some underground bootlegging
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  Speaker 1: company that specialized in selling exploitation films, or maybe it
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  Speaker 1: was a group of amateur filmmakers trying to make this
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  Speaker 1: look as real as possible. I'm just guessing here, and
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  Speaker 1: I know this is all very scant information to go
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  Speaker 1: off of, but if you know anything about this, please
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  Speaker 1: leave a comment below. I'm 19, and I live on
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  Speaker 1: a farm in a rural area with just my mom
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  Speaker 1: and older sister. There are no houses around us, just
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  Speaker 1: long stretches of fields and open land. Usually I go
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  Speaker 1: out back and do most of the work around the
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  Speaker 1: farm myself, while my mother handles the business side of things.
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  Speaker 1: My sister works in the city, and has an office job.
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  Speaker 1: She usually gets home pretty late. One night I was
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  Speaker 1: outside fixing the porch light. when my sister pulls into
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  Speaker 1: the driveway. Going by how late it was, and the
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  Speaker 1: fact that she looked exhausted, I figured that she had
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  Speaker 1: had a tough day at work. But when I went
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  Speaker 1: inside the house, I found her talking to mom in
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  Speaker 1: a low, hushed tone. I asked what happened, and my
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  Speaker 1: sister explained to me that there was a car following
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  Speaker 1: her on her way back home. This car had apparently
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  Speaker 1: been following her all week. She said that they would
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  Speaker 1: usually tailgate her for a short while, and then turn away,
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  Speaker 1: but this time, they were tailing her almost the entire way.
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  Speaker 1: She took a bunch of wrong turns to lose them,
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  Speaker 1: which is why she was so late that night. My
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  Speaker 1: mom advised her to inform the police, and I supported that.
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  Speaker 1: My sister is capable and all, but she's also too
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  Speaker 1: friendly sometimes, and has frequently found herself in situations with
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  Speaker 1: creepy individuals. All of her ex-boyfriends have turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be assholes or stalkers, She's just too trusting of people
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  Speaker 1: at times. Unfortunately, she forgot to copy down the license
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  Speaker 1: plate number of the car, so she just gave the
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  Speaker 1: police a description of it. It was a light blue sedan,
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  Speaker 1: one of the older models. They told her to call
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  Speaker 1: it in if she noticed the car again, and that
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  Speaker 1: was all that could be done for now. A couple
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  Speaker 1: of days went by, and nothing happened. The car had
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  Speaker 1: apparently stopped following her. However, a package was delivered to
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  Speaker 1: our front doorstep. It wasn't something from UPS or the
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  Speaker 1: postal service. It was a shoebox. I saw it first
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  Speaker 1: when I was heading out to do work on the farm.
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  Speaker 1: I opened it to find a video cassette. I popped
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  Speaker 1: it into our old VCR. It turns out it was
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  Speaker 1: surveillance footage of the front of our house. It started
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  Speaker 1: when my sister left for work and stops when she
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  Speaker 1: returned home. There was a cut in between, otherwise it
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  Speaker 1: would have been over 8 hours of footage. I showed
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  Speaker 1: my sister when she woke up. She claimed that this
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  Speaker 1: was filmed the day before she called the police about
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  Speaker 1: the tailgater, going by the weather, and the clothing she
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  Speaker 1: had on in the video. Obviously we were all freaked out.
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  Speaker 1: She and my mom stayed inside, while I went out
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  Speaker 1: to check out the spot where the video had been
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  Speaker 1: recorded from. The vantage point was pretty far away from
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  Speaker 1: my house. I could only make a guess that it
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  Speaker 1: was from somewhere by the edge of the front pasture,
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  Speaker 1: but there was no trace of a camera or tripod.
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  Speaker 1: Since it was raining the day this video was recorded,
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  Speaker 1: any markings on the dirt or footprints had been washed away.
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  Speaker 1: We contacted the police again, and they asked her to
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  Speaker 1: bring in the tape. They said they couldn't do anything
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  Speaker 1: because there was no direct threat, only an implied one,
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  Speaker 1: and we also couldn't prove that it had been recorded
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  Speaker 1: on our property. The person who sent in this tape
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  Speaker 1: was clearly doing it to taunt us. As of the
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  Speaker 1: writing of this story, another tape showed up on our
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  Speaker 1: doorstep yesterday, depicting the same thing. I'm a female, and
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  Speaker 1: I was 20 years old when this happened. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: I was a junior in college. I transferred from a
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  Speaker 1: local community college to a university a few hours away.
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  Speaker 1: Due to a communication issue with the admissions office, I
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  Speaker 1: had a very short amount of time to find a
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  Speaker 1: living accommodation. I didn't know the area, and I had
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  Speaker 1: to resort to looking at Craigslist ads for a room
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  Speaker 1: to rent. Thankfully, I found a place near my school
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  Speaker 1: and met up with the guy who was renting out
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  Speaker 1: the room. It was a large house in a very
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  Speaker 1: nice neighborhood. The man's name was Peter. He was in
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  Speaker 1: his early 30s, worked mostly from home, and was very polite.
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  Speaker 1: Peter also rented out a room to another university student
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  Speaker 1: who was out of town until the semester began. When
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  Speaker 1: I eventually met the other roommate, he was mostly quiet
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  Speaker 1: and kept to himself for the most part. For my
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  Speaker 1: first week, I was completely alone in the house. Peter
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  Speaker 1: was out of town on a business trip, and the
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  Speaker 1: roommate had not returned from his parents' place yet. Not
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  Speaker 1: gonna lie, being alone in the house was a bit eerie.
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  Speaker 1: It was so large and mostly unfurnished aside from a
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  Speaker 1: couch and a television set in the living room. There
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  Speaker 1: was a locked upstairs level that you could only access
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  Speaker 1: from an outdoor staircase that was directly outside of my bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: The house seemed to have several additions, so the layout
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  Speaker 1: was a bit odd. My bedroom was very spacious and
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  Speaker 1: had visible wiring throughout the room. The closet had a
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  Speaker 1: broken door that was propped up to the side. Peter
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  Speaker 1: told me that the previous owners had used it as
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  Speaker 1: an office. I checked out the wiring because it gave
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  Speaker 1: me a bad feeling, but I didn't find anything suspicious
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  Speaker 1: about them, mostly because I had no idea what to
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  Speaker 1: look for. Once Peter returned, I noticed a few odd
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  Speaker 1: things about him. He would say strange things to me
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  Speaker 1: that were vaguely sexual. He also liked to take pictures
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  Speaker 1: of me without my consent and post them to Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: usually tagging me in them. At first, the pictures were
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  Speaker 1: very mundane, such as me sitting on the couch or
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  Speaker 1: typing on my laptop at the kitchen table. He would
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  Speaker 1: turn the flash off so I never knew when he
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  Speaker 1: was taking these photos until I saw them online later.
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  Speaker 1: The pictures became more invasive over time. There was one
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  Speaker 1: of me in a towel when I was in the
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  Speaker 1: hallway walking from my bathroom to the bedroom. Another was
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  Speaker 1: of me tanning in the backyard. At the time I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know he was home. I found Peter to be
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  Speaker 1: strange and I was uncomfortable around him. But the room
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  Speaker 1: was a steal and the location was good for my school.
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  Speaker 1: The other roommate shared a thermostat with me. It controlled
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  Speaker 1: my bedroom his bedroom, and the hallway that led out
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  Speaker 1: to the living room. It was located in my bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: so I always left the door unlocked for him to
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  Speaker 1: change it if needed. One day, when Peter was out
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  Speaker 1: of town, the roommate was adjusting the thermostat when he
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  Speaker 1: noticed something strange behind one of the wires in my closet.
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  Speaker 1: He called me over to inspect it. It looked like
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  Speaker 1: a tiny black ball. I didn't know for sure. but
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  Speaker 1: it looked like it could be a small camera. So
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: I put a piece of tape over it, and considered
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  Speaker 1: calling Peter, but I didn't want to accuse him of
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  Speaker 1: something that I didn't know was true. So the roommate
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  Speaker 1: and I decided that we would ask him together when
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  Speaker 1: he returned from his trip. Two nights later, I woke
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  Speaker 1: up from a deep sleep. I was disoriented, but I
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  Speaker 1: noticed my bedroom door was open, and someone was moving
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  Speaker 1: around inside my closet. I stayed very still, and tried
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  Speaker 1: to make out who the figure was. As I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it might have been my roommate adjusting the thermostat,
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  Speaker 1: but my eyes had not adapted to the darkness yet,
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  Speaker 1: but I could clearly see someone moving from the closet
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  Speaker 1: to the open door. The figure left, and I turned
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  Speaker 1: on the light to inspect my closet. I saw that
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  Speaker 1: the piece of tape that I had placed there two
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  Speaker 1: nights ago was now missing. I then opened my door.
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  Speaker 1: and saw Peter walking down the hallway back to his bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: I quietly followed him, and after he opened his bedroom door,
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  Speaker 1: I confronted him, demanding to know what the hell he
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  Speaker 1: was doing in my bedroom in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 1: He jumped when he saw me. He was obviously taken
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  Speaker 1: off guard. Behind him on his laptop computer was a
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  Speaker 1: grainy video feed of my bedroom, where I could clearly
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  Speaker 1: see that my bed was in the frame. Although Peter
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  Speaker 1: was a creepy man, he wasn't the confrontational type, and
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  Speaker 1: he immediately began apologizing and trying to explain that this
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  Speaker 1: wasn't what it looked like. Unfortunately, there was nothing I
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  Speaker 1: could do since it was his property, but I covered
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  Speaker 1: the camera back up and moved out as quickly as
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  Speaker 1: I could. I did file a police report, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to get into that too much since the
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  Speaker 1: case is technically still open. but I finally wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get this experience off my chest. I'm not sure how
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  Speaker 1: much footage Peter has of me, or if he's posted
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  Speaker 1: it somewhere online, or if he ever captured anything worthy
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  Speaker 1: of being posted, other than maybe a few nude shots.
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  Speaker 1: The other roommate moved out around the same time I did,
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  Speaker 1: and the last time I drove by that house was
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  Speaker 1: a few months ago, and there was a foreclosure sign
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  Speaker 1: in the front yard.
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  Speaker 2: This happened just last summer. I live by myself in
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  Speaker 2: what I would describe as a typical apartment. I have
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  Speaker 2: one bedroom, a bathroom, kitchen, and living room pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: It's inside of a building in a fairly large apartment complex.
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  Speaker 2: So one night, I worked sort of late into the
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  Speaker 2: night at my job. I was really tired from the
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  Speaker 2: long day and pretty much just arrived home, took a
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  Speaker 2: quick shower, and went to bed. That was around midnight. However,
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  Speaker 2: I woke up at roughly 4 o'clock in the morning. Obviously,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: I wanted to get more sleep, but I was wide awake.
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  Speaker 2: I was also very thirsty and felt dehydrated. Sometimes, mostly
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: in the summer, I wake up in the night because
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  Speaker 2: of dehydration. And obviously, on this night, I had worked
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  Speaker 2: late and not been able to drink as much. Then, usually,
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  Speaker 2: I drink some water and feel better immediately and then
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  Speaker 2: go right back to sleep. But some of the times
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  Speaker 2: when I wake up, I'm wide awake and can't go
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  Speaker 2: back to sleep right away. And this was one of
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  Speaker 2: those times. So what I usually do when that happens
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  Speaker 2: is get up and go into the living room and
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  Speaker 2: watch TV until I get sleepy again. That might be
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  Speaker 2: 15 or 30 minutes usually. So that was what I
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  Speaker 2: did on this night. I got out of bed, drank
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: some water, immediately felt better, and then sat on the
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: couch and turned on the TV. My couch is to
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  Speaker 2: the right of the front door to the apartment about
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  Speaker 2: 20 feet away. I remember that when I sat down,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: I glanced over and happened to notice that my door
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  Speaker 2: was actually unlocked. I realized that I somehow had forgotten
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  Speaker 2: to lock it. Normally, I always remember, but I guess
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: I forget sometimes. I went over and locked the door
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  Speaker 2: and then went back to the couch. I started watching
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  Speaker 2: TV and waited for myself to feel sleepy again. I
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  Speaker 2: was flipping around the channels for maybe five minutes when
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  Speaker 2: suddenly I heard a noise. Obviously, it was very quiet
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  Speaker 2: other than the noise from the TV, but the sound
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  Speaker 2: I heard was somebody trying to open the front door
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  Speaker 2: to my apartment. I really couldn't believe it. and I
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  Speaker 2: had no idea who it could be. I sat and listened,
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  Speaker 2: but didn't hear anything else. Then, after a moment, I
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  Speaker 2: got up and I walked over to the door. I
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  Speaker 2: looked out of the peephole, but nobody was there. Then
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  Speaker 2: I opened up my apartment door and looked into the hallway.
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  Speaker 2: That's when I saw him. There was a man wearing
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  Speaker 2: a hooded sweatshirt walking away from me down the hallway.
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  Speaker 2: He was mostly looking down at the ground, and then
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  Speaker 2: he went to another door and tried opening it, but
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: this one was also locked. I watched him go to
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  Speaker 2: another door and try that one as well. Apparently, he
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: hadn't noticed me opening the door. I didn't know who
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  Speaker 2: this guy was, but he was seemingly trying to get
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  Speaker 2: into any apartment. As he reached the end of the hallway,
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  Speaker 2: he suddenly looked behind him and then he saw me.
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  Speaker 2: When he did, I quickly closed the door. I was
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  Speaker 2: afraid that he would come back, but he didn't. Soon after,
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  Speaker 2: I went back to bed. I'm really glad that I
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: woke up when I did that night and locked my door,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: or who knows what could have happened. One time, I
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: was home by myself and watching TV. I was very relaxed,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: sitting on the couch in the living room and just
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: enjoying a movie. The volume was kind of loud on
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: the TV and I was having some popcorn. To that point,
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  Speaker 2: I had been home for several hours and it was
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  Speaker 2: a good night. As the movie went on, I remember
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: that there was a really quiet part. Just during that,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: I thought I heard the sound of something coming from
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  Speaker 2: the other room. It got my attention and I was
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  Speaker 2: slightly concerned for a moment until I realized it was
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: probably just my cat. He was always moving around the house,
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  Speaker 2: so I didn't pay it much thought. Several minutes later though,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: at another quiet spot in the movie, I heard the
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  Speaker 2: sound from the other room again. It just didn't really
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  Speaker 2: sound like my cat, but what else could it be?
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I looked around and then I saw that my cat
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  Speaker 2: was sleeping on the living room floor in the same
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  Speaker 2: room as me. That made me realize that the sound
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  Speaker 2: I heard in the other room was not the cat.
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  Speaker 2: I got a bad feeling, wondering what it could be.
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  Speaker 2: I paused the movie and listened closely. When I did though,
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  Speaker 2: I stopped hearing anything for about a minute or two.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Then I heard something again. It sounded like somebody was
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  Speaker 2: quietly walking through the kitchen farther away. I couldn't see
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  Speaker 2: that area of the house from where I was. I
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  Speaker 2: stayed where I was on the couch wondering if I
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  Speaker 2: should call the police or what. For several minutes though,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't hear anything more. So at that point, I
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  Speaker 2: was wondering if I had gone crazy or if a
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  Speaker 2: person was actually in my house. I hadn't heard anything
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  Speaker 2: in a while, so I decided to just go to
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  Speaker 2: my kitchen and look. When I walked over there, things
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  Speaker 2: were still quiet. Then, as I reached the end of
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  Speaker 2: the living room, I heard somebody walking again. Whoever was
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  Speaker 2: in my house quickly made their way to the basement
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  Speaker 2: door and then opened it. As I looked into the room,
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  Speaker 2: I just barely saw the door closing and then heard
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  Speaker 2: someone going down the stairs. This confirmed me that an
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  Speaker 2: intruder was in my house and they were now going
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  Speaker 2: in my basement. I sprinted out of the room. Then
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  Speaker 2: I ran to the other staircase and went up to
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  Speaker 2: where my bedroom was. I locked myself in the room
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  Speaker 2: and then called the police from my cell phone. They
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  Speaker 2: said that they would send someone over right away and
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  Speaker 2: that it would be about 10 minutes. I felt better,
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  Speaker 2: but I would not be able to feel completely safe
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  Speaker 2: until the police were there and the person was out
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  Speaker 2: of my house. As I was in my bedroom waiting,
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  Speaker 2: after maybe two or three minutes, I heard the sound
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  Speaker 2: of someone walking on the main level of the house.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know if this was the person leaving or what,
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  Speaker 2: but the fact that I was hearing them at all
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  Speaker 2: worried me. I hoped that they would have just stayed
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  Speaker 2: in the basement and the cops could find them there.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Then I heard the footsteps reach the bottom of the staircase.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever was there then began walking up. Now I was
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  Speaker 2: really worried. They slowly walked up the stairs, and then
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  Speaker 2: it was like they made a beeline for my bedroom door.
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  Speaker 2: They went right up to it and then tried opening
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  Speaker 2: the door, which thankfully had a lock on it. When
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  Speaker 2: this happened, I desperately wanted the police to get there now,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: but they weren't there yet. The person walked away from
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  Speaker 2: the door and then back downstairs. I felt slightly better,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: but they still didn't leave. I heard them just walking
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: around all over the main floor for several minutes, until
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: at last the police arrived. The cops entered the house
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  Speaker 2: and within seconds I heard multiple voices. After a while,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: when it was safe, I went downstairs. I saw that
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  Speaker 2: there were several officers there. They had found a man
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  Speaker 2: inside my house who I did not know. I was
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: told that he was likely trying to rob my place. Luckily,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: he hadn't done any damage or anything. How he got
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  Speaker 2: inside of the house, I do not know. I'm really
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: grateful that I came out of that situation alright. The
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  Speaker 2: scariest part to me is that the guy went up
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  Speaker 2: to my bedroom when I was in it.