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5 TRUE SNAPCHAT HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you would find this scary, but
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Speaker 1: it's definitely creepy to say the least. This happened back
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Speaker 1: in 2020, right when the pandemic was at its highest,
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Speaker 1: specifically in December. I've just turned 18 years old, and
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Speaker 1: I'm a female. Due to the restrictions of having small
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Speaker 1: parties or no parties at all for the holidays, my
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Speaker 1: parents and I decided to do a car parade. I
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Speaker 1: only invited my closest friends, so it wasn't anything big.
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Speaker 1: My birthday was the day before the car parade, so
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Speaker 1: I posted a selfie on my Snapchat story. I rarely
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Speaker 1: post on it now, since Snapchat is kind of pointless
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Speaker 1: these days. I received many birthday greetings from friends and acquaintances,
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Speaker 1: so I had a really great birthday. Although the next day,
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Speaker 1: I had woke up in the morning and were making
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Speaker 1: meal preparations for the car parade. Instead of having the
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Speaker 1: guests stay over, we decided to make the food and
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Speaker 1: then put them into styrofoam boxes and hand them out.
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Speaker 1: While my parents were getting ready to cook that morning,
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Speaker 1: I'd got a text on Snapchat from a guy I've
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Speaker 1: known since my freshman year of high school. To give
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Speaker 1: some background information, he was a junior when I was
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Speaker 1: a freshman. How we knew each other is that he
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Speaker 1: was a teacher's assistant for one of my teachers. I
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Speaker 1: sat in the farthest side of the room, so he
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Speaker 1: was beside me most of the time. Anyways, we had
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Speaker 1: stopped talking ever since that time, and I somehow got
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Speaker 1: his Snapchat. Let's call him Rick for this story. I
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Speaker 1: had opened the Snapchat to see that Rick had greeted
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Speaker 1: me a belated birthday. I didn't think much of it.
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Speaker 1: Just another acquaintance greeting me happy birthday. I told him
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Speaker 1: thank you and went on with my morning. About one
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Speaker 1: or two minutes later, Rick texted me back. From then on,
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Speaker 1: it had started off as a normal conversation. He asked
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Speaker 1: what I was doing and I told him that I
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Speaker 1: was preparing for the car parade that I was throwing.
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Speaker 1: I thought that I was going to catch up with
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Speaker 1: him because it had really been a while since we
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Speaker 1: last talked. primarily because it went off to the military
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Speaker 1: after he graduated high school. Since we texted continuously, I'm
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Speaker 1: not really the type of person who likes to continue
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Speaker 1: the conversation after a certain amount of time, especially if
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Speaker 1: I have rare interest in the person. So my dad
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Speaker 1: and I were getting ready to head out to go
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Speaker 1: get balloons and my birthday cake. I didn't have my
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Speaker 1: license nor my own car at the time, so I
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Speaker 1: couldn't get them myself. While I was waiting for my
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Speaker 1: dad to put his shoes on, Rick continued to text me.
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Speaker 1: I don't really remember what he exactly said or what
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Speaker 1: led up to this moment, but he then said something like,
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Speaker 1: Let me snatch you up. Something around those lines. In
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Speaker 1: my mind, I was like, Um, okay. I thought he
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Speaker 1: was joking, so I replied back with, Laughing my ass off.
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Speaker 1: You're joking, right? With a crying laughing face emoji after that.
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Speaker 1: His reply to that made me tense up and very uncomfortable.
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Speaker 1: Maybe I wasn't kidding. He said, What the f *
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Speaker 1: * *? Now I have anxiety. After reading that comment,
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Speaker 1: it made me start to hyperventilate. I then told him
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Speaker 1: that I have to run some errands and hoping that
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Speaker 1: he'll stop texting me after that. I didn't plan on
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Speaker 1: texting him again for the whole day after that whole conversation.
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Speaker 1: And you know what? Later that evening, after the car
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Speaker 1: parade and blowing out the candles and the cake, that
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Speaker 1: creep texted me again. In the back of my mind,
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Speaker 1: I was like, Ugh, why is he texting me again? However,
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Speaker 1: when I had opened the message, I had really cringed
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Speaker 1: so hard. Hey cutie, how's it going? Is what he said. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: that name just makes me cringe and it really makes
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Speaker 1: me uncomfortable. Especially coming from a guy that I haven't
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Speaker 1: talked to in a long time. So I replied back
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Speaker 1: with a, hey, not wanting to seem rude. He then
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Speaker 1: asked me what I was doing. So I told him
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Speaker 1: that we just finished the car parade. He then said,
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Speaker 1: Why don't you let me see you, cutie? Oh, hell no.
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Speaker 1: He's one of those guys. Right at that moment, I
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Speaker 1: had started to shake. My anxiety started to rise once again.
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Speaker 1: All I felt was nervousness, scared, angry, and guilt at
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Speaker 1: that moment. I'm not that stupid to give in and
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Speaker 1: send a picture of me to him. I replied back
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Speaker 1: with a no, with a skull emoji, and he said, What?
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Speaker 2: Why not?
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Speaker 1: With a sad emoji. trying to make me feel sympathetic
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Speaker 1: and give in. Yeah, right. I replied back with a,
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Speaker 1: because I said so. About a minute later, he had
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Speaker 1: sent me a picture. It was a picture of himself
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Speaker 1: holding a finger gun to his head, captioned, Pew. In
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Speaker 1: my mind, I was like, um, okay, what do you
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Speaker 1: want me to do about it? Is that pic supposed
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Speaker 1: to make me feel guilty? I just said in the
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Speaker 1: chat a simple LOL and exited out of the app.
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Speaker 1: He then kept begging me to send a picture of me,
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Speaker 1: but instead, I replied with either no or just me
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Speaker 1: trying to dodge the question. My responses were just starting
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Speaker 1: to get more bland. That's not really like me, but
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Speaker 1: that's because he made me highly uncomfortable. Now, you're probably
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Speaker 1: wondering why I didn't just immediately block him. I guess
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Speaker 1: it didn't really cross my mind at the time because
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Speaker 1: I was just overwhelmed and anxious that I didn't think
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Speaker 1: anything else other than having to deal with him longer.
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Speaker 1: Really dumb on my part. Anyways, I didn't tell my
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Speaker 1: parents nor any of my friends while I was having
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Speaker 1: the conversation with him. However, our conversation finally ended after
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Speaker 1: I finally told him how uncomfortable I felt when I
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Speaker 1: was talking to him. To be honest, I'm not usually
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Speaker 1: that straightforward with others. Because again, I get really anxious
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Speaker 1: and I also tend to overthink way too many things.
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Speaker 1: When I told him that, he finally got the idea.
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Speaker 1: Dumbass should have gotten the idea when I said no
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Speaker 1: in the first place. Since then, the conversation died down
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Speaker 1: and the next day I just blocked him. For the
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Speaker 1: next few days to a week, I couldn't stop thinking
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Speaker 1: back to that conversation. What made me heavily think about
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Speaker 1: it is the fact that he texted me out of
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Speaker 1: nowhere when he saw I just turned 18. Isn't that
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Speaker 1: a coincidence? A guy that I've known since freshman year
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Speaker 1: and has never spoken a word to me for two
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Speaker 1: to four years all of a sudden tries to flirt
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Speaker 1: me up. After I've turned 18.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It should be quite obvious. I never thought I would
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Speaker 1: have to deal with a situation like this. Because I'm
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Speaker 1: a really reserved person as well. So I try to
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Speaker 1: avoid the situations as much as possible. But apparently that
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Speaker 1: didn't happen. To all of you out there. Please be
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Speaker 1: aware of these signs. And just instantly block the person.
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Speaker 1: Don't deal with them any longer. Don't do the same
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Speaker 1: shit that I did. Just block them from the start.
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Speaker 1: When you start to get the uncomfortable vibe from them.
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Speaker 1: This was a few years ago. I was about 18
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Speaker 1: or 19 and I had been single for a good
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Speaker 1: while while focusing on work and school. One day, I
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Speaker 1: was at one of my really good friend's house. We'll
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Speaker 1: call her Blue. I was at her house for a
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Speaker 1: family barbecue. She was talking about this online friend she
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Speaker 1: had and she had showed me a picture, then telling me,
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Speaker 1: this is Ryan. She told me how they met and
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Speaker 1: he was 24. The age gap didn't really bother me.
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Speaker 1: As she said he was just a friend and Blue
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Speaker 1: usually never met up with people she met online. I
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Speaker 1: told her he seemed nice and after a while we
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Speaker 1: had sat in a room and she was on FaceTime
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Speaker 1: with him. I was doodling in my notebook and we
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Speaker 1: had been dressed fairly nicely for the barbecue so my
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Speaker 1: hair and makeup were done. Anyway, at some point Blue
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Speaker 1: turns her phone and she has Ryan say hi to me.
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Speaker 1: I looked up from my notebook and I waved, giving
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Speaker 1: a small smile. I've never really been a sociable person.
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Speaker 1: After a while of them talking, they had entered their
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Speaker 1: chat and Blue had looked at me, smiling like a devil.
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Speaker 1: The fuck did I do? I asked her, and just
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Speaker 1: as I had, my phone vibrated. I looked at my phone,
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Speaker 1: then at her. I slowly flipped it over, and on
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Speaker 1: my notification bar was my Snapchat. So and so has
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Speaker 1: added you. I opened it and saw a chat, and
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Speaker 1: it read, Hey, don't be mad at Blue, but I
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Speaker 1: thought you were really pretty with your glasses and the
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Speaker 1: way your hair looked. So I asked her to give
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Speaker 1: me your snap. I felt my face then blush, as
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Speaker 1: I don't really handle compliments well. Blue started laughing, and
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Speaker 1: she said, Come on, say something to him. I thought
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Speaker 1: it was a bit weird that, as her own online friend,
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Speaker 1: he would ask for my snap. But nonetheless, being naive
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Speaker 1: and trying to be nice, I responded, Ryan was nice,
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Speaker 1: but something felt off during our conversation. When we talked
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Speaker 1: about where we lived, I told him I lived in
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Speaker 1: San Jose, and he said he lived in Livermore. Now,
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Speaker 1: for those of you who don't know, they're about a
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Speaker 1: one-hour drive from each other, and at the time, my
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Speaker 1: parents wouldn't let me drive that far. So for our
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Speaker 1: first date, after much back and forth, we had planned
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Speaker 1: to meet in Pleasanton, which is about 45 minutes. I
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Speaker 1: hadn't taken into account the amount of freeway I'd have
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Speaker 1: to drive, and Ryan said he couldn't make the drive
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Speaker 1: because his mother had his car. Halfway there, though, I
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Speaker 1: got really anxious, and I had to call Blue because
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Speaker 1: my GPS had been driving through the woods to get
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Speaker 1: around the traffic. When I finally got to the destination,
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Speaker 1: Ryan had arrived a few minutes before me. I got out,
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Speaker 1: and I apologized for my arrival. He said it was
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Speaker 1: no problem. We went in, and we proceeded to play
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Speaker 1: some mini golf. After the sun went down, I checked
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Speaker 1: the time and I realized if I were to get
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Speaker 1: home before curfew, I'd have to leave really soon. I
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Speaker 1: had told Ryan that I had a curfew and just
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Speaker 1: how strict my parents were beforehand. When I told him
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Speaker 1: I had to leave, his emotion changed. He went from
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Speaker 1: joking and polite to serious and annoyed. He kept asking
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Speaker 1: and bugging me to stay even longer. Would it really
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Speaker 1: be so bad if you stayed? just a bit longer.
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Speaker 1: Can we finish first? I kept trying to let him
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Speaker 1: down easy, but I eventually gave him a really firm no.
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Speaker 1: We returned to the golf clubs, and I walked to
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Speaker 1: the cars. Even though I was now feeling a bit off,
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Speaker 1: when he leaned in, I gave him a small hug.
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Speaker 1: But I wasn't ready when he pulled me in and
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Speaker 1: landed a kiss right on my lips. I pulled back
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Speaker 1: and said goodnight, jumped in my car, and then left.
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Speaker 1: I called Blue and ranted to her about the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: She tried to calm me down about the whole thing,
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Speaker 1: saying it was just first aid jitters and being out
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Speaker 1: of the game. As I got close to home, we
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Speaker 1: hung up and I tried to let it go. A
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Speaker 1: few days later, I was at work and during some
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Speaker 1: dead time, I was on my phone chatting with Blue
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Speaker 1: and Ryan individually. Ryan wanted to meet up again and
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Speaker 1: I was okay with it. He seemed a bit pushy
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Speaker 1: but I paid him no mind. However, I probably should
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Speaker 1: have blocked him. When it came to the day for
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Speaker 1: us to hang out, I was at work and my
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Speaker 1: shift was almost over. Now, my work is only 5-10
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Speaker 1: minutes away from where I live and I had never
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Speaker 1: given Ryan my exact address or had it available on Snap. Anyways,
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Speaker 1: when it came to the day of our planned meetup,
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Speaker 1: we were supposed to meet up on the fringe of
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Speaker 1: San Jose because I still didn't want him knowing where
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Speaker 1: I lived. I had told Blue and she knew the
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Speaker 1: whole plan When it came to the day of, I
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Speaker 1: was a few minutes away from getting off work and
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Speaker 1: Ryan texted me on Snap. He said that he needed
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Speaker 1: a rain check. I asked if everything was okay, but
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Speaker 1: he said that everything was fine and that his mom
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Speaker 1: just didn't want him driving all the way over here.
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Speaker 1: I said no worries, but was a bit irked. As
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Speaker 1: I had defied my strict parents, I lied to them
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Speaker 1: and drove all the way out there to see him,
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Speaker 1: but I guess I could chalk that up to childhood differences.
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Speaker 1: After all that, The erg feeling passed relatively quickly. I
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Speaker 1: left the chat and I had messaged my cousin Benny
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Speaker 1: and my other friend Rez. I told them that my
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Speaker 1: date rain checked and that we should have a movie night.
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Speaker 1: They both replied yes and after I texted my parents,
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Speaker 1: I had put down my phone and did some quick cleaning.
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Speaker 1: After I clocked out, I had sat in my car
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Speaker 1: and checked some of the messages I had. Ryan had
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Speaker 1: messaged me saying something along the lines of, Oh hey,
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Speaker 1: never mind, I can come down. and I'd responded back,
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Speaker 1: telling him, Oh, sorry. After you rain-checked, I texted my
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Speaker 1: younger cousin, and we made plans. He immediately seemed angry.
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Speaker 1: He wanted me to cancel, and we got into a
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Speaker 1: small fight. He kept saying that I should cancel on
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Speaker 1: my cousin, who's honestly like a little sister to me.
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Speaker 1: When I told him no, he canceled first, and we
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Speaker 1: can just reschedule. He wouldn't have it. He eventually turned
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Speaker 1: to Blue and started ranting to her. I turned off
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Speaker 1: my phone and just went to pick up my cousin.
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Speaker 1: We had our movie night and it was fun. But
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Speaker 1: the next day, after I took my cousin home, I
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Speaker 1: looked at my phone and saw a shitload of messages
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Speaker 1: from Ryan. The last one terrified me. He said he
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Speaker 1: was on his way to see me. I called Blue
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Speaker 1: and my tone was angry, irritated. I wasn't taking any shit.
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Speaker 1: I asked straight away if she gave my address to Ryan.
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Speaker 1: She stopped and said no. She got the hint and
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Speaker 1: she asked what happened. I told her that he said
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Speaker 1: he was on his way, that he was driving somewhere
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Speaker 1: into San Jose, which admittedly is a big city. She
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Speaker 1: said that she didn't give it to him and that
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Speaker 1: she could reach out to him to see what was
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Speaker 1: going on. She never got back to me and to clarify,
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Speaker 1: she really never did give him my address, but I
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Speaker 1: just got on with my day. I was due to
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Speaker 1: dog sit my Nana's elderly dog. He was a small dog,
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Speaker 1: blind and pretty deaf. I carried him in the kitchen
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Speaker 1: as any mess would be really easy to clean from
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Speaker 1: the tile. One of my good friends, Sal, joined me
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Speaker 1: at my house and we joked about watching movies. About
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Speaker 1: an hour into watching Curly the Dog, I got a call.
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Speaker 1: It was Ryan. He said he was at Bogany Park
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Speaker 1: and he was three blocks away from my house. I
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Speaker 1: muted my call and I looked at Sal. She asked
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Speaker 1: if I was okay and I put my shoes on.
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Speaker 1: I asked him when he got there. He said he'd
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Speaker 1: been there just five minutes. As we'd met before, he'd
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Speaker 1: seen my car before and I was hoping he'd just
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Speaker 1: drive straight through the park and not weave through the neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: I checked on Curly quickly and then Sal and I
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Speaker 1: took off to the park. I walked a long way
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Speaker 1: to approach from the opposite side of the park from
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Speaker 1: where my house would be and I saw him. He
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Speaker 1: was just standing there doing backflips and looking around. Sal
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Speaker 1: and I looked at each other and we approached him slowly.
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Speaker 1: He seemed like he was in a good mood but
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Speaker 1: I was still on edge. Hey, uh, so why this park?
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Speaker 1: Was all I said. Well, you said the drive to
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Speaker 1: Pleasanton was too far, so I thought I'd come to you.
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Speaker 1: I took a moment, and I figured that I didn't
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Speaker 1: really want to know how he knew where I lived,
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Speaker 1: so I just shut him down. Listen, you're sweet, and
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Speaker 1: thank you for coming out this way to, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: say hi, I guess? But this is a bit too
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Speaker 1: much for me. He seemed really unfazed by what I
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Speaker 1: had said, and he told me he drove all the
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Speaker 1: way down here so we could hang out. I told
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Speaker 1: him that if he had messaged me beforehand, I would
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Speaker 1: have told him I'd be busy today. I was dog
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Speaker 1: sitting and I wouldn't be able to. He said that
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Speaker 1: we could just hang out here and that I could
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Speaker 1: bring the dog and that we can just chill here.
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Speaker 1: I told him that wasn't a good idea and the
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Speaker 1: dog wasn't friendly. He offered for us to get into
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Speaker 1: his car so he could drive us or at least
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Speaker 1: me to my place. I knew that there was no
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Speaker 1: more letting him down gently. I looked at him and said, look,
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Speaker 1: You drove here some blocks from where I live. I
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Speaker 1: don't know how you found this park, but I'm not interested.
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Speaker 1: The weird kiss, the pushiness, I'm not into it. I'm
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Speaker 1: not going to get into your car. This is done.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead, complain to Blue or whatever. You're giving me
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Speaker 1: the creeps. At this point, I knew that my temper
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Speaker 1: got the best of me. Sal had gotten into the conversation,
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Speaker 1: and she then pulled me away for us to walk
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Speaker 1: back the way we came. Another adult, a father to
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Speaker 1: one of the kids at the playground, had taken notice
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Speaker 1: of this, and he stopped him from following us. When
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Speaker 1: I finally got home, I locked all of the doors,
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Speaker 1: and I blocked him on Snap and deleted his number.
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Speaker 1: I gave Blue a call, and I told her what happened.
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Speaker 1: She calmed me down a bit, and she told me
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Speaker 1: she was going to block him too. It's now been
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Speaker 1: three or four years, and I still remember how he
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Speaker 1: tried to turn the whole thing on me. How he
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Speaker 1: had called Blue, and she just played along with it.
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Speaker 1: before hanging up and blocking him. We still don't know
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Speaker 1: how he got so close to my house. After that,
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Speaker 1: no matter how much I wanted to rebel against my parents,
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Speaker 1: I was always very cautious when it came to dating.
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Speaker 2: For a while, when I was 16, I was always
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Speaker 2: on Snapchat. I was on there so much it was
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Speaker 2: pretty normal for me to get follows from odd people.
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Speaker 2: People I'd never met, but never like this. It was
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Speaker 2: June 18th of 2015. I was on Snapchat, doing what
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Speaker 2: I always do. Everything was pretty normal. Like always, I
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Speaker 2: was scrolling through all my followers, and I came across
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Speaker 2: a username that said, look outside your window. It sent
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Speaker 2: chills down my spine. It was also kind of alarming,
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Speaker 2: mainly because seconds later, I heard what sounded like a
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Speaker 2: rock hitting my window. Startled, I tried to shake it
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Speaker 2: off and get back to what I was doing. I
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Speaker 2: began to receive chats from this follower on a regular basis,
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Speaker 2: but I would never respond. I simply didn't know who
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Speaker 2: they were, and they had a creepy enough username. One day,
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Speaker 2: he sent me a picture. It was from the outside
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Speaker 2: of someone's house, outside of a window, and it read,
18:27
Speaker 2: look familiar? Instantly, I stood up, because that was a
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Speaker 2: window on our house. specifically to my bedroom. I turned
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Speaker 2: slowly to the window, expecting to see someone there. I'd
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Speaker 2: never felt my heart pound so hard before, but when
18:44
Speaker 2: I gazed out the window, I could see no one.
18:49
Speaker 2: I watched out the window for a while, expecting to
18:51
Speaker 2: see someone come out of hiding, but there was no
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Speaker 2: one there. Maybe, I thought, this was just from a
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Speaker 2: house similar to ours. I closed the curtain, and I
19:02
Speaker 2: decided to check the doors before crawling up onto the
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Speaker 2: couch and watching TV. As I sat down, though, I
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Speaker 2: got another message on Snapchat. It was from the same person.
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Speaker 2: I don't know why I opened it. I should have
19:16
Speaker 2: just ignored them from then on. This one read, You
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Speaker 2: look surprised. It showed a picture of the same window,
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Speaker 2: but from further away. The window now had the curtains drawn.
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Speaker 2: The same curtains I use in my bedroom. That was it.
19:33
Speaker 2: I called my mom. I was crying as I tried
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Speaker 2: to explain to her what was happening. I told her
19:39
Speaker 2: she needed to come home right away. I don't think
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Speaker 2: she fully understood. She sounded irritated and confused, but she
19:46
Speaker 2: knew that this was urgent. So, thankfully, she came home. early.
19:51
Speaker 2: She took my phone and went through my Snapchat stuff,
19:54
Speaker 2: and right before she could decide what to do, I
19:57
Speaker 2: got a message on my Snapchat again. Immediately, my mother
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Speaker 2: read it. There was no picture this time. It just said,
20:04
Speaker 2: Do you want me to hurt your mother, too? This
20:07
Speaker 2: was enough to freak me out and get my mom pissed.
20:11
Speaker 2: She ended up reporting it, though there wasn't much to
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Speaker 2: go on. The police would drive by our house every
20:16
Speaker 2: so often for the next few days. It was hard
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Speaker 2: to sleep during that time. Even with the police there,
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Speaker 2: I didn't feel safe. Mom even took some more time
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Speaker 2: off to be with me more often. And luckily, after
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Speaker 2: all of this, I haven't received any more messages or pictures.
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Speaker 2: So long, look outside your window, and I hope I
20:37
Speaker 2: never hear from you again. First of all, I just
20:43
Speaker 2: want to say that if you don't explicitly know someone
20:46
Speaker 2: in real life, do not add them as a friend
20:49
Speaker 2: on any sort of social media. It could either be
20:52
Speaker 2: spam or someone trying to do something terrible to you. Anyway,
20:57
Speaker 2: this year I'd finally gotten on Snapchat. My friends had
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Speaker 2: pressured me to get on it, although I didn't really
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Speaker 2: want to. I just wasn't into the idea of sending
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Speaker 2: or receiving pictures and videos of myself or other people.
21:11
Speaker 2: I'm not the best at presenting myself or the things
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Speaker 2: in my life, and I usually wasn't interested in other
21:17
Speaker 2: people's lives. I was an introvert, by definition. Even though
21:21
Speaker 2: I didn't expect it, I was growing kind of fond
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Speaker 2: of the app after using it for a few weeks.
21:27
Speaker 2: I began taking more and more selfies, I think it
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Speaker 2: was helping me not care too much about my appearance
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Speaker 2: or what strangers thought of me. It was really helping
21:37
Speaker 2: me come out of my shell and I was having
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Speaker 2: a good time. That was until I made a huge
21:43
Speaker 2: screw up. I was fooling around, checking out posts from
21:47
Speaker 2: those I follow, thinking of what I could post next.
21:51
Speaker 2: When I came by a message at the top of
21:53
Speaker 2: my iPhone, it said, Hannah28 has added you. I quickly
21:58
Speaker 2: rattled my brain trying to think of someone I knew
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Speaker 2: who was named Hannah, but I couldn't think of anyone.
22:04
Speaker 2: I didn't mind much, though, because Hannah28 was a girl,
22:09
Speaker 2: and I loved getting attention from girls, so I checked
22:12
Speaker 2: out her profile and liked what I saw, and I
22:15
Speaker 2: decided to add her as well, and only seconds after,
22:18
Speaker 2: I got a message from her.' Hey, you,' she said.
22:22
Speaker 2: I replied.' Oh, hi. Do I know you?'' No,' she says.'
22:29
Speaker 2: I then proceeded to ask her how old she was.
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Speaker 2: She said 15, which was my age, and this made
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Speaker 2: me smile. And before I could reply to that, she
22:38
Speaker 2: sent me an even better message, saying, I think you're cute.
22:43
Speaker 2: I smiled even bigger now, until I realized that I
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Speaker 2: haven't posted anything recently, so there was nothing of me
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Speaker 2: on my profile at the moment, and I never sent
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Speaker 2: her any photos. So how could she know what I
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Speaker 2: looked like? I didn't answer. I mean, what should I
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Speaker 2: have answered? I was nervous and confused. I've always been
23:05
Speaker 2: a paranoid person when it comes to who I'm talking to,
23:08
Speaker 2: and especially when it comes to girls. I then received
23:12
Speaker 2: two more messages. I didn't dare open them. I was
23:16
Speaker 2: already pretty flustered, and it was getting late, so I
23:20
Speaker 2: headed off to bed. I woke up in the morning
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Speaker 2: to the sound of my phone buzzing repeatedly. It was
23:27
Speaker 2: Hannah28 again. She was blowing up my Snapchat, sending me
23:32
Speaker 2: video after video with no explanation. So, being both curious
23:37
Speaker 2: and weirded out, there was only one thing I could do.
23:41
Speaker 2: I began to play each video. All of these videos
23:44
Speaker 2: were at night. I could barely see anything in most
23:47
Speaker 2: of them. In the first one, she seemed to be
23:50
Speaker 2: walking down a street. She was saying something in a whisper.
23:54
Speaker 2: It wasn't in English, and I didn't know what she
23:56
Speaker 2: was saying. In the second video, her voice was more clear.
24:00
Speaker 2: I could tell she was speaking Spanish. She was still
24:03
Speaker 2: on the street she was walking. It was too dark
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Speaker 2: to make out any details. And finally, in the third video,
24:10
Speaker 2: she was standing on someone's porch and she was wiggling
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Speaker 2: a very familiar doorknob. The door was locked and she
24:17
Speaker 2: couldn't get inside. So she filmed herself scratching the wood
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Speaker 2: of the door with her fingernails that were especially long.
24:25
Speaker 2: At this point, I was in denial. I didn't want
24:28
Speaker 2: to believe what I was seeing, what I was hearing.
24:33
Speaker 2: I did my best to listen to what she was
24:34
Speaker 2: saying in Spanish as she wiggled the doorknob. I went
24:38
Speaker 2: over to Google Translate and typed in what I'd heard,
24:42
Speaker 2: and I got a rough yet accurate enough translation, and
24:46
Speaker 2: then I knew exactly what she had been repeating in
24:49
Speaker 2: every single video. Let me in, let me in, let
24:52
Speaker 2: me in. You see, the door she was at was
24:58
Speaker 2: my door. She had come to my house. She had
25:02
Speaker 2: tried to get inside. This creepy stranger was only a
25:06
Speaker 2: few meters away from me at one point while I
25:09
Speaker 2: was unconscious in bed. My heart pounded like it was
25:13
Speaker 2: going to explode. Right away, I went on my Snapchat
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Speaker 2: and blocked this crazy person and I tried to forget
25:21
Speaker 2: everything that had happened. but when I saw the scratching
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Speaker 2: at the door, I couldn't help but tell my parents. Unfortunately,
25:29
Speaker 2: I had gotten rid of any trace of Hannah28 on Snapchat,
25:33
Speaker 2: so I was unable to show them what I was
25:35
Speaker 2: talking about. At the very most, they thought it was weird,
25:39
Speaker 2: because I had no evidence to back up what I
25:41
Speaker 2: was saying. If only I'd kept those videos, I could
25:44
Speaker 2: have told my parents to call the cops. Well, my
25:48
Speaker 2: week went by without any more weird happenings, and I
25:52
Speaker 2: couldn't be happier But just a few weeks ago, I
25:56
Speaker 2: got a new notification on my Snapchat account, and I'm
26:00
Speaker 2: sure you can guess what it said. Hannah29 has added you.
26:09
Speaker 2: My friend has always had experiences with strange or paranormal
26:13
Speaker 2: happenings ever since she was born, so this kind of
26:16
Speaker 2: stuff isn't uncommon for her, but it's still pretty scary.
26:21
Speaker 2: One day, my friend had friends over at her house.
26:24
Speaker 2: I should mention it's a big deal because they don't
26:27
Speaker 2: like coming over, because the house is unsettling to them.
26:31
Speaker 2: I can't say I blame them. Well, when they got there,
26:34
Speaker 2: they were having a good time, and at one point,
26:37
Speaker 2: she was doing a silly Snapchat with her friends. And
26:40
Speaker 2: of course, that's when things got weird. She decided to
26:44
Speaker 2: play back the video to watch it, when she heard
26:46
Speaker 2: a deep voice in the playback say.
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Speaker 1: Get out! Get out!
26:51
Speaker 2: After they heard that, she and her friends were so
26:54
Speaker 2: creeped out that they exited the house. She decided to
26:58
Speaker 2: go ahead and post it to her Snapchat to see
27:00
Speaker 2: if anyone who listened to it could hear it as well,
27:03
Speaker 2: and apparently they could. She was glad she wasn't the
27:06
Speaker 2: only one, but she was still having a panic attack
27:09
Speaker 2: about it. She must have been some miracle worker because
27:13
Speaker 2: she convinced her friends to stay and to just try
27:16
Speaker 2: to forget about it, and for a while it worked
27:19
Speaker 2: until they fell asleep. It didn't last long before they
27:23
Speaker 2: all shot up at the same time and they all
27:26
Speaker 2: began to freak out simultaneously. Once they calmed down and
27:31
Speaker 2: could actually breathe, my friend asked them if they had
27:34
Speaker 2: seen it too because apparently they had all seen an
27:37
Speaker 2: old man. He walked into the room after slowly opening
27:41
Speaker 2: the bedroom door and yelled at them in an earth-shaking
27:44
Speaker 2: voice to get out of his house. Needless to say,
27:48
Speaker 2: she had to wake up her mom to call the
27:50
Speaker 2: other friend's parents. They didn't want to stay there any longer.
27:54
Speaker 2: By two in the morning, they were gone, but her
27:57
Speaker 2: mom thankfully believed her stories, especially after she showed the
28:01
Speaker 2: video to her. To this day, myself including, nobody at
28:06
Speaker 2: school goes near her house. The stories have spread since then,
28:10
Speaker 2: and everyone knows not to go there or to even
28:13
Speaker 2: get close, because at her house, you're never alone.