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13 TRUE HOME ALONE HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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Speaker 1: So for a little background, I was 10 years old
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Speaker 1: when this took place and I lived in a smaller
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Speaker 1: city in Northeast Ohio. I lived in an apartment complex,
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Speaker 1: but the buildings were up and down duplexes and there
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Speaker 1: were multiple of them. I lived downstairs in one of
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Speaker 1: these buildings. My dad was out of town for a
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks and the night this story took place,
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Speaker 1: my mom was working. I have three siblings and my
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Speaker 1: next door neighbor was babysitting my two younger siblings and
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Speaker 1: while me and my eight-year-old sister, who I'll call A,
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Speaker 1: were at the same neighbor's house, hanging out with the
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Speaker 1: neighbor's daughter. At around 9.30 p.m., A and I went
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Speaker 1: back to our house. We were at home for about
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Speaker 1: 15 minutes, until someone knocked at the door. We both
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Speaker 1: just thought it was one of the neighbors. I told
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Speaker 1: A to look through the peephole before opening the door.
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Speaker 1: She did, and she then looked at me, and she
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Speaker 1: was kind of confused, then telling me, I don't know
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Speaker 1: who that is. I moved her out of the way
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Speaker 1: and then looked for myself. I didn't know who it
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Speaker 1: was either. It happened to be a man who looked
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Speaker 1: to be in his 40s, maybe early 50s. He looked
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Speaker 1: dirty and he was wearing a red flannel with a
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Speaker 1: jacket over it and dirty stained jeans with dirty Timberland boots.
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Speaker 1: I backed away from the door and both me and
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Speaker 1: A were pretty confused. A opened the door but the
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Speaker 1: man didn't say his name but then introduced himself as
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Speaker 1: my grandfather's friend. He said that he knew my dad too.
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Speaker 1: Me and A kind of laughed and then talked to
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Speaker 1: him a little. We were trying to end the conversation
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Speaker 1: so that he'd leave. But he then asked if my
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Speaker 1: mom was home. And me being a dumb kid, I
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Speaker 1: told him no. He told me he had talked to
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Speaker 1: my mom earlier that day and that he wanted to
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Speaker 1: come hang out with us and that he wanted to
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Speaker 1: see my mom. I didn't know what to say to
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Speaker 1: him and I just told him, Oh, well, she isn't here,
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Speaker 1: so you can't. He then asked, Well, why don't I
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Speaker 1: come inside and wait with you guys until she comes home?
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Speaker 1: I'm sure she wouldn't be upset. As soon as they
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Speaker 1: finished talking, my phone started to ring, and I jumped
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Speaker 1: because it kind of spooked me. I looked at the
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Speaker 1: man and then told him, That's probably her calling. I'll
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Speaker 1: ask her if you can come in, and I then
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Speaker 1: shut the door and slowly locked it so he wouldn't
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Speaker 1: know that I locked it. I also wasn't going to
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Speaker 1: ask if he could come in, but it wasn't my
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Speaker 1: mom calling. It was my best friend at the time
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Speaker 1: who lived a few buildings down from me. Let's call
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Speaker 1: her Jay. Jay had called and told me that her
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Speaker 1: mom was on the porch and had seen the strange
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Speaker 1: man talking to us, and that before he knocked on
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Speaker 1: the door, her mom had seen the man looking through
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Speaker 1: our windows. She told me that her mom called the
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Speaker 1: cops already, and Jay asked me if there was any
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Speaker 1: way we could get out and make it to her house.
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Speaker 1: There was a way. I told A to follow me,
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Speaker 1: and we went to the back of our house to
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Speaker 1: our bedroom we shared, I opened the window, and I
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Speaker 1: told her to go out of it, and then I
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Speaker 1: went afterwards. I shut the window, and we went behind
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Speaker 1: the buildings all the way to Jay's house without the
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Speaker 1: man seeing us. When we were then inside of Jay's
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Speaker 1: living room, waiting for the police and my mom to arrive,
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Speaker 1: the police came before my mom, and they talked to us,
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Speaker 1: and they then searched our house. But the man was gone.
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Speaker 1: He was nowhere to be seen, not even around the
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Speaker 1: apartment complex. They said they'd patrol the area and let
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Speaker 1: us know if they find him. The police said other
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Speaker 1: than that, they couldn't really do anything. My mom came
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Speaker 1: home and she said about how earlier that day, before
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Speaker 1: she went to work, that her and her upstairs neighbor
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Speaker 1: went into the store to go get some cigarettes. My
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Speaker 1: mom took my baby brother with her and he was
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Speaker 1: in the stroller. When they were leaving the store, a
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Speaker 1: man came up to my mom and said my brother
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Speaker 1: looked familiar and he asked who my dad was. Now,
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Speaker 1: my dad's son of the family is really big, and
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Speaker 1: a lot of people know them, and we all look alike.
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Speaker 1: My mom only told the man that my dad's first
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Speaker 1: name was Frank. The man then said our last name,
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Speaker 1: which my mom didn't tell him, and he asked if
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Speaker 1: that was our last name. My mom then kind of
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Speaker 1: laughed at him and said yes. The man said he
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Speaker 1: knew my grandpa. My mom didn't really say too much
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Speaker 1: to him after that, and she said she had to
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Speaker 1: leave because she had to go to work in a
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Speaker 1: couple of hours. She said she had a really bad feeling,
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Speaker 1: so that her and my neighbor took a few extra
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Speaker 1: turns just in case. But he must have followed her
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Speaker 1: home anyways, though. That night, me and all of my
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Speaker 1: siblings just slept in the living room with my mom.
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Speaker 1: I've never seen or heard from that man since, and
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Speaker 1: I'm now 15. A couple of days after all that happened,
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Speaker 1: I overheard my mom talking to her friend about it,
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Speaker 1: and she told her how the next day she went
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Speaker 1: to watch the cameras to our apartment complex. And at
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Speaker 1: around 4am, the man came back and tried to open
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Speaker 1: every window, but they were all locked. I honestly really
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Speaker 1: wonder what he wanted and what he would have done
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Speaker 1: if I let him in that day, or what would
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Speaker 1: have happened to us if he actually got through the
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Speaker 1: windows that night. That thought really terrifies me. My name
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Speaker 1: is C, and I'm an 18 year old female. This
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Speaker 1: happened to me when I was 10 years old. At
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Speaker 1: the time, I had lived with my parents, and they
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Speaker 1: weren't divorced yet. Some background information. I don't live in
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Speaker 1: the U.S. I don't want to exactly say where I live,
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Speaker 1: but I live in a country where there doesn't happen
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Speaker 1: to have any serious crimes very often. Okay, so this
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Speaker 1: happened on a Friday evening. My parents and two younger
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Speaker 1: siblings had left the house to go shop for some
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Speaker 1: furniture from Ikea. I didn't want to go with them
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Speaker 1: so I decided to stay home. I was watching some
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Speaker 1: TV for a while when I decided that I wanted
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Speaker 1: some candy because it's Friday and I was really craving some.
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Speaker 1: I put my clothes on and I walked down to
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Speaker 1: the nearest store that wasn't even a mile away from
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Speaker 1: my house. It took me like 10 minutes to walk there.
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Speaker 1: So because there's not really much crime here It's not
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Speaker 1: really weird for 8-10 year olds to walk to the
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Speaker 1: store sometimes on their own. I got to the store
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Speaker 1: and bought my candy and started to walk back home.
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Speaker 1: When I was about halfway home, I had noticed a guy.
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Speaker 1: He was riding a bicycle and he looked like he
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Speaker 1: was drunk by the way he was swinging around on
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Speaker 1: the bicycle. I just kind of glanced at him and
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Speaker 1: he continued forward, but he definitely gave me the creeps.
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Speaker 1: I started walking a little faster and at some point
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Speaker 1: he had actually yelled something to me. I couldn't make
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Speaker 1: out at first what he was saying, but I then
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Speaker 1: heard some of it more clearly, and he was asking
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Speaker 1: for me to stop. I didn't, and I started running.
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Speaker 1: Even though he was on a bicycle, I think it
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Speaker 1: was so drunk that it kind of gave him a
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Speaker 1: hard time to catch up to me. We had a
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Speaker 1: little forest beside our house where you could walk through
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Speaker 1: and get to our house a little bit faster, so
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Speaker 1: I started running as soon as I heard what he said,
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Speaker 1: and I turned to the little wood path, and a
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Speaker 1: little bit after I had turned... He rode right by it,
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Speaker 1: but then noticed me running down the path. He yelled
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Speaker 1: something at me again, but this time I didn't turn around.
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Speaker 1: I then ran home and opened my door and locked
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Speaker 1: it behind me. We had two giant windows in our
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Speaker 1: living room where you could see straight out to our
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Speaker 1: front yard. I didn't turn any lights on and I
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Speaker 1: very carefully walked to the living room. I was breathing
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Speaker 1: heavily and my chest was hurting from running so fast.
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Speaker 1: I had never experienced anything like this before. I walked
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Speaker 1: to the living room and I carefully peeked between our
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Speaker 1: blinds out to the front yard. I almost fell backwards
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Speaker 1: when I noticed he was standing just behind our door.
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Speaker 1: He noticed me move the blinds and started knocking on
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Speaker 1: the door. I had no idea what to do at
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Speaker 1: this point. I thought that maybe I should call my
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Speaker 1: mom and tell her what happened. My heart was racing
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Speaker 1: and I didn't know what I should do. And then
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Speaker 1: by pure luck, our neighbor came home. The guy at
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Speaker 1: the door noticed the car coming and he then walked
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Speaker 1: back to his bike and took off. When my parents
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Speaker 1: came home, I didn't tell them what happened. I don't
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Speaker 1: really know why, but I just decided not to tell them.
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Speaker 1: This is one of the most scariest things that has
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Speaker 1: ever happened to me. This isn't something that really happened
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Speaker 1: to me very often, but it really did scare the
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Speaker 1: hell out of me. I did tell my mom years
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Speaker 1: later what happened and she was horrified by it.
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Speaker 2: The following events took place around May of 2009 when
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Speaker 2: I was about 18 years old. I was a senior
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Speaker 2: in high school at the time and was also on
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Speaker 2: the football team. Oftentimes, our school would always host games
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Speaker 2: at least a few times a month and it would
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Speaker 2: also be this major event that a lot of students attended.
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Speaker 2: Because we had so many games, it wasn't a big
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Speaker 2: surprise we had practice almost every day. As much as
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Speaker 2: I hated football practice, I really enjoyed the sport and
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Speaker 2: liked the amount of support my teammates and coach gave us.
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Speaker 2: One day, I had came home from practice and found
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Speaker 2: a note from my mom letting me know that she
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Speaker 2: went to go get groceries and that she wouldn't be
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Speaker 2: back till later. With me being practically drenched in sweat,
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Speaker 2: I go upstairs to grab my towel and turn on
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Speaker 2: the shower. I take really long showers, so when my
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Speaker 2: parents aren't around, I go mental. I was probably in
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Speaker 2: there for about a good 20 minutes or so when
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Speaker 2: I hear the front door open. We have one of
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Speaker 2: those smart locks, which makes a loud beeping noise whenever
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Speaker 2: somebody enters the house. The bathroom is directly above from
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Speaker 2: where the front door is and I could still hear
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Speaker 2: it even through the thickness of the walls and the
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Speaker 2: running shower. I turn off the shower and put some
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Speaker 2: clothes on and go downstairs to see that the door
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Speaker 2: was indeed open. Figuring it was probably my mom, I
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Speaker 2: go outside to see if she needed help with the groceries,
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Speaker 2: only to find out that her car was nowhere in sight.
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Speaker 2: Alarms start going off in my head as the only
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Speaker 2: people who knew the password were my mom and as
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Speaker 2: well as our meter reader who comes once a month.
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Speaker 2: Why my dad isn't with us is another story, but
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Speaker 2: I then walk slowly back inside to see if there
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Speaker 2: was any other signs of attempted break-in. I turned the
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Speaker 2: corner into my kitchen and what I saw there chilled
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Speaker 2: me to the bone. There was a man I had
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Speaker 2: never seen before crouched down by our pantry. He was
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Speaker 2: holding a large knife. By some stupid luck he didn't
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Speaker 2: seem to notice me as he was facing in the
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Speaker 2: opposite direction. I covered my mouth with my hands and
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Speaker 2: went back upstairs quietly to call the police as well
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Speaker 2: as my mom I dialed 911 and tried my very
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Speaker 2: best to speak into the phone as quietly as I
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Speaker 2: could even while hyperventilating. The operator had told me that
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Speaker 2: I should stay hidden and not come out no matter what.
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Speaker 2: While on the phone with her, I hear footsteps coming
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Speaker 2: up the stairs and not even 10 seconds later, I
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Speaker 2: hear a steady and slow knock at my bedroom door.
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Speaker 2: It was at this point when I began to realize
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Speaker 2: that I was crying. but it was too late because
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Speaker 2: I knew he was coming for me. Suddenly I hear
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Speaker 2: my bedroom door slam open and I see the man
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Speaker 2: step inside. At this point I'm trying not to make
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Speaker 2: a peep, fearing he'll hear me and kill me. What
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Speaker 2: happened next is what I can only describe as a
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Speaker 2: gift from God. I begin to hear sirens in the
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Speaker 2: distance getting louder and louder as they came closer to
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Speaker 2: my house. I then saw him leave my room and
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Speaker 2: hurry down the stairs before hearing the heavy knocks on
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Speaker 2: my front door and someone shouting police. After about a
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Speaker 2: good minute, I run down the stairs and open the
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Speaker 2: door and was greeted to three police officers that began
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Speaker 2: to question me while searching the house. My mom also
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Speaker 2: ended up coming home as quick as she could. However,
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Speaker 2: the police never found the man. He had got away
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Speaker 2: scot-free through our breezeway door which also had a lock.
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Speaker 2: Police still weren't sure as to how he had managed
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Speaker 2: to pick the lock and there was no other signs
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Speaker 2: of breaking anywhere in the house.
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Speaker 3: This happened when I was 13. I lived in a
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Speaker 3: duplex with my dad and brother. It was a two
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Speaker 3: bedroom and I shared a room with my dad while
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Speaker 3: my older brother had his own room. It was not
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Speaker 3: uncommon for both of them to have plans at night,
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Speaker 3: while I stayed home to play video games.
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Speaker 2: Alone.
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Speaker 3: This night was no different. My dad was probably at
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Speaker 3: some bar, and my brother, who knows where he was.
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Speaker 3: I was playing the original Resident Evil on PlayStation, and
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Speaker 3: at around midnight, my eyelids were getting too heavy, and
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Speaker 3: I decided to go to bed. I slept with my
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Speaker 3: bedroom door wide open. Now, Not one time in the
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Speaker 3: years that we lived in this place did my dad
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Speaker 3: or brother come home by entering through the back sliding
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Speaker 3: glass door. A couple times my brother didn't have his
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Speaker 3: key for one reason or another and he would knock
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Speaker 3: on my bedroom window and ask me to let him in.
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Speaker 3: My dad always had his key and would always come
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Speaker 3: home through the front door. On this night, I heard
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Speaker 3: the back door slide open. It was an old door
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Speaker 3: and sliding it open wasn't easy. It was also very loud,
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Speaker 3: so I heard it, crystal clearly. I lay in bed wide-eyed,
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Speaker 3: my imagination going crazy. I heard whoever it was walk
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Speaker 3: through the dining room, through the kitchen, and then into
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Speaker 3: the living room. They made no attempt to be quiet.
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Speaker 3: After a brief silent pause, I saw someone walk by
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Speaker 3: my bedroom doorway. This scared me so much, as you
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Speaker 3: can imagine, and my heart throbbed. Whoever was in my
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Speaker 3: house walked into the bathroom right next to my bedroom
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Speaker 3: and flipped the light on. The light poured into my
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Speaker 3: bedroom and I was laying there, terrified, completely exposed by
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Speaker 3: the light from the bathroom. Why didn't I shout out
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Speaker 3: for my brother or my dad? Because, like I mentioned,
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Speaker 3: I knew it wasn't them and there was no one
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Speaker 3: else that it could have been that would have made sense.
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Speaker 3: Not a family member, not a friend. I knew it
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Speaker 3: was someone that did not belong. The person then walked
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Speaker 3: out of the bathroom, left the light on, and went
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Speaker 3: into my brother's room and started making a ton of noise.
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Speaker 3: It sounded like they were searching for something. All I
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Speaker 3: did was lay there, shivering. After a few more minutes,
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Speaker 3: the person walked by my bedroom again. I expected at
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Speaker 3: any moment a stranger would walk into my room, but
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Speaker 3: they didn't. I heard them making noise in the living room,
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Speaker 3: walking around, huffing and puffing. Then they started walking back
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Speaker 3: and forth by my bedroom repeatedly, into the bathroom, and
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Speaker 3: back out, over and over. At the time, I was
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Speaker 3: 100% sure they were messing with me for some reason.
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Speaker 3: They knew I was there, whoever they were. I heard
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Speaker 3: the person making noises. By this, and by the huge
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Speaker 3: figure that I saw walking back and forth, I knew
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Speaker 3: that it was a man, They continued walking around each
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Speaker 3: room except the one that I was in, and then suddenly,
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Speaker 3: I heard them walk back through the house to the
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Speaker 3: back sliding door, open it, and then leave. I lay
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Speaker 3: there in bed, terrified, wondering what just happened. After a while,
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Speaker 3: out of sheer exhaustion, I fell asleep. In the morning,
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Speaker 3: I found that my dad and brother were both home.
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Speaker 3: I have asked both of them dozens of times, and
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Speaker 3: they both promise it was not them. Plus, again, why
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Speaker 3: would they go through the back door, and then leave
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Speaker 3: again through the back door? This was 21 years ago,
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Speaker 3: and I will never know who it was, or why
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Speaker 3: they were there. Nothing was missing either. What really makes
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Speaker 3: me wonder to this day, why did they never come
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Speaker 3: into my bedroom? The door was wide open, and they
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Speaker 3: walked by it at least 20 times.
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Speaker 2: I'm a 24 year old female and I had been
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Speaker 2: living in a suburban area of a relatively large city
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Speaker 2: in the US. Since the start of the pandemic, I
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Speaker 2: had gotten laid off from my job and ended up
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Speaker 2: falling behind on bills and keeping up with rent. Because
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Speaker 2: it was so hard to find work during times like this,
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Speaker 2: I often had to rely on my parents to pay
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Speaker 2: for some of my expenses. With my parents struggling as well,
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Speaker 2: it was hard for them to keep up with their
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Speaker 2: own responsibilities, so I felt bad and would somehow make
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Speaker 2: it up to them. One day, I had just gotten
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Speaker 2: into a huge fight with my landlord about payments that
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Speaker 2: were past due, even with him knowing my situation. Now,
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Speaker 2: with me being upset and having a very bad day,
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Speaker 2: I started texting my boyfriend just to see if he
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Speaker 2: could cheer me up somehow. We start texting back and forth,
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Speaker 2: and I eventually send him a picture of me in
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Speaker 2: an outfit that I thought looked cute. As soon as
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Speaker 2: it was sent, however, his response was something that I
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Speaker 2: wasn't expecting. Uh, babe, who's that in the background? At first,
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Speaker 2: I was a bit confused, so I check the photo
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Speaker 2: again and zoom in to see a black figure appearing
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Speaker 2: out from my closet. I felt my blood run cold
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Speaker 2: and didn't dare to turn around to see what was there.
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Speaker 2: All the while, my boyfriend started sending me frantic texts
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Speaker 2: asking if I was okay. I casually walked out of
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Speaker 2: my room, locked the door, and ran downstairs to get
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Speaker 2: the security guard and explained everything, almost crying to him.
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Speaker 2: Needless to say, we get up on the elevator and
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Speaker 2: go to my room, and what we found there still
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Speaker 2: chilled me to the bone. My closet door had been
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Speaker 2: fully open as well as my window. However, this made
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Speaker 2: absolutely no sense as I lived on the 7th floor
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Speaker 2: of the building and there was no way that whoever
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Speaker 2: was in my closet could have jumped out. I still
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Speaker 2: don't know what to think of this experience till this day.
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Speaker 3: So this happened to me on Thursday, April 25th, and
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Speaker 3: I still can't shake off how terrifying and strange it was.
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Speaker 3: So I was home alone, getting ready for my 12
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Speaker 3: o'clock college class that morning, and I opened my blinds
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Speaker 3: to let some natural light in. I glanced out my
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Speaker 3: window to see a man in his mid-thirties wearing a
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Speaker 3: baseball cap, roaming around my property with his hands on
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Speaker 3: his hips, walking with a lot of weird confidence. Our
20:26
Speaker 3: yard is kind of like a cliff, and it looks
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Speaker 3: over onto our five acres of property down below. I
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Speaker 3: live in the PNW, so it's a pretty scenic view.
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Speaker 3: I was really confused and thought maybe it was a
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Speaker 3: worker that my mom had hired for our renovations on
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Speaker 3: the house, admiring the view. I'm a little bit uncomfortable
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Speaker 3: at this point, cause the dude walks to the side
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Speaker 3: of my house, out of sight. I head upstairs to
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Speaker 3: see him now roaming around my front yard in my driveway,
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Speaker 3: looking at things, checking out my house, etc. He still
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Speaker 3: hasn't seen me at this point. I call my dad
21:02
Speaker 3: and ask him if we had hired anyone to come
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Speaker 3: by the house, and he says not that he knows of,
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Speaker 3: and tells me that he's going to call my mom
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Speaker 3: and ask her, and then call me back. I'm waiting
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Speaker 3: for the cop when I notice this strange dude's car.
21:16
Speaker 3: It's a white Honda with no license plates, just parked
21:20
Speaker 3: parallel to my front door. The dude still hasn't seen me,
21:24
Speaker 3: and he's still wandering around, so I take this as
21:27
Speaker 3: an opportunity to remember that we have a security system,
21:31
Speaker 3: and I armed it, so that if he did try
21:33
Speaker 3: to break in, it would immediately alert the police. If
21:37
Speaker 3: this was some sort of professional or worker, he would
21:40
Speaker 3: have rang my doorbell or knocked at least once. He
21:44
Speaker 3: did neither. Just then, I get a call back from
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Speaker 3: my dad saying neither him or my mom hired anyone
21:52
Speaker 3: to come by today and that I need to call
21:54
Speaker 3: our local police station immediately. I went back downstairs after
21:58
Speaker 3: making sure to lock every door and window upstairs and
22:01
Speaker 3: called my city's police station. I explain to a woman
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Speaker 3: on the other end what is happening and she decides
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Speaker 3: that she's not going to send an officer out and
22:10
Speaker 3: instead gives me a number to call their emergency dispatch
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Speaker 3: line and told me to talk to them. I call
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Speaker 3: the number she gave me and immediately I get an
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Speaker 3: automated message saying, Thank you for calling the non-emergency hotline.
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Speaker 3: Nobody is available to take your call right now. If
22:27
Speaker 3: this is an emergency, please hang up and dial 911.
22:32
Speaker 3: At this point, I'm really irritated, cause 15 minutes has
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Speaker 3: passed and this weird dude is still lurking around my
22:39
Speaker 3: house while I'm home alone. And apparently, that wasn't enough
22:43
Speaker 3: to warrant an emergency to the lady I called at
22:45
Speaker 3: my local police department. I hung up and decided to
22:49
Speaker 3: call 911. After getting in touch with the 911 operator,
22:53
Speaker 3: I was asked a series of questions about his appearance
22:56
Speaker 3: before they would even alert officers near me to start
22:59
Speaker 3: heading towards my house. The whole thing seemed really weird.
23:04
Speaker 3: Nobody was in a hurry to have officers come up
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Speaker 3: to my place when I was a younger girl home
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Speaker 3: alone with a strange dude. I asked the officer if
23:12
Speaker 3: I could stay on the line with her when she finally,
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Speaker 3: after what seemed like forever, alerted police to come to
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Speaker 3: where I was. She agreed and I went back upstairs
23:21
Speaker 3: to check on the weird guy and he is now
23:23
Speaker 3: sitting in his unplated Honda either listening to a radio
23:27
Speaker 3: show extremely loud or on a phone call with someone
23:30
Speaker 3: through his car. It was a very prominent, loud, male
23:34
Speaker 3: voice coming from his car. Then, all of a sudden,
23:38
Speaker 3: I hear the tone you hear when someone hangs up
23:40
Speaker 3: on you, and the operator was no longer on the line.
23:44
Speaker 3: I was really confused when my thoughts were interrupted by
23:47
Speaker 3: an unrecognized phone number calling me. I assumed it was
23:51
Speaker 3: the operator calling me back, so I picked it up. Instead,
23:56
Speaker 3: I was greeted by really creepy, heavy-breathing, I am not
24:01
Speaker 3: sure who it was, but it really freaked me out.
24:05
Speaker 3: I hung up immediately and dialed back 911. I had
24:08
Speaker 3: been pretty calm up to this point, but that phone
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Speaker 3: call put me in panic mode. I got on the
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Speaker 3: phone with another operator who already knew my situation and
24:18
Speaker 3: address before I could even explain it to her. She
24:21
Speaker 3: said the cops were on their way. 20 minutes had
24:24
Speaker 3: passed at this point. The dude is still here, in
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Speaker 3: his car, and the cops aren't. Keep in mind I
24:31
Speaker 3: live in a smaller town so there is no reason
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Speaker 3: why it took the cops as long as it did
24:36
Speaker 3: to come down. Finally this dude is leaving my driveway
24:40
Speaker 3: right as the cops pull in and they stop him
24:43
Speaker 3: and ask him a few questions. A cop then comes
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Speaker 3: to my door and hands me a sketchy looking flyer
24:49
Speaker 3: saying it was just a landscaper. He said he had
24:53
Speaker 3: an appointment. I was really relieved and irritated that it
24:57
Speaker 3: was just a dude my mom had hired until I
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Speaker 3: realized It wasn't. I called my mom back and said,
25:04
Speaker 3: the cops said that it was just a landscaper that
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Speaker 3: you hired, and that he had an appointment. My mom
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Speaker 3: replies with, I can assure you we never hired a landscaper.
25:15
Speaker 3: We don't even need one. So, creepy dude who could
25:19
Speaker 3: potentially be posing as a landscaper to traffic people or
25:23
Speaker 3: rob their houses. Let's not meet.
25:34
Speaker 4: In December of the year 2000, two brothers by the
25:37
Speaker 4: names of Reginald and Jonathan Carr arrived in the largest
25:40
Speaker 4: city in the state of Kansas, Wichita. The pair hailed
25:44
Speaker 4: from Dodge City, over 150 miles to the west, and
25:48
Speaker 4: each had an extensive criminal record by the time they
25:51
Speaker 4: took their trip to Wichita. But their visit wasn't in
25:54
Speaker 4: good faith. It wasn't some road trip to sample the
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Speaker 4: delights of another big city. Their reasons for being in
26:01
Speaker 4: Wichita were the very definition of malicious and predatory. and
26:05
Speaker 4: it wasn't long before they decided to commence their malevolent mission.
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Speaker 4: On December 8th, Wichita State University baseball player Andrew Schreiber
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Speaker 4: stopped at a convenience store to buy some Skoll chewing tobacco.
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Speaker 4: Out of nowhere, the Carr brothers appeared behind him as
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Speaker 4: he was returning to his car and forced him at
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Speaker 4: gunpoint to withdraw money from ATMs until his card refused
26:27
Speaker 4: more transactions. Schreiber was fortunate enough to escape the encounter
26:32
Speaker 4: with just shot-out tires, a few scrapes and bruises, and
26:35
Speaker 4: a depleted bank account, but others wouldn't be so lucky.
26:39
Speaker 4: Apart from a vague description of two male African Americans
26:43
Speaker 4: in their early to mid-twenties, police had nothing on which
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Speaker 4: to base an investigation, and all was quiet for the
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Speaker 4: few days that followed. Then, just three days later, on
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Speaker 4: December 11th, they invaded the home of 55-year-old cellist and
26:57
Speaker 4: librarian Anne Walenta. The brothers subjected her to much of
27:02
Speaker 4: the same treatment as Shriver, beating her, robbing her, and
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Speaker 4: taking their time while doing so. However, it appears the
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Speaker 4: brothers underestimated Walenta, and she managed to escape from them,
27:14
Speaker 4: rushing to her car in an attempt to flee the scene. Tragically,
27:18
Speaker 4: one of the Carr brothers noticed her absence, following her
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Speaker 4: outside before sending three bullets smashing through her windshield and
27:25
Speaker 4: into her torso. Knowing they were compromised, the Carrs took
27:30
Speaker 4: their turn to abscond from the house while Ann Walenta
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Speaker 4: would pass away from her wounds in a Wichita hospital
27:36
Speaker 4: bed just three days later. The Carrs' crime spree was
27:41
Speaker 4: already horrifying in both scope and scale, but it wasn't
27:44
Speaker 4: until December 14th that the brothers would escalate their frenzy
27:47
Speaker 4: from a series of bloody robberies to theatrical levels of
27:51
Speaker 4: pain and suffering. On the night in question... The brothers
27:55
Speaker 4: pulled up outside a house at 12727 East Birchwood Drive
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Speaker 4: in the Wichita suburb of Andover, which they later admitted
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Speaker 4: to choosing at random. Inside were financial director Brad Haka,
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Speaker 4: preschool teacher Heather Mueller, financial analyst turned priest Aaron Sander,
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Speaker 4: local high school teacher Jason Beffert, and his girlfriend, a
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Speaker 4: teacher known only in court documents as Holly Gee. The
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Speaker 4: Carr brothers got out of their car, armed with golf
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Speaker 4: clubs and pistols, and walked up to the front door
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Speaker 4: of the home. One brother hid from view as the
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Speaker 4: other knocked the house, smiling and waving when he saw
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Speaker 4: movement through a front-facing window. But when the door was open,
28:39
Speaker 4: the brother dropped his friendly facade, pointing his pistol in
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Speaker 4: their victim's face before forcing his way inside. Once all
28:46
Speaker 4: five of the home's occupants had been corralled into one
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Speaker 4: of the home's back rooms, the Carr brothers began to
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Speaker 4: pillage their belongings. At one point, one of the brothers
28:56
Speaker 4: opened up a popcorn tin, emptying its contents and observing
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Speaker 4: a small jewelry box that fell out. When he opened it,
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Speaker 4: he found a diamond engagement ring, but instead of simply
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Speaker 4: pocketing the ring and moving on, the brothers found the
29:10
Speaker 4: discovery to be highly amusing. They marched back into the
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Speaker 4: room in which they detained the home's occupants and demanded
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Speaker 4: to know who the ring belonged to. That's how Holly
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Speaker 4: G found out that high school teacher Jason Befford was
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Speaker 4: planning on proposing to her, not in a moment of
29:25
Speaker 4: joyous surprise, as it was intended to be, but in
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Speaker 4: a moment of absolute dread and terror, as two strange
29:32
Speaker 4: men laughed in her face about it. Even with the
29:36
Speaker 4: diamond ring and a variety of expensive electricals, the car
29:39
Speaker 4: brought were unhappy with their haul. It was then the
29:43
Speaker 4: brothers decided to take three of their prisoners to a
29:45
Speaker 4: series of local ATM machines, forcing each of them in
29:48
Speaker 4: turn to max out their cash withdrawals. This bagged the
29:52
Speaker 4: brothers an additional $ 2, 000, but still, they weren't satisfied. They
29:58
Speaker 4: drove their prisoners back home and then tied them up again.
30:01
Speaker 4: But instead of fleeing the scene with the cash and
30:03
Speaker 4: valuables they'd already collected, the Carr brothers decided to have
30:06
Speaker 4: a little fun. They began to torture the male prisoners
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Speaker 4: from the group, beating them with their golf clubs along
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Speaker 4: with a variety of household items. According to court documents,
30:17
Speaker 4: it's then apparent that one of the Carr brothers remembered
30:20
Speaker 4: how one of their prisoners was engaged to another and
30:24
Speaker 4: decided on a horrifically cruel form of torture involving both
30:27
Speaker 4: of them. One of the brothers dragged Jason Beffert into
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Speaker 4: a position where he could witness the violation of his fiancée.
30:35
Speaker 4: The other picked his own female victim and proceeded to
30:38
Speaker 4: do the same to her. This horrendous torture and abuse
30:41
Speaker 4: went on for more than an hour, with the brothers
30:44
Speaker 4: taking turns to beat and violate each one of their
30:46
Speaker 4: terrified prisoners. When they grew bored of the violence, they
30:51
Speaker 4: packed their prisoners into one of their own cars and
30:54
Speaker 4: drove them out to the Stryker Soccer Complex in on
30:57
Speaker 4: the outskirts of Wichita. As it was late at night,
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Speaker 4: the complex was completely abandoned, and there was no one
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Speaker 4: to stop the brothers from forcing their prisoners from the
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Speaker 4: vehicle and marching them out into one of the soccer fields.
31:10
Speaker 4: They were lined up, forced to kneel, then each of
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Speaker 4: them was shot execution-style right in the back of the
31:17
Speaker 4: head before one of the Carr brothers drove over them
31:19
Speaker 4: in the truck they'd been driving. It's chilling to note
31:23
Speaker 4: that this obviously wasn't to finish them off, so to speak,
31:26
Speaker 4: They'd already shot their victims in the head. Running them
31:29
Speaker 4: over in a truck was evidently an attempt to mutilate
31:32
Speaker 4: the bodies as best they could before they fled the
31:34
Speaker 4: site of the murders. Yet amazingly, the Carr brothers didn't
31:38
Speaker 4: attempt to flee Wichita following such a shockingly violent crime.
31:42
Speaker 4: In fact, they didn't even leave the neighborhood. They drove
31:46
Speaker 4: straight back to the home of the victims they'd left
31:48
Speaker 4: lying in the snow and began to utterly destroy the
31:51
Speaker 4: place with their golf clubs. It was then that they
31:54
Speaker 4: found Holly's pet dog, Nicky, who had been so scared
31:58
Speaker 4: during the attack that she'd ran and hid under a
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Speaker 4: kitchen cabinet. One of the Carr brothers enticed the dog
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Speaker 4: towards him with some cold cuts taken from the home's refrigerator.
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Speaker 4: When approached, he smashed it to a pulp with the
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Speaker 4: golf club he was holding. Only when the home had
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Speaker 4: been utterly ransacked did the Carr brothers even think to depart,
32:20
Speaker 4: but they did so safe in the knowledge that any
32:22
Speaker 4: potential witnesses had been silenced, and that in all likelihood,
32:26
Speaker 4: they would never have to answer for their crimes. But
32:29
Speaker 4: they were wrong. Back at the Stryker soccer complex, blood-soaked,
32:34
Speaker 4: tire-tracked bodies lay motionless in the snow. All except one.
32:40
Speaker 4: Holly G., though bruised and bloodied and battered, slowly began
32:44
Speaker 4: to open her eyes. She couldn't remember how she got
32:47
Speaker 4: into that snow-covered soccer field, nor did she recognize the
32:50
Speaker 4: bodies of the people lying next to her. All she
32:53
Speaker 4: knew was that she needed to find her boyfriend, She
32:56
Speaker 4: needed to find Jason. And that's how she ended up
32:59
Speaker 4: walking almost a mile in the freezing Wichita night, half-naked,
33:03
Speaker 4: bleeding and terrified, but still alive. Around a half hour later,
33:09
Speaker 4: a middle-aged couple were awakened by someone pounding at their door.
33:13
Speaker 4: It was 25-year-old Holly G., bleeding and half-frozen, and according
33:17
Speaker 4: to the homeowner, she apparently opened with, I need to
33:21
Speaker 4: tell you my story before I die. Miraculously, Holly G
33:26
Speaker 4: survived the attack and would go on to positively identify
33:29
Speaker 4: both brothers using prior mugshots. Both were tracked down the
33:33
Speaker 4: day after the home invasion and were taken into custody
33:36
Speaker 4: following a long and volatile standoff with police. The local
33:41
Speaker 4: district attorney said that based on the evidence, the motive
33:43
Speaker 4: for the murders was robbery, yet he didn't seem to
33:46
Speaker 4: take into account that neither brother seemed satisfied, even when
33:50
Speaker 4: they killed their victims. He failed to touch on how
33:52
Speaker 4: they returned to the house, not to erase any potential evidence,
33:56
Speaker 4: but to continue to destroy all they found. Regardless, thanks
34:01
Speaker 4: to Holly G's testimony, both brothers were convicted of nearly
34:04
Speaker 4: all 113 counts against them, including kidnapping, robbery, four counts
34:10
Speaker 4: of capital murder, and one count of first-degree murder. They
34:14
Speaker 4: were each sentenced to death for the capital murders as
34:17
Speaker 4: well as life in prison, with decades to serve before
34:20
Speaker 4: eligible for parole. Following their imprisonment, sensationalized news coverage of
34:25
Speaker 4: the Carr brothers' vicious crime spree created widespread panic in
34:29
Speaker 4: the greater Wichita area, resulting in a huge spike in
34:32
Speaker 4: the sales of firearms instead of the art home security systems.
34:37
Speaker 4: The fact is, we live in a time when these
34:39
Speaker 4: kinds of crimes are relatively rare. Over the past few decades,
34:43
Speaker 4: violent crime has actually decreased in the Western world, whereas
34:47
Speaker 4: the reporting of it has increased in volume and intensity.
34:51
Speaker 4: It gives us the false impression that things are getting
34:53
Speaker 4: worse when in reality, data might suggest the very opposite.
34:57
Speaker 4: But it's also very true that we can never truly
35:00
Speaker 4: eliminate the dangers that lurk out there in the dark.
35:03
Speaker 4: There will always be monsters. There will always be evil.
35:08
Speaker 4: And sadly, there will always be innocent victims.
35:20
Speaker 5: This happened just about a week ago. I'm 20 years old,
35:24
Speaker 5: and I live with my parents during the summer. However,
35:26
Speaker 5: they went out of town for some of their friend's wedding,
35:28
Speaker 5: and I wasn't invited. This was fine with me, though,
35:31
Speaker 5: because I didn't really know the people anyways, and it's
35:33
Speaker 5: kind of fun to have the whole house to myself.
35:36
Speaker 5: We have a split-level house, and my bedroom is at
35:38
Speaker 5: the front end of it. But on Friday night, I
35:41
Speaker 5: stayed up really late watching a movie in the living room.
35:44
Speaker 5: I like that TV better because it's much bigger than mine.
35:47
Speaker 5: The couch in the living room is also super comfortable,
35:49
Speaker 5: so I just decided to sleep there for the night. Anyways,
35:52
Speaker 5: I woke up Saturday morning, and it was still super
35:54
Speaker 5: dark in the house. In the living room, we had
35:57
Speaker 5: a sliding glass door that connects to the deck in
35:59
Speaker 5: the back. The blinds were covering most of it, and
36:02
Speaker 5: that's the main source of light, but there was maybe
36:04
Speaker 5: a five-foot gap to look out, and I saw that
36:06
Speaker 5: it was raining. I then looked at the clock, and
36:09
Speaker 5: it was almost 9.30 a.m. I was just sitting there
36:12
Speaker 5: on the couch and turned on the TV, when all
36:14
Speaker 5: of a sudden, I heard two knocks at the front
36:16
Speaker 5: door They weren't really hard knocks, sort of light, and
36:20
Speaker 5: immediately my heart started pounding. I know it's not a
36:23
Speaker 5: big deal just to get knocks on the door, but
36:25
Speaker 5: we lived towards the end of a dead end road
36:27
Speaker 5: and our neighborhood was very quiet. It wasn't very big
36:30
Speaker 5: and it was extremely rare for anybody to knock on
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Speaker 5: our doors for any reason. Maybe it's also because I'm
36:36
Speaker 5: a shy person, but it made me really nervous for
36:38
Speaker 5: some reason. From where I was sitting on the couch,
36:41
Speaker 5: I was just barely around the corner and I couldn't
36:43
Speaker 5: see the front door. And whoever was at the front
36:45
Speaker 5: door probably couldn't see me. At least I was hoping
36:48
Speaker 5: they couldn't see me. I was wondering who it could
36:51
Speaker 5: possibly be, especially in the middle of pouring rain. Then
36:55
Speaker 5: I remembered something. I had ordered an Amazon package and
36:58
Speaker 5: was expecting it today. Suddenly, I felt so much better
37:02
Speaker 5: and started to relax. I opened up my Amazon app
37:05
Speaker 5: on my phone and clicked on my orders, expecting to
37:07
Speaker 5: see that it was delivered. But when I looked, it
37:10
Speaker 5: said it wouldn't arrive until 5 p.m.
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Speaker 6: That day. Suddenly, I went back to being super nervous.
37:16
Speaker 5: I decided to carefully look out and see if anyone
37:18
Speaker 5: was at the door. It had now been maybe a
37:21
Speaker 5: minute or two since they had originally knocked, and they
37:24
Speaker 5: hadn't knocked again since. I slowly moved to look out
37:27
Speaker 5: the window, and when I did, I saw that nobody
37:30
Speaker 5: was there now. This made me feel a little better
37:33
Speaker 5: now that they were gone, but right at that moment,
37:36
Speaker 5: I heard the noise of somebody walking up the stairs
37:38
Speaker 5: of our back deck. I couldn't see because of the
37:42
Speaker 5: blinds covering most of the sliding glass door, but I
37:45
Speaker 5: then heard footsteps on the deck. I started shaking, and
37:48
Speaker 5: the next thing I knew, I saw a man appear
37:50
Speaker 5: in the opening of the sliding glass door where you
37:52
Speaker 5: could see outside. He was staring right at me, but
37:55
Speaker 5: had no expression on his face. He was bald and
37:59
Speaker 5: wore a black jacket and black pants. The guy then
38:02
Speaker 5: tried sliding the door open. Thankfully, it was locked, but
38:06
Speaker 5: I knew if he really wanted to, he could probably
38:08
Speaker 5: break the glass between us. I ran away into the
38:11
Speaker 5: bathroom that was just down the hall. I had no
38:13
Speaker 5: idea who this guy was or what he was doing here.
38:16
Speaker 5: I had been right to be so nervous about this
38:18
Speaker 5: for seemingly no reason. As I closed the bathroom door
38:21
Speaker 5: and locked it, that's when I heard the first loud
38:23
Speaker 5: bang against the window, as if he was going to
38:25
Speaker 5: try to break it. I knew I needed to call
38:27
Speaker 5: the police, but then I realized that I didn't have
38:30
Speaker 5: my phone. I had left it back out in the
38:32
Speaker 5: living room. I heard another loud bang from the window,
38:35
Speaker 5: but I didn't hear glass breaking. I knew it was
38:38
Speaker 5: a risk, but I opened the door back up and
38:40
Speaker 5: ran out to the living room couch. I looked around
38:43
Speaker 5: frantically and finally saw my phone. Then I made another
38:47
Speaker 5: mad dash for the bathroom. As I was, another bang
38:50
Speaker 5: came from the window. I looked back at the man
38:53
Speaker 5: as I ran. I saw he had been kicking at
38:55
Speaker 5: the glass and trying to break it. I got back
38:57
Speaker 5: into the bathroom and locked the door again. Then I
39:00
Speaker 5: called 911 on my phone. As soon as the operator answered,
39:04
Speaker 5: I told them everything. They told me to slow down
39:06
Speaker 5: and repeat what was going on. That's when I heard
39:09
Speaker 5: the sound of glass breaking. I repeated what was happening
39:13
Speaker 5: as best as I could. And just after that, I
39:15
Speaker 5: heard the sound of the man starting to walk inside
39:17
Speaker 5: the house. He was walking straight for the bathroom that
39:20
Speaker 5: I was in. When he got to the doorway, he
39:23
Speaker 5: tried the door, and it wouldn't open because it was locked.
39:26
Speaker 5: I backed away from it and went into the shower.
39:29
Speaker 5: The 911 operator said that they would stay on the
39:31
Speaker 5: line with me, which made me feel a little bit
39:33
Speaker 5: better because I was terrified. The man then started to
39:36
Speaker 5: bang on the bathroom door and my phone suddenly went silent.
39:40
Speaker 5: I looked at it and saw that it had died.
39:43
Speaker 5: I hadn't plugged it in the previous night. I figured
39:46
Speaker 5: the man was kicking on the door the same way
39:47
Speaker 5: he had been kicking on the sliding glass door and
39:49
Speaker 5: I knew he would probably break this as well. I
39:53
Speaker 5: heard him walk away for a minute, and then go
39:54
Speaker 5: down the stairs that we had. He was gone for
39:57
Speaker 5: maybe a full minute, and then I heard him return.
40:00
Speaker 5: There was another loud bang against the bathroom door, but
40:03
Speaker 5: this one sounded much harder. I think he had found
40:05
Speaker 5: one of the baseball bats we had in our house
40:07
Speaker 5: or something. This made me even more terrified than I
40:10
Speaker 5: already was. I grabbed the towels we had in the
40:13
Speaker 5: bathroom and covered myself. I then went into the small
40:16
Speaker 5: bathroom closet we had and closed that door. I just
40:20
Speaker 5: barely fit in there, but I had to do what
40:22
Speaker 5: I could. The guy hit at the door a few
40:24
Speaker 5: more times, and it really sounded like he was breaking
40:27
Speaker 5: it now, but that noise was interrupted by another one.
40:30
Speaker 6: It was the noise of a loud knock on the
40:32
Speaker 6: front door.
40:33
Speaker 5: I could barely hear someone shouting police. I hoped they
40:37
Speaker 5: would be able to get inside fast, and just after that,
40:39
Speaker 5: I heard the man walking away towards the back of
40:41
Speaker 5: the house where he had gotten in. I stayed hidden,
40:44
Speaker 5: and a short time later, I heard a bunch of shouting. Eventually,
40:47
Speaker 5: I heard someone yelling, put it down. When I finally
40:50
Speaker 5: heard the voice of multiple officers inside my house, I
40:53
Speaker 5: finally came out of the bathroom. They had literally gotten
40:56
Speaker 5: there just in the nick of time, and the man
40:58
Speaker 5: had been caught.
41:00
Speaker 6: I'm really lucky how fast the police were to arrive
41:02
Speaker 6: that day.
41:04
Speaker 5: This was very recent, and I'm still a little shook
41:06
Speaker 5: up about it, but I'm just happy to be okay.
41:15
Speaker 5: This happened many years ago, probably about 15, and I
41:18
Speaker 5: would say that I was about 10 years old. At
41:21
Speaker 5: the time, I lived with my parents and my older brother.
41:24
Speaker 5: I think it was a Friday, and I remember after
41:26
Speaker 5: getting home from school, my parents and brother were going
41:28
Speaker 5: to go shopping. They asked me if I wanted to
41:31
Speaker 5: come with, and I said no because I really wanted
41:33
Speaker 5: to play video games at that moment, and I wasn't
41:35
Speaker 5: really interested in going with. When they left, I figured
41:38
Speaker 5: they would be gone for maybe a couple of hours.
41:41
Speaker 5: I went upstairs to my room and started playing video games.
41:44
Speaker 5: It was kind of my after-school thing to do back then.
41:47
Speaker 5: I started it up, and my game hadn't even loaded yet,
41:49
Speaker 5: when all of a sudden I heard a noise coming
41:51
Speaker 5: from the hallway. It was the upstairs hallway right outside
41:54
Speaker 5: my bedroom. This was really strange, and I remembered I listened,
41:58
Speaker 5: but I didn't hear anything for a few more seconds.
42:01
Speaker 5: Then there was another noise. It was definitely coming from
42:04
Speaker 5: right outside my bedroom door. My door was already open,
42:08
Speaker 5: but not all the way, maybe three feet or so,
42:10
Speaker 5: so I decided to look out. I walked over to
42:13
Speaker 5: the doorway and leaned my head just out and looked.
42:16
Speaker 5: As soon as I did, I saw a man climbing
42:18
Speaker 5: down the ladder that we had which led up to
42:20
Speaker 5: the attic.
42:21
Speaker 6: I pulled my head back into the room. He hadn't
42:23
Speaker 6: seen me because his.
42:24
Speaker 5: Back was facing me when he was climbing down, but
42:26
Speaker 5: I just hoped he hadn't heard me.
42:29
Speaker 6: At first, I was really confused.
42:31
Speaker 5: I knew our house wasn't being worked on, so why
42:33
Speaker 5: was there a guy coming down from our attic? I
42:36
Speaker 5: heard him begin to walk down the hallway towards my door.
42:39
Speaker 5: As quietly as I could, I got onto the ground
42:42
Speaker 5: and slid underneath my bed. The man walked right past
42:45
Speaker 5: my room and then headed down the stairs. I got
42:48
Speaker 5: as far underneath my bed as I could and hoped
42:50
Speaker 5: that the man wouldn't come back. I heard him move
42:53
Speaker 5: around a little bit downstairs, especially because my ear was
42:56
Speaker 5: up against the floor. I was too scared to get
42:58
Speaker 5: up or move. It felt like forever that I was
43:01
Speaker 5: laying there. I couldn't call the police because I didn't
43:04
Speaker 5: have a cell phone back then. We had a home phone,
43:07
Speaker 5: but that was downstairs. In my mind, my best bet
43:10
Speaker 5: was to just stay hidden. I kept laying there. and
43:14
Speaker 5: I really have no idea how long it was, but
43:16
Speaker 5: I remember eventually hearing him walking back up the stairs.
43:20
Speaker 5: I closed my eyes and held my breath when he
43:22
Speaker 5: got to the top of the stairs. He once again
43:24
Speaker 5: just walked right past my door, and then seemingly went
43:27
Speaker 5: back up into the attic when things were quiet once again.
43:31
Speaker 5: I thought about leaving my hiding place, but ultimately was
43:34
Speaker 5: too scared. I remained there until I heard our front
43:37
Speaker 5: door unlock, and then heard the voices of my parents
43:39
Speaker 5: and brother downstairs. At that time, I ran down as
43:43
Speaker 5: fast as I could, and told them what had happened.
43:46
Speaker 5: At first, they didn't believe me, and my dad seemed
43:48
Speaker 5: to think it was funny. But eventually, when my dad
43:51
Speaker 5: went up into the attic, he said he immediately saw
43:53
Speaker 5: signs that someone had been up there. He didn't see
43:56
Speaker 5: the guy himself, but enough to know that there was
43:58
Speaker 5: somebody in there. He closed it, and we called the police.
44:01
Speaker 5: We went outside and waited, and eventually, when the police
44:04
Speaker 5: got there, they were able to catch the man. He
44:06
Speaker 5: had been living in our attic for several days. We
44:10
Speaker 5: rarely went up to our attic or used it back then.
44:12
Speaker 5: It was just really a storage place for us. I
44:15
Speaker 5: don't know how the man didn't hear me in my
44:16
Speaker 5: room at first, but I always feel lucky that he didn't.
44:30
Speaker 5: I live alone in a small one-bedroom house. For me,
44:33
Speaker 5: it's the perfect size, and I've lived here for about
44:36
Speaker 5: a year. But shortly after I first moved in, I
44:39
Speaker 5: had a terrifying experience. I was sitting in the living
44:42
Speaker 5: room one night and watching TV. I was very comfortable
44:46
Speaker 5: on my couch, and I think it was about 10.30
44:48
Speaker 5: at night. Out of nowhere, I started to hear a
44:51
Speaker 5: noise coming from the other end of the house. It
44:53
Speaker 5: was kind of quiet. It sort of sounded like it
44:55
Speaker 5: was coming from inside the wall. Immediately, I started to
44:59
Speaker 5: fear what I thought was the worst at the time,
45:01
Speaker 5: which is that there would be mice in my house.
45:03
Speaker 5: But I would eventually find out that it was something different.
45:07
Speaker 5: I turned the volume down on my TV to listen closely. Eventually,
45:11
Speaker 5: I did hear the noise again. I just couldn't quite
45:13
Speaker 5: tell what it was, so I walked over to where
45:16
Speaker 5: I was hearing it. I went through the end of
45:18
Speaker 5: the living room towards the pantry and then the attached garage.
45:22
Speaker 5: I realized that's where the noise was coming from. I
45:25
Speaker 5: could hear somebody walking around in there. I was a
45:28
Speaker 5: little scared, but I opened my garage door and looked around.
45:31
Speaker 5: It was a one-car garage and really dark in there.
45:34
Speaker 5: I turned on the light, which wasn't that bright, but
45:36
Speaker 5: I could now see I didn't see anybody at all.
45:40
Speaker 5: I looked all around and there was nothing. There wasn't
45:42
Speaker 5: really a whole lot of space, but the longer I
45:45
Speaker 5: had the door open and was looking around, the more
45:47
Speaker 5: freaked out I was feeling. I shut the door and
45:49
Speaker 5: then went back inside. I listened for more noise and
45:53
Speaker 5: just hoped whoever was in there would leave and not
45:55
Speaker 5: try to go in the house. As I was inside,
45:58
Speaker 5: I kept listening for a while, but I didn't hear
46:00
Speaker 5: anything else now, so I thought maybe looking in the
46:02
Speaker 5: garage had scared off whoever was there. Eventually, I was
46:06
Speaker 5: able to go back to watching TV, and later got
46:09
Speaker 5: tired and went to sleep. The next morning, when I
46:11
Speaker 5: woke up, I had forgotten all about what happened the
46:14
Speaker 5: previous night. I left my room and walked into the kitchen,
46:17
Speaker 5: but froze as I did. I noticed that my front
46:20
Speaker 5: door to the house was wide open. I walked over
46:23
Speaker 5: to the garage door and saw that that was open
46:25
Speaker 5: as well. This was extremely creepy to me, because obviously
46:29
Speaker 5: I had closed and locked them the night before. I
46:32
Speaker 5: looked all around the house everywhere, but nobody was there
46:36
Speaker 5: Somebody had been in my house the previous night. I
46:39
Speaker 5: don't know who they were or how they got in,
46:41
Speaker 5: but I'm just glad they left. Since then, I haven't
46:44
Speaker 5: had any problems.
46:59
Speaker 1: When I was 20, I was home from college for
47:02
Speaker 1: the summer. My best friend who we'll call Kay and
47:05
Speaker 1: her boyfriend had started new jobs. They lived all alone
47:09
Speaker 1: in a house at the top of a really steep hill.
47:13
Speaker 1: Some background on Kay is she has super bad anxiety.
47:17
Speaker 1: And I do as well. But I've become kind of
47:20
Speaker 1: accustomed to living alone and dealing with my anxiety. Whereas
47:24
Speaker 1: she had not. Now there was a back door to
47:27
Speaker 1: their house in the kitchen. And you could fully see
47:30
Speaker 1: into the kitchen from the couch in the living room.
47:33
Speaker 1: At about shoulder height on the door frame outside was
47:36
Speaker 1: a motion sensor light. It should also be known that
47:40
Speaker 1: Kay's backyard is really high up. You have to climb
47:44
Speaker 1: a small set of steps to get into the yard
47:46
Speaker 1: from the small sidewalk in front of the door. It's
47:49
Speaker 1: dug out so that it can reach around to the
47:51
Speaker 1: front of the house. Therefore, the motion sensor light can
47:54
Speaker 1: only be set off by movement on the sidewalk, not
47:57
Speaker 1: any animals in the yard. The yard was very small
48:01
Speaker 1: and there were dense woods all the way down the
48:03
Speaker 1: back of the yard. Kay had been alone and it
48:07
Speaker 1: was her boyfriend's first slash second time on night shift
48:10
Speaker 1: and she couldn't sleep. Money was tight so the lights
48:14
Speaker 1: were off to conserve electricity. She suddenly saw a light
48:18
Speaker 1: shining through the kitchen window and she noticed it was
48:21
Speaker 1: the motion sensor light. She was freaked out but she
48:25
Speaker 1: tried to ignore it. However, it kept being tripped. for
48:29
Speaker 1: varying amounts of time. She called me at about 3
48:32
Speaker 1: in the morning over and over until I finally woke up.
48:36
Speaker 1: I stayed on the phone with her, even though it
48:38
Speaker 1: had mostly stopped until her boyfriend came home later in
48:41
Speaker 1: the morning. Her boyfriend was off for the next three days,
48:45
Speaker 1: and nothing occurred with the light while he was home.
48:48
Speaker 1: Her dad told her to be vigilant, as it could
48:51
Speaker 1: have been robbers doing a dry run of the house,
48:53
Speaker 1: as there had been some break-ins in the area on
48:56
Speaker 1: the street across from her recently. Therefore, the next time
48:59
Speaker 1: her boyfriend worked the night shift, she asked me to
49:01
Speaker 1: stay the night with her, and I obliged. The night
49:05
Speaker 1: started off fine. We had watched movies until about 11 o'clock.
49:09
Speaker 1: Then we drove to the vape store and McDonald's. Now,
49:12
Speaker 1: we live in the middle of nowhere, so it was
49:15
Speaker 1: about a 40 minute drive each way. We got back
49:18
Speaker 1: at around 12.30, and we blew up the air mattress
49:21
Speaker 1: that we were going to sleep on in the living room.
49:24
Speaker 1: At about 1am, the motion sensor light came back on
49:28
Speaker 1: as we were sitting on the mattress. I then rationalized
49:32
Speaker 1: that it was just an animal, maybe a bat or something,
49:35
Speaker 1: but she wasn't convinced. The light went off and came
49:39
Speaker 1: back on again for even longer that time. She then
49:43
Speaker 1: went upstairs to get her boyfriend's gun. The light kept
49:46
Speaker 1: going off as we sat on the couch anxiously. We
49:50
Speaker 1: had the window open so we could hear. Kay then
49:53
Speaker 1: yelled out, I have a gun and I'm not scared.
49:55
Speaker 2: To use it.
49:57
Speaker 1: She said this is a joke to me to lighten
49:59
Speaker 1: the mood, but then the light went off. It then
50:03
Speaker 1: stayed off for about three hours, almost if we had
50:06
Speaker 1: chased someone away by saying that. We weren't able to
50:09
Speaker 1: sleep after that experience. And at about 4 a.m., I
50:14
Speaker 1: then went into the kitchen to get myself some water.
50:17
Speaker 1: I turned back to the living room to say something
50:19
Speaker 1: to Kay, who was lying on the mattress. As she
50:23
Speaker 1: looked up at me, she then yelled at me to
50:25
Speaker 1: get back into the room. And when I then turned around,
50:28
Speaker 1: the light was on again. We continued to see the
50:32
Speaker 1: light come on until the sun started to come up.
50:35
Speaker 1: Then out of nowhere, it just suddenly stopped. We considered
50:39
Speaker 1: calling the police but we were afraid of them thinking
50:41
Speaker 1: that it was a prank call or something and then
50:43
Speaker 1: getting in trouble. The light never goes off at night
50:47
Speaker 1: whenever her boyfriend's home. I still feel on edge whenever
50:51
Speaker 1: we're alone at night in her house. I believe someone
50:54
Speaker 1: had ill intentions that night. Whether they came to break
50:57
Speaker 1: in and thought it was funny to torment us when
51:00
Speaker 1: they realized the house wasn't empty or something more sinister. Nevertheless,
51:06
Speaker 1: it was still a nauseating experience. I'm a female, and
51:16
Speaker 1: at the time of this story, I was 17 years old.
51:19
Speaker 1: After I graduated high school, my family and I's house
51:23
Speaker 1: was foreclosed as it was no longer habitable, and it
51:27
Speaker 1: was also under new ownership. We packed up our things
51:30
Speaker 1: and we moved to Robinsonville, North Carolina, where my grandmother's
51:34
Speaker 1: husband had a house on the Smoky Mountains. To understand
51:38
Speaker 1: the layout, when you live on a mountain, your closest
51:41
Speaker 1: neighbor is probably about a mile away. Most of the
51:45
Speaker 1: houses on the street we lived on were either abandoned
51:48
Speaker 1: or we just never saw any other sign of life.
51:51
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed going on little hikes up the mountain
51:53
Speaker 1: all by myself and listening to music, and I also
51:56
Speaker 1: enjoyed leaving my window open during the day so that
51:59
Speaker 1: the natural light and all that mountain air could come
52:02
Speaker 1: into my room. One night while everyone was asleep downstairs,
52:06
Speaker 1: my sister and I were up in a wake upstairs
52:08
Speaker 1: in our room when the power goes out. I grabbed
52:12
Speaker 1: my lantern and I gathered some of my colored pencils
52:14
Speaker 1: and paper and I sat on the floor of our
52:16
Speaker 1: bedroom to do some drawing while the power was out,
52:19
Speaker 1: as there wasn't anything else to really do. My sister
52:23
Speaker 1: left the room and went to use the bathroom. She
52:26
Speaker 1: had only left the room for just a few moments
52:29
Speaker 1: when I then heard a voice come from the other
52:31
Speaker 1: side of my room. It was a deep voice, clearly
52:34
Speaker 1: from a man, that then said, Hey baby. I froze
52:40
Speaker 1: on the floor, and my eyes then darted over to
52:42
Speaker 1: my closet. Now, I wasn't sure exactly where the voice
52:46
Speaker 1: came from, but everything in me was just screaming that
52:49
Speaker 1: it came from the closet. I sat there frozen for
52:52
Speaker 1: a few moments, completely shook, before I then got up
52:56
Speaker 1: and ran out of my room, slamming the door behind me.
52:59
Speaker 1: This was at about midnight when this happened. I started
53:02
Speaker 1: banging on the bathroom door, and my sister came out
53:05
Speaker 1: asking what the hell I was doing, and I was
53:07
Speaker 1: kind of scrambling to tell her what had just happened.
53:10
Speaker 1: She was completely freaked out with me, and we both
53:13
Speaker 1: went downstairs to my grandma's room to explain what happened.
53:16
Speaker 1: In her half-asleep state, she reached under her pillow and
53:20
Speaker 1: gave me her gun, and then she shooed us away. Reluctantly,
53:24
Speaker 1: we both went back upstairs and then stayed in the
53:26
Speaker 1: living room the entire night. We didn't sleep at all.
53:31
Speaker 1: We just stayed up playing board games all night long
53:34
Speaker 1: and talking about our high school days. I think that
53:37
Speaker 1: my sister could feel how freaked out I was and
53:39
Speaker 1: wanted to keep my mind off of it. Around 6 a.m.,
53:44
Speaker 1: after the power came back and the sun was up,
53:47
Speaker 1: both me and my sister walked into our room and
53:50
Speaker 1: within saw that the closet door was wide open and
53:53
Speaker 1: so was our bedroom window. Ever since that happened, I've
53:57
Speaker 1: always kept my window locked and my blinds shut until
54:00
Speaker 1: I moved out a few months later. This always gives
54:03
Speaker 1: me the shivers whenever I think about it. because of
54:06
Speaker 1: how unserious it was taken at the time. That man
54:09
Speaker 1: was most definitely inside my room, and he could have
54:12
Speaker 1: easily come out at any point in time and done
54:14
Speaker 1: anything to us. Thank God he didn't, though. So, I'm
54:23
Speaker 1: a big horror fangirl. I'm 20 years old, and over
54:27
Speaker 1: the past year, I've been collecting from the figures to
54:30
Speaker 1: the mask to even life size. I won't say this
54:33
Speaker 1: story was terrifying or anything, But to me, it basically
54:37
Speaker 1: saved me. I'll try and make it simple. I'm a
54:41
Speaker 1: big Michael Myers fan, and last October I bought a
54:45
Speaker 1: life-size figure of him. Oh, and a Chucky doll too.
54:48
Speaker 1: And not just one of the cheap ones, the replica-looking ones.
54:53
Speaker 1: Some may call me crazy, but what's not to love
54:56
Speaker 1: about horror, right? I keep everything stored away at the moment,
55:00
Speaker 1: apart from the life-size Michael, which he stands around six foot.
55:04
Speaker 1: He's not a cheap looking guy either. He looks like
55:07
Speaker 1: the real deal. The replica mask, real coveralls with.
55:10
Speaker 6: Blood, and even a knife too.
55:13
Speaker 1: He stands in my room right next to my bed.
55:16
Speaker 1: And even though it used to creep me out seeing
55:18
Speaker 1: a dark black figure in my room, I eventually got
55:21
Speaker 1: used to it. Like to the point where I actually
55:23
Speaker 1: felt comfortable around him. I don't move him anywhere else though,
55:27
Speaker 1: as nobody in the house really liked him. Anyway, now
55:31
Speaker 1: that that's all out of the way, here's the thing
55:33
Speaker 1: that happened. So last year when I received him, I
55:37
Speaker 1: was home alone watching films downstairs when I then heard
55:40
Speaker 1: a thud upstairs. I froze as I didn't really know
55:44
Speaker 1: what to think. I slowly got up and went up
55:47
Speaker 1: to my room and then instantly heard the thuds from
55:50
Speaker 1: the downstairs door. I had absolutely no clue what the
55:53
Speaker 1: hell was going on because I was the only one there.
55:57
Speaker 1: I quietly sat in the dark as I didn't keep
55:59
Speaker 1: the lights on and I listened. I heard what sounded
56:03
Speaker 1: like men talking. and then I realized someone had came in,
56:06
Speaker 1: and that I didn't lock the door. The TV was
56:09
Speaker 1: also left on, so they had to have known I
56:11
Speaker 1: was there. Anyways though, there I was sitting face to
56:15
Speaker 1: face with the Michael figure in the dark. I heard
56:18
Speaker 1: the footsteps coming up the stairs to my room, while
56:21
Speaker 1: I sat in the corner with my head spinning. I
56:23
Speaker 1: felt like I wanted to pass out. I even started
56:26
Speaker 1: to sweat a little. My door then opened, and there
56:29
Speaker 1: I'd seen a hooded figure walk in and head straight
56:32
Speaker 1: towards me. He had something in his hand, something sharp,
56:36
Speaker 1: like a pocket knife. I was leaning against the cold
56:39
Speaker 1: wall more and more, wanting to grab something, until out
56:43
Speaker 1: of nowhere, Michael's arm then started moving. Bear in mind
56:46
Speaker 1: it was still dark, so this guy had no clue
56:49
Speaker 1: that Michael was behind him until he heard it move.
56:52
Speaker 1: I also want to add that it wasn't an electrical noise,
56:55
Speaker 1: it was the material of the arm rubbing together. The
56:59
Speaker 1: man then turned around and instantly yelled, And I mean,
57:02
Speaker 1: I've never seen a man run so fast in his life.
57:06
Speaker 1: The man then started yelling, go, get the hell out
57:08
Speaker 1: of here, to some other guy that was in a
57:10
Speaker 1: van outside. I stood up and watched them as they
57:13
Speaker 1: drove off. I then noticed a crack in my window.
57:17
Speaker 1: Obviously these freaks were throwing rocks in my window, possibly
57:21
Speaker 1: to distract me, but I didn't care about that. I
57:24
Speaker 1: turned around and just stared at Michael because I really
57:27
Speaker 1: had no clue that he could even move. I started
57:30
Speaker 1: investigating and then realized he was an animatronic the entire time,
57:34
Speaker 1: but I was thinking he moved just at that exact
57:37
Speaker 1: moment and basically saved my life that night. I can
57:40
Speaker 1: even laugh about it now because I felt scared the
57:42
Speaker 1: guy was. I got my window repaired and did mention
57:46
Speaker 1: to the police that I had a break in, but
57:48
Speaker 1: there was really nothing they could do about it, but
57:51
Speaker 1: it was still reported just in case they tried anywhere else.
57:55
Speaker 1: Luckily nothing was taken as there was really nothing valuable downstairs.
58:00
Speaker 1: Obviously this Michael Myers looks like a real person, and
58:03
Speaker 1: anyone that looks at it, especially in the dark, gets
58:06
Speaker 1: the creeps by it. I know it sounds insane and
58:09
Speaker 1: maybe even funny, but this incident really happened, and I'm
58:13
Speaker 1: so damn thankful that I have him in my room.
58:16
Speaker 1: I never even once thought it would save my life
58:18
Speaker 1: like this, especially if he never moved. I always wonder
58:22
Speaker 1: how he moved anyway. I mean, it happened all by itself.
58:26
Speaker 1: Was it some kind of coincidence? I'll never know But
58:31
Speaker 1: thank you, Michael. God only knows what that guy would
58:34
Speaker 1: have done to me if you weren't here.
58:52
Speaker 3: Thank you.