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7 BLIZZARD_SNOWSTORM HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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  Speaker 1: One of the nicest parts about having a large family
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  Speaker 1: is when you get to visit them for the holidays.
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  Speaker 1: And in 2016, I was going to do just that.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, I had been living in Northern California
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  Speaker 1: and decided to go stay with my parents for the
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  Speaker 1: holidays at their cabin in Colorado. I was planning it
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  Speaker 1: as a huge surprise too. And originally, I had intended
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  Speaker 1: on just showing up unannounced. But instead... I came up
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  Speaker 1: with an idea that I thought would be infinitely better.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to show up at the cabin a
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  Speaker 1: few days before them so that when they showed up,
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  Speaker 1: I could have it decorated for them. It was going
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  Speaker 1: to be amazing. So I figured out that my parents
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  Speaker 1: were going to be showing up at the cabin on
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  Speaker 1: December 20th of that year and decided to go there
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  Speaker 1: two days before them. But to make sure that I
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  Speaker 1: didn't accidentally spill the beans, I made sure not to
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  Speaker 1: talk to them at all after the 15th to give
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  Speaker 1: myself some time to prepare. Now, if I had spoken
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  Speaker 1: to them, I would have found out that they had
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  Speaker 1: to cancel their flights to Colorado due to a blizzard
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  Speaker 1: that was set to hit on the 20th. But I
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  Speaker 1: had no clue, and on December 18th, I flew to
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  Speaker 1: Colorado and caught a ride to my parents' cabin where
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  Speaker 1: I used the key that I had on my keychain
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  Speaker 1: to get in. The first night I just relaxed, but
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  Speaker 1: the entire next day I spent putting up the lights
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  Speaker 1: and setting up the living room to look nice for
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  Speaker 1: them when they showed up. But as the sun began
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  Speaker 1: to set, I noticed that it was starting to snow
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  Speaker 1: outside and I immediately grew concerned. It only got worse
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  Speaker 1: from there. It was about one in the morning when
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  Speaker 1: I noticed the power went out around me and I
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  Speaker 1: decided to give up on my surprise plan and called
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  Speaker 1: my parents to see if there was a generator And
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  Speaker 1: as soon as they realized I was at the cabin,
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  Speaker 1: they freaked out. But not in the way that seemed
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  Speaker 1: like they were excited. They were immediately concerned. And let
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  Speaker 1: me know that there was a really intense snowstorm heading
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  Speaker 1: my way. And when I told them that the power
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  Speaker 1: had gone out, they only worried more. You see, the
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  Speaker 1: driveway leading up to the cabins was a gravel path
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  Speaker 1: through the woods that spanned the length of about two
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  Speaker 1: football fields. In other words, with the snow piling up
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  Speaker 1: the way that it was, there was no way for
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  Speaker 1: me to get out and to make matters worse. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't bring much food because I assumed my family would
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  Speaker 1: be bringing some. All I could do at that point
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  Speaker 1: was hope that the storm passed sooner than expected and
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  Speaker 1: I could get out of there. That wasn't the case though.
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  Speaker 1: It snowed for five days straight and the service roads
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  Speaker 1: leading up to the mountain that I was on had
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  Speaker 1: apparently been shut down. My phone's battery was low, so
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  Speaker 1: I decided to turn it off for use in an emergency.
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  Speaker 1: And from that moment on, I spent most of my
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  Speaker 1: time reading anything that I could. I managed to keep
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  Speaker 1: the cabin warm using the wood that I had piled
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  Speaker 1: up the night that I got in, and I melted
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  Speaker 1: snow on the wood stove to make drinking water. But
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  Speaker 1: by the time the fourth day rolled around, I was starving.
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't had anything to eat in over 48 hours,
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  Speaker 1: and was getting really desperate. I looked in the cabinets
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  Speaker 1: and ended up finding three cans of ravioli that had
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  Speaker 1: been in there for years, if not longer. At that point,
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  Speaker 1: I would have eaten anything though, so I didn't waste
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  Speaker 1: any time putting the can directly on the wood stove
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  Speaker 1: to begin heating up its contents. It only took me
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes before realizing how bad of a decision I
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  Speaker 1: had made. In no time at all, I was keeled
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  Speaker 1: over clenching my stomach in pain. I turned my phone
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  Speaker 1: on and called my parents to see if they thought
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  Speaker 1: it was serious. And after realizing the food that I
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  Speaker 1: had eaten was more than likely more than a decade old,
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  Speaker 1: they had me call the hospital which transferred me over
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  Speaker 1: to poison control. That's when I learned how terrifying botulism was.
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  Speaker 1: According to the person I spoke to, if I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get help soon, there was a chance that my body
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  Speaker 1: would become deeply infected and I could ultimately die. They
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  Speaker 1: ended up sending a helicopter to airlift me to the hospital,
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  Speaker 1: since the roads were still closed in the area around
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  Speaker 1: my cabin, and I'm glad they did. By the time
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  Speaker 1: they got there, which was only an hour after my call,
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  Speaker 1: I had developed a fever over 106 degrees and could
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  Speaker 1: feel an intense heat coursing through my body. I was
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  Speaker 1: hospitalized for three days afterward. two of which were spent
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  Speaker 1: simply monitoring my vitals and making sure that my organs
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  Speaker 1: hadn't been damaged.
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  Speaker 2: Back in 2017, I worked as a delivery driver for
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  Speaker 2: Uber Eats to make some extra money on the side.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't the best paying job, but it was something
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  Speaker 2: to help me get by my struggles as a growing adult.
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  Speaker 2: I was 25 years old, and I'm sure most of
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  Speaker 2: you know how life really sets in at that age. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I live in the suburbs of New York. Not the city,
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  Speaker 2: just the state, as I was never a city person,
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  Speaker 2: but lived near it. Throughout my life, I've always been
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  Speaker 2: more of a quiet person, which is why I really
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  Speaker 2: like the suburban areas. One night, I was doing some
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  Speaker 2: late night delivery orders to keep the income flowing when
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  Speaker 2: there had been an incoming weather report. The snow had
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  Speaker 2: been falling pretty hard and the winds were measuring well
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  Speaker 2: over 50 kilometers and that a blizzard was on its way.
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  Speaker 2: That being said, I still wanted to do a few
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  Speaker 2: more orders for the night. Luckily, I had received one
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  Speaker 2: order from someone on the other side of town. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't too far but this person barely met the delivery radius.
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  Speaker 2: I was annoyed because of the distance but I realized
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  Speaker 2: it was another tip. I bit my lip and drove
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  Speaker 2: to the restaurant and to the given address. All the while,
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  Speaker 2: the falling snow began to come down fast and the
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  Speaker 2: winds were starting to pick up. On top of that,
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  Speaker 2: the snow on the sidewalks were already starting to pile up,
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  Speaker 2: so I knew I had to get there in time.
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  Speaker 2: I arrive at the destination, and there's this man standing
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  Speaker 2: outside of his terrace house wearing several layers of clothing.
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  Speaker 2: Just by looking at him, he did not seem like
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  Speaker 2: a pleasant type of man. It was one of those
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  Speaker 2: men that screamed stranger danger. He comes up to my car,
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  Speaker 2: and I proceed to hand him his food when he
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  Speaker 2: begins to ask for some money. I ask him what
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  Speaker 2: it was for, to which he then says that his
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  Speaker 2: car had been out of gas. Okay, so I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: sure why that was my problem, but being nice and
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  Speaker 2: not wanting to piss him off, I hand him a
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  Speaker 2: $ 10 bill and wished him luck. He looked down at
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  Speaker 2: the money and then looked back at me with a
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  Speaker 2: blank expression as if he wanted more. He then said
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  Speaker 2: that it wasn't enough and that he could at least
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  Speaker 2: do 50. I told him that was all I had
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  Speaker 2: but that maybe someone else could help him. The look
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  Speaker 2: on his face that day is something that will never
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  Speaker 2: leave me. It was a look of hatred and anger
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  Speaker 2: as if I were his sworn enemy. I then tell
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  Speaker 2: him to enjoy and drove off away from the building.
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  Speaker 2: Doing that, however, was probably the most stupidest decision of
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  Speaker 2: my life. I hear two loud bangs echo through the
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  Speaker 2: streets along with something hitting my back tire. It didn't
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  Speaker 2: take me long to realize that these bangs were actually gunshots.
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  Speaker 2: Suddenly my car swerves from left to right and the
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  Speaker 2: ice didn't make it any better. Eventually, I managed to
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  Speaker 2: get a hold of the wheel and drive back with
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  Speaker 2: my back tire making this awful noise. However, I was
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  Speaker 2: afraid of what might happen if I stopped my car
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  Speaker 2: in case he was following me somehow. Thankfully, I had
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  Speaker 2: gotten home safely just in time and didn't once look back.
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  Speaker 2: Police were called and I reported the incident to Uber,
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  Speaker 2: but nothing ever became of it. After all, this did
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  Speaker 2: happen in the Bronx, which isn't the safest place in
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  Speaker 2: the city. I guess I learned my lesson not to
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  Speaker 2: assume that everything I do is safe, when in reality,
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  Speaker 2: it isn't. It was the fall of 2015, and I
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  Speaker 2: just finished my first semester in college, meaning winter break
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  Speaker 2: would finally be upon me. I live in upstate New York,
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  Speaker 2: and around this time of year, it would become exceedingly
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  Speaker 2: cold in my area with temperatures dropping below the 30s.
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  Speaker 2: Growing up in the cold, I wasn't bothered by it
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  Speaker 2: and actually enjoyed it to a certain extent. One night,
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  Speaker 2: my mom had been out with a friend, leaving me
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  Speaker 2: to tend to the house alone. I didn't mind staying
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  Speaker 2: alone as I like to think of myself as mature
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  Speaker 2: and responsible and I could really use the quiet. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the house we lived in was located in the more
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  Speaker 2: rural side of my city. It wasn't like the country,
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  Speaker 2: but houses here were far apart and the nearest grocery
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  Speaker 2: store was about 9 miles. with nothing to do, I
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  Speaker 2: throw myself onto my couch and put on some Netflix
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  Speaker 2: to fall asleep to. So there I am, bored out
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  Speaker 2: of my mind, watching Orange is the New Black when
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  Speaker 2: the power goes out. Living in a cold area where
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  Speaker 2: the winds are strong, it wasn't uncommon for it to
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  Speaker 2: go out once in a while. With nothing to do
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  Speaker 2: at this point, I close my eyes and try to
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  Speaker 2: fall asleep until my parents came home. I probably slept
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  Speaker 2: on the couch for about a good two hours when
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  Speaker 2: I for some reason wake up. The power is still out,
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  Speaker 2: so I couldn't see anything in the room other than
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  Speaker 2: the faint glow from the moon. However, I started having
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  Speaker 2: this weird feeling in the room. You know that sensation
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  Speaker 2: you get when you can just feel someone's watching you? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I had that in spades. I sat bolt upright while
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  Speaker 2: letting my eyes adjust to the dark and right then
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  Speaker 2: I could see the outline of something tall beside the couch.
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  Speaker 2: By some miracle, the power comes back on and about
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  Speaker 2: two feet away is a man standing over me. He
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  Speaker 2: looked to be in his mid-thirties, was very tall and lanky,
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  Speaker 2: wearing a torn white shirt and some cargo pants. The
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  Speaker 2: thing that made the situation ten times creepier was the
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  Speaker 2: fact that parts of his clothes were covered in blood.
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  Speaker 2: My blood ran cold as he stared down at me
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  Speaker 2: with this menacing glare of utter shock. I say I
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  Speaker 2: stare at him for a good ten seconds before he
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  Speaker 2: says something along the lines of, Um, who are you?
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  Speaker 2: I say in an angry tone, Who are you and
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  Speaker 2: what the hell are you doing inside of my house?
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  Speaker 2: He then went on to explain that he was driving
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  Speaker 2: when his car skidded across the road from the ice,
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  Speaker 2: crashing into a large tree. and he came to the
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  Speaker 2: nearest house looking for help. It didn't take me long
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  Speaker 2: to realize that the blood on his clothes was his.
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  Speaker 2: In the heat of the moment I thought his story
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  Speaker 2: was bullshit but I didn't want to be rude. I
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  Speaker 2: tell him that there was nothing I could do and
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  Speaker 2: that if he didn't leave I would call the cops.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't respond to this and started walking around the
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  Speaker 2: living room looking for stuff. Needless to say, I called
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  Speaker 2: the police and explained the situation to the operator. They
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  Speaker 2: said that it could take a while for an officer
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  Speaker 2: to get here due to the extreme weather conditions. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a 5 foot 8 that weighed around 150 pounds and
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  Speaker 2: this guy was massive so I couldn't take him on
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  Speaker 2: even if I tried. All the while he's going through cabinets,
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  Speaker 2: opening doors and wouldn't listen to me when I told
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  Speaker 2: him to stop. I could only assume that he was
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  Speaker 2: on something and prayed the police would be here soon.
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  Speaker 2: Turns out His so-called bullshit story turned out to be
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  Speaker 2: 100% true. Two police officers came to my door 15
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  Speaker 2: minutes later and told me that he was indeed in
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  Speaker 2: a car crash. I felt so bad for him, assuming
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  Speaker 2: he was an intruder when the guy was just wanting
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  Speaker 2: some help. Apparently, the impact of the crash shocked him
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  Speaker 2: to the point where he didn't know what he was doing,
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  Speaker 2: which explained him searching through my living room. Long story short,
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  Speaker 2: he was sent to a hospital and me nor my
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  Speaker 2: mom pressed any charges. My parents didn't let me stay
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  Speaker 2: home alone after that until a few years later. This
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  Speaker 2: is by far the most strangest incident I've ever come
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  Speaker 2: across in my nine years of living in that house.
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  Speaker 2: Even though I felt sympathy for the man, this story
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  Speaker 2: still scares me till this day. I'm 22 now and
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  Speaker 2: I have moved past it. But there's still one question
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  Speaker 2: I have. How did he get inside of my house?
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  Speaker 2: The thing is... My parents always keep our doors locked.
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  Speaker 3: Many years ago, when I was a kid, I used
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  Speaker 3: to go sledding with my younger brother every time it snowed.
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  Speaker 3: There was a hill to park a few blocks away,
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  Speaker 3: and we could walk to it. Every time it snowed,
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  Speaker 3: we would go there, and all the kids from the
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  Speaker 3: neighborhood would go to.
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  Speaker 1: It as well.
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  Speaker 3: One year, when I was about ten, Me and my
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  Speaker 3: little brother, who was two years younger than me, noticed
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  Speaker 3: it was snowing up. It was already nighttime, but as
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  Speaker 3: it was a Friday, we knew the next day our
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  Speaker 3: local hill would be packed with kids, so we asked
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  Speaker 3: our mom if we could go that night. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know exactly what time it was, looking back, but I'd
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  Speaker 3: guess it was about 7 or 8 o'clock. Our mom
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  Speaker 3: said we could, but we had to be back within
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  Speaker 3: an hour. My brother and I got on our winter
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  Speaker 3: coats and snow pants and took our sleds to the hill.
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  Speaker 3: It took maybe 10 minutes for us to walk to
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  Speaker 3: the park, and as we were walking, the snowfall got
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  Speaker 3: heavier and heavier. By the time we got there, it
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  Speaker 3: was really coming down, and we saw that there was
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  Speaker 3: nobody else at the park at all. The hill was
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  Speaker 3: getting coated in fresh snow. My brother and I raced
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  Speaker 3: up to the top and then slid down. It was
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  Speaker 3: great to have the whole park to ourselves sliding down
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  Speaker 3: and going back up over and over again. One of
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  Speaker 3: the times when we reached the top of the hill,
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  Speaker 3: we noticed a man standing towards the bottom of it.
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  Speaker 3: He was really far away, but he appeared to just
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  Speaker 3: be staring at us. It was kind of weird to
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  Speaker 3: see an empty park at night in the middle of
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  Speaker 3: a blizzard with just one man standing at the bottom
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  Speaker 3: of a hill staring. My brother and I decided to
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  Speaker 3: wait for a minute or so to see if he
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  Speaker 3: would go away before we slid.
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  Speaker 1: Down the hill again.
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  Speaker 3: He kept standing there for at least a minute or so,
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  Speaker 3: maybe two, and finally walked about 20 feet away and
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  Speaker 3: sat on a park bench, but continued to watch us.
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  Speaker 3: My brother and I were naturally taught to be careful
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  Speaker 3: of strangers. and the guy was seeming suspicious. We decided
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  Speaker 3: to slide down the hill one more time and then
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  Speaker 3: leave the park to go home. When we got to
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  Speaker 3: the bottom, I saw a closer look of the man.
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  Speaker 3: He seemed sort of old, but I couldn't make out
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  Speaker 3: much else in the snowfall and him wearing a big coat.
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  Speaker 3: My brother and I then walked out of the park
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  Speaker 3: and left. We walked home in the snow for roughly
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  Speaker 3: the 10-minute walk. When we made it back home, we
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  Speaker 3: got back inside and had some hot chocolate. After that,
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  Speaker 3: we got ready for bed. As I was going down
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  Speaker 3: the hallway from the bathroom to my bedroom, I noticed
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  Speaker 3: something out the window. The man who we had seen
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  Speaker 3: at the park was standing at the edge of our
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  Speaker 3: yard on the street, staring at our house. I called
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  Speaker 3: my brother over, and just after he got there, we
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  Speaker 3: watched the man walk away. He didn't get into a
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  Speaker 3: car or anything, he just walked down the street. But
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  Speaker 3: after that, he was never seen again.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of.
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  Speaker 3: Years ago, I was going on a long road trip
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  Speaker 3: for work, which I did quite often with my old job.
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  Speaker 3: It was wintertime, and as I drove down the road
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  Speaker 3: late at night, I noticed it start to snow. Pretty soon,
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  Speaker 3: it was a heavy snowfall that was sticking on the
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  Speaker 3: ground and causing the road to become very slippery and
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  Speaker 3: dangerous to drive on. I hadn't really been paying attention
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  Speaker 3: to the weather, but I knew at this point it
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  Speaker 3: would be dangerous to continue. I decided to pull off
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  Speaker 3: the freeway at the next stop, hoping there would be
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  Speaker 3: some hotels or something. Unfortunately, there were none, and the
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  Speaker 3: next stop was just a truck stop. I pulled into
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  Speaker 3: it off the freeway anyways, and saw a decent amount
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  Speaker 3: of trucks and other cars there. The place was starting
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  Speaker 3: to get busy from all the snow, and the people
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  Speaker 3: getting off the roads. I went around and parked in
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  Speaker 3: an open parking spot, and decided to just sleep there
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  Speaker 3: and wait out the snow. It was a busy road
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  Speaker 3: I had been on, so I figured it would get
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  Speaker 3: plowed overnight. I went inside the truck stop to use
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  Speaker 3: the bathroom. and then walked back out to my car.
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  Speaker 3: As I did, I could already see almost an inch
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  Speaker 3: of snow had fallen onto my car. I got into
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  Speaker 3: my car and began covering up my windows. I did
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  Speaker 3: the same thing for whenever I slept in my car.
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  Speaker 3: I covered all the windows with certain blankets that I had,
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  Speaker 3: so nobody could see in the car at all. Then
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  Speaker 3: I laid in the back seats of my car, which
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  Speaker 3: was just long enough for me to lay down in.
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  Speaker 3: I had several other blankets that I had in back
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  Speaker 3: with me, so I wasn't too worried about getting cold.
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  Speaker 3: I closed my eyes, and it didn't take long for
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  Speaker 3: me to fall asleep. But I woke up sometime in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of the night. I had no idea what
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  Speaker 3: time it was. I'd been sleeping well, so I knew
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  Speaker 3: something had woken me up. I couldn't see out of
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  Speaker 3: any of my windows because of the blankets. Then I
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  Speaker 3: heard the sound of a scratching coming from the outside
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  Speaker 3: of my car. It got louder and louder. It sounded
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  Speaker 3: like it was on my driver's side. It stopped for
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  Speaker 3: a minute, but eventually I heard someone try to open
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  Speaker 3: the driver's door to my car. I wasn't quite sure
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  Speaker 3: what to do because nothing like this had ever happened before.
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  Speaker 3: I laid there for about a minute as whoever was
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  Speaker 3: there tried to enter my car, testing out each door
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  Speaker 3: one at a time. I was really happy that my
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  Speaker 3: car was locked. I looked at my phone and thought
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  Speaker 3: about calling the police. It was 4.30 in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: Then the noises stopped, until suddenly I heard a loud
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  Speaker 3: bang come from the back window next to me Thankfully,
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  Speaker 3: the window didn't break, but I thought it might, so
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  Speaker 3: I jumped and got into the driver's seat and started
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  Speaker 3: the car. I pulled the blanket off the window and
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  Speaker 3: drove away. I could feel myself sliding in the snow
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  Speaker 3: as I did. I looked in my mirror and saw someone,
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  Speaker 3: but couldn't make out anything about them. It was snowy
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  Speaker 3: and dark, and they were a good 30 feet behind me.
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  Speaker 3: I kept driving back onto the road, which was not
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  Speaker 3: as slippery as it had been before, but it was
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  Speaker 3: still lightly snowing. I slowly and carefully drove up about
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  Speaker 3: 20 miles to a town with a hotel and slept
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  Speaker 3: there the rest of the night. This happened when I
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  Speaker 3: was 15. I was a sophomore in high school and
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  Speaker 3: got home from school one afternoon in December to realize
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  Speaker 3: I was home alone. I saw a note on the
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  Speaker 3: counter from my mom saying that her and my dad
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  Speaker 3: were going shopping and would be back later that night.
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  Speaker 3: She left me some money to order a pizza, which
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  Speaker 3: I was pretty excited about. I did my homework, then
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  Speaker 3: ordered the pizza and watched TV. Then I played some
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  Speaker 3: video games. It had been snowing earlier in the day,
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  Speaker 3: and by the time it was 7pm, it was really
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  Speaker 3: coming down. I kept playing video games, and finally at
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  Speaker 3: about 9, my mom called me telling me she was
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  Speaker 3: on her way home, but might not be there for
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  Speaker 3: another hour or so because of the snow. I decided
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  Speaker 3: to go outside and look to see just how much
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  Speaker 3: we had gotten. I was also going to maybe shovel
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  Speaker 3: the driveway. I stepped out the front door to see
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  Speaker 3: several inches of fresh snow everywhere. It was so smooth,
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  Speaker 3: except for this one place. I noticed some footprints in
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  Speaker 3: the snow that were in my yard. There seemed to
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  Speaker 3: be someone who walked in my yard and then went
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  Speaker 3: over to the garage. It was strange to me. There
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  Speaker 3: usually weren't people walking in my yard. I went back
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  Speaker 3: inside and suddenly had the thought to check the garage
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  Speaker 3: door which was connected to our house. I went over
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  Speaker 3: to it and saw that it was unlocked. I started
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  Speaker 3: to walk closer to lock it, but thought I heard
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  Speaker 3: a noise right from the other side of it. This
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  Speaker 3: really freaked me out, and I ran upstairs to my room.
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  Speaker 3: I locked my door and hid under my bed. About
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  Speaker 3: a minute later, I heard the noise of my garage
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  Speaker 3: door opening. I wanted my parents to get home badly,
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  Speaker 3: but knew they wouldn't be home for almost an hour.
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  Speaker 3: I heard the sounds of someone walking around downstairs in
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  Speaker 3: my house. At that point, I decided to call the police. Thankfully,
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  Speaker 3: I had my phone on me, and I dialed 911
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  Speaker 3: I spoke as quietly as I could and hoped whoever
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  Speaker 3: was downstairs didn't hear me. I could barely hear them
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  Speaker 3: walking around downstairs, and I heard them walking around for
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  Speaker 3: quite a while. I had no idea what they were doing,
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  Speaker 3: but I was kicking myself for not making sure the
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  Speaker 3: garage door was locked earlier. I sat upstairs under my
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  Speaker 3: bed until I started to hear the footsteps coming up
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  Speaker 3: the stairs. It was the most scared I had ever been,
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  Speaker 3: until finally I heard the sound of police sirens off
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  Speaker 3: in the distance. Footsteps then went back downstairs and seemed
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  Speaker 3: to leave. I waited until the police came inside my
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  Speaker 3: house to leave my bedroom. When I did, I saw
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  Speaker 3: the main level of our house was all messed up.
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  Speaker 3: My parents were called and got home a little bit later.
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  Speaker 3: It seemed like just a typical break-in of a guy
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  Speaker 3: trying to find valuables at our house. I'm just glad
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  Speaker 3: I was able to get upstairs and call the police
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  Speaker 3: when I did.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: My name is Cory, and I lived in the States
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: ever since I could remember. It was around 6pm one
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  Speaker 2: night in the winter, and I was staying at my
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  Speaker 2: girlfriend's family vacation house due to a snow blizzard. It
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  Speaker 2: was our second week there, and the surroundings were astonishing.
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  Speaker 2: The house belonged to my girlfriend's grandparents before they passed,
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  Speaker 2: and ever since then, we'd always go up there for
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  Speaker 2: the winter. Now, the blizzard wasn't too strong, but the
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  Speaker 2: snowfall was coming down hard with about two feet of snow.
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  Speaker 2: We had just eaten lunch, and after that, I decided
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  Speaker 2: I'd go on a walk like I always do. I know,
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  Speaker 2: stupid to go out in a blizzard, but it was
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  Speaker 2: mild and didn't really pose a threat to us. The
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  Speaker 2: house was very close to a forest in the mountains,
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  Speaker 2: as this was a more rural part of the state.
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  Speaker 2: Going outside and enjoying the cold winter forest looked and
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: felt amazing. My girlfriend had even said she would make
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: us some hot cocoa while I was gone. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: forest I normally hike in has two separate paths, one
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  Speaker 2: that has a more rocky terrain and one that doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Playing it safe, I decided to take the trail with
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  Speaker 2: the least amount of treachery as I knew there was
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  Speaker 2: a risk of slipping due to the slushy ice. Without hesitation,
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  Speaker 2: I go through the more smoother trail and didn't think
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  Speaker 2: anything of it. I've been through both of these trails
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  Speaker 2: in the past, but I didn't feel like doing anything extreme. So,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: there I was, walking through the woods, listening to one
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  Speaker 2: of my playlists when my iPod died. Annoyed, I take
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  Speaker 2: out my phone and record a few videos of my
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  Speaker 2: hike to post on my Instagram story. Not that anyone cared,
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  Speaker 2: but I liked recording my experiences wherever I went. It
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: was up until this point that I had been hiking
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  Speaker 2: for about a half hour now and was debating on
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: whether to call it a day. However, there had been
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  Speaker 2: a small forest clearing just up ahead and decided I'd
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: take a look around. Upon entering the clearing, I immediately
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: noticed strange objects laid out in the snow. The strange
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: part was that they were neatly arranged in a sort
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: of pyramid-like structure. I move a few feet closer, and
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: it was then when I realized that these so-called objects
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: were bones of what seemed like a giant animal. Maybe cow,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: maybe a horse, or even buffalo. They were completely clean
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: and sun-bleached. This meant that someone out there had placed
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: these on purpose. What that purpose was, I have no idea.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I was just on this trail a few days before
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  Speaker 2: and had seen no bones. There were also a few
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: bones that were alike and had been neatly arranged in
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: a circle that laid in the snow. Suddenly, the snow
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: began to pick up as I stared down at the
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  Speaker 2: bones when I got the feeling that I wasn't supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be here. It was then, when I heard quite
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: a ways into the woods, a loud snap that echoed
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: across the trees. I take a quick photo of my
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: discovery and try my best to run back to the house.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: All the while, I'm taking big steps into the deep
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: blankets of snow, going as fast as I can. I
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: make it back to the house and show my girlfriend
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  Speaker 2: the picture I took. She began to freak out as well,
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  Speaker 2: and we both thought why someone would go through the
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: struggle to do this. I'm still not sure if it
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: was just some punk trying to scare people, or something
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: much worse. Either way, I haven't been back up there since,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: but my girlfriend's parents have. This time, the bones were gone.