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3 True Abandoned Places Horror Stories (With Rain Sounds) That Will Leave You Paranoid · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: Back then, I was in my early twenties and had
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  Speaker 1: a relatively small group of friends. It was mainly just me, Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: and David. Most of the time we spent together was
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  Speaker 1: just walking around in the nearby forest and talking, or
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  Speaker 1: going off and exploring random things. But one night Andrew
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  Speaker 1: came over to my place and told me about this
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  Speaker 1: creepy abandoned building one of his friends had told him about.
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  Speaker 1: He said it was off a trail in a woody
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  Speaker 1: area not too far from here. Of course, I asked
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  Speaker 1: him what the place was, to which Andrew replied that
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  Speaker 1: he didn't know, and his friend didn't even go near it.
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  Speaker 1: This actually got me pretty excited, and we both called
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  Speaker 1: up David to tell him about it as well, and
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  Speaker 1: he seemed pretty pumped about it too. It was already
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  Speaker 1: five o'clock, but the sun didn't set until seven, and
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  Speaker 1: the darkness would only make it more exciting anyways, So
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  Speaker 1: Andrew and I packed up some basic stuff like flashlights
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  Speaker 1: and some snacks, and then we headed over to David's
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  Speaker 1: apartment and picked him up. I parked the car next
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  Speaker 1: to a local grocery store that was just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of minutes walk from the edge of the woods. Supposedly
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  Speaker 1: there was a half mile trail that led to a
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  Speaker 1: small lookout, but if you continue past the end of
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  Speaker 1: the path for a few minutes, you'll find the abandoned building.
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  Speaker 1: Knowing this, we found the trailhead and continued down, passing
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  Speaker 1: several other people as they were heading back. Honestly, I
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  Speaker 1: started to lose the excitement a bit because I began
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  Speaker 1: feeling like this was just a prank. The trail seemed
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  Speaker 1: pretty populated, so how could we have not known about
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  Speaker 1: this place before? Anyway, we continued and eventually made it
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  Speaker 1: to the lookout. The sun was still partially up at
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  Speaker 1: this point, but the woods began to darken gradually every minute.
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  Speaker 1: We took a quick break at the lookout to get
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  Speaker 1: the flashlights out, then we continued past the area and
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  Speaker 1: into the trees. It wasn't until maybe fifteen minutes in
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  Speaker 1: that we all started to get annoyed. We'd been navigating
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  Speaker 1: between thick trees and bushes and the partial darkness for
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  Speaker 1: a while now and hadn't seen a single thing.
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  Speaker 2: You sure this isn't just some stupid joke.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew David passive aggressively asked.
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  Speaker 2: No, this guy was serious.
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  Speaker 1: Trust me, he responded, trying to assure us the best
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  Speaker 1: he could. Just a second later, we heard a bush
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  Speaker 1: nearby rustling around, and immediately we all flicked our flashlights
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  Speaker 1: towards the sound. It made me jump a bit, seeing
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  Speaker 1: the bush moving around as if an animal had jumped
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  Speaker 1: out of it or something. But right behind it, in
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  Speaker 1: the distance we could make out an old structure. That
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  Speaker 1: rush of excitement filled my body again, and we all
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  Speaker 1: made our way towards it. The building was very strange, though,
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  Speaker 1: in the way that it just didn't seem like it
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  Speaker 1: belonged alone in a forest. It looked like a small
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  Speaker 1: work building, maybe used to be a woodworking station or something.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. The old wooden front door was laying
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  Speaker 1: on the ground right in front of the structure, though,
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  Speaker 1: as we all made our way inside, immediately upon entering,
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  Speaker 1: the most awful and disgusting smell hit us. We glanced
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  Speaker 1: at each other, all clearly nervous, but even more curious.
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  Speaker 1: The first floor consisted of three rooms. The first was
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  Speaker 1: an open room with a large wooden table or work bench.
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  Speaker 1: There was a ton of trash lying around and really
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  Speaker 1: rusty tools that had been left behind. I followed David
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  Speaker 1: into the hallway that led to the other two rooms,
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  Speaker 1: both with closed doors. The smell was even more potent
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  Speaker 1: the closer we got to the door, so much so
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  Speaker 1: that Andrew backed away and put his shirt over his nose. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: we should just leave that smells unbearable, Andrew muttered to
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  Speaker 1: us as he moved his flashlight around. We both ignored him,
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  Speaker 1: though I did start getting a really bad feeling.
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  Speaker 2: I shined my.
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  Speaker 1: Flashlight over to the other door and took a few
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  Speaker 1: steps towards it, while David opened the other and stepped
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  Speaker 1: inside the room. Almost instantly, David screamed and quickly backed
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  Speaker 1: out of the room, making both me and Andrew jump.
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  Speaker 1: This was followed by multiple loud thuds echoing through the
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  Speaker 1: building from behind the third room's closed door. We sprinted
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  Speaker 1: out frantically, not stopping until we were completely out of breath.
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  Speaker 1: What the fuck just happened, Andrew said, in between his breaths. Guy,
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  Speaker 1: there was a body on the ground in that room.
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  Speaker 1: I swear to god, there was a body there. David
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  Speaker 1: was freaking out, looking all around. I could see in
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  Speaker 1: his eyes that he was seriously traumatized by what he'd
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  Speaker 1: just seen. I mentioned that we needed to keep moving
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  Speaker 1: and that I thought there was someone else in that
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  Speaker 1: third room hiding. We were able to make it out
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  Speaker 1: relatively quickly, basically just running in the direction that we
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  Speaker 1: knew led to the road. When we got back to
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  Speaker 1: the car, I drove us all down to the police
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  Speaker 1: station a couple blocks away, where we explained the encounter.
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  Speaker 1: The officer that took our account honestly looked ashamed of us,
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  Speaker 1: as if we were stupid for having even gone there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, sure, it may have been a dumb idea,
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  Speaker 1: but we also had just explained that we may have
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  Speaker 1: encountered a murder scene, and this cop was just giving
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  Speaker 1: us an annoyed attitude. Anyway, they sent a couple officers down.
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  Speaker 1: We actually stayed in our car outside the police station
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  Speaker 1: waiting to get an update for over two hours, until
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  Speaker 1: finally I got a call and we all went back
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  Speaker 1: inside to talk to a group of cops. They found
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  Speaker 1: spots of blood, as well as signs of someone having
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  Speaker 1: been there recently, but nobody. They did seem to take
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  Speaker 1: the situation more seriously now, though, and questioned all of
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  Speaker 1: us more thoroughly. Fast forward a couple weeks later, they
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  Speaker 1: found what was likely the body that David had seen
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  Speaker 1: poorly buried several hundred feet away from the abandoned building.
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  Speaker 1: I believe they determined that the person had been dead
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  Speaker 1: before being brought to the building, so I guess it
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  Speaker 1: was just where they hid the body before dumping it.
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  Speaker 1: As far as I'm aware, the case didn't end up
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  Speaker 1: going very far, and I don't know if they ever
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  Speaker 1: even found any real suspects. It was a crazy experience, though,
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  Speaker 1: and the fact that we were all so close to
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  Speaker 1: a possible murderer is still unnerving for me to think
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  Speaker 1: about today. I live in Detroit, Michigan. If you aren't
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  Speaker 1: already aware, Detroit has some of the largest amounts of
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  Speaker 1: abandoned buildings in the United States. I'm not sure why
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  Speaker 1: it is exactly. I've always grown up living in towns
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  Speaker 1: that were neighboring these old, worn down buildings, so I
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  Speaker 1: was used to it. A lot of people would hang
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  Speaker 1: out in them or explore them for fun. It was
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  Speaker 1: just a regular thing. When I was in middle school,
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  Speaker 1: I had a best friend who I'll call Philip. During
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  Speaker 1: our middle school years, both of us began to find
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  Speaker 1: interest in these abandoned buildings. Thinking about what had happened
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  Speaker 1: before they were abandoned, and what could still be inside
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  Speaker 1: of them. Obviously, we knew it was somewhat dangerous to
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  Speaker 1: go exploring them, but having just become teenagers, we felt
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  Speaker 1: like badasses for some reason, and so we kind of
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  Speaker 1: forced ourselves not to be scared of them. We knew
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  Speaker 1: gangs would sometimes hang out in the abandoned neighborhoods with
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  Speaker 1: all the buildings next to each other, so we did
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  Speaker 1: at least avoid those places. But there were a lot
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  Speaker 1: of other buildings nearby that were mostly isolated in the
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  Speaker 1: forested areas, so we began exploring those. Over the next
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  Speaker 1: few months, we had gone to maybe three or four.
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  Speaker 1: It would make each one our designated hangout spot for
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks before finding a new place. And that's
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  Speaker 1: when things got bad. Philip and I were traveling down
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  Speaker 1: an overgrown and cracked cement road that led to several
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  Speaker 1: abandoned homes that we'd already been to. We continued further
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  Speaker 1: down this time, however, in search of a new and
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  Speaker 1: interesting place. Most of the homes were just a short
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  Speaker 1: minutes walk between each other, but as we got further
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  Speaker 1: along the path, we noticed that we'd been walking for
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  Speaker 1: almost five minutes and hadn't seen another house. With this
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  Speaker 1: in mind, we continued, unsure of what to expect. The
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  Speaker 1: thing was, there was still a concrete path, so it
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  Speaker 1: had to lead to something eventually. Maybe another five minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: we reached the end of the concrete portion of the path. However,
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  Speaker 1: there was a faint gravel trail that continued. As far
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  Speaker 1: as we could see. It was just trees, but we
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  Speaker 1: were sure it had to lead somewhere, so we kept
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  Speaker 1: going forward. Only one or two minutes later we finally
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  Speaker 1: reached a house. It was odd looking, kind of like
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  Speaker 1: a townhouse, but a random townhouse this far out wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: make much sense. All of the windows were borded up
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  Speaker 1: up and the front door was closed, but the garage
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  Speaker 1: was cracked open, leaving a few feet of space at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom for us to crawl under. Philip banged on
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  Speaker 1: the metal garage door a few times to make sure
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  Speaker 1: it was gonna hold, then we both knelt under it.
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  Speaker 1: Inside the garage was pretty much nothing, a bit of
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  Speaker 1: garbage and dirt, but the door leading into the house
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  Speaker 1: was closed. I pressed up against it, turning the knob
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  Speaker 1: and pushing hard, but it wouldn't budge.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, can you give me a hand with us?
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  Speaker 1: Both of us pushed and we were able to get
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  Speaker 1: it open enough for us to squeeze through. The first
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  Speaker 1: thing we noticed was a huge dresser that was pressed
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  Speaker 1: up against the door. I gave Philip a confused look.
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  Speaker 1: Then we both climbed over it and made our way
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  Speaker 1: into the kitchen. From where we were standing, we could
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  Speaker 1: see down a hallway that led to some stairs going up,
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  Speaker 1: as well as what looked like the living room. Oddly, though,
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  Speaker 1: the place wasn't in very bad shape, not much trash
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  Speaker 1: inside and relatively clean. We could tell people had been
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  Speaker 1: there before, though, as there were a bunch of footprints
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  Speaker 1: on the dusty wooden floors. As we started walking through
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  Speaker 1: the hallway, a sudden, soft bank came from the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the house. It sounded as if something small
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  Speaker 1: had dropped on the floor. We exchanged glances and stood
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  Speaker 1: quietly in the hallway, listening for anything else. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know about Philip, but I was definitely getting pretty worried.
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  Speaker 1: The front door was just ahead of us, though, so
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  Speaker 1: after a few seconds of silence, I slowly started toward it.
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  Speaker 1: A little over halfway there, in ear piercing loud, metal
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  Speaker 1: scraping sound vibrated through the house, followed by an enormous
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  Speaker 1: crashing bank from the garage. I swung the front door
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  Speaker 1: open and we sprinted out of there. My heart was
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  Speaker 1: beating out of my chest, and I could feel my
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  Speaker 1: adrenaline rushing through me. As we got back on the path,
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  Speaker 1: I looked back, seeing the garage was fully closed. Now
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  Speaker 1: we pretty much ran all the way to Philip's house.
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  Speaker 1: Neither of us were sure what happened. Philip thought it
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  Speaker 1: was just the coincidence that the garage happened to have
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  Speaker 1: fallen while we were there, but I wasn't so sure.
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  Speaker 1: I believe someone may have set the place up as
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  Speaker 1: a trap, waiting for people to go in through the
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  Speaker 1: garage and then closing them in. Why else would the
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  Speaker 1: door have been blocked by a dresser while the non
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  Speaker 1: functional garage was dangling open. I don't know if they
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  Speaker 1: thought we were still in there and that's why they
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  Speaker 1: closed it, or maybe it was just to scare us,
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  Speaker 1: having already known we escaped. We never went back to
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  Speaker 1: find out, though, and we since decided to only explore
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  Speaker 1: the places that were nearby and not deep in forests.
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  Speaker 1: My best friend Jack and I always had our little
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  Speaker 1: places where we would hide from the rest of the world,
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  Speaker 1: whether it was a corner in the school yard or
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  Speaker 1: the skate park nearby. When we were tired of the
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  Speaker 1: grown ups around us or our siblings, we just took
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  Speaker 1: our comics and left.
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  Speaker 2: For a while.
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  Speaker 1: After a few years, we built a treehouse in Jack's
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  Speaker 1: backyard and spent a lot of time in there, But
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  Speaker 1: whenever his younger brother came up to join us and
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  Speaker 1: we were unable to kick him out because of their
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  Speaker 1: mother being around, we often left for the woods instead.
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  Speaker 1: With our books and flashlights. We stayed out all day,
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  Speaker 1: and over time the treehouse became more often occupied by
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  Speaker 1: Jack's brother and his friends. His mother said we were
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  Speaker 1: getting too old for it anyways, which we fullheartily disagreed on. Still,
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  Speaker 1: we were forced to find a new hideout, so one
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  Speaker 1: day we grabbed our stuff and went into the woods again,
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  Speaker 1: going farther than we'd ever been before. We tried to
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  Speaker 1: build a new shelter, but it didn't even get near
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  Speaker 1: to the greatness of the tree house, and we got
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  Speaker 1: home disappointed. My mother sent us into the woods again
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  Speaker 1: the next day to walk our dogs Sammy, and we
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  Speaker 1: went even farther than before, determined to give the search
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  Speaker 1: a second try. Sammy, however, wasn't very keen on sniffing
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  Speaker 1: out the best possible places, and he never even waited
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  Speaker 1: for us while we judged a certain spot on its potential.
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  Speaker 1: One time, even when he dashed off again, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: come back. Jack was the one who noticed, and after
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  Speaker 1: thirty minutes of calling, searching, and whistling, I called my
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  Speaker 1: mom in a panic. She quickly dispelled my worries and
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  Speaker 1: assured me that I would probably find him soon. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the first time he'd done that, and every time
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  Speaker 1: he'd come running back. So Jack and I walked on.
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  Speaker 1: Even when twilight began to fall. We put on our flashlights,
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  Speaker 1: and Jack suddenly signaled for me to stop. He said
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  Speaker 1: he heard barking, and standing in silence, I heard it too.
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  Speaker 1: We hastened to where it came from and found Sammy
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  Speaker 1: in front of a small stone building, barking at seemingly nothing.
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  Speaker 2: What you got there, bud, We've been looking all over
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  Speaker 2: for you.
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  Speaker 1: I got the leash and Sammy began growling at something.
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  Speaker 1: I connected the leash back to Sammy's collar and we
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  Speaker 1: both started heading out. We took one last look at
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  Speaker 1: the building, though, agreeing that Sammy had helped us find
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  Speaker 1: a hideout after all, and we came back the next day.
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  Speaker 1: It was already twilight by then. Having finished our school
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  Speaker 1: work and dinner first, we left Sammy home and only
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  Speaker 1: took our flashlights, phones and batteries with us, ready for
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  Speaker 1: the dark. The stone building turned out to be an
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  Speaker 1: almost square, singular structure with a creaking metal door as
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  Speaker 1: well as a corrugated iron roof and no windows. There
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  Speaker 1: was nothing inside, and the floor was made of the
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  Speaker 1: same cold stone. We took the next day to bring
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  Speaker 1: over some old blankets and cushions, and even a lamp
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  Speaker 1: that worked on batteries. The tree house was all forgotten,
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  Speaker 1: and we spent the last semi summer days with the
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  Speaker 1: metal door open while we sat reading in the little building.
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  Speaker 1: We closed it when fall came along. It didn't really
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  Speaker 1: bother us. It was dark outside now too, so it
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  Speaker 1: didn't really matter. Our interior had gotten some updates as well.
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  Speaker 1: We hung a garland with little lights above our heads
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  Speaker 1: and put posters on the walls. This hideout, so we thought,
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  Speaker 1: was going to last forever. We went there every day
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  Speaker 1: by default, even when it rained, especially when it rained. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: the sound of the drops on the iron room had
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  Speaker 1: to be the best thing to exist, ticking calmly in
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  Speaker 1: the background while we both listened to our own music
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  Speaker 1: with headphones. On one day, we were listening to the
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  Speaker 1: same music on my phone, lying lazily on the cushions
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  Speaker 1: with our schoolwork untouched in the corner. It rained pretty heavily,
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  Speaker 1: the winds howling around the building. After a while, my
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  Speaker 1: phone died and we had no more music to listen to.
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  Speaker 1: Jack hummed a little instead, prepared to do anything to
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  Speaker 1: avoid his homework. He flinched when the door creaked suddenly
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  Speaker 1: and his humming stopped. We stared at the entrance before
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  Speaker 1: looking at each other. I shrugged it off, and as
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  Speaker 1: I reached for my notebook, footsteps were heard around the
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  Speaker 1: back of the building. I remember both of us being
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  Speaker 1: pretty shaken. I was just hoping it was someone harmlessly
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  Speaker 1: exploring the woods or something, but it was pouring outside
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  Speaker 1: and we were fairly deep in the forest. Jack, I
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  Speaker 1: think we should leave, But before he could answer, we
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  Speaker 1: heard running footsteps going around the building, followed by the
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  Speaker 1: door slamming open. Wind and rain violently blew into the room.
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  Speaker 1: Jack screamed and I was just as shaken as he was.
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  Speaker 1: Both unable to move, We watched into the darkness of
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  Speaker 1: the woods until we realized that no one was there,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: at least not anymore. Eventually, I found the strength to
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  Speaker 1: stand up and close the door. We agreed to leave
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  Speaker 1: soon after, and when we came home soaking wet, we
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  Speaker 1: decided not to visit the hideout during the dark again
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  Speaker 1: because we didn't know who had opened the door and
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  Speaker 1: we didn't want to stay another night to find out.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, we still don't