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3 Creepy True Airbnb Horror Stories for a Night Alone That Will Make You Reconsider Your Booking · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: Four years ago, I rented an airbnb to stay in
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  Speaker 1: for the holidays. I was seeing my family for the
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  Speaker 1: week of Christmas, so I got a place that was
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  Speaker 1: just a few miles away. When I arrived on December twentieth,
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  Speaker 1: everything was exactly as I thought it was. The place
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  Speaker 1: was a very regular house in a very normal neighborhood. Overall,
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  Speaker 1: I was satisfied. I'd gotten there around six o'clock on
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  Speaker 1: that first day, though, and I didn't feel like going
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  Speaker 1: out to see anyone until I'd gotten a good night's rest,
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  Speaker 1: so I stayed in and relaxed for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the night, watching some TV and even getting a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of work done as well. I got in bed
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  Speaker 1: just before ten and fell asleep, but in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the night, I slowly woke to a noise coming
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  Speaker 1: from downstairs. I was still half asleep and didn't even
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  Speaker 1: check the time, but it sounded like a few small
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  Speaker 1: thumps against the wall coming from somewhere in the house.
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  Speaker 1: As I listened to the noises, I didn't really feel
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  Speaker 1: worried or anything, but rather just thought that it was
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  Speaker 1: the house making these sounds. I only stayed awake for
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  Speaker 1: a minute before drifting into sleep again, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: recall waking up any other times during the night. By morning,
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  Speaker 1: I had forgotten and didn't even think about those noises
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  Speaker 1: I was hearing again. I was pretty sure it was
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  Speaker 1: just the ac unit or something. Anyway, I let my
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  Speaker 1: family know i'd made it into town and we got
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  Speaker 1: our plans set for dinner at their place. I relaxed
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  Speaker 1: at the airbnb for the whole morning and afternoon until
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  Speaker 1: I was ready to head out. I grabbed my bag
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  Speaker 1: in keys, then walked up to the front door to
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  Speaker 1: exit the house. But when I opened it, I was
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  Speaker 1: face to face with a man standing right in front
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  Speaker 1: of me on the porch. It completely caught me off guard,
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  Speaker 1: and I just stood there looking at him for a
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  Speaker 1: second before even saying anything. Can I help you? I asked.
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  Speaker 1: The man didn't knock or ring the doorbell, which made
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  Speaker 1: me start thinking of how long he could have been
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  Speaker 1: standing there for and just why he was here to
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  Speaker 1: begin with. He didn't respond to my question, though, and
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  Speaker 1: instead just nodded then walked away. I watched him go
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  Speaker 1: down to the sidewalk and just continue walking down the
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  Speaker 1: street until he was gone. I can't see any situation
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  Speaker 1: where this wouldn't be strange and creepy. Why was he
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  Speaker 1: at the Airbnb? And for how long was he standing
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  Speaker 1: there without knocking? I made sure the place was locked up,
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  Speaker 1: then drove to my parents' house for dinner with the family.
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  Speaker 1: I brought up the situation as an interesting story, and
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  Speaker 1: everyone else seemed to think it was just as creepy
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  Speaker 1: as I thought. Dinner was still nice, and we had
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  Speaker 1: plenty of great conversations, catching up on life and everything.
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  Speaker 1: But that whole night I couldn't stop thinking about that
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  Speaker 1: man and if my things I'd left at the Airbnb
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  Speaker 1: were going to be stolen or something. I ended up
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  Speaker 1: leaving the dinner get together around nine and getting back
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  Speaker 1: to the Airbnb fifteen minutes later. I parked in the
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  Speaker 1: driveway and walked up to the front door, looking around
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  Speaker 1: for any obvious signs of someone having been there while
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  Speaker 1: I was gone, but I didn't see anything. I unlocked
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  Speaker 1: the door and stepped in. I walked down to the
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  Speaker 1: end of the hallway and into the kitchen, dropping my
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  Speaker 1: keys and bag on the counter. But then there was
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  Speaker 1: a sudden thump. It was just the same as the
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  Speaker 1: ones I'd heard the previous night, but now that I
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  Speaker 1: was downstairs. It was far louder and clearly coming from
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  Speaker 1: one side of the house. I slowly stepped into the
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  Speaker 1: room near where the sound was coming from, but then
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  Speaker 1: the thump came again from from a door right next
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  Speaker 1: to me. I jumped back, getting a surge of adrenaline,
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  Speaker 1: and then, after staring at the door for a few seconds,
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  Speaker 1: I could hear the faint sound of heavy breathing from
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  Speaker 1: the other side. I grabbed my keys and ran for
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  Speaker 1: my car. I still didn't know exactly what was going on,
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  Speaker 1: but I was not going to stay to find out
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  Speaker 1: on my own. I called nine one one and waited
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  Speaker 1: for them to arrive. When they did, I watched them
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  Speaker 1: go in and search for a few minutes. Then they
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  Speaker 1: came out and told me something horrifying. The door the
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  Speaker 1: person was behind was the garage door, which showed signs
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  Speaker 1: of distress from the person, likely trying to break the
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  Speaker 1: lock and get inside. Unknown to me, there was a
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  Speaker 1: side door connected to the garage that led outside, which
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  Speaker 1: had been left unlocked by whoever had stayed here before me.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't ever plan to use the garage, so I
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  Speaker 1: never checked it. Whether the man i'd seen on the
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  Speaker 1: porch was the same person that was in the garage
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  Speaker 1: is unknown, but just knowing that I was asleep while
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  Speaker 1: someone was right below me trying to break into the
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  Speaker 1: house is terrifying. What they were trying to achieve after
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  Speaker 1: breaking in, we have no way of knowing, obviously. After that, though,
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  Speaker 1: I went and stayed at a hotel for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the week, but I still find myself thinking about
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  Speaker 1: that situation even four years later. A few weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: I went on a trip where I'd rented out an
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  Speaker 1: Airbnb townhouse. I was staying in a small town that
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  Speaker 1: was near some trails I wanted to hike. I'd never
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  Speaker 1: been there before or really had any idea of the
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  Speaker 1: place I was staying. I just knew it was a
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  Speaker 1: relatively small town that was in a convenient area for me.
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  Speaker 1: The drive took nine hours total, so by the time
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  Speaker 1: I got to the airbnb it was getting late. It
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  Speaker 1: was on a street that had multiple other townhouses on it,
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  Speaker 1: but once I found it, I parked on the road
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  Speaker 1: and got my things up to the door. The place
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  Speaker 1: looked decent on the outside, definitely not very new or anything,
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  Speaker 1: but nothing that I wasn't already expecting. I texted the
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  Speaker 1: owner to let them know i'd made it, since I
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  Speaker 1: didn't see a pass code to the door anywhere in
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  Speaker 1: my emails. I waited for a couple minutes, just standing
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  Speaker 1: there and looking out at the street. Then I heard
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  Speaker 1: a door open nearby and a man walked around the
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  Speaker 1: corner with a smile on his face. He greeted me
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  Speaker 1: as the airbnb host, then let me into the place
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  Speaker 1: and said he'd be right next door if I needed anything.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting that, but he least left quickly and
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  Speaker 1: didn't make anything too weird. I set up my things
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  Speaker 1: in the bedroom and had a look around the house,
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  Speaker 1: and I went to bed soon after the Next day,
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  Speaker 1: I ate a quick breakfast, then drove out to a
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  Speaker 1: trail and hiked it for a good four hours. I
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  Speaker 1: got back to the townhouse at seven, but when I
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  Speaker 1: entered something felt different. Some of the things in my
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  Speaker 1: room were off, like they'd been moved slightly. Nothing that
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  Speaker 1: I know of was missing, but I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: just had a feeling it had been tampered with. Aside
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  Speaker 1: from my unevidenced suspicions, though there really weren't any other
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  Speaker 1: things to actually prove someone had been inside while I
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  Speaker 1: was gone. After looking around for thirty minutes, I was
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  Speaker 1: more sure that this was me just being nervous about
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  Speaker 1: staying in an unfamiliar area. I forgot about it and
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  Speaker 1: heated up a frozen meal, then ate dinner on the
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  Speaker 1: caw ouch while watching YouTube on my phone. At eleven PM,
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  Speaker 1: I went to bed. This was a single story townhouse,
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  Speaker 1: so the bedroom was at the end of the main hallway,
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  Speaker 1: opposite of the front door. I was always used to
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  Speaker 1: sleeping upstairs, so it was a little hard to get
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  Speaker 1: comfortable As I laid in bed and tried to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: I kept falling asleep for a few minutes, then waking
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  Speaker 1: up and repeating this process. But then, maybe an hour
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  Speaker 1: into the night, I was laying there awake, waiting to
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  Speaker 1: go back to sleep, when I heard something from outside
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  Speaker 1: the room, a door softly creaking open from across the house.
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  Speaker 1: It sounded intentional, like they were trying to open it
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  Speaker 1: as quietly as possible. I sat up in my bed
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  Speaker 1: and looked at the door as I listened, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear anything else. After a minute, I got and
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  Speaker 1: went to the bedroom door, cracking it open just enough
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  Speaker 1: to see through down the hallway. I could see the
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  Speaker 1: dim glow of the porch light lighting up the area
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  Speaker 1: where the front door was, indicating that the front door
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  Speaker 1: was partially open. I carefully and quietly closed my door
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  Speaker 1: and locked it, then moved to the back of the
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  Speaker 1: room and quietly called the police. In the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the phone call, I heard a creak right outside the
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  Speaker 1: bedroom door, and when I looked at the bottom, I
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  Speaker 1: could see the outline shadow of someone standing there. I
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  Speaker 1: immediately stopped talking, waiting for them to walk away, before
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  Speaker 1: continuing to report to the operator. Thankfully, nothing else seemed
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  Speaker 1: to happen as I waited for the officer to get there.
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  Speaker 1: They were gone by then, but everything showed that someone
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  Speaker 1: had been inside, including shoe prints all over the place,
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  Speaker 1: so there was no doubt even to the cops. But
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  Speaker 1: while I for some reason had my mind set on
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  Speaker 1: it being the airbnb host, they didn't find anything to
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  Speaker 1: support that other than the front door being open without
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  Speaker 1: any struggle. There's also not much to say on whether
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  Speaker 1: they had been inside the house while I was gone
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  Speaker 1: during the day. With nothing missing though, and them coming
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  Speaker 1: back only once I was there, I think their intentions
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  Speaker 1: had to do with me. It still haunts my thoughts
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  Speaker 1: wondering what could have happened and if they are out
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  Speaker 1: there still trying. Last New Year's me and my two
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  Speaker 1: best friends decided it would be fun to get together
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  Speaker 1: and rent out a house for the night. We weren't
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  Speaker 1: big on going to huge parties, but just enjoyed hanging
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  Speaker 1: out among our small group. Also, all of us lived
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  Speaker 1: in dorm rooms, so having a house to ourselves for
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  Speaker 1: once sounded like a great time, even without partying. My
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  Speaker 1: friend Jason rented out in airbnb on the outskirts of
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  Speaker 1: the town we were in. I carpooled with my other friend, Christian,
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  Speaker 1: and we met Jason there on New Year's Eve around noon.
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  Speaker 1: This place was more of a cabin than a normal house,
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  Speaker 1: being all wood and having the typical cabin features. There
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  Speaker 1: were other similar looking cabin houses around, but they all
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  Speaker 1: had a decent spacing between them, so it kind of
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  Speaker 1: felt like we were out there alone. The inside wasn't
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  Speaker 1: as great, but this was one of the cheaper places available,
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  Speaker 1: so none of us were expecting luxury. We spent the
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  Speaker 1: day just hanging out in the living room and talking,
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  Speaker 1: and around six Christian went out to the store to
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  Speaker 1: grab some snacks and drinks. During this time, Jason and
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  Speaker 1: I were still sitting in the living room when there
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  Speaker 1: was a knock at the door. We looked at each
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  Speaker 1: other in surprise, knowing it was really weird for anyone
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  Speaker 1: to be out here and knocking on the door to
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  Speaker 1: an Airbnb. I got up and looked out the people.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing some guy standing on the doorstep, I noticed the
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  Speaker 1: door had one of those metal latches on it, so
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  Speaker 1: I flipped it over and opened the door just enough
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  Speaker 1: to see them. I wouldn't usually enter the door to
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  Speaker 1: a random guy, but being in someone else's house, I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't sure if maybe it was the host or something.
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  Speaker 1: The guy looked at me, and I was instantly aware
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  Speaker 1: of his displeased look. He seemed angry about something, and
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  Speaker 1: it became more blunt when he opened his mouth. He
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  Speaker 1: told me, in a disrespectful and stubborn tone, that we
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  Speaker 1: needed to be quiet tonight and not disturb the entire neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: The way he said it was almost threatening, and as
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  Speaker 1: if we'd already been making noise. But we hadn't even
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  Speaker 1: done anything loud, nor were we planning to, and all
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  Speaker 1: the houses were so far apart. Even if he was
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  Speaker 1: a neighbor. There's no possible way he'd hear anything unless
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  Speaker 1: we were lighting up fireworks or something. I really wasn't
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  Speaker 1: in the mood to argue, so I just said sure
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  Speaker 1: and closed the door in his face. But not even
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  Speaker 1: a second later, he banged on the door again. I ignored him,
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  Speaker 1: that time, making a face at Jason like this guy
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  Speaker 1: was crazy. We heard him leave after a moment, and
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  Speaker 1: when Christian got back, we told him about the encounter,
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  Speaker 1: and he almost didn't even believe us. The next three
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  Speaker 1: hours went by quick as we watched a movie and
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  Speaker 1: played some games on Jason's switch. Then, come almost midnight,
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  Speaker 1: we heard something outside. It sounded like someone dropping something
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  Speaker 1: on the ground, and a few seconds later, the piercing
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  Speaker 1: sound of glass shattering came from right outside the door.
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  Speaker 1: All of us stood up and ran to look out
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  Speaker 1: the window, seeing that same guy from earlier standing by
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  Speaker 1: Christian's car, which now had glass covering it from his
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  Speaker 1: shattered windshield. The guy was holding a metal baseball bat
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  Speaker 1: and looked like he was in some psychotic state, pacing
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  Speaker 1: around and just going crazy. Christian was pissed, going to
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  Speaker 1: the door and storming outside to confront him. Both Jason
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  Speaker 1: and I went to stop him, but before we even
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  Speaker 1: got to the doorway, a gunshot echoed through the cabin.
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  Speaker 1: I stopped in place, knowing what had likely happened, but
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  Speaker 1: it almost felt like a miracle when I saw Christian
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  Speaker 1: sprint back inside and lock the door behind him. A
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  Speaker 1: few more shots went off, hitting the side of the cabin,
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  Speaker 1: and followed by the man swinging the bat against the
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  Speaker 1: front door. Then, just as suddenly as it all started,
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  Speaker 1: the man just ran away. After an investigation, it was
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  Speaker 1: found that he wasn't even one of the neighbors of
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  Speaker 1: the airbnb. Nobody seems to know who he was, or
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  Speaker 1: where he lived, or even why he went absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 1: It was just an incredibly dangerous, unpredictable encounter that almost
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  Speaker 1: took our lives.