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3 True Scary Christmas Horror Stories | Vol. 2 That Will Ruin Your Holiday Spirit · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: This happened in twenty fifteen. I had just moved to
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  Speaker 1: a small house far from my hometown the year before,
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  Speaker 1: so I was still getting used to the area and
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  Speaker 1: hadn't met many people yet. I worked from home as well,
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  Speaker 1: which made it even harder anyway, for Christmas, I had
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  Speaker 1: no plans at all. My family was too far and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have enough vacation time to go out and
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  Speaker 1: see them, so this was actually going to be my
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  Speaker 1: first Christmas alone. On Christmas Eve, I stayed up working,
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  Speaker 1: figuring i'd just get ahead on some things so I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have to worry about doing anything. On Christmas Day,
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  Speaker 1: I was working in the living room listening to music
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  Speaker 1: as well, when through it I heard something coming from outside.
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  Speaker 1: I pulled out one of the earbuds and listened, but
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear anything else, so I got up and looked
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  Speaker 1: around with my earbuds in. It was hard to know
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  Speaker 1: what direction it came from, but I was pretty sure
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  Speaker 1: it was outside the house, not inside. I looked out
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  Speaker 1: the back window, not seeing anything, then moved to the
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  Speaker 1: front window and again saw nothing. But then I looked
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  Speaker 1: out the front door on the porch, where a set
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  Speaker 1: of shoe prints in the snow. They led right up
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  Speaker 1: to my doorstep and then back out to the driveway.
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  Speaker 1: There was no mail dropped off or anything at all
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  Speaker 1: on the porch, just the shoe prints. It was really
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  Speaker 1: strange and made me feel a little anxious, not knowing
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  Speaker 1: why anyone would be walking up to my doorstep. At
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  Speaker 1: eleven pm on Christmas Eve, I made sure the door
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  Speaker 1: was locked and went back to work, then got in
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  Speaker 1: bed soon after. It was a bit strange waking up
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  Speaker 1: on Christmas morning feeling like it was any other day.
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  Speaker 1: I brewed a cup of coffee and sat on my
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  Speaker 1: chair to watch TV. I think I spent the whole
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  Speaker 1: morning just sitting there and watching shows and movies. I
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  Speaker 1: gave my parents a call and talked to them for
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  Speaker 1: a bit, but that was really about all I did.
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  Speaker 1: I thought about going out, but it was really cold
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  Speaker 1: and the wind was really strong, so I just stayed
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  Speaker 1: in for the day. By six pm, I had basically
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  Speaker 1: done nothing all day and made some dinner, planning on
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  Speaker 1: going to bed early, but then I heard something outside.
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  Speaker 1: It was the shuffling sound of footsteps in the snow
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  Speaker 1: coming toward the front door. I stayed quiet, knowing nobody
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  Speaker 1: should be here. After a few seconds, the footsteps sounded
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  Speaker 1: again walking away from the house. I went up and checked,
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  Speaker 1: seeing almost an identical scene to what I saw the
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  Speaker 1: previous night. After that, I forced myself to stay up. Later.
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  Speaker 1: I kept my eyes open until probably around ten before
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  Speaker 1: or I guess I fell asleep on the couch. I
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  Speaker 1: remember getting really tired and trying to stay up, but
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  Speaker 1: I didn't plan on falling asleep out there. When I
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  Speaker 1: woke up, the TV was still on and flashing light
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  Speaker 1: throughout the dark room. I sat up and paused it,
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  Speaker 1: then got up to go to my bedroom. As I
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  Speaker 1: walked down the hallway, though, my eyes instantly locked on
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  Speaker 1: my bedroom door. It was open, but I knew I
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  Speaker 1: always kept it closed. I walked over and pushed it
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  Speaker 1: open wider, then flicked on the light. Wet shoeprints were
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  Speaker 1: scattered around the floor going to and from the window.
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  Speaker 1: In a complete state of shock, I spun around and
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  Speaker 1: turned on the hallway light, now seeing more shoe prints
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  Speaker 1: going down toward the living room. I followed them, but
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  Speaker 1: they stopped right outside the living room, looking like they
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  Speaker 1: turned and went back right after seeing me on the couch.
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  Speaker 1: The shoe prints were nowhere else in the house. Police
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  Speaker 1: did what they could, but if I'm being honest, they
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  Speaker 1: weren't of much help. The current theory is that the
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  Speaker 1: man had come by the previous two nights to see
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  Speaker 1: if I was home after not answering the door, though
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  Speaker 1: he likely thought I was away for the holidays. I
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  Speaker 1: know it's likely that he only broke into my house
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  Speaker 1: to rob me, but still it's extremely disturbing, especially since
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  Speaker 1: I was at home sleeping when it all happened. Whoever
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  Speaker 1: it was, though they never came back. Last December, I
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  Speaker 1: traveled across the country to meet my parents and siblings
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  Speaker 1: for Christmas. My parents had a decent sized house, so
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  Speaker 1: we would usually just all stay there and sleep on
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  Speaker 1: the couch or in the spare bedrooms. That being said,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't rent any hotels, even for the drive. It
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  Speaker 1: was ten hours long, but I just didn't see a
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  Speaker 1: need in stopping halfway there and wasting a whole night.
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  Speaker 1: I left early on the twenty third, planning it out
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  Speaker 1: to get to the house around dinner time. As I
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  Speaker 1: started the drive, snow was lightly coming down, nothing crazy,
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  Speaker 1: but enough to cause a bit of traffic. This went
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  Speaker 1: on for a few hours until it suddenly started pouring down.
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  Speaker 1: It happened over just thirty minutes, going from a very
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  Speaker 1: light downfall to an extremely heavy storm. Along with the winds,
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  Speaker 1: it was nearly impossible to see anything in front of me.
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  Speaker 1: Most other cars started to pull off to the side
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  Speaker 1: of the road, but I really wanted to keep going.
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  Speaker 1: I drove in these horrible conditions for the better part
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  Speaker 1: of an hour, having a few close calls, before deciding
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  Speaker 1: enough was enough. I pulled into a motel and sat
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  Speaker 1: in the parking lot waiting for the snow to clear up.
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  Speaker 1: There were a lot of other cars in the parking lot,
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  Speaker 1: but I think most were probably trying to wait it
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  Speaker 1: out like I was. But as the sun started to set,
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  Speaker 1: there was no chance of that happening anytime soon. I
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  Speaker 1: reluctantly went in and got a room. I went to
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  Speaker 1: my room and lay down on the bed. It was
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  Speaker 1: around eight o'clock at this point, and I'd figured I'd
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  Speaker 1: just sleep now and see if it was clear in
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  Speaker 1: a few hours. I set an alarm on my phone
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  Speaker 1: for eleven then passed out. But when I woke up,
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  Speaker 1: I immediately knew something was wrong. I turned and looked
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  Speaker 1: at my phone. Seeing it was just before two AM,
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  Speaker 1: my alarm didn't go off. Quickly got out of bed
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  Speaker 1: and ran up to the window. The parking lot was
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  Speaker 1: almost empty now, but it was still snowing pretty bad.
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  Speaker 1: I sat back on the bed, and after some thinking,
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  Speaker 1: I decided to take the loss and just spend the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the night there and hope for the best
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. I laid down, closing my eyes. But
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  Speaker 1: now that I was more calm, something caught my attention,
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  Speaker 1: a cold breeze blowing through the room and the clear
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  Speaker 1: sound of wind. I sat up, seeing the window at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the bed was cracked open. I got
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  Speaker 1: up and shut it, but I was almost positive it
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  Speaker 1: was closed when I went to bed. It's something I
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  Speaker 1: definitely would have noticed, being that there was a whole
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  Speaker 1: storm outside. A rush of adrenaline went through me as
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  Speaker 1: I started to worry. I faced the rest of the room,
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  Speaker 1: now looking into the dark and standing still, listening for anything.
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  Speaker 1: Then I slowly walked around, checking for anything missing or
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  Speaker 1: any signs that someone had been inside. I didn't see
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  Speaker 1: or find anything until I went to check out the peopole.
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  Speaker 1: That's when I noticed that both locks on the door
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  Speaker 1: were now open. Someone had unlocked it from the inside.
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  Speaker 1: Blood rushed from my face as I locked the door
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  Speaker 1: and backed away, thinking through every possible horrifying scenario that
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  Speaker 1: I could be caught in right now. I started putting
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  Speaker 1: my things back into my bag and getting ready to leave,
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  Speaker 1: But then there was a sudden shake of the door handle.
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  Speaker 1: I stared at it with wide eyes, seeing the handle
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  Speaker 1: move back and forth like they were trying to force
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  Speaker 1: it open. Then it went silent. I waited for a
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  Speaker 1: long couple minutes before I slowly and quietly crept toward
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  Speaker 1: the door to check if it was safe to make
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  Speaker 1: a run for my car. I looked out the peep hole,
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  Speaker 1: seeing a man leaning against a door like he was listening.
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  Speaker 1: I was frozen, but he must have heard something, because
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  Speaker 1: only a few seconds later he rushed away from the door.
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  Speaker 1: I spent no time waiting, leaving the room soon after
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  Speaker 1: and getting in my car, pulling out and leaving the motel.
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  Speaker 1: I got lucky as nobody else was on the roads
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  Speaker 1: and they seemed to have just been plowed. I drove
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  Speaker 1: through the storm until I got to my parents' house,
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  Speaker 1: taking much longer than it should have. What that man
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  Speaker 1: was trying to do. I can't even begin to think of.
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  Speaker 1: They had obviously been in the room while I was
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  Speaker 1: sleeping and unlocked the door, but what they wanted and
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  Speaker 1: why they had to come back to my room, I
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  Speaker 1: just don't know. But if I hadn't woken up when
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  Speaker 1: I did and stayed asleep for just a minute longer,
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  Speaker 1: I might have never made it to my parents' house.
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  Speaker 1: Two years ago, I spent Christmas with my roommate. We
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  Speaker 1: were both in college and were splitting rent on a
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  Speaker 1: small home in the suburbs outside of the campus. Neither
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  Speaker 1: of our families apparently were really big on Christmas, and
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  Speaker 1: we were also kind of broke, so we stayed home
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  Speaker 1: for winter break. We still did a bit of decorating,
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  Speaker 1: and I'd gotten each other some cheap little gifts so
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  Speaker 1: we could have our own small Christmas, but other than that,
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  Speaker 1: we mostly planned on watching movies and maybe going to
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  Speaker 1: a party at night. On Christmas Day, we opened up
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  Speaker 1: our gifts and hung out and around. My roommate wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go to a party by the campus. I'd planned
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  Speaker 1: on going too, but for some reason, I was just
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  Speaker 1: tired and not really in the mood to go out.
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  Speaker 1: I encouraged him to go if he wanted to, and
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  Speaker 1: he took up on the offer. Heading out by six,
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  Speaker 1: I sat back and ate some junk food, watching TV,
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  Speaker 1: and just relaxing, I guess. But then around eight I
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  Speaker 1: just felt like getting up and doing something. With no
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  Speaker 1: places open, I grabbed my jacket and decided to go
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  Speaker 1: for a walk around to look at the houses with
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  Speaker 1: Christmas lights. It was cold out, but not insanely freezing.
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  Speaker 1: I walked around the neighborhood and through one of the
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  Speaker 1: nearby parks. But while I was walking through a portion
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  Speaker 1: of the path, I passed by a man sitting on
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  Speaker 1: a bench. Now, this part of the path was covered
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  Speaker 1: in trees and not by any houses, and the man
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  Speaker 1: was just sitting there alone. It was actually kind of sad,
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  Speaker 1: But when I passed by, he looked up at me
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  Speaker 1: and just gave me this really cold look. It was
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  Speaker 1: very strange and made me even more curious why he
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  Speaker 1: was out here. I walked quicker, reaching the end of
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  Speaker 1: the path and turning back to go home. The rest
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  Speaker 1: of the walk, all I was thinking about was the
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  Speaker 1: man and what he was up to. Something about his
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  Speaker 1: look just gave me a bad feeling. I got to
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  Speaker 1: the house and opened the front door, closing it behind
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  Speaker 1: me and taking my shoes off. But before I even
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  Speaker 1: started walking away, I heard a thump right outside the door.
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  Speaker 1: It startled me, having come so quickly after I'd gotten inside.
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  Speaker 1: I leaned over and looked through the peep hole. It
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  Speaker 1: was the man from the path, standing on the porch
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  Speaker 1: and staring at the door. His face was completely blank,
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  Speaker 1: no smile or frown, just empty. I cracked open the door.
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  Speaker 1: Are you okay? The man looked at me with his
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  Speaker 1: emotionless eyes and didn't say a word. I asked again
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  Speaker 1: if he was okay or if he needed anything, but
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  Speaker 1: he didn't speak. Getting weirded out, I closed the door
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  Speaker 1: and went back to looking out the peep hole. The
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  Speaker 1: man stayed there for at least a whole minute, then
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  Speaker 1: walked off to the side of the door until he
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  Speaker 1: was out of my view. I looked over, seeing the
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  Speaker 1: window curtains were open, giving the man a view into
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  Speaker 1: my house. For some reason, now I didn't want the
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  Speaker 1: man to see me, so I was afraid to go
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  Speaker 1: close the curtains. All he could probably view though, was
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas tree and the couch, but it was still
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  Speaker 1: really unnerving knowing he was looking into my home. As
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  Speaker 1: I stood in place trying to think of what to
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  Speaker 1: do next, a dull thud came from outside the window.
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  Speaker 1: I quickly stepped back and looked, seeing the man slam
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  Speaker 1: a large rock against the glass. His eyes were still
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  Speaker 1: glazed over with no emotion, making it look even more terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: I ran and locked myself in a room while I
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  Speaker 1: dialed nine one one, hearing the man continue to repeatedly
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  Speaker 1: hit the window. After a few hits, there was a pause,
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  Speaker 1: then it began again, but it sounded like he may
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  Speaker 1: have moved to hitting the front door. This went on
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  Speaker 1: for what felt like several minutes before finally it went quiet.
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  Speaker 1: When police pulled in, the man was nowhere around outside,
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  Speaker 1: though there were multiple cracks in the window and the
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  Speaker 1: door had entire chunks of woods smashed out and laying
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. The police seemed to think that it
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  Speaker 1: was just an entire oxicated person based on the information
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  Speaker 1: I told them, and he likely had no real reason
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  Speaker 1: to target me specifically. Whatever the case, the way he
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  Speaker 1: was acting was just insane, and if he had gotten in,
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  Speaker 1: there's no saying what he would have done.