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3 True Abandoned Places at Night Horror Stories That Will Keep You Paranoid · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: I live in a mountainous enforested region on the border
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  Speaker 1: of Canada and the US. I pretty frequently go for
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  Speaker 1: hikes and sometimes even camp a night or two, and
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  Speaker 1: usually I go in with no real plan in mind.
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  Speaker 1: I'll search up an uncommon trail and just see where
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  Speaker 1: it takes me. I think it's the thrill of not
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  Speaker 1: knowing what I'll see that makes it so enjoyable. In
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  Speaker 1: case of emergencies, though, I always go prepared with multiple
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  Speaker 1: methods of navigation, because you just never know. Anyway. I
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  Speaker 1: was out on a hike in early summer this year.
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  Speaker 1: It was, just as I said, some random trail in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the forest near my cabin. I'd never
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  Speaker 1: been on it before, but I'd initially found it intersecting
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  Speaker 1: a trail that I was on several weeks prior. This
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  Speaker 1: one was very faint, just as most of them were
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  Speaker 1: out here, but this one often had me wondering if
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  Speaker 1: it was even a trail at all, or if I
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  Speaker 1: was just imagining a path didn't actually exist. About two
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  Speaker 1: hours in, though, I started to recognize shoe prints along
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  Speaker 1: some of the more muddy parts of the trail. There
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  Speaker 1: would only be a few at a time, and most
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  Speaker 1: of them didn't seem to actually follow the path. They
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  Speaker 1: would be going across it or sometimes walking along it
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  Speaker 1: for a minute, then abruptly turning off. Then after an hour,
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  Speaker 1: I came across a section of the trail that was
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  Speaker 1: a bit more defined, having tons of shoe prints scattered across,
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  Speaker 1: and threw it as if someone constantly came across this part.
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  Speaker 1: I looked up and just ahead was a cabin. I
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  Speaker 1: put two and two together, assuming someone had set up
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  Speaker 1: an off grid place. But as I looked at the
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  Speaker 1: cabin more closely, something about it didn't look right. All
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  Speaker 1: of the shoe prints I'd seen had to be less
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  Speaker 1: than a few days old, but this cabin seemed to
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  Speaker 1: have not been lived in for years. The door was
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  Speaker 1: wide open, barely hanging from its hinges, and some parts
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  Speaker 1: at the bottom of the cabin were so weathered it
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  Speaker 1: was sinking into the ground. I got a closer look,
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  Speaker 1: entering the area around it that had been cleared of trees.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it was about this place, but
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  Speaker 1: it really intrigued me, and I almost felt like I
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  Speaker 1: needed to see if someone needed help. Because the recent
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  Speaker 1: shoe prins and the rundown cabin didn't add up. I
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  Speaker 1: stepped up to the open door, and right away I
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  Speaker 1: caught a whiff of a horrible odor, almost indescribable, and
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  Speaker 1: as I peered inside, it was clear that this place
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  Speaker 1: was not lived in. There were signs of wild animals
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  Speaker 1: nesting inside, and the forest was growing through the floorboards.
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  Speaker 1: I walked in carefully and tried to see what I could,
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  Speaker 1: but the smell was so bad I just couldn't continue
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  Speaker 1: past a few feet. I turned around to leave, and
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  Speaker 1: I'd instantly felt my stomach drop as a figure was
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  Speaker 1: staring at me from the forest. They immediately took off, running,
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  Speaker 1: hiding in the density of the trees. I did the same,
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  Speaker 1: running through the trees somewhat along the path, going as
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  Speaker 1: far as I could until I felt safe. When I
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  Speaker 1: got home, I called it in to report the strange
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  Speaker 1: behavior and creepy abandoned cabin. I knew that something was
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  Speaker 1: going on there. It took several days for a party
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  Speaker 1: to go out and investigate, with my help and showing
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  Speaker 1: them the way, but when we arrived, all that was
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  Speaker 1: left of the cabin were black ashes and charred wood.
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  Speaker 1: It had been burned down. To this day, there's been
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  Speaker 1: nothing to show from the creepy nature of that cabin
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  Speaker 1: and the man I'd seen in the forest, but it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty clear he had something to hide, something that he
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  Speaker 1: was covering up, and that if I had stayed any
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  Speaker 1: longer or had gone further into the cabin, I would
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  Speaker 1: have not made it out. I'm an officer for our
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  Speaker 1: local police department. Shifts in our department are always switching around,
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  Speaker 1: having people work ten to twelve hours on a different
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  Speaker 1: schedule every week, sometimes overnight, followed by early morning, and
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  Speaker 1: then overnight again. On this day, I was working ten
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  Speaker 1: pm to ten am and was at the office when
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  Speaker 1: a dispatcher notified me of a call about a group
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  Speaker 1: of teenagers trespassing on private property. Specifically, it was a
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  Speaker 1: hospital on the outskirts of town that had been deserted
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  Speaker 1: for the last decade. This was a commonplace for groups
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  Speaker 1: to hang out and do various illegal activities at and
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  Speaker 1: the whole department I knew about this, and most of
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  Speaker 1: us had been there several times before. This was my
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  Speaker 1: fourth time having gone there, and I was sure it
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  Speaker 1: would be a quick and typical case of walking in
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  Speaker 1: and either escorting a group of friends out or watching
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  Speaker 1: them run off. I was tired, so either was good
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  Speaker 1: enough for me. I honestly didn't care too much to
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  Speaker 1: arrest and charge them. I just needed them to leave
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  Speaker 1: the property. When I got there, I was quickly aware
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  Speaker 1: of a flashlight shining through the windows of the second story.
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  Speaker 1: What was strange about it was that it was moving
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  Speaker 1: really fast across multiple windows, like someone was running through
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  Speaker 1: the hallway. I got out of my vehicle and prepped
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  Speaker 1: my flashlight, then entered the building. First thing I did
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  Speaker 1: was call out, requesting everyone to show themselves and whatnot,
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  Speaker 1: but of course no one did. I listened at the
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  Speaker 1: entrance for any noises to hopefully give me an idea
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  Speaker 1: of where to look, but it was dead silent enough
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  Speaker 1: so to wake me up and get my nerves going,
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  Speaker 1: having me keep my right hand on the holster of
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  Speaker 1: my gun. I think it was always a slight fear
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  Speaker 1: that it could be a trap to lead in an
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  Speaker 1: officer and attempt something, but I kept my cool and
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  Speaker 1: walked through the old hallway and up the flight of stairs.
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  Speaker 1: It was as I reached the top that a thud
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  Speaker 1: echoed through the building. It sounded like someone hitting a
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  Speaker 1: wall and was definitely from the second floor. I entered
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  Speaker 1: the hallway and shined my flashlight all the way down,
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  Speaker 1: not seeing anyone or even a sign of anyone, I
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  Speaker 1: called out again, very aggressively, knowing that the stairs I
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  Speaker 1: was by were the only way up and down from
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  Speaker 1: the second story. I stayed there and listened again, but
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  Speaker 1: heard nothing more than the creaking of the building. I
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  Speaker 1: walked slowly through the hallway, looking through each door and
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  Speaker 1: scanning the rooms with my flashlight, but there was nothing
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  Speaker 1: more than old hospital beds and graffiti. When I got
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  Speaker 1: to the last room, the door was closed, so I
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  Speaker 1: called out one more time before swinging and open. I
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  Speaker 1: cleared the room, but nobody was inside. However, there were
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  Speaker 1: signs of recent activity, being cigarettes on the ground with
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  Speaker 1: smoke still rising from them. This was extremely concerning, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that they hadn't left the second floor through the stairs,
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  Speaker 1: and the only other way was if they had jumped
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  Speaker 1: out a broken window. Before I could even check, the
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  Speaker 1: door behind me slammed shut, followed by something smashing against
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  Speaker 1: it and footsteps departing down the hallway. Luckily, I was
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  Speaker 1: able to forcefully push the door open enough to slide
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  Speaker 1: through the opening. Seeing that a large hospital bed was
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  Speaker 1: pressed against it. By the time I got out, who
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  Speaker 1: ever was there was long gone. Back up came and
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  Speaker 1: we did a more thorough investigation, also checking in with
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  Speaker 1: the one who originally called in the two teenagers. What
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  Speaker 1: was odd about this was that there was only one
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  Speaker 1: clear set of footsteps I heard, and only one flashlight
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  Speaker 1: in the window. The cigarettes still burning also showed that
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  Speaker 1: they had left in a hurry, which could have been
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  Speaker 1: from me arriving, But then why would one of them
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  Speaker 1: have stayed behind. In the morning, we got a report
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  Speaker 1: from a mother on her missing teenage son, followed soon
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  Speaker 1: after by an identical report by another mother on her
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  Speaker 1: teenage son. After looking into it for days and them
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  Speaker 1: weeks and them months, it was almost definite that they
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  Speaker 1: were not going to show up, and now six years later,
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  Speaker 1: they still haven't. Their disappearance is an unlikely one, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what makes it so difficult. It isn't certain whether
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  Speaker 1: or not the person in the hospital with me was
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  Speaker 1: one of the two kids, but the current most stable
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  Speaker 1: theory is that it was someone else, and unless something
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  Speaker 1: more comes up, it's not likely that we will ever know.
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  Speaker 1: I live in a really small countryside town. The population
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  Speaker 1: is only a few thousand in the nearest city is
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  Speaker 1: a couple hours away, but most of the people that
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  Speaker 1: live here are close. With there being so few people,
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  Speaker 1: everyone knew everyone, and everyone knew everything that was going
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  Speaker 1: on in the town. At the time, I was in
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  Speaker 1: high school and had a best friend, Chris, that I'd
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  Speaker 1: hang out with pretty much every day. During mid fall,
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  Speaker 1: there was a lot of talk about an empty farmhouse
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  Speaker 1: in the town that people were exploring. I was never
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  Speaker 1: one to do these sorts of things, but Chris was,
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  Speaker 1: and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious. Supposedly,
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  Speaker 1: this farmhouse had been left behind by the owners years ago,
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  Speaker 1: left to rot on the edge of town for the
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  Speaker 1: past five years. Being in high school now, the rumors
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  Speaker 1: of it spread like a wildfire as people were telling
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  Speaker 1: stories about it and daring others to explore it. And
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  Speaker 1: it was on one weekend night that Chris brought it
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  Speaker 1: up to me. We had nothing else to do, and
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  Speaker 1: Chris seemed really excited to see what everyone was talking about,
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  Speaker 1: and after finding a couple flashlights, we got in the
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  Speaker 1: car and drove to the farmhouse. We only knew which
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  Speaker 1: road it was on, but it wasn't very hard to find.
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  Speaker 1: From the road. You could see the rotting house in
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  Speaker 1: the distance, but we couldn't find the driveway. It was
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  Speaker 1: likely that it had been overgrown and might have not
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  Speaker 1: even existed anymore, so we parked on the road and
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  Speaker 1: started walking through the field the house. It was almost
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  Speaker 1: one am, so the moon was lighting up the field
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  Speaker 1: just enough for us to navigate through it. As we
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  Speaker 1: got closer, it almost felt like the night got quieter
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  Speaker 1: and quieter until we reached it. The house had weeds
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  Speaker 1: infesting the whole yard and vines growing through the wooden
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  Speaker 1: panels on the outside. Chris led the way, walking around
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  Speaker 1: to the front, where the door was missing, giving us
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  Speaker 1: easy access inside. We stepped in and started walking through
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  Speaker 1: the rooms, looking at the trash on the ground and
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  Speaker 1: the decaying interior, making both of us wonder why it
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  Speaker 1: was even abandoned to begin with. After a minute or two, though,
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  Speaker 1: we'd seen everything on the first floor and moved up
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  Speaker 1: to the second. It was much darker upstairs, almost like
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  Speaker 1: there were no windows to let in the moonlight. We
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  Speaker 1: both turned on our flashlights and shine them around. There
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  Speaker 1: were only two rooms up there, one on the left
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  Speaker 1: side of the hallway and the other on the right.
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  Speaker 1: Chris went up to the left, finding that the door
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  Speaker 1: was locked. While he was struggling with that door, I
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  Speaker 1: went into the other room that happened to be unlocked.
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  Speaker 1: It was entirely empty, having moled on the ceiling and
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  Speaker 1: nothing more. But there was a single window with slabs
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  Speaker 1: of wood nailed to it. Curious by it, I went
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  Speaker 1: up to it and wondered why they needed to block
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  Speaker 1: an upstairs window. I crouched down to investigate and looked
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  Speaker 1: in between two of the slabs to see what was
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  Speaker 1: outside the window, thinking maybe it had access to the
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  Speaker 1: roof or something, but it didn't. This window was just
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  Speaker 1: facing the field we came from, and as I looked
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  Speaker 1: out into the moonlit grass, I saw a figure walking
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  Speaker 1: toward the farmhouse not too far away. I quickly left
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  Speaker 1: the window and whispered to Chris that someone was coming here.
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  Speaker 1: My heartbeat was already speeding up. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: seeing the figure being alone that really freaked me out,
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  Speaker 1: knowing it wasn't just some other kids exploring the place.
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  Speaker 1: Chris looked nervous too, walking over to the window to
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  Speaker 1: see for himself, but we immediately stopped at the sound
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  Speaker 1: of footsteps entering the house downstairs, We frozen place, standing
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the empty room, too scared to
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  Speaker 1: even take a step and risk being found. The person
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  Speaker 1: walked slowly through the first floor, going to the stairs
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  Speaker 1: and beginning to walk up. Both Chris and I just
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  Speaker 1: stared at the open doorway, listening to the footsteps. Reached
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  Speaker 1: the top and start coming even closer until the large
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  Speaker 1: figure of a man appeared in front of us. He
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  Speaker 1: was facing the other way, unlocking the locked door as
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  Speaker 1: he stood in the dark hallway, just four or five
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  Speaker 1: feet from us. I was holding my breath, just hoping
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  Speaker 1: he wouldn't turn around, but when he opened the door,
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  Speaker 1: I locked eye contact with another other man who was
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  Speaker 1: standing on the far side of the other room. Our
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  Speaker 1: gaze was broken when the man went into the room
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  Speaker 1: and closed the door behind him, but we heard them
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  Speaker 1: whispering immediately after. Chris and I made our move, sprinting
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  Speaker 1: into the hallway and down the stairs, hearing the door
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  Speaker 1: swing open in footsteps charging behind us. As we fled
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  Speaker 1: the house and ran for the field. We didn't stop
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  Speaker 1: until we got to the car, driving away. The whole
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  Speaker 1: ride back to my house neither of us said a word.
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  Speaker 1: We were both just in shock and taking everything in.
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  Speaker 1: We had no idea what was going on in that
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  Speaker 1: house or who those two men were, but out of
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  Speaker 1: fear of getting in trouble for trespassing, we didn't call
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  Speaker 1: the police. We were stupid to have even gone there,
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  Speaker 1: and I won't defend any of my actions, but I
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  Speaker 1: feel like there was something more going on at that farmhouse.
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  Speaker 1: A month after that incident, the house was bought and
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  Speaker 1: torn down with no reason given, and whether or not
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  Speaker 1: something was going on in there will probably never be
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  Speaker 1: known for sure