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Spine-Chilling Pursuit Through Darkness - Scary Paranormal Story · Shallow Nights: Scary Bedtime Stories

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  It was Halloween night of 2007, freshman year in high school,
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  and I was with my friends Ivan, Ryan, and Jesse.
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  We were all dressed as the Super Mario characters.
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  I was Luigi since I was the second tallest.
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  Ivan was Mario since he's short and buff, not that Mario was
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  buff. Jesse was while Luigi because
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  he's freakishly tall and skinny, and Ryan was Wario because he's
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  just really fat. So they were the perfect group
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  costumes for us. We live in a very non congested
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  suburban neighborhood with a decent amount of space in
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  between houses on Halloween. That's the worst thing ever.
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  Less bang for your buck. We were trick or treating for
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  hours way past dark and eventually came the time when
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  most trick or treaters were heading home.
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  My feet started to hurt and I had to constantly switch arms
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  for holding the now 10 LB pillow sack of candy.
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  But we planned on going until our bags were completely full.
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  A lot of the houses by now weren't answering anymore.
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  It was probably past their cut off time for giving candy to
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  trick or treaters. Approaching our next house, we
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  saw a purple bucket on the stoop, which was the best
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  feeling ever. I was the one to get close
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  enough to realize it was empty, which was the worst feeling
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  ever. I turned around when I heard a
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  knock at the window of the house.
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  We all looked at the window, couldn't see anyone, but heard
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  someone call out. Wait.
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  The door opened and an older man, late 40s, already bolding,
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  stepped outside. He told us to come inside so he
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  can get us some more candy. I said we could just wait out
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  here. He responded, saying something
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  along the lines of nonsense. Come on in, we'll get you your
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  candy. Ivan stepped in and said it's
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  all right Come on Dan let's go. I told the guy to take care and
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  apologized. He just stood there watching as
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  we walked off not saying anything.
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  I felt dead but at the same time that guy seemed like a creeper
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  and I figured I just dodged a bullet not going in there.
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  If the story ended there it wouldn't be scary.
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  So of course it didn't end there.
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  We skipped a few of the guys neighboring houses just to get
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  further away and continued on with our business.
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  We were walking down close to the nature preserve now so there
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  weren't many houses around us at this point.
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  We were now walking back closer to Jesse's house.
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  I noticed Ryan had stopped walking and I turned around to
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  see what's up. He said he heard someone moving
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  from behind the trees in the preserve.
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  Now this was before everyone's phones had flashlights so we
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  couldn't just go searching in the woods for someone.
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  Besides, we were just telling Ryan that it must have been a
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  raccoon or something. You may think this is a bit of a
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  cliche, but when things like this happen in real life, you
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  always assume the more logical possibility.
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  It's just natural. Why would we assume we were
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  being followed? I had to put my arm around
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  Ryan's shoulder and nudge him forward a little ways down the
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  street. me and I have been picked up on the sound as well.
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  When we all stopped, the sounds of the footsteps from beyond the
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  trees stopped as well. Ivan yelled at the obvious
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  stalker to go away or we would beat the shit out of them.
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  I knew he was just bluffing, though I could hear the
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  nervousness in his voice. The snap of a twig from beyond
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  the trees triggered a fight or flight response in all of us.
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  Me, Jesse, and Ryan all ran for it.
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  Ivan was at first charging to attack, but he quickly followed
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  after realizing we had all taken off.
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  We ran down the dark St. and we all noticed the sounds of at
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  least two or three pairs of footsteps crushing the twigs and
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  leaves in the woods. We banked it hard right down
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  Jesse St. when it finally came up and ran straight for his
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  backyard, entering his house through the back door.
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  The first thing we did was peek out through his living room
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  window. We couldn't see anyone.
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  We all had to gather our thoughts and discuss what the
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  hell just went down in his living room when all of a sudden
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  we heard Jesse's backyard gate slam shut.
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  Jesse dope to turn off the lights.
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  There was a click and a bang from down in the den.
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  It was more than likely Jesse's back door.
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  We all agreed to go down armed with knives and face them.
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  Jesse turned on his back door light, but there was nobody out
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  there. Just then the front door opened
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  and we all screamed like animals.
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  Jesse's mom and sisters came rushing downstairs.
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  They had just gotten home from their friend's little house
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  party. We all rested assured, knowing
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  it was just them. Jesse explained what happened
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  but made it seem a lot less dramatic.
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  Me and Ivan went home after that and called it a night.
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  At 12:30 AMI got a disturbing text message.
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  It was from Jesse. It said it wasn't my mom.
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  I texted back saying what? He responded back quickly saying
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  it wasn't my mom in the backyard.
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  My finger slammed the buttons on my phone responding back.
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  What do you mean? There was a long pause before he
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  finally told me that his mom and sisters said they never went in
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  the backyard. I told him to immediately check
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  the backyard from his upper deck.
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  He had already done just that. He also told his mom everything
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  and she had already called the police.
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  They didn't find anyone back there, but Jesse did mention the
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  guy who invited us in while trick or treating.
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  Nothing ever became of that, and nothing ever happened at Jesses
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  House again after that one Halloween night.