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This is why you should never live next to a graveyard - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share with you a good old
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Speaker 1: fashioned cabin in the woods scary story. It happened in
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one in West Virginia, and boy is it
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Speaker 1: a good one. But before we get into that story,
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. In nineteen ninety one, Brian
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Speaker 1: Kendall and his young family were tired of living the
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Speaker 1: busy city life. He worked in Baltimore, Maryland. He was
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Speaker 1: a carpenter by trade, but he and his wife Belinda
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Speaker 1: had grown up in the country in West Virginia, and
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Speaker 1: they decided to move back there, even though, oh that
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Speaker 1: would mean a multi hour long commute for Brian to
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Speaker 1: get back to Baltimore to do work because he still
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Speaker 1: worked in Baltimore, so Brian and Belinda start looking for
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Speaker 1: places to live in West Virginia, and they find this
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Speaker 1: nice home in Slainsville, West Virginia, which is a population
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Speaker 1: of one hundred and eighty two people. Last time I checked,
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Speaker 1: the house itself had more of a cabin feel to it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was way out in the middle of
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Speaker 1: this forest, no neighbors anywhere. It was a ranch style,
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Speaker 1: so single floor, and basically everywhere you looked was just
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Speaker 1: pure forest. So this cabin is super isolated. But Brian
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Speaker 1: and Belinda had come from a neighborhood that wasn't very
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Speaker 1: safe and they didn't like sending their kids outside without supervision. Now,
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Speaker 1: living in the middle of nowhere, they could at least
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Speaker 1: let their kids go outside and not really worry about them.
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Speaker 1: So even though it might have been lonely, they felt
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Speaker 1: like it was at least safe. And Brian went out
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Speaker 1: and got a beautiful, friendly black lab dog to come
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Speaker 1: and protect the property, and her name was Coco. They
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Speaker 1: loved Coco. She's very protective of the kids right away,
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Speaker 1: and she blended in with the family immediately and very quickly.
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Speaker 1: The family really took to living in Slainsville. They loved
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Speaker 1: their new home and their new life. Everything was just
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Speaker 1: going so well at first. Shortly after they had moved
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Speaker 1: into the house and finally unpacked, Belinda invited her brother
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Speaker 1: as well as her brother's wife and daughter named Jordan,
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Speaker 1: to come over and check out the house. And so
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Speaker 1: they come over. Belinda had gotten a cake and some balloons,
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Speaker 1: and she planned on throwing a little mini surprise party
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Speaker 1: for Jordan, who was about the same age as her
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Speaker 1: kids and had recently had a birthday, and so they
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Speaker 1: figured they would surprise or give her some cake and
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Speaker 1: have a little impromptu birthday party. After cake, the kids
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Speaker 1: went into the living room and were playing in there together.
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Speaker 1: The living room was right next to the kitchen, and
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Speaker 1: so the adults were in the kitchen having coffee and chatting.
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Speaker 1: And as they're chatting, they all noticed something very strange
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Speaker 1: going on in the living room with the kids. The
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Speaker 1: kids had taken all of the balloons and brought them
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Speaker 1: into the living room and they had all floated up
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Speaker 1: to the ceiling, and there was pretty high ceilings inside
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Speaker 1: of this living room. And as the adults are looking
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Speaker 1: in the direction of the kids and these balloons, they
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Speaker 1: notice one of the balloons comes down from the ceiling,
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Speaker 1: but the string is tight, as if someone's holding the
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Speaker 1: balloon and pulling it down, but no one was pulling
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Speaker 1: in the balloon. The adults stopped talking and they've all
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Speaker 1: noticed this, and they're all looking at it because it
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Speaker 1: looked very unnatural. The balloon stops right in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the room and it's a ways away from the kids,
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Speaker 1: and the kids haven't noticed it, and the parents are
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Speaker 1: just quietly watching this balloon and no one knows what
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Speaker 1: to make of it. No one's even commenting that this
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Speaker 1: is happening. They're all just quiet and watching, and the
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Speaker 1: balloon starts moving across the room over to where Jordan was.
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Speaker 1: Jordan notices the balloon for the first time. She turns
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Speaker 1: and goes, thank you, as if she's talking to someone,
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Speaker 1: but no one's there. She reaches out to take the balloon,
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Speaker 1: and as she goes to grab it, it drifts right back
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Speaker 1: up to the ceiling, as if someone had been holding
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Speaker 1: it and let go of it, and Jordan like kind
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Speaker 1: of grabbed for it. Watch it go to the ceiling,
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Speaker 1: and then Jordan's turned around and kept on playing. That
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Speaker 1: startled everybody. They could make sense of a balloon coming
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Speaker 1: down and then moving the helium could be leaking, there
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Speaker 1: could be a draft in the room, but for it
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Speaker 1: to go right back up and look like someone had
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Speaker 1: released it, they couldn't explain that. And so the parents
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Speaker 1: go right in the living room. They're looking at each other.
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Speaker 1: The parents aren't They're like, did you see that? What
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Speaker 1: was that about? And they grab that balloon down from
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Speaker 1: the ceiling, and they're trying to like replicate what they saw,
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Speaker 1: and they're kind of looking at each other like are
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Speaker 1: we going crazy? And they go over to Jordan and
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Speaker 1: they say, hey, who are you talking to a minute ago?
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Speaker 1: And she couldn't really articulate anything, and they said, when
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Speaker 1: the balloon was right here in front of you, who
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Speaker 1: are you talking to? And she stops and kind of
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Speaker 1: thinks about it for a second. She's a young kid,
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Speaker 1: you know, she's like two or three years old. She
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Speaker 1: thinks about it, and she points in the direction where
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Speaker 1: no one's standing and goes him. The parents look in
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Speaker 1: the direction of where she's pointing. They look at each
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Speaker 1: other and then they start laughing because they're like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: we're scaring ourselves. Obviously. You know, the helium must have
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Speaker 1: come out and there's a draft and she's three. She
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Speaker 1: doesn't know what she's talking about. She's probably an imaginary friend. Like,
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Speaker 1: we're just scaring each other. Let's just drop it. Let's
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Speaker 1: forget the balloon, and so they do. They forget the
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Speaker 1: balloon and they don't think about it again. But after
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Speaker 1: Jordan and her parents le Belinda and Brian would say
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Speaker 1: to each other like that was pretty weird. A couple
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Speaker 1: of days later, Brian asked his daughter, Blair, who's about
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Speaker 1: five or six years old, if she wanted to come
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Speaker 1: with him and go explore the back forest behind their property.
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Speaker 1: Because Brian had been working so much, he hadn't really
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Speaker 1: had a chance to go explore, and he figured now's
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Speaker 1: a good chance to go. Blair's super excited. The two
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Speaker 1: of them go out into the backyard and they start
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Speaker 1: walking around and after walking a bit of a way,
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Speaker 1: as they stop because they see something in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the forest that shouldn't have been there. They see
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Speaker 1: this van, like a vehicle that looked like it had
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Speaker 1: been set on fire at one point. It's totally charred.
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Speaker 1: It's basically just the frame and it's parked in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the forest and there are no roads anywhere,
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Speaker 1: and they go in the back of the vehicle and
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Speaker 1: look inside, and there are all these burnt stuffed animals
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Speaker 1: and kids toys that are in the back of this van,
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Speaker 1: and there is what looks to be the spring of
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Speaker 1: a mattress that must have been caught up in this
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Speaker 1: fire that burned the vehicle. And Brian just had this
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Speaker 1: sinking feeling that something was wrong with this scene, and
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Speaker 1: he said, hey, you know what, Blair, we gotta go.
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Speaker 1: Let's not look at this. We don't know what this is.
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Speaker 1: Let's just go. When they get back to the house,
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Speaker 1: Brian would tell Blinda what he found. How would that
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Speaker 1: van have gotten there, and why was it there? It
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Speaker 1: just didn't make any sense to either of them. Over
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Speaker 1: the first couple of months that they were living in Slainsville,
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Speaker 1: Brian was trying to commute daily to his work in Maryland,
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Speaker 1: but it was taking up hours and hours of his day.
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Speaker 1: He was getting no sleep, and it just didn't make sense.
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Speaker 1: And so, even though they only had one car, he
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Speaker 1: started commuting on Monday morning to work and then staying
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Speaker 1: with his mom, who lived in Maryland, and then coming
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Speaker 1: back to Slainsville on Friday night, which would mean that
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Speaker 1: every week Monday to Friday, Belinda and the kids would
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Speaker 1: be alone in their cabin in the woods in Slainsville
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Speaker 1: with no vehicle. But Belinda had grown up in a
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Speaker 1: very isolated house in the middle of a forest in
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Speaker 1: West Virginia, so she wasn't a stranger to this type
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Speaker 1: of setup and so really didn't have any issues with
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Speaker 1: this lifestyle that they had in Slainsville. Blair had been
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Speaker 1: asking ever since they moved in if she could go
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Speaker 1: camping one night out in their RV. They had a
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Speaker 1: little RV camper that was parked right outside their property,
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Speaker 1: and she wanted to spend a night out there by herself.
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Speaker 1: And so one week, when Brian was away for work,
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Speaker 1: Belinda finally caved and said, Okay, Blair, you can stay
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Speaker 1: in the camper tonight. She wasn't thrilled about this idea,
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Speaker 1: but she felt that the kids had a little bit
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Speaker 1: of cabin fever going on because they were so cooped
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Speaker 1: up in this house, and she figured this is an
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Speaker 1: easy way to make Blair feel a little bit happier
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Speaker 1: living here. So she told Blair, once you go in there,
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Speaker 1: I want you to lock the door and not open
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Speaker 1: it again, and Coco, their dog, is going to stay
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Speaker 1: with you. Blair was just fine with this setup, and
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Speaker 1: so that night she went out to the camper. She
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Speaker 1: had Coco with her, she had all her warm clothes on,
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Speaker 1: She brought a lantern with her and some books she
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Speaker 1: was going to read. She goes out and her mom
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Speaker 1: tucks her into her bed inside of the RV and
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Speaker 1: gives her a kiss, and then she leaves. In the camper,
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Speaker 1: there was a pull out bed that she was on
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Speaker 1: that took up the majority of the floor space in
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Speaker 1: the camper. On her right, as she was laying down
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Speaker 1: was a big window with a blackout curtain that slid
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Speaker 1: across the whole thing, and she kept that curtain shut.
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Speaker 1: At the foot of her bed, to the right was
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Speaker 1: the door that led into the camper, and there was
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Speaker 1: a window on that as well, but there was no
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Speaker 1: blind to block it. And so at some point Blair
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Speaker 1: is tired. She turns off her lantern and she gets
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Speaker 1: onto her covers with Coco right next to her, and
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Speaker 1: she goes to sleep. At some point in the night,
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Speaker 1: Blair wakes up suddenly because Coco is acting really strange.
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Speaker 1: She's very uneasy, and she's looking towards the door that
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Speaker 1: leads into the camper, and she's acting like she just
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Speaker 1: saw something. So Blair sits up. She's trying to calm
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Speaker 1: down Coco, and she looks at the window on the door,
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Speaker 1: and she can look outside. There's a little bit of
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Speaker 1: moonlight outside, so she's got a little bit of illumination,
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Speaker 1: and as she's looking, she sees what looks like a
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Speaker 1: figure walk past the door. She can't tell if it's
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Speaker 1: a person or if it's an animal or what it is,
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Speaker 1: but she definitely saw something walk past the door, and
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Speaker 1: Coco clearly saw it too, because Coco begins growling, and
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Speaker 1: instead of just looking at the door where this figure was,
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Speaker 1: Coco basically follows the figure and is now looking at
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Speaker 1: the window right next to Blair. Blair thinks it's her mom,
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Speaker 1: and so she tries to calm down Coco. She turns
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Speaker 1: on her lantern and she goes to the front door
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Speaker 1: and she picks her head out. She doesn't see anything.
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Speaker 1: She unlocks it and opens it and pokes her head out.
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Speaker 1: She doesn't see her, and she goes mom and there's
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Speaker 1: no one out there. She looks up at the house
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Speaker 1: which is right next to her, and all the lights
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Speaker 1: are off. There's no sign that her mom left the house. Suddenly,
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Speaker 1: feeling really startled, she shuts the door, locks it and
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Speaker 1: goes back in her bed. Now, the whole time that
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Speaker 1: Blair had turned that lantern on and gone down to
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Speaker 1: the door and yelled for her mom, Coca was still
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Speaker 1: on the bed looking at the window where the blackout
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Speaker 1: curtains were covering up whatever was on the other side. Now,
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Speaker 1: when Blair's going back to the bed, Coco is showing
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Speaker 1: her teeth, She's baring her teeth, and she's growling at
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Speaker 1: the window. Blair's totally spooked. She jumps into her bed,
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Speaker 1: throws the covers over her head, and she's sitting there
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Speaker 1: hoping that Coco will just stop and that this will
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Speaker 1: all end and she can go to sleep. But Coco
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Speaker 1: doesn't stop, and she's like reaching out and trying to
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Speaker 1: pull Coco to get under the covers with her, but
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Speaker 1: Coco won't stop. Blair decides she has to take a
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Speaker 1: look out that window, and she thinks, maybe it is
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Speaker 1: my mom. Maybe I just missed her before and she's
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Speaker 1: trying to come in. Maybe she was knocking and I
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Speaker 1: didn't hear her. And so she takes her covers off
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Speaker 1: her head, gets right up next to the side of
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Speaker 1: the wall. She's underneath the window which is right next
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Speaker 1: to her, and she starts pulling aside that curtain, and
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Speaker 1: as soon as she's got a view out the window,
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Speaker 1: she sees a dark figure that looks like a man
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Speaker 1: or something standing right outside the glass, looking down into
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Speaker 1: her camper. She's so scared she drops the curtain and
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Speaker 1: just gets under her covers. Coco goes right on top
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Speaker 1: of Blair and is standing over Blair basically protecting her,
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Speaker 1: and at some point Blair does manage to fall asleep. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: on the same night, there was some other drama happening
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Speaker 1: up at the mainhouse. Belinda had put Blair's younger brother,
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Speaker 1: Sean to bed almost immediately after she tucked in Blair
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Speaker 1: inside of the camper. Sean was three years old and
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Speaker 1: he was a great sleeper. She could put him in
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Speaker 1: his bed, say good night to him, and she wouldn't
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Speaker 1: see him ntil the next morning. But that night Belinda
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Speaker 1: was laying in bed and Sean multiple times would get
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Speaker 1: out of his bed and come into her bedroom and
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Speaker 1: say he was scared and didn't want to be in
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Speaker 1: his room. Blinda would get up, she'd go back, she'd
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Speaker 1: tuck him back in and say, you got nothing to
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Speaker 1: worry about. It's just new house. You're fine, you're safe.
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Speaker 1: But on the third or fourth time that this happened,
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Speaker 1: because it was so out of character, she asked Sean,
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Speaker 1: what's going on. What are you so scared of? And
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Speaker 1: he says, there's a monster in my window. Belinda assumes
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Speaker 1: what he means is maybe a deer was outside or
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Speaker 1: some other animal might have walked by the window, because
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Speaker 1: in virtue of being a single story house, all of
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Speaker 1: the bedroom windows are at ground level, and so she
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Speaker 1: goes to the window and she looks out and it's
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Speaker 1: just forest, deep dark forest everywhere you look, and so
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Speaker 1: she's thinking, Okay, maybe a deer walked by the window,
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Speaker 1: or a moose or something like that, and that's what
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Speaker 1: he saw. And so she was able to explain to
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Speaker 1: him that, you know, it's just a new house, there's
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Speaker 1: probably some deer that are coming by the window. You
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Speaker 1: had nothing to worry about. And so she was able
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Speaker 1: to finally calm him down and he would go to sleep.
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Speaker 1: The next morning, Blair is relieved to wake up and
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Speaker 1: have sunlight be coming through that little open window on
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Speaker 1: the front door. She and Coco go into the main house.
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Speaker 1: She sits down for breakfast with her mom and with
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Speaker 1: her brother, and Belinda asked her how was camping, and Blair,
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Speaker 1: who was normally a very chatty child, was very quiet
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Speaker 1: about it, and her mom said, well, did you have
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Speaker 1: a good time, like you can tell me anything about it,
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Speaker 1: and Blair just said, you know, I don't think I
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Speaker 1: want to go campaign again, and she didn't elaborate, she
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Speaker 1: just didn't want to talk about it, and so Belinda
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Speaker 1: didn't ask any more questions, and that was that. That
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Speaker 1: day goes by without incident, and then that night Belinda
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Speaker 1: gets Sean and Blair to bed in their normal rooms.
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Speaker 1: They're asleep. Belinda goes to her bed and she falls asleep,
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Speaker 1: and she starts to have this very strange dream. In
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Speaker 1: her dream, she wakes up and looks at the foot
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Speaker 1: of her bed and she sees a boy, a boy
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Speaker 1: doesn't recognize, and he's signaling her to come with him.
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Speaker 1: And so in her dream, she gets up out of
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Speaker 1: her bed and she follows him out of her room
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Speaker 1: and she goes out to the front yard and it's
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Speaker 1: daylight outside, and on her front yard are all these
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Speaker 1: clotheslines strung all over the front yard, and there are
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Speaker 1: these white sheets that are hanging from each of these clotheslines,
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Speaker 1: all in different random directions, and she's trying to find
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Speaker 1: this boy, and she can't find him because all the
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Speaker 1: sheets keep getting in her way. She finally stops because
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Speaker 1: she feels something on her toe, and she looks down.
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Speaker 1: She's barefoot, and on her right big toe is a
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Speaker 1: clothes pin that had been pinched onto her toe, and
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Speaker 1: so she reaches down and pulls it off, and that's
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Speaker 1: when she wakes up. And now she's awake in real life,
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Speaker 1: and so she sits up and she's kind of looking
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Speaker 1: around and she's in that immediate fog following a really
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Speaker 1: vivid dream, and then she realizes that was just a dream,
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Speaker 1: gets back in bed and she goes to sleep. The
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Speaker 1: next day, she gets up, she gets out of her bed,
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Speaker 1: and she begins pulling her blankets up to make her bed.
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Speaker 1: As she's walking around the foot of the bed, she
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Speaker 1: stops because she sees something on the ground, a clothes pin.
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Speaker 1: They don't own any clothes pins, and so she's sitting
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Speaker 1: there looking at it, thinking how could that have gotten there?
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Speaker 1: What was that dream about? Was I awake? Was I
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Speaker 1: doing something in my sleep? Was I sleep walking? She
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Speaker 1: can't make sense of it, but it totally freaked her out.
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Speaker 1: That day, Belinda told her sister about this dream with
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Speaker 1: the clothes pin and then finding it at the foot
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Speaker 1: of the bed, and her sister's like, look, you probably
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Speaker 1: just need a break. You're alone with the kids all
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Speaker 1: the time, you're isolated. Let me come over. I'll watch
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Speaker 1: the kids and you can just go for a walk
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Speaker 1: and do whatever. Just clear mind. And so Belinda's sister
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Speaker 1: comes over, takes the kids, and Belinda decides, so what
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Speaker 1: she's going to do is go explore the woods behind
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Speaker 1: their house. She walks a little ways behind their property
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Speaker 1: and she sees something that really stands out to her
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Speaker 1: and was a little cemetery and it was on their property,
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Speaker 1: or at least close to their property. She goes over
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Speaker 1: to it and sees there are four small headstones. There's
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Speaker 1: no writing on them, but the size of the headstone
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Speaker 1: themselves it seemed to indicate that these could have been children.
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Speaker 1: And so she was very unsettled by it and decided that,
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Speaker 1: you know, what I'm done with my walk and I'm
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Speaker 1: just going to go back now. A couple of days later,
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Speaker 1: Blair was sleeping in her room when she woke up
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Speaker 1: suddenly for no apparent reason. She sat up. She kind
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Speaker 1: of looked around, and she noticed that the curtains that
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Speaker 1: normally would cover up her window that overlooked her bed
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Speaker 1: were open. And she felt really uneasy by this, especially
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Speaker 1: after that incident in the RV. She liked having those
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Speaker 1: curtains closed. So she gets up to go over and
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Speaker 1: shut this curtain, and she looks out the window and
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Speaker 1: she sees standing in front of the tree line is
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Speaker 1: a dark silhouette of a figure. It looks like a
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Speaker 1: or some person, and she freezes and she's looking at it,
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Speaker 1: and she can tell that it's moving towards her, and
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Speaker 1: she's looking even closer, and then she can tell us
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Speaker 1: now running at her. She shuts it, jumps into her bed,
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Speaker 1: and covers herself up. As she's laying there under her covers,
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Speaker 1: not knowing what to do, she hears Coco barking from
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Speaker 1: her mom's room. Belinda wakes up to Coco barking and
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Speaker 1: looks at what she's looking at, and it's the window.
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Speaker 1: So Belinda gets up. She looks out the window, she
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Speaker 1: doesn't see anything and tells Coco to calm down. She figured, okay,
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Speaker 1: maybe she saw a deer or something, and then, just
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Speaker 1: to be a good mom, she checks on her kids.
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Speaker 1: She goes to Shawn's room. Sean didn't wake up from
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Speaker 1: the barking. He's asleep in his bed. But when Belinda
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Speaker 1: goes into Blair's room, Blair is hiding under her covers
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Speaker 1: and she's scared of something, and she asks Blair, honey,
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Speaker 1: what's wrong, and Blair finally says that she saw something.
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Speaker 1: She thought it was a person. She didn't know what,
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Speaker 1: but it was running towards the house. And so Belinda's
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Speaker 1: thinking to herself, she just saw an animal, because that's
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Speaker 1: probably what Sean saw when he thought he saw a
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Speaker 1: monster outside, and I'm sure that's what Coco saw. You know,
15:58
Speaker 1: Coco's going to react to an animal. There's probably some
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Speaker 1: deer that's coming right up to the window, and it's
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Speaker 1: scaring my kids, it's scaring my dog. And so Blinda
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Speaker 1: tells Blair, you got nothing to worry about, honey, go
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Speaker 1: back to sleep. Everything's gonna be fine. She calms her down,
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Speaker 1: she puts her to sleep. She double checks on Sean.
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Speaker 1: Sean's still sleeping, and Belinda and Coco go back into
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Speaker 1: Belinda's room and they get in bed and Belinda goes
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Speaker 1: back to sleep. At some point in the night, Belinda's
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Speaker 1: laying with her back to the door and she feels
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Speaker 1: someone tapping on the back of her head, and she's
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Speaker 1: assuming at this point it's gotta be Sean or even
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Speaker 1: Blair who've come in there because they're scared again, and reflexibly,
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Speaker 1: without even opening her eyes, she says, honey, there's nothing outside.
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Speaker 1: You get nothing to be scared of. Go back to sleep.
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Speaker 1: There's a silence, and then she feels tapping on her
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Speaker 1: head again. Now she opens her eyes and she rolls
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Speaker 1: over to tell one of her two kids that everything's fine,
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Speaker 1: but there's no one there. It startles her because not
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Speaker 1: only is there no one there, but Coco is now
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Speaker 1: on the bed growling in the direction of wherever this
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Speaker 1: tapping was coming from. Immediately, Blinda flips on the light.
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Speaker 1: She's looking around her room and there's nothing, gets up
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Speaker 1: and she goes into her kids' rooms they are fast asleep.
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Speaker 1: Just to be sure, she walks around the house make
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Speaker 1: sure everything is locked. She gets back in her bed
17:08
Speaker 1: and she's sitting there with Coco, and she can't help it.
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Speaker 1: She's scared between her kids seeing stuff outside, finding that cemetery,
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Speaker 1: the weird clothes pin thing going on, now, something feeling
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Speaker 1: like it was tapping her, but no one's in the
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Speaker 1: room with her. She's scared, and in fact, she would
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Speaker 1: say in interviews that this was the first time that
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Speaker 1: she even thought about the word haunted in relationship to
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Speaker 1: what was going on at their house. The next day,
17:30
Speaker 1: Belinda just wanted to get away from the house, so
17:33
Speaker 1: she calls her mom and says, hey, can we use
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Speaker 1: your car for the day to go run some errands.
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Speaker 1: Her mom says absolutely. Her mom drops the car off
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Speaker 1: and Belinda and the kids load up and they head
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Speaker 1: into town. When they left, they put Coco in her
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Speaker 1: outdoor cage, totally locked in secure. So they head out
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Speaker 1: and they go to this gas station in Slainsville and
17:51
Speaker 1: Belinda gets out. She's fueling up her car and another
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Speaker 1: resident of Slainsville pulls up right next to her, and
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Speaker 1: she's filling up her car and the two women strike
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Speaker 1: up a conversation. At some point point In this discussion,
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Speaker 1: the woman asked Belinda where she lives in Slainsville because
18:04
Speaker 1: she's a longtime resident and she didn't recognize Belinda. Blinda
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Speaker 1: describes where she lives, and the woman who's familiar with
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Speaker 1: the area, says, well, do you know the story of
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Speaker 1: your property? And Blinda's like no, She's like, well, years
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Speaker 1: and years ago, there was a really bad fire. I
18:18
Speaker 1: think it was right near your property that a whole
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Speaker 1: family died in. And Blinda says, you know what, I
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Speaker 1: actually found a small cemetery a little ways back on
18:25
Speaker 1: our property. But that's what it is. As Belinda is
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Speaker 1: driving away and she's thinking about this story she's been told,
18:31
Speaker 1: she has this sense of relief that now she has
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Speaker 1: some closure on why there's that cemetery on her property,
18:38
Speaker 1: and she couldn't help but think, if her house is haunted,
18:41
Speaker 1: which she had only recently considered, maybe it's not such
18:44
Speaker 1: a bad thing to have it be this family that's
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Speaker 1: doing the haunting. It didn't feel evil, It just felt
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Speaker 1: kind of sad, and she was empathetic for this lost family.
18:52
Speaker 1: When they got back from running those errands, Coco was gone.
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Speaker 1: They went to the fence and it hadn't been opened.
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Speaker 1: There was no sign that she had been able to
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Speaker 1: burrow underneath this fence. There was no way for her
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Speaker 1: to get out unless you opened the gate, and it
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Speaker 1: was locked and shut. And so they didn't know what
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Speaker 1: to make of that, and the only thing they could
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Speaker 1: come up with is someone must have taken Coco, and
19:12
Speaker 1: unfortunately they would never see Coco again. It was a
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Speaker 1: huge loss for this family. Coco was not only a
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Speaker 1: dog they loved and considered part of their family, but
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Speaker 1: she was also their protection and it was a very
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Speaker 1: big deal that she was gone. A couple of days
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Speaker 1: go by and Brian's home from work and everyone in
19:30
Speaker 1: the house is asleep except for Belinda. Belinda was up
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Speaker 1: watching TV and at some point she turns off a
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Speaker 1: TV and she also goes to bed. She starts having
19:38
Speaker 1: the same dream she had when she felt that clothes
19:41
Speaker 1: pin on her toe. In her dream, she wakes up
19:43
Speaker 1: and at the foot of her bed is this boy,
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Speaker 1: the same boy that she had followed outside that she
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Speaker 1: could never find in the sheets, And so she gets
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Speaker 1: up and she starts following this boy. He brings her
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Speaker 1: out to the front of the house, out under the
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Speaker 1: front yard and again. The whole front yard is covered
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Speaker 1: in these white sheets that are strung up along clotheslines,
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Speaker 1: and as she's making her way across the front yard,
20:03
Speaker 1: pulling sheets aside, she finally reaches a clearing and she
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Speaker 1: sees this boy who looks like about the same age
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Speaker 1: as her son, Sean. And this boy looks terrified, and
20:13
Speaker 1: she's looking at him, and the boy is kind of
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Speaker 1: looking to his left, and then from behind one of
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Speaker 1: the sheets next to the boy walks this dark figure
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Speaker 1: that stands right next to him and looks up at her,
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Speaker 1: and it's an expressionless dark figure. It almost looks like
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Speaker 1: a man, and it starts walking up the lane of
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Speaker 1: sheets towards her. She falls over backwards and she wakes up.
20:34
Speaker 1: And when she wakes up in real life, she hears
20:37
Speaker 1: screaming coming from her own son's room. She and Brian
20:40
Speaker 1: jump up out of bed and run into Sean's room.
20:43
Speaker 1: He's laying on the ground with his arm cocked to
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Speaker 1: the side. It's clearly been broken, and he's screaming and
20:48
Speaker 1: guarding his arm, and Belinda's over him, saying what happened,
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Speaker 1: what happened, and the boy just says, the monster came
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Speaker 1: in the window. They don't know what to make of this.
20:56
Speaker 1: They're not sure if that means an intruder came in
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Speaker 1: or what. But they have to get him to the hospital.
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Speaker 1: They scoop him up, they grab Blair and they get
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Speaker 1: in the car and they leave. They get Sean to
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Speaker 1: the hospital and sure enough, he's got a very bad
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Speaker 1: break in his arm and he needs to stay at
21:09
Speaker 1: the hospital for a couple of days. Now, this happened
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Speaker 1: on a Sunday night, and so Brian had to go
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Speaker 1: back to Maryland the next day for work, so their
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Speaker 1: car was gone. So three days later when it was
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Speaker 1: time to get Sean, Belinda had to borrow her mother's
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Speaker 1: car to go pick him up. So Belinda gets her
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Speaker 1: mother's car and she and Blair drive to the hospital.
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Speaker 1: They pick up Sean. As they're driving back, the car
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Speaker 1: breaks down and they're on the side of the road
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Speaker 1: with flashers on, and Belinda doesn't know what to do. Luckily,
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Speaker 1: a good Samaritan is driving by another resident of Slainsville
21:38
Speaker 1: sees them pulled over. She pulls over. It's an older
21:41
Speaker 1: woman and she says, hey, can I give you guys
21:42
Speaker 1: a ride? Belinda's like, thank you, you ask me to ride.
21:45
Speaker 1: So she Sean and Blair load up in the car
21:48
Speaker 1: and they start driving to their house. And so Belinda
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Speaker 1: tells the someone where she lives. Yep, you take this road,
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Speaker 1: you get up to our house and step back in
21:54
Speaker 1: the woods there. And when she realizes where Belinda lives,
21:57
Speaker 1: she looks at Belinda and goes, you do know this
22:00
Speaker 1: of your house, right? And Belinda looks at her and goes, yeah,
22:03
Speaker 1: the fire they killed the family were aware. She goes, no,
22:07
Speaker 1: not a fire. The last occupant of your house was
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Speaker 1: rumored to be hurting children on your property and there's
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Speaker 1: no proof. But some of the local men here decided
22:15
Speaker 1: they were going to take justice into their own hands,
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Speaker 1: and they convinced this guy to go hunting with them,
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Speaker 1: and they brought him out in the woods behind his
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Speaker 1: house and they ambushed him. And his body's never been found.
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Speaker 1: It's rumored there's a van somewhere in the woods near
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Speaker 1: your house where they put him inside of it, shut
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Speaker 1: the doors and lit it on fire. Belinda's in shock
22:34
Speaker 1: hearing this because now if her house is haunted, but
22:38
Speaker 1: she's believing it is, it's not some nice family that
22:41
Speaker 1: was sadly lost in a fire. It's this horrible man.
22:45
Speaker 1: They finally got back to the house, they said bye
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Speaker 1: to the woman, and Belinda and her kids went inside.
22:50
Speaker 1: And for Belinda, it was like this horrible sense of
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Speaker 1: dread being in the house. It just felt evil, and
22:56
Speaker 1: she realized that she couldn't stay there anymore. So she
22:58
Speaker 1: picks up the phone. She called Brian and she says,
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Speaker 1: I cannot stay here another night. I have to go,
23:03
Speaker 1: and so Brian says, okay, he drives back from Maryland.
23:06
Speaker 1: They pack some bags, they get in his car, and
23:08
Speaker 1: they all leave for Brian's mom's house. And that was it.
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Speaker 1: They never stayed another night at that house. They only
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Speaker 1: went back a couple times to pack up their stuff,
23:16
Speaker 1: put it in moving trucks, and they left. So I'd
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