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Speaker 1: About ten years ago, I worked at a cemetery. The

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money was good and it was relatively easy. All I

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really had to do was drive around in my truck

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and make sure no kids were causing trouble. Every night

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was exactly the same, and by then I had already

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gotten used to the creepy nature of the job. After

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a normal night of work, I got off around six

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a m. And headed home. I didn't usually go to

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bed until around eleven or so, and while I was

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getting ready at ten thirty, I got a call from

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my boss. He asked me if I had seen anything

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last night, and I said no because I hadn't. He

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then told me that a grave had been defaced. I

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swore I didn't see anything, though, especially not some group

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of kids, which are typically the culprit. Anyways, he asked

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me if I could come back and help him clean it,

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and I agreed, of course, because I kind of felt

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like it was my fault. When I got there, I

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realized I had underestimated how horrible these writings on the

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grave had been. This was not the usual small writing

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or anything. There was writing all over the stone with

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horrible words and markings. What made it so much worse

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was that when we were cleaning everything off, I was

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finally able to read who the person was. I will

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obviously not say the name for privacy reasons, but it

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was a child only eight years old when he passed

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away just a few months prior. I was filled with

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anger and sadness, unlike any I felt before. I mean,

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who does that to a kid? I stayed with my

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boss for a bit as we checked some surveillance footage.

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This cemetery was huge, though, and the only camera we

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had was on one building where the funerals were held,

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and it wasn't very big. And again, this was quite

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a long time ago and cameras weren't what they are

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to day. We didn't see any one at all. My

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boss notified the town's office, as the cemetery is owned

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and run by the city, and for the next few

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weeks they had some new guys come out to go

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on watch with me from dusk to dawn. Those weeks

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went by without anything happening. Didn't see anyone or find

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any defaced graves. One of the guys rode around with

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me while the other one stayed near the entrance. I

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actually became good friends with my watch partner. We wondered

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and talked about what the defacer looked like, and after

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some time it seemed like we'd never get to know.

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Nothing was really happening anymore, and it kind of seemed

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like a one and done type of screwed up situation. Eventually,

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the other watch guards left due to the inactivity, and

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it was back to just me. Another week went by

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of nothing before something happened again. One night, as I

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had just started my shift and began patrolling, I drove

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all the way to the back of the cemetery, got

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out and began my walk, which I had to start

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doing to see if any graves had writing or whatnot.

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As I was getting to about where the kid's grave was,

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I realized that something was off. I was a couple

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hundred feet away from the kid's grave and it was

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pitch black, but something looked out of place. I stared

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in that direction for a whole thirty seconds, getting a

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little creeped out. Even then, I started walking closer, shining

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my dim flashlight all around the area. Once I was

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just a hundred feet away, I shined my flashlight again

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at the kid's grave. The light barely reached that far

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and in the dim, foggy darkness, I could see a

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black figure laying on the ground, completely still, next to

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the grave. Obviously, I was horrified. I didn't know if

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it was a dead body that had been dug up

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or a living person trying to hide. I stepped closer slowly,

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and once I was maybe forty or fifty feet away,

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I almost got a heart attack as the figure jumped

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up and sprinted into the dark field of graves, completely

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disappearing in the darkness in just a few seconds. I

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stood in place, shocked, horrified and confused. Once I got

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hold of myself, I ran back to the truck and

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radioed for the police. Then I went back over to

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the kid's grave. Warned you. What I saw was really disturbing.

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In front of the gravestone was a hole. It wasn't

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a big hole, nothing done from a shovel, but more

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like someone's hands. It didn't even go very deep, maybe

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just a foot Either way, though, someone had tried to

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dig up this child's grave with their bare hands, and

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it made me sick. I'm not sure what the person

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was trying to achieve, and unfortunately we never figured out

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who did it, but rest assured it never happened again.

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The town hired two new people permanently, and one of

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us always kept watch over that grave specifically, while the

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other two scouted the area. The city also had more

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people on watch throughout the day as well. To this day,

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that's been by far the worst thing I've seen while

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doing graveyard work. No ghosts, no creatures, just horrible human beings.

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I'm a community patrol officer for a neighborhood in southern

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Las Vegas. If you aren't familiar with this occupation, it's

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nothing like a police officer or anything. I'm just a

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regular twenty five year old that drives a small patrol

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vehicle around nice neighborhoods to make the residents feel safer.

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It's a pretty common thing around here, since there's a

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lot of rich neighborhoods right next to a violent city.

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All my patrols, I have to also report specific community violations.

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For instance, some housing communities require bushes to be trimmed

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every week, so if I see an overgrown bush, I

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have to report it and leave a note at the residence.

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It's petty, and I personally find it weird that people

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like to live in neighborhoods like that, but it gives

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me a job, so I can't complain too much anyway.

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I primarily work eight pm to three am. It's an

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odd shift, but that's just how they schedule. For some reason,

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I'd never seen anything strange before this incident. The only

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things I'd ever really see were groups of teenagers doing

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dumbshit at the parks at one am. But last week

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I had something happened that was beyond disturbing and I

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can't stop thinking about it. I was doing my regular patrol,

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which was a specific route we had to take during

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the middle, beginning and end of our shifts. This was

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my midshift patrol, so it was about ten p m.

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And pretty quiet outside. During the drive, I have to

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check the community pools to make sure they are locked

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for the night. I pulled into the small parking lot

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and walked over to the gate. I quickly walked inside

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and checked the pool area to make sure nobody was

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still inside, then went back out and locked it. As

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I made my way over to my car, I noticed

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a hooded man sitting on one of the park benches

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not far from where I was. Both of his hands

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were in his pockets and he seemed to just be

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staring at the ground. Honestly, I thought the dude was

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just waiting for his drug dealer or something, but I

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didn't know, nor did I really care. I got back

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in my car and continued on with my route. The

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community is large and the routes take probably an hour

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to complete with no traffic. By the time I finished,

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it was just about midnight, and the next little bit

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all I had to do was drive around the neighborhoods.

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I mindlessly moved the car through the streets for a

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while before finding myself back by the pool, to which

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I noticed that the man was no longer sitting on

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the bench. I slowed the car a bit, looking around

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the sidewalks in the park, purely out of curiosity, but

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I didn't see him anywhere. Not thinking much of it,

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I kept on As I drove past the dark, empty park,

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I couldn't help again uneasy sense going through me. I

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don't know what it was, but something felt off. I

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continued for a few more minutes before pulling up to

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a stop sign and noticed a man on the side

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as if he was going to walk across. After a

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few seconds, I recognized him as the same hooded man

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from earlier. He slowly made his way across, but stopped

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half way and turned to face me. Being only a

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few feet away, he quickly walked up to my window,

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trying to ask me something. I cracked the window slightly,

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and the man quickly asked me where a specific address was.

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Of course, I said I didn't know. Sure I could

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have looked it up or given him a general direction,

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but the circumstances of the situation fell very off. Even

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more oddly, he didn't even have any emotion or response

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when I said I didn't know. He just stood in

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silence for a second, then repeated his question exactly as

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he said it before. This was when I really started

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to get nervous and feel unsafe. I told him I

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needed to leave, quickly rolling up my window and beginning

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to move forward. The man didn't do anything. As I

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drove off, looking in my rear view mirror, he was

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just standing there in the middle of the road watching

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me drive away. I parked down by a nearby street

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by one of the houses, then collected my thoughts. It

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was a really weird encounter, but wasn't reason enough to

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call the police. I didn't know. As bad as it sounds,

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calling the police while at work is a big deal,

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and I didn't want to unless it was actually necessary.

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The big question that kept coming up in my mind, though,

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was why was he looking for that address. I decided

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to type it into my GPS, and it was just

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a few minutes away inside the neighborhood I was patrolling,

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so I got back on the road and made my

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way over to the address. When I arrived, it seemed

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like every other ordinary house at one am. All the

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lights were off and nobody was outside. I parked on

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the other side of the street and waited for a bit,

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But not even thirty seconds later, the hooded man came

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into sight walking down the sidewalk towards the house. I

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watched from my car as he walked up their driveway

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and up to their front door. He knocked a few times,

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then waited for a while before knocking again. Almost a

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whole minute went by before someone answered the door. Immediately,

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the hooded man slammed his body into the homeowner and

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fought his way inside the home. I was in shock,

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seeing something like this for the first time, happening right

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in front of me. I controlled myself as soon as

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I could and called the police. As I sat waiting

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in fear, I didn't see any movement for two or

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three minutes. I debated with myself whether or not to

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go in and try and help the homeowner. Honestly, though,

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I was terrified and didn't want to make an already

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horrible situation even worse, so I stayed in my car. Suddenly,

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the front door moved a little, then swung open abruptly,

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followed by the hooded man sprinting out and running off

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down the street. The police didn't arrive until almost ten

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minutes later. I don't know what took so long. I'm

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sure it wasn't anyone's fault, but part of me was furious.

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By then, the man was long gone and the homeowner

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was laying inside, having been beaten so hard that he

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was unconscious. Over the next few days, more unfortunate information

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came in. The homeowner didn't recognize the man from anywhere

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and barely even remembered the situation. But the guy also

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didn't steal anything from his house. This was very unusual

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because the man had clearly known of the homeowner's address

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and his only known goal was to hurt the homeowner. Thus,

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it didn't make much sense for the suspect to not

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be someone he knew. The whole thing was very strange,

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and it still makes me feel uneasy. It's only been

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a week since this happened, though, so hopefully more information

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comes up and the hooded man gets caught. I had

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recently graduated when this occurred a few years ago, and

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was taking full advantage of my summer vacation. I had

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started working full time at the high school where I

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had just completed my studies since I needed the money

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for college. My family had asked me to accompany them

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to my grandparents' home in Virginia, but I had declined

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because I had already purchased tickets for a concert that

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was set to take place on the very day we

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had to depart. I didn't mind staying behind at all.

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I mean, what eighteen year old doesn't want a house

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to themselves for a full week. Furthermore, concerns that my

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neighbors would complain about the parties or it caused me

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any kind of inconvenience because most of them were gone

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as well. I had a strong desire for some fried

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chicken that day, which took me out of the house

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on my way back there was an accident on the

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main road, causing a whole line of traffic, so I

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decided to take a shortcut and was relying solely on

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Google Maps to get me home. I noticed a light

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turned on as I passed the mechanic shop along the route.

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It was another car, but this car had only one

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functional headlight, which was really weird. I distinctly recall finding

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it really odd that this automobile had abruptly turned on

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its light as I was passing, and I was even

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more alarmed when it departed behind me. But I was

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aware that I have a tendency to be paranoid, and

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that I frequently wonder if someone is watching me and

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whether they have malicious intentions. I dismissed the idea as

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a weird coincidence and moved on. I started to stress

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out as I got closer to my neighborhood and realized

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that the car was still following me. My fear was

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increased by the fact that I was on gas at

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the moment. I had two choices at this point. Either

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I turn around and drive home while the strange car pursues,

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or I just drive about and see if it follows

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or not driving around however, seemed to be a very

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dangerous alternative. Because I wasn't sure what I would do

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if my car ran out of fuel in the middle

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of the road, leaving me trapped with this creep. I

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reasoned that I'd better take a chance in a familiar

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setting rather than on the side of a lonely, dusky

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country road. Once this was decided, I pulled onto my

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street and felt my heart drop as the car with

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one headlight turned directly behind me. At this moment, I

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thought I was doomed. I started pulling into my driveway

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because there was nothing else I could do, and to

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my absolute horror, they started to follow me up. Now

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that I think about it, I believe I should have

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called the police, but at the time I was so

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engrossed in my own thoughts that the idea never even

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entered my head. I might have contacted my dad, who

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would have gotten his rifle if he was home, but

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he and the rest of the family were twelve hours

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away at the time. I stopped and placed my car

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in reverse. When the car started to follow me up

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the driveway, they reversed in response, but they also came

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to a stop at the bottom, thus blocking my way out.

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I started moving forward again, but everything just kept repeating.

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I drove, they followed, I reversed, and they blocked my

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exit over and over again a couple of times. Finally,

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I hurriedly pulled further up the driveway and swung my

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car around to confront them. They had already covered more

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than half of my driveway By this point. I was afraid,

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alone and furious. I opened the car door and stepped

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out with my small pocket knife firmly in my right

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hand and my headlights blazing directly into their face. Because

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I've always been naturally paranoid, as I've already mentioned, I

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used to keep a small knife between my seat and

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the car door. I shouted at them, holding the knife out.

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I merely hoped that they would be panicked. I think

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they might have believed I was a girl or week,

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or maybe had not expected me to react so aggressively.

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They backed out of my driveway gradually and slowly made

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their way down the street. But then they parked their

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car by a neighbor's house down the road, and through

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the darkness I could see someone get out. It was

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at this point that I began to think more clearly

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and quickly ran inside and called the police. I then

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went over to the front window, looking out of the

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dark neighborhood streets, but couldn't see any movement. My adrenaline

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was fading, and I began to panic even more than

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I was when I was standing in the driveway. Just then,

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footsteps were heard running around the outside of my house,

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followed by a nearby window shaking as they tried to

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force fully open it. I was terrified and losing my

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mind in the panic of the moment. The man continued

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to run around the house, testing every door and window,

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trying to force them open. I knew I kept everything locked,

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but I was worried he may still find a way

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to break in. I ran upstairs and locked myself in

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the bedroom, then called nine one one again to ask

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for an update. I was thankful to hear that they

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were in the neighborhood less than a minute away. The

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man began banging against the front door, yelling for me

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to open it. Two cop cars pulled into the driveway

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just in time, though, and surprisingly the man didn't run

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or anything. I washed through the windows as they put

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him in cuffs. Then I made my way outside to

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greet the officers. The guy was trying to convince one

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of the cops that he wasn't doing anything wrong, but

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of course the cop wasn't buying it anyway. Long story short,

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it turned out that the man was heavily under the

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influence of both drugs and alcohol at the time. He

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never explained what his plans for following me or trying

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to break into my house were, but considering his state,

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it couldn't have been good. Luckily, I don't have to

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worry about seeing him for a long time. SA