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<v Speaker 1>Hi.

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<v Speaker 2>If you're a lover of all things spooky and eerie,

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<v Speaker 2>then Untold True Crime Horror is the perfect storytelling podcast

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<v Speaker 2>petrifying horror experience, do not forget to subscribe, as your

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<v Speaker 2>nightmares are about to get a whole lot scarier.

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<v Speaker 1>About five years ago, I lived downtown in a major

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<v Speaker 1>city in the US. I've always been a night person,

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<v Speaker 1>so I would often find myself bored after my roommate,

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<v Speaker 1>who was decidedly not a night person, went to sleep.

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<v Speaker 1>To pass the time, I used to go for long

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<v Speaker 1>walks and spend the time thinking. I spent four years

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<v Speaker 1>like that, walking alone at night. I never once had

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<v Speaker 1>a reason to feel afraid. I always used to joke

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<v Speaker 1>with my roommates that even the drug dealers in the

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<v Speaker 1>city were light. But all that changed in just a

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<v Speaker 1>few minutes of one evening. It was a Wednesday, somewhere

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<v Speaker 1>between one and two in the morning, and I was

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<v Speaker 1>walking near a police patrolled park quite a ways from

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<v Speaker 1>my apartment. It was a quiet night, even for a

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<v Speaker 1>week night, with very little traffic and almost no one

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<v Speaker 1>on foot the park, as it was most nights was

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<v Speaker 1>completely empty. I went down a short side street in

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<v Speaker 1>order to loop back down my apartment. When I first

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<v Speaker 1>noticed him, at the far end of the street on

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<v Speaker 1>my side was the silhouette of a man dancing. It

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<v Speaker 1>was a strange dance, similar to a waltz, but he

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<v Speaker 1>finished each box with an odd forward stride. I guess

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<v Speaker 1>you could say he was dance walking, headed straight from me.

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<v Speaker 1>Deciding he was probably drunk, I stepped as close as

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<v Speaker 1>I could to the road to give him the majority

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<v Speaker 1>of the sidewalk to pass me. The closer he got,

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<v Speaker 1>the more I realized how gracefully he was moving. He

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<v Speaker 1>was very tall and lanky and wearing an old suit.

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<v Speaker 1>He danced closer still until I could make out his face.

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<v Speaker 1>His eyes were open wide and wild head tilted back slightly,

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<v Speaker 1>looking off of the sky. His mouth was formed in

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<v Speaker 1>a painfully wide cartoon of a smile. Between the eyes

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<v Speaker 1>and the smile. I decided to cross the street before

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<v Speaker 1>he danced any closer. I took my eyes off of

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<v Speaker 1>him to cross the empty street. As I reached the

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<v Speaker 1>other side, I glanced back and then stopped dead in

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<v Speaker 1>my tracks. He had stopped dancing and was standing with

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<v Speaker 1>one foot in the street, perfectly parallel to me. He

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<v Speaker 1>was facing me, but still looking skyward, smiles still wide

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<v Speaker 1>on his lips. I was completely and utterly unnerved by this.

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<v Speaker 1>I started walking again, but kept my eyes on the man.

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<v Speaker 1>He didn't move. Once I had put about half a

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<v Speaker 1>block between us, I turned away from him for a

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<v Speaker 1>moment to watch the sidewalk in front of me. The

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<v Speaker 1>street and sidewalk ahead of me were completely empty. Still unnerved,

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<v Speaker 1>I looked back to where he had been standing to

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<v Speaker 1>find him gone. For the briefest of moments, I felt

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<v Speaker 1>relieved until I noticed him. He had crossed the street

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<v Speaker 1>and was now slightly crouched down. I couldn't tell for

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<v Speaker 1>sure due to the distance and the shadows, but I

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<v Speaker 1>was certain he was facing me. I had looked away

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<v Speaker 1>from him for no more than ten seconds, so it

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<v Speaker 1>was clear that he had moved fast. I was so shocked,

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<v Speaker 1>and I stood there for some time staring at him.

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<v Speaker 1>And then he started moving toward me again. He took giant, exaggerated,

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<v Speaker 1>tiptoed steps, as if he were a cartoon character sneaking

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<v Speaker 1>up on someone, except he was moving very, very quickly.

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<v Speaker 1>I'd like to say at this point that I ran

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<v Speaker 1>away or pulled out my peppers cell phone or anything

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<v Speaker 1>at all, but I didn't. I just stood there, completely frozen,

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<v Speaker 1>as the smiling man crept toward me, and then he

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<v Speaker 1>stopped again, about a car length away from me, still

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<v Speaker 1>smiling his smile, still looking to the sky. When I

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<v Speaker 1>finally found my voice, I blurted out the first thing

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<v Speaker 1>that came to mind. What I meant to ask was

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<v Speaker 1>what the fuck do you want? In an angry, commanding tone.

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<v Speaker 1>What came out was a whimper, what the fuck? Regardless

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<v Speaker 1>of whether or not humans can smell here, they can

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<v Speaker 1>certainly hear it. I heard it in my own voice.

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<v Speaker 1>That only made me more afraid. But he didn't react

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<v Speaker 1>to it at all. He just stood there, smiling, and then,

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<v Speaker 1>after what felt like forever, he turned around very slowly

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<v Speaker 1>and started dance, walking away just like that. Not wanting

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<v Speaker 1>to turn my back to him again, I just watched

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<v Speaker 1>him go until he was far enough away to almost

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<v Speaker 1>be out of sight, and then I realized something. He

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't moving away anymore, nor was he dancing. I watched

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<v Speaker 1>in horror as the distant shape of him got bigger

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<v Speaker 1>and bigger. He was coming back my way. He was

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<v Speaker 1>coming back my way, and this time he was running.

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<v Speaker 1>I ran too. I ran until I was off the

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<v Speaker 1>side road and back onto a better lit road with

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<v Speaker 1>sparse traffic. Looking behind me, then he was nowhere to

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<v Speaker 1>be found. The rest of my way home, I kept

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<v Speaker 1>glancing over my shoulder, always expecting to see his stupid smile,

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<v Speaker 1>but he was never there. I lived in that city

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<v Speaker 1>for six months after that, and I never went out

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<v Speaker 1>for another walk. There was something about his face that

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<v Speaker 1>always haunted me. He didn't look drunk, he didn't look high.

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<v Speaker 1>He looked completely and utterly insane. And that's a very,

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<v Speaker 1>very scary thing to see.