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<v Speaker 1>Spooky season is here at Scary Story Podcast, So I

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<v Speaker 1>have a bunch of campfire style stories for you right

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<v Speaker 1>now here we go. My name is Edwin, and here's

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<v Speaker 1>a scary story. It was Halloween two thousand and three

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<v Speaker 1>when this happened. I was with my sister and we

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<v Speaker 1>had gotten dropped off at the end of one of

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<v Speaker 1>the main streets of my neighborhood, one where there's a

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<v Speaker 1>straight shot through a bunch of residential homes. We were

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<v Speaker 1>supposed to meet up with some friends and make our

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<v Speaker 1>way back down that street, finally ending up at one

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<v Speaker 1>of their houses where they would have a small party.

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<v Speaker 1>Nothing big, just movies, pizza, scaring trigger treaters and stuff

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<v Speaker 1>like that. It was eight in the evening, which apparently

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<v Speaker 1>seemed too early because they weren't many trigger treaters out,

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<v Speaker 1>But then again, the end of that street had a

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<v Speaker 1>bunch of warehouses before you get to the dead end.

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<v Speaker 1>As we were making our way back, we noticed a

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<v Speaker 1>woman on one of the corners who was waiting at

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<v Speaker 1>the street light. It didn't cross when the walking signs turned.

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<v Speaker 1>My sister and I were still waiting at the bench

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<v Speaker 1>of a bus stop for my friends to get dropped

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<v Speaker 1>off diagonal to where this woman was so we had

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<v Speaker 1>a clear view. You got to see this lady stand

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<v Speaker 1>there for a good ten minutes. She kept looking both ways,

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<v Speaker 1>making it seem like she was crossing, but then waited.

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<v Speaker 1>My sister got closer to me on the bench and

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<v Speaker 1>told me how weird she looked. I normally used glasses

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<v Speaker 1>and wasn't wearing them right then because they would get

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<v Speaker 1>stained with a face paint I had on. But my

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<v Speaker 1>sister kept saying that she wouldn't stop smiling. I should

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<v Speaker 1>have believed her, for at the moment, I only thought

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<v Speaker 1>that she was either wearing smile makeup or a mask

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<v Speaker 1>of some sort. I was looking out over the street

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<v Speaker 1>to see if I spotted my friend's dad's car, because

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<v Speaker 1>the street was pretty empty and quiet. But then my

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<v Speaker 1>sister tugged at my sleeve and told me to run.

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<v Speaker 1>She stood up and pulled me until I got up.

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<v Speaker 1>When I looked at where she was staring at, I

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<v Speaker 1>saw this woman walking very quickly toward us diagonally across

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<v Speaker 1>the street. She was wearing a stained white and long

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<v Speaker 1>t shirt, like the kind old women wear to go

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<v Speaker 1>to sleep, or like hospital type clothing. I could tell

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<v Speaker 1>she had gray hair, so it surprised me just how

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<v Speaker 1>fast she was rushing toward us. But I was scared

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<v Speaker 1>at which she was holding, because I couldn't tell if

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<v Speaker 1>it was a pillow cover to put candy in something

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<v Speaker 1>much worse. We were running for like five seconds down

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<v Speaker 1>the block before we heard a loud honk of a semitruck.

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<v Speaker 1>We turned around to see it crash into the metal

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<v Speaker 1>fencing of the warehouse parking lot right across the street,

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<v Speaker 1>completely frozen in place. Just happened so quickly, and even

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<v Speaker 1>though it was kind of dark out, my sister and

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<v Speaker 1>I both got to see the red stained clothes of

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<v Speaker 1>that person in the middle of the street. It was

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<v Speaker 1>the first time I ever got to see a body

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<v Speaker 1>twisted in such an unnatural way that it even gave

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<v Speaker 1>my sister nightmares for years. Neither of us had cell

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<v Speaker 1>phones back then, so we ended up walking to a

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<v Speaker 1>frame house and calling our parents to come get us.

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<v Speaker 1>Much later, we found out that the person that chased

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<v Speaker 1>us was a guy from high school. He was dressed

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<v Speaker 1>up as a psych word patient. We didn't know him,

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<v Speaker 1>but some friends say that they knew who he was.

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<v Speaker 1>He was only trying to scare us. In my nightmares,

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<v Speaker 1>I think of how things could have been different if

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<v Speaker 1>we hadn't run away. Back when I was working for

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<v Speaker 1>a place literally called Devil's Pizzeria, fitting name. Now, I

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<v Speaker 1>suppose we used to get this caller that no matter

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<v Speaker 1>how often our boss blocked his number, he would find

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<v Speaker 1>a way to call from some other one. He was

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<v Speaker 1>a weird guy, sounded to bee like in his sixties

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<v Speaker 1>over the phone and would ask to speak to Sylvia.

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<v Speaker 1>When I first started working there, I answered the phone

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<v Speaker 1>and asked another coworker if there was a Sylvia that

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<v Speaker 1>worked there. He kind of chuckled and asked if it

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<v Speaker 1>was an old guy on the phone, and he just

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<v Speaker 1>told me to hang up. Now, I don't like being

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<v Speaker 1>rude to people, so instead I told him that I

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<v Speaker 1>thought he had the wrong number, and he was about

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<v Speaker 1>to explain himself pleading to talk to Sylvia when my

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<v Speaker 1>coworker came by and hung up the phone by pushing

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<v Speaker 1>the button on the phone holder. He told me that

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<v Speaker 1>we had a clear instructions that if he ever called,

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<v Speaker 1>we're supposed to hang up immediately. I had so many questions,

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<v Speaker 1>but this guy at work was one of those know

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<v Speaker 1>it all kinds of people, so I figured I would

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<v Speaker 1>ask someone else during a break or something. A few

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<v Speaker 1>days after that, I got to ask one of the

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<v Speaker 1>guys who worked at the back if there had ever

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<v Speaker 1>been a Silvia that work there, and what he told

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<v Speaker 1>me freaked me out because there had indeed been a

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<v Speaker 1>Silvia there, but she had been killed by her ex

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<v Speaker 1>boyfriend a long time ago. I was taking journalism classes

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<v Speaker 1>back then, and this was before true crime was a thing,

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<v Speaker 1>so I wanted to make a project about her case

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<v Speaker 1>turn it in at the end of the semester. But

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<v Speaker 1>I ended up changing my mind after learning that her

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<v Speaker 1>ex boyfriend had also died while in jail over medical issues,

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<v Speaker 1>long before I even started getting the phone calls. If

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<v Speaker 1>he was gone, then who was calling now? What had

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<v Speaker 1>weired me out the most was that I got these

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<v Speaker 1>calls more than once, and they continued all the way

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<v Speaker 1>up until I found this out that her killer had

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<v Speaker 1>also died. Whenever we would have someone new managing the phones,

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<v Speaker 1>they would claim to get those calls. I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>they ever stopped the business, and the phone company tried investigating.

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<v Speaker 1>Some of the calls were traced to come out from

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<v Speaker 1>out of state and others without a calor ID. They

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<v Speaker 1>also got trace to random places, but the instructions always

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<v Speaker 1>stayed the same. If someone calls for Sylvia, hang up.

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<v Speaker 1>I used to live in a really old house up

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<v Speaker 1>until I got to high school, and I'm pretty sure

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<v Speaker 1>it was haunted. That was nine only moved in, and

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<v Speaker 1>I remember wanting my parents to walk with me upstairs

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<v Speaker 1>when it was time to go to bed because I

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<v Speaker 1>refused to walk there by myself. I am an only child,

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<v Speaker 1>and I know this is really weird, but my parents

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<v Speaker 1>had a room set up at the end of the

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<v Speaker 1>hall that had a small bed and a few toys.

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<v Speaker 1>It wasn't allowed in most of the time, except for

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<v Speaker 1>when my mom was cleaning it and asked me to

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<v Speaker 1>go in there with her because she was afraid of

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<v Speaker 1>it too. One time, when we were both in there,

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<v Speaker 1>something weird happened. That room had a really cool train

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<v Speaker 1>set on top of one of the desks, and I

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<v Speaker 1>remember trying to reach for it. Before I did, it

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<v Speaker 1>turned on and I stood there watching it loop around

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<v Speaker 1>twice and then stop. My mom freaked out and got

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<v Speaker 1>us both out of the room, but didn't tell me why.

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<v Speaker 1>I heard her explain it to my dad when he

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<v Speaker 1>got home later that day and he got up from

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<v Speaker 1>the dinner table, He went upstairs and came back confirming

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<v Speaker 1>that the train had no batteries. I watched them both

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<v Speaker 1>look at each other for a while and then look

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<v Speaker 1>at me for my reaction, But honestly, all I could

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<v Speaker 1>feel at the moment was relief and knowing that now

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<v Speaker 1>they knew that I wasn't making anything up and that

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<v Speaker 1>there was something weird in that house. A couple of

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<v Speaker 1>months after that, my mom and I were home alone

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<v Speaker 1>on a Saturday afternoon when he heard movement coming from

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<v Speaker 1>that room. Clearly. She turned off the TV and we

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<v Speaker 1>both heard footsteps. They were running from where that room

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<v Speaker 1>was and down the hallway upstairs. She grabbed my hand

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<v Speaker 1>and pulled me toward the front door, and that's where

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<v Speaker 1>we sat on an old couch we had on the

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<v Speaker 1>porch until my dad came home. This time it was scarier,

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<v Speaker 1>I think, just seeing how frightened my mom was really

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<v Speaker 1>freaked me out. I asked her about the room and

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<v Speaker 1>what she thought it was, and I didn't understand her

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<v Speaker 1>completely at the time, just the part she said about

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<v Speaker 1>how the owner of the house wanted us to take

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<v Speaker 1>care of that room while we lived there. When my

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<v Speaker 1>dad got home and we all went inside again, he

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<v Speaker 1>went up to check it out and said at the

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<v Speaker 1>closet door inside that room was open and that some

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<v Speaker 1>of the boxes that had been in there were now

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<v Speaker 1>on the floor. Those boxes were some of my old toys.

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<v Speaker 1>Looking back at it now, everything makes sense. Well, everything

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<v Speaker 1>had an explanation, except for the haunted part, Like it

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<v Speaker 1>would make sense that whatever was in that room didn't

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<v Speaker 1>want any of my stuff in there, or that it

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<v Speaker 1>didn't want me touching the toys or whatever, so we

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<v Speaker 1>just sort of followed those rules. We didn't have much

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<v Speaker 1>trouble after that, although Mom still asked me to go

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<v Speaker 1>with her whenever she cleaned it. It was like that

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<v Speaker 1>until our lease ended. The owner of the house, who

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<v Speaker 1>was pretty old already had died and had left the house,

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<v Speaker 1>who has grown children who were now planning on selling it.

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<v Speaker 1>My dad told me much later now that we retell

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<v Speaker 1>this story, that he didn't want to buy the house

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<v Speaker 1>because even though it wasn't a condition for purchase, we

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<v Speaker 1>all knew they would have to keep that room for

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<v Speaker 1>whatever was living in there. Ever, that he would rather

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<v Speaker 1>have someone else deal with it. While I was in college,

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<v Speaker 1>I had a job working for a company that fixed

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<v Speaker 1>monitors and other computer hardware. The only thing I was

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<v Speaker 1>allowed to work on there were the power units and

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<v Speaker 1>replacing the speakers or other minor things on the monitors.

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<v Speaker 1>Anything more than that I was supposed to call the

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<v Speaker 1>team leader, who was this super nerdy guy who had

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<v Speaker 1>started his own business when he was even younger. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>one time, we got this girl who came in super

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<v Speaker 1>nervous about her broken computer monitor. When someone like this

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<v Speaker 1>comes in all nervous and stuff, we usually know what

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<v Speaker 1>it is, and they're usually worried about their search history

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<v Speaker 1>or some virus that they got after downloading certain content online.

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<v Speaker 1>But this girl had only brought in her monitor. Our

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<v Speaker 1>story was pretty wild, and to this day it's still

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<v Speaker 1>the creepiest thing I have ever witnessed. Aim was that

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<v Speaker 1>there was a shape that kept appearing on her screen,

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<v Speaker 1>and no matter what she did, she couldn't get rid

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<v Speaker 1>of it. She showed me a picture of it, and

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<v Speaker 1>I saw it clear as day, the face of an

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<v Speaker 1>old woman, wide mouthed and a wrinkled face. Literally looked

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<v Speaker 1>like she was screaming at you. When I'm saying this

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<v Speaker 1>was clear. I mean you could literally see the reflection

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<v Speaker 1>of someone in the darkness of her eyes, like they

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<v Speaker 1>already looked watery and really shiny as is, but in

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<v Speaker 1>front of me at just an old monitor, a common

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<v Speaker 1>brand that's still in business today. I didn't know what

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<v Speaker 1>to do with the information, so I called up the

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<v Speaker 1>team leader and asked him what he thought of it.

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<v Speaker 1>It burned impression on the monitor. He said something that

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<v Speaker 1>meant that there had been an image, either a background

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<v Speaker 1>image or something that was left on the same spot

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<v Speaker 1>for too long, giving it enough time for the tiny

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<v Speaker 1>little lights or pixels on the screen to burn and

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<v Speaker 1>keep the same image there even when it was no

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<v Speaker 1>longer there. The girl had been sitting on the waiting

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<v Speaker 1>area by the desk of the shop while I took

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<v Speaker 1>the call, so I asked her if it looked like

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<v Speaker 1>so I decided to test it. We plugged in another CPU,

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<v Speaker 1>They opened up a notes program, a game and even

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<v Speaker 1>the web browser, and nothing seemed to be triggering it.

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<v Speaker 1>she would normally open. Neither of us could see this

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<v Speaker 1>impression of the woman. Honestly, at this point that was

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<v Speaker 1>about it, so instead I suggested that she bring along

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<v Speaker 1>her CPU so we could really test it out. She

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<v Speaker 1>of her friends who carried it in for her. He

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<v Speaker 1>also supported her claims of this impression of a woman's

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<v Speaker 1>face on the monitor, explaining even more of the other

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<v Speaker 1>so we turned it on, even dimmed the lights at

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<v Speaker 1>the shop to see if I could see this impression

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<v Speaker 1>of the woman on the screen. Nothing. I kind of

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<v Speaker 1>of other things to work on, so I tried to

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<v Speaker 1>light in the room, where maybe you a poster reflecting

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<v Speaker 1>off of it, something that they both denied. I was

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<v Speaker 1>really curious about this too, so when they asked me

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<v Speaker 1>to go check it out, that they had the computer

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<v Speaker 1>set up in the corner of their shriff apartment, I

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<v Speaker 1>said yes that I would go that same night, not

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<v Speaker 1>even sure of what to expect or if I was

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<v Speaker 1>walking into the prank of the year. I was around

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<v Speaker 1>ten at night when I finally showed up. The same

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<v Speaker 1>monitor in CPU had been set up where it would

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<v Speaker 1>normally be, and it was already turned on when I

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<v Speaker 1>told me to sit at the desk chair, and there

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<v Speaker 1>it was. The thing was much creepier than they had mentioned.

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<v Speaker 1>It was clear as day, like a mirror reflection of

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<v Speaker 1>a woman completely frozen. She was pale and had dark eyes,

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<v Speaker 1>with the very clear reflection in her eyes. It wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>faded out or anything, but extremely clear when the screen

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<v Speaker 1>turned dark, like when a video was loading. I moved

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<v Speaker 1>the monitor around from left to right and actually got

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<v Speaker 1>to see the whole image shift for just an instant

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<v Speaker 1>before I went back to the same woman. The girl

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<v Speaker 1>who had brought in the monitor kept her eyes on

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<v Speaker 1>me as I reacted to this thing, trying my best

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<v Speaker 1>to debunk or figure it out right there in front

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<v Speaker 1>of both of them, but I had no answers. All

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<v Speaker 1>I could think of was to get up close to

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<v Speaker 1>the image and see the reflection of her eyes. I

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<v Speaker 1>got it close to the screen very slowly and asked

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<v Speaker 1>both of them to turn off the lights in the

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<v Speaker 1>living room. We all huddled together as I got close

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<v Speaker 1>to it, my face now directly in front of the

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<v Speaker 1>screen with a dark screensaver to make the reflection easier

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<v Speaker 1>to see. But as I did, my heart started beating

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<v Speaker 1>faster and louder, and those eyes I could see three faces.

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<v Speaker 1>I gasped and threw myself back in the chair, freaking

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<v Speaker 1>both of them out. I don't know if what I

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<v Speaker 1>saw in those eyes was a normal reflection of ourselves

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<v Speaker 1>in that monitor, or literally of just her eyes. I

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<v Speaker 1>tried to take a screenshot of the screen, but there

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<v Speaker 1>was nothing that showed up there either. We had no explanation,

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<v Speaker 1>and even when I brought it up to the team

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<v Speaker 1>leader to see what we could do, he said to

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<v Speaker 1>just get it replaced with one of the newer flat

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<v Speaker 1>monitors with less reflection. We had a couple that we

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<v Speaker 1>had fixed, but were no longer needed by the original owner,

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<v Speaker 1>so we sold it to them for twenty bucks and

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<v Speaker 1>called it a day. They said it worked. Now this

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<v Speaker 1>is going to sound crazy, but the only thing that

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<v Speaker 1>changed between those monitors is that the ones that they

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<v Speaker 1>had tried all had the glossy reflective screens, while the

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<v Speaker 1>ones that we sold them did not. It made me

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<v Speaker 1>think that there was something in their living room all along,

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<v Speaker 1>and not the monitor itself, something that's still there. We

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<v Speaker 1>still use that monitor around the office where the invoice

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<v Speaker 1>computer is. It's the one we print from. No one

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<v Speaker 1>had any trouble with it. In the shop. There was

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<v Speaker 1>an old tree in the middle of the apartments where

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<v Speaker 1>we used to live that all the kids were afraid of.

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<v Speaker 1>There had been a kid who had seen a pair

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<v Speaker 1>of legs dangling from the branches one night when he

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<v Speaker 1>was out there playing by himself. He was bouncing around

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<v Speaker 1>to basketball, and he had gotten so scared that he

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<v Speaker 1>couldn't talk for several days. The family moved doubt in

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<v Speaker 1>the first month we had been there, so I only

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<v Speaker 1>got to see him around a few times, but he

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<v Speaker 1>always refused to go outside and play, so we never

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<v Speaker 1>really became friends. His mom was a real talker though,

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<v Speaker 1>and had told my mom and some of the other

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<v Speaker 1>people from the other units all about the incident. She

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<v Speaker 1>actually had the police investigate in everything, but nothing came

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<v Speaker 1>of it. Ever since then, the rest of us kids

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<v Speaker 1>would scare ourselves talking about it when we would stay

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<v Speaker 1>out after it got late. It all changed one night, though,

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<v Speaker 1>but the three of us all saw something we couldn't explain.

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<v Speaker 1>I had two friends, Edgar, who was eight my age,

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<v Speaker 1>and Anthony, who was a fifth grader, so of around ten,

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<v Speaker 1>we knew each other from school, and thanks to a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of other friends who also lived in the same complex.

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<v Speaker 1>For a while we got into glowing the dark stuff

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<v Speaker 1>like stars and rubber balls and all this other stuff

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<v Speaker 1>that we would hold up to a flashlight then later

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<v Speaker 1>throw around in the courtyard for a type of I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know, treasure hunt. It had gotten dark out, and

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<v Speaker 1>even though we normally stayed away from that tree, I

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<v Speaker 1>knew that no one would try to look there for

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<v Speaker 1>the treasure, so the timer would run out and I

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<v Speaker 1>would win. Honestly, I can't remember the rules of our game,

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<v Speaker 1>but that was the gist of it. I walked up

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<v Speaker 1>toward the tree practically through a little alien head that

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<v Speaker 1>glowed in the dark near the roots, and ran away,

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<v Speaker 1>getting to my other two friends before the time ran out.

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<v Speaker 1>Now they were supposed to look for it. Yeah, I

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<v Speaker 1>think that's how the game went. So I got back

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<v Speaker 1>to base and they started searching, and I was sitting

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<v Speaker 1>there against the wall by the millboxes, staring at the

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<v Speaker 1>timer when I heard both of them shriek loudly. Two

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<v Speaker 1>of the neighbors got out and yelled, asking them to

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<v Speaker 1>rush inside, and I ran out toward the courtyard as

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<v Speaker 1>the doors were shutting. I looked around me and watched

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<v Speaker 1>all of these window curtains move almost at the same time,

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<v Speaker 1>looking toward me. I looked back toward my door, but

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<v Speaker 1>in order to get to it, I was supposed to

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<v Speaker 1>run right by that tree or either around it toward

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<v Speaker 1>the dark parking lot. I panicked and couldn't get my

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<v Speaker 1>legs to move, so I stared ahead and watched as

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<v Speaker 1>this figure climbed down from the tree, gripping to the

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<v Speaker 1>sides of the truck slowly. It was too dark for

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<v Speaker 1>me to see what it was, but I watched as

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<v Speaker 1>a glow in the dark toy floated back up toward

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<v Speaker 1>the tree. In the darkness, and it disappeared in the branches.

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<v Speaker 1>It was then when I felt someone pull me from

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<v Speaker 1>my arms and shoulders and carried me toward my other

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<v Speaker 1>two friends. Edgar was trying to laugh over his tears,

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<v Speaker 1>while Anthony looked just as in shock as I did.

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<v Speaker 1>The neighbors went to get our parents, and they walked

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<v Speaker 1>over to get us one by one. The police showed

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<v Speaker 1>up about an hour after that, and they searched the

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<v Speaker 1>area along with us friends and our parents, where we

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<v Speaker 1>explained what we had seen. It turns out that for

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<v Speaker 1>Edgar and Anthony it had been much worse. They say

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<v Speaker 1>that they heard a man whistling from the tree and

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<v Speaker 1>they got to see his face, a bearded, bald man

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<v Speaker 1>with large red eyes. The police never found anything and

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<v Speaker 1>said that it was most likely someone who had sneaked

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<v Speaker 1>in and tried to scare us. The rest of the

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<v Speaker 1>kids in the neighborhood found out about the story too,

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<v Speaker 1>and we had something cool to talk about for the

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<v Speaker 1>rest of that year. But no matter how much I

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<v Speaker 1>try to figure it out even now, I still have

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<v Speaker 1>no idea how a person would be able to crawl

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<v Speaker 1>down a tree trunk like that and then go back

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<v Speaker 1>up last I checked that tree is still there and

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<v Speaker 1>the stories still circulate with some details added. I hope

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<v Speaker 1>children still avoid that area at night. You're following the show,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll be back next week with more stories. In the meantime,

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<v Speaker 1>find our other creepy shows from Scary FM right here

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<v Speaker 1>on the same app. Thank you very much for listening.

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<v Speaker 1>Keep it scary everyone, See you soon.