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I'll be the
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first to admit that I'm one of the most skeptical people I know.
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I don't believe in ghosts or any other paranormal stuff.
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I'm quick to dismiss stories that seem fake or at the very least fabricated.
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That's why I'm completely at a loss for words at what happened to me just weeks ago.
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I wanted to write all this while it was fresh in my mind.
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I can't explain what happened to me and to be honest, I'm still terrified.
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I thought to myself, maybe if I write what happened to me and share it with the internet, maybe someone out there can explain what happened.
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Well, hopefully somebody out there can explain.
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My friend Steve and his wife were going out of town for the weekend for their anniversary.
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The two of them don't travel alone a lot because they have two children and a dog.
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I know for some people that's a first world problem, and you're correct, but Steve isn't struggling financially.
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He built this massive home in the middle of nowhere because he likes privacy, and if you're fortunate enough to do that, I can't blame you.
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Well for Steve and his wife, the stars were about to align perfectly.
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The two kids were going out of town for some type of school trip, so they were going to be alone with just the dog.
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When Steve told me all of this, I insisted on going over and watching the dog for the weekend
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so he and his wife could go on a romantic weekend getaway.
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He agreed and the plan was set in stone.
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I would be watching his beautiful golden retriever for the weekend.
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I made my way to the house on Friday afternoon.
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I didn't work weekends so I planned on just staying there Friday through Sunday.
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Steve stocked the house full of food and snacks for me and made sure I had everything I needed.
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It was a bit overkill for a weekend pet sitting job, but I wasn't complaining.
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I love dogs and I love quiet weekends, so win-win for me.
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Now for the scary part.
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On Friday night, the dog and I just hung out and watched movies.
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Steve sent me a text around 9pm and said, Don't get scared being all alone in that house.
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It can get pretty spooky at night when you're by yourself.
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I gave him a single LOL text back and told him to shut up.
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As I said before, I'm a very skeptical person.
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I don't get scared of empty houses or being alone in the middle of nowhere.
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I'm well aware that anything can happen, so I just don't get scared easily.
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I slept in the spare bedroom and Steve's dog came with me.
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We went to bed around 1am.
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At 3.21 in the morning, I woke up to the sound of the dog barking downstairs.
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It was that loud and vicious barking.
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I won't lie, that actually did scare me.
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But more of the surprise scare, not that scared out of my skin kind of scare.
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I made my way downstairs and the entire time, the dog never stopped barking.
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I finally found the dog in the kitchen barking at the door that led to the basement.
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All the hair on his back was standing straight up and the dog looked incredibly spooked by something.
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I was calling his name and trying to calm him down, but he just wouldn't stop barking.
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I grabbed the doorknob and this sent the dog into a spiral.
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He was now running back and forth barking and just going insane.
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Of course, my first thought was maybe some kind of intruder in the basement.
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Possible, but unlikely.
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Steve has all that super fancy security equipment, so breaking in is not something that's easy.
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I grabbed a big knife from the kitchen and opened the door.
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The dog ran to the doorway, but didn't go down into the basement.
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He just stood at the frame and growled, his hair still sticking straight up.
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I turned the light on and descended the stairs.
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I started yelling a bunch of stuff, pretending to be a lot tougher than I am, but I heard or saw nothing down there.
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I tried calling the dog down into the basement, but he wasn't moving.
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I even went as far as to look all around the basement to give my mind some peace.
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It's a finished basement, so I looked in closets in every corner, behind furniture, and even in the bathroom that's down there.
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No intruder and no evil ghosts.
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The only thing I did notice was how unreasonably cold it was down there.
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I know it's a basement, but I've been down there a million times and it's not that cold.
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Even in the dead of winter, it's never that cold.
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At the end of the day, a cold basement is no reason to freak out and run away.
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I spent the rest of the night in the living room.
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It took a while, but the dog finally calmed down and we both fell asleep again.
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The next day, the dog was completely fine.
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We played outside for a while and I just spent most of the day listening to music and watching movies.
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I went down in the basement at one point during the day and the temperature was completely normal.
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It felt like the rest of the house.
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I didn't really spend much time giving it thought and just went about the rest of the day.
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That night I decided to stay on the couch just in case the dog had another basement door incident.
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I wanted to stay up later but I ended up falling asleep while watching a movie.
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Once again at almost the exact same time I woke up to the dog throwing a fit
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and barking like the house was on fire or something.
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I stormed into the kitchen and again I tried getting the dog to stop barking
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but he wouldn't listen for the second night in a row.
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But this night was different.
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I didn't think it was possible but the dog was even more erratic that night than he was on the previous night.
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I knew nothing was down there so I told him repeatedly that it was okay.
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It was like I wasn't even there.
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When I grabbed the doorknob this time.
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Instead of continuing to bark, he started to cry and whimper.
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It was the strangest thing.
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I let go of the knob, and when I tried to console the dog, he started barking again.
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I was annoyed and confused.
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One last time, I grabbed the knob and went downstairs.
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Again, the dog started to cry and still wouldn't follow me into the basement.
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This time was different.
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It was still cold down there, just like the previous night, but this time, it stunk so badly.
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I don't know how to describe the smell other than just bad, but perhaps the weirdest thing was
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that some of the pictures he had on the wall of his family were knocked over
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and the bar stools down there were also knocked to the ground.
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Other than that, nothing else was misplaced or destroyed.
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I picked up the bar stools and also the pictures and just set them on the bar.
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The smell was so overbearing that I didn't even want to be down there anymore.
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I went back upstairs and for the first 30 minutes or so, the dog continued to bark and I tried to figure out what could be the reason for the smell.
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When the dog finally calmed down, I gave him a treat and we both fell asleep.
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When I woke up in the morning, I went into the basement to try to get to the bottom of the smell, but the smell was gone.
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Not even a lingering odor.
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Also the dog followed me down and he was happy as can be.
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For two nights that dog refused to come into the basement with me, but today he went down there without a care in the world.
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I was completely stumped.
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I had no clue what had happened the previous two nights.
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Steve got home around 1 in the morning and as you may expect, his dog was jumping for joy.
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His wife took the dog outside and I started catching up with Steve for a bit.
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He asked how everything was and I told him that, for the most part, everything was great.
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He gave me a confused look when I said for the most part, so I explained in detail what happened over the weekend.
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I totally expected him to laugh and assume I was playing a joke on him, but he didn't laugh.
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He didn't even smile.
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He just stood there.
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He finally looked down and told me that, occasionally, when the dog was a puppy, he would have these barking fits and just go crazy barking at that door.
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Apparently he hadn't done it in years, so Steve forgot about it.
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They never knew the reason, but then one night he just stopped doing it.
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I could tell Steve was freaked out, a lot more freaked out than I was.
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We talked about it for a little longer, but ultimately I kept telling Steve not to worry and it's probably nothing.
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It's been two weeks and I have not been able to stop thinking about it.
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Steve told me that since they've been home, the dog has been completely normal and has had no basement door episodes I've tried looking into it myself,
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but I haven't found anything that could logically explain what happened Just
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when I think I may have found something that sort of explains what happened, once I add everything up, it doesn't make sense So what's the deal?
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Can someone out there explain to me why that dog was acting this way?
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What was the smell and where did it come from?
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I need help people.
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I'm losing sleep and I don't even live in that house.
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I just want some sort of answer I don't know if this is considered your typical scary story,
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but it's definitely freaky and very unnerving The more time that's gone by the scarier it becomes for me.
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I'd love to share it and see what people think It was a few years ago now.
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I had just broken up with my boyfriend and moved into this cute little apartment.
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It was an entire apartment complex.
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The complex itself was beautiful, quiet, and elegant.
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I quickly made friends with neighbors and several of the other tenants.
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It was just a nice and friendly little community.
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A few months into my lease, I thought I heard the sound of running coming from the hallway one night when I was getting ready for bed.
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I looked out the peephole of the door, but didn't see anything.
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There weren't any kids in my building so I couldn't imagine who would be running at that hour, but strange things happen so I didn't question.
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The next few nights I heard the sound again.
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I didn't get up and look because it just didn't seem that important to me at the time.
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It's worth noting that my apartment is on the ground level and my windows face a beautiful courtyard.
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The door to the apartment is still inside the building and you need a key to get into the building.
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It took a little while to get used to the windows being at ground level at first because if you wanted to, you could come right up to my bedroom window.
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I will say that I wasn't worried about anybody in this community doing that, I'm just stating that it was something on my mind when I first moved in.
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However, that information is about to become relevant, because one night, I woke up to what sounded like giggling outside my bedroom window.
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It was weird for sure, but I just figured some kids were acting stupid and hanging out too close to my window.
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I tapped the window glass and made a loud shushing noise.
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The giggling stopped for just a second, and then a faint tapping sound could be heard on the other side of the glass.
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It freaked me out, but I wasn't about to let some kids have that satisfaction over me.
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Once I composed myself, I grabbed the curtain and whipped it open.
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There was nobody there.
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I was looking at the quiet night courtyard and nothing more.
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Even if some kids were out there, I have no idea where they would have gone that fast.
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I closed the curtain and shrugged it off.
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I wasn't about to let some kids ruin my sleep This
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weird giggling outside my window continued for a few nights I just learned to ignore it I have young nieces
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and nephews and usually when I ignore their stupid pranks They stop doing whatever they're doing
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That was my plan with these giggling kids I assumed that
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if I just stopped acknowledging them They would stop trying to mess with me
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And unless they gave me a reason to report them I wasn't going to bother the apartment complex manager with this
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I think it was two days later while I was at work
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that I received an email from the complex manager She seemed short in the email.
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She asked if I could stop at the main office
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when I got home from work She had to show me something and she claimed it was urgent.
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I told her I could stop by after work I remember
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all day long being stressed about it I was worried my rent money didn't clear
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or something like that When I showed up she told me to lock the door
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She started talking quietly almost in a whisper
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This one guy who works in the security office came in and sat next to me.
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The manager told me that while the security guard was monitoring some footage, he came across this.
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She showed me security camera footage of the hallway where my apartment is located.
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Around 2 in the morning, two small hooded figures approached my door.
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They looked about the size of children who were maybe around 10 or 12.
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They were just standing there in the grainy footage.
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It looked like they were standing about an inch away from the door.
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The scariest part of this was that when she fast-forwarded the footage they didn't move at all
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It was nearly ten minutes of them just standing extremely close to my apartment door
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Before they finally walked away one of the small figures reached for the doorknob and tried opening the door.
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You can clearly see them jostling the door a few times, but it doesn't open.
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After the 10 minutes in the video, they skip away from the sight of the camera.
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I was finally freaked out.
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Whoever these kids were, they were targeting me for some reason.
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I told the security officer and the manager about the window incident, but when they looked back at the footage, they found nothing.
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We still called the police and gave them a statement.
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They said if anything else happens, give them a call, but at that point, there really was nothing they could do.
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The security officer attempted to see
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if they could find out where the kids skipped off to when they left my apartment door, but it's almost like they vanished.
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They couldn't find them on any other camera on the entire complex.
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The next night, I decided to stay awake.
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I was going to catch these kids one way or another, but that night there was nothing.
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No giggles and no sounds from the hall.
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It was about a week later and I heard something coming from the hall.
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It was about 1.30 in the morning.
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I muted the TV and listened intently.
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I heard the sound of my doorknob rattling around.
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It was happening.
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The kids were back at my door.
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I ran over nervously and yelled for them to get away.
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I could hear a child laughing and then another soft child voice whisper, Mom, we're home.
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Just open the door and let us in.
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I didn't say anything.
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I looked through the peephole and just saw two small figures with their heads down.
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The voice whispered again, Please let us in.
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We're home now.
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Please.
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That last please that the child said almost sounded desperate.
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I didn't care.
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I yelled that their mother doesn't live here anymore and that I was going to call the cops.
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Both kids started to giggle.
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Then the doorknob started to shake again.
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One of the kids started throwing their body into the door, but it wouldn't budge.
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I stood there holding the door for a minute.
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I didn't hear laughing anymore, and the doorknob wasn't shaking.
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When I looked one last time, nobody was out there.
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I was still too afraid to open the door, just in case they were just outside of my view.
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I called the police, and the cops were quick to assume it was just the local kids playing a prank on me.
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I didn't argue with that because it seemed like the most logical explanation.
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I finished with my statement and that was that.
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A few days later I ran into the apartment manager in the parking lot.
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She pulled me aside and asked if I had experienced anything since that last time.
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I told her no and that I was sure it was just some local kids.
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She made a weird face and told me she wasn't so sure.
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She told me that the woman who lived in the apartment before me was strange.
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She didn't give me a whole bunch of information for privacy reasons, but she was fairly confident that something horrible happened with that woman's children.
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She didn't elaborate or give any details, she didn't even give me the name.
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She just implied that something horrible happened and left it at that.
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She said that she had already said too much and she didn't want to get into trouble for sharing personal information.
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She told me to be careful and just keep locking my doors.
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I'll never forget her walking away saying, this wasn't a prank.
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To my knowledge, I don't think those kids ever visited my apartment again while I was there.
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I've spent some time trying to figure out exactly what happened, like who these kids were, and what the apartment manager meant.
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Was she implying that these kids were like ghosts or something?
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I know that seems insane, and I'm sure that's not what it is, but you have to admit, it is strange.
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It's weird to me that the police and the security officer couldn't find where these kids went after they left my apartment.
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Something that dawned on me after I had already moved out was something I had overlooked.
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There should have been no way for the kids to get inside the apartment building without a key.
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As I said before, there were no kids that lived in my specific building.
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So how did they get in?
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Where did they go?
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As time goes on and I reflect on this story, I get more freaked out.
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It's amazing to me that I wasn't more scared in the moment.
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I'm years removed and don't even live there anymore, and I'm more scared today writing this than I was when I experienced it.
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I still don't believe in ghosts or anything paranormal, but I can't explain exactly what it was.
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Neighborhood kids are the easy solution, but the more I replay the memories in my head, the more impossible that seems.
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I know how this story sounds, but I think it's worth sharing.
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Maybe I really did have an experience with something not from this world.
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This story I'm about to share happened to me around 10 years ago.
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It's without a doubt one of the most terrifying things that's ever happened to me.
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I recently stopped telling people this story because most of the time people tell me I'm lying or making it up.
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It was my wife who pushed me to write this down and share it.
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She said maybe somebody out there has gone through a similar experience, so here it is.
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Back then I worked at a dead-end job.
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Just like most of us, it was a way to make ends meet.
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The mundane drag of retail work was beginning to drain the life from me.
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One afternoon when I was leaving work, I noticed something neon pink hanging from my car door handle.
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It was a sticky note with a friendly message written.
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It simply said, you're special and I hope you have an amazing day.
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It also had a smiley face sticker attached to the note.
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I thought it was nice and it made me smile.
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Other than that, I didn't give it another thought at that moment.
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The next few days, when I left work, I would have a message attached to a note in the same spot.
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I know some people have told me that it's creepy and weird, but I liked the attention.
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At that point in my life, I wasn't getting attention very often, so it was nice to be seen.
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After three or four friendly messages, I decided I was going to leave a message on my door this time.
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When I parked for work that morning, I grabbed my own sticky notes and wrote a message.
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I kept things friendly while also walking that line of being a little flirtatious.
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When I left work that afternoon, I was happy to find another note.
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The flirt worked because this person started flirting right back.
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I didn't know if this was a joke or if it was serious, but either way, I kept the charade going for a few days.
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The shift before I had a day off, I left a note saying something along the lines of, don't miss me too much on my day off.
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When I left work, I had a sticky note that just had a sad face drawn on it.
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This is where I thought the game would end for good.
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Somebody was having fun with me, I gave in, and now that I was going to be off, I figured it would just fizzle out.
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I couldn't have been more wrong.
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When I woke up the next day.
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I did some stuff around the house.
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It was late morning when I went outside for the first time.
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I noticed something neon pink on the car door again.
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I couldn't believe my eyes.
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I tentatively approached the note.
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It said, you look cute when you're sleeping.
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This scared me.
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After a little while, I concluded that someone was messing with me.
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It clearly was someone I worked with who knew where I lived.
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It was the only thing that made sense to me.
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I crumpled the note up and threw it away.
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When I returned to work, the notes continued for a few days.
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They started friendly, but by the third day of my not responding anymore, they started to get mean.
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The friendly messages were now saying things like, you better answer me, and remember, I know where you live.
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I thought about calling the police, but I was still so sure that it was somebody I knew messing with me.
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I decided to leave a note the next morning.
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I wrote a message saying to leave me alone or I would call the police.
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I didn't really have plans to call the police, but if it were really somebody I knew, I thought that this would be when they finally came forward or at least stopped with the notes.
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When I left work that afternoon, I noticed that my note was gone and for the first time in a while, I had no new notes on my door.
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I felt relieved.
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I still wanted to know who it was, but if the notes stopped I was happy.
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That night I woke up at some point in the middle of the night because I thought I heard something.
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Ever since the note outside I was on edge.
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I sat in bed for a minute just sitting silently trying to listen then I heard something again.
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It sounded a little like shuffling but it was hard to tell
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if it was just the house making noises or if it was something more alarming.
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I assumed I was just hearing things but I wasn't taking any chances.
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I grabbed a baseball bat and made my way down the long hallway from my bedroom to the open living room.
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Every step I took, I started thinking the worst.
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If a person were standing in my house, I don't think I would have been able to hit them with the bat I was holding.
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I just am not that type of person.
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I made it to the end of the hallway and just stopped.
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Whatever bravery I had when I left my room was gone.
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If you're standing at the end of the hall, you can see my living room, dining room, and kitchen.
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I turned on the dimmable lights and scanned the room from where I was standing.
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I was too scared to move any further.
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I kept imagining somebody hiding behind the couch or something.
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I stood in silence for a minute or so, and I heard nothing.
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I turned the lights off and briskly walked back to the bedroom.
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At any point, I expected somebody to charge after me, but thankfully that didn't happen.
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I locked my bedroom door and turned on the TV.
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I wanted to drown out the noise of nothingness.
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I ended up falling asleep eventually.
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When I woke up that morning, I almost forgot about how scared I was.
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I walked to the fridge to grab some juice, and that's when I saw it.
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A bright pink sticky note was stuck to the fridge that said, You can't keep me away, with another smiley face attached after that statement.
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After being frozen for about 30 seconds, I ran to check every door and window in my house, and they all were still locked.
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I know for a fact that nobody had a key to my house.
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My family lives in another state and I'm not close enough with anyone here to trust them with a key
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Somehow this person got inside my house and left a message on the fridge.
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I Wasn't playing around anymore.
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I called the police and gave them the info They claimed to have done an investigation, but they weren't able to get any useful information
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Unfortunately random notes were not a lot for them to go
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off of at least that's what they said They did try to check the cameras in the parking lot where I work, but where I park the cameras don't reach
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The employee parking spaces are on the side of the store and there are no cameras there.
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The police concluded that it had to be someone who knew me.
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I would have agreed if it were not for the note inside my house.
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I'm a freak when it comes to locking my door, so I know that nobody had access to getting inside the house.
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I stayed at a friend's house for a couple nights just because I wasn't ready to sleep at my place yet.
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We ended up going to the hardware store and bought all new locks for the doors.
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That first night back at my place, my friends stayed over with me and nothing happened that night.
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A few months had gone by and nothing happened.
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No new notes at work and nothing at my house.
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It was over two months later when I left for work one morning
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and I noticed one of the horrible pink notes on my front door.
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I grabbed the note and it said, I guess you don't want to play anymore.
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I called the police right away but they didn't do much.
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I invested in cameras after that, but nothing ever happened again.
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Changing the locks in my house might have saved my life.
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Somehow this person had to have had a key to my house.
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It's the only thing that makes sense to me.
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What I can't figure out is why me, and who was that person.
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Whenever I think back about that entire situation, I almost get sick.
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I think back to the night I heard something inside the house.
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There had to have been a person hiding somewhere, just inches or feet from where I was standing.
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Why didn't they harm me then?
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I wonder if messing around with me was all this person wanted.
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A friend once told me that when I went back to the room and locked the door, it's possible that this person tried to get into the room, but locking the door may have saved my life.
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It's been 10 years and nothing has happened since that last note.
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I have since moved and I'm married now.
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Every time I see those stupid pink sticky notes, I always think back to that horrible experience.
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Whatever the case may be, I'm just happy I'm still here to tell the story.
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שיעור הדיבור הזה ברמה B2 מבוסס על הסרטון “3 Disturbing TRUE Unexplainable Horror Stories”. המילים שחוזרות הכי הרבה: door, dog, note. בסרטון הזה יש 350 משפטים ו-4928 מילים לתרגול Shadowing. הדיבור נמשך 24:36. הדובר מדבר מהר, כ-200 מילים בדקה, אז צפו לצלילים מחוברים ומקוצרים. 83% מהמילים נמצאות בין 3,000 המילים הנפוצות ביותר באנגלית; כדאי ללמוד את השאר לפני שמתחילים.
אוצר מילים מרכזי בסרטון הזה
15 המילים המתקדמות ביותר בסרטון, עם ההגייה והמשמעות שלהן:
| מילה | הגייה | משמעות |
|---|---|---|
| basement שם עצם | /ˈbeɪsmənt/ | מַרְתֵּף |
| bark שם עצם | /bɑɹk/ | קְלִפָּה |
| prank שם עצם | /pɹæŋk/ | מְתִיחָה |
| yell פועל | /jɛl/ | צָרַח |
| stool שם עצם | /stuːl/ | שְׁרַפְרַף |
| courtyard שם עצם | /ˈkɔɹt.jɑɹd/ | חָצֵר |
| curtain שם עצם | /ˈkɜɹt(ə)n/ | וִילוֹן |
| couch שם עצם | /ˈkaʊ̯t͡ʃ/ | סַפָּה |
| fabricate פועל | /ˈfæb.ɹɪ.keɪt/ | פִבְּרֵק, בָּדָה |
| flirtatious שם תואר | /flɚˈteɪʃəs/ | עַגְבָנִי |
| linger פועל | /ˈlɪŋɡɚ/ | הִתְמַהְמֵהַּ, הִתְעַכֵּב |
| overbearing שם תואר | דומיננטי, שתלטן | |
| rattle שם עצם | /ˈɹæ.təl/ | רעשן |
| drown פועל | /dɹaʊn/ | טָבַע |
| sticker שם עצם | /ˈstɪkə/ | מַדְבֵּקָה |
Phrasal verbs שתשמעו
| מילה | הגייה | משמעות |
|---|---|---|
| figure out פועל | הֵבִין, מצא תשובה | |
| calm down פועל | נרגע | |
| wake up פועל | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | התעורר |
| get up פועל | קָם | |
| pick up פועל | הרים, אסף | |
| run away פועל | בָּרַח | |
| shut up | /ʃʌt ʌp/ | שתוק, סתום |
משפטים שכדאי לחזור עליהם
משפטים קצרים ושלמים מהסרטון שאפשר להשתמש בהם בשיחה יומיומית:
- As I said before, I'm a very skeptical person.
- I won't lie, that actually did scare me.
- It was like I wasn't even there.
- I couldn't have been more wrong.
- Why didn't they harm me then?
דקדוק בסרטון הזה
המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:
| מבנה | בסרטון |
|---|---|
| סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולה | was set · were knocked · were also knocked |
| הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיו | I've been · It's been · they've been |
| משפטי זיקה (Relative clauses) who / which + clause — מידע נוסף על אדם או דבר | guy who works · children who were · woman who lived |
הגייה ששווה לשים לב אליה
הדובר משתמש ב-114 קיצורים וצורות מקוצרות, כמו didn't, I'm, don't. אמרו אותם בצורה הקצרה, כפי שאתם שומעים אותם.
- הצלילים של “sh” ו-“zh”: charade /ʃəˈɹeɪd/, flirtatious /flɚˈteɪʃəs/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, vicious /ˈvɪʃəs/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/
- מילים ארוכות — שימו לב להטעמה: elaborate /ɪˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/, satisfaction /sætɪsˈfækʃən/
צלילים שדוברי עברית מתקשים בהם:
- /w/ — שפתיים מעוגלות, לא /v/: hallway /ˈhɔlˌweɪ/, whisper /ˈ(h)wɪspɚ/, doorway /ˈdɔɹweɪ/, whip /ˈwɪp/, awake /əˈweɪk/
- /æ/ — פתוח יותר מה-“אֶ” העברית, לא כמו “a” ב-“cup”: prank /pɹæŋk/, erratic /ɪˈɹætɪk/, fabricate /ˈfæb.ɹɪ.keɪt/, rattle /ˈɹæ.təl/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/
- /r/ — הלשון לא נוגעת בשום מקום, לא ה-“ר” הגרונית: bark /bɑɹk/, prank /pɹæŋk/, downstairs /daʊnˈstɛɹz/, intruder /ənˈtɹudɚ/, terrify /ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ/
איך לתרגל עם הסרטון הזה
- הקשיבו לכל הסרטון פעם אחת בלי לדבר, ורשמו את המילים שאתם לא מכירים.
- התחילו במהירות 0.75×, תרגלו Shadowing משפט אחר משפט, וחזרו למהירות רגילה כשזה מרגיש קל.
- הקליטו את עצמכם והשוו למקור, תוך תשומת לב למילים כמו basement, bark, prank.
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