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black-eyed children encounter casper

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wyoming

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i was listening to your radio interview

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with david weatherly because i am

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seeking information concerning

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black-eyed children

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i hope it is okay to direct my concerns

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directly to you

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i am a widow with a teenage daughter in

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casper wyoming

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an area west of the city near the county

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airport

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the property had been in my husband's

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family for many years

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i recently purchased an adjacent home

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and property after the owner passed away

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this is where the story actually begins

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i settled on the new property just after

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thanksgiving

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since it was purchased as is it was

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fairly inexpensive

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but requires a lot of work i hired an

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auction house to come in and remove the

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contents for future sale

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the auction was scheduled for next week

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but there have been a few odd things

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going when the items were first listed

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for sale

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i received a phone call from the

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auctioneer a few weeks ago

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he wanted to know if i had any knowledge

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concerning the contents from the house

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i told him that i didn't know the owner

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that well but that i did know that he

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had lived on the property since the

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1950s

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the auctioneer said that a young woman

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came into the auction house and told him

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that the property and contents were

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stolen

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and that it belonged to her family in

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north dakota she didn't give her name

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but assured him that she had

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documentation to prove her assertions

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and that she planned to take legal

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action if the sale continued

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i contacted my attorney and the realtor

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who verified that the property sale was

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legal

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and that there were no prior claims to

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it the young woman

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who was described as very plain thin

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with long black hair

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has not been heard from since it was

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decided that the auction would continue

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as scheduled

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then this past tuesday new year's day

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around noon

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someone rang the doorbell i was in the

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kitchen and i knew my daughter would

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answer the door

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i heard the door open and the voice of a

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young girl

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my daughter soon yelled loudly mom come

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here

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as i walked down the hallway toward the

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door i noticed three girls standing on

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the porch

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they stood without movement staring

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directly at me

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as i approached i was shocked when i

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soon noticed that their eyes were

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completely black in color

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i asked if i could help them the tallest

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girl asked if they could come in to talk

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about the house and property i had

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recently purchased

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i immediately replied that we were busy

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and that i would give them the phone

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number to my attorney

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if they had any inquiries they just

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turned and walked away without saying

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anything else each of the girls had

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blonde hair and wore heavy winter

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clothing with boots

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they seemed to be in their early teens i

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watched as they walked toward the

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highway and eventually lost sight of

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since then we have not been contacted by

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anyone concerning the property

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the auction has been postponed for other

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reasons and has not been rescheduled

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my attorney continues to research the

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property records for any other

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information i suppose the most important

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who are these children do i need to be

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concerned

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i look forward to your comments essay

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black-eyed boy at the door this incident

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involved my fiance in april

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2011. to this day she refuses to talk

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about it but i decided to submit it here

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to see what others can get out of it

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we then lived in bangor maine it was

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around 10 30 pm that evening

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i was on the late shift at work and she

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was home alone with our cat in our

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apartment

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she said she was reading while the cat

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was sleeping on her lap

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all at once the cat suddenly sat up and

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stared intently at the door leading

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outside

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he then began muelling and scampered

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into the bedroom

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he had never acted like that before so

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she assumed it was just another weird

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thing that cats did

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just as she got comfortable again the

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doorbell rang

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she thought it was strange that someone

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would want to visit at that time of

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night

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she got up and peeked through the hole

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but saw nothing

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so she turned away from the door when

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there were three loud knocks

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she was immediately alarmed but

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curiosity got the best

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of her and she cracked the door to see

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who was there she saw a boy of around 11

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or 12

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though fairly short standing there she

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opened the door to ask what he wanted

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she assumed that this child had either

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gotten locked out of another apartment

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or was asking for help

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that's when he looked up at her and she

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noticed his eyes

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the light from the apartment spilled out

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into the hallway affirming that his eyes

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were completely black

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she said she was paralyzed with shock as

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the child asked to be let in

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by that time the cat had come out of the

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bedroom and laid on the floor behind her

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ears folded back and hissing she said

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she felt compelled to say yes

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but as she stared into those cold black

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eyes she suddenly slammed the door and

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locked the deadbolt

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she said she listened for the child's

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footsteps in the hallway but she heard

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nothing

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after several terrifying minutes she

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peeked out the door and the child was

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gone or disappeared

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she said she had never been so scared in

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her life she thought the cat hissing may

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have interrupted her paralysis

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allowing her to regain her thoughts and

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quickly close the door

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she never discusses it though i'm sure

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she wonders what may have happened if

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she had let the black-eyed boy into the

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apartment

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lock eye kids in rome so this was august

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of 2017.

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i had just graduated about a week prior

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from college summer classes

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and as part of my graduation gift my

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parents and grandparents went in

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together to buy me a flight to rome

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i'm a major history buff so i've always

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wanted to go to europe and rome italy

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one of my friends also went along with

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me i'll call him caleb so i don't have

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to type

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out my friend a ton but not his real

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name

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anyways as both caleb and i were recent

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college grads

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we didn't exactly have a ton of money to

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spend on vacation

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so we stayed in the area of rome by

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termini in a budget hotel

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so before i proceed a few things about

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rome because there were some

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misconceptions i had before going

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the first is that rome is dirty and just

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feels sketchy

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because of this you instinctively are

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looking over your shoulder and i just

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felt paranoid

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the area that caleb and i stayed at was

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near kermini the main train bus hub of

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the city

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while it was a super convenient location

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less than a five minute walk and we

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could access the metro or bus to

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anywhere in the city or cross city train

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the area just felt run down with

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graffiti all over

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i mean more than usual than rome the

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other thing you should know is that

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romans like to eat long meals and eat

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very late

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whereas back here in the us i typically

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eat dinner around 5

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30 to 6 and generally finished well

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before 7 30.

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some of the restaurants in rome don't

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even open until 7pm

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which leads to you being out a lot later

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than you had intended

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so one evening after dinner it was

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probably around 9 30 or so

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caleb and i were leaving the restaurant

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to the metro station to head back to

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termini when we noticed two children

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were following us

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now you hear online that a lot of

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scammers use children to distract you

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so i put my hand in my pocket around my

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wallet and walked a bit faster

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both of the kids were probably around 10

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or 12. the lighting wasn't the greatest

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and the sun had set but they were

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dressed in dark clothing whether it was

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black or brown or even maroon i couldn't

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really tell at the time

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one was a boy and one was a girl the boy

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had a very short haircut only slightly

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longer than a buzz cut whereas the girl

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was wearing a beret

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dark colored and had long slightly curly

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i felt a bit of unease because something

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didn't seem normal

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at the time i didn't think anything

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paranormal but was worried about being

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mugged or pickpocketed

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anyways eventually i stop hearing their

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footsteps behind me

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and when i look back i don't see them or

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anyone the metro ride back to termini

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was uneventful

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i didn't particularly look for the

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children but i didn't notice them if

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they were around

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once intermediate was only a couple of

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minutes to the hotel

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despite it being rather dark rome

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doesn't seem to have adequate street

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lighting for a city that eats so late

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nothing seemed out of the ordinary

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anyways i went to my room and caleb went

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to his

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at this time it was probably around 10

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o'clock at night

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so i go to take a shower before bed and

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midway through my shower i think i hear

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a knock on my door

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i don't think a whole lot about it this

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is a cheap hotel and i doubt that it's

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soundproof enough that someone standing

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outside of my door couldn't hear the

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shower running

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so two minutes pass and i don't hear any

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more knocking and i finished my shower

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put on sweep and send a t-shirt and look

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out the peephole and i see the two

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children from earlier just standing

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now the peephole distorts things so i

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really didn't think i saw what i saw but

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let me try to describe what i saw

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the boy was wearing a maroon button-down

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shirt with brown pants

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he had black hair just barely longer

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than a buzz cut but what stood out was

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his white skin

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maybe it was the lighting in the hall

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but i don't think i've seen anyone with

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as wide as skin as his

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and his female companion it was almost

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as if someone had painted their skin

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white

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it's very hard to describe without

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seeing it it looked almost

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bloodless there was just no warmth to it

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his eyes looked to be black

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almost like if someone was squinting in

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that the eyes looked like they weren't

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there

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it wasn't like someone had colored

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contact lenses at all

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it was a very very strange thing indeed

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the girl was standing behind the boy so

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i didn't get as good of look at her but

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she had very dark brown hair

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clearly different than the color of the

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boy's hair and it was curly

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she was wearing a black beret and a

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black dress she had the same weird

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artificial looking white skin and the

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same eyes that looked like someone was

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squinting

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now at this point i was freaking out a

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bit the hotel required a key card to

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operate the elevator to get to the

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second story where my room was which

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made it rather odd that some random kid

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who we never did see with any parents

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would follow myself and caleb halfway

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across rome and end up in the same hotel

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on the same floor and randomly knock on

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my door and not just knock but knock and

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stand there for at least a couple of

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minutes

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i didn't say anything to indicate that

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i'd be coming to the door

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at this point i double checked the chain

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lock to make sure it was secure but i

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think the kids must have thought i was

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going to open the door when i heard the

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boy's voice or at least i assume it was

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the boy's voice as it certainly didn't

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sound feminine

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says rent you going to let us in we're

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lost

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now prior to hearing about the black

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eyed kids i thought this was the

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creepiest part of it

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because after four days of being in rome

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outside of caleb pretty much everyone

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did not speak good english and the ones

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that did speak decent english

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had a very clear accent of some sort

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this though did not it was clearly the

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voice of a native english speaker

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and i couldn't detect that there was

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really any accent as in

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it didn't sound like anyone from england

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or have a noticeable southern accent

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i decided that i'd had enough and just

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didn't make another sound and move to my

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bed

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i must have just sat there waiting for

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an hour or so trying not to make a noise

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or make any indication that i was in the

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room

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hoping that they'd decide that their

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pranker scam wasn't having any effect

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and leaving me alone i decided against

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texting caleb about it

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after all i was probably just paranoid

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about nothing and it was just me being

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nervous being

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five thousand miles away from home mixed

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with what i probably would have

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considered rather funny or mildly

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annoying

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rather than scary if it was back in the

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us i suppose eventually i fell asleep

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and tried to wipe the memory of it from

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my mind

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caleb never mentioned anything about it

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so i didn't mention anything to him

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the rest of my time in rome and my time

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in venice and naples were without any

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incident

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and i haven't encountered anything like

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black eyed kids confrontation walking

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home

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this is an encounter i experienced in

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the summer of 2009

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i was born and raised in the plains of

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texas specifically in an area

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where black eyed kids sightings are

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prevalent i had heard the stories

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tales legends whatever you want to call

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them since i was a young man

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but never truly believed them the black

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eyed kids was mainly something i

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entertained as a joke

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or something to get a rise out of people

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this changed in the summer of 2009

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it was a warm night in june i was up

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late

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around 2 am as i typically like to stay

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up late

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especially in the summer since it would

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stay fairly warm even after the sun went

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down

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i had just run up to the store to grab a

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big fountain drink

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and was returning into my house through

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the back door when i was approached by

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two children

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a boy and a girl i was very startled

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once i realized they were there

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since i wasn't expecting to encounter

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anyone in my backyard so late at night

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the little boy asked could we come in we

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need to use the phone

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we are lost this is when i noticed the

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blackness of their eyes

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both of them had eyes so black they were

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like pits

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this is also when my heart sank i

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couldn't believe i was actually seeing

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them

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that they were there right in front of

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me as i mentioned

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before i had heard the legends of the

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black eyed children most of my life

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so there was no way i was going to let

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them in my house

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i darted in the back door and locked it

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as quickly as i could

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once i was inside i ran upstairs and

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flipped on the lights to try and see

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if they were still outside thankfully by

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then

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they were gone i had so much adrenaline

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pumping by that point

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though that i grabbed a weapon and began

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searching the house and making sure all

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doors and windows were locked

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it took me hours to get to sleep that

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night and it's an encounter

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that will stay with me for the rest of

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my life these entities took the form of

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something most people view as innocent

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weak mild and try to trick unsuspecting

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people

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to do god knows what with her to them i

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am just glad my reflexes kicked in

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