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about a month ago november 3rd 2020

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election day it was a little past

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midnight

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and i had woken up to a banging sound on

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my door

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my parents were out voting and my sister

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was still asleep

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i went downstairs quietly so i wouldn't

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wake my sister up

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i had cameras but i decided not to look

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at them

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when i looked through the little peeping

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hole on the door i saw children

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they didn't look quite normal though the

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little boy

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around eight years old had these weird

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shoes and outfit that someone in like

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the 40s would wear

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the girl around six did not look better

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she had this haircut that a woman would

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wear in the 90s

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and an outfit that the women would wear

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in the 70s

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besides that they look perfectly normal

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are you lost i asked our parents will be

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here soon they both said in unison

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do you eat anything can we come in right

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away i knew that something was off about

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these kids

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not just the fact that they were dressed

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weirdly but the fact that their voices

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were off

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they had voices that number

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eight-year-old or six-year-old should

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have

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i suddenly felt dizzy and knew that

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something weird was with these kids

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if your parents are almost here then

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can't you just wait out here

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i asked it was a perfectly safe

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neighborhood and not a robbery or

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anything had ever went on

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i never even ever saw a shitty person

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walk around here

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can we come in they asked once more

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but this time they weren't asking they

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were starting to get angry

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no you may not i yelled i know this

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sounds bad that i am saying that a

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little kid that's lost can't come in my

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house

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but there was something off about these

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kids that yell and woke up my sister

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she turned on the porch light which

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helped me see that these kids had black

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eyes

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i screamed and shut the door in their

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face my sister asked what was going on

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who was that and why i yelled i told her

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to just go to

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bed and don't worry about it she did as

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i asked

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the kids eventually left but they did do

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some damage to my house when i shut the

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door

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they ripped some plants and they cracked

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the window later that night

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i did some research on them and i found

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out that these black-eyed kids can only

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come into your house if they get

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permission

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there is a slight chance they will come

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back soon and i'll be ready

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when the kids left they went into a

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black car with two tall dudes

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in suits just remember if you ever see a

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kid with black eyes and pale skin coming

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towards your house or car

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don't let them in cs

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black-eyed kid let me in i need

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something to eat

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i grew up a latchkey kid parents did not

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arrive home

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until after 5 p.m and so one day after

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school

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early teen i was sitting at the dining

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room table doing homework

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when i hear a very firm knock at the

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door like the kind that cops do

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our elderly neighbor knocked like this

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when he would come over for whatever

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reason

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so i got up to answer i opened the door

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to reveal what appeared to be an

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eight-year-old boy with sandy blond hair

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looking straight down

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he was wearing a yellowish but sullied

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shirt under a gray zip up hoodie which

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was dirty as well

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it was late spring in the south and i

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knew most nearly all the kids our age in

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our neighborhood

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and from our school but did not

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recognize him at all

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not relegating myself as the pinnacle of

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knowing everyone

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i figured he was a friend of one of my

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neighborhood friend's little brother

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or something like that i said hi can i

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help you

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with a very assertive tone he said let

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me in

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i need something to eat baffled by this

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kid's goal

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i said do i know you when this time he

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barked the same thing with a little more

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gusto but in a flat tone

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something was very weird about this kid

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i asked if i needed to call his mom or

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anything

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same answer so then i asked if he was

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friends of so and so

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no response i tried to make a little bit

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of further small talk with him

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chummily tapping him on the shoulder

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surprisingly

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he was literally as hard as steel the

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whole time his gaze was fixed downward

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so i leaned in to get a look in his eyes

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his eyes were freaking black a deep

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i asked him if he had been in a fight no

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answer

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by this time my alert sensors were up

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and running

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thinking domestic abuse by his seemingly

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sullen and brash attitude

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etc i started to get some crackers and

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on the way

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an alarm went off in my head and thought

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why is his entire orbital area of the

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same color as his eye

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after grabbing the crackers and turning

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to further question him

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in mid-sentence i looked again at the

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doorway he was gone

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then i started to hear the kid's voice

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in my head

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it was like he was asking someone why

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didn't it work

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it didn't work i just brushed it off as

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a weird experience

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fast forward several years later i was

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bored as hell one night so i decided to

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read about this black-eyed kid phenomena

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then the memory hit me like a hammer i

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was freaked out

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luckily i had imparted this to a friend

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when it happened

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and he does remember me telling this

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story d

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black-eyed grunge girl i'm still not

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exactly sure what happened

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all i know was that it was very

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unsettling and i still get the creeps

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thinking about it

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this was years ago i think around 2013

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or 2014

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it was early fall late afternoon but it

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was a bit dark and gloomy as it was an

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overcast day

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i was driving home from shopping i was

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by myself

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so i came around a corner and on my

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right was a fire station

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it was empty though i had to slam on my

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brakes because the couple cars in front

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of me had stopped and i figured someone

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was turning

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then i noticed due to three cars in the

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other lane coming towards me were also

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stopped

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the guy in the first car then stuck his

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head out the window

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and i was like wtf so i was trying to

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see what was going on

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then i saw her she was just slowly

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walking down the center line

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no care that the road was busy just

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walking straight down the yellow lines

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the guys in front of me were yelling

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trying to get her attention

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but she stayed facing forward she had

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her head down a bit

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but her eyes were facing up reminded me

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of a grunge girl

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she was maybe 14 or 15 years old

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i started to get the creeps because this

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looked creepy in itself with all these

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cars stopped and this random person just

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walking down the middle of the road

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oblivious to all traffic as she neared

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my car i

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actually rolled up my window because i

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was starting to feel panicked right as

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she was passing i decided to knock

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loudly on the window

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much to my surprise she turned and

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looked right into my car

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i can't explain her face but her eyes

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were totally black

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something was seriously wrong with her

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but when i saw her eyes my heart rate

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sped up and i didn't know what to do

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but she had stopped and was just looking

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into my car

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i cracked the window a bit and was going

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to ask her if she was ok

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she said i'm going to die honestly i

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freaked out

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the cars in front of me had left so i

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sped off up the hill

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but i got a bad feeling in the pit of my

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stomach so i turned around at an

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elementary school

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up ahead and called the police they told

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me they were actually already on their

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way

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so i stayed parked and watched her in my

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rear view until i saw the cops show up

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cops came with their lights on and i saw

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her try and jump in front of the officer

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they didn't hit her but once they got

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her i just drove home

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it creeped me out for weeks i'll forget

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about it and then remember it when i'm

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out driving or when it's a gloomy day

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and i get a chill right up my spine jk

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kid creeps out witness in cape town

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south africa

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this happened in 2011 when i was in

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training for peace corps service in cape

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town south africa

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most houses here have bars on the doors

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and windows and are surrounded by gates

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and fences the village that i trained in

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was large and sprawling

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my host family was wealthier than most

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and while the house was really nice

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most of the neighbors had much simpler

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dwellings and tin shacks

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our fence was tall and stable with a

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thick wall of the gate and some of the

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neighboring fences were small bar to

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wear

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the training schedule was packed and i

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was usually gone all day every day

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when i got home in the afternoons i

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would often play with some neighborhood

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kids

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sundays were my only day off one

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particular sunday

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towards the end of training i was home

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alone i was outside hanging laundry and

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noticed two small boys

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about seven or eight or so in the next

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yard staring at me

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i'm white and i am used to this reaction

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i had never seen these kids before

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i smiled at them and continued to hang

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my laundry they continued to play and to

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stare at me

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my unease with these kids was growing

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and i thought it was because i was

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annoyed with being stared at

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the longer they watched me the more

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creeped out i felt i lit up to notice

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that they were gone

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i quickly went inside and locked the

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door the gate was already locked and

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there is a tall fence surrounding the

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property

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i look out the window of my bedroom a

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few minutes later to see one of the kids

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scaling the fence

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i thought about going out there to say

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something but felt compelled to stay

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inside and ignore them

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the next time i looked the kid had just

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landed in the yard and somehow he saw me

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through the sliver of window i was

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peering out of and made eye contact

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then i noticed that this kid had eyes

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that were solid black

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i felt like he was reaching into me and

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grabbing my insides

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the kid prowled around the windows and

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door for a while

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i don't know what happened to the other

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kid but by that time i was totally

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freaked out

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i moved to my permanent site shortly

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the customers jet black eyes i work

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retail

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i'm checking this sweet old couple out

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at the register

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having a wholehearted typical retail

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worker speaking to customer conversation

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and then boom

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i look into the husband's eyes for the

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first time

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this man has jet black eyes store goes

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silent

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no one's speaking i'm overcome with an

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overwhelming feeling of dread

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i wasn't exactly terrified i was more

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entranced

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again the whole story is dead silent

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it's as if i've been gripped from my

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reality and brought into this old man's

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dimension

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i wish i could tell you guys i looked at

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my surroundings to see why everyone went

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quiet

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but i was just so overcome with a

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plethora of emotions

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staring into this man's completely black

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eyes that i just physically couldn't

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look away

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and then just like that the man leaves

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with his wife i hand him his receipt

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he takes his things and leaves i was out

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of breath

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i had to take my break early i'm ashamed

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to admit i was almost ready to cry

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i've literally never been through

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anything and i mean anything like that

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i did some research when i got home and

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i found out a lot about black-eyed

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children

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what was strange about this situation

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was that the man had to be late 60s

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early 70s

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what could this mean it's just so hard

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to imagine a man casually wearing black

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contact lenses

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and these weren't in large pupils there

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was not an ounce of white in his

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eyeballs

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and that feeling of dread the silence

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store and the time that seemed to go on

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forever

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this had to be an encounter i know what

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i saw

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and i promise you all this story is 100

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true

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