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Speaker 1 (00:16):
I used to live next to a sweet elderly couple
a few years back. One day they asked me to
house sit for them while they were on vacation. It
was only for a week and they also offered money,
so I took the job.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
The first three nights went fine.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
On the fourth night, I had ks while watching a
football game in the living room. That's when my car
alarm right I parked the car in the driveway, Hence
the loud sound came pretty clear. I quickly got up,
thinking someone was trying to steal my car. I rushed
outside the house, but the streets were completely empty.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
All the houses were quiet.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
My car's tail lights blinked twice as I double locked
the car. I was a little worried. Now, how am
I going to sleep in peace tonight? But when two
hours went by and nothing more happened, I decided to
sleep on the couch. I muted the TV sound without
turning it off. I don't know why, but I couldn't
sleep in the dark. Half an hour went by and
sleep has just fallen onto my eyes. When what's that sound?
(01:15):
I rubbed my tired eyes and slowly lifted my head
to look at the main door. The sound didn't happen
for a few seconds, and then I heard someone's footsteps
on the porch.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
What the hell is that a car thief?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I kept staring at the main door, waiting for someone
to knock, but everything was pin dropped silence, And just
that my eyes shifted to the window right beside the entrance,
and I frozen shot. There was someone outside the window,
looking right at me. Had she been there this whole
time watching me sleep? My hand shivered to see that face,
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but suddenly it moved away and I could see it
no more.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I tiptoed to.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
The main door, holding a flower vase in my hand,
all I could find at that moment. I looked through
the eyehole, but saw no one remained away the entire night.
The next day I called the elderly couple and told them.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
About this issue.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
They immediately sent an electrician who installed a doorbell camera
on their house. They told me, if she comes back
next time, I should call the cops. So on the
fifth night, I finished in early. I dimmed all the
lights to give off the impression that no one's.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Home, and I waited.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I waited for hours. I must have dozed off in
the high back chair. When I heard the main door rattle,
I crawled on the floor like a four legged animal
and went close to the door. I turned on the
screen and there she was. Her face was badly battered
this time. There were cuts on her nose and lips.
Her left cheek was sworn. It appeared like she was homeless,
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and to stir her knuckles were bruised too, which signified
she often got into fights.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
She held a bunch of keys in her hand.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
They were attached with a toy gun keechin, just like
the one I found in the porch that morning. Holy
mother of God, this woman has been stalking this house
for days. Wait a second, does the elderly couple know
about her? It did feel weird when they installed the
doorbell camera right away, So many questions were going through
my mind.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Hence I talked, uh, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
She paused with a blank face, and then brought her
face really close to the camera. Once she realized she
had been recorded this whole time, her eyes burnt in anger.
That's when the punching and kicking started. She grabbed the
doorknob and started pulling it like a psycho.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Are you crazy? Stop? Stop it right now or of
drawling nine one one.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
She stopped.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
She took a few steps back and couched on the porch.
From the pocket of her tattered jacket, she took out something.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
It was a gutter mouse.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
The woman grabbed the mouse tightly and then took out
a small piece of broken glass from her messy bun.
She placed the mouse in the porch and started stabbing
the mouse heinously.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
She was screaming and smiling at the same time. Again
and again she.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Stabbed the animal into her turn into a pulp of
mince music, and then she started throwing those meat chunks
all around the porch while whispering something. She was doing
black magic, But why why did she choose this house?
The cops came in ten minutes. They arrested the woman
from the back of the house. After doing her meat
splattering ritual. She was digging a hole at the back.
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The cops found a can of petro and a lighter
inside that hole. It was evident that she had been
to the backyard before to hide the things she needed.
Her plan was to set the house on fire, burning
it to the ground. She was taken away and declared
mentally ill. The woman didn't say a single word to
the cops.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
It was clear that something had driven her to insanity.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
The elderly couple came back the next day and apologized
to me for having to go through all this trouble.
After paying me double the amount of money, they told
me they were going to sell this house and leave
the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It all happened so quick that I got very suspicious.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
And months after the couple left, I attended the birthday
party of one of my neighbor's twelve year old daughters,
and there I heard this rumor. The woman who came
to the elderly couple's house that night used to work
in the same office as then. She somehow started liking
the husband, but he remained loyal to his wife. Being
rejected by the man, the psycho woman stalked the company,
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making their life a living how but she never harmed
them physically, which is why they could.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Never file any report against her.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
The crazy woman tried black magic and voodoo to make
the husband fall out of love with his wife.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
When she learned the couple had left, she came back
with a vendetta.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But as I was their house sitting for them, things
got a little difficult for her that night, all those
killing mice and sprang it on the wind was her
voodoo ritual to end my life just so she gets
entry inside the house. I feel lucky that before she
could actually set the house on fire, the cops got
to her, and I'm happy that the elderly couple can
live in peace now. The story you just saw is
(05:44):
based on this footage. The homeowner woke up hearing sounds
outside the house and checked the doorbell. Camp there he
saw this woman standing outside his house trying to get
in using lock picking keyns. The woman also threw rocks
at his door. She kept trying to pick up the
lock in the middle of the night. It was likely
that the woman was under the influence of drugs. Multiple
times she tried to insert keys under the doorbell camera
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as well.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
After a few minutes, she leaves.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
The owner informed the cops, but they couldn't find the one.
No one knows who she was and why her face
had those bruises. No doubt she wanted to break into
the house.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I'm a college student and any easy money opportunities are
appreciated by me. I was off for the summer at
home and looking for odd jobs. One day, I was
serving through Craigslist when I stumbled upon this advertisement. It
was a wanted ad for a housekeeper. There wasn't much written,
just that someone was needed on the weekends and the
pay was decent enough. On the bottom of the paper
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there was a phone number. An old lady picked up
and gave me her address to show up the next day.
She lived in an old, wooden house. The lady took
me inside. She showed me the house. Her library was huge.
Something about those books made me feel weird, but I
couldn't tell why.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Those are my plant books. My garden is the only
thing that keeps me busy.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
After crossing this long, dark core door, we arrived at
the back of the house.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
This is my garden, my life's work. It's beautiful, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I nodded. It was beautiful, a garden filled with huge
red roses. What was even more unique about them was
their black stems. Generally, every plant has green stems and leaves,
but these had black. I looked back at her.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
You did all this, yes, and it takes quite a
bit of work to keep it. Come, let's go inside
and I'll tell you more.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I studied her. As she led me in. We sat
down in the kitchen and she offered me a cup
of coffee.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
I wouldn't usually need someone to take care of my
house of plants, but unfortunately there has recently passed. I
need a drive there to go to the funeral, and
I need someone to watch the house. I'll be back
by evening.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Missus Donovan told me everything that she expected to be done.
She told me that if I was finished with my job,
then I could do whatever I pleased as long as
I stayed at the house. I got to work. I
watered the plants, sprayed medicine on them, instructed by Missus Donovan.
I was done within two hours. I still stayed in
the garden, admiring the roses. I went closer to a
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big red rose and took a sniff. It smelt like
it was supposed, but there was a metallic tinge with
the smell. Also, the rose petals were way thicker than
a normal rose. Just then, a crow flew over my head.
I got a little startled and grabbed onto the rose.
The red petal smashed inside my grip, but I felt weird.
(08:53):
My hand felt slippery and sticky. I opened and my
palm was red. Liquid was all over it, like I
had killed someone. I went back to the house and
started washing my hands in the kitchen sink. My mind
was so confused. How come there's blood inside a flower?
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The liquid doesn't feel like anything other than blood. Suddenly
I heard a low moan from the basement. I wiped
my hands and followed the stairs. There was a small
room down the stairs, smaller than a basement. I looked around.
The thing that caught my eye in the light of
my phone was a large metal door. I pressed my
(09:35):
ear against it and heard the faint moans again, except
this time louder. A cold shock of fear rang through
my body like an alarm. I wanted to leave, but
my gut feelings said I shouldn't. I opened the metal door.
A pink light leaked through the doorway. I quickly turned
off my phone's flashlight. Why would an old woman set
(09:58):
up lights like this in her basement? But once I
paid attention to the other side of the room, I
noticed something else. Cages, rows of them along the floor,
all old and rusted as the door I had come through.
I stood still, and when I heard nothing, I turned
my phone's light back on. Behind the bars of the cages,
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I could see eyes reflecting back at me. I stepped
closer to one of the cages and shined my light within.
Whatever was in there flocked like a trapped animal. I
focused on it. It was a little boy pinned in
the corner of the cage, staring at me with wide,
fearful eyes.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I hurried to unlock the cage. There was a large,
rusty pad lock stopping me. Pulling out my pocket knife,
I picked at the lock until it gave way. I
swung the door open in motion for him to come out.
Come on, let's get you out of here. The boy
remained motionless, but spoke. His voice was weak and hoarse.
But if she sees she won't come on. The boy
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pointed towards his legs, and a wave of nausea washed
over me. As I looked down. His legs were cut
off from the knee. I started checking all the other cages,
and I found three more kids, All of them had
a body part missing. Just then it hit me those books.
I remember reading one word common in the titles of
those books, carnivore. They were all about carnivorous plants. Missus
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Donovan is feeding the plants children's meat. That's why the
roses were so red and had blood on their stems.
I turned back to the boy. What's your name, Noah?
How long have you been kept here? Noah? I don't know.
She gave me some candies while I was playing in
the park, and then I then I woke up here.
(11:51):
I dialed nine one one and told them everything.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I was about to take the kids.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Upstairs when I heard a car horn outside. I rushed upstairs,
and Missus Van walked through the main door. She pulled
a large suitcase behind her. I suppressed a shudder, thinking
how easily a small kid could fit in there. She
looked towards me and smiled.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
So how did everything go?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I put on the best fake smile. I could manage.
Everything's good. I got the plants watered and everything like you.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Asked, Oh, well, I appreciate the effort.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Maybe i'll call you again later.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
How was the funeral?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Fine? I just need some time to be alone for
a while.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
You know.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Uh yeah, you call the cops on me.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I remained silent. The cops came in and justice was served.
They found another little boy tied and put inside the suitcase.
Luckily he was unharmed. The other kids were sent to
the Hut Hospital and I had a chance to visit Noah.
In the hospital, Missus Donovan was shoved into a mental
asylum for life. Her garden was torched down to ashes
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by the cops. Locals were horrified to find out about
these cannibal plants raised by Missus Donovan. Who could have
thought such a harmless old lady had a mask on
the fact that she chopped off these kids just so
she could feed their flesh and blood to her monster
plants makes me wake up in the middle of the night.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Have you ever walked around your home and got men odd,
feeling like there's someone else in your house, but you
know you're alone. About an hour ago this happened to me.
I have been house sitting for my mother all week
as she's been on a cruise. Everything has gone smoothly
up until today. Around one am. I woke up to
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the sound of static. The crinkling noise was quiet at first,
but my eyes swung open as the sound got louder.
I jumped off the couch to press the button on
my TV. Once the horrible noise was gone, my mind
finally finished calibrating. I looked at the couch as a
feeling of confusion came over me. I didn't remember falling
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asleep on the couch. In fact, I could have sworn
that I had fallen asleep in my bed. As a
way to wake myself up further, I started to look
around the living room. I have two couches, one next
to the window and one facing the TV against the wall.
On the window couch, I noticed a folded up piece
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of paper. I walked over and unfolded it. Spot the
differences written out in chicken scratch. I smiled. I had
completely forgotten that I gave a key to my girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I yelled out, all right, I'll play.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
In the living room. I put down the piece of
paper and scuped out the whole room. The first thing
I noticed was that my computer had moved from the
table next to the wall couch and onto the floor.
The next difference I noticed was that my late grandmother's
porcelain doll had moved from the shelf on the wall
the spot where my computer had been. I stared into
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its black eyes, which clashed with its gest or outfit.
I truly felt afraid not just because those dolls are
generally seen as creepy, but I actually feared for my
well being, even though I had no real reason too.
The third difference I noticed was when my arm brushed
against my shorts when I sleep. I always keep my
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phone in my pocket, but it was gone. I looked
all around the living room but couldn't find it.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Okay, joke's over, babe.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I yelled out.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I expected a response, but definitely not the one I got.
After a few seconds of silence, a shower in my
mom's bedroom turned on.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Okay, you got me, Camilla.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Still no response from my girlfriend. I walked to the shower.
The steam has filled the small space. I could see
a woman's silhouette sitting on the bathtub.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Babe, if you just wanted me to join you in
the shower, you could have said that wasted so much
time solving that stupid game.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
But I thought you liked games, she.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Replied, though her voice sounded a little too nazily.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I like the games that big boys and girls play.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
I started taking off my T shirt. I agree it
was too late, but my girlfriend's pretty hot, so I
couldn't let the opportunity go by.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
What didn't your mom might come on, this won't be
the first time we do it. Here.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
I took off my remaining clothes and moved the shower curtain.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I froze.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Camilla was lying in the tub. Her eyes were looking
at the ceiling. Her face was red like all the
blood in her body ran to her cheeks. Her mouth
was open, gasping for last big breath. She was gone, long,
gone from this world.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
I fell on the bathroom floor and I heard a laugh.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Done plane jack.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
That's when I noticed a cell phone balanced on the
shoulder of my late girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It was on speaker.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
That's why her voice sounded so weird.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Did you kill my girlfriend? Well? I had no choice,
you know, you know how loud she screams, right, what
the frack? Who the hell are you? I must call
the cops. Oh, stop it, Enough of the same old
born crap. The cops never come in time. Now, you
do exactly as I say, or you're rotten jail for
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the rest of your life.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
My stomach dropped as I realized I will be the
first suspect in my girlfriend's murder. I stood up and
grabbed the cell phone.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
What do you want? Just come back to the couch
and go to sleep.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Damn, this guy's a freaking psycho. He's asking me to
sleep knowing my girlfriend's dead body is in my mom's bathroom.
But still I had no choice, so I went back
to the living room. My eyes scanned the darkness of
the house. I couldn't see anyone, but I definitely felt
eyes on me. Once I sat down on the couch,
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stomping footsteps started coming at me from the back. But
before I could turn my head, someone put a handkerchief
on my mouth. A strong smell hit my nostrils, and
I fell asleep. When I woke up, my head was
throbbing in pain. My mom was sitting beside me. Seeing
me open my eyes, she called out, doctor, he's awake.
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The nurses helped me get up on the bed.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Mom, Why am I in the hospital?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Oh yeah, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry this happened to you.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
My mom explained to me what happened in her sobbing
flo voice. On the last night of house sitting, a
man dressed in a hoodie entered the house from the
back door. My mom installed a home security camera placed
right over the television, which cleared out the static sound
I heard the man tiptoed in when he encountered my
girlfriend coming down from the stairs in her bathroom. Before
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she could scream, the man shut her up forever. He
then dragged her lifeless body to the bathroom. All this
happened while I slept on the couch and I heard
no single sound. The man then made me come back
to the living room and knocked me out with a
handkerchief dipped in some kind of chemical that made me
pass out. He relaxed for ten minutes after that. The
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camera showed him bringing an ice cream tub from the
freezer and then eating it, sitting right beside me on
that very same couch. All the cash, jewelry, and the
expensive items were then taken, and just like that, he
was gone. I don't think the lever be able to
sleep peacefully at night. The man looked like a complete
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stranger to me, but the details he knew about me
creeps me out to the core. The cops think he
was probably planning the robbery for a long time, but
Camilla's arrival wasn't planned. Did I get shiffers From how
articulate and playful he was about the murder. It was
as if this wasn't his first time
I used to live next to a sweet elderly couple
a few years back. One day they asked me to
house sit for them while they were on vacation. It
was only for a week and they also offered money,
so I took the job.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
The first three nights went fine.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
On the fourth night, I had ks while watching a
football game in the living room. That's when my car
alarm right I parked the car in the driveway, Hence
the loud sound came pretty clear. I quickly got up,
thinking someone was trying to steal my car. I rushed
outside the house, but the streets were completely empty.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
All the houses were quiet.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
My car's tail lights blinked twice as I double locked
the car. I was a little worried. Now, how am
I going to sleep in peace tonight? But when two
hours went by and nothing more happened, I decided to
sleep on the couch. I muted the TV sound without
turning it off. I don't know why, but I couldn't
sleep in the dark. Half an hour went by and
sleep has just fallen onto my eyes. When what's that sound?
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I rubbed my tired eyes and slowly lifted my head
to look at the main door. The sound didn't happen
for a few seconds, and then I heard someone's footsteps
on the porch.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
What the hell is that a car thief?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I kept staring at the main door, waiting for someone
to knock, but everything was pin dropped silence, And just
that my eyes shifted to the window right beside the entrance,
and I frozen shot. There was someone outside the window,
looking right at me. Had she been there this whole
time watching me sleep? My hand shivered to see that face,
(01:47):
but suddenly it moved away and I could see it
no more.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I tiptoed to.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
The main door, holding a flower vase in my hand,
all I could find at that moment. I looked through
the eyehole, but saw no one remained away the entire night.
The next day I called the elderly couple and told them.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
About this issue.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
They immediately sent an electrician who installed a doorbell camera
on their house. They told me, if she comes back
next time, I should call the cops. So on the
fifth night, I finished in early. I dimmed all the
lights to give off the impression that no one's.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Home, and I waited.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I waited for hours. I must have dozed off in
the high back chair. When I heard the main door rattle,
I crawled on the floor like a four legged animal
and went close to the door. I turned on the
screen and there she was. Her face was badly battered
this time. There were cuts on her nose and lips.
Her left cheek was sworn. It appeared like she was homeless,
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and to stir her knuckles were bruised too, which signified
she often got into fights.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
She held a bunch of keys in her hand.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
They were attached with a toy gun keechin, just like
the one I found in the porch that morning. Holy
mother of God, this woman has been stalking this house
for days. Wait a second, does the elderly couple know
about her? It did feel weird when they installed the
doorbell camera right away, So many questions were going through
my mind.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Hence I talked, uh, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
She paused with a blank face, and then brought her
face really close to the camera. Once she realized she
had been recorded this whole time, her eyes burnt in anger.
That's when the punching and kicking started. She grabbed the
doorknob and started pulling it like a psycho.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Are you crazy? Stop? Stop it right now or of
drawling nine one one.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
She stopped.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
She took a few steps back and couched on the porch.
From the pocket of her tattered jacket, she took out something.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
It was a gutter mouse.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
The woman grabbed the mouse tightly and then took out
a small piece of broken glass from her messy bun.
She placed the mouse in the porch and started stabbing
the mouse heinously.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
She was screaming and smiling at the same time. Again
and again she.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Stabbed the animal into her turn into a pulp of
mince music, and then she started throwing those meat chunks
all around the porch while whispering something. She was doing
black magic, But why why did she choose this house?
The cops came in ten minutes. They arrested the woman
from the back of the house. After doing her meat
splattering ritual. She was digging a hole at the back.
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The cops found a can of petro and a lighter
inside that hole. It was evident that she had been
to the backyard before to hide the things she needed.
Her plan was to set the house on fire, burning
it to the ground. She was taken away and declared
mentally ill. The woman didn't say a single word to
the cops.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
It was clear that something had driven her to insanity.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
The elderly couple came back the next day and apologized
to me for having to go through all this trouble.
After paying me double the amount of money, they told
me they were going to sell this house and leave
the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It all happened so quick that I got very suspicious.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
And months after the couple left, I attended the birthday
party of one of my neighbor's twelve year old daughters,
and there I heard this rumor. The woman who came
to the elderly couple's house that night used to work
in the same office as then. She somehow started liking
the husband, but he remained loyal to his wife. Being
rejected by the man, the psycho woman stalked the company,
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making their life a living how but she never harmed
them physically, which is why they could.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Never file any report against her.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
The crazy woman tried black magic and voodoo to make
the husband fall out of love with his wife.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
When she learned the couple had left, she came back
with a vendetta.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But as I was their house sitting for them, things
got a little difficult for her that night, all those
killing mice and sprang it on the wind was her
voodoo ritual to end my life just so she gets
entry inside the house. I feel lucky that before she
could actually set the house on fire, the cops got
to her, and I'm happy that the elderly couple can
live in peace now. The story you just saw is
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based on this footage. The homeowner woke up hearing sounds
outside the house and checked the doorbell. Camp there he
saw this woman standing outside his house trying to get
in using lock picking keyns. The woman also threw rocks
at his door. She kept trying to pick up the
lock in the middle of the night. It was likely
that the woman was under the influence of drugs. Multiple
times she tried to insert keys under the doorbell camera
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as well.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
After a few minutes, she leaves.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
The owner informed the cops, but they couldn't find the one.
No one knows who she was and why her face
had those bruises. No doubt she wanted to break into
the house.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I'm a college student and any easy money opportunities are
appreciated by me. I was off for the summer at
home and looking for odd jobs. One day, I was
serving through Craigslist when I stumbled upon this advertisement. It
was a wanted ad for a housekeeper. There wasn't much written,
just that someone was needed on the weekends and the
pay was decent enough. On the bottom of the paper
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there was a phone number. An old lady picked up
and gave me her address to show up the next day.
She lived in an old, wooden house. The lady took
me inside. She showed me the house. Her library was huge.
Something about those books made me feel weird, but I
couldn't tell why.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Those are my plant books. My garden is the only
thing that keeps me busy.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
After crossing this long, dark core door, we arrived at
the back of the house.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
This is my garden, my life's work. It's beautiful, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I nodded. It was beautiful, a garden filled with huge
red roses. What was even more unique about them was
their black stems. Generally, every plant has green stems and leaves,
but these had black. I looked back at her.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
You did all this, yes, and it takes quite a
bit of work to keep it. Come, let's go inside
and I'll tell you more.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I studied her. As she led me in. We sat
down in the kitchen and she offered me a cup
of coffee.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
I wouldn't usually need someone to take care of my
house of plants, but unfortunately there has recently passed. I
need a drive there to go to the funeral, and
I need someone to watch the house. I'll be back
by evening.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Missus Donovan told me everything that she expected to be done.
She told me that if I was finished with my job,
then I could do whatever I pleased as long as
I stayed at the house. I got to work. I
watered the plants, sprayed medicine on them, instructed by Missus Donovan.
I was done within two hours. I still stayed in
the garden, admiring the roses. I went closer to a
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big red rose and took a sniff. It smelt like
it was supposed, but there was a metallic tinge with
the smell. Also, the rose petals were way thicker than
a normal rose. Just then, a crow flew over my head.
I got a little startled and grabbed onto the rose.
The red petal smashed inside my grip, but I felt weird.
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My hand felt slippery and sticky. I opened and my
palm was red. Liquid was all over it, like I
had killed someone. I went back to the house and
started washing my hands in the kitchen sink. My mind
was so confused. How come there's blood inside a flower?
(09:13):
The liquid doesn't feel like anything other than blood. Suddenly
I heard a low moan from the basement. I wiped
my hands and followed the stairs. There was a small
room down the stairs, smaller than a basement. I looked around.
The thing that caught my eye in the light of
my phone was a large metal door. I pressed my
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ear against it and heard the faint moans again, except
this time louder. A cold shock of fear rang through
my body like an alarm. I wanted to leave, but
my gut feelings said I shouldn't. I opened the metal door.
A pink light leaked through the doorway. I quickly turned
off my phone's flashlight. Why would an old woman set
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up lights like this in her basement? But once I
paid attention to the other side of the room, I
noticed something else. Cages, rows of them along the floor,
all old and rusted as the door I had come through.
I stood still, and when I heard nothing, I turned
my phone's light back on. Behind the bars of the cages,
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I could see eyes reflecting back at me. I stepped
closer to one of the cages and shined my light within.
Whatever was in there flocked like a trapped animal. I
focused on it. It was a little boy pinned in
the corner of the cage, staring at me with wide,
fearful eyes.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I hurried to unlock the cage. There was a large,
rusty pad lock stopping me. Pulling out my pocket knife,
I picked at the lock until it gave way. I
swung the door open in motion for him to come out.
Come on, let's get you out of here. The boy
remained motionless, but spoke. His voice was weak and hoarse.
But if she sees she won't come on. The boy
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pointed towards his legs, and a wave of nausea washed
over me. As I looked down. His legs were cut
off from the knee. I started checking all the other cages,
and I found three more kids, All of them had
a body part missing. Just then it hit me those books.
I remember reading one word common in the titles of
those books, carnivore. They were all about carnivorous plants. Missus
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Donovan is feeding the plants children's meat. That's why the
roses were so red and had blood on their stems.
I turned back to the boy. What's your name, Noah?
How long have you been kept here? Noah? I don't know.
She gave me some candies while I was playing in
the park, and then I then I woke up here.
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I dialed nine one one and told them everything.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I was about to take the kids.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Upstairs when I heard a car horn outside. I rushed upstairs,
and Missus Van walked through the main door. She pulled
a large suitcase behind her. I suppressed a shudder, thinking
how easily a small kid could fit in there. She
looked towards me and smiled.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
So how did everything go?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I put on the best fake smile. I could manage.
Everything's good. I got the plants watered and everything like you.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Asked, Oh, well, I appreciate the effort.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Maybe i'll call you again later.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
How was the funeral?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Fine? I just need some time to be alone for
a while.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
You know.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Uh yeah, you call the cops on me.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I remained silent. The cops came in and justice was served.
They found another little boy tied and put inside the suitcase.
Luckily he was unharmed. The other kids were sent to
the Hut Hospital and I had a chance to visit Noah.
In the hospital, Missus Donovan was shoved into a mental
asylum for life. Her garden was torched down to ashes
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by the cops. Locals were horrified to find out about
these cannibal plants raised by Missus Donovan. Who could have
thought such a harmless old lady had a mask on
the fact that she chopped off these kids just so
she could feed their flesh and blood to her monster
plants makes me wake up in the middle of the night.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Have you ever walked around your home and got men odd,
feeling like there's someone else in your house, but you
know you're alone. About an hour ago this happened to me.
I have been house sitting for my mother all week
as she's been on a cruise. Everything has gone smoothly
up until today. Around one am. I woke up to
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the sound of static. The crinkling noise was quiet at first,
but my eyes swung open as the sound got louder.
I jumped off the couch to press the button on
my TV. Once the horrible noise was gone, my mind
finally finished calibrating. I looked at the couch as a
feeling of confusion came over me. I didn't remember falling
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asleep on the couch. In fact, I could have sworn
that I had fallen asleep in my bed. As a
way to wake myself up further, I started to look
around the living room. I have two couches, one next
to the window and one facing the TV against the wall.
On the window couch, I noticed a folded up piece
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of paper. I walked over and unfolded it. Spot the
differences written out in chicken scratch. I smiled. I had
completely forgotten that I gave a key to my girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I yelled out, all right, I'll play.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
In the living room. I put down the piece of
paper and scuped out the whole room. The first thing
I noticed was that my computer had moved from the
table next to the wall couch and onto the floor.
The next difference I noticed was that my late grandmother's
porcelain doll had moved from the shelf on the wall
the spot where my computer had been. I stared into
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its black eyes, which clashed with its gest or outfit.
I truly felt afraid not just because those dolls are
generally seen as creepy, but I actually feared for my
well being, even though I had no real reason too.
The third difference I noticed was when my arm brushed
against my shorts when I sleep. I always keep my
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phone in my pocket, but it was gone. I looked
all around the living room but couldn't find it.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Okay, joke's over, babe.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I yelled out.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I expected a response, but definitely not the one I got.
After a few seconds of silence, a shower in my
mom's bedroom turned on.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Okay, you got me, Camilla.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Still no response from my girlfriend. I walked to the shower.
The steam has filled the small space. I could see
a woman's silhouette sitting on the bathtub.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Babe, if you just wanted me to join you in
the shower, you could have said that wasted so much
time solving that stupid game.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
But I thought you liked games, she.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Replied, though her voice sounded a little too nazily.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I like the games that big boys and girls play.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
I started taking off my T shirt. I agree it
was too late, but my girlfriend's pretty hot, so I
couldn't let the opportunity go by.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
What didn't your mom might come on, this won't be
the first time we do it. Here.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
I took off my remaining clothes and moved the shower curtain.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I froze.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Camilla was lying in the tub. Her eyes were looking
at the ceiling. Her face was red like all the
blood in her body ran to her cheeks. Her mouth
was open, gasping for last big breath. She was gone, long,
gone from this world.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
I fell on the bathroom floor and I heard a laugh.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Done plane jack.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
That's when I noticed a cell phone balanced on the
shoulder of my late girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It was on speaker.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
That's why her voice sounded so weird.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Did you kill my girlfriend? Well? I had no choice,
you know, you know how loud she screams, right, what
the frack? Who the hell are you? I must call
the cops. Oh, stop it, Enough of the same old
born crap. The cops never come in time. Now, you
do exactly as I say, or you're rotten jail for
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the rest of your life.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
My stomach dropped as I realized I will be the
first suspect in my girlfriend's murder. I stood up and
grabbed the cell phone.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
What do you want? Just come back to the couch
and go to sleep.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Damn, this guy's a freaking psycho. He's asking me to
sleep knowing my girlfriend's dead body is in my mom's bathroom.
But still I had no choice, so I went back
to the living room. My eyes scanned the darkness of
the house. I couldn't see anyone, but I definitely felt
eyes on me. Once I sat down on the couch,
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stomping footsteps started coming at me from the back. But
before I could turn my head, someone put a handkerchief
on my mouth. A strong smell hit my nostrils, and
I fell asleep. When I woke up, my head was
throbbing in pain. My mom was sitting beside me. Seeing
me open my eyes, she called out, doctor, he's awake.
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The nurses helped me get up on the bed.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Mom, Why am I in the hospital?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Oh yeah, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry this happened to you.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
My mom explained to me what happened in her sobbing
flo voice. On the last night of house sitting, a
man dressed in a hoodie entered the house from the
back door. My mom installed a home security camera placed
right over the television, which cleared out the static sound
I heard the man tiptoed in when he encountered my
girlfriend coming down from the stairs in her bathroom. Before
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she could scream, the man shut her up forever. He
then dragged her lifeless body to the bathroom. All this
happened while I slept on the couch and I heard
no single sound. The man then made me come back
to the living room and knocked me out with a
handkerchief dipped in some kind of chemical that made me
pass out. He relaxed for ten minutes after that. The
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camera showed him bringing an ice cream tub from the
freezer and then eating it, sitting right beside me on
that very same couch. All the cash, jewelry, and the
expensive items were then taken, and just like that, he
was gone. I don't think the lever be able to
sleep peacefully at night. The man looked like a complete
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stranger to me, but the details he knew about me
creeps me out to the core. The cops think he
was probably planning the robbery for a long time, but
Camilla's arrival wasn't planned. Did I get shiffers From how
articulate and playful he was about the murder. It was
as if this wasn't his first time
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