6 True Scary Lockdown Horror Stories

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visit audible.com slash read2go or text read creepy to 500 500 [Music] hi everyone my name is Francisco and I must apologize first because English is not my first language so I'm sorry for any mistakes that are in writing this I'm from Paraguay and I live here in the capital city Asuncion like many of the countries in the world we in Paraguay have also been affected by the virus outbreak everyone is very worried they have been wearing masks and buying all of the groceries so that they can stay at home until everything is safe again but more importantly the government here in Paraguay has declared a curfew and people who leave their homes without a good reason can be punished by the police also if you leave your home and you are sick you can be charged with a crime and thrown into jail but the problem is that a lot of people in here in Asuncion are very poor and even those who work make very little money that means that both me and my father have to work to support our family if my mother makes and sells wicker baskets in her free time to give our family extra money but that's where the trouble started and the government here decided which of our jobs were essential and which ones were not I had a part-time job in the tourism industry giving guided tours of the markets and historical sites of asunción but this was declared non-essential right away after the lockdown was declared so just like that I was out of work my father is a supervisor at a manufacturing plant on the outskirts of the city so for a while he was still able to bring home money since he was declared an essential worker but that all changed when he was tested at his job for the virus when the test came back positive he was told he would have to go home and isolate himself for two weeks before he would be allowed to return to work this was a disaster for our family but there was one flicker of hope the head of my father's department told him that a temporary replacement had been found for him but that left a space on the factory floor one that I could occupy for the time he was sick so every morning for about a week I would wake up very early grab my father's ID card walk out of town for an hour so I could work the line at the manufacturing plant it was a very boring job much more boring than my tour guide work but I was still very grateful to have the chance to keep earning money for my family my family owns a car that we share but since money was low and we couldn't afford too much gas we had to save it for emergencies that is why like I may have said already and that I ended up walking four miles there in the morning and four miles back home in the night time it was tough going and I was stopped by the police many times but all I had to do was show them my father's factory ID card and they would wave me on but that only works so many times and one evening a routine police check led to one of the most terrifying stressful experiences of my entire life I was walking at the side of the road my feet aching after a long day on the line when I heard the momentary blare of a siren behind me I stopped walking turned around and I saw a police vehicle parking up near me usually I would just show the ID card and the police would drive on without getting out of their car but this time both officers stepped out of the vehicle and began marching towards me with a lot of aggression I tried to show them the ID card to explain that I was an essential worker working in place of my father but they didn't want to listen this is not your picture one of the officer said asserting that I could not be a supervisor and suggesting that I had in fact stolen the ID from somebody eyesore to him that it was not true that I had made arrangements and my family might starve without the income then they searched me when asked what they were looking for one of the officers got in my face and told me to shut my mouth that I was lucky that they weren't just taking me to jail since I was out spreading the virus I think they were searching me for drugs but I can't be sure I know a lot of dealers have been caught recently since they need to sell their stuff and have trouble explaining why they're outdoors during a lockdown when they had finished their search and found nothing I thought that they might just let go of me but I was terrified to see one of the officers take out their electric taser gun Armant and aim it in my direction I didn't think I just raised my hands like it was second nature showing him I meant them no harm and praying he wouldn't pull the trigger the other officer reached into the pocket of his uniform taking out his phone and pointing the camera in my direction it was clear that it was filming me but for what purpose I was scared to know I really thought I was going to be tased on camera that they used the video as an example to others then the officer with the cameras sent something that I struggled to understand it first 50 star jumps right now at first I honestly thought I didn't hear his words correctly these were words I had not heard since high school physical education class I told the officer I didn't understand but this only made him furious you deaf or just stupid boy he barked at me 50 star jumps go hurry I simply did as I was told I started doing the star jumps while the officers laughed commenting that this is what happens to those that break curfew without a good reason repeat after me one of them said I'm sorry officer I would not leave my house again I'm sorry officer I would not leave my house again I repeat it again and I did so again I said the words and jumped on the spot until I had no more breath in my lungs I was still convinced that they would tase me when it was done but the punishment wasn't over but when I collapsed feet and lungs burning from the work they just carried on laughing as they got back into the car and drove away and these hard times are difficult enough without horrible policemen taking advantage of their power I know they're not like that all over the world that there are always a few bad people too many good ones but I just pray that no one else has to go through what I suffered that evening good luck everyone and be safe life can be very hard here in the Philippines in here in Khe Sanh the largest city in my country and the place where I live life has gotten even harder since one man came to power back in 2016 Rodrigo Rua de ter Tay he is often described in the same way as the American president Donald Trump people say he is a populist and an agitator but honestly our president makes Trump look like an angel Duterte has been a very vocal supporter of the extrajudicial killings of drug dealers and those that do business with them I know that certain human rights organizations have estimated that Duterte has been directly and indirectly responsible for almost 1,500 murders committed by what has been come to be known as the Davao death squads there and they murdered without a care even sometimes targeting children in their attempt to clean up the streets it was bad back then but it got even worse after 2016 when it became president and the more I think about it the more it seems like his entire reign was building up to today when extenuating circumstances have meant that he is more power than ever before ok Sun has reacted to the Cova 19 crisis in a very similar way to places we have lockdowns mandatory self-isolation and food rationing and naturally the police force has been granted considerably more power in light of such an extreme health emergency it seems to be quite a unique situation and that the government has increased powers and civil liberties have all but been suspended and yet there is absolutely no outrage or protest from the people they are scared and scared people are very very easy to control they don't just accept the introduction of draconian punishment they welcome it and for me a firm believer in human rights it is a very very scary time indeed for example just a few days ago I was walking to the market to buy essential food supplies when I saw a large crowd gathered near the Market Square hundreds of people were jostling for position to catch a glimpse of whatever it was that was hidden from my view and they were quickly being dispersed by police who obviously were under orders not to let people congregate at all when the crowd thinned out only then could I see what they were looking at it was a small cage it may be only a couple of square feet in size no higher than a man's thigh I recognized it as a dog cage from the sturdy steel bars the kindest Filipinos keep our pets in to keep them safe at night but there was no dog in the cage it was a man he looked terrible like he'd not eaten or slept in days and worst of all this was all taking place under the midday sun he was being baked alive in public with only the police throwing the occasional cup of water over him to keep him from passing out from heatstroke I was in shock I just stood there for a moment as masked individuals filed past me staring at the man's fingers as he hooked them through the bars of the cage and begged for help the league too big he said over and over again water water a mass policeman approached him tossing another cup of lukewarm water over the cages bars the man reacted like an animal lapping at the bars of the cage to catch a few droplets in his mouth trying to catch what little he could on his fingers and palms than licking them desperately out of pure manic thirst the police just laughed as he did so but I didn't I couldn't even move all he could do was stare at a man who had been reduced to something less than human and it probably hadn't even taken that long to do it some people were recording the man on their phones from a distance taking pictures to send to relatives and friends I didn't even have to ask why he was locked in that cage like that because the policeman didn't waste time to tell me leave the area one shouted at me pointing towards the small steel cage oh you'll end up just like him tell everyone this is what happens when people don't practice social distancing said another I turned and walked away very quickly not slowing my pace until I reached the Market Square when I was done night walk straight back home not stopping almost flaunting my bags of groceries to any police officers that gave me looks there was no way I was ending up in a cage like that poor man even if he had violated social distancing rules there was no good reason to cage him like an animal but the thing is that's not even the scariest thing I've heard or seen in the past few weeks in Cavite province just south of Manila two small children were forcibly locked inside an actual coffin on March 26th as punishment for violating curfew in banana village officials arrested four boys and four girls on March 19th for violating curfew they forcibly cut the hair of seven of the children while the one who resisted was stripped naked and ordered to walk home and these aren't just rumors either these are things that I have seen videos of on whatsapp the Philippines already has a terrible record of criminalizing children with members of Congress attempting to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 12 while some having proposed it to be lowered to nine if enacted this could put more in younger children behind bars and dangerous detention facilities and speaking of rumors in October 2017 Rodrigo Duterte opposed passing a log and so-called fake news saying that it would be unconstitutional as it can curtail freedom of speech but just a few weeks ago our president passed a law saying those who spread fake kovat 19 news may have their electronic devices confiscated face jail time and in some cases even be landed with an enormous 1 million Philippine Peso fine that's the equivalent of about $40,000 that's a punishment that could destroy someone's life as we are not wealthy people here in the Philippines I understand lies are bad and that scare mongering can cause panic but to destroy someone's life for that is horrifying prospect but it only took a few days before destroying someone's life took on a very literal meaning on this past Thursday a 63 year old man was shot dead after threatening village officials and police with a scythe had a virus checkpoint official news sources stated that the man is believed to have been drunk when he threatened village officials and police Manning the checkpoint in the town of nasi Pitt and the southern province of Agusan del Norte the suspect was cautioned by a village health worker for not wearing a face mask the report said but the suspect got angry uttering provoking words and eventually attacked the personnel using a scythe a lot of people here don't quite understand what is going on only that there is an infectious disease but none exactly how incredibly virulent it is so please I hear a lot of people complaining that it's very fascist to shut down society in such a way but be grateful you are not in the Philippines where we are just as much in danger because of our government as the virus I hope you're not all too stressed in dealing with all this lockdown stuff and to those who have had troubling are scary stories to tell from their experiences I'm incredibly sorry but what I'm really enjoying is seeing this whole thing of supporting each other I've seen some really helpful comments from people and other posts in the sub and it's frankly inspiring to see people coming together like this during such a dark time so maybe hopefully possibly you could help or at least listen to my problem or rather not so much my problem but someone else's problem too like a lot of people I was pretty shocked when the government declared a lockdown here in the UK I'm in my late 20s so never in my life or any of my mates lives have any of us experienced such as Ellis curtailing of civil liberties the lines at supermarkets began road traffic dropped off to next to nothing it's been a soft transformation of society but a transformation nonetheless as life changed so did living arrangements and one day I noticed that the girl who lived alone in the flat below me he wasn't so alone anymore I passed her on the stairs at one point backing off into a corridor to maintain social distancing but notice she wasn't alone he was a harmless looking bloke at first quite tall but skinny with a mess of curly sandy blonde hair I said hi introduced myself with out all the usual handshaking and went on my way everything was hunky-dory if I'm being perfectly honest that was until last Friday night when something happened that gave this whole lockdown thing a whole new meaning of terrifying it started with a few bumps and groans from downstairs I was playing xbox at the time willing the hours away with that new Call of Duty warzone game with a few mates the floors and walls in this old Victorian flatshare are pretty thick but make a loud enough noise and you came to the base in another apartment so when I feel the flat shake a wee bit and hear the girl's voice I roll my eyes and assume the worse uh-oh I set down the mic I think the girl downstairs and her fella getting a bit familiar this sparked off a round of laughter and off coloured humour and I ended up turning my TV volume up to drowned out any potential sounds of copulation it was annoying but hey I've got my way of killing the quarantine time I suppose they found theirs but it didn't end there soon loud sporadic banging sounds from the flat below was making my flat literally shake it was actually kind of alarming I mean Christ Almighty those pears seemed like they were really going at it I mentioned it to my mates in the party chats and we all had a little laugh at the whole thing but then something happened that meant I wasn't laughing anymore I heard the girl cry out and I know what you're thinking but trust me if you heard what I did you'd have known something wasn't quite right - it wasn't a cry of ecstasy not in the least bit but it sounded hurt weak terrified as I said I'd turned down the volume on my TV it's have blocked the sounds out but now I was turning it right down again muting the speakers so I could better hear what was going on there were voices all rights and they were obviously trying to stay hushed but you could clearly hear that some kind of heated argument was taking place I mentioned this to the lads in the party chat and yet again they made off-color comments like sounds kinky just nonsense like that but I quickly made it clear that this was something else entirely and that I was actually kind of worried about the whole thing we're literally talking about the prospect of it being some kind of domestic violence incident when there's yet another loud bang so hard and makes my flat shake only this one was followed by a similarly terrified female scream and then there was silence my heart is absolutely pounding at this stage right then one of the lads makes a joke about smelling something funny coming from the flat below in the next couple of days and how I might end up being the guest star of some sort of true crime documentary in the near future now I like my dark humour and I admit I'd have found that kind of thing funny if it wasn't in danger of actually happening but given the circumstances I was absolutely terrified there were no more noises coming from the flat below it was eerily quiet now so I asked the lads in the party chat to bear with me because I was gonna call the police immediately a few of them told me it was the right thing to do that it's always better to be safe than sorry in this situation so I do and the dispatcher on the other end tells me to leave the front door of the building open so they can enter safely and deal with the whole situation only get this the police arrive I hear a lot of shouting downstairs so I walk out into the hallway of the building to listen in on what's going on instead of actually getting in there and dealing with the whole situation and the police seem to be happy to just talk to the couple through the door of the flat the whole social distancing thing hadn't occurred to me in the slightest when I called and now the problem with my solution was becoming evident a couple within moments of the police arrival had gone from met each other's throats to uniting to tell the police to get out of their building they were actually shouting about a warrants and all this stuff basically trying to find any reason to keep him out it was nuts I had read and heard about domestic abuse before and this was one of the classic symptoms warring couples suddenly unites when someone else tries to intervene they demand to know who'd made the call and what her next had me omitting an actual Oh out loud the cops bloody well told them they straight up said we received a call from the flat above you they had dropped me right in it it was quiet for the rest of the night and the next day I tried to avoid them entirely but eventually I had to leave the flat to buy food and as I did and was walking down the stairs towards the front door of our building the girl Bulow's flat opens up and I see a figure standing in the doorway it was wearing a mask one of those surgical ones they've been popular since the outbreak but it's clearly the abusive boyfriend and he's holding a hammer a bloody claw hammer and he's just staring at me I raise my hands and try to explain that I only meant well but he just slams the door on me before I can finish my explanation and that's how it's been for the past few days now me being completely terrified for my life locking my doors constantly and listening out for heavy footsteps coming up the stairs towards my flat so seriously if anyone has any advice or examples on how to deal with this please please leave them in the comments I'll be reading every single one and responding to those I think can help via DM [Music] my neighbor Gary has lived across the street from my house ever since we moved in he's a nice guy like perennially nice never has a bad word to say about anyone always sees the best in people he never fails to see things in a positive light and has been a welcome fixture at every barbecue or block party we've ever thrown but in this latest crisis has been pretty hard on Gary and his family and over the past few weeks I've noticed some pretty disturbing changes in his behavior changes that have meant that Gary went from being the Ned Flanders personality clone we loved so much to being someone that I'm quite frankly terrified of I remember when we first heard rumors of the lockdown coming and Gary came over to talk about it he was as usual jolly self laughing off the scare mongering coming from the media but as we talked about a shortage own food and hand sanitizer becoming a reality he grew unsettled in a way I had never really seen before gary has two young kids but he also has his elderly mother living with him he once told me he just didn't have the heart to put her in a home how that seemed way too much like abandonment Gary was just that kind of guy at least he was that kind of guy I only really started noticing the change when he came home one day with a trunk loaded with groceries not just the trunk either the back seat of his SUV was overloaded with paper grocery bags some were loaded with meats and vegetables some stacked and entirely full of canned goods but it was the box full of hand sanitizer that really made me take notice Gary was the polar opposite of a germaphobe like polar opposite he routinely ignored the five-second rule when it came to barbecue items dropped into long grass and was very much of the opinion that letting kids play outside letting them eat a little dirt from time to time was just good for their immune system here to make them tough in a way that playing with screens just wouldn't we actually used to laugh at people who kept those little Purell bottles and hip holsters overly paranoid losers who would drive their cars off a bridge if they really knew how many microorganisms lived in their eyelashes alone but here Gary was unloading an entire pallet of hand sanitizer from his truck got some despair ham buddy I shouted over from my porch now at the prices I just paid he replied seems innocuous I know but if he knew Gary he'd be just as interested to note that this reply didn't come with a smile or a chuckle he barely even looked at me as he took the supplies inside but things only really took a turn for the worse when one of Gary's kids took a tumble while playing in the street outside their house and they were playing on the new bike riding around in circles when I guess they just lost their balance and fell hard onto the concrete you tell it was a bad fall from the way they let out this pain - shocked cry before bursting into tears my wife was out on the porch at the time sipping an iced tea and saw the whole thing I had heard the scream but wasn't sure what happened until I saw my wife grabbing the first-aid kit we keep in a kitchen cabinet I followed her outside into the street but as she approached Gary's kid the man himself was stood in his front doorway and the sternest voice I'd ever heard out of the man he told my wife to get away from this kid I guess she understand what he meant as she stopped just short of the crying child took a few steps back and then slid the first aid kit across the concrete in her direction Gary's other kid was old enough to know what that first aid kit was but as he tried to pick it up off the ground Gary erupted at him to not touch that fricking thing and to get back inside the house my wife apologized for her hastiness but a short Gary's she had the best of intentions and for the first time in four five years since we'd moved into the neighborhood I actually found myself getting angry with him he didn't even acknowledge my wife's apology giving us both a contemptuous look as he closed and locked the front door behind him a few days later we saw the same kid who fell wearing a makeshift sling and looked pretty miserable it took us a while to put two and two together but we did and we realized that Gary hadn't nor had any intention of taking his kid to the hospital to get their arm looked at by a doctor it was only then did it really hit me just how bad this whole pandemic thing was affecting him he wasn't just taking precautions as the rest of us were he seem to be going full-on survivalist like the guy's entire personality had shifted over what was apparently just the course of a week or so it was disconcerting to say the least then just a few nights ago my wife shook me awake to tell me she could smell something burning I literally fell out of bed thinking she was telling me our house is on fire but she assured me it wasn't and that she could just smell something as my senses came to life I began to be able to smell it to this acred smoky smell that was obviously something being burned it only took me one look out of our bedroom window to tell me where it was coming from an orange glow emanating from across the street there was a fire and Gary's backyard the smell wasn't just bothering us either almost every bedroom light of every house in the block was switched on and I could see some similarly irritated neighbors floating by their windows trying to find out where the stench was coming from I decided to just suck it up go over and ask him to put the fire out God knows what he was burning but I knew from the smell that it wasn't healthy but no sooner had I crossed onto Gary's half of the street he appears from his backyard gate at least I figured it was Gary I couldn't see his face it was covered up with one of those old Gulf War era gas masks the kind with the big round glass eyes that made him look more simian and he that's along with the 12-gauge shotgun that's he had firmly and his grip sent a shiver of fear running through me get away from my house Martin his words were muffled by the mass but it was clear what he said Gary buddy that fires get away from my house Martin he never called me Martin always Marty it was the first time I'd ever heard him call me by actual name I just did the smart thing I backed off hands raised slow enough to keep him from freaking out and shooting me dead right there in the street I haven't talked to or seen Gary for the past few days and I'm more than willing to give him the space he and his family need if that's what it takes for him to stay sane but please if any of your neighbors are suffering right now please reach out to see if they're okay if they need anything at all even if it is just for you to keep your distance I'm sure Gary will be fine and time when all of this stuff has calmed down I hope he returns to be the man I once knew and loved [Music] have y'all been following all these zoom and Skype dates that have been happening since the lockdown started as you imagine the use of dating apps have skyrocketed since the government had ordered us all inside for the foreseeable future those who would usually flaunt their game in the club or at the gym are now forced to use the same tactics as the less socially adept of us and dating apps and although I'm not entirely happy with the increased competition I'd be lying if I said my match count hasn't bumped up a little silver linings right anyway instead of using tinder or hinge with their increased emphasis on physical appearances definitely not my strong point given I'm about 30 pounds overweight right now I opted for reddit's our for our forum which is full of posts from those who want to hook up for conversation flirting and occasionally even more so I put up this pretty dumb post basically asking if there were any girls that wanted to have like a lockdown date or whatever I listed a bunch of my interests mainly horror movies and a few political issues close to my heart and implore to anyone who identified with them to get in touch one or two girls did and I feel mean admitting this but they just didn't seem particularly engaging nice yes charming one really was but our talks didn't light a fire in me not like the message I got in the wee small hours of the morning when I was up way past my usual bedtime the message from a girl named Amber who wrote eloquently and charmingly about how she too was looking for something of a lockdown Bay herself she was highly politically involved as she put it which definitely sparked my interest and sharp comparison with the two other girls who wrote back to me who didn't seem interested in politics she was also extremely intelligent the way she was able to articulate her thoughts was something I had rarely encountered in online interactions which is also why I was so shocked when I found out she was only 18 11 years my junior only when she described herself I started to get suspicious she seemed perfect to perfect she told me she was 5-7 asian-american fit and toned from yoga and spin class in her own words she was pretty cute catfish was the first thought that came to my mind there was absolutely no way a girl is cute sounding as that would be getting in contact with me so I just made a joke about it well a joke that wasn't really a joke I basically called her out on it how she didn't have to pretend to be some hot asian girl just to get my attention not with the kind of conversational skills that she did the next message was just a link to an imgur photo a risky click if ever there was one as there was absolutely nothing in the way of the caption to clue me in to what the picture was of but I suppose curiosity just got the better of me and I just clicked for those that don't already know a verification photo is when a person han writes their username or other pertinent information on a piece of paper to prove that they are indeed who they say they are and yeah and you guessed it the picture was verification as it turned out amber was exactly who she claimed to be young Asian and impossibly gorgeous I mean I was literally stunned when I saw that picture of her I just stopped and stared for what seemed like minutes when it came to returning the favor I was terrified I am not in the least bit confident about my appearance as I've made clear and the idea of trying to take a selfie something I had never even done before that evening was almost too much to bear but I did it anyway I combed my hair wash my face then went over my beard with the barely used trimmer my mom bought me for my 28th birthday basically her way of telling me to get that stuff off my face then when I was done I found my angle took the photo and then sent it over the suspense the raw suspense oh my god I honestly think the last time I was that nervous was before my first date I ever went as a 17-year old in high school I'm talking that heart racing sweaty palm time slowing down nervous that makes you feel sick to your stomach I was convinced I'd never hear from her again that she'd see how mismatched this whole thing was and just up and ghosts me only she didn't she actually replied saying that I was cute that was three weeks ago now we've talked every single day since then sometimes having multiple hour-long phone calls that run into the wee small hours of the morning and the more we talked the more serious things became at one point amber asked where she saw this going after lockdown was over she told me she was living in Portland whereas I was all the way over in the Greater Boston area pretty much opposite ends of the country to one another but she pretty much straight up raised the issue of us needing to act on the chemistry we had I told her that money was no object that she was legit the most beautiful charming young woman I'd ever met my entire life it was true I meant every word of it but I understood when she told me that she heard that kind of thing all the time that they tell her just about anything to get the chance to sleep with her and I believe that too she asked me how far I'd be willing to go to prove myself to her I told her as far as she needed me to go at that she just laughed telling me how she doubted it I was indignant I'd do anything everything she asked just to make her believe it that's when she told me to get a knife I'm ashamed to say that there was barely any hesitation I just trusted her I trusted that she knew what was best for me she already seemed to be able to read me like a book she asked if I had an envelope handy I told her yes that I had a pack of about a hundred crisp white envelopes she told me to open it I obeyed she told me to place the blade of the knife onto my palm I obeyed and when she finally gave me the order I pulled the blade across my flesh and let fresh blood flow on to the open envelope it didn't even hurt it was the strangest thing but for the first few minutes there was no pain at all just this doll hot feeling as I watched the blood flow from the open wound staining the perfect white of the paper a deep crimson I held everything up to the webcam showing her exactly how far I was willing to go for her and oh my god the look on her face the way her pretty almond eyes seemed to light up that just filled me with joy I don't really know why I'm telling you this I know it's making me sound crazy just as much as it's making her sound toxic but in that moment it all just made so much sense words are cheap actions count for something and there's no dearer currency than her own lifeblood it seemed like the purest act of devotion imaginable and for a while I saw nothing wrong with it and had zero regrets when it was done she told me to buy a larger plastic envelope one that'll properly conceal the blood-filled paper one then I was to mail it to her again it made a lot of sense it was possible to fake something like that I mean pretty easily so the idea that she wanted to see for herself to verify that I'd be true to her it was just second nature as instructed I paid extra for next day delivery a lot extra but it would be worth it I felt like every penny I spent on this girl was worth it money can't buy something like we shared at least that's the way it felt at the time I remember being so excited that the prospect of her opening that envelope of seeing her satisfaction at knowing what I'd done for her and when she saw when she showed me her opening that thing over webcam it was every bit as disgustingly glorious as I imagined her eyes lit up in that same adorable way and she smiled in a way I never quite seen before such a wide white smile she giggled as she held it up bringing a hand to her mouth and in one fluid motion she brought the blood envelope to her lips and kissed it only she didn't just kiss it I watched transfixed as she began to lick at the dried blood stains spitting on them and lathering them with her tongue until the dried mess hydrated and formed a sticky crimson residue not writing this now it's really obviously disgusting but at the time it seemed like love it was the purest act of acceptance of another living being I'd ever witnessed she was purporting to adore the very blood that ran through my veins that even in a dried-up crusty State she could invigorate it it said so much with so little the next day we got into a conversation about cats amber loved kitties as she put it she had a bunch of clothes with cat designs on them hair accessories that resembled CAC girls it was so a whole theme for her but since she was in college living in a dorm room that she was basically trapped and due to lockdown there was no way of her getting to own one now for the first time being way I confess that since my last girlfriend had broken up with me and moved out I'd strongly been considering getting a pet to combat the crushing loneliness that came with a lifestyle such as mine this revelation delighted her and she asked if I would go get her one I was confused at first thinking we meant she wanted me to like send her a cat I didn't think this was entirely out of the question I mean animal shelters would still need to run despite the Cova thing there had to be a way I could find an animal shelter in her area and arrange to have one dropped off but obviously that's not what she meant at all she wanted me to get a cat i acquiesced to the idea pretty quickly it did suit my plans after all but then the conversation took a weird turn she asked me if I love kitties so I told her yes the truth is I don't like them as much as dogs but I wasn't about to over complicate the situation by saying that then she asked me which I liked more her or cats again I said her then she asked if I loved enough to hurt something innocent I hesitated but again I said yes then came those fatal words that now don't seem so loving anymore prove it she told me in no uncertain terms that she wanted me to prove that I loved her more than any other living creature she didn't want me to get into any trouble to ruin my career by getting a criminal record or anything but she still wanted proof it was horrifying listening to her talk she'd obviously thought this out maybe even long in advance she told me I could get a really old cat from a rescue center one that was near the end of its life anyway one that might well be suffering from joint pain or breathing trouble she told me to look at it like an act of mercy one that would prove I was the right man for her one that could make difficult decisions and own them too and I'm ashamed to admit I agreed to every word I found that local animal shelters in my area were still indeed operating I called one that asked them a few questions regarding the adoption process and found it would be infinitely easier than I even expected I could pay them a visit and leave with a cat the very same day and then it came to asking my own rather tailored set of questions I told her I wanted to give an older kitty a comfortable time and it's twilight years that I was something of a feline philanthropist and have been doing so for many years it was heart-wrenching hearing that rescue center worker telling me what a good person I was how no one wanted to adopt the older cats and how one would be so so happy to have finally found someone to take care of them I think that's what did it the sobering moment that made me realize how stupid I been these past few weeks how lust and desire and loneliness had driven me to the point where I was willing to relinquish my entire humanity I had never heard so much as a fly in my entire life and there was planning to hurt an innocent essentially defenseless animal I knew I had to do something I opted for a clean break I thought about writing her a long goodbye message explaining how I'd have come to that decision hoping it wouldn't hurt her feelings too much but then it occurred to me that she didn't really have feelings not like you or I might do she had a fixation on what she could do it all made sense in that context she got off on power a manipulation and any way she could achieve that was justified I blocked her own discord deleted the email account I'd used to send her long stream-of-consciousness letters from it hurt it hurt really really bad at first but once I told myself she diesel II find a new partner a new victim the decisions became much much easier to deal with so please people learn from my stupid short-sighted mistakes don't let this lockdown loneliness get the better of you because there are people out there bad people just waiting to exploit it [Music] I've been reading a lot of stories recently about how mother nature is basically reclaiming the land since this whole lockdown thing went into place in particular one story that comes out of the UK which talks about how a giant herd of wild goats has essentially taken over a small Welsh town it's pretty charming in detailing how these rare Kashmiri goats have seized the opportunity that's been presented by people staying indoors to roam down from the hills to wander around neighborhoods devouring the contents of flower boxes and front garden is alike there are also those stories about the Swans returning to the canals out in Venice Beach but you can go read up on them yourself as I've got a point to get to here ok so little side note here has anyone else notice how nice the weather has gotten since the lockdown started god it's been so frustrating shutting doors while the weather went from gray and windy to warm and sunny like well must have been a matter of days and all my life I've honestly never seen spring slam into winter was such a dramatic transition it's been tough on my little girl too she's been dying to get out to the local park to play on the jungle gyms and telling her no not to mention explaining why has been harder and harder as the weeks have gone by I can't tell her the truth because I know it would absolutely terrify her breaking down there are little creatures living inside of us waiting to be transmitted to someone she loves like PAP PAP banana which could end their lives how do you even say that to a child without them totally freaking out so our story starts with bird watching I know boring but try telling that to my daughter she burned through all her DVDs and favorite YouTube channels in like a week and despite some of them having palpable rewatch value to them she quickly grew tired of staring at a screen for hours on end it got WAY WAY worse than we started having to tell her no about going to the park seems like once you hold something out of reach of the kid it's all they want from then on the forbidden thing I found a happy compromise with her and that if she stayed inside she could look at the garden all she wanted and the bonus was that if she stayed super still and quiet that all kinds of birds and other critters would wander into the garden for her to look at and you know what it actually got kind of fun after a while I actually fished out an old native birds of the upper American East Coast that I'm pretty sure was my grandpa's at one point and we got to work ticking off each one we saw working our way through the book as common and rarely seen birds alike landed among the flower beds of her backyard one evening I'd swear I saw something larger moving around the trees at the back of our yard but I figured it was just a trick of the light maybe a neighbor's dog moving against their back fence casting shadows and ours but a few days later I discovered it wasn't just my imagination I was doing some laundry upstairs while my daughter busied herself with bird-watching I had ordered a cheap pair of kids binoculars from Amazon and those things really had paid for themselves by the evening of the day they arrived my kid was obsessed with them she had them practically strapped to her face for the entire day looking at everything and anything up close and being amazed at the results so she was only happy to sit in front of the patio window doors and will away the hours by checking out the wildlife a close range through her knew by nose and thank God because having to keep an eye on her and day in and day out was meaning housework was mounting up and at the top of the list was laundry so I'm working through piles of dirty clothes calling down to her every so often to see how she was doing and everything seems to be going fine every so often I'd rush down when she claimed was spotted a new kind of bird in our garden often I'd have to point out that it was one we'd seen before but once or twice we actually locked eyes with a lesser spotted woodpecker bird we've most definitely hadn't spotted before only when I heard her cry out Kitty I figured she must have gotten kind of bored of watching for birds at first I was a little worried the last thing I wanted was for my little girl to is a full-on bird murder in our own backyard but I was quietly reassured by the fact that all the neighborhood cats were fat and spoiled and they wouldn't be finessing at backyard Birds anytime soon that was for certain suddenly I heard a kind of thump against the window doors like my daughter at had her hand against the glass super hard I called down to tell her not to hit the glass as it would scare all the birds away and they might not come back to visit her answer made me drop the laundry basket and hurdle downstairs I did it was the kitty but that thump was loud bigger and louder than anything a simple house cat could make it was so weird to write back now but I distinctly remember just not thinking at all just sort of flying into action this white-hot urge to protect protect protect just turning me into more machine than woman and what do I see the moment I turned the corner into the living room I see my daughter standing at the glass doors staring at an actual mountain lion in the face the huge cat had its paw half cocked as if I didn't already have an idea that it was the one making that banging noise against the glass I ran toward my little girl with such speed and aggression that the mountain lion jumped back for a second the inherent danger of the situation danger that seemed to be completely unaware of previously caught up with her and hit her like a freight train she started bawling screaming realizing in a white-hot moment that Kitty didn't want to play Kenny wanted to rip and tear at the kitty wasn't a kitty at all once it realized I'd taken away its intended prey the mountain lion took a few more swipes at the glass and only rushed out the back yard once I started banging pots and pans together real loud just like my grandpa showed me years before I guess this was just a long-winded way of saying to keep a real close eye on the woods and green spaces when this lockdown is over it might not be entirely safe for our kids to be playing in places that have obviously been reclaimed by wildlife and dangerous wildlife at that hey friends thanks for listening be sure to subscribe and click that notification bell to be alerted of all future narrations if you got a story be sure to submit them to my subreddits our let's read official and give and receive feedback from the community and maybe even hear your story featured on the next video and join my discord to interact with me and other listeners directly and if you want to support me even more grab early access to all future narrations for just $1 a month on patreon and maybe even pick up some let's read merch on Spreadshirt and check out the let's read podcast where you can hear all these stories in long compilation form and save huge on data located anywhere you listen to podcasts links in the bio thanks so much friends and remember happy birthday Robyn

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Length: 55min 26sec (3326 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 27 2020