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5 min readScary Stories - Break In
The night thirteen-year-old Zoe heard a man's voice in her kitchen, she knew immediately who it was. Kyle, the town handyman who had inappropriately touched children in her small Texas town of 393 people, was standing in her home while her mother was blackout drunk. Zoe's mother had picked him up somewhere and brought him back—and he knew there were three early-teenage girls sleeping in the next room. Zoe jumped out of bed, grabbed the house phone, ran into the kitchen, physically pushed her mother behind her, and screamed at Kyle to get out. When he didn't move, she screamed again that the cops were coming. He ran. The police took three hours to arrive. Her mother never remembered the night.
The Vulnerability of Small Towns
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Episode Introduction** - Opening ad block before the first story begins.
- 2 (02:17) **Story 1: "Kyle the Handyman" - Setting the Scene** - The narrator describes growing up in a tiny Texas town of 393 people with no local police force.
- 3 (07:09) **Story 1: Confronting Kyle in the Kitchen** - The narrator overhears a man's voice and realizes the child molester is in her home, talking about the three teenage girls sleeping in the next room.
- 4 (10:44) **Story 1: Aftermath and Reflection** - The narrator reflects on how this night kicked off a three-year blackout period for her mother due to alcoholism.
- 5 (13:06) **Story 2: "The Man Who Followed Her Home" - The Setup** - A Scottish man living in Aberdeen shares a flat with a Romanian woman who goes out for her birthday while he stays home.
- 6 (14:50) **Story 2: The Morning After Discovery** - The next morning, the narrator cheekily asks his flatmate if she had fun with the guy she brought back, and she goes white.
- 7 (19:02) **Story 3: "The Watcher" - Seeing the Figure** - A woman living alone in a townhouse takes her dog out at 11 PM and sees a man appear from across the street near a house being renovated.
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Show Notes
A collection of stories from victims of break ins.
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