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-[Narrator] 911 Calling
submitted by Indiana Joan.

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This took place when I
was about 10 years old.

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My mom had rather
quickly filed for divorce

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but she only had a part time
job and made very little money.

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So finding a place to stay
that was affordable was tough.

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A friend of hers told her
that she and her husband

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had a little mobile home that
was currently sitting empty.

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And we could rent it practically
for free until we figured

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out something else.

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I immediately didn't like the house.

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We lived in a mountain
town and this mobile home

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was way up a steep, mile long driveway.

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For whatever reason,

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I immediately refused to
use the hallway bathroom.

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I wouldn't even step into it.

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It was a very 70s home with wood paneling

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and dated fixtures.

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There were also areas
that showed strange damage

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like holes in the wall
that were badly patched up.

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My mom was gone a lot

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trying to find whatever work she could.

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So I would be home
alone a lot after school

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and on the weekends.

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My mom always told us
not to answer the door.

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We should always answer
the phone in case it's her.

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So when the phone rang one afternoon,

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I figured it would be my mom

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since no one else really
had our number yet.

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There was a woman on the phone
who sounded very concerned.

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-[Woman] Hello, this is
911 returning your call.

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We received your call
but we got disconnected.

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-[Narrator] The woman said.

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I immediately got a sick feeling.

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I told her that I did not call 911.

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She asked me if there was
anyone else in the house

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who might have called?

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I said I was home alone.

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But I started to get really
worried that maybe I wasn't.

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She said she would dispatch
police to our address

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just to make sure everything was okay.

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At that point, I was
terrified to be in the house

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so I sat outside and nervously
waited for the police.

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The officer asked me if I
had called 911 and I said no.

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The officer just sort
of shrugged and said,

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this kind of thing sometimes happens.

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They said the numbers can't
get mixed up but it happens.

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I tried to convince myself
the opposite was right.

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It was just a mixed up
phone call and hopefully

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whoever did actually call
got the help they needed.

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About a month later,
the same thing happened.

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I got another phone call from 911

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saying they had received
a call from my number.

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I told them again that it
must have been a mistake.

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The woman on the phone scolded
me, telling me that 911

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wasn't something to play around with.

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She didn't dispatch any police this time.

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Again, I was really worried
someone was in the house.

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I don't know why but I always kept

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the hallway bathroom door closed.

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Maybe because of the eerie
feeling I got from it.

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As I was checking the
house, I just knew someone

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was in that bathroom.

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I was terrified.

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Part of me felt like I needed
to open the door to check.

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Maybe to prove myself wrong.

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But I was too afraid so I
just sat in the living room

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watching that door.

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It was so quiet in the house
that after a few minutes

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I swore I started to
hear faint little sounds

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coming from inside.

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Like a kind of shuffling noise.

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I asked my mom to check the
bathroom when she got home.

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And she quickly looked inside.

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She made me come and look
to see that it was empty.

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I was letting my imagination
get the better of me.

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The 911 calls happened three more times

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over the coming months and
only when I was home alone.

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The fourth time, the
dispatcher told me I could face

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criminal charges for what I was doing

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and they would contact my parents.

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I hung up the phone sobbing and terrified.

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I felt like the girl who
cried wolf, only it wasn't me.

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I sat and watched the bathroom
door again hearing noises.

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Like someone dragging their
fingers across the floor.

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I decided my mom was right and
I was probably just letting

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my imagination get away.

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I decided to try and leave
the bathroom door open

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so I wouldn't get so
freaked out by the thought

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that someone was in there.

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Then I got the fifth 911 call.

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This time though,

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after I hung up the phone
with the dispatcher,

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the bathroom door slammed shut.

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I ran.

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I ran all the way down our steep driveway

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and found a place to wait until my mom

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pulled into the drive.

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When she arrived,

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she was angry with me
for leaving the house

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but she saw how upset I was.

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I refused to be alone in
the house again though.

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So we worked it out so I
would stay later at school

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or go to a nearby friend's
house 'til she got off work.

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Not long after this, we got a
notice from my mom's friend.

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That we needed to move out
of the house because her mom

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needed a place to stay.

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I was so grateful to be moving out.

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I moved around a lot the
next few years and tried

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to forget about that house.

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It wasn't until I was older
that I really thought about it.

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I decided to do some research.

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Which honestly, I wish I had never done.

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A few years before we moved in,

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a woman was killed in that house

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in some kind of domestic dispute.

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It was days though before she was found

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shut up in the bathroom.

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(phone rings)