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sounded to me like it was chad.
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... trying to mimic something. i didn't understand the psychology of it then, but i-
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..maybe he'd hit a low point, where he was so desperate for-
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attention and validation that he would actually do something this.
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bizarre. and then when i got home.
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... a drawer, where i kept money for when the lawn service came around every couple of weeks.
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maybe a hundred dollars is now the price you pay for never having to speak to chad again.
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about 1130 that night, i woke up, my cell phone was ringing.
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... begging me to drive back over to his house.
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he sounded drunk. he said he had a new message, and he didn't know what to do.
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i laid awake for another half hour.
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his house was dark, his front door was unlocked.
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so i went in, no lights were on inside whatsoever.
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only bedroom. the door was open.
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chad wasn't in there. i called out to him every 30 seconds or so as i explored.
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it was on the counter. i went over to it and i pressed the new messages button.
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i heard footsteps. i backed out into the hallway. at the very end of it was the closed door that led to the cellar.
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... staring at me blankly, unshaven and looking exhausted or inebriated.
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... wobbly. he was balancing precariously at the top of the staircase.
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he was holding something in each hand.
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i didn't even mean to buy it.
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it was part of a lot at an estate sale.
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i asked him what was going on.
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in response. he only looked down at his right hand, which held-
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... a metal coffee can, then back up at me.
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and then as if he were a diver.
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he threw his weight backwards all at once. with as much force as he had left in his body.
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i heard his body hit the steps just once before he...
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careened clear of them and struck the cement floor even before i managed to.
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i think chad died instantly.
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the stairs seemed to be frozen forever on a set of old golf clubs near his head.
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... blood had pooled all around it.
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it skidded across the floor and the plastic lid he'd been holding in his left hand was pinned beneath his hip.
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when i was certain chad was dead...
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i stood and i took a closer look at the walls all around me.
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the writing had started in one corner near the ceiling and wrapped around.
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... every wall and then looped around and around again...
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... and again in letters five or six inches high, sentence after sentence...
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more than 1300 words in handwriting that was.
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... eerily normal. 1300 words telling the story of chad's life, not from his birth but-
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very night projecting a detailed future.
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he didn't have the strength to face.
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the first words read. you will injure a mother in a car accident on the 9th of october.
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it went on to describe any number of.
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she ran behind the water heater in the cellar's east corner.
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you will hang yourself at dawn in a campground. it's-
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there's little other explanation for the writing other than.
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... an empty, rusty can of folgers coffee.
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chad had pried the tape away with what was probably a great deal of effort.
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... on a little bit of untapped space on the lid.
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were letters very different from the ones on the cellar walls.
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... unmistakably childlike writing, block capitals...
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... in felt-tip marker that read...
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... careful. do not ever open.
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... first published in 1822. it's the definition of something called...
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... depicted. p-y-k-t-i-d.
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that tends to concentrate its destructive games on a single attack against its prey.
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... induce paranoia and terror.
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took some time off to try to hike a 500 mile section of the appalachian trail.
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starting out near harpers ferry, west virginia.
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as you walk along, there's a natural grapevine that forms among all the other hikers.
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word came down the line that.
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some hiker up near waynesboro...
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... had been attacked by a black bear on the trail.
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i became a little bit obsessed with this when i started out the next morning, i was.
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you wouldn't see any other humans.
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and if you start to get paranoid like that, every twig.
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every shifting in the underbrush sounds like something threatening-
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just four days later i arrived at a shelter.
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a guy started to tell me the story of a northbound hiker who'd been attacked by a black bear.
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but the details are all wrong.
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we got together with some other people at the shelter and went over the facts that some people knew.
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but, impossible. the same hiker attacked twice within a week and injured both times.
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most people adopt an informal trail name out there when they're going all the way to the end.
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and this guy referred to himself apparently as claudius.
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the consensus among this was that he must have been doing something wrong.
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just could not be.
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no one knew what happened to him after he walked out of the woods to the hospital in boiling springs.
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i made the mistake of pushing past one shelter to try to make it to one further along...
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... which was an unsettling feeling.
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i had a headlamp, but i didn't want to be out there so late.
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i was on my last legs and it was almost full dark.
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... kind ff muscular, looked maybe 50.
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i sat down on the other side of the platform and we said hello, and i started in with the usual polite query.
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he'd gotten a late start in the season, so he was headed to maine from the shenandoahs. he said his name was claudius.
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of course it was because...
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... on the left side of his face were a dozen big ugly stitches going all the way down his cheek.
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he spoke very softly.
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almost supremely he confirmed that yes-
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not once, but twice. the first time he had accidentally surprised a bear behind a rock.
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fluke thing, and it had reacted badly and-
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so did he. it had stepped on his arm and clawed at his foot before he made enough noise to scare it for a retreat.
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and then a few days ago came the inexplicable nighttime attack.
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and claudia has gone into a kind of shock.
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forgot to make noise, forgot not to make eye contact.
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deeply strange behavior. that time, nothing.
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he believed he had been very close to being fatally mauled.
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no special emphasis, just looking out into the dark woods as if expecting to see something there.
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i tried to lighten the mood by asking him what he did for living.
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and he smiled a strange smile and said he'd been piecing in existence together for a few years. but-
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