3 TERRIFYING Times People Realized They Were Being WATCHED
Hush
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I bolted'}, {'start': '134.720', 'end': '140.800', 'text': 'off the couch my phone clattering to the floor and\xa0\nsprinted for the stairs my feet pounded against'}, {'start': '140.800', 'end': '148.000', 'text': 'the wood each step echoing in my ears like a drum\xa0\ni didn\'t look back all I could think was "What if'}, {'start': '148.000', 'end': '154.800', 'text': "he's coming inside what if he's already at the\xa0\ndoor my house my safe little haven felt like a"}, {'start': '154.800', 'end': '161.440', 'text': 'trap." I made it to my bedroom and slammed the\xa0\ndoor shut my hands shaking so bad I could barely'}, {'start': '161.440', 'end': '169.280', 'text': "turn the lock my mind was racing a jumble of panic\xa0\nand disbelief this isn't happening i kept telling"}, {'start': '169.280', 'end': '176.160', 'text': 'myself "This can\'t be real." But it was i grabbed\xa0\nthe only thing I could think of a metal bar from'}, {'start': '176.160', 'end': '183.120', 'text': 'an old dumbbell set in the corner it was heavy\xa0\ncold in my hands and it gave me something to hold'}, {'start': '183.120', 'end': '189.280', 'text': 'onto something to make me feel less helpless\xa0\ni crouched down by the bed clutching the bar'}, {'start': '189.280', 'end': '196.960', 'text': "like my life depended on it and I listened the\xa0\nhouse was silent again but it wasn't comforting"}, {'start': '196.960', 'end': '202.560', 'text': 'it was the kind of silence that hides things the\xa0\nkind that makes every creek and groan feel like'}, {'start': '202.560', 'end': '209.360', 'text': 'a threat i strained my ears waiting for the sound\xa0\nof a door rattling a window breaking footsteps on'}, {'start': '209.360', 'end': '216.640', 'text': 'the stairs every second stretched into eternity\xa0\nmy pulse hammering in my throat i kept picturing'}, {'start': '216.640', 'end': '223.600', 'text': 'his face those eyes boring into me and I wondered\xa0\nhow long was he there how many nights has he been'}, {'start': '223.600', 'end': '230.160', 'text': "watching me i don't know how long I stayed like\xa0\nthat crouched in the dark my breath shallow and"}, {'start': '230.160', 'end': '237.120', 'text': "ragged it could have been minutes or hours but\xa0\neventually I couldn't take it anymore i had to"}, {'start': '237.120', 'end': '242.720', 'text': 'know if he was still there i crept to the front\xa0\nbedroom the one with the window overlooking the'}, {'start': '242.720', 'end': '249.120', 'text': 'street and I peeled back the curtain just enough\xa0\nto peek out my heart was in my throat expecting'}, {'start': '249.120', 'end': '254.400', 'text': 'to see him standing on the lawn staring\xa0\nup at me but what I saw was somehow worse'}, {'start': '255.280', 'end': '261.680', 'text': "he was walking down the street hands in his\xa0\npockets casual as anything like he hadn't just"}, {'start': '261.680', 'end': '268.880', 'text': "been peering into my home violating every sense\xa0\nof safety I had he didn't look back didn't hurry"}, {'start': '268.880', 'end': '274.640', 'text': 'he just strolled away disappearing into the\xa0\nshadows at the end of the block i stood there'}, {'start': '274.640', 'end': '280.800', 'text': "trembling watching until he was gone and even\xa0\nthen I couldn't shake the feeling that he wasn't"}, {'start': '280.800', 'end': '288.720', 'text': "really gone that he'd be back i didn't sleep that\xa0\nnight i couldn't i checked every lock in the house"}, {'start': '288.720', 'end': '294.960', 'text': 'twice three times i dragged a chair under the\xa0\ndoororknob of my bedroom and kept that metal bar'}, {'start': '294.960', 'end': '303.040', 'text': 'next to me every time I heard a sound it made me\xa0\njump i kept replaying it in my head his face his'}, {'start': '303.040', 'end': '310.720', 'text': 'stare the way he just watched who was he why was\xa0\nhe there was he just some creep passing through or'}, {'start': '310.720', 'end': '316.800', 'text': "was he someone who'd been watching me for weeks\xa0\nwaiting for the right moment the next morning I"}, {'start': '316.800', 'end': '322.320', 'text': "called a friend to come over because I couldn't\xa0\nbe alone i told them everything and they tried"}, {'start': '322.320', 'end': '328.640', 'text': 'to reassure me saying maybe it was just a drunk\xa0\nguy or someone lost but I could see the unease'}, {'start': '328.640', 'end': '334.240', 'text': "in their eyes and it didn't help i got curtains\xa0\nfor the dining room windows that same week heavy"}, {'start': '334.240', 'end': '340.240', 'text': 'ones that block out everything i started locking\xa0\nthe doors the second I get home even in the middle'}, {'start': '340.240', 'end': '345.360', 'text': "of the day but no matter what I do I can't\xa0\nshake that image of his face pressed against"}, {'start': '345.360', 'end': '352.640', 'text': 'the glass his eyes burning into me sometimes late\xa0\nat night when the house is quiet again I feel it'}, {'start': '352.640', 'end': '359.600', 'text': "that prickling sensation like someone's out there\xa0\njust beyond the curtains i tell myself it's just"}, {'start': '359.600', 'end': '366.320', 'text': "my imagination that he's gone for good but deep\xa0\ndown I'm not so sure because once you've seen"}, {'start': '366.320', 'end': '371.520', 'text': 'someone watching you like that once you felt\xa0\nthat kind of violation it never really leaves'}, {'start': '371.520', 'end': '382.960', 'text': 'you i was 7 years old standing in my bedroom the\xa0\nmorning sun spilling through my window like it'}, {'start': '382.960', 'end': '389.360', 'text': 'did every day it was one of those crisp early\xa0\nmornings where the world feels fresh and I was'}, {'start': '389.360', 'end': '394.880', 'text': 'getting ready for school tugging off my pajamas\xa0\nwith the kind of care-free energy only a kid'}, {'start': '394.880', 'end': '401.760', 'text': 'has my room was my sanctuary filled with stuffed\xa0\nanimals on the bed posters of my favorite cartoons'}, {'start': '401.760', 'end': '407.760', 'text': 'on the walls and that big window that let me\xa0\nwatch the world outside i loved looking out'}, {'start': '407.760', 'end': '413.840', 'text': 'there spotting birds flitting between the trees\xa0\nor squirrels darting across the backyard it was my'}, {'start': '413.840', 'end': '420.720', 'text': 'little ritual a moment of calm before the rush of\xa0\nthe school day that morning I was halfway through'}, {'start': '420.720', 'end': '427.280', 'text': 'changing my pajama top tossed on the floor when I\xa0\nglanced out the window expecting to see a sparrow'}, {'start': '427.280', 'end': '434.480', 'text': 'or maybe the neighbors kept prowling around but\xa0\nwhat I saw stopped me cold in the backyard next'}, {'start': '434.480', 'end': '444.960', 'text': 'door there was a man a middle-aged guy sitting in\xa0\na lawn chair and in his hands pressed right up to'}, {'start': '444.960', 'end': '454.160', 'text': 'his face were binoculars pointing straight at my\xa0\nwindow straight at me my stomach dropped a sick'}, {'start': '454.160', 'end': '461.040', 'text': "twisting feeling that I didn't fully understand\xa0\nat 7 but knew was wrong i stood there frozen half"}, {'start': '461.040', 'end': '467.120', 'text': 'naked my arms instinctively crossing over my\xa0\nchest like they could shield me from his gaze'}, {'start': '467.120', 'end': '473.600', 'text': 'his face was obscured by those binoculars but I\xa0\ncould feel his eyes intense and unyielding locked'}, {'start': '473.600', 'end': '480.320', 'text': "onto me it wasn't a casual glance or a neighbor\xa0\njust chilling outside this was something else"}, {'start': '480.320', 'end': '485.920', 'text': 'something that made my skin prickle and my\xa0\nheart pound so hard I thought it might burst'}, {'start': '485.920', 'end': '492.320', 'text': "i don't know how long I stood there caught in that\xa0\nawful moment but it felt like forever then panic"}, {'start': '492.320', 'end': '499.120', 'text': 'took over i yanked my shirt on fumbling with the\xa0\nsleeves my hands trembling so bad I could barely'}, {'start': '499.120', 'end': '505.600', 'text': 'get them through i ran out of my room my bare feet\xa0\nslapping against the hardwood floor and burst into'}, {'start': '505.600', 'end': '511.520', 'text': 'the kitchen where my parents were sipping coffee\xa0\ngetting ready for their own day "there\'s a man,"'}, {'start': '511.520', 'end': '520.240', 'text': "I stammered my voice high and shaky he's watching\xa0\nme with binoculars my mom's face changed in an"}, {'start': '520.240', 'end': '528.000', 'text': 'instant were increasing her forehead my dad was\xa0\nup in a flash both of them rushing to my room me'}, {'start': '528.000', 'end': '534.560', 'text': "trailing behind my heart still racing they peered\xa0\nout the window scanning the neighbor's yard but"}, {'start': '534.560', 'end': '542.080', 'text': "it was empty the lawn chair was there but the\xa0\nman was gone no trace of him like he'd vanished"}, {'start': '542.080', 'end': '548.800', 'text': 'into thin air my dad even went outside walking\xa0\nthe perimeter of our yard checking the neighbors'}, {'start': '548.800', 'end': '556.240', 'text': 'property but there was nothing no footprints no\xa0\ndropped binoculars no sign anyone had been there'}, {'start': '556.240', 'end': '563.680', 'text': 'at all they came back inside and my mom knelt\xa0\ndown pulling me into a hug "it\'s okay sweetie,"'}, {'start': '563.680', 'end': '569.920', 'text': 'she said her voice soft but strained "maybe it\xa0\nwas just someone looking at birds or something."'}, {'start': '569.920', 'end': '575.920', 'text': 'My dad nodded adding "Yeah probably just a\xa0\nmisunderstanding but I could see it in their'}, {'start': '575.920', 'end': '581.600', 'text': 'eyes." They were rattled too they were trying\xa0\nto calm me down but I knew they didn\'t fully'}, {'start': '581.600', 'end': '587.760', 'text': "believe their own words and I didn't believe\xa0\nthem either that man wasn't watching birds he"}, {'start': '587.760', 'end': '594.720', 'text': "was watching me that day I went to school\xa0\nbut I was a mess i couldn't focus couldn't"}, {'start': '594.720', 'end': '600.480', 'text': 'shake the image of those binoculars the way they\xa0\nglinted in the morning light aimed right at my'}, {'start': '600.480', 'end': '606.720', 'text': 'window i kept wondering how long was he there\xa0\nhad he been watching me other mornings when'}, {'start': '606.720', 'end': '613.280', 'text': "I didn't notice the thought made me feel\xa0\nexposed like my room wasn't mine anymore"}, {'start': '613.280', 'end': '619.840', 'text': 'that night my parents closed the curtains in my\xa0\nbedroom something we never bothered with before'}, {'start': '619.840', 'end': '625.760', 'text': 'they told me to keep them shut when I changed\xa0\nand I did religiously but even with the curtains'}, {'start': '625.760', 'end': '634.160', 'text': 'drawn I felt him that creeping sensation like his\xa0\neyes were still out there waiting for weeks I was'}, {'start': '634.160', 'end': '639.840', 'text': "on edge every morning I'd peek through a tiny\xa0\ngap in the curtains before changing scanning"}, {'start': '639.840', 'end': '646.000', 'text': "the neighbor's yard for that lawn chair for him i\xa0\nstopped lingering by the window stopped watching"}, {'start': '646.000', 'end': '653.120', 'text': 'the birds my little ritual was ruined tainted by\xa0\nfear i started having nightmares of a faceless'}, {'start': '653.120', 'end': '660.240', 'text': "man with binoculars standing just outside my room\xa0\ntheir lenses glowing in the dark i'd wake up in"}, {'start': '660.240', 'end': '667.520', 'text': 'a cold sweat clutching my blanket afraid to even\xa0\nlook at the window my parents tried to help they'}, {'start': '667.520', 'end': '673.920', 'text': 'talked to the neighbors asked if anyone had seen\xa0\na strange guy hanging around but no one had the'}, {'start': '673.920', 'end': '679.200', 'text': "neighbor whose yard he'd been in said they didn't\xa0\nknow anyone like that and their lawn chair was"}, {'start': '679.200', 'end': '685.120', 'text': "always out there so it didn't prove anything the\xa0\npolice couldn't do much either since no crime had"}, {'start': '685.120', 'end': '691.920', 'text': "been committed just a kid's word against nothing\xa0\nbut I knew what I saw i knew how it felt that"}, {'start': '691.920', 'end': '699.280', 'text': 'violation of my safe space my childhood innocence\xa0\ncracked like a broken window years later I still'}, {'start': '699.280', 'end': '706.320', 'text': "think about it i'm older now living in a different\xa0\nhouse but I never leave my curtains open at night"}, {'start': '706.320', 'end': '713.600', 'text': "i check my locks obsessively and I've got a little\xa0\ncamera by my front door just in case that memory"}, {'start': '713.600', 'end': '719.760', 'text': "that moment when I realized someone was watching\xa0\nme it's burned into me it taught me something no"}, {'start': '719.760', 'end': '726.480', 'text': "7-year-old should have to learn that even in your\xa0\nown home your own room you're not always safe that"}, {'start': '726.480', 'end': '732.400', 'text': 'there are people out there who see your privacy\xa0\nas something to take something to steal i never'}, {'start': '732.400', 'end': '739.360', 'text': "saw that man again thank God but sometimes when\xa0\nI'm alone in the morning getting ready for the day"}, {'start': '739.360', 'end': '746.000', 'text': "I feel it a prickle on the back of my neck like\xa0\nsomeone's out there watching I tell myself it's"}, {'start': '746.000', 'end': '754.160', 'text': 'just my imagination just the scars of that day\xa0\nbut I always close the curtains just to be sure'}, {'start': '758.240', 'end': '764.240', 'text': 'i was 11 years old when my family packed up and\xa0\nmoved to a rural bungalow out in the middle of'}, {'start': '764.240', 'end': '772.560', 'text': 'nowhere surrounded by rolling farmland and dense\xa0\nwoods to me it was paradise no neighbors for miles'}, {'start': '772.560', 'end': '779.200', 'text': 'just open fields and the kind of quiet you only\xa0\nget far from the city the house was perfect with'}, {'start': '779.200', 'end': '784.320', 'text': 'these massive picture windows that framed the\xa0\ncountryside like a painting my favorite was'}, {'start': '784.320', 'end': '789.520', 'text': 'the one in my bedroom facing the backyard where\xa0\nI could see the woods stretching out into the'}, {'start': '789.520', 'end': '796.080', 'text': "distance i'd spend hours there daydreaming or\xa0\nwalking my dog Rusty through the trails behind"}, {'start': '796.080', 'end': '803.280', 'text': 'the house savoring the solitude it felt like the\xa0\nworld was mine but that fall something changed'}, {'start': '803.280', 'end': '811.120', 'text': "it started small just a feeling like a whisper at\xa0\nthe back of my mind i'd be out with Rusty trumping"}, {'start': '811.120', 'end': '817.520', 'text': "through the woods and I'd get this prickling\xa0\nsensation like someone was watching me i'd"}, {'start': '817.520', 'end': '826.800', 'text': 'stop look around but there was never anything just\xa0\ntrees and silence at first I brushed it off i mean'}, {'start': '826.800', 'end': '835.040', 'text': "I was 11 my imagination was always running wild\xa0\nbut the feeling didn't go away it got stronger"}, {'start': '835.040', 'end': '841.840', 'text': "especially in my bedroom right by that big window\xa0\ni'd be doing homework or reading and I'd feel it"}, {'start': '841.840', 'end': '848.960', 'text': 'again this heavy invisible stare pressing through\xa0\nthe glass i started avoiding the window at night'}, {'start': '848.960', 'end': '855.760', 'text': 'keeping my eyes on the floor but it was like the\xa0\ndarkness outside was alive waiting for me to look'}, {'start': '855.760', 'end': '862.720', 'text': 'then the nightmares started every night the same\xa0\nimage a man faceless standing in the backyard'}, {'start': '862.720', 'end': '869.600', 'text': "staring at the house in the dreams I'd be frozen\xa0\nunable to move while he just stood there his"}, {'start': '869.600', 'end': '876.000', 'text': "presence filling me with dread i'd wake up gasping\xa0\nmy heart pounding and I'd lie there too scared to"}, {'start': '876.000', 'end': '883.360', 'text': "look at the window terrified I'd see him for real\xa0\nmy parents noticed I was jumpy but when I tried to"}, {'start': '883.360', 'end': '890.320', 'text': "explain they chalked it up to the move to being in\xa0\na new place you're just adjusting my mom would say"}, {'start': '890.320', 'end': '897.120', 'text': 'ruffling my hair but I knew it was more than that\xa0\nsomething was wrong then strange things started'}, {'start': '897.120', 'end': '904.160', 'text': "happening we'd wake up to find food missing from\xa0\nthe kitchen a loaf of bread half a pack of cookies"}, {'start': '904.160', 'end': '910.720', 'text': 'gone overnight my parents thought it was me or\xa0\nmy little sister sneaking snacks but we swore it'}, {'start': '910.720', 'end': '917.840', 'text': "wasn't us i started noticing other stuff too late\xa0\nat night I'd heard heavy footsteps in the kitchen"}, {'start': '917.840', 'end': '923.360', 'text': "nothing like my sister's light patter or\xa0\nmy parents' familiar tread they were slow"}, {'start': '923.360', 'end': '930.320', 'text': "deliberate like someone was trying not to be heard\xa0\ni'd lie in bed clutching my blanket telling myself"}, {'start': '930.320', 'end': '936.640', 'text': "it was just the house settling but deep down I\xa0\ndidn't believe it one night around 2:30 a.m I"}, {'start': '936.640', 'end': '943.360', 'text': 'woke up to those footsteps again they were louder\xa0\nthis time closer like they were right outside the'}, {'start': '943.360', 'end': '949.600', 'text': 'kitchen door that led to the backyard my room was\xa0\npitch black the only light coming from the faint'}, {'start': '949.600', 'end': '956.960', 'text': 'glow of the moon through that huge window i laid\xa0\nthere paralyzed my breath shallow every muscle'}, {'start': '956.960', 'end': '963.600', 'text': "screaming at me to stay still i don't know why but\xa0\nI felt like if I moved if I made a sound he'd know"}, {'start': '963.600', 'end': '970.160', 'text': "I was awake i kept my eyes squeezed shut praying\xa0\nthe footsteps would stop that they'd fade away"}, {'start': '970.160', 'end': '977.120', 'text': "but they didn't they just lingered like whoever\xa0\nit was wasn't in a hurry finally I couldn't take"}, {'start': '977.120', 'end': '984.960', 'text': "it anymore i had to know i opened my eyes just a\xa0\nsliver and turned my head toward the window that's"}, {'start': '984.960', 'end': '992.880', 'text': 'when I saw him a man standing in our backyard\xa0\nright outside my window he was tall his silhouette'}, {'start': '992.880', 'end': '1000.320', 'text': 'sharp against the moonlight and he was staring at\xa0\nthe house not moving not blinking just watching'}, {'start': '1000.880', 'end': '1007.760', 'text': "i couldn't see his face but I felt his gaze like\xa0\nit was cutting through the glass straight into me"}, {'start': '1007.760', 'end': '1014.160', 'text': "i wanted to scream to run but I couldn't all I\xa0\ncould do was lie there pretending to be asleep"}, {'start': '1014.160', 'end': '1020.320', 'text': "while my entire world shrank to the terror of\xa0\nthat moment i don't know how long he stood there"}, {'start': '1020.320', 'end': '1027.360', 'text': 'it felt like forever eventually I must have passed\xa0\nout from sheer exhaustion because the next thing I'}, {'start': '1027.360', 'end': '1034.160', 'text': 'knew it was morning the backyard was empty the sun\xa0\nshining like nothing had happened i stumbled into'}, {'start': '1034.160', 'end': '1041.920', 'text': 'the kitchen pale and shaking and told my parents\xa0\neverything at first they brushed it off saying it'}, {'start': '1041.920', 'end': '1049.280', 'text': "was probably just another bad dream but I didn't\xa0\nlet it go i was desperate on the verge of tears"}, {'start': '1049.280', 'end': '1055.440', 'text': 'my voice cracking as I begged them to believe\xa0\nme finally my dad agreed to check the property'}, {'start': '1055.440', 'end': '1060.560', 'text': 'he grabbed a flashlight and headed out to the\xa0\nshed in the backyard this old rickety thing'}, {'start': '1060.560', 'end': '1067.760', 'text': 'we barely used i stayed inside watching from\xa0\nthe kitchen my stomach in knots when he came'}, {'start': '1067.760', 'end': '1074.160', 'text': "back his face was white he didn't say much\xa0\njust told my mom to call the police within"}, {'start': '1074.160', 'end': '1082.080', 'text': "an hour our yard was crawling with cops they'd\xa0\nfound blankets empty food wrappers a knife and"}, {'start': '1082.080', 'end': '1088.640', 'text': 'a bag of stolen jewelry in the shed someone\xa0\nhad been living there right under our noses'}, {'start': '1088.640', 'end': '1095.680', 'text': 'for weeks the police pieced it together a man a\xa0\ndrifter with a violent record had been squatting'}, {'start': '1095.680', 'end': '1101.760', 'text': 'in our shed sneaking into the house at night to\xa0\nsteal food and watching us through the windows'}, {'start': '1101.760', 'end': '1107.200', 'text': "they found footprints leading from the shed to my\xa0\nbedroom window proof he'd been there night after"}, {'start': '1107.200', 'end': '1113.600', 'text': "night staring in they said we were lucky that\xa0\nhis history suggested he wasn't just watching"}, {'start': '1113.600', 'end': '1119.600', 'text': "he might have been planning something worse they\xa0\nnever caught him he'd slipped away before the"}, {'start': '1119.600', 'end': '1126.000', 'text': 'police arrived leaving behind a trail of fear\xa0\nthat never really faded we moved not long after'}, {'start': '1126.000', 'end': '1132.240', 'text': 'to a house in the suburbs far from those wide\xa0\nopen fields but I never forgot that feeling that'}, {'start': '1132.240', 'end': '1138.240', 'text': "bone deep certainty that I was being watched\xa0\ni don't trust big windows anymore i keep my"}, {'start': '1138.240', 'end': '1145.120', 'text': "curtains drawn my doors locked and I've got a dog\xa0\nthat barks at the slightest sound even now years"}, {'start': '1145.120', 'end': '1156.080', 'text': "later when I'm alone at night I wonder if he's\xa0\nstill out there somewhere watching someone else"}]