Sept. 17, 2024

Police Horror Story Part 1

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Police Horror Story Part 1. This scary story is from Episode #10 of Your Scary Stories. Your Scary Stories is a show focused on sharing your true scary stories LIVE every Monday at 10:30pm EST. To learn more about the Show, or to submit your true scary story go to YourScaryStories.com CarlB1961 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/kzntf8/ive_been_a_smalltown_cop_for_twelve_years_theres/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32626579&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan

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I'm excited to share the story with everybody. Are you

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excited to very much? So? Well, I think I'm first

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on the list to read YEP, So we'll go ahead

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and get it going. I've been a small town cop

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for twelve years. There's one case that still scares me.

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Being a cop in a small town in Minnesota probably

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isn't the most exciting career there is, but it's not

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bad either. It's actually a relatively peaceful and safe line

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of work compared to being in law enforcement in one

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of the big cities New York or LA, for example,

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where all.

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The action is is.

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They would say, there's only around ten thousand people in

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the town where I live. It's way out in the

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middle of nowhere, surrounded by miles of open farmland, and

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the only real crime that ever occurs as pretty minor stuff.

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The occasional rowty rednecks getting into fist fights, teenagers vandalizing,

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petty theft, the odd drunk driver here, and then a

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case of disorder, really conduct here and there, a were

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breaking and entering, and then a couple of times I've

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been to some more serious stuff I've had to deal with,

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like domestic violence, assault, and then robbery. But that's not

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even that typical. It doesn't really happen that often. Well,

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that's not entirely true. There was one case that still

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haunts me. But I'm getting ahead of myself, Like I

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was saying, I live in a peaceful, little town, boring.

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Some would even say, the kind of rule out of

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the way farming community. You've probably driven through on the

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highway on your way to somewhere more interesting, without even

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really thinking about it as you pass it by. The

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kind of place where nothing out of the ordinary ever happens.

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You've probably thought, and for the most part, you'd be

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right thinking that. But there's one case I can't get

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out of my mind, one case that still makes my

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blood run cold whenever I think about it. One case

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I can't explain, no matter how hard I'd try to

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rationalize it to myself. What happened to the old Garrity

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woman seven years ago. I had been a police officer

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for five years when it happened in the early spring

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of twenty fourteen. There were only five cops on the

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entire police force, me, my partner Jerry Pete, and Vance,

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who both worked a night patrol, and the police chief,

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plus Karen, an older woman who is a retired librarian

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and worked part time as the dispatcher. The police department

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was located in the town building. It consisted of two offices,

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one for the chief, then an open work area for

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the rest of us. There are three jail cells in

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the rear, and the three of them were never all

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occupied at the same time. It was an overcast, rainy

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afternoon in late March early April. Me and Jerry were

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in our cruiser on a routine patrol around town when

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Karen's voice came over the radio telling us there was

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a possible ten eighty two in progress at the Garrity

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House on Turner Road. We acknowledged then change directions heading

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to the Garrity House. I wasn't overly concerned about the call.

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I already had a pretty good idea who made it

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Allen Garrity was an older woman who was a widow

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who lived in a Rundown farmhouse on the outskirts of town.

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She was probably around sixty five or seventy years old

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and had lived a lone since her husband had died

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of a stroke three years before. They had two children,

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but both of them lived out of town and never

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visited her Since her husband's death, she had developed something

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of a reputation of being crazy. Okay, I guess that's

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not putting it so nice. She was a shut in

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who rarely left her home and had groceries delivered once

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a week. Basically a crazy cat lady minus the cats.

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The reason she was considered crazy was because she had

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become pretty blaky and paranoids since being widowed, and had

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called the police department on multiple occasions for everything from

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hearing intruders moving around in her attic to see in

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UFOs in the cornfield. There were probably at least a

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dozen other calls too. All her calls turned out to

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be false alarms. Of course, the robbers she claimed were

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hiding in her attic turned out to be a pair

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of raccoons that had slipped in under the roof. The

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UFOs were probably just jets flying overhead from the National

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Guard base fifty miles west me. Jerry, Pete and Vance

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had all visited her home multiple times before during our

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respective shifts. We never got frustrated with her or gave

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her a hard time about it, and usually we would

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inspect her house and property to calm her nerves. She'd relax,

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think us, we'd leave, and the process would repeat itself

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in a couple of weeks or maybe a couple months. Honestly,

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our infrequent trips to her house were probably the only

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real highlight of what was a rather dull and unexciting job.

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When we told the chief about missus Garretty's latest emergency

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bigfoot was sneaking around in her yard, or there was

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a giant and a conda lurking in her basement, he

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would just shake his head sadly.

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When Vance and.

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Pete were the ones who had to deal with her,

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they'd tell us all about the most recent ordeal. When

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me and Jerry saw them at shift exchange, they'd usually

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smirk and a mean spirited away, and Pete would twirl

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his finger next to his temple before they left, symbolizing

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that she's crazy. Jerry and I just felt sorry for

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the old woman. It couldn't have been easy for her,

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a frail, nervous, lonely woman living all alone in that old,

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crumbling house with no friends or close family. I suspect

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she might be getting sen nile, or maybe entering the

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early stages of Alzheimer's or dementia. We worried about her

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living out there by herself, almost a mile from the

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nearest neighbor. If her health suddenly turned bad or she

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had an accident, couldn't call for help, Well, there wasn't

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really much we could do about it. A couple of

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times I looked at the numbers of her daughter and

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son and tried calling them about possibly placing her in

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an assistant living home or a mental health facility. But

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the one time I actually managed to reach her son,

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as I was explaining his mother's situation to him, he

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interrupted me, telling me he was too busy at the

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moment and would call me back, then abruptly ended the call.

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He never did call me back. From then on, they

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always happened to be unavailable and never answered any of

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the voicemails I left them.

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It's just such a said like turn of events for

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someone later in life too, you know, start to lose

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their faculties, and then you know their family isn't even

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around to like help them or at least call them down,

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And it's all up to these small town police that

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she keeps calling to try to make something of it.

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You know, first of all that the introduction is the

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hardest read of the whole thing. It's the longest and hardest,

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But just going back to the community and the area,

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it really feels like like the place that we're from,

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you know, this small town. I think they even worked.

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I think he worded it as you'd be you'd like

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pass by on your way to go somewhere more interesting. Yeah,

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that sounds like a lot of the rural area that

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you know, we live in. So I could kind of

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relate to that. Yeah, say, it's a little bit smaller

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this story, but I could kind of relate to what

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he was saying though.

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Yeah, I mean it kind of right. Uh, Like you

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said the towns that we lived in then, so the

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areas you know, there was only one cop in one

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of the towns we lived in, you know, yeah, and

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so it was just, uh, you know, if you lived

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in those areas, you know the feeling, you know, the

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feeling of how these people react, you know, the way

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that there usually is someone kind of by themselves that

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probably get in.

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You probably know everybody too, right, Like, yeah, a small place,

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you know everybody, you know their story.

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Oh yeah, you'll know most of the people in the

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town if it's small enough, like you know, We've been

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in towns that were six hundred people and yeah, you

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knew what was there for.

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Yeah, so it seems like this is that kind of place.

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Uh So there the old lady. Garretty keeps calling them,

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and there's a couple of different patrols, right, there's him

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and Jerry. Him and Jerry are the day shift, the

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peen advance of the night shift, I believe, Yeah, And

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it kind of sounds like they both approach this lady differently, like, yeah,

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they on the day shift are a little bit more

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kind of the night shift are a little bit more

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I don't know, mean joking about it, but it seems

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like he really relates to this lady, like not even

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really relates to her. He really feels for her, I guess, is.

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What I'm saying. Yeah, he understands that she's not all

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there and she can't help it, and he just feels

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bad about it. So even tried calling the family members, What.

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Did you feel about how did you feel about those

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family members? Not even like just blowing her off?

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You know, it's just it's really, like I said, it's

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a sad state of affairs, Like you know, it's just

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like how could you let that happen. You know, you

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have your mother by herself, and if that's going on,

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you got to step.

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Up obviously if you're just if you're just now tuning in,

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she's widowed, widowed, her husband passed away to say, three

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years ago at least, so she's trying to manage and

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take care of herself, take care of this old farmhouse.

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And they think possibly developing dementia or some sorts. She

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frequently calls the cops for false alarms. They're very used

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to it, even give some examples of thought intruders are

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in her house. It was raccoons in the attic, Ufo Bigfoot.

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So it makes you wonder is she calling She calling

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to get I don't want to say attention, but you

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know it's probably not intentional.

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But if your mind's starting to go, you're by yourself,

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you might call just to have some sort of interaction

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with a person. But beyond that, she probably does think

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she see these things, and she's scared because she's by herself.

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A mile away from the closest neighbor.

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So it's clear that, you know, she just gets worried

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and scared out there by herself, and she would needs

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someone to be there for her.

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Did a great job I think setting the stage here

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for the first part of the story we know kind

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of like that was a quick, good description of you know,

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the situation. Then of course you're going to jump back

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into it with you that follow.

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Jeff Townsend media sees you good night, and the question

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is do I stay here? Will you be back? Are

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you gonna come back?

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Will you be back?

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Are you coming back

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