Sept. 17, 2024

Police Horror Story Part 2

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Police Horror Story Part 2. 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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Jerry and me turned on to turn her road and

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drove up to missus Garretty's house on the gray, rainy

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late spring day, certain that the old woman was just

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overreacting yet again to something relatively minor and her imagination

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was playing tricks on her. She was waiting for us

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outside on her porch when we pulled to a stop.

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I'll never forget how she looked shocked me. She'd already

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been a thin and frailed woman the other times we've

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been out there, but we hadn't seen her in probably

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a couple months since her last false emergency. She had

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changed drastically since then. Now she was gaunt, almost emaciated,

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her cheeks hollow, and dark rings under her bloodshots, sunken eyes,

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Her gray hair was tangled and didn't look like it

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had been washed in days, maybe weeks, and the dress

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she was wearing was wrinkled and dirty. Her physical appearance

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was alarming enough. There was also something about the way

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she was staring at both of us, with those dull,

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dark eyes that seemed to look at us, through us,

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and passed us all at once, remind me of old

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photos I've seen of American soldiers in Vietnam, the blank expressionist,

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shell shocked look of someone who had been through more

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horror than any ordinary person should have to endure. Me

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and Jerry exchange a shocked look that got out and

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approached the old woman. What seems to be the trouble,

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missus gerrity, Jerry asked her, trying to keep his voice nonchalant.

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There's something in my house, she told us a flat,

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toneless voice. She was shaking slightly, a woman on the

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verge of total physical and mental exhaustion. The way she

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phrased it, not someone, but something made me raise my eyebrow. Well,

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you just wait here and we'll go have a look

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and make sure it's safe, I told her, trying not

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to sound too patronizing. I looked to Jerry and nodded.

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We drew our pistols and stepped past Miss Garrety cautiously.

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Entering the house, we did a routine sweep of the

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first floor, our guns were leveled heading then we headed upstairs. Oh,

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it took about five minutes to check out the house.

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We had done it so many times before. We had

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to lay out down pat and there was no sign

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of any intruders or evidence would break in and entering,

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I saw plenty of other things that disturbed me deeply.

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For one thing, the place was a total mess. The

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house was already pretty decrepit, Missus Garretty had still taken

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pride at how clean she kept it. It had always

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been spicking spin on our earlier visits. Now dirty dishes

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were stacked so high in the kitchen sink. The counters

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were dirty and trash, and dirty laundry littered the floors.

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I noticed that missus garritty pillow and blankets were lying

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rumbled on the couch in the living room. The surface

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of the coffee table in front of it was cluttered

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with half drunk cups of coffee, open containers of food,

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a bible, and a rosary. It looked like she's been

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eating and sleeping in the living room for some time.

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We went upstairs. Sure enough, the bed and Missus Garretty's

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room was bare, and the room itself looked like it

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had been vacant for quite a while. There was also

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something in the living room that really alarmed me. Leaning

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in one corner was an old double barreled shotgun that

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probably belonged to her late husband. Jerry picked it up,

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broke it open, and found two spent shells in the chamber,

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took one out and stepped it. They told me the

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gun had been fired very recently. We also discovered something

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else bizarre. All of the mirrors and Missus Garretty's house

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had been shattered, and every closet door had been boarded shut.

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That won in the front hall on the first floor

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had a huge hole blasted in the center of smaller

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holes pitting the splintered wood around it. He didn't need

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to be shock Holms to deduce that Missus Garrity had

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fired her shotgun into that door. But why what the

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fuck had happened here? Jerry shot me a perplexed, questioning look.

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I shrugged, cooled ass and in equally bewildered. Finished with

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our inspection of the house, we put away our pistols

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and turned around to go back outside. Missus Garretty was

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standing in the room behind us, staring at us with

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that unnerving blank expression. Both of us almost jumped a

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foot in the air, startled. Neither of us had heard

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her enter. Jerry regained his composure and flash her a fake,

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reassuring smile. We don't see any side of a Missus

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Garretty must have slipped out the back. You're safe now.

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She didn't relax or peer relieved, like she had the

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countless other times we had humored her. Her face seemed

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to twitch, and some new look dawned in her eyes.

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Took me a moment to identify it. It was a

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look of pure hopeless doom mixed with utter terror. No,

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she said, and that same odd, listless, flat voice. I'm

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not safe. It's still here. It's hiding, that's why you

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couldn't find it, And after you leave, it'll come back

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for me. Then she began to quiver. She started to

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cry with total despair, breaking down into hysterical sobs that

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racked her whole body. Jerry and me looked at each

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other concerned. We went to the old woman and comfort

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her as best as we could, guiding her over to

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the couch, sending her down with us on either side,

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er coaxing her gently back to a state of calm.

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The story progresses here and they arrive on the scene.

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I guess is what you'd say, yea, And things are

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a little bit different than they typically are. Yeah, say so,

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seems like clearly she's in quite a bit more disarray

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than normal, Like like physically, they can see it on her.

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Yeah, she hasn't. She doesn't look like she's been eating well.

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She looks tired, She definitely looks scared. And beyond that,

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she's not taking care of herself. She's not cleaning her

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hair or her dress, she's not cleaning her home. Everything

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about this definitely seems like not the usual case.

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And she said something okay with the creepy part, and

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I have to go find them exactly where it is.

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But she used the word it y.

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Yeah, she says something in it, and so like she's

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not referring to this as a person, and she's not

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even really referring to you give to the sense of

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that she's not talking about an animal either, She's not

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talking about a raccoon. This definitely seems like something else.

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And the fact that she actually is doing some strange

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things in this house, like all her mirrors are smashed,

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and her closet doors are all boorded shut.

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And she hasn't slept in her room for quite some time.

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All the pillows and blankets are on the couch.

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They said, yeah, on the couch, and that's where she's

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also got like some amounts of food and coffee around

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on the coffee table.

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There, So coffee would make you think maybe that she's

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afraid to sleep. Sounds like she's not in her room. Yeah,

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afraid to sleep. So I think the next part though,

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is what's crazy. They find the shotgun, a couple spent

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shellcasings in it, and Jerry actually smells it. You could

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tell that the weapons recently been fired.

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Yeah, Then they see the hole blasted in the closet.

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Tour so we know at this point in time, she

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at least thinks something is in that house and she's

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gone I don't want to say gone crazy in the meanway,

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but she has a very extreme reaction to this situation

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by firing a gun off in your house.

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The best circumstances. This seems like you have someone who's

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losing their mind fully and it is, you know, just

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destroying everything around them. It's a very touchy situation to

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be in because now they got to, you know, find

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out what's going on and then try to take care

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of her. But they can't really at this point, you know,

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she's possibly a danger or someone. Yeah, they did a

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really good job dealing with her that I feel like, Yeah,

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they're being a crazy thing. To walk into, and I

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feel like these guys that a really good job handling it.

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Definitely so far.

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Yeah, for sure, But you can't be easy. You walk

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into that situation where this house has just just been

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destroyed basically, and you're reacting to it. Well, not only that,

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you go there every week, every couple weeks, every couple

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of months, and there's just so much worse this time.

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So to your point, it's got to be very concerning.

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But the first thing they got to do is get

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her calm down.

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Yeah, definitely, and then maybe get some answers.

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Yep.

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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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