In October of 1998, I was twenty years old and attending college in northern Vermont, more than two thousand miles from my family in California.
I worked evenings at a small restaurant near campus.
Most nights, I caught the last bus home.
But one Thursday, I had to stay late.
By the time I finished work, the bus was gone.
There were no taxis available nearby, and both of my roommates were away.
So I decided to walk.
It was a decision I would never forget.
The road home passed through almost two miles of thick woods.
No streetlights.
No sidewalks.
Almost no houses.
For the first twenty minutes, everything seemed normal.
Then my flashlight caught something standing beside the road.
A tall man wearing a dark hooded jacket.
Something covered the lower half of his face.
I couldn't see much beyond his eyes.
He wasn't walking.
He wasn't waiting beside a car.
He was simply standing near the trees.
I thought about turning around.
But home was closer than town.
So I kept going.
As I passed him, I heard one slow breath through the fabric covering his face.
I didn't look back.
Not immediately.
Then I heard footsteps behind me.
I walked faster.
So did he.
I checked my phone.
No signal.
I looked over my shoulder.
The man was following me.
Getting closer.
There were no houses where I could ask for help.
No passing cars.
Nothing but the narrow road and the woods surrounding it.
Then I started running.
And the moment I did, he ran too.
I could hear his footsteps striking the pavement behind me.
Fast.
Hard.
Closing the distance.
Ahead, I spotted an old gravel road disappearing into the forest.
I thought it might lead toward my house.
So I turned onto it.
But what I found at the end of that road was far worse than I expected.
And suddenly, I had nowhere left to run.
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