“I Knew Then That I Was Going To Die:” 21 Individuals Share Their “Third Man Syndrome” Experiences

These previous few months, my Roman Empire has been “third man syndrome.” Also called the “third man impact,” it is a phenomenon that mostly happens in people who find themselves in excessive misery, hazard, or are about to have a near-death expertise. The sensation is usually described because the sense that one other particular person is current, both giving them an sudden sense of consolation, warning them of one thing terrible that is about to occur, or actually (and, generally, bodily) stepping in to intervene and stop hurt. Some folks say it is like a disembodied voice or a intestine feeling they can not shake. Others…properly…they’re actually visited by a “third particular person” within the flesh.

Individuals have give you every kind of explanations for the sensation, from paranormal to non secular to psychological. Nevertheless, the time period itself comes from the T.S. Eliot poem, , which was impressed by the real-life expertise of Ernest Shackleton — an Irish explorer who went on . After their ship received trapped in ice, he and two different members of his crew made a 36-hour-long trek over mountains and glaciers to a whaling station. Throughout that point, every member of his three-man crew — Ernest included — . T.S. Elliot wrote this stanza impressed by that phenomenon:

I requested BuzzFeed readers such as you to share their very own real-life “third man” experiences. I received far more responses than I anticipated, they usually’re all as jaw-dropping and spine-chilling as you’d probably count on. Listed here are 21 tales they shared:

1.“I’m double-jointed, so once I was about 18 months outdated, I discovered how you can squeeze out of my automobile seat. My mother was driving on the freeway and I managed to get the door open whereas she was going like 70 mph. My mother mentioned she noticed a hand and arm from the nook of her eye shut the door.”

—stephaniejog

2.“At midnight on Christmas Eve in 2009, I used to be driving in a blizzard in Lincoln, Nebraska. Three or 4 inches had fallen in an hour, and the snow wasn’t stopping. I received to my condominium advanced, however my automobile could not make it 50 toes up the thick snow within the driveway to my parking spot. My automobile slid backward and stopped on the street. I attempted a second time to rise up the driveway, however once more, it rolled again to the underside. I received out of the automobile to evaluate the scenario and received again in, annoyed. At midnight on a vacation, assist might take hours to reach. This wasn’t life-threatening, however it will wreck my Christmas! Questioning whether or not to strive once more, I instantly noticed a darkish determine at my window.”

“He gestured that he was going to push after which received behind the automobile. I gave it gasoline, and we received the automobile up the driveway! I drove to my parking spot, after which I went again to the sidewalk to thank the mysterious stranger. He had disappeared within the 30 seconds I had taken to park and stroll again to him. There was no sight of anybody up or down the road — he simply vanished.”

—quirkyogre46

3.“I used to be about 12 years outdated. My mother left me within the automobile whereas she bumped into the nook retailer. This retailer was linked to some different companies, one in all them being a bar. As I used to be ready, two males who appeared fairly outdated to me on the time (however had been in all probability of their thirties) approached our automobile. They began complimenting me and asking me to hitch them for ‘some enjoyable.’ I used to be very embarrassed and scared and mentioned no thanks. I used to be a naive woman who went by puberty at a younger age. The compliments instantly turned imply and aggressive, and the boys began attempting to open the door and pounding on the hood. I used to be frozen and couldn’t say something. I simply sat there. I bear in mind considering that the again doorways had been in all probability unlocked and that I ought to lock them, however I used to be frozen with concern.”

“All of a sudden, my mother got here working out of the shop. She began yelling on the males and induced a giant scene. They rapidly left. She received into the automobile with me, and I used to be so relieved. She advised me she was so happy with me and the way I had the smarts to maintain honking the horn. I used to be confused as a result of I didn’t honk the horn in any respect. She mentioned within the retailer she heard a automobile horn honking after which somebody simply holding it down. She thought it was me and ran to assist. It wasn’t me, and I didn’t hear any honking.”

—Shannon, Ohio, USA

4.“The summer time earlier than my senior 12 months in highschool, I used to be a counselor at a co-ed 4-H camp means up within the woods. The campers had been from throughout, however the counselors had been recruited from my 4-H chapter, so we had been all at the least acquainted beforehand, if not really associates. The camp saved us fairly busy. The one free time counselors had was at evening after the campers had been of their bunks. One evening, I used to be returning alone from the principle lodge. On the trail, I ran right into a buddy from faculty named Bobby, who touched my arm and mentioned, ‘Don’t go that means. The blokes have one thing deliberate for you.’ Wordlessly, he accompanied me to my cabin by a distinct route, then walked off into the darkness. Now, Bobby was a standup man from a spiritual household, and this was the type of chivalrous factor he would do. The catch, which I did not understand till after the actual fact, was that he wasn’t not even in 4-H and was definitely NOT a counselor at camp that summer time.”

—Nameless

5.“I used to be taking a shortcut throughout a frozen reservoir on the best way to a buddy’s home. All of a sudden, the ice cracked, and I began to fall by. I felt two fingers slam into my again, and I skidded throughout the ice. I used to be soaking moist once I arrived at my buddy’s home, chilly and shivering. I advised him the story as I turned into a few of his garments so we might throw mine into the dryer. My buddy turned white, and his eyes had been bugging out of his head. He guided me to the toilet so I might look within the mirror, and I noticed what disturbed him. There have been two hand-shaped bruises forming on my again. 40+ years later, I nonetheless get chills serious about it.”

—Mike, New Jersey, USA

6.“As a younger, 16-year-old woman within the Nineteen Seventies, I used to hitchhike to and from faculty in Northern California. On this specific day, I caught a journey house with a man in his thirties who I would by no means met earlier than. We received to speaking about gold panning, and he requested if I would wish to strive that afternoon. With nothing else to do, I agreed. We drove out to woods, miles from anyplace or anybody, someplace alongside the American River. The farther we received, the quieter he turned. I bear in mind considering it was greatest to maintain the dialog going, however I started to understand I used to be in actual bother, out in the course of nowhere with a whole stranger. How might I be so silly? As we received out of the automobile, he’d gone utterly silent. I knew then that I used to be going to die.”

“All of a sudden, a household in a Jeep pulled up behind our automobile and simply checked out us. Nobody mentioned something. They seemed, after which rotated and left. The man I used to be with then rapidly mentioned that we needed to go away. All I might suppose on the time was, ‘Thanks. Thanks. Thanks!’ to these people. We received within the automobile, and he took me all the best way house, proper to my door. I by no means noticed him once more.”

—Cy, Foster, USA

7.“I developed PTSD earlier than I realized to tie my footwear, and because of this, I had a number of ‘behavioral issues’ as a toddler. This resulted in me spending a lot of my elementary schooling in remoted suspension. Primarily, I used to be put in a really small room within the administrative workplace, which had a giant glass window. There have been two desks in there, and I turned shut associates with a boy from one other class in my fourth and fifth grade years, as a result of he was normally in ISS with me. Effectively, seems he by no means existed.”

“Greater than 20 years later, I nonetheless bear in mind him higher than most of my classmates. I can bear in mind him comforting me as I cried, as I advised him about my house life and secrets and techniques that I nonetheless have not advised anybody else. I went to a distinct faculty for sixth grade, however got here again to highschool in the identical city. After I requested about him, nobody knew a factor about who he was. This was a college the place graduating lessons had been not often ever over 100. He wasn’t in any yearbooks, even within the ‘absent for pictures’ part.”

—t492e49f12

8.“I used to be in highschool on the time and was spending the night at house. I had watched a scary film, which normally by no means bothered me. I couldn’t shake the bizarre feeling I had, so I left my bedside gentle on earlier than drifting off to sleep that evening. Normally, I can sleep by something. I reside in California, so sleeping by earthquakes was regular for me. At about 2 a.m., somebody in my dream had screamed at me to get up, and I startled awake in actual life. After I opened my eyes, I noticed a hand opening my bed room window.”

“I sat up, and when the particular person opening my window realized I used to be awake, he backed away and ran off. I ran downstairs to wake my dad and mom, and we known as the police. The particular person was caught, and we discovered that he had dedicated a number of rapes in our space prior to now few weeks. He had deliberate out all the things to get to me. He hid a ladder to succeed in my second-floor window and made certain it was unlocked. I’m so grateful for whoever woke me up that evening. It really saved me. I’ll all the time hearken to my emotions of unease.”

—Nameless

9.“I am a healthcare supplier and was touring to a satellite tv for pc website in one other state. Whereas I used to be crossing a bridge over a big physique of water, my cellphone — which had been sitting in its common spot on the facet of my automobile door — randomly dialed 911 and known as my emergency contacts (on this case, my husband). I received a name again from the state police and apologized for the error. After I received to the location, my husband known as me in a panic and mentioned that he had gotten an emergency notification. I laughed it off as a bizarre glitch and went on with my day. Just a few hours later, my watch — an affordable smartwatch knockoff — began buzzing with a message telling me it was ‘time to rise up and stroll.’ I believed this was a bit bizarre as I had by no means arrange notifications, and it had by no means messaged me that earlier than (or since).”

“I received up and walked for a bit however had a pointy ache in my left calf. I’m a serious klutz, so I figured I pulled a muscle. I received in my automobile to go house, and as soon as once more, after 5 minutes of driving, my cellphone dialed 911. I used to be appalled and apologized profusely to the decision taker. She laughed and graciously requested if I used to be okay, which I confirmed. I known as my husband to complain, and the Angel on my visor — which was given to me years earlier than by my mom — flipped off my visor and hit me within the chest. At this level, I jokingly advised him that the universe was attempting to ship me a message and that I in all probability had a blood clot or one thing. My husband laughed it off, too.

The following day, the ache in my leg was excruciating, however I blew it off. That evening, I began serious about all of the bizarre indicators that had popped up and that perhaps I ought to go to the hospital. I had a affected person I couldn’t miss the subsequent day, so I used to be nonetheless going to go to work. Then, this pressing feeling overcame me that I wanted to deal with myself in order that I might be round for my youngest son.

I went to the emergency room that morning and was identified with two massive blood clots in my left leg and two clots in my lungs. Aside from the ache, I had had no outward signs. The hospital workers had been as blown away as was I.”

—TL Reign, Wilmington, DE

10.“I used to be dancing with my buddy at a foam social gathering, which is the place they hold a machine from the ceiling that dumps TONS of bubbles onto the dance flooring. The froth was tremendous deep beneath the machine and the ground was tremendous slippery due to the soapy bubbles. My buddy slipped into the froth and I fell all the way down to the ground, beneath the bubbles along with her. After I tried to breathe, it was like I used to be drowning — the froth stuffed my lungs like water. I couldn’t open my eyes, my toes and fingers saved slipping so I couldn’t get up, and nobody might hear us choking and screaming over the music. I used to be slipping throughout on the ground holding onto my buddy’s shirt. Simply as I believed we had been going to drown within the bubbles, somebody pulled us up. It was as if we might been lifted or pushed, as a result of there was no means anybody might have grabbed me by the arm. I used to be means too slippery — my buddy and I couldn’t even maintain fingers, our pores and skin was so slick. I used to be fortunate simply to hold onto her shirt.”

“We got here out of the bubbles, choking and gasping, coated in cleaning soap, clinging on to one another. After I wiped my eyes clear, there was nobody there besides the opposite folks dancing round us. They had been all oblivious to us, although — they didn’t even know we had fallen and nobody had seen anybody pull us out nor did anybody ask us if we had been OK! Evidently, I by no means went to a foam social gathering once more.”

—Nameless

11.“A few years in the past, I stayed late engaged on a particular challenge at my firm and was driving house within the early morning hours alone. My husband and I had just one automobile, and I used to be utilizing it. After I’d gotten into the automobile to drive to work that morning, I observed the gasoline gauge was empty, however my husband insisted there was nonetheless sufficient gasoline to get me to work and again. Effectively, my automobile ran out of gasoline on the best way house. I pulled over and used my flashing lights, hoping the police would cease to assist me. In these days, there have been no cell telephones, so I had no technique to contact my husband. After a couple of minutes, a automobile pulled up behind mine, and a person got here as much as my driver’s facet window.”

“He wasn’t the police, however I rolled down my window a bit. He appeared good and supplied to drive me house, which was nearly three miles away. At the moment, I’d by no means settle for this supply, however for some motive, I received the sensation it will be OK. He drove me house and, within the brief distance, talked about his identify and that he labored for Eddie Bauer. He waited at my home till I received in, and I waved goodbye.

In fact, I thanked him, however the subsequent day, I wished to name him at his workplace and thank him once more. The operator mentioned there was no such particular person along with his identify who labored there. I consider God had despatched me a guardian, and I will all the time be sincerely grateful!”

—Dottie, Kirkland, WA

12.“I used to be driving again to school my freshman 12 months and received completely misplaced in a closely wooded space. This was earlier than GPS and cell telephones, so I used to be simply caught on these roads alone. I could not discover my technique to the freeway I used to be in search of and because the solar set, an enormous storm broke out and it began pouring rain. The rain was so heavy I might barely see the street. All of a sudden, a home with all of the lights on appeared. It was the one home I had seen for miles, so (in opposition to my higher judgment) I parked the automobile and went working for the door. The home had a fence however no gate to open so I hopped the fence and began banging on the door asking for assist.”

“A lady opened the door and invited me inside. The home was empty apart from a giant bean bag chair within the kitchen. She mentioned they’d simply moved in and her husband had left to get one thing, so it was simply us. I used to be soaking moist, so she supplied me a change of garments and poured me a cup of tea. She let me use her cellphone to name my dad and mom, however they did not reply, so I left her quantity on the machine so they may name her again and thank her. She mentioned I used to be actually near the freeway however understood I had already had a tough evening, so she supplied to drive and information me to the freeway in order that I would not get misplaced once more. Seems, if I had simply saved driving one other minute up the street, I’d have hit the freeway. My mother known as the quantity I gave the subsequent day, however we received a error saying the quantity didn’t exist. Regardless of having pushed that street many instances later in my school career, I by no means noticed that home once more.”

—Johanna, Georgia, USA

13.“This didn’t occur to me, however it occurred years in the past in my home to somebody whose phrase I belief. She’s a younger lady I do know properly. She used to scrub my home for me, generally once I was not at house. After a kind of instances, she requested me if I had a ghost in the home. I advised her to not my data. She mentioned she had been carrying the vacuum cleaner upstairs to the second flooring when she misplaced her stability and began to fall backward. As an alternative of falling, she felt a hand push her again upright. I’ve recognized her since she was in preschool. She is clever and wise, not given to wild imaginings or to creating up tales. If she mentioned it occurred, I consider it did.”

“I requested if she had been scared. She mentioned no, she had felt very secure. She believed it was my husband, who had died in a aircraft crash a few years earlier. She had by no means recognized him, however she was certain it was him. If he had been in a position to manifest himself solely as soon as, that may have been the time he would have executed it — to deal with somebody I cared about.”

—Nameless

14.“I used to be in my twenties and residing in San Jose. My dad and mom had moved to Mariposa and I used to be driving to see them and their new place. As I drove, I observed my gasoline gauge shedding gasoline rapidly. I needed to cease just a few instances so as to add gasoline. It was a VW bug, so it was not too costly to maintain including, however I used to be involved. I discovered I had a gap in my gasoline tank and that the gasoline had simply saved dripping out as I drove. On the final leg of the drive, I began to understand how harmful this might be if it caught fireplace. So, I ended on a giant shoulder of the street to verify it. I used to be shocked to see a giant semi-truck pull over, too.”

“Nobody received out of the truck, and their windshield was tinted, so I couldn’t see who was there. I continued to verify my tank and determined I might make it to my dad and mom if I saved an eye fixed and ear on the scenario. Nonetheless, nobody received out of the semi-truck. I felt as if I used to be being watched, however I wasn’t afraid. I felt comforted, really.

I received in my automobile and drove off, watching the truck in my rearview mirror. It began up and started to comply with me. After I received to a serious activate the freeway, I seemed again and the truck instantly wasn’t there. It hadn’t handed me — it was simply gone. I used to be a bit shocked that it had seemingly disappeared, however the comforting feeling continued. I made it to my dad and mom safely and I’ll all the time be grateful to the motive force in that truck who was watching after me. My guardian angel.”

—Lynne C, California, USA

15.“As a child, I used to be out and in of hospitals for surgical procedures associated to a genetic dysfunction I had. After I was about 9 or 10, there was this nurse who labored the evening shift and would sit with me, telling me tales when my dad and mom could not be there. She was very younger and seemed like a teen. Wanting again, she appeared far too younger to work on the hospital and was far too energetic to be working the evening shift. She wore all-white scrubs and would braid my hair once I was lonely and could not sleep. She’d sit with me for hours on finish with out having to go anyplace else.”

“One evening, she stayed with me when my dad and mom could not. I felt a ache in my facet and advised her about it. It was essentially the most intense ache I had ever felt at that time in my life. My name button wasn’t working, and there have been no different nurses however her to assist. She advised me she was going to get assist. A few minute later, a gaggle of medical doctors and nurses burst into my room, asking who screamed. Apparently, they’d been in a separate ward once they heard this high-pitched scream that just about seemed like singing coming from proper exterior my door. Everybody had heard it apart from me.

Because it turned out, I used to be having problems because of surgical procedure and inner bleeding that very properly might’ve resulted in everlasting injury or demise by morning. Later, once I requested what occurred to the nurse, they had been all perplexed and advised me nobody who matched that description labored there. They checked the schedule, and one way or the other, all the nurses had been beneath the impression that somebody was performing as my bedside nurse regardless that nobody was on rotation.

That actually confused me. My dad and mom bear in mind coming in some mornings and seeing my hair in French or Dutch braids that they assumed I had executed myself once I was bored. The nurse in white had braided them, as I used to be and am nonetheless hopeless at braiding. The strangest half was that my medical doctors would generally hear me speaking to somebody once they walked previous my room, however they assumed it was my dad and mom or that I used to be merely speaking in my sleep. To at the present time, I do know that was a guardian angel. I have never seen her since, however I do know she’s nonetheless with me.”

—Nameless

16.“In 2009, my husband and I each misplaced our jobs, then misplaced our house. The state insurance coverage for our daughter had not began but, so she was uninsured right now. I needed to go get a prescription for her that she actually wanted. I didn’t suppose it will price an excessive amount of, however it was over $300. I didn’t have the cash and begged the pharmacy simply to present me just a few tablets till we received her insurance coverage, however they may not assist. I sat down on a chair across the nook of the pharmacy, nonetheless within the retailer. I simply began sobbing. I had been by an excessive amount of, and this was it. I didn’t know what to do. All of a sudden, somebody got here as much as me and handed me $350 in money rolled up.”

“I don’t bear in mind what they seemed like. I don’t suppose I even checked out them; I used to be crying so exhausting. I used to be so shocked. I mentioned, ‘Thanks, are you certain?’ They usually confirmed, saying it was for my daughter. I lastly seemed up…and nobody was there. I went to the counter and paid for the RX. I seemed round for that particular person, however I by no means discovered them. I nonetheless thank them once I give it some thought.”

—Nameless

17.“I used to be in Florida on spring break in 1990 with a buddy once I by chance turned onto some railroad tracks in an unlit, unfamiliar, unpopulated space. My little Ford Festiva was caught. A bus driver stopped and known as police for assist, in addition to a tow truck. The officer received there rapidly however advised my buddy and me to get our issues out of the automobile and transfer again as a result of a prepare was coming. As we heard the prepare horn, my buddy and I had been panicking, and I used to be crying, questioning how we might get again to Michigan and the way I’d inform my dad and mom. It was then {that a} tall, skinny, older man got here out of nowhere. I can’t bear in mind his face for the lifetime of me.”

“He took my hand in a peaceful, reassuring voice and mentioned, ‘Don’t fret, honey. All the pieces goes to be OK.’ Simply then, the tow truck driver pulled up, and we noticed the prepare heading towards my automobile. We watched in horror as he pulled his truck on the opposite facet of the tracks and tried to hook up my automobile because the prepare was virtually on us. The prepare barreled by, and my buddy and I had been full-out crying, considering he had been killed. Nope. After the prepare lastly handed, he and my automobile, unhurt, had been standing safely on the opposite facet of the tracks. I seemed round to say thanks to the very good man, however he was nowhere. There was actually nothing round there, nowhere to go. After I requested the place he’d gone, the bus driver, officer, and tow truck driver did not know what I used to be speaking about.”

—Michelle, Dallas, TX

18.“I as soon as fell about 10 toes from a ledge overlooking a lake. The ledge was above massive rocks and, as I fell, I used to be certain I used to be about to be gravely damage. All of a sudden, I felt a big hand on my again that caught me and pushed me in opposition to the wall. Shocked, I rotated to thank my savior…and nobody was there. I used to be dangling over the rocks, feeling the hand because it pushed me straight in opposition to the wall till each my toes the place secured. I can’t clarify what occurred that day, however I do know there was somebody/one thing there that saved me.”

—Nameless

19.“I used to be taking my mom to a physician’s appointment at a hospital. It was a campus-style hospital, so there was not an apparent place to go. After we lastly discovered parking, we needed to stroll fairly a methods to the constructing that we would have liked to be in. We had been strolling down the sidewalk, which was alongside a busy road. My mother was in entrance of me, strolling at a considerably sluggish tempo because of her accidents, and I used to be trailing behind. Now, for me, once I suppose to myself, it is virtually like I can hear my voice in my head. I started to have ‘ideas’ as we walked, however this time, the voice was not my very own. The voice mentioned, ‘Flip round.’ I started to suppose how peculiar that was, doing my greatest to disregard what was happening and end the duty at hand. ‘Flip round!’ The voice was louder and accompanied by this urge to comply with its path. I nonetheless did my greatest to shrug it off. ‘TURN AROUND!'”

I lastly gave in, and once I did, I noticed a automobile instantly jerk from the lane that it was in and hop onto the sidewalk on the facet that we had been strolling on. I used to be in a position to push my mom onto a grass hill that was between us and the hospital car parking zone and get myself in entrance of a phone pole when the automobile smashed into it, narrowly lacking each of us.

I ran over to the smashed automobile and opened the door to seek out an older lady with a head damage who was clearly very confused. I instantly known as 911 for the lady and waited along with her till somebody was in a position to come and render support, which nonetheless took over half-hour even though we had been actually exterior of a hospital. I do not know who or what it was that was talking to me that day, however I’ve by no means heard the voice earlier than or since.”

—Nameless

20.“I am almost 75 years of age, and have not considered this incident for years. I used to be raised in North Alabama, the youngest of three brothers. Our household would usually trip on the panhandle of the Florida Gulf Coast close to Destin and Panama Metropolis. On one event (I used to be perhaps 6 or 7 years outdated), we stopped for a picnic at a public park close to a backwater estuary. I used to be wading and stepped off into water deeper than I spotted. I turned towards the shore and tried to clamber again, however knew I used to be actually over my head in water. All of a sudden, I felt fingers beneath my armpits lifting me into the shallow water, till my toes touched the underside. I instantly turned to see who was there, considering it was one in all my brothers, however there was nobody else within the water. I did not say something to anybody on the time, not realizing what to say. To at the present time, I can not fairly grasp what actually occurred.”

—Nameless

21.“I used to be 34 years outdated and new to California. I rented a room in what seemed like a pleasant neighborhood, and it was, besides it was in a bubble and surrounded by rival gang territory. I did my laundry at a laundromat about three blocks from my residence. It all the time appeared like such a pleasant, quiet a part of the neighborhood, and I had gone a number of instances with none issues. This specific Sunday, the laundromat was open however empty. I had completed two washing hundreds and began to load a dryer. As I turned to get the second load from its washer, I observed a automobile parked within the car parking zone far from my automobile. Two massive guys received out. One walked as much as the one door of the laundromat, blocking my solely exit. The opposite man stayed by the automobile, standing by the motive force’s facet door. Then, a big lady received out of the again seat. She entered the laundromat and hoisted herself up on one of many washers by the wall of home windows that confronted the car parking zone, folded her arms, and stared at me.”

“All of the hairs on my neck stood up and I began hyperventilating. I knew I used to be in bother. I began grabbing my soaking moist garments out of the washer and stuffed them right into a pillow case. Then, I went to the dryer, opened it, took the still-wet garments out, and stuffed them into one other pillow case. Simply at that second, a person who in his thirties instantly appeared behind the person blocking the door. He was carrying a toddler.  He pushed previous him and began placing greenback payments within the coin machine by the door and checked out me with a wierd look in his eye. I simply knew I used to be meant to comply with him.

Certain sufficient, he received his change and stood by the person till he stepped apart. The stranger, his youngster, and I walked out the door collectively, me first after which the person and his youngster. I received to my automobile, threw the moist pillowcases with garments in, ran to the drivers facet, locked the doorways, and drove off. I seemed for the person and his little woman as I left, however there was nobody there. I noticed no different automobiles and completely no folks anyplace, simply the person who had been blocking the door, the lady who was now standing exterior, and the man who stayed at their automobile.

I rapidly drove to my residence, following a route that I knew had open shops to ensure nobody was following me. I arrived safely, advised the proprietor of my residence what occurred, and moved to a distinct space of city that week.”

—Nameless

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