Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast - Wednesday One-Shot: My Joke Saved Us

Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to Wednesday One Chots, the series where we share a bonus story with you to help you get through your week. This time around we have a story from a listener named Chandana. I'm from India and I'm 5 foot tall. I'm a woman. I'm 22 years old now and this happened 2 years ago. My family and I lived in an apartment where we all felt safe until this happened. My family and I went on a trip for a week.

Starting point is 00:00:40 We went someplace far away and we closed all of the windows and locked all of our doors securely, even though there was nothing really to fear, it was a safe neighborhood. When we returned from our trip, I was joking about how hot our apartment would be since we closed all of the windows, inhibiting any air flow into the apartment. This was in India, during the summer, and our apartment got very hot when we had everything closed up. When we reached the apartment at 2 in the morning, I went to open the door while my parents were unloading our stuff from the car.

Starting point is 00:01:15 As I opened the door, I noticed that the apartment was very much at a normal temperature. I felt weird for a second, but then I shrugged it off and thought we must have left a window open. But I was sure that we closed them all, and I was relieved that I would be able to sleep without having to deal with any intense heat. I entered the house and tried to turn on all the lights. That's when I noticed a shadow moving in another room, the room with the movement was visible from the living room where I was. My adrenaline rushed, but I was still in doubt. I assumed I had just imagined what I had seen, so I stepped a little further

Starting point is 00:01:58 into the living room, and pretended that I hadn't seen a shadow moving. That's when I noticed that the window to our living room was shattered. Everything fell into place. My mom and dad were still unloading the car outside. I knew that I shouldn't scream so instead I slowly stepped back outside of the house. As I was stepping back outside, I called out. Wait a minute, dad. I'll be right back. I'm going to go get some food.

Starting point is 00:02:27 In an attempt to fool whoever was inside the house. I shut the door and locked it behind me, then rushed to my dad to tell him what was going on. He was obviously shocked. My dad told me that we needed to cover the shattered window so that the guy inside couldn't escape until the police arrived. So my dad took the car and parked it in front of the window, leaving no real room for an exit.

Starting point is 00:02:53 From the size of the shadow that I saw, I could tell that this guy was big. The police arrived and they caught him. I was right, the guy was big, six feet tall. While they pulled him out of our house, the man grinned at us, which scared us to death. Later we found out from the police that the man was a criminal who had been burgling houses in our area. He was accused of attempted murder. Somehow he knew that my family and I weren't going to be home for a week. I don't know what he had planned for that night, and I don't know what prompted me to joke about the house being hot after being closed up for a week, but thank God I had

Starting point is 00:03:32 the temperature on my mind. If I didn't, I wouldn't have realized that there was something wrong going on. To the guy in our house, let's not ever meet again. Thank you to Chantana for sharing that story, and if you have a story to share, send it over to Let's Not Meet Stories at Gmail.com. We'll see you all next week for a full episode of Let's Not Meet. Everyone, stay safe. I'm sorry. you

Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast - Wednesday One-Shot: My Joke Saved Us

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