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00:00my name is shelby my late husband antonio was the best thing that ever happened to me
00:11long story short he passed away in a motorcycle accident exactly eight years ago as i'm writing
00:17this april 29th 2016 what i'm about to tell you is something i've blocked out of my mind since
00:22it happened but i think i'm finally ready to open up about it anyway antonio and i both grew up in
00:29italy english is actually my second language he always dreamed of traveling to greece but we
00:34kept postponing the trip one of my biggest regrets was not taking time off work one summer to go with
00:40him in late spring of 2018 i decided to bite the bullet and take the trip he had always talked
00:45about being only 36 years old with no children i didn't too much like the prospect of traveling
00:51alone so i decided to book a cruise thinking it would be more relaxing i was actually in luck
00:57celebrity cruise line had a best of greece cruise that covered six cities athens santorini ephesus
01:04mykonos volos thessaloniki and back to athens i tried my best to be excited about the cruise knowing
01:11it was what he would have wanted but i couldn't help but find the whole thing somewhat melancholy
01:15it just felt wrong to be there without him admittedly i may have gotten a little too wine
01:21drunk the first night after leaving athens but i felt i was entitled to behave less prudently
01:26after exiting the boat and enjoying the city's offerings i found myself drinking endless martini
01:34after martini at some nameless bar that's when i noticed him across the bar there was some 40 year
01:41old looking man with long straight brown hair and an unkempt beard he wasn't bad looking actually but
01:47his stare was unsettling at first i brushed it off as the wandering gaze of some lonely guy
01:53maybe he found me attractive i wasn't going to get offended if he wanted to look at me
01:57after catching his eye a few more times though i started feeling unease begin to set in
02:03the way he was glaring at me was just so perturbing it wasn't seductive or charming like he was trying to
02:10flirt or anything like that it was literally as if he were trying to sear a hole in my face with his eyes
02:15i finished what must have been my eighth drink paid my tab and quickly made my way back to the dock
02:21by that night my memory of that man had completely dissipated the next city on the docket was ephesus
02:28my time there was essentially spent the same way consuming far more alcohol than was acceptable for
02:34a woman my age other than some fleeting guilt everything went well in ephesus mykonos was next
02:40i'm sure it won't come as a surprise to any of you at this point near the end of the day i unavoidably
02:46found myself sitting alone at an outdoor bar and that's when i noticed him there was a man standing
02:52against a light fixture with his arms crossed i strained my eyes thinking my mind must have been
02:57playing a trick on me it was unmistakable though it was the guy from santorini he was too far away for me
03:04to tell whether he was looking at me but his head was tilted in my direction oddly he was wearing the
03:10same exact outfit he had worn in santorini a wave of discomfort washed over me was i being stalked
03:16my palms began feeling clammy so i nervously rubbed them on my dress as i lowered my head
03:22trying to avoid looking in his direction i could feel his aura radiating though even from that far away
03:28i couldn't help myself i glanced back up but he was gone you might expect my body to have flushed
03:35with relief but i was actually even more anxious i frantically began looking around trying to see if
03:41he had gotten closer i didn't feel comfortable walking back to the boat alone so i ran into a
03:46couple that was leaving and made some small talk then walked back with them that night instead of
03:52retiring to my stateroom i decided to explore the boat in hopes of running into that strange man
03:57after scouring the boat in its entirety i gave up around midnight the next morning i got off the
04:04boat in volos determined to solve this mystery instead of venturing into the city i opted to
04:10wait at the gangway i watched painfully for an inordinate amount of time as person after person
04:16made their way off the ship i didn't miss a single one but he wasn't one of them frustrated i returned to
04:23the ship and spent the rest of the day by the pool the saloniki was the last city as much as i dreaded
04:29it i had to reconcile the fact that i'd be wasting my vacation if i stayed on the boat so reluctantly
04:35i got off the ship and tried to enjoy the city feeling superstitious i thought it might be best to
04:41avoid bars and alcohol this time around which i did instead i wandered the streets aimlessly admiring
04:48the architecture and enjoying the weather and then as if on cue there he was again he was a few streets
04:55down in the middle of the road with his arms at his sides instead of being afraid i felt a huge rush
05:01of adrenaline induced confidence start to pour in i yelled out to him and began walking in his direction
05:07instead of acknowledging me he actually turned and ran it was bizarre he turned a corner and i chased
05:14after him i made it to the corner and barely saw him run down another street and i sprinted to follow
05:20him i turned the same corner and he had disappeared nowhere to be seen like he had evaporated out of
05:27existence i couldn't sleep that night i was relieved when the ship pulled into athens but once i made it
05:33back home i couldn't shake the nagging feeling of that man that was weighing on my mind i whipped out my
05:39laptop and started doing research i wasn't quite sure what's even look for but i thought
05:44recent police reports were a decent place to start after having no luck i stumbled upon some missing
05:50persons advertisements i scrolled through page after page and then i found something there in the
05:58middle of the page was a missing person ad for a guy who looked almost identical to the guy who had
06:02been following me i stared frozen in shock what was even more disturbing though was his name he had the
06:10same first name as my antonio which was a cruel coincidence the very first thing i did was call
06:16the police and report my sightings the operator thanked me for my assistance and put me on hold
06:21a few minutes later she asked me if i was 100 confident in what i had seen i told her yes
06:28after an uncomfortable pause she went on to say that they had actually closed that man's case just
06:34over a month ago apparently he had been found dead in a boating accident off the coast of parga greece
06:39what's more sinister though is the date of his confirmed death was the exact month and day of
06:45my husband's passing just two years later i hung up the phone literally shivering i don't think i've
06:51ever been more terrified than i was at that moment i began feeling dizzy questioning if maybe i was going
06:58crazy like had i imagined everything suddenly another wave of realization slapped me in the face
07:04the only city i hadn't seen him in ephesus was actually a city in turkey not greece i'm not a
07:11believer of the paranormal but i've spent hours trying to rationalize my sightings and no conclusion i reach
07:17makes sense my niece maria had her wedding in athens last summer though so i had no choice and like
07:24clockwork there he was again i only saw him for a split second this time standing in that same
07:30outfit by the bar head pointed in my direction to be completely honest with you there were so many
07:36drunk people there that i might have imagined it either way i vowed to never step foot in greece again
07:42i'm a senior at rowan university in south jersey my friends in the sorority i call me devon last
07:58summer i took a bahamas cruise with some of my girlfriends to let off some steam we had all just
08:03turned 21 so our goals for this vacation were to drink drink more and have fun we all felt like we
08:09deserved this vacation after such a grueling semester spent dealing with greek life drama
08:14and schoolwork anyway i'll keep things short i was with my friends taylo messina and taylor taylor and
08:22i didn't always see eye to eye there was some petty drama between the two of us i always assumed she
08:27was jealous of me because she never spent any time in the gym and spent a lot of time eating i think you
08:32can see what i'm getting at anyway i was really close with taylo and messina so i figured things would
08:38be peachy the cruise line we had booked was carnival and it would be going to a couple of bahamas islands
08:44before returning to new york city the boat pulled into literally the first destination called paradise
08:50island long story short all four of us were really wasted at the bar laughing and flirting with guys so
08:56they'd buy us drinks it was actually really fun at one point messina asked me if i would grab her a drink
09:03so i did i went up to the bar ordered the drinks and waited messina followed me to grab hers the
09:11drinks came out but i really wanted to take a selfie with her before we went back to our table
09:15i pulled out my phone and took a couple selfies with the drinks just then taylo called messina over
09:22and being as drunk as she was she went bounding off without me leaving her drink behind i didn't want
09:28someone to steal her drink so i put my phone on the bar and grabbed her drink with my other hand
09:32with both drinks i made my way to where they were sitting and made fun of messina for being so
09:38forgetful pretty soon after that we had to start making our way back towards the boat the literal
09:44second the boat pulled away i started frantically searching for my phone i felt like such an idiot
09:49i had left it at the bar i started crying knowing this would for sure ruin our trip
09:55i wanted to jump overboard for losing my phone on the first day of the cruise
09:59i pulled out my laptop to try and locate my phone's location to my surprise it wasn't on the island but
10:06it was actually showing up as somewhere on the boat it was hard to pinpoint exactly where its location was
10:12but i was relieved to think that someone must have found it and returned it to the lost and found or
10:16something i went up to lost and found but they said no one had turned a phone in any relief i had was
10:22completely gone now why would someone take my phone if they weren't planning on returning it
10:27i went back to my friends and cried about it again taylo told me not to worry about it and that i should
10:33just try enjoying the trip as best i could so that's what i did i didn't think about it for a whole day
10:39which i was really proud of you never realize how much time you actually spend on your phone
10:44i kept going to take selfies or check social media only to realize i had no way of doing so
10:50the next day though while i was in the very front of the boat i pulled my laptop out of my bag to
10:56check my phone's location just out of curiosity to my surprise it was almost right on top of me
11:01i started looking around but there were so many people any one of them could have had my phone
11:07i told my friends this and they seemed as shocked as i was all except taylor it looked like she was
11:14trying to hold back laughter i started getting really annoyed when i noticed she found my situation
11:19funny a few hours later we found ourselves in the arcade at the back of the boat messing around with
11:25the childish games and whatnot again i pulled out my laptop and once more my phone's location was
11:31basically on top of me now i was furious whoever had my phone was following me around the boat
11:37it had to be taylor that fatty thought this whole thing was a big joke i confronted her showing her
11:44proof on my laptop she insisted that she had no idea what happened to my phone and it wasn't her
11:49fault that i was so stupid that i couldn't keep track of it we started yelling at each other and i said
11:55some pretty mean things i made her empty her pockets and her purse which she reluctantly did
12:00my phone wasn't anywhere in sight though she called me an idiot again smirking to herself
12:06i stormed off by myself tears streaming down my face i spent the rest of my day in my room and
12:12refused to do anything with taylor for the rest of the night the next two days went by really fast
12:18i refused to hang out with taylor the whole time and instead spent both days by myself randomly
12:24checking my phone's location out of desperation when i got back to my room that night i noticed
12:29something weird there was an envelope lying on the ground like someone had slipped it under the door
12:34it was a handwritten letter i started reading and i felt disgusted some random guy named bart
12:42vakinski had supposedly found my phone unlocked went through it realized how attractive i was
12:48and wanted to confess his love for me the letter was really short but i felt utterly grossed out
12:55some creep had full access to my phone and knew what room i was staying in
12:59i wanted to cry i reported this to the cruise security team hoping they'd be able to do something
13:05about it unfortunately they were useless the good news was that that loser bart didn't try to contact
13:11me again and the cruise ended taylor and i made up and the four of us parted ways i wish i could tell
13:18you the story ended there though that same night after my dad drove me home i was up late watching reality
13:24tv on my laptop that's when it hit me why not check my phone's location now i was kicking myself for not
13:32having thought about that sooner i pulled it up and waited for it to load i stared in shock as i realized
13:38the little blue dot was showing up right on top of my house my blood ran cold i screamed waking my family
13:47up my dad burst into my room realized what was going on and sprinted outside in his bare feet brandishing
13:53his hunting rifle i followed close behind my dad fired a shot into the air and screamed at the top
14:00of his lungs just then some guy jumped our side gate and sprinted down the street my dad hesitated before
14:07deciding not to follow him i was mortified my dad and i made our way around back and the scene was
14:14horrific one of my dad's backyard ladders was leaned up against the side of the house directly underneath my
14:20bedroom window even more horrifying though was that little wooden latch above the window was almost
14:25completely cut through maybe a few more minutes and he would have been able to open the window
14:29i might not have been alive telling the story if i had gone to sleep instead of checking my location
14:35we filed a police report and it's been almost two weeks without an incident i still have trouble
14:41sleeping at night knowing that some creep has access to all my information all my pictures my name
14:47contacts and address my phone has been deactivated but i can only imagine what kind of data he was able
14:53to keep i'll update if something else happens
14:56this might sound odd to some of you but i've always dreamed of being a bartender on a cruise ship
15:11i don't know why but life at sea just sounds so peaceful to me plus um i guess what you'd call a
15:17social butterfly and the people you meet on cruise ships always have the most fascinating stories
15:22a few years ago i made that dream a reality as a cheerful woman in my mid-20s with a couple of
15:29years of bartending experience tucked under my belt i breezed through the interview process royal
15:34caribbean welcomed me as a bartender and things were off to a great start i won't bore you with the
15:40irrelevant details about my tenure but you should know that this position came with lots of travel
15:45sometimes too much after just two tours i interacted with three times the amount of people that i had
15:52working at my local bar for two months the influx of people was overwhelming but that's one of the
15:57reasons i vied so adamantly for this job this story takes place during my third tour a 12-night
16:04transatlantic cruise from miami to portugal and spain it was a long one we'd be at sea for five
16:11days straight there was a silver lining though i'd finally be back in europe and royal caribbean might
16:17let me take a week or two to return home to leon to preface i know how to hold my own against drunk
16:23overly flirtatious men buying drinks from me handsome or ugly old or young i always worked nights so
16:30that's just part of the trade during this particular cruise one customer stood out from the rest though
16:36this tall attractive 30 something year old kept catching my eye night after night he'd find a seat
16:42at my bar nursing his drinks slowly eventually we struck up conversation about each other's lives
16:48and he was always the last customer to leave the bar at the end of the night for the first time in a
16:53while i started looking forward to those late nights when sebastian would hang around my bar
16:57i could tell there was some depth behind those light green eyes a sorrowful look seemed etched into his
17:04features the third night i got him to open up about it and the story was downright depressing
17:10he reluctantly told me about his troubled marriage pausing often as if weighing each word
17:16his wife sasha had been having an affair with his best friend from college charles i won't get into
17:22the specifics but it sounded brutal and there were a lot of specifics he literally told me their full
17:28names as if he had been waiting to vent to someone about this for years he went on to tell me that he
17:34had boarded the cruise alone hoping the vastness of the sea would help him forget his pain i honestly
17:40didn't know how to react other than continuing to fill his glass the night before we were scheduled to
17:46dock in ponta delgada he expressed his gratitude for my company and listening ear you've made this
17:51trip bearable he admitted let me buy you a drink to show my thanks this wasn't the first time i'd been
17:58offered a drink but this time was different i felt a genuine connection with this man and it seemed
18:03unfair what he had gone through i obliged telling him i was happy to have helped him through such a difficult
18:09time normally i'd pour my own drink but he insisted on doing it himself saying it was the polite and
18:16fair thing to do i should have maintained professional boundaries but his insistence combined with his
18:21apparent vulnerability persuaded me otherwise reluctantly i agreed and invited him behind the bar
18:28a decision that might have changed my life he mixed the drink his hands steady and handed it to me with a
18:35small sad smile the drink tasted fine but within minutes a heavy drowsiness clouded my senses
18:42i tried to grasp the edge of the bar for support but everything went black as i succumbed to the
18:48unexpected wooziness i didn't even have time to scream when i awoke the sight before me was terrifying
18:55i was in my own room but the place was in disarray it looked like a tornado had ripped through it
19:02panic surged through me as i realized i was tied to my own bed with a towel shoved down my throat
19:07a wave of relief washed over me as i concluded that my clothes were all still intact untouched
19:13an hour later room service found me and freed me
19:17it had been a full day we were already pulling out of jamaica
19:21i was more angry than anything else
19:24how could i have been so stupid
19:26i had fallen for sebastian's charming ploy
19:29and he had taken advantage of my sympathetic nature
19:32i doubted sebastian was even his real name
19:35my suite as i already said was utterly trashed
19:39my jewelry phone and my personal belongings were all gone
19:42the safe was wide open its contents vanished
19:46my suitcase had also disappeared
19:48the cruise ship security team made a massive deal over this
19:52not to the passengers obviously but amongst themselves
19:55they reviewed the footage only to discover that that guy had disembarked early in ponta delgada
20:01not returning to the ship
20:03the crew had no choice but to leave him behind when he didn't show up to the gangway at departure time
20:07they urged me to keep my mouth shut about all this
20:10telling me not to go to the public
20:12they offered me substantial compensation and promised me they'd find him eventually
20:17after all he must have used a passport to book the cruise
20:20in the weeks after the cruise they contacted me and filled me in on what their search turned up
20:26because the cruise hadn't actually returned to the states
20:29it was a nightmare trying to contact american police and give them details on the crime and the perpetrator
20:34portugal was a little more compliant
20:37conducting at least a semblance of a search
20:39but even i knew there was no way sebastian was still in portugal
20:43the united states eventually did get involved launching a full-scale investigation
20:48the identities that man had used were all real real passport real name real address real everything
20:55they went to a supposed place of residence first
20:58the landlord told them that sebastian had moved just over a month ago leaving nothing behind
21:04the landlord did have a personal phone number of his but that was of course disconnected
21:09the police looked for any property in his name but there was nothing
21:13his criminal history was also suspiciously clean the guy had never even gotten a parking ticket
21:19the police went to his previous jobs all of which gave the same story
21:23the only address they had was the one he left and the only phone number they had was the one he had disconnected
21:29i was furious they literally had his full identity there must have been something more they could have done
21:35i couldn't help but blame myself for this whole ordeal you might think things ended there you'd be very wrong
21:42i took an extended leave from royal caribbean hoping to distance myself from the whole thing
21:48unfortunately the situation only escalated about a month later i received the first one
21:54a blank envelope was left at my apartment with a single photograph inside
21:59it was me walking to my car after doing some grocery shopping
22:03i wanted to scream a week later i got the second one a candid shot of me shopping at the mall
22:12at first i tried ignoring the pictures but they just kept coming the envelopes came one after another
22:18each one a picture of me unaware of the camera each picture felt like a taunt a reminder that he was
22:24still out there watching me i can't describe the terror i lived with during these weeks i was afraid to
22:31leave my house i couldn't go to work hang out with friends or shop without constantly looking over my
22:37shoulder after the sixth envelope i went to the police i know you're probably wondering why i
22:43didn't go after the first envelope honestly i can't even answer that question the police were not very
22:49helpful i don't think they even knew what to do but i wanted them to have a record of my case in the
22:54event that something more serious came of it and that's exactly what happened one night nox echoed
23:01against my bedroom window i knew it was him the police investigated found nothing and left me more
23:08scared than i had been before they arrived i had had enough i moved apartments immediately after that
23:14leaving no forwarding address changing all my contact details and increasing my security measures as best
23:20i could thankfully i never heard from that man again it's only been about three months though
23:26so hopefully i don't jinx myself by putting this into words my best guess is that he was able to
23:31unlock my phone while i was passed out and that's how he was able to steal all my information the worst
23:37thing about all of this isn't everything that was stolen or even the fact that my whole life was
23:41uprooted when i changed apartments the worst thing about this situation is that i'll never aspire to
23:47work on a cruise ship again i don't even know if i want to keep working as a bartender it's crazy how
23:53quickly a lifelong dream can turn into a nightmare
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