Elizabeth Smart Describes the Night She Was Kidnapped

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Elizabeth Smart is opening up about the hours after she was taken, recalling walking through the night and the fear that set in as she realized what was happening.

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00:00I shared a room with my younger sister and we'd been reading the book Ella

00:07Enchanted together and she was like one more chapter, one more chapter, just one

00:12more chapter and so I like keep reading one more chapter and I think it probably

00:15was about midnight when I like had stopped reading I like looked over and

00:19she was asleep and so that's when I put it down and went to bed. The next thing I

00:25remember was just hearing a voice and it was a man's voice and of course

00:29like hearing a man's voice in my bedroom that wasn't normal that wasn't allowed

00:34and so I didn't immediately respond so the voice repeated the same words again

00:40saying don't make a sound I have a knife at your neck get up and come with me and

00:46like the second time I heard that I was like oh my gosh this isn't just my

00:52subconscious this is actually real and I opened my eyes and sure enough there's

00:57this man standing above me holding a knife to my neck I could feel it lying

01:02across my neck I could feel his hand on my arm trying to pull me out of bed he

01:07had on like dark sweats like a dark sweatshirt he had like a hat on he had

01:14he had a like a full pretty big beard and I mean he just he just looked dark he

01:21looked scary I remember being absolutely terrified I remember feeling like I

01:26didn't have a choice I also remember feeling like oh my gosh I'm the big

01:29sister my little sister's here next to me like as the big sister I need to make

01:33sure she's okay and if I don't do what he wants me to do what's gonna happen to

01:37her so I remember just immediately getting up I remember he led me into the

01:44closet I remember reaching for slippers and he was like no not those like those

01:50and they were like my my running shoes and so I put them on instead and then he

01:56led me out through the back of our house and up into the mountains

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