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download June's Journey for free by clicking the link in the description or scanning the QR code on the screen June's journey is available on Android and iOS mobile devices as well as on PC through Facebook [Music] games my name is Shelby my late husband Antonio was the best thing that ever happened to me long story short he passed away in a motorcycle accident exactly 8 years ago as I'm writing this April 29th 2016 what I'm about to tell you is something I've blocked out of my mind since it happened but I think I'm finally ready
to open up about it anyway Antonio and I both grew up in Italy English is actually my second language he always dreamed of traveling to Greece but we kept postponing the trip one of my biggest regrets was not taking time off work one summer to go with him in late spring of 2018 18 I decided to bite the bullet and take the trip he had always talked about being only 36 years old with no children I didn't too much like the prospect of traveling alone so I decided to book a cruise thinking it would be
more relaxing I was actually in luck Celebrity Cruise Line had a best of Greece Crews that covered six cities Athens Santorini Ephesus mikinos Volos Thessaloniki and back to Athens I tried my best to be excited about the cruise knowing it was what he would have w wanted but I couldn't help but find the whole thing somewhat Melancholy it just felt wrong to be there without him admittedly I may have gotten a little too wine drunk the first night after leaving Athens but I felt I was entitled to behave less prudently After exiting the boat and
enjoying the city's offerings I found myself drinking endless Martini after Martini at some nameless bar that's when I noticed him across the bar there was some 40-year-old looking man with long straight brown hair and an unkempt beard he wasn't bad looking actually but his stare was unsettling at first I brushed it off as the wandering gaze of some lonely guy maybe he found me attractive I wasn't going to get offended if he wanted to look at me after catching his eye a few more times though I started feeling unease begin to set in the way
he was glaring at me was just so perturbing it wasn't seductive or charming like he was trying to flirt or anything like that it was literally as if you were trying to sear a hole in my face with his eyes I finished what must have been my eighth drink paid my tab and quickly made my way back to the dock by that night my memory of that man had completely dissipated the next city on the Ducket was Ephesus my time there was essentially spent the same way consuming far more alcohol than was acceptable for a
woman my age other than some fleeting guilt everything went well in Ephesus Miko was next I'm sure it won't come as a surprised to any of you at this point near the end of the day I unavoidably found myself sitting alone at an outdoor bar and that's when I noticed him there was a man standing against a light fixture with his arms crossed I strained my eyes thinking my mind must have been playing a trick on me it was unmistakable though it was the guy from Santorini he was too far away for me to tell
whether he was looking at me but his head was tilted in my direction oddly he was wearing the same exact outfit he had worn in s ini a wave of discomfort washed over me was I being stalked my Palms began feeling clammy so I nervously rubbed them on my dress as I lowered my head trying to avoid looking in his Direction I could feel his Aura radiating though even from that far away I couldn't help myself I glanced back up but he was gone you might expect my body to have flushed with relief but I
was actually even more anxious I frantically began looking around trying to see if he had gotten closer I didn't feel comfortable walking back to the boat alone so I ran into a couple that was leaving and made some small talk then walked back with them that night instead of retiring to my stateroom I decided to explore the boat in hopes of running into that strange man after scouring the boat in its entirety I gave up around midnight the next morning I got off the boat in Volos determined to solve this mystery instead of venturing into
the city I opted to wait at the gang way I watched painfully for an inordinate amount of time as person after person made their way off the ship I didn't miss a single one but he wasn't one of them frustrated I returned to the ship and spent the rest of the day by the pool the saloniki was the last city as much as I dreaded it I had to reconcile the fact that I'd be wasting my vacation if I stayed on the boat so reluctantly I got off the ship and tried to enjoy the city
feeling superstitious I thought it might be best to avoid bars and alcohol this time around which I did instead I wandered the streets aimlessly admiring the architecture and enjoying the weather and then as if on Q There He was again he was a few streets down in the middle of the road with his arms at his sides instead of being afraid I felt a huge rush of adrenaline induced confidence start to pour in I yelled out to him and began walking in his Direction instead of acknowledging me he actually turned and ran it was bizar
he turned a corner and I chased after him I made it to the corner and barely saw him run down another Street and I sprinted to follow him I turned the same corner and he had disappeared nowhere to be seen like he had evaporated out of existence I couldn't sleep that night I was relieved when the ship pulled into Athens but once I made it back home I couldn't shake the nagging feeling of that man that was weighing on my mind I whipped out my laptop and started doing research I I wasn't quite sure what's
even look for but I thought recent police reports were a decent place to start after having no luck I stumbled upon some missing persons advertisements I scrolled through Page after page and then I found something there in the middle of the page was a missing person head for a guy who looked almost identical to the guy who had been following me I stared Frozen in shock what was even more disturbing though was his name he had the same first name as my ant anonio which was a cruel coincidence the very first thing I did was
call the police and report my sightings the operator thanked me for my assistance and put me on hold a few minutes later she asked me if I was 100% confident in what I had seen I told her yes after an uncomfortable pause she went on to say that they had actually closed that man's case just over a month ago apparently he had been found dead in a boating accident off the coast of parga Greece what's more Sinister though is that the date of his confirmed death was the exact month and day of my husband's passing
just 2 years later I hung up the phone literally shivering I don't think I've ever been more terrified than I was at that moment I began feeling dizzy questioning if maybe I was going crazy like had I imagined everything suddenly another wave of realization slapped me in the face the only city I hadn't seen him in Ephesus was actually a city in Turkey not Greece I'm not a believer of the Paranormal but I've spent hours trying to rationalize my sightings and no conclusion I reach makes sense my niece Maria had her wedding in Athens last
summer though so I had no choice and like clockwork there he was again I only saw him for a split second this time standing in that same outfit by the bar head pointed in my direction to be completely honest with you there were so many drunk people there that I might have imagined it either way I vowed to never step foot in gree again again I'm a senior at Rowan University in South Jersey my friends in the sari by call me Devon last summer I took a Bahamas cruise with some of my girlfriends to let
off some steam we had all just turned 21 so our goals for this vacation were to drink drink more and have fun we all felt like we deserved this vacation after such a ring semester spent dealing with Greek life drama and schoolwork anyway I'll keep things short I was with my friends taor missina and Taylor Taylor and I didn't always see eye to eye there was some petty drama between the two of us I always assumed she was jealous of me because she never spent any time in the gym and spent a lot of time
eating I think you can see what I'm getting at anyway I was really close with taor and MSA so I figured things would be peachy the cruise line we had booked was Carnival and it would be going to a couple of Bahamas Islands before returning to New York City the boat pulled into literally the first destination Called Paradise Island long story short all four of us were really wasted at the bar laughing and flirting with guys so they'd buy us drinks it was actually really fun at one point MSA asked me if I would grab
her a drink so I did I went up to the bar ordered the drinks and waited missina followed me to grab hers the drinks came out but I really wanted to take a selfie with her before we went back to our table I pulled out my phone and took a couple selfies with the drinks just then taow called missina over and being as drunk as she was she went bounding off without me leaving her drink behind I didn't want someone to steal her drink so I put my phone on the bar and grabbed her drink
with my other hand with both drinks I made my way to where they were sitting and made fun of MSA for being so forgetful pretty soon after that we had to start making our way back towards the boat the literal second in the boat pulled away I started frantically searching for my phone I felt like such an idiot I had left it at the bar I started crying knowing this would for sure ruin our trip I wanted to jump overboard for losing my phone on the first day of the cruise I pulled out my laptop
to try and locate my phone's location to my surprise it wasn't on the island but it was actually showing up as somewhere on the boat it was hard to pinpoint exactly where its location was but I was relieved to think that someone must have found it and returned it to the lost and found or something I went up to Lost and Found but they said no one had turned a phone in any relief I had was completely gone now why would someone take my phone if they weren't planning on returning it I went back to
my friends and cried about it again taow told me not to worry about it and that I should just try enjoying the trip as best I could so that's what I did I didn't think about it for a whole day which I was really proud of you never realize how much time you actually spend on your phone I kept going to take selfies or check social media only to realize I had no way of doing so the next day though while I was in the very front of the boat I pulled my laptop out of
my bag to check my phone's location just out of curiosity to my surprise it was almost right on top of me I started looking around but there were so many people any one of them could have had my phone I told my friends this and they seemed as shocked as I was all except Taylor it looked like she was trying to hold back laughter I started getting really annoyed when I noticed she found my situation funny a few hours later we found ourselves in the arcade at the back of the boat messing around with the
childish games and whatnot again I pulled out my laptop and once more my phone's location was basically on top of me now I was Furious whoever had my phone was following me around the boat it had to be tailor that fatty thought this whole thing was a big joke I confronted her showing her proof on my laptop she insisted that she had no idea what happened to my phone and it wasn't her fault that I was so stupid that I couldn't keep track of it we started yelling at each other and I said some pretty
mean things I made her empty her pockets and her purse which she reluctantly did my phone wasn't anywhere in sight though she called me an idiot again smirking to herself I stormed off by myself tears streaming down my face I spent the rest of of my day in my room and refused to do anything with Taylor for the rest of the night the next two days went by really fast I refused to hang out with Taylor the whole time and instead spent both days by myself randomly checking my phone's location out of desperation when I
got back to my room that night I noticed something weird there was an envelope lying on the ground like someone had slipped it under the door it was a handwritten letter I started reading and I felt disgusted some random guy named Bart vinsky had supposedly found my phone unlocked went through it realized how attractive I was and wanted to confess his love for me the letter was really short but I felt utterly grossed out some creep had full access to my phone and knew what room I was staying in I wanted to cry I reported
this to the crew security team hoping they'd be able to do something about it Unfortunately they were useless the good news was that that loser Bart didn't try to contact me again and the cruise ended Taylor and I made up and the four of us parted ways I wish I could tell you the story ended there though that same night after my dad drove me home I was up late watching reality TV on my laptop that's when it hit me why not check my phone's location now I was kicking myself for not having thought about
that sooner I pulled it up and waited for it to load I stared in shock as I realized the little blue dot was showing up right on top of my house house my blood ran cold I screamed waking my family up my dad burst into my room realized what was going on and sprinted outside in his bare feet brandishing his hunting rifle I followed close behind my dad fired a shot into the air and screamed at the top of his lungs and just then some guy jumped our side gate and sprinted down the street my
dad hesitated before deciding not to follow him I was mortified my dad dad and I made our way around back and the scene was horrific one of my dad's backyard ladders was leaned up against the side of the house directly underneath my bedroom window even more horrifying though was that little wooden latch above the window was almost completely cut through maybe a few more minutes and he would have been able to open the window I might not have been alive telling the story if I had gone to sleep instead of checking my location we filed
the police report and it's been almost 2 weeks without an incident I still have trouble sleeping at night knowing that some creep has access to all of my information all my pictures my name contacts and address my phone has been deactivated but I can only imagine what kind of data he was able to keep I'll update if something else [Music] happens this might sound odd to some of you but I've always dreamed of being a bartender on a cruise ship I don't know why but life at se just sounds so peaceful to me plus um
I guess what you'd call a social butterfly and the people you meet on cruise ships always have the most fascinating stories a few years ago I made that dream a reality as a cheerful woman in my mid 20s with a couple of years of bartending experience tucked under my belt I breeed through the interview process Royal Caribbean welcomed me as a bartender and things were off to a great start I won't bore you with the irrelevant details about my tenure but you should know that this position came with lots of travel sometimes too much after
just two tours I interacted with three times the amount of people that I had working at my local bar for 2 months the influx of people was overwhelming but that's one of the reasons I VI so adamantly for this job this story takes place during my third tour a 12 transatlantic cruise from Miami to Portugal and Spain it was a long one we'd be at ca for 5 days straight there was a silver lining though I'd finally be back in Europe and Royal Caribbean might let me take a week or two to return home to
Leon to preface I know how to hold my own Against Drunk overly flirtatious men buying drinks from me handsome or ugly old or young I always worked nights so that's just part of the trade during this particular Cruise One customer stood out from the rest though this tall attractive 30s something year-old kept catching my eye night after night he'd find a seed at my bar nursing his drinks slowly eventually we struck up conversation about each other's lives and he was always the last customer to leave the bar at the end of the night for the
first time in a while I started looking forward to those late nights when Sebastian would hang around my bar I could tell there was some depth behind those light green eyes a sorrowful look seemed etched into his features the third night I got him to open up about it and the story was downright depressing he reluctantly told me about his troubled marriage pausing often as if weighing each word his wife Sasha had been having an affair with his best friend from college Charles I won't get into the specifics but it sounded brutal there were a
lot of specifics he literally told me their full names as if he had been waiting to vent to someone about this for years he went on to tell me that he had boarded the cruise alone hoping the vastness of the sea would help him forget his pain I honestly didn't know how to react act other than continuing to fill his glass the night before we were scheduled to dock in Ponta delada he expressed his gratitude for my company and listening ear you've made this trip bearable he admitted let me buy you a drink to show
my thanks this wasn't the first time I'd been offered a drink but this time was different I felt the genuine connection with this man and it seemed unfair what he had gone through I obliged telling him I was happy to have helped him through such a difficult time normally I'd pour my own drink but he insisted on doing it himself saying it was the polite and fair thing to do I should have maintained professional boundaries but his insistence combined with his apparent vulnerability persuaded me otherwise reluctantly I agreed and invited him behind the bar a
decision that might have changed my life he mixed the drink his hands steady and handed it to me with a small sad smile the drink tasted fine but within minutes a heavy drowsy clouded my senses I tried to grasp the edge of the bar for support but everything went black as I succumbed to the unexpected wooziness I didn't even have time to scream when I awoke the sight before me was terrifying I was in my own room but the place was in disarray it looked like a tornado had ripped through it Panic surged through me
as I realized I was tied to my own bed with a towel shoved down my throat a wave of relief washed over me as I concluded that my clothes were all still intact untouched an hour later room service found me and freed me it had been a full day we were already pulling out of Jamaica I was more Angry than anything else how could I have been so stupid I had fallen for Sebastian's Charming Ploy and he had taken advantage of my sympathetic nature I doubted Sebastian was even his real name my Suite as I
already said was utterly trashed my jewelry phone and my personal belongings were all gone the safe was wide open its contents vanished my suitcase had also disappeared the cruise ship security team made a massive deal over this not to the passengers obviously but amongst themselves they reviewed the footage only to discover that that guy had disembarked early in P Delgada not returning to the ship the crew had no choice but to leave him behind when he didn't show up to the gang way at departure time they urged me to keep my mouth shut about all
this telling me not to go to the public they offered me substantial compensation and promised me they'd find him eventually after all he must have used a passport to book the cruise in the weeks after the cruise they contacted me and filled me in on what their search turned up because the crews hadn't actually returned to the states it was a nightmare trying to contact American police and give them details on the crime and the perpetrator Portugal was a little more compliant conducting at least a semblance of a search but even I knew there was
no way Sebastian was still in Portugal the United States eventually did get involved launching a full-scale investigation the identities that man had used were all real real passport real name real address real everything they went to a supposed place of residence first the landlord told them that Sebastian had moved just over a month ago leaving nothing behind the landlord did have a personal phone number of his but that was of course disconnected the police looked for any property in his name but there was nothing his criminal history was also suspiciously clean the guy had never
even gotten a parking ticket the police went to his previous jobs all of which gave the same story the only address they had was the one he left and the only phone number they had was the one he had disconnected I was Furious they literally had his full identity there must have been something more they could have done I couldn't help but blame myself for this whole ordeal you might think things ended there you'd be very wrong I took an extended leave from Royal Caribbean hoping to distance myself from the whole thing unfortunately the situation
only escalated about a month later I received the first one a blank envelope was left at my apartment with a single photograph inside it was me walking to my car after doing some grocery shopping I wanted to scream a week later I got the second one a candid shot of me shopping at the mall at first I tried ignoring the pictures but they just kept coming the envelopes came one after another each one a picture of me unaware of the camera each picture felt like a taunt a reminder that he was still out there watching
me I can't describe the terror I lived with during these weeks I was afraid to leave my house I couldn't go to work hang out with friends or shop without constantly looking over my shoulder after the sixth envelope I went to the police police I know you're probably wondering why I didn't go after the first envelope honestly I can't even answer that question the police were not very helpful I don't think they even knew what to do but I wanted them to have a record of my case in the event that something more serious came
of it and that's exactly what Happened One Night KNX echoed against my bedroom window I knew it was him the police investigated found nothing and left me more scared than I had been before they arrived I had had enough I moved Apartments immediately after that leaving no forwarding address changing all my contact details and increasing my security measures as best I could thankfully I never heard from that man again it's only been about 3 months though so hopefully I don't jinx myself by putting this into words my best guess is that he was able to
unlock my phone while I was passed out and that's how he was able to steal all my information the worst thing about all of this isn't everything that was stolen or even the fact that my whole life was uprooted when I changed Apartments the worst thing about this situation is that I'll never aspire to work on a cruise ship again I don't even know if I want to keep working as a bartender it's crazy how quickly a lifelong dream can turn into a nightmare
