{"id":24020,"date":"2025-01-03T02:45:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T01:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=24020"},"modified":"2025-01-03T02:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T01:45:55","slug":"the-chilling-story-behind-an-unexpected-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=24020","title":{"rendered":"The Chilling Story Behind an Unexpected Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, on Christmas eve 2001, I was in tears: I couldn\u2019t afford a gift for my 8 y.o. boy. That night, the doorbell rang, and there was a box wrapped in newspaper. It had a new Walkman inside. We had no idea who brought it, but I kept the paper as a memory.<\/p>\n<p>15 years later, while moving, I found it again. I felt sick, an eerie chill ran through me when I read the news on it: it was about my neighborhood. The article, dated 1990, reported on a suspected man in his 40s who had been breaking into houses on our street and stealing from them. I had no idea about this, as I wasn\u2019t living there back then.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, nothing bad happened. It could\u2019ve been just a coincidence to wrap it in that news, but still, it\u2019s a chilling one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, on Christmas eve 2001, I was in tears: I couldn\u2019t afford a gift for my 8 y.o. boy. That night, the doorbell rang, and there was a box wrapped in newspaper. It had a new Walkman inside. We had no idea who brought it, but I kept the paper as a memory. 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24021,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24020\/revisions\/24021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}