This Teen Gamer Thought He Met a Friend Online, Until He Met Her in Person

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Among all of John’s friends from school that he played games with, John also met some individuals through playing games online. XBOX has a feature where you can voice chat and message with other people, and John built relationships with some strangers on there. Some of them were fellow high schoolers like him, but one of them wasn’t how she seemed online...

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John befriended a user named Kriste. They both played the same games together, she had even joined in parties with John’s real-life friends to play in competitive online matches together. However, she never communicated via a microphone, instead, she would only send in-game messages. Everyone thought that this was perfectly normal since some people can’t afford microphones, but she had something far more sinister behind her actions…

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.