15 True Horror Stories Animated (Compilation of July 2020)

i'm an irish female and this happened back in 2007 when i was in my mid-20s back then i loved going to clubs and dancing the night away one particular night i went out with some friends which included my cousin frank we went to a nightclub had some drinks and danced to daft punks one more time as well as other popular music at the time i wasn't living in this town at the time so i arranged to stay at frank's house we had the fridge stocked with beer for when we got back and planned on getting wasted we probably left the club at around 1am and got a taxi to his house back at frank's house we spent a few hours listening to led zeppelin nirvana with a bit of metallica thrown in for good measure my cousin was in a rock band and loved the classics at around 3 a.m frank's band made jack calm and asked we can come over and stay he had been clubbing at a different location and needed somewhere to crash frank lived alone in a three bedroom house and being a single guy he hosted a few wild parties over the years frank told them no problem he can come over but explained we were having a quiet night in other words not to bring anyone else jack came over and seemed super friendly being the drummer of the band he looked exactly like what i expected long hair the zeppelin t-shirt and ripped jeans his behavior changed not long after arriving he was super animated and i don't know just on a different buzz he seemed drugged on something and hey as long as he enjoys himself who am i to judge at one stage he started playing air drums and continued with that for ages during one of the eardrum solos i asked him something and he didn't answer i kind of nudged him very lightly but just to get his attention jack went crazy and started shouting at me to never interrupt him when he was playing drums drums sorry did he really think he was playing real ones anyway this pissed me off i didn't like the aggression frank said relax man there's no need to shout jack replied no one should interrupt me when i'm in the zone man no one me and frank i rolled and carried on chatting drinking and ignoring him the atmosphere changed after that and after a short time i went to bed i don't know how long after but i was awoken from a deep sleep i heard this breathing sound in my room still in a drunken slumber it took me a few minutes to register that the noise sounded like someone inhaling someone was in my bed with a bunch of my hair in his hand sniffing it i froze then said what the [ __ ] are you doing jack replied relax i'm just smelling your hair i'm not gonna do anything well adrenaline course through me but i was stuck to the bed with fear and the room was pitch black i shouted frank at the top of my voice and in speedy time he ran in the room turn on the light only to find jack in my bed holding a handful of my hair he said it's not what it looks like bud i was only smelling it i was sleeping facing the door so could see frank i dared not to look behind me to see jack but his voice sounded like that of a child that knows he's done something wrong and is about to get in trouble frank lost it told him to get the [ __ ] downstairs my cousin apologized and said he did not want to kick him out of the house in the drugged up state he was in the door had no lock so my cousin slept in a chair in front of my bedroom door and jack actually tried to come in again i woke to frank telling him to get the hell back downstairs or was gonna kick him out of the house and jack retreated once again the next day he was gone by the time i woke up but a few days later when frank tracked jack down he was told he'd been mixing drugs with alcohol and was embarrassed by his behavior even though it's been years since it happened it still gives me the creeps when i think about it those sniffing sounds big deep slow inhales still give me goosebumps the man broke up not long after that so i never had to meet him again i was told he was a good guy so he may have been on drugs that made him super strange i'm just glad frank was there or who knows how i would have got him out of my room i was 10 at the time this happened this event still gives me the creeps to this day i had a friend come over for the night at my house we ate some snacks watched the movie on netflix and basically we're having fun after a few hours we got bored and decided to do something different my friend suggested that we should take two of my bikes and go explore the abandoned house nearby for your understanding if we would have walked there we would have made it around one hour to the destination if we would have taken the bikes we would have made around 10 minutes so we grabbed the bikes and rode till we reached the road to the house we left our bikes at the entrance of the road the house was on the left side of the road heavily damaged old and creepy on the right side of the road there was what looked like a garage full of what we thought were tools no car i agree with my friend that we should explore the house first then a garage i already thought we should go back home right when my friend put his hand on the door i heard a thud in the distance it was like someone or something hit a metallic plate with a pipe or a big branch i asked my friend did you hear that my friend said hear what i'll let it pass i was thinking probably my brain was tricking me plus i was a bit sleepy the door to the house was old and creaky i'll never forget the moment my brain processed the smell coming from the house it smelled like rotten eggs alcohol and old unused meat at this point it was pitch black outside we were using the flashlights from our phones to see in the dark it was hard to see my brain was making images that seemed real but they were not the atmosphere in the house was like an ancient place but at the same time it felt cursed we saw a kitchen living room a bathroom with a purple mattress that covered the entrance of the room and some stairs that were probably leading to the basement not even a candle was inside the smell was coming from the kitchen but also from upstairs a hallway separated the living room in the kitchen it was straight and as long as the ground floor firstly we checked the living room because it was nearest us it was almost connected to the kitchen we pointed our flashlights at the floor and it was covered by a purple carpet with small black dots on it there wasn't really anything special in the living room except for our lamp it had a note on it that said i'll be back soon prepare the sauce with a smiley face at the end the paper looked old but the ink was fresh somehow we didn't give it much attention big mistake we went to the kitchen opened the cupboards and saw food bread some salad tomatoes some kind of meat what we thought to be steak and it was bloody the food seemed fresh but the smell that got to us was mostly coming from the steak we weren't that scared before but the chills sneaked into us i told my friend that we should return home but he was a jackass and wanted to continue although i didn't want to explore anymore i didn't have a problem with that but two particular things made me want to go home the idea of a crazy and dangerous homeless person that could have lived in there in the basement the walls from the start of the basement stairs were made out of concrete and nothing else my friend was walking toward the basement i grabbed him by his arm and told him i don't want to go down there after one minute i convinced him that we don't need to explore that part of the house and we moved on behind the purple mattress in the bathroom there were clothes thrown everywhere pants shirts hoodies but the weirdest thing was a bathtub a mannequin with green dyed hair i told my friend that we should get the [ __ ] out of here that's when we heard the scream from outside a scream that was coming from a man we both ran to a window to see what was going on and what i saw marked me for life outside was a person with a clown mask that was dragging a dead body with him he was heading for a garage we both whispered to each other what should we do i don't know i think there were two of them the other one must be in the garage as we were talking the man in the clown mask turned on the lights in the garage at that point we could have died of fear what we saw as tools were actually tools for dismantling a human body the clown picked up the tool and began to scoop the man's parts out i almost puked we called the police thinking no one can hear us they said to stay hidden until they arrived we ran upstairs with no idea what was waiting for us there upstairs there were four rooms a bathroom and three bedrooms we went to the first one that had a window after minutes felt like hours we heard the sirens of the police cars i was so relieved when something happened we heard a cracking voice saying come out come out i have many toys you can play with after that we heard the door opening not from our room from one of the other three my friend tried to open the window quietly but after one small move he gave up because it was creaky at that moment the guy was knocking on the door we heard the police say put your hands in the air then an officer kicked down the front door at the same time the guy from our door started to scratch the door with something sharp then he broke into the room i had no choice but to try to jump through the old window which i did i couldn't feel the pain because of the fear i landed in some bushes then started to run towards the police cars then i heard someone running in the back i looked and it was the clown that dragged the body he was faster than me but the police officer saw him and shot him on his right hand then i saw the other clown walking out of the house cuffed and was another officer behind him i was worried sick from my friend then my friend walked out of the house with another officer i was so glad we didn't get harmed the cuff clown was sent to prison and got a life sentence for serial murders selling illegal things stealing goods from people and breaking into houses and yes the stake we saw was human flesh i'd never visited any abandoned house since when i was in high school i lived in a small town in the midwest i worked at a historic but failing dual screen theater unfortunately the building itself was on its last leg and the interior cosmetic renovations hadn't been made since the mid 80s when a wall was built over the original stage and converted into a cinema however i adored the building and was deeply saddened by its decrepit state many of the locals didn't care much for the theater once they started showing movies and business dropped enormously from then to when i was employed there in 2007 most of my shifts i barely saw more than a dozen people for each showing if that some days we didn't even have a single person come in my manager and i eventually became good friends and he gave me a key to perform nightly janitorial duties needless to say i was psyched i love the idea of coming in after hours to work and try to make the theater look more presentable and not a typical smelly discount [ __ ] i would purchase cleaning supplies myself and brought my mom's vacuum in because the theater didn't have one i tried as much as a 17 year old could to make the place more attractive because it seemed everyone else gave up on her one friday night at around 12 am i decided to borrow my uncle's steam cleaner to clean up the seats in the second theater it was a lengthy task but i had just got done smoking a joint with a buddy and i had no issue finishing my night off listening to music and cleaning with a buzz i entered the theater as usual and began completing petty tasks before tackling the big job eventually i entered the second theater and experienced a very uneasy feeling i have never felt uncomfortable in there before but for some reason i couldn't shake this pressing feeling on my chest i assumed i was a little panicky from the pot i turned my music down and started getting to work to try and get my mind off it i had my back facing the screen and was scrubbing the second to last row near the exit when i suddenly heard a lot of rustling coming from behind the screen this didn't come as much of a shock considering that we've had pest issues in some of the storage rooms behind the screens thinking it was a raccoon trying to hide after hearing the drowning noise of my steam cleaner i continued on and didn't pay much mind to it until the rustling became very distinct whatever the noise was was coming from under the screen inside the large metal grate that leads to the stage behind the screen and whatever it was it was big i turned my cleaner off and stared at the grate practically frozen in fear and continuing to reassure myself that it was a raccoon or maybe even a dog or something the noise became more prominent and after what seemed like hours of me just staring at the grate trying to determine what the creature was the metal grate made a slow and ominous screeching noise as it began to push out from the inside i continued to stare in intense fear as i witnessed what came tumbling out i nearly bald head with a couple of strands of gray dirty hair greeted me before an old naked woman absolutely covered in dirt insects and blood came crawling out on all fours and looked directly at me she paused as she was fully out and forcefully grinning at me with her toothless mouth i'm not sure how much time went by but i honestly felt like my feet had melted into the floor i truly thought i was hallucinating the way she was positioned like that seemed unreal and although i was terrified i think i was more perplexed by her contour i thought she was a character from silent hill i had hallucinated and that i was tripping on some really bad weed this is what was playing over and over again in my mind until she started crawling very quickly towards me without saying a single word maintaining her grin with her head cocked back and her sagging breasts bouncing back and forth hitting her bloody arms and smearing dirt and blood together at that moment i pissed myself and jumped over the last two rows of seats i still can't believe i did that in one leap and ran as fast as i could to the exit door i could hear distant shuffling as i slammed the door behind me locked it and ran to the police station which was a couple of buildings away i gave them the key called my manager and told them i wasn't going back the woman who crawled after me according to the police was a homeless schizophrenic meth addict who decided to take up residency under the screen after managing to enter through a small opening from the outside of the building when they arrived she was crawling around in circles in the lobby it appeared to them that she had been staying there for at least a week to shoot up meth and she more than likely watched me on my janitor days grinning that toothless grin as i swept away unaware of her being there it was definitely the absolute scariest moment of my life and needless to say i stopped coming in by myself to clean up since then the place has closed and is completely boarded up i miss it greatly but whenever i come back to the area i still wonder if she's sleeping in there in the summer of 2017 at around 8 30 p.m i suddenly remembered that i needed to put some gas in my car finishing the last paragraph of my essay i called my parents to let them know that i would be gone for a few minutes but that i was coming straight back the gas station was about 10 minutes from my house so i would have been back in about 20 minutes or so i grabbed my keys and left without another word after 10 minutes of driving i arrived at the gas station and pulled up to the nearest pump as i started pumping gas into my car an old beat-up pickup truck appeared in the corner of my eye i turned my head to look and noticed two dark figures just sitting there i couldn't make out any distinguishing features but they seemed to be talking while checking out the place i brushed it off and finished filling my tank before i got back into my car i decided to run into the building to grab some snacks for my boyfriend i then walked inside and quickly picked out some items just as i was done making my purchase two men wearing jeans with black hoodies burst into the store guns drawn both of them appeared to be in their mid-20s and fairly built everybody get on the ground the first man shouted the cashier and everyone else in the store immediately obeyed his orders there was a few panicked whispers until one of the men shouted at them to shut up i felt my heart pick up its pace and my blood ran cold these men were about to rob this place and possibly shoot up the customers or the cashier i prayed silently to myself that no one would be killed or seriously injured one of them grabbed my hair you stand he commanded fearing for my life i did as he ordered almost immediately i felt an arm snake around my wrist and take hold i would have elbowed him stomped his foot or attempted to punch his face but i was so paralyzed in fear to think or do anything the worst part i felt a gun aiming at the back of my head i tried squirming away from the man's grip but he just held me tighter and hissed at me stay still sweetheart and no one gets hurt the other man shouted at the cashier hand over the cash are you gonna be scraping this bitch's brains off the wall i had no connection with the cashier in any way except for just being a customer at the store but i could tell from the look in his eyes that he wanted to protect me in any way he could he was an older guy possibly in his sixties with glasses on his face i knew that he had no choice but to comply with their demands he hastily unlocked the register as he was handing over the cash i felt the barrel of the gun press against the side of my head and i nearly started to freak out i restrained myself and just started to tear up a little my throat burned from holding it back all for the sake of keeping myself alive for as long as possible once every last dollar bill was in the man's hands sirens blared from outside the man then stuffed the money into a backpack then punched out the cashier i was then thrown to the side my stomach and arm hitting the edge of the counter before i fell onto the floor as soon as the two men ran outside they were surrounded by police within seconds they were tackled to the ground and handcuffed i was still catching my breath but i was more concerned about the cashier i pulled myself up and peeked over the counter for the most part he seemed okay although i could see his right eye was turning black his glasses laid broken on the floor are you alright sir i weekly asked him my stomach's still hurting i'm a little blind at the moment but i'll be okay he responded is everyone alright a familiar voice asked one of the cops who was also very good friends with my father had entered the store just us two might need some attention i said the officer turned towards us he immediately recognized me and asked if i was okay the cashier and i told him everything as other cops eventually came in and questioned the other customers it turns out that a customer had sneaked into the bathroom and called 9-1-1 without the robbers noticing once the questioning had finished i just couldn't hold it in anymore i burst into tears not because i was in pain but because i had just endured the scariest moment of my life i just wanted to get home and put an ice pack on my stomach the cashier was rushed down to the store on a stretcher do you need any medical attention the officer asked i shook my head and cried i just want to go home as i walked out of the store i noticed a few cops investigating the truck i had seen earlier and then it clicked in my head that vehicle belonged to the two men they had been scoping out the place waiting for the right time to strike and i was pretty sure that i was the first person they saw to use us bait a police car followed me home that night i then made a promise to myself that i would never go certain places at night ever again this happened to me back in the summer of 2018 just thinking about it now still gives me chills to this day when i consider what could have happened to me that night i'll start by giving a little backstory i'm a 24 year old male who lives in minnesota i was staying with a friend who lives in chicago we've been friends since sophomore year in college so i was really looking forward to catching up with him since our departure after graduation i was only visiting him for a week and then i would be on my way home during the evening my friend who will call stephen and his mother went out to go get food and i decided to stay behind for the simple fact that i just wanted to get settled in for the night however the house became extremely hot so that's when i decided to get out of the house and go walk around the neighborhood now something that you should know about me at this point is that i'm a frequent walker especially at night it really calms my nerves whenever i'm on edge or when i just need to get away for a while i'm a really anti-social guy in a way after about 10 minutes of walking i came across the neighborhood park and just to kill some time i decided to go explore it this park was massive there was a baseball field enclosed by a walking trail that went on for about a mile and there was also a small basketball court in the distance i could also see a small playground area for children along with the dimly lit bathroom that you would typically see at any community park the creepiest part was the trees that surrounded the area even though it was a park it kind of put you in the state of mind that you were standing in the middle of a forest preserve i didn't have any fears about walking around this park at night because steven always assured me that his neighborhood was safe for the most part nothing ever happens here he would always say but he was mistaken i decided to keep walking and i eventually came across a small park bench so i decided to sit down and enjoy the night breeze for a little bit i was at peace when i suddenly heard a rustling noise coming from the nearby trees i quickly turned around and there was nothing there it might have been the wind a bird or maybe a squirrel i thought after about five minutes of relaxing i pull out my phone to see a text from steven it read hey we just got back where are you i was about to respond when i looked up to see a car pull in near the playground a few yards away from where i was sitting this was pretty odd seeing how it was about 9 30 pm but i didn't know much about this area so i dismissed it as being completely normal a few minutes go by and i thought that someone would exit the car but they didn't it was at this point that i started to feel a little on edge the headlights were irritating me so i got up and started walking back to steven's house i texted him saying i'm on my way back from the park in that moment i heard a car door slam behind me and i looked back to see a very large man he was standing in front of his car and it looked like he was staring right at me now keep in mind it was pretty dark at this point so i can't really describe any of his facial features i began walking again picking up my pace and looking behind me every few seconds the man was now following me and i was growing paranoid i don't want to die tonight i thought to myself suddenly i noticed out of the corner of my eye two men emerged from the trees in the darkness i was almost at the entrance of the playground when i heard hey sexy come here a minute you want to have some fun tonight i was scared shitless at this point adrenaline started to kick in and to this day i still believe i did one of the stupidest things i've ever done i turned around to face the men head on and yelled [ __ ] off i'm not in the mood for games tonight at that moment a large hand covered my mouth from behind and it was suddenly harder to breathe i tried to scream but the gloved hands just held me tighter i started to feel light-headed and everything turned blurry i then blacked out i woke up in a car still feeling light-headed my hands were tied and my belt was unbuckled i immediately noticed that all four of the car seats had men in them and i was sandwiched between two of them in the back seat what's going on i said in a horse voice we're going for a ride the driver said i felt weak and sluggish as i desperately tried to move my body but a sharp blow to the side from one of the men sitting beside me stopped me in my tracks there was no way i could fight four guys bigger than me i started begging for them to let me go and they responded by just laughing at me tears ran down my face as i struggled to get my hands free but it was useless i felt nothing but fear and anger and overall embarrassment the car started to back out of the parking lot when suddenly there was the sound of the back window glass breaking three of the men immediately got out of the car to check it out what the hell just happened one of them yelled you sickos let him go now i recognize the second voice as steven with the car doors open i took the opportunity to escape desperately stumbling onto the pavement i looked up to see steven holding a rock in one hand and a tree branch in the other i already called the police on you [ __ ] he said i started to gather my strength and joined my friend in the standoff we were outnumbered but i wasn't going to let him fight these men on his own he was like a brother to me and where i come from you protect your family in the distance we heard the sound of sirens the men quickly hopped back in the vehicle and booked it out of their fast i immediately noticed the car didn't have any license plate i'll skip through the police details because it was just the usual they took my statement and told me that they will let me know if anything happens the week passed without further incident the day that i was getting ready to go back to minnesota i was trying to block out everything that happened as best as i could when stephen said you could have been michael who's michael i asked he then told me that when he was in middle school he had a friend named michael they used to play together all the time at that playground one day a stranger approached them the man claimed to be a friend of michael's dad to make a long story short he never saw that man or his friend michael ever again this happened to me when i was in 11th grade i'm a female and i tend to be a people pleaser i never like to call anyone out reject anyone outright or act like someone is being weird i'm also a bit open-minded and i tend to go with the flow school started in early september and in my marine biology class i noticed that there was this boy that kept staring at me from the corner of my eye i just made one of those half smiles towards him to acknowledge him and went on about my assignment i really did not think much of it for a couple of weeks even though he continued to stare he was very skinny and tall had brown hair his eyes were so brown that they looked black he had a generally nondescript face other than his super dark eyes one day he decided to say hi i said hello back to him and he told me his name which was alex i told him mine but he said that he already knew my name that wasn't a surprise as i have rather large handwriting and he could have easily watched me write my name down on one of my papers since he was staring at me so much it was kind of odd that he didn't really have any facial expression when he flatly said that he knew my name i just sort of laughed it off said oh okay and began putting my things in my bag as the bell was about to ring i only had a few friends and we always sat at the same table during lunch we were all rather quiet and most times red while we ate that means i usually don't look around the lunchroom as i have my eyes in my book this day my friend finished her novel so i decided to put mine away and just talk i immediately noticed alex staring inside at us from the courtyard tables he never seemed to be embarrassed that i noticed him i showed him to my friend and told her about my class with him she found it to be super creepy but i said he's probably harmless and was just socially awkward i arrived in marine biology a little early later that day and so it was just myself alex and one other girl for about 10 minutes i did that half smile at alex and then decided to break out my book and start reading again he had his hands folded over his mouth and was staring again this time it just felt awkward because we were basically alone now i glanced over at him and kind of raised my eyebrows as if to say yes he looked me up and down very slowly and i asked him if he was okay he said yes and that he was just inside of his head thinking okay whatever that's fine the next day at lunch there was a little piece of paper on the table that we sat at it had my name on the front not just my first name my first and middle name i opened it and it said something like i wonder what your [ __ ] would look like with a pvc pipe shoved up it what the [ __ ] i looked around i didn't see alex but i immediately knew it was him i was very scared to come to class later that day but he wasn't there i felt a lot better about not seeing him the note itself was gross and embarrassing i didn't want to show any administrators because of that so i just threw it out i went to the bus area at the end of the day like usual but this time i noticed alex leaning on one of the pillars with his backpack on one shoulder i literally felt chills down my spine when i noticed a white pvc pipe poking out of the top of his backpack through the zippers i didn't give him any reaction to my knowledge even though i'm sure he had watched me read the note the next morning i made an appointment with a counselor and had my class changed she was very reluctant to do that for me because we were already in the school year well over a month and a half but i think since i have a history of good grades and behavior she helped me out i spent the rest of the year avidly avoiding him he kept staring at me at lunchtime and one time he took photos of me at the bus area without my consent even though it was against school policy i got some pepper spray for when i get off at my bus stop i have no clue what happened to him because when 12th grade began he was no longer at our school i'm not sure if i even want to know how he turned out when i was 22 i moved a thousand miles away from my midwest home to the beautiful foothills of tennessee i had a new job new car and a nice apartment but didn't know a soul outside of work if my phone rang i expected to hear a far away family member or my long distance boyfriend who was still in college this was a landline no cell phones yet despite being very alone i was managing well with the excitement of all the new things in my life i only lived there about two weeks when the unwanted calls started the first call a man's friendly voice asked what i was doing i couldn't place him and thought maybe it was one of my cousins or uncles i have a huge extended family i ask him his name he laughs a little and his tone gets dark a bit angry and he says you know exactly who this is darling i pause deciding this guy simply called the wrong number or is a creep i choose the former laugh and politely tell him he has the wrong number he then recites my brand new unlisted unpublished phone number and my name what the [ __ ] i thought an intense chill races through me i've only given my new number to my parents sister boyfriend apartment manager and employer i'm new to the city in this lovely southern state he does not like it that i tell him he called the wrong number and starts yelling at me then tells me in a much calmer voice the many vulgar things he's going to do to me i hang up and brush it off he calls again around 1am i tell him to screw himself and hang up he keeps calling so i unplug the phone and return to sleep however as days go by the calls continue and escalate he starts mentioning personal things about me said he liked the white quilt on my bed knew what was in my fridge that he's allergic to cats i had one and then asked me if i was in love with mary as i listened to his words i was standing in my kitchen looking at the calendar taped to the fridge it had mary written in pink on the 17th with a heart around it because mary is my sister in the 17th is her birthday i started shaking and crying because suddenly i realized this creep has been in my apartment i was alone with no friends or family to run to for the night it was me versus a creepy mystery man i didn't sleep much that night early the next morning i talked to the apartment complex manager before heading to work telling her what had happened and that i want the locks changed that day she gets a weird look on her face and after a long pause she says she knows who's been in my apartment and that it won't happen again what i thought to myself it turns out she had a creepy rapey maintenance guy who noticed a young woman moving into an apartment alone and that i was his new pet she had the locks changed immediately and promised that she would personally keep the other key although the call stopped i was paranoid for a year as i came and went from my apartment because i never even knew what this guy looked like i moved out the moment my lease was up only after thinking about it years later did i realize that her weird expression likely meant that it had happened before plus she didn't even fire him i regret not calling the cops i was young and naive this happened to myself and a friend of mine we're both 23 year old males we decided to go on a two-night backpacking camping trip to the adirondack mountains of new york we are both very comfortable with nature and spend a lot of time outside hunting camping and fishing we hiked about five miles to get to a small lake so we could set up camp on the beach we didn't really expect to run into anyone else our first night there as we were sitting around the fire we saw a flashlight moving on the other side of the lake around 10 30. this was fairly unusual however we did not think much of it but as time went on this flashlight kept moving around the lake getting closer to our campsite we kept discussing who could possibly be wandering around the woods in the middle of the night we did not want to deal with any unwelcomed guests once it was clear that the person or people were heading for our campsite we moved off into the nearby woods to see who wondered up i took a small axe with me and my friend had a 22 rifle now we weren't expecting any trouble and we certainly didn't want to make any but we figured we might as well cover our bases now the moment of truth the flashlight comes near the light of our fire and it's one man he has a beard and was probably in his mid 40s the scary part was that he was carrying what turned out to be a pump action shotgun he walked around our campsite a few times and then proceeded to enter our tent after rummaging around for about a minute he came out and started yelling i know you're out there why don't you come and say hello my friend and i remained motionless under a hemlock tree about 50 yards away that's when the man proceeded to fire his shotgun into the woods not too far from where we were he also swung his flashlight around several times after what felt like hours he grabbed my friend's backpack and a few articles of clothing that we had drawing near the fire and threw them in to burn my friend had the 22 rifle trained at the man he asked me if he should shoot i told him absolutely not unless he spots us and starts pointing the gun in our direction thankfully the man moved off after a while we waited until his flashlight was on the other side of the lake then we ran out and grabbed everything we could fit in my pack and took off it was now 2 or 3 am we ran out the trail with our flashlights and made it back to my car as the sun was coming up we immediately went to the police department and reported it where we also spoke with some forest rangers and that was it i still haven't heard anything back from the police and this experience creeped the hell out of both of us [Music] back when i was 17 i used to babysit for our neighbor who at the time was a single mother who happened to be going through a particularly nasty divorce she had two young sons one of which was eight years old while the other was only around 18 months they were absolutely adorable and very well behaved kids but you could tell that they were going through a lot and the older one definitely showed signs of stress over the whole thing and i'll never forget the time he asked me why his daddy couldn't live with them anymore and it honestly broke my heart not because i didn't have an answer for him but because to hear it would have just been too much to bear too much for anyone to bear anyway after a few months of being alone she finally decided to get back on the old dating horse i was so happy for her after such a rough time she deserved to find happiness again to find someone who had the wherewithal to be a real father to these two adorable little boys so one night she leaves on her date and says she'll be back around midnight and not a moment later only she doesn't tell me exactly where she's going and i have no way to contact her because this was back in the 80s and no one had a cell phone well they did exist but not in the available commercial sense it was all landlines back then otherwise this might not have gone the way it did so on the night in question i'm chilling on the couch absent-mindedly flicking through the tv channels i put the kids to bed an hour previous they're sleeping like rocks and everything seems fine and dandy when suddenly there's a knock at the front door i wasn't expecting anyone but then again it wasn't my house so i felt kind of obligated to answer and take a message or whatever only as i started walking down the hallway towards the front door whoever is on the other side starts banging against it and cursing up a storm cheryl i know you're in there open the door now what was exactly said i don't remember but i'm not keen on repeating some of the words they used it was really really harsh so i'm just frozen looking at the door in total fright when the oldest boy came flying out of his room and down the stairs running to the door and yelling daddy's home i grabbed him pull him away from the door i had no idea what this guy's intentions were and after all they were probably divorced for a freaking reason but i almost fainted with fear when i hear the words i got my shotgun in my truck and tonight i'm going to teach you a lesson you'll never forget he screams this but then i hear his footsteps move up the gravel path it appeared he wasn't bluffing at all and if that was the case then our lives were clearly in danger when he gets back he's banging on the door and threatening to start shooting through it if no one opens i grab both kids and run out the back door and across the street to my house where my mom calls the police when the police arrive a few minutes later they actually find the ex-husband taking a massive dump on cheryl's porch he was arrested and i wait with the kids at my house for their mom to show up everyone was in tears by that point even my mom who was normally a pretty reserved woman i mean maybe he was just having a manic episode and no one was in real danger but honestly it was one of the most terrifying nights of my entire life [Music] after high school many years ago i was in a bad place my guardian had kicked me out after graduation she didn't even help me find a place to stay so i ended up living in my car for a couple of months i met some heavy metal dudes at work one day i had seen them around town and all of my other friends seemed to know who they were everyone loved them we became friends over a couple of months and they offered for me to move in with them i agreed looking back now i wish i had just stayed in my car my two main roommates were brothers named andrew and seth they were both in a band they also believed in the occult and anything of that sort i never really believed in that stuff but i'm not one to tell someone what they should and shouldn't believe they had let me live with them rent free for several months after all so who was i to complain being the only female in a house full of young men though i was always looking over my shoulder you never know who you can trust turns out i was right to worry over time their friends started to stay with us for longer periods of time sometimes weeks their friends were another group of brothers that they had gone to school with there were five in total but only two stayed with us consistently the younger brother mark was very polite he cleaned up after himself and always helped with the household chores the other brother adam though he had a laundry list of mental problems he had apparently done some bad drugs back in the day and it had developed into what seemed like psychosis of the religious sort he had done time in prison for assaulting a woman with a bible he would often look you in the eyes and tell you he could see how you would die once even told me that i was possessed by a demon and that i needed my soul cleansed everyone in the house knew he had these problems but he was their friend they helped him through the hard times and gave him a place to stay otherwise he would be out on the streets i was always on guard around him after the things he would tell me no one else seemed to be as concerned as i was though they should have been but one day i was sleeping and my phone suddenly rang it was my boss he asked if i could come into work an hour early it was only 12 pm i was broke and i had nothing better to do so i said yes i got up and began getting ready to leave i walked out into the living room to see mark and andrew sitting on the couch while adam sat on the floor by the tv he was watching scripture videos on youtube some real end of days type [ __ ] that was a fairly common occurrence so i went about my business as usual i said goodbye to them and left for work my shift at work was almost complete when my phone rang my boss answered handed it over to me and said for you i was just a cashier at the place so i assumed it was a friend that couldn't reach me on the phone i answered and heard a man's voice that i didn't recognize hi this is detective williams something happened at your apartment today and we need you to come into the station to talk about it i left work immediately i had assumed one of the brothers had been arrested for drug dealing or something i was very wrong i got to the station and was buzzed in an officer escorted me to a small cold room with a camera he gave me a bottle of water and left me by myself for about 30 minutes my mind was racing thinking about what could have happened he came back in and informed me that adam had stabbed and killed andrew at around 1pm i was shocked i just left the house only an hour before it happened and everything had seemed completely normal i asked if there had been a fight the detective informed me that there hadn't been a struggle at all it seemed to have just happened out of nowhere i gave my statement to the police and left with nowhere to go still in shock and confused out of my mind our apartment was a crime scene so i went to another friend's house to watch the news report the police refused to give me any information on the case over the next couple of days the information began to be released adam hadn't just stabbed andrew once not twice but stabbed him over and over and even nearly decapitated him after the murder he ran down the road still holding the weapon he called 9-1-1 and informed them what he had done i watched the news report in horror we had known he was unstable but this he had fully confessed to the brutal murder and provided police with his notebooks he had apparently been planning to murder all of his brothers my roommates and me he thought that we were possessed by demons and that this was the only way to free us luckily none of his other intended victims were there at the time mark unfortunately witnessed the murder but luckily he managed to escape if i hadn't gotten that call from my boss i wouldn't be alive today this all started about a year ago i a 23 year old female live on the second floor of an apartment complex and have lived here my entire life the building is mostly comprised of families with young children and married couples a lot of the families have lived here as long as my family has so everyone knows each other pretty well there is only one apartment unit that isn't occupied by a family but rather by a pair of brothers who keep to themselves one day one of their sons around my age appeared out of the blue he was strange off the bat he would always wear a sweatshirt with the hood up and would run through the apartment complex to get to his apartment i'm not sure what his face looks like because he always had the hood over his face he lived on the first floor on the back side of the complex and would often go into his place by jumping through the window he basically did everything in his power to avoid any interaction i didn't mind him because i never saw him due to my busy schedule however one day he started sitting on the top of the staircase that leads to my apartment this is strange because his apartment unit was on the other side of the complex and on the first floor i brushed it off at first but it started happening every day when i would come home from school he was there when my boyfriend at the time would drop me off at night typically at around 10 30 to 11 he would be there sometimes when i would leave and come back hours later he would still be in the exact same spot as if he didn't move through the five plus hours i was gone at this point i told my parents and my boyfriend about it and they became very vigilant my boyfriend would park his car and walk me to my door every night he dropped me off once he saw my boyfriend he stopped sitting on the staircase and i thought it was over but it wasn't he started waiting for me at the bus stop the bus i take home from school stops right across from the street from my home so it's a short walk one day when i was getting off i saw him waiting at the bus stop once he saw me get off he followed me into the complex and sat on the staircase he also started following me when i would walk my dog at this point my parents were upset my dog started letting the neighbors know he was following me around my neighbors started making sure he wasn't bothering me if i was alone they would start a conversation with me until i got into my door one day i got a friend request on facebook from the sky mind you he had never spoken a word to me so how did he know my name let alone find me on facebook my mom tried talking to his father but they would never answer the door when my mom knocked on their door so i'm thinking it can't possibly get any worse right he seemed harmless so i wasn't too worried and i was wrong one day when i returned from my boyfriend's house my mom told me she had something to tell me but she didn't want me to get spooked she proceeded to tell me that when she was walking towards the kitchen to get a glass of water she saw something in the tree move our kitchen has a huge window that takes up most of the wall in front of the window there's a huge tree if someone were to climb the tree you could see into our apartment well guess what when my mom took a closer look she realized my neighbor was sitting in the tree looking straight into the apartment my mom called my dad over and when my neighbors saw my dad he jumped off the tree at that moment i felt my peace stolen from me we filed a police report but when the police went looking for him he was gone it turned out that there were snack wrappers and a blanket hidden in between the leaves of the tree the police think that wasn't the first time he was up in that j tree i couldn't help but wonder how many times he saw me walking around and i had no idea it's been about six months and i haven't seen him since his father still lives in the complex but there's been no sight of him the police haven't been able to find him so i have no idea what happened to him but i just hope we never meet again this story isn't about me but a co-worker i work with i work at a tgi fridays as a waiter there's this one girl i work with we'll call her beth beth was a nice girl if i had to rate her which i usually don't because every guy has a different taste and beauty is in the eye of the beholder on a scale of 10 she was a good 7 or eight so it was pretty obvious she was going to get a lot of attention from our customers however when i would greet our customers at the door and show them to our table there was this one guy who would always ask for beth at first i was okay with it because the customer is always right and also because there were customers who would prefer me over other waiters as well so i went to get beth and she waited him this was normal for the first few days he would come back around the same time for lunch and i found this normal too because many people have their favorite places where they eat lunch after a while the other waiters and waitresses and i began teasing her about her new boyfriend beth would wait on him like she always did but now he would come in more than once a day beth began to feel uncomfortable with it she would tell me how he would try to make small talk and flirt with her and even gave her his phone number i laughed because it was funny as hell the whole conversation went over my head and i told her to just ignore it and take advantage of it because he was giving her pretty hefty tips every time that was bad advice on my part because she took it and it only got worse after a couple of months i got a new work schedule because i had more free time and was able to work more i began to work from 6 to closing time which was around 2 am it was probably the best work schedule i ever had because most of the people i talked to at work worked those same hours including beth who also worked from 6 to close also because usually after 12 am no one showed up and the manager would either close early or we would just hang out and eat free food until closing time so closing was fun but one of our co-workers noticed that there was always a dude waiting outside near a 7-eleven every day and sometimes he would be in this blue civic beth a couple of waiters and i knew who he was right away and we filled each other in on who he was needless to say beth was really scared at this point being friends we decided to help out in any way possible the days where she didn't have a car i or someone else would offer to drive her home the days where she did one of us would walk her to her car and man that was the right thing to do one day when i was walking to my car this guy came up to me he introduced himself and asked me a couple of questions one was if there was a job available i told him how to apply and that i would tell him if there was a spot open the other question however set off a red flag in my head he asked me if beth had a boyfriend and began talking about her and how gorgeous she was and how he wanted to get to know her etc i laughed and told him a girl like her probably has a lot of suitors waiting and she already has one not the best response i texted her about my encounter and that only contributed to her fear it got worse one day she forgot to ask somebody to walk with her to her car and she went alone but i ended up following behind just in case something happened i followed about 10 steps behind i watched her get into her car as i got into my car i noticed out of the corner of my eye the blue civic she pulled out of the parking lot and everything seemed normal but he pulled out and started following her and so did i i followed far behind so that he wouldn't notice me the stalker followed her all the way to her house i texted her to tell her to take the extra long way home because she was being followed and so that i could end up at her house first she did and when she pulled up and saw the blue civic passed by she was in tears she hugged me and thanked me for saving her life i went back to my car and stayed for 30 minutes just in case but the guy never came back my friend beth still works at tgi fridays but not at six to close anymore and the creepy guy stopped showing up after a while too and i can only hope it stays that way this incident took place in my old house in the winter of 2013. me being 12 years old my mom had gone on a vacation to visit her friend in bakersfield california leaving us home alone my sister aurora who's the oldest at 21 will be watching us as well as my brother austin 19 back then austin and aurora had come back from the local gas station to grab some snacks hot dogs hamburgers slushies candy and chips and as well as austin getting a pizza from little caesars as we were going to watch a football game that night it was december 15 2013 when it was pitch blackout the game being either the third or fourth quarter even over the commentator and the loud sounds coming from the tv we could hear a faint yet very slight scratching sound coming from the garage it sounded like our cats were scratching the wood on the garage or maybe one of the dogs addison my little sister was looking around for the dogs and cats when she found them in the basement all resting in either our billet room or the two bedrooms we had down there addison came upstairs and told us and we were pretty reasonably shaken the scratching continued and it only made us feel more unsettled austin and aurora looked pretty shaken when we heard a loud collapsing sound in the garage it sounded like someone climbed up the ladder to our storage area went through all of our boxes and shuffled them around it was when it hit us bailey my other sister turned off the tv while ali another one of my sisters went to go turn off the lights addison hid in one of my basement bedrooms allie hid behind the china cabinet in our other basement bedroom i was hiding under my bed aurora and bailey were hiding behind my parents bed then someone opened the door to our house and slammed it shut it was a man the man said in a rough voice walking into the bedrooms aurora austin alli bailey elijah addison i would like to give you some candy he also said our full names at one point and somehow knew our middle names the man started pounding on the three bedroom doors and screaming that he had a bunch of candy canes and he just wanted to spread the christmas cheer austin jumped on the man from behind he actually had a huge kitchen knife austin managed to stop him from stabbing or cutting him the cops arrived a minute later and the man was still in austin's possession austin had left him for maybe 20 seconds and when he went back in the hallway the man was gone we heard the front door shut and austin never caught the guy unfortunately however the story doesn't even end yet one day when i was 15 i was walking home from school with addison and bailey aurora and austin and ali had all moved out by then i opened the front door to see everything shifted around and the whole house was trash we found this incredibly odd and even more that it was a terrible foul smell coming from our basement and five of our dogs rocky roscoe pd coco and bingo were all clawing at the basement door i opened the door since rocky coco bingo were all german shepherds they weren't scared as petey and roscoe were golden retrievers and they were petrified rocky went down first he was acting very brave and then looked in the basement bedrooms and started barking our basement bedrooms are like this one is off in a billet room and there's a door at the back of the room leading to another basement bedroom one was our guest room slash office and the other room was a storage room that was formerly our playroom but rocky was actually barking into our storage room bailey and addison were upstairs cowering while me and rocky were downstairs in a storage room scavenging around the room i turned on the fan and the light then i hear elijah come down here please i jumped and the man from that one night in december stood up with a knife rocky pinned the guy to the floor biting him profusely i screamed for addison or bailey to call the cops and they arrive in five minutes while rocky was on top of the man he was arrested and had been responsible for several crimes i have forgotten about both incidents for a while and we actually moved out of that house a few days ago which was june 11 2020 and when we were actually looking at the house for her last look bailey looked at the wall behind the china cabinet in the guest room and screamed there was old carved blood into the wall that said i will come back i will forever be grateful toward rocky and austin both saving our lives and coco unfortunately died in august 2017 due to lymphoma this incident will forever hunt me and i hope we never see that man again and i fear he will come to our new house and he was sentenced to 12 years this all happened back when i was about 10 or 11 as it was the last year of primary school for me and i remember being really excited about going to big school as my mom and dad phrased it they were off to some work function and i needed a babysitter i distinctly remember them being worried that they wouldn't be able to go as i think they left it quite late and were worried that they wouldn't be able to find a sitter i didn't want to be left alone with a stranger so i remember being absolutely gutted when they said they'd managed to find someone to stay for a few hours on a saturday evening but when the time came and the babysitter arrived i remember thinking that it wouldn't be so bad she was very pretty and seemed genuinely lovely some university student called sarah i can't quite remember but she pretty much won my parents over in the first few minutes and well since they liked her so much i kind of liked her too she told me we'd have a little slumber party that we could watch my favorite film and my parents sweetened the deal by saying that they'd leave us money for some pizza so i really did perk up for a bit as they showed the girl around the house and actually warmed up to the idea as they left the house sarah who will just call her now for the story's sake she began to order us pizza only that's when things started to get a bit weird she asked me what my favorite topping was and a voice that didn't sound nearly as jolly as before when i told her i liked pepperoni the most still my favorite she just laughed and told me she was a vegetarian i tried to tell her we could always get two smaller pizzas but she just ignored me as she placed an order for a large spicy veggie one i hated spice and i still do i can't handle chilis for the life of me even as a grown up so the younger me was absolutely heartbroken that i've been pretty much shut out of the pizza party that we were supposed to be throwing and it all went downhill from there there was a knock at the door a little while after she called and i suspected it was the delivery guy but it wasn't from the top of the stairs i watched some lad in his own clothes stepped out of the cold and into our hallway i was confused as to what was going on where the pizza was was and all that but when the pair of them started sharing this really horrible wet kiss i got onto the fact that it was obviously her boyfriend or something and this is all after hearing my parents make it clear to her that she wasn't allowed any company around so i was really bloody annoyed at this point like furious so i snuck down into the kitchen to try and find the house phone to call my mom only it wasn't in the charger i tried around for a wee bit trying to find the thing when i realized there's a good chance the babysitter had it with her i walked down the hall to the living room where she and her boyfriend were open the door and pretty much recoil at what i see they're doing stuff right there on the couch sarah screams at me to get out and shuts the door and i respond with asking her for the phone she doesn't even acknowledge my request gets up from the couch with fury in her eyes and slams the door on me before screaming through the wood to get back up to my room and be quiet i told her i was hungry but again absolutely no acknowledgement so i went back up to my room and just bawled my eyes out so it's pretty important to remember that this was like the mid 90s back when the internet or mobile phones weren't exactly available or affordable for a family like mine if this had happened nowadays it would be a piece of pie to just phone my parents or hey even take a photo of the boyfriend being there and that would be that but i just didn't have those options available to me and even if i had this girl was so conniving that she'd probably have found a way around it but that sort of maltreatment wasn't what scared me yeah it was upsetting but another danger became more of a priority when i realized that they had trapped the family dog inside the living room with them i went back downstairs facing my fears and hoping i could at least get jazz out of the room with them she was an australian shepherd one of those dogs that's dead shaggy but also looks like someone spilled a can of paint over them or something i loved her so so much and i had to rescue her so i knock on the living room door only to get told to go away i knock again telling the babysitter that it was important that jazz had to go outside to have a wii or for her to be taken on a walk so she could do it number two again she barked at me to go away i wasn't about to let this happen to my best friend in the world though so though i pushed the door open just in time to see the boyfriend do something frankly unbelievable so in england we play cricket don't we and the balls are insanely hard like i think they might be even harder than baseballs you americans play with solid cork on the inside with a tough leather binding people actually died from getting hit on the head with cricket balls jazz loved her cricket ball we tried throwing tennis balls and stuff for her but i think she just liked that leather smell the cricket ball gave off maybe it reminded her of actually chasing an animal or something i don't know but either way i opened the door of the living room to find the boyfriend of the sitter just lashing the cricket ball at jazz so hard that when it hit her back leg she yelped all high pitched i tried to run in to rescue her to pull her into my room where she could be safe but the boyfriend was fast he pushed me back in the hallway shut the door and then i'm certain he wedged something against it because i couldn't open it at all from then on i went to my room and cried myself to sleep only waking up to hear my parents talking to the sitter when they got home i didn't make a sound i was just too scared for some reason i had it in my head that the boyfriend would hurt them i don't know kids are deaf like that i suppose but of course he wasn't there he left before my mom and dad got home i think the real nightmare was that the sitter had actually spun some pure sob story about how i'd been really bad and terribly behaved all evening how had been a brat and demanded this that and the other and they made a huge bloody mistake the absolute wankers because that cricket ball had left a huge welt on jazz's hind leg and when my dad found out that i'd at least been partially telling the truth about what they've been up to and god you should have seen how livid he was i won't bore you with the petty details but let's just say that that sitter and her boyfriend ended up actually getting arrested on animal cruelty charges and i know for a fact that he ended up getting convicted and fined for it so i suppose a silver lining to a truly terrible night but be careful who you're hiring to sit your kids people like all women i have a fair amount of creepy experiences with men i have a whole host of stories i could tell here but one of my more memorable stories happened when i was a student for context i went to university in france and spent a few months doing an internship in paris where this encounter took place i was only 20 years old and so it being a friday night i was on my way to meet some friends at a restaurant the apartment i was living in was in close proximity to a couple of metro stops and the line i needed was a few blocks away on a pretty busy street when i was only a block from the stop a guy looking to be about my age suddenly approached me asking me if i knew where the metro stop was i indicated the large yellow m glowing above the stop on the corner and thought that that would be the end of our conversation instead he fell into step with me explaining that he wasn't from the city and didn't know the train lines too well i said it was no problem and he gave me a funny look as he asked you learned from him are you hmm i thought he was right french is my second language and although i've spoken it from a young age i still have an accent on a few words normally i don't mind having an accent or people remarking that i'm not french but when a guy you just met on the street one night comments on it it can make you a little uneasy i confirmed though that i wasn't french and we actually ended up having a decent conversation as we walked to the metro stop down the stairs and through the turnstiles during that first and what would turn out to be our only conversation he seemed nice enough and didn't set off any red flags i told him where i was from and what i was studying and he told me that he was in the city visiting some friends we ended up getting on the same train though even then i questioned whether he was actually going the same way as me or not and kept talking until my stop right before i got off the train he asked for my numbers so that we could meet up some time and and a move completely out of character for me as is talking to strangers i did big mistake he texted me that sunday asking if i wanted to meet up on wednesday i agreed but then he asked if we could meet at chatelet for anyone who doesn't know chatelain is an enormous metro stop near the center of paris several metro lines run through it as do other trains that go out of the city proper it also connects to a huge shopping mall when he asked this i started to feel uneasy my intuition told me that there was something wrong with wanting to meet up in a place that had so many ways in and out a place where if you got on a certain train or were forced to do so no one could find you my mind tends to jump to worst case scenarios but my gut is never wrong in any case i tried to give him the benefit of the doubt as he supposedly didn't know the city that well so i told him that chatelaine was pretty big and it might be hard to find each other in there i suggested meeting up the bookstore in the connected mall still a public place but less hectic but he didn't seem to like the idea and stop replying to my messages the next day monday i was on my way to a meeting with my boss when my phone buzzed and i saw was a text message from him can you call me now another message came in or can i call you my intuition spoke up again in the back of my mind telling me that something still wasn't right i replied i'm going into a meeting right now let me get back to you with that i turned my phone all the way off and didn't turn it back on again until after the meeting was over and i was on the bus home an hour and a half later turning it back on i almost dropped it as it started to buzz uncontrollably with several dozen text messages loading simultaneously i only scanned them there being so many but they seem to range from proposing that we meet at a friend's house on wednesday night to why won't you answer where the f are you followed by a number of missed call notifications all from his number my intuition was doing more than pinging at this point so when his number popped up on the screen again i turned the phone off again until i reached my apartment once again i dare turn it back on and saw even more missed texts and calls from him pretty spooked at this point i shoved the phone back into my purse and made dinner not even looking at the phone until well after i'd eaten once i could stomach it i took the phone out of my purse i felt a shiver go at my spine as i saw that he had called me no less than 16 times and that his text messages had become more and more vulgar before ending with a final fine i guess this isn't working out maybe i'll see you again goodbye i've never blocked a number so fast in my life and immediately called my mom i could barely hold the phone again though this time it was because i was shaking so badly to this day i can't help but feel that i dodged something extremely dangerous more specifically someone who was probably just looking for a girl to take advantage of and jumped at the chance when he met a young foreign one in the big city i'm still not sure what possessed me to give him my number but i console myself with the fact that i didn't tell him i was living near that metro stop where he approached me i just have a feeling that he might have come looking for me the lesson that i have taken away from this incident aside from never giving my number out ever again is to always trust my gut she saved me before save me that day and will most likely do it again you

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