26 True Horror Stories Animated (Compilation of October 2020)

to start let me explain myself i'm 5'7 113 pounds and i was 16 at the time of the encounter i'm a multi-sport athlete track handball volleyball basketball and hockey and i have insomnia this all happened around 2am on august 10 of 2019 i had been over to my best friend's place because she had just returned home from a vacation and she had birthday presents for me hoodies and gummies if you're curious i had spent almost an hour there already and wanted to head back home soon because honestly my town is scary at night drug dealers rapists murderers you know the deal so i weighed goodbye to my best friend and started walking down her street i guess a party had just let up because behind me at the end of the road about 20 or 30 yards from where i was standing there were a couple of men walking across the crosswalk they were both pretty tall i'm guessing between 5 11 and 6'3 the two seemed harmless at first when i looked in their direction but soon they came to a stop they were both looking at me at this point i felt uncomfortable so i just kept walking that's when i overheard one of them say hey that's a girl at this i whipped my head around they were starting to walk in my direction now and one of the two men had moved over towards the sidewalk where there was no light i knew at this point that something wasn't right and i began to pick up my pace they were still getting closer i didn't know where the second guy was but when i looked back the first guy was still following me down the middle of the road i think that they were planning to cut me off and try to trap me between the two of them the minute i was about 13 yards from the t intersection i started to run and that's when the yelling started oh great now she's running i hooked a sharp right and then i left i could still hear them behind me and at this point all i knew was that i couldn't stop moving i had to lose them somehow i was coming up to an apartment building with a small parking lot behind it there were no lights i made the split-second decision to veer off into the parking lot and i squeezed myself under one of the cars i don't know how long i waited there it could have been a minute but it felt like a lifetime i watched the two men run past they didn't bother to check under the cars which was definitely in my favor the minute i felt i was safe i backtracked and took a different route back to my home i was too scared to take the main route and the fear i would have bumped into them i know what i'm about to say is stupid but i didn't go to the police i wouldn't have been able to give them a proper description of the men because i hadn't seen their faces if there's anything i learned from my experience it's that no matter who you are you need to be extremely careful you can think that the part of town or city that you live in is safe but that really isn't the case there is no protective barrier to keep out people with bad intentions please whatever you do watch your surroundings as if your life depends on it if i'd been listening to my music and not paying attention i hate to think what could have happened to me i hope that no one else has to experience the fear that i did it was almost like prey being chased by predators and to the men who followed me let's never meet again last year i went to attend a halloween party at one of my college friends farmhouse my friend jack asked his parents to let us have their old farmhouse fortnight for the party we were all a bunch of basketball players hence the party was all about booze and silly jokes at least that's what i expected jack's father inherited this farmhouse from his father and kept it for weekend getaways the farmhouse was 40 minutes drive from our college campus we all decided to meet there with our backpacks at 5pm sharp i have always been a responsible adult hence my father didn't deny to lend me his car for this one night we were six guys including me and jack we hopped into the car and jack sat beside me to help me with the directions after leaving the town area we took a dusty road the road continued between the forest when we reached the farmhouse it was almost 6 pm as we stopped near a store to get enough booze and snacks it was a two-story wooden house with a lake behind it the area was secluded i didn't see a single house throughout the entire journey everyone got quite excited we started the preparations for the party we brought a lot of spooky stuff for decorations fake cobb webs crafted pumpkin face candle lights etc around 6 45 we finished the entire decoration and lit the candle lights and the fireplace the house was looking dark and perfectly halloween themed we decided to keep the party downstairs to make less mess around the house we put up some rock music and started to drink beer as everyone was cracking boys jokes the downstairs area had a broad dining space where we were all partying and a bathroom in the left corner i noticed a big oil painting above the fireplace it was a family painting i could identify jack's parents they were standing with an old couple which i think was jack's grandparents and with a woman sitting beside on a chair she was wearing a silver bracelet on her hand her face appeared pale and she seemed sad it felt like she wasn't interested to pose for the picture but due to the family's sake she just sat there seeing me looking at the picture jack said to me this picture was being painted right after my parents got married and came to visit my grandparents i asked him who was that woman in the painting jack said that is my odd she went missing before i was born my father said that grandpa was the local sheriff in those days he searched the entire area many times but couldn't find her local people said that she ran away with her high school boyfriend but grandpa kept saying that she's in trouble my father said grandpa left this house ever since and never came back he got a bit hysteric on his last days before death saying he heard my aunt's voice many times inside this house the atmosphere got a bit eerie as jack finished his family story one of our friends came to us and said guys let's enjoy this party we have lots of booze to finish before dawn eventually jack and i joined the party and forget all about this everyone was drinking like a maniac and the music started to get louder the place was so deserted that we didn't have to worry about complaining neighbors around 12 pm all of us were drunk as hell and we realized we were out of beers i told my friends i am done with drinking for tonight also i didn't want to drive in the morning with a terrible hangover so i surrendered but my friends wanted to drink more just when i was thinking how risky it will be to drive to that far away store mr forest jack went upstairs and got an old worn-out key from his father's room everyone asked him what is he doing with an old rusty key jack said they had a wine cellar in the basement and some of its collections can be there still as i was the sober one in comparison to others i decided to go down to the cellar to grab a bottle of wine the basement entrance was at the back of the house i came outside with a flashlight and started to walk it was quite chilly and the moon was showering pale silver light the lake water sparkled in the moonlight and slow wind was coming from the lake it created small waves in the lake water while making a whooshing sound crickets were chirping i could also hear the sound of the lake water hitting the wooden deck when i reached the basement door i flashed the light around me once it was quite scary to stand there all by myself i decided to get the bottles fast and go to bed after handing them to my friends the lock on the door looked dusted the key was not needed as i noticed the lock was already broken i pushed the door in and it made a terrifying creaking sound a dark stairway lied in front of me i flashed my torch light inside and saw a couple of wooden shelves down the basement my footsteps started to create little creaking sound on the damp wooden stairs the basement had a stuffy smell which made me realize no one came down here in years once i reached the basement i walked towards the closet wooden shelf it had a few bottles in it other shelves were almost empty i took two bottles with me and just when i turned to head back i heard a soft squeaking sound coming behind the left side wall first i thought it might be a mouse or some other small animal i flashed my light onto the wall and the sound stopped i ignored it and stepped on the stairs to go up just then i heard that sound again this time the sound appeared a bit louder and it felt like someone whimpered sweat started to appear on my forehead i was alone in an unknown house inside its dark rusty basement at the halloween night gathering all my courage i flashed the light again at the wall and my heart flunked to my throat i saw a frail skinny woman lying on the floor with her face hidden into her folded skinny knees the woman was wearing a torn out blue skirt and a pale white top and something was shining on her wrist i was so drunk that my torchlight made her wrist shine vividly into my eyes she was sobbing in a very soft voice i was scared almost about to run but i spoke in my broken voice hey are you all right for a moment i thought it could be some homeless person on halloween night who decided to take shelter here that also explains to broken lock the woman started to lift her face up just when i heard my friend jack's voice coming from outside max why is it taking you so long just grab two bottles and come on out man hearing his voice i got my courage back and i called him saying i think there's a homeless person down here jack she might be needing our help jack came down with two of my friends and they flashed their lights all over the basement surprisingly there was no one the lady was gone they all made fun of me for hallucinating ghost after getting drunk on halloween night embarrassed by myself i also agreed that i might have hallucinated the entire incident and got back to the house i lied down in my sleeping bag near the fireplace my friends continued to party and drank like before just around 3 p.m i woke up to go to the bathroom i saw all my drunk friends lying here and there and sleeping like a rock some of the halloween candles were still burning but the fireplace ran out of wood light and shadow were playing all around as i walked to the bathroom i heard a knock on the glass window nearby i turned to look and what i saw terrified me for life it was that woman from downstairs her face was in the dark but i could see her standing outside the window her weak frail hand kept knocking on the glass clank clank clank suddenly she leaned to the glass and i saw her horrifying face her eyeballs were dripping out of the eye sockets her face was so vicious that i could hardly figure out how she looked like suddenly my eyes went to her lean wrist at that very moment i identified she was wearing the same bracelet that jack's aunt wore i might have thought she came back after all these years but the way she looked i was sure it wasn't a living person i screamed with the top of my lungs and all of my friends woke up in horror i pointed at the window and we all saw that an evil looking figure was standing outside our window everyone was already drunk enough to panic the woman started laughing hysterically and gestured us to follow her by moving her hand we ran for our lives and got into the car we all left immediately what happened the next day was far more terrifying than this night hearing our story jack's parents thought his aunt actually came back they called the cops and we all got back to the farmhouse the next day the cops started searching the property while they were doing so something reminded me of the basement i took them to the basement thinking they might find her there where i saw her the first time a cop flashed his torchlight into the left side wall after i pointed out there was something sparkling under the worn out bricks the cops tried to pull it out but seemed like it was stuck into the wall from the inside the cops then started to kick the wall and a hollow sound came it felt like there's an empty space behind the wall after four to five kicks the wall broke down revealing a secret space stuffed with cobwebs and spiders what happened next was beyond our imagination they discovered a skeleton of a woman dressed in a blue skirt white top and the sparkling thing was the bracelet on her wrist it was indeed jackson later we came to know that her boyfriend murdered her instead of dumping her body somewhere else he waited for the family to move out and came back to this house he broke into the wine cellar and buried her inside the wall the cops are still searching for that man i stopped going out at halloween nights after this incident but when i think about that night a thought revolves in my head i don't think jackson wanted to scare me rather i feel she wanted me to help her that's why she gestured us to follow her just how she kept calling for jack's grandpa all the time being buried inside the wall i'm a doctor by profession thus be it holiday or weekday we are bound to respond when duty calls i'm a 30 year old male working in the emergency ward needless to say the emergency ward is always busy i have seen enough cases of horrible accidents or suicide which is why very few things in life can manage to scare me but this one incident in particular still gives me perspiration whenever i think about it it was the night of halloween and when the entire town was busy celebrating me and my colleagues were busy saving lives like always it was around 8 pm when a case of suicide attempt got reported in our ward i was changing the saline of one patient when my teammates came rushing to me and they said they needed me immediately in the operation theater without any delay i ran to the ot after reaching there i came to know from my fellow mates that a woman around the age of 28 to 29 has been admitted by an office building security guard to the hospital she tried to commit suicide by jumping off from her office roof on the fifth floor her condition was very critical as she had some major head and spinal cord injuries her right eye got smashed and severely damaged after hitting the ground she was bleeding terribly which was another alarming situation that made us worry after two hours of surgery we somehow managed to stop her bleeding but her condition didn't improve though doctors never speak of losing hope but this time we were not so sure about her chances of surviving this huge accident i immediately told everyone to inform her family as per the protocol we also informed the local police station about this suicide case i have seen many patients giving up hope even in curable conditions but this woman was given a tough fight around 11 p.m the nurse came and reported that her pulse is performing stable but due to the huge loss of blood her blood pressure is very low i went to change her blood pouches her cabin was the last one in the emergency ward corridor due to the halloween night majority of the workers took off hence the hospital was really quiet than usual as i entered her cabin i saw her lying on the bed breathing heavily the oxygen mask on her face was getting filled with vapor whenever she exhaled i silently changed her blood bags and checked her heart rate on the monitor i had no other work in my hand so i took a sit on the couch in her cabin just to keep an eye on her her blonde hair turned red in some areas because of her severe bleeding from the head i thought to myself what could be the possible reason for her to commit suicide i felt curious that why wasn't she at a party on halloween night time flew like the wind and i dozed off on the couch god knows when it was around midnight when i woke from my slumber hearing a sound as i opened my eyes i got extremely shocked the woman was sitting on her bed and looking directly at me her face was heavily bandaged on the right side but her partial face was clearly visible she was staring at me with her left eye the oxygen mask was hanging down her chin i was highly startled to see such a sight on such a condition i couldn't believe how she managed to wake up even after being heavily sedated i got my [ __ ] together and asked in a low voice do you need anything ma'am she just nodded her head saying no then i again said you better sleep now you need a lot of rest she then smirked at me and said i am getting it already can you do me a favor her words made no sense but just to get her back in bed i said sure what is it she looked at the door and replied when my husband arrives tell him i saw him and i will come for him this time i got completely sure that she wasn't hallucinating and all this was just an outcome of her critical condition i ignored her words and walked towards her bed she kept staring at me i went close to her and said i will tell your husband now please go back to sleep after helping her lie down i put the oxygen mask back on her mouth i thought if i stayed too long in her cabin she might wake up again so i let her rest and went to my chamber my eyes went to the clock in the hall it was 3 30 a.m i got a bit surprised at how come no one came to visit her but it was already too late so i decided to call her husband myself first thing in the morning the next morning around 7am i came out of my chamber to check on her as i reached her cabin i found her bed empty there were even new sheets on her bed first i thought she might have been discharged on the request of her family but that made me really angry her condition was really serious and under no circumstances should she have been discharged at least not today i quickly rushed to the control desk the nurse who attended her last night was standing there i went to her and said in an irritated voice who released the woman in cabin 9 without consulting me the nurse seemed really surprised as i asked the question her expression gestured that i am asking a very stupid question i got even more irritated and said please tell her husband to get her back here she needs medical help her condition can deteriorate if they keep her but the nurse didn't let me finish and said don't you know doctor i thought someone already told you i was in total confusion but it didn't last long the nurse told me that she passed away around 3am her husband came and took her body to organize the cremation ritual it was 4 30 in the morning and as i worked late the ward workers thought not to wake me up from my chamber the ground beneath my feet felt like they were falling apart i couldn't think i couldn't speak for at least an hour i walked to my reporting head and asked for an offer that day after i went home i repeatedly told myself that no i wasn't dreaming she spoke to me i remember each word that came out of her mouth but how can she talk to me when she's already dead a week later a horrifying news came to our local newspaper a famous industrialist died by falling off his office roof his fellow employers said to the police that he was having an affair with his secretary his wife came to know about it which is why she tried to commit suicide from the roof of his office building on the night of halloween police think this too was a suicide though some people think it was his guilty conscience that drove him to take his own life the time of his death was pronounced at 3 am as i sat in my living room staring at the paper suddenly the woman's words that night made sense to me when i told her she needs to rest she replied she's getting it already which indicates she was already dead a cold sensation rushed down my spine when i thought about the second part of her sentence that when my husband arrives tell him i saw him tonight and i will come for him did a dead person really come back to announce her revenge on a halloween night and most of all did she really get it i don't know i swear up and down that this story as much as it sounds like it's a made-up run-of-the-mill scary doll story is 100 true and it still terrifies me when i was a kid i would spend a lot of time in texas with my brother dad and stepmom mainly just my brother and stepmom because my dad was in the military and would frequently go on long trips leaving us alone in whatever house we happen to be living in at the time when i was about five we moved to a large very old victorian house three stories not including the attic and the basement lots of rooms and as a little kid i found it very fun to explore the house in the attic there was lots of old junk that the owner of the house was storing while we were renting it including a huge collection of beautiful handcrafted porcelain dolls there were hundreds of them lined up neatly on the back wall in a glass case standing on their stands like an army ready for command and as a little girl who loved ribbons and bows and anything girly i was entranced one doll in particular stood out to me a beautiful red hair green eyed doll in a blue silk dress with a matching ribbon in her hair i begged my dad to let me play with her i felt the need to hold and love her and have tea parties with her he of course refused saying that the dolls were worth more than i could imagine and he wanted his deposit back when we moved he kept the door locked for good measure after catching me more than once staring in awe at the doll a month went by and at all but forgotten about the doll choosing to simply explore the house and play in my basement room with my barbies until one day when i came home from dropping my dad off at the base and found the red haired doll sitting on my bed i was ecstatic thinking that my dad had given me the doll and left it as a surprise and i proceeded to play with the doll every second of every day until my dad came home as soon as my dad saw the doll he flipped out and yelled at me spanked me and took the doll away to lock back up in the attic and only got more aggravated when he discovered that the attic door was still locked and her was the only one to have the key he couldn't figure out how i could have possibly picked the lock and then re-picked it to lock it his solution was i had somehow convinced my brother to do it for me another month went by and my dad installed another lock on the attic warning me and my brother what would happen if he found out we had been in the attic again while he was gone that very night when we returned home the doll sat on my bed again leaving me wary of its presence something that once made me so happy now made me cautious and anxious i told my stepmom who immediately became angry and slapped me then my brother and tried to return the doll only to find the attic door once again locked she tore the house apart trying to find the keys she was positive we had hidden them until giving up and locking the doll in her room the night my dad came home i was terrified and he wouldn't speak to me or my brother at all only giving a short speech about how we needed to go to our rooms and not come out the next trip he made we didn't see him off to the base we sat in our rooms and had a quiet evening alone i spent the night sulking and trying to figure out how the doll had gotten into my room later after i had fallen asleep i heard soft music box music that slowly woke me up i fought something near my feet and thinking it was my cat curled up i reached down only to find instead of fur a handful of hair i turned my light on and screamed what looked like every dollar from their attic was in my room sitting at my tea table on my dollhouse and positioned in standing position on my bed and in various parts of my room the door slammed open and my dad appeared in the doorway where he had apparently been waiting for me to head to the attic to claim a doll he took one look at them grabbed me and ran out of the house dragging my brother and stepmom along with us he refuses to speak of them to this day the most important part of the story is the backstory of the red-haired doll apparently the original builder and owner of the house had a daughter who died when she was about eight and it was customary to make a doll of their likeness made out of their real hair and dressed in the same clothes the child wore i think it was that little girl because i never felt like it was dangerous to play with the doll i felt like she was lonely and trying to make a friend this is a story of my college days i lived in a rented house with my roommate nancy she loved to party on the other hand i was always a shy girl even though we were poles apart nancy always cared for me like a big sister she used to drive away bullies for me took care of me whenever i fell sick this is why i could never say to her i admired her for being kind-hearted even after being one of the popular girls on the campus our house was on the outskirts of the city they were hardly 10 to 12 houses in our residential area nancy and i used to go to college together in her car the day was 31st october halloween after waking up in the morning i went to the kitchen to make coffee nancy's bedroom was on the left side of the kitchen after pouring myself a cup of coffee i went to check on her to see if she had returned or not nancy was dating a guy who was a senior he had a place of his own at five to seven houses down from our place she often spends the night with him and returns home early i never had an issue with her staying away at night because this guy was a nice person so i knew she would be safe as i turned to head back to my room nancy opened the main door and entered the house the reason i could tell it was her because nancy had a habit after coming home she used to throw her shoes off on the floor making loud thuds and calling out for me saying kitty i'm home hearing her voice put a smile on my face nancy rushed towards me and said i have the most exciting news for us i knew this will be about going to a party tonight still to enjoy the excitement on her face i pretended to be curious she told me that her boyfriend is throwing a huge party at his house tonight it's a halloween costume party and we both are invited there i was never a party animal but there was no way nancy would have taken a note from me on this she is crazy about halloween parties anyways i also wanted to go out and socialize a bit for a change so i said yes she really got excited and said we will go for our costume shopping after lunch calling off all other plans for one day nancy and i rolled in her car and went to the city mall the mall was quite crowded and the entire decoration was halloween themed almost all the shops had something related to halloween for their customers we started to check out the costumes and various shops after roaming around for about an hour nancy and i finally bought our costumes she wanted to be harley quinn and assisted me to buy the catwoman outfit i did and we headed back towards the exit just with nessie said she had to pick up some snacks and poos so we will have to go to the food mart for some time the food mart was in the basement of the mall so we got down the stairs many boys and girls were already wearing costumes and wandering around the food mart everyone seemed busy buying booze for their halloween party nancy told me to wait near the vegetable corner and went to the right side to buy beers i stood there for two to three minutes and kept watching everyone in an excited mood suddenly my eyes went to the left corner of the food mart i noticed a tall guy dressed as the urban legend the hook man standing right after the entrance his big hoodie over his head kept his entire face in darkness being honest after looking at his hand i felt kind of creepy i kept looking at other directions just to understand if he was watching me or not every second standing there i could tell that he was not only watching me but literally scanning me with his dark hidden eyes i stood like a statue for 10 minutes then started to walk towards the alcohol section i saw nancy with lots of stuff in her handbasket standing near the billing queue she was standing behind two people so i felt relieved that we will leave soon i walked towards her and stood beside her she looked at me and said thank god you came my hands are so full help me i quickly hit the tension on my face and hold a few packets my eyes kept checking every nooks and corners for that guy but i didn't see him i thought he might have left with his friends and i overthought the entire scenario nancy and i started walking towards the exit after paying the money as usual nancy was talking about the party and i calmed a bit just when we were 9 to 10 hands distance from the exit i noticed that same guy he was standing near the exit and watching us walk towards him i really got freaked out this time but couldn't say anything to nancy we kept walking to the gate and i understood we are going to walk past him it was the scariest few secs of my life when i almost reached close to him my breath grew denser and i was out of words just the moment when i was about to cross him i heard his evil laughter as soon as we got out of the mall i hopped inside the car nancy started the engine and reversed the car to make a u-turn he was standing near the mall gate i didn't utter a single word about him to my roommate i felt she would think i am making up a stupid story we arrived at our boyfriend's house and started to put up the decorations and prepare ourselves for the party the entire evening went in such a rush that i almost forgot about this incident at the mall i also told myself that it was some drunk free head who tried to spook me in a hook man costume the party started and the house got filled with crazy college students nancy and i drank beer and joined everyone on the dance floor the spooky neon lights and yellow lighted pumpkin heads all around the house set the right mood for the halloween party i was actually having fun but after a few hours i started to feel really drunk the lights all around me with the dramatic decorations made my head feel heavier so i decided to head back to my place before i end up vomiting and embarrassing myself i went to nancy and asked for the house keys she handed me over the keys asking will i be okay to go alone i didn't want her to miss the party so i said i will be fine i also told her that she could stay at her boyfriends tonight if she wants she got happier and told me to go home and lock the doors and have a sound sleep she will come back early and will also fix me some breakfast in bed she knew i was going to wake up with a hangover anyways i left the party and started to walk down the street it wasn't a very long walk but because i was drunk i walked pretty slowly i was being careful not to stumble upon a rock and flip on the road it was 1 30 am hence the streets were completely empty there was only the sound of the hollow wind passing by i was almost near the house just when i heard the sound of a twig snapping behind me i turned around but there was no one i thought my mind is hallucinating due to too much alcohol in my stomach i opened the main door with a trembling hand i got inside the house and locked the door behind me my head was hurting really bad just when i felt the urge to vomit i ran towards nancy's room as it was the closest to the main door her room was dark but the street light coming from the window helped me to reach the bathroom i freshened myself up and decided to go to my room to sleep like a rock as i opened the door of my room i saw the window was open i couldn't remember whether i locked it or not before leaving the house but knowing myself i thought i might have my room was too dark the window was right beside my bed so i could spot it with the help of the street lights again i was in no position to find the switch so i threw myself over i realized the other half of the room was entirely in darkness i started to take off my shoes just when i felt something move in that darkness at first i wasn't sure of it but after a while i saw something pointy and shining in that darkness my head had no control over my body so i just sat there for some seconds just when i realized i should turn on the light to check what it is someone knocked on the main door this time i got really freaked out but after a small pause i heard nancy's voice katie open the door i felt so relieved to know that she came back i ran to the main door leaving the room at the moment nancy came in and said i thought i shouldn't leave you alone tonight so i came back are you alright i hugged her and said i just got a bit scared being alone in my room she replied in a comforting voice that she will sleep in my room tonight as we walk towards our room we heard a loud thud outside after getting into the room i noticed the window was closed this time my head couldn't take it anymore so without paying attention to anything i immediately lied in my bed and fell asleep if you think the story is over then let me tell you that the scariest part of the story is yet to come the next morning when i woke up i almost had a heart attack it felt like all my blood had rushed to my face the wall on the other side of my room freaked me even in that morning light someone has rode on the wall with a sharp pointy hook-like object lucky that your roommate came back i have been working at a department store for the past two years although retail wasn't something i wanted to necessarily do it was much better than my previous job in the food business so i was grateful to not have to touch food all day and would take the world of customer service much more gratefully than the food industry it was the middle of january and store is usually quite dead towards the end of the day usually the following month after christmas is never really busy due to people probably not trying to spend money after the gift-giving season and the cold weather of the winter season in canada never really helped the situation much people not in the mood to leave the comfort of their own houses in the middle of a snowstorm that meant that they put less people on shift and i was alone in the fitting room i work at a pretty big store and alongside the weather conditions that meant that the employees were usually spread out on the floor not within close proximity in comparison to what they put during the busy season none of us wore earpieces as we did most of our paging through the speaker system it was a wednesday night around 8 and the store closed at nine i was usually put on the cash register but often frequented the fitting room when they needed the help it was a very quiet night and i spent the first couple of hours of my shift helping organize the beauty section that is right next to the fitting room or go speak to my lovely co-worker who worked in the jewelry section helping the few customers that actually wanted to try clothes on when they came by there was a man who came to the fitting room with two dress shirts and i didn't think anything of it after all he was nothing i've never seen before older tall kind of stocky muscular plain i did notice that he seemed dressed rather nicely a clearly expensive suit and a nice shoulder bag i assumed he must have come to the store after his day at work i counted the number of articles he was bringing in as that was mandatory in order for me to monitor the flow of clothes and try to stop theft handed him a number corresponding to the number of articles he was taking in and asked him politely to put the clothes back on the hanger in french rather than english because quebec requires us to speak french first to customers to which he replied with a simple no problem i noticed he had a thick accent although i wasn't and still not able to place my finger on it i think it might have been russian but i can't say for sure the man walked into the fitting room and i didn't think much of it i helped the other customers who came out of their rooms counting the articles they came out with and matched it with their numbers and hung them back in their place on the rack a few moments passed by and the man came out not really putting much thought into it i took the both dress shirts from him he didn't want any of them and took back his number said thank you and turned to place the clothes on their rack usually this was the point where the customer would just leave the fitting room but when i turned around to go back to the front he was still there i asked him if there was anything i could do for him or if he still wanted the shirts that i had just put away the man smiled and looked at me not answering and i felt a weird feeling in the pit of my stomach he was looking at me as if he wanted to say something and me being the 5'4 girl who hates confrontation of any kind just nervously laughed and started to organize the desk at the front of the fitting room entrance awkwardly arranging all the numbers although they were already in order he asked for my name to which i just looked down at the name tag i was wearing and repeated it he told me it was a beautiful name i laughed nervously never knowing what to do in these sort of situations and being nice to him was a part of my job in customer service besides he didn't do anything wrong just complimented me i said thank you and looked away avoiding eye contact he then just stood there for what felt like 20 minutes but in reality was just three he stood there as i helped other customers and it was beginning to make me feel very uncomfortable not wanting to be rude but also not wanting to subject myself to being uncomfortable for the rest of my shift or however long he was planning to be there i asked him if there was anything else he needed help with here's where i began to get scared he then proceeded to tell me that he will be waiting for me at 9 30 outside the doors of our store he wanted to take me out confused i looked at him oddly how did he know that we finished at that time the store closed at nine and we usually spent 30 minutes cleaning up the store i suppose that information isn't hard to guess but it still felt weird why did he want to take me out i once again laughed nervously because that seemed to be the only thing i was able to do when uncomfortable and politely declined saying i had to get home and study he laughed taking a step closer towards me and i instinctively took a step back he didn't accept that answer because he just smiled once more i'll be waiting for you outside the door where all the employees leave from in the truck alley i'll be there there was a door that employees exited the mall from because the normal door is usually locked around 9 15. and we always finish later than that so we take the door that takes us in a slight alley where all the trucks go to drop off shipments from our store being someone who hates confrontation and who doesn't do well with controlling my emotions i felt myself start to tear up at his comment no employee is allowed to mention the door we leave from it's a company rule since we usually finish late and the parking lot is dark they don't want anyone to know where we exit from as a precaution i told him once more that i appreciated his offer but i wasn't interested and i had to continue my work i politely told him to leave when he put a hand on my shoulder and i felt myself freeze up i remember thinking praying that one of my co-workers would show up to pick up the rack or the jewelry employee would stop filling the cases and turn around obviously with my luck nobody did he told me i was a pretty girl and he couldn't wait to meet me in the alley at the end of my shift he said he has a nice apartment and a cute dog as if the dog was going to make me change my mind and we could have a fun time desperate i said i had a boyfriend and he was going to be picking me up hoping that would deter him but he just laughed he said my name and then he told me that wasn't something that usually stopped him placing his hand on my shoulder this time i honestly really began to feel scared and excused myself to use the phone on my desk shaking his hand off of me that i hadn't realized was gripped on me so tightly i paged the number for my coordinator who currently replied before i was even able to get a word in that she was busy with a customer and hung up unsure of what to do as the man was still next to me as he followed me to my desk i called my manager who thankfully replied when he saw that i was speaking with someone on the phone he left the fitting room but that didn't make me feel any better i told my manager what had happened and with good reason she freaked out telling me i need to report him immediately reminding me that with people like that i really have to be careful she told me to call security to which i did and the security guard told me he had an eye on him through the camera it was around 8 30 at this point and i was getting ready to start my closing tasks still paranoid about what the man had said to be fair i am a paranoid person and i watch way too many murder documentaries so i may be overthinking this sounded like the beginning of an abduction movie honestly i kind of calmed down not seeing the man anymore when the security guard called me back he wanted to let me know that the man had never left and was circling the store i felt more dread than before pop in my stomach he didn't leave thankfully he hadn't come back to see me i felt kind of better for the fact that the security guard had seen him so if anything did happen there was someone who was able to identify him once again overthinking by the time the store closed it was time to leave two of my co-workers evan and ethan two boys who worked in the warehouse made sure to walk with me all the way to my car not letting me be alone i appreciated it a lot although i didn't want to admit it i was scared walking through that alley and i was even paranoid he was going to follow me home i took the extra long route to see if anyone was trailing me to which he wasn't when i walked through the safety of the door of my house and locked it behind me i let go of a breath i wasn't even aware i was holding in i make sure now to always leave the store using the buddy system i never walk alone and i always make sure i'm hyper aware of my surroundings i never wear my name tag anymore luckily nothing happened to me it's maybe i was overthinking the entire experience but i wanted to stress that even if your job is in customer service if someone makes you uncomfortable speak up you should not have to be subjected to this behavior at your work or anywhere for that matter and to the creepy man who wouldn't leave me alone in the fitting room let's not meet again [Music] now christmas is where i go all out it's my favorite holiday of the year and nothing can stop my christmas spirit unless if it's what happened this year me and my daughter beatrice and her grandparents my parents usually go to town and shop for christmas decor until we can't bear carrying bags over bags over bags of lights and little knick-knacks to scatter around the house but my parents said they couldn't make it this year because my dad has fallen and broke his hip and my mom had to stay at the hospital to see if he was doing all right so it was just me and beatrice luckily they have just opened up a new mall and had tons of holiday shops it was at the back of town and i was clever enough that the parking spaces would become extinct in 0.5 seconds back there so i had no choice but to work my way back there from shop to shop there was at last something i found in there that caught my eye and before you knew it it was sold when we finally got back to the end of town my backbone felt like it was going to let loose crumble i was wanting to hurry up but then in the middle of the long hallway there was a small santa looking at me staring at my daughter i was a little creeped out but it was a mall santa those guys wouldn't dare to hurt me or my daughter but something was off he was tall very tall and he was so skinny that his skin was basically useless at hiding his bones beatrice noticed him and started jumping up and down it's santa mommy look at santa can we go over there mommy please i agreed and we slowly walked over to him there were no kids and like there was no big display it was just santa in a foldable chair he walked a little closer until he grinned but from ear to ear showed all his crooked jagged teeth that's when my mind freaked and i turned around and started to walk to the shops beatrice quite didn't agree she started to throw a fit beatrice never throws a fit she then started to scream and growl and bite me like a wild animal it was horrific beatrice never acted like this i was kind of scared from her but i picked her up and tried to walk to the car but mommy it's santa let me see santa i hate you i want to see santa i buckled her up put the bags in the car and drove off home but there was something that i remembered i remember that the mall santa said something once i whipped around he said something by the lines of bad little kids get put on the naughty list and chuckled i became paranoid at that point and couldn't sleep until 10 pm i then woke up with beatrice in my face whispering mommy santa's here look i looked at the clock it was three in the morning i guess that beatrice wouldn't leave me alone so i got out of bed and went to the front door and looked through a window nearby i froze i wanted to cry i wanted to scream but most importantly i wanted to hide there was the same santa the santa that was as skinny as jack skellington and in the same santa costume as before rustling through the snow and looking at me while coming to the front door what scared me the most is beatrice asking me mommy where's santa's sleigh i didn't know what to do i grabbed beatrice and did something that i regret to this day i hid her in her bedroom closet and ran to barricade the door i heard pounding on the front door and then sounds but only for a little bit a window shattered he was inside the house i needed some self-defense that i heard thumps down stairs but luckily i remembered there was a vent inside beatrice's closet i came in the closet to find beatrice with all the color drained from her face i managed to rip the vent cover off the wall and started to crawl inside i was crawling for a long time and still a whoosh of air seemed to come from in front of me it was from outside i knew that i could somehow get outside and grab an axe i somehow got the vent cover off and ran in my pjs and went to the shed and grabbed a small hand axe and got a ladder to climb up the wall and went to get back into the house luckily i got back into beaches closet i locked the door behind me and went back into the barricaded bedroom the footsteps were coming up the stairs now slowly then there was a large bag on the door the doorknob twisted turned then it stopped footsteps went down the stairs and out the front door then i realized that i left the vent cover open and then i left the ladder there too i then heard beatrice scream and laughter in the vents i heard her wail and scream beatrice's life was in my hands out of nowhere i cut the door with my axe over and over again until i made a hole it reminded the scene and the shining i reached my hand in the hole and unlocked the door i slammed the door open to find nothing nobody there not even beatrice i looked out the window saw the maul santa carrying a large sack that was moving that's when i called the police a few days later they came to my house and handed over beatrice while telling me the whole story the santa was a homeless serial killer hunting down children that were bad or disrespectful to their parents my daughter was one of the lucky ones that survived to this day i still don't know what to expect i'm searching for my sister until now we lived in a small city in houston texas it was my parents my younger brother and sister and myself being the oldest sibling my brother and sister often obeyed me taking advantage of my power over them i ordered them to do little unimportant stuff like telling them to get me a glass of water or having them go get me the tv remote whenever i was feeling a bit too lazy my parents often kept me in charge everywhere we went living in a small city can give one memorable childhood moments but can also leave someone with a scar for a lifetime halloween used to be that one special festival that made our town people go crazy from wearing costumes to backyard barbecue parties the entire evening made this day super special for every kid for one night we could all eat as many candies as we wanted and our parents wouldn't tell us no i was 12 years old and my brother was eight and my sister was five being excited for this big upcoming halloween event we all went to the city mall and bought our costumes our dad took us to some various shops the day was just a blast when we got back home the whole town gathered in this city park and started preparing for the festival some families arranged barbecue grills some put up flags and colorful decorations our family made some carved pumpkin heads and a family in our neighborhood arranged all the candles after working for most of the evening we all decided to take a break and agreed to finish the rest of the work by tomorrow afternoon which was the day of halloween after coming back home i had a quiet family dinner as everyone was tired after a long day my mother tucked my brother and sister in and then came and tucked me in after i settled down in my bed the three of us slept in a big room my brother and sister's bed were on the left side of the wall while mine was on the right side just beside the doorway though i picked on my brother and sister i no doubt loved them and felt like protecting them thus i chose to sleep beside the door like a big brother being the youngest my sister used to get scared easily in the dark she sometimes woke up crying saying she had a bad dream i'd then go to her and caress her head for a bit to make her fall back asleep and i would do this while telling her i loved her unconditionally that night when everyone was asleep i woke up hearing a heavy breathing and a soft sobbing sound coming from the other side of the room i sat up in bed and rubbed my sleepy eyes to have a proper look around the room as my vision slowly adjusted with the darkness in our room i noticed my sister standing against the wall just beside our bedroom window at first i thought something came into the room from the window but i saw that the window was still locked my sister was breathing heavily and kept staring at me with her frightful eyes i asked her what is it why are you out of bed is it a bad dream again she nodded her head slowly and said in a sobbing tone there's a goblin in our backyard and it's calling me i got spooked at first but then decided to go to the window and check it out myself what if it's a burglar or someone with bad intentions then i might have to tell dad i gathered all the courage i had and went up to the window my sister clashed my hand with her little palm and kept shaking her head gesturing no i calmed her down and made her sit on her bed and then walked over to the window i saw a small kid wearing a goblin costume and they were standing in the middle of our backyard looking straight at this window at first i heaved a sigh of relief as it wasn't actually a burglar then i opened the window and said hey it's too late you need to go to sleep otherwise you'll miss the city park celebration tomorrow my voice was a bit loud so my dad came back to check on why we were still awake but when i looked back after explaining everything to him the kid was gone i shrugged it off as a small nothing to worry about incident and went back to sleep the next day everyone was running around the entire city the festival mode hit and i forgot about all the stuff from last night around 5 p.m after my dad got back home from working at the city park we all started on our halloween get-ups i was dressed as pinocchio wearing a fake pointy long nose made from ice cream cones by my mom my brother and sister dressed as the shining sisters which pissed my brother off as he had to dress like a girl but after my dad handed us our buckets to collect candy we all cheered up when we came out of the house every little kid in town was dressed as some spooky halloween character and were wandering around the streets and houses asking for trick-or-treats i went to our neighbor's house with my brother and sister and our candy hunting mission began after collecting buckets full of candy we decided to go see the fireworks while eating the candy that we just got the park was filled with kids and their parents the three of us sat down under a tree and started having a fun time suddenly i saw my sister looking to her right side and she started breathing heavily again just like last night as i followed her eyes i saw that same goblin kid from last night about 15 feet away from us i looked back at my sister and said hey don't be scared that's just another kid in a halloween costume just like us my sister believed me and she calmed down i waved looking at the kid and the kid waved back to us the kid started to wave us over with his hand while standing there silently i got up and went to the kid with my brother and sister in tow i looked at him and said well hi where do you live the kid didn't say a word and only his goblin mask kept smirking at us it felt a bit unusual now so i said hey can't you talk but suddenly the kid did something completely unexpected he snatched my little brother's candy bucket and started running in the opposite direction i realized this was a little mean kid so i kept chasing after him seeing me running after him my brother and sister also started running with me the goblin kid ran straight to a minivan parked under a dark bushy tree far away from the crowded park just as i was about to grab his shoulder he elbowed me in the eye so hard that i fell and hit the ground really hard suddenly the minivan's back door opened up and two guys in entirely black attire grabbed my brother and sister and pulled them inside i rose up to stop them but someone already started the minivan and closed one door taking my sister inside while the other guy tried to pull my brother inside i shouted leave my brother alone let my sister go i heard the guy yelling to the driver to slow down the car saying oh this one's not a girl it's her brother ah damn it stupid halloween costumes the minivan slowed up a bit and that devilish man threw my brother onto the road even though the van was going slow my brother still scratched up his arms and knees he even got a bump on his head from hitting a rock on the road i quickly grabbed him and ran towards the van shouting for help but due to the entire area being secluded and everyone so busy celebrating at the park no one was there to hear my cry the van started to pick up speed and that goblin kid leaned to close the other door just when he was about to do so he removed his mask and i saw it was just this bearded ugly looking man who was probably a dwarf he started laughing at me in a squeaky voice and he started to wave goodbye at me as the van disappeared into the darkness my parents and i are still hopeful that my sister is alive somewhere in this world my parents still live in the same city waiting for her to come back one day i moved to california with my brother and we filed cases to every police station possible we kept creating search campaigns for my sister using every social media platform we could my brother and i never celebrated a festival again not after she was kidnapped by that horrible bunch of thugs i'm sure that dwarf man must have followed and spotted my sister on the night before halloween and then they planned everything out ahead of time for the next day i'm still so angry at myself for not taking this matter to my parents in the first place and and for chasing a stranger with my little brother and sister instead of going to my parents for help [Music] i pray to god every day asking no harm to come to my little sister those horrible men with their preference for kidnapping little girls just it shocks my heart with fear every day so uh kathy if you see this or come to know about us in any way please come home we'll wait forever for you and i'd also like to say to every kid out there on halloween or i mean any day of your life never go after a stranger without your parents knowledge i live in a military town so everyone here is either in the military like my husband and i or they are the locals backwoods redneck type you find near the bible belt most of the general population is pretty poor a lot of homeless a lot of well there's no nice way to put it white trash type folk i live near a walmart that i usually go shopping at and during the day it's filled with your usual walmart shoppers at night however it's usually full of weirdos some normal people there of course just trying to grab last-minute groceries or medicine or whatever but some people who just don't have anywhere else to be or they're high or drunk and walmart is open 24 7 so they just come to hang out there like it's a damn arcade or something anyway it was like 11 30 at night and i realized my daughter was out of formula i have to make her bottles for the day every morning for daycare so i had to go get formula before morning i told my husband i'd be back in a few minutes and drove down the road in the baby aisle i grabbed her formula and stopped to look at a cute dress for her i was looking through the baby clothes when i saw someone out of the corner of my eye and felt the hairs on my arms stand up i glanced at him and then did a double take this man was standing there just staring at me he didn't seem to be bothered by the fact that i noticed him i did this weird nervous fake laugh and said something like oh these are so cute huh he didn't say anything he just kind of smirked and kept staring the dude was like a few inches taller than me maybe five nine white with long hair and he looked either homeless or severely down on his luck he had one hand on the crotch of his pants kind of nonchalantly like it just rested there he was maybe six feet away from me i started to get nervous and felt my palms start sweating i said something dumb about have a good night and just kind of fast walked away but in my haste to get away from him i turned left toward the back of the store i decided to grab a 12 pack of coke zero in addition to the formula and then decided to get out of there i hadn't grabbed a cart so i couldn't really carry much more on my way back to the front of the store i heard him shuffling behind me keeping pace with my speed walking i tried to calm myself down and write it off as him just also going to check out i got into the 10 items or last line he got in the line behind me he had no items but he pulled a candy bar off the shelf and set it on the counter behind my stuff at this point i could smell him and he stinked like body odor and stale beer i turned my head away from him and tried to move a little closer to the woman in front of me he moved closer too then i felt something brush my left butt cheek i turned towards him sharply and said hey he mumbled an apology keep in mind i am wearing jeans and a baggy t-shirt not that it should matter but i look like crap is what i'm trying to get at i turned back towards the counter and the cashier started ringing up my two items two seconds later the man pinched my other butt cheek hard at this point i turned around and said very loudly hey stop touching my ass he turned red and the cashier froze she asked if there was a problem yes i replied this guy just pinched my butt and i don't know him and he's creeping me out she looked unsure of what to do and asked him to please step away from me before she called security he did wordlessly and then just stood there glaring daggers at me i pretended i didn't notice and paid for my things as soon as she bagged up the stuff i booked it out of the store i got maybe 10 steps into the parking lot when i heard the doors open behind me panicking i turned and saw him marching directly toward me i bolted my car was two lanes away and i yanked out my keys and unlocked it while i ran i could hear him behind me grunting and panting i felt adrenaline kick in and tears in my eyes i ran swinging the bag in the case of soda flung myself into the driver's seat and turn the key in the ignition before the door even shut i threw it in reverse without looking just as he slammed his body onto the hood of my car and yelled something i peeled out of the lot at almost 30 miles an hour and he flew off my hood and into the ground and i drove the mile home going well over the limit breathing hard and feeling like i was going to hyperventilate when i got home i still had chills i raced inside and locked the door my husband wanted to go find him and beat his ass his solution for pretty much anything but i just wanted to shut the windows and crawl into bed i don't know what makes people do the things they do do they not realize how terrifying they come off as i don't even want to leave my house without mace and a taser and a railgun i was going to attend a halloween celebration at my sister's house after work she lived quite far from me the shortest way to get to her house was by traveling the subway car which takes 20 minutes to reach the nearest subway station to my workplace was at 10 minutes walking distance i arranged my schedule accordingly that day planning that if i leave at 6 30 pm i will easily reach your house by 7 7 15 pm i didn't want to be late but as usual life doesn't work according to plans all the time the moment when i was just about to leave my boss called me and handed me an important work it's only been three months since i have joined this new office so there was no way i could have given any excuse to my boss with a sad face i again unpacked my bag and started to work the office only had our security guard on the ground floor and everyone else left early that day i managed to finish my work by 7 45 pm and i calculated that if i hurry up i can still catch the 8 pm subway car i quickly packed my bags and rushed towards the metro station my sister called me and as i took her call to tell her that i was on my way my phone lost its signal i realize that it is because i have entered the subway station the station was completely empty i checked the arrival time of the next train and with relief i saw that i have made it i didn't have to wait long as the train came at 8 pm sharp and i got on it the berth that i was in had no one i sat down on the left side aisle facing the opposite side of the train so that i could see the platforms passing by i put on my earplugs to listen to some music as i was going to get off in the 8th station my eyes were on the window just when i felt there's someone else inside this train with me i looked around and saw a man sitting on the right side facing me he was sitting at a distance but i could see him clearly he wore an old suit of faded brown color with surprisingly white pants he was at first looking outside the window but then he turned back at me and smiled in a very creepy way his smile was so big that it almost spread from one ear to another i thought to myself there was no one else present on the platform the train hasn't reached the next station yet then how come he got inside my mind was going through a lot of confusion as i started to feel uncomfortable with this guy alone in a subway car at halloween night the train was decorated with fake cobwebs and little lights for halloween i shifted my eyes towards the decoration and decided to ignore this man i hope he will get off before me the next station arrived but the man didn't get off i thought to check my phone in case it has got a signal so i could call my sister i was going through my phone just when the man made a very creepy move he turned towards me and said in a husky voice if you want you can use my phone it has a signal i was pretty sure that we were in an underground subway so there's no way phones can get a signal here i awkwardly smiled and said no thanks my stop will come in some time the man seemed a bit disheartened with my refusal he then stood up and said why aren't a pretty thing like you celebrating on halloween night i felt really offensive with his exaggerated comments i stood up and replied in a loud voice look mister i don't know you so stop harass me or i'll call the emergency number on the subway car also there are security cameras inside the car you know the man looks startled with my words and moved his eyes back to the window at the fifth station an old woman got into the subway car which gave me some air of relief she looked at the man and then looked at me maybe she guessed something and came to sit beside me i thanked her for a kind gesture by smiling at her it was going all well but the woman got down the next station and again the fear of being alone with this creepy stranger acquired my heart i realized i was just two stations away so i got up and went to stand near the door i wanted to get off as soon as i can after a few seconds the man also got up and came towards me i faced my back towards him but i could see him standing behind me on the glass door of the subway car suddenly i heard his heavy breath very close to my ear and my heart froze in fear i noticed on the glass door that he was smelling my hair his nostrils were becoming big as he inhaled the smell of my ear while exhaling the warm air by his mouth i could tell he was drunk by the smell of his mouth i wanted to teach that guy a lesson but i'm a short lean man and the only thing i had on my hand was my backpack which wasn't enough for protection i was numb with fear and terror i could barely move the only option i had is to wait for my platform so i gathered all my courage and stood there silently i was waiting for the door to open and was all set to run for my life the train started to enter the platform just when the man whispered into my ears happy halloween little birdie now fly away the door opened just then and without looking behind i ran as fast as i could once i reached my sister's house i broke into tears my family calmed me down and i somehow managed myself that night a few days later i was sitting at my house watching tv when a news flashed into the screen i saw that same guy being arrested by the cops from a subway station the news revealed that he was a murderer who broke out of prison the night before halloween he was found by a patrolling officer in the middle of the night throwing an unconscious girl on the railway track the officer called for backup and stopped him right then they somehow managed to save the girl but she was found with a serious head injury the man supposedly hit her from behind and wanted her to get crushed by an upcoming subway car the man has been sent to a mental institution for his lifetime i couldn't take the subway rides for three months after this incident i am terrified to walk alone at night even though i know that guy can never hurt me again but the only thing that makes me question is why did he let me get away that night even in my dreams i hear him whisper in my ears fly away little birdie fly ghosts are not the only thing that can make your halloween night a horrible experience for your entire life weird things started happening to me about a year ago i moved into a new unit in brisbane and got my porcelain dolls back from my mother's place i've had the dolls since i was five years old everyone used to tell me they were evil but i didn't believe them anyway i put the seven dolls away in a box and left them in the spare room i then began having nightmares starting with one or two a week after a little while they started to occur almost every night i've never experienced nightmares like this in my entire life these were full on extreme night terrors i didn't understand what was going on and was exhausted all the time from lack of sleep i then started hearing some kind of scratching noise coming from inside the closet or from just outside my room late at night never during the day at the time i thought it might be a mouse these things happen for a couple of months one time i was sitting in the lounge room watching tv when all of a sudden i saw two small red eyes on the side of my cat's body when he was standing on my lap they were just staring at me i looked behind me to see where it was coming from and saw nothing but a blank wall i looked back and the eyes were still looking at me then they slowly faded away i always felt a strange uncomfortable presence in the house but i wasn't sure if it was because i had just moved in on my own and was scaring myself or if it was something else i think i used to make excuses for everything so i didn't think i was going crazy on another occasion i was lying in bed and had the outside haul when i saw a murky dark shadow come across the ceiling and into my room and then it disappeared the last thing that happened before i spoke to someone about the weird events was when i saw a demonic looking face in the reflection of the base of my lamp it was staring at me the thing had dark circles as eyes and it wasn't clear like a human face but was definitely a face i turned off the light and ignored it and went back to sleep i eventually spoke to a lady at work a jehovah's witness about everything that happened she told me that i had something in my house that was causing the problems i didn't fully believe it was the dolls at the time but i ended up throwing them out in the industrial bin that weekend because something needed to happen to make this stop the dolls were worth hundreds of dollars but i wasn't risking it that night i had an extreme nightmare about them the dogs were at my nan's house where they had been originally and they had killed my cat in the dream i found his body in the kitchen sink my cat is still alive now but i always check on him to make sure he's safe it's been over nine months now and since getting rid of the dolls i've had no nightmares no weird noises and no feelings of another presence i feel stronger and healthier and i always pray from time to time asking the lord to protect me and my cat everything stopped after i threw out those dolls now i know not to ignore things and to become more in touch with my spiritual side [Music] my car died a while back and i've been using lifts to get around town if needed i am within walking distance to a good variety of stores so it hasn't been too pricey for me however i recently needed to go to the pharmacy and the pet supply store both too far to walk so i go to the pharmacy to pick up my prescription and call my ride to the pet supply store the driver who picked me up seemed initially very polite asking how my day was commenting on the weather etc but things got weird very fast he abruptly asked me if i was hungry when i said no he began to insist that we'd stop at a restaurant to get food and would not stop until i lied and said that i had just eaten a large lunch then he asked if i wanted to get coffee again i said no he backed off and turned up the radio a minute later he asked if i liked music and if i like to dance i answer that i don't care for dancing to which he asked well why not then he asked if i like to drink and if so what bars do i like i felt very uncomfortable at this point and said i don't drink much well why not he asked again not even a little here and there i lied the alcohol makes me nauseous but then he asked if i live alone i said no that i live with my husband he asked how long i've been married and if i'm happy with my husband then he casually asked if my husband is a strong guy if he hits the gym i began to feel very panicked at this point why would this guy want to know if i live alone or how physically strong my husband is he was being very pleasant and cheerful the whole time but staring intently at me through the rear view mirror which disturbed me i lied a third time that my husband was military and that i was so happy to have him home with me he became disinterested after i began gushing about my husband and then briefly turned up the radio so loud it hurt my ears in the back seat i'm not even kidding the windows were vibrating from the noise when we arrived at the pet store i jumped out of the car and hurried away once in the store i took my time near the entrance of the store to ensure that the driver had left i stayed there nearly 40 minutes it was rush hour so i was fairly confident he had received another passenger request and left after buying feed for my bunny i headed out and requested another ride i kid you not dude was waiting in the parking lot and with his car out in front of me as soon as i walked out the door he accepted my ride request after blocking me from walking into the parking lot i jumped out of his car and took my bag of feet out of my hands and bundled it into the car it all happened very quickly and looking back i should have cancelled my ride right then and there i regret not putting my foot down and calling him out on his creepiness i freeze up and start panicking i tell myself that i'm being dramatic that it's all just a coincidence i get in his car and realize with misery that my home address is logged into his gps he is very jolly now and asks if i'll be happy to get home i had a stroke of genius and lied number four that i was visiting my friend for dinner but oh yes i can't wait to get home later on it's been such a long day he didn't seem to like hearing this and gave me the loud radio treatment again i arrived home and grabbed my bag of bunny feeds so he wouldn't try to help me carry it inside the driver got out when i did and tried to push a paper into my hand that had his phone number on it and he said he'll call me tonight when you're ready to go home yes your boy demanded that i call his personal phone to get a ride home after dinner with my friend i refused and he tried to force the paper into my hand grabbing my fingers and crumpling them into a fist around set paper i lied a fifth time that my friend was driving me home later and dropped the paper on the sidewalk he finally gave up and got back into his car i walked up to the door but then realized that the driver was still parked at the curb watching me he saw me looking and quickly pretended to mess with his phone but i suspect he was waiting to see if my friend would come to the door or if i was lying i casually knocked on the door waited a moment then pulled out my phone as though to call my friend while making the call i decided to turn and stare pointedly at him it worked and he eventually eased his car out in a way once he was around the corner i rushed into the house and locked the door behind me thank god that was the last i saw of him this happened over 20 years ago i was driving back home with my girlfriend at the time it was christmas eve and my mother's family used to hold a large celebration at my aunt's house in estacada this was my girlfriend's first time meeting with my extended family but she got on quite well with him we spent the majority of the afternoon and evening just talking playing poker opening presents and drinking an assortment of adult beverages my girlfriend was quite drunk by the time we had to leave so obviously i'd be driving us home it was around 11 pm or so and i was driving my girlfriend's car along highway 211 now this stretch of road is surrounded by farms and dense patches of forest and parts of it are unlit but nothing to fear i grew up in this area so i knew this road like the back of my hand the both of us were just driving and talking away just two young lovers making the most of our moment together there's a part of the highway that descends down an enormous hill just before crossing deep creek surrounding both sides of the road are thick forests there are no lights the only thing we could see was the area directly in front of our headlights i drove down the hill crossed the bridge and uphill through moore forest just as the highway started to flatten out it happens something sprints across the road so suddenly that i almost hit whatever it was i slam on the brakes i turned to my girlfriend and asked her if she saw it she confirmed that she had but she couldn't make out what it was maybe it was a coyote they're a fairly common side in this area but something felt off about it whatever it was that ran in front of my car it disappeared into the woods next to the road coyotes don't usually just dart out in front of cars not like that anyway so for some reason i decided to check it out i turned the car around and switched on the high beams to better light up the forest in which this thing had vanished into i step out of the car and walk towards the woods i don't see anything but now it feels like perhaps i made a big mistake my heart is pounding and the hairs on the back of my neck are standing at full attention but i still don't see anything unusual in the trees suddenly the car's horn blasts it's not a beep beep beep that you'd get if say your driver or passenger wanted you to hurry up and get in the car no this was a long blaring beep [Music] i walked back into the car and asked my girlfriend why she leaned on the horn like that she said nothing instead she pointed to a spot about 50 feet from where i was standing i looked in that direction and that's when i saw it surely this was the thing that ran in front of the car it was a man he was completely naked his skin was covered in dirt and mud and in one of his hands he was holding a hatchet he looked back at us and then he smiled and waved to us just before turning around and walking back into the forest needless to say we got the hell out of there once we were safely driving again my girlfriend explained what had just happened while i was trying to look for the man in the area he initially vanished into he circled back around and came out from another spot in the forest beyond my car headlights my girlfriend had seen something out of the corner of her eye and that's when she saw him before she honked the horn he was walking towards me his hatchet raised as if making to strike me we called the authorities once we got safely back home but they never found anybody or they did and just didn't tell us but the officer we spoke to explain his theory the man was obviously looking to ambush unsuspecting lone travelers for god knows what reason we all agreed that my girlfriend's quick thinking saved my life as it let my potential kill her know that i wasn't alone out there i moved back into the area recently so i now drive the highway often no naked hatchet man sightings yet but i can tell you that i'm definitely extra vigilant especially near deep creek this happened a few months ago i'm a 23 year old female and i had finally bought a car for myself i loved driving around and listening to music i usually liked doing this by myself on this night it was around 7 pm and it was winter time on this particular drive i took two of my siblings my sister was 18 and my brother was 13. i took them along with me after their constant pleading because they were bored now i'm a smoker and coming from a south asian household women are not supposed to smoke so i took these opportunities to smoke without worrying that my parents would catch me the city that i live in has some bad areas however we lived in a quiet suburban area so i didn't give a second thought about parking somewhere getting out of my car and lighting up a cigarette i don't like smoking in my car so there i was parked beneath a street light scrolling away on my phone it was getting pretty dark but i wasn't too worried about it as i would visit this road frequently and it wasn't too far from my aunt's house as i was smoking my cigarette i look up from my phone and i see a man emerging from some bushes nearby i didn't think much of it i see people walking around here all the time this man was very tall standing at at least six foot four he was on the opposite sidewalk i assume that he was just going to carry on walking so i looked back to my phone until i looked up again and saw him standing in front of my car staring at me my sister who was still in the car must have been watching him as well because she knocked on the window telling me to come in i had already put out my cigarette and was making my way to the driver's side door keys in hand the man was still standing there not moving a muscle i got in and locked my door and breathed a sigh of relief thinking that maybe i was just overreacting as i put my keys in the ignition i looked up to see where the guy was but he was no longer standing in front of my car i looked in my rear view mirror and saw that he was now standing behind us it was taking pictures of my license plate i slightly rolled down my window and i could see his face a bit clearer now he appeared to be an indian man with a beard and a hoodie over his head obscuring some of the features on his face i asked him as politely as i could excuse me what are you doing the man comes towards my window but still kept his distance he then said in a very aggressive tone do you know who i am i didn't know if he was asking a rhetorical question or not i have a lot of [ __ ] going on in my house i don't need you parking here and watching me you look real suspicious just randomly parking here with your two friends what do you think you're doing get the [ __ ] out of here i chuckled nervously i was trying to keep calm but my anxiety was already halfway through the roof at this point i didn't understand how i looked threatening in any way as i'm a small girl who's been told that she looks like a kid i was in my pajamas and i was clearly minding my own business look i just parked here to smoke i come here all the time since i live close by that's when the man got right up to my window he slid his fingers through the gap and forced my window all the way down screaming at the top of his lungs get the hell out of here i screamed in terror and told him to stop swearing as i had a miner in the back seat and he was scaring him he then screamed if you don't get out of here right now i'll damage your [ __ ] car my adrenaline was running at full speed and i was terrified i didn't even bother putting my seatbelt on i bolted out of there and in my panic i went straight ahead at a junction it led me to a dead end as soon as i stopped my car i took the opportunity to try and calm down my whole body was shaking i couldn't even keep my foot on the clutch my sister was quick to ask me if i was okay but before i could even answer i saw a pair of headlights coming right for us it was the man he was going at least 50 on a 20 and he almost crashed right into my car but by some miracle he just missed us after his car screeched to a stop he jumped out and that's when i realized that my window was still all the way down i quickly tried to roll my window back up but the man was too quick he then dove into my car half of his body was through my window i screamed so loudly with his ear right next to my face that i'm sure i deafened him he was trying to force my car keys from the ignition but i think to my lucky stars that with my car to release the key you had to have your foot on the clutch which i didn't with one hand i was pressing down on the horn of my car to make as much noise as possible so i could alert anyone who was nearby i scratched his hands away from my car keys and i heard my poor siblings crying their eyes out my little brother had no idea what he could do to protect me i finally managed to force the man out of my car and that's when he started screaming again i thought i told you to get out of here now i'm going to [ __ ] kill you [ __ ] the deranged man then attempted to pull my door handle trying to get inside and that's when i floored it the [ __ ] out of there i didn't care that my body was shaking like a fish out of water my main priority was the safety of my siblings i knew that we were making a loud commotion i laid down on my horn trying to get the attention of anyone nearby but nobody came to help us i managed to maneuver my way out of the dead end and then went down a new street into a totally different area and i then parked i knew that this was probably not a good idea but i didn't see the guy following us the three of us just sat in my car sobbing away this was the first time that anything like this has ever happened to us i called the police and i immediately wanted to punch myself in the face when the dispatcher asked if i had gotten the man's registration number of course in my panic i didn't i wanted to slap myself in the face because i listened to a lot of horror stories on youtube and i always felt that they taught me how to handle certain situations the dispatcher was very understanding as was the female officer who called me the next day as a woman she understood how scary it must have been for me and i cried to her as i recounted the incident unfortunately the cops informed me that there was no cctv cameras in that area so there wasn't really much that they could do especially with me not knowing where he came from if he did in fact come from one of the nearby houses i didn't know which one the officer apologized to me but it was really my fault for not mentally noting important information they made a report of my attack so if a similar incident happens in that area they can make the connection the officer said that when i parked my car the man was likely doing something illegal nearby and that's why he freaked out on me i personally think it was just some deranged individual who enjoyed scaring people who looked like easy prey this recent incident turned my life into a living nightmare i'm still trying to recover from this trauma i'm from california and our college has always been a fun place for all the students even though we picked on each other a bit no one ever did anything as harmful as this maybe that's why no one expected it to happen and kept on playing the current trending online game among us joining college after a long-lived quarantine came like bliss to us but due to the protection measures of kofit 19 our football coach canceled our practices until december you can now imagine how a bunch of locker room boys got a handful of time to kill after school so we all decided to do a bit of online gaming sitting at our school cafeteria using the time slot of our football practice for those who don't know about this game yet let me give you a brief idea it's a game one can play with friends online adding your friend by sharing a private pass key for those who want to play alone you can also go for a public search to play with other unknown players the game is a task-based murder mystery there are two kinds of players in this game crewmates and an imposter the crewmates finished the tasks in a space station and the imposter takes chances to execute them silently after discovering the body of the murdered crewmate an emergency meeting takes place and everyone has to vote who is the imposter the game continues if they fail to spot the imposter long story short we were a group of 10 guys hence we were enough to play privately without seeking other unknown players online the game allows you to increase the number of imposters but we decided to keep only one for the game to become interesting the game has created its avatar in such a way that except the player no one can guess which avatar belongs to whom and we all decided to keep it a secret for the enjoyment purpose the first day after school we all jumped on the game the game was going well we had two rounds of emergency meetings as the imposter wasn't making any moves everyone started to make fun of the imposter without knowing who it was by saying what a dork dude seems like the imposter is too scared to take a life virtually the imposter is making things boring etc i stared at everyone's face but couldn't guess who was the imposter though after the end of the game we were informed about his avatar that no one revealed the impostor's identity the next day due to rainy weather we left the school early and decided to play the game from our houses by sharing the pass key the impostor managed to murder seven crewmates without getting caught everyone got back their interest in the game no one revealed the avatar of the imposter for obvious reasons at the end of the game we came to know a blue colored crewmate was the imposter but to keep the fun going we decided not to reveal our avatars so no one could guess who was whom i went to bed thinking who could be the imposter and eventually fell asleep when i woke up that following morning i heard my dad talking to our college principal on the phone i went downstairs and asked him what happened dad he replied in a worried voice one of your friends died last night the school boards are calling every parent and warning us to keep caution the cops think he was murdered mysteriously i i was beyond terrified to hear the news i quickly called my friends and came to know it was liam he went to the backyard to dump the garbage at night and someone silently came and slit his throat the game among us also allows the imposter to kill the crewmates with a sharp pointy knife i didn't know what to say i didn't know why the game came into my mind after hearing the details about liam's murder if i stayed on this gut feeling that day i might have been able to lessen the damage but our school organized a little ceremony to pay our condolences to liam's family and pray for his soul to be in peace the group of ten became a group of nine a few days passed and we were all starting to get back to normal life one evening i was sitting at home bored when a friend suggested playing among us to kill time though everyone was quite upset with liam's mysterious death we all thought it would be a nice way to keep our minds preoccupied for a while we started the game and after two rounds of play things were the same again after winning his crewmates on that third round i felt the pattern repeating itself the impostor now behaving exactly like that killing people randomly and managing to win the game by lying in our emergency chat this time i asked the group chat who played the imposter in the third round chris and jack revealed they played the imposter in the first two rounds but when asked about the third round everyone said it wasn't them i feel someone among us was lying but i didn't know why something about this was feeling odd i told my friends i didn't want to play anymore and left the game after that day the actual horror began my friend started to die mysteriously chris was found dead in our school library his throat was slit too blood gushed out from his neck and stained the floor red it was a vicious sight when his body was discovered then it was sam he went for a swim in our school swimming pool a couple of cheerleaders found him floating in a pool of his own blood cause of death someone slit his throat after three horrible deaths of our friends we all shook in fear we stopped going out after school or roaming around the streets one day jack frantically came to see me he seemed really nervous and panicked i asked him what is it he said in a broken voice i think someone from our group is the imposter i couldn't understand it at first so i asked him what do you mean he said don't you get it someone is playing the role of a real imposter among us it's one of us who is not playing this game in real life but also enjoying it a chilling sensation went down my spine jack and i decided to see the principal the next day and tell him about all of this i went to school and waited for jack to arrive we didn't tell our friends as we didn't want to freak them out as well after a while i saw jack walking towards me i waved at him he came to see me and said i called our principal he said he will see us within an hour until then i have to go to the library and return some books i had nothing to do but wait so i decided to accompany him we went to the library it was empty as kids these days hardly come here jack pointed towards the last shelf on the left corner and started walking towards it he told me to hold his backpack as his hands were filled with books already as he got busy keeping his books i decided to surf on my phone for a while so i put his bag on the table near me and as the bag hit the table i heard a heavy metal sound as if something in his bag clanked with the table surface out of curiosity i opened his bag and what i saw it stopped my heart immediately jack was carrying a sharp kitchen knife it had blood stains on it i looked up to him with trembling eyes he was still busy arranging the books he turned towards me and said max come over here and help me real quick bring my bag for me too i have some books in it i knew what was going to happen next i knew he wanted to lure me by going to him so that he can slit my throat like liam and chris i didn't wait for a second and ran to the principal's office with his backpack in my hand the cop showed up at our campus they discovered bloodstained clothes from jack's locker jack was handcuffed and taken into police custody we all watched him as he walked slowly to the police car before getting inside he turned to us and said in a creepy voice trust me guys it's so much more fun in real life the jack i saw at that moment that wasn't my friend his smile put me on edge i almost became numb with fear jack is now in a mental institution doctors think over obsession to this online game is what led him to commit these horrible murders it's more disturbing to think how a game changed my friend i believe this is why people say too much of anything is not good be careful guys it's really hard to identify the imposter in real life don't let an online game influence you in such a manner that you end up ruining your life forever i was about 10 years old there was a small wooden house next to our schoolyard that house belonged to an old man named mr smith mr smith stayed in the house with his old wife his wife loved children maybe because they didn't have any of their own all the kids called her trick-or-treat granny every year during the night of halloween she used to give all the kids lots and lots of candies more than any other person living in our area every halloween night my friends and i used to run to her house and get as much candy as we could she was old but always smiling every year at halloween night she used to sit on her house porch with buckets of candy and give them away to every passing child the town loved her for spoiling little kids mr smith also smiled at us whenever we went there perhaps he liked watching miss smith being happy while seeing all these kids a week before halloween i went to buy groceries with my mom she told me to get her some apples from the fruit basket which was on the left corner of the small local store i went there and started taking apples into my trolley just when i felt someone standing behind me as i turned back i saw it was trick-or-treat granny she stood behind me waiting her turn to get fruits i always felt happy whenever i saw her as she smelled like candy all the time but this time i didn't feel that way granny's eyes were bit puffy surrounded by dark circles she smiled at me but her smile was full of pain my mom noticed us and came to talk to her we came to know that she's not well these days my mom waited till she finished her grocery shopping and we gave her a lift home when we reached her house we saw mr smith standing at the gate with a very angry face granny got out of the car and walked slowly towards him we heard mr smith yelling the doctors told you not to leave the house and take rest why don't you listen to me i overheard granny replying halloween is coming i had to buy candy for the kids i am all fine don't worry i felt grateful thinking how much she loves us that she went to buy candy for us even in this bad health condition after this incident a few things started to become weird whenever we used to walk to school we would notice trick-or-treat granny sitting at our porch with her knitting wool and waving at us but the next day we didn't see her there not even the day after tomorrow we came across mr smith three or four times but he was always busy going somewhere two days before halloween i went to the playground to play with my friends on our way back we took the road near granny's house just to check to see if she was sitting on the fortunate as we reached the house we saw mr smith rushing to the house with another man who seemed like a doctor we realized that granny is still sick and we all felt a bit sad for her the halloween fever took over our town as every shop in hangouts started to get dressed in halloween decoration but just before two days of halloween we all came to know that granny was being hospitalized for serious heart trouble mr smith had to stay with her in the hospital every kid get really sad realizing halloween will not be the same without her but i prayed to god for her recovery and decided to visit her after she comes back it was the day before halloween my mother took me to the store to buy my halloween costume i always wanted to dress as superman so my mom bought me the magical looking blue and red superman costume as i came back home me and my dad started to put up all the halloween decorations after a tiring evening of work and excitement i went to bed and fell asleep at night i had a very peculiar dream i saw trick or treat granny sitting at her house porch with candies in her palm and calling me saying come here come on she was smiling but her eyes looked the same as that day on the grocery store i woke up and realized it was morning time the final day of halloween came our long-distance relatives came to our house hence everyone was busy having a fun time being among all those people i forgot about the dream in the evening my school friends came wearing their halloween costumes we were all looking funny i got into my superman costume and went out to collect candies with my friends every kid was busy collecting candies my friends and i also went to the nearby houses and started collecting candies the last house in our neighborhood was connected with our way to school after collecting the candies from that house my friends decided to head back home i needed to pee badly as i remembered drinking two cans of orange juice before leaving the house i told my friend to start walking and that i will catch up eventually now you can all understand peeing wearing a superman costume was a tough job i walked to the corner of the street and helped myself which took me enough time after finishing when i looked up i saw my friends were already gone i lifted the candy bucket in my hand and decided to head home too just when i was about to turn i noticed a flash of light coming from my right side as the school road laid ahead on my right i could see granny's house in some distance being the only house near school it wasn't that difficult to spot for anyone what seemed strange to me was the house light it was on i knew there was no one in the house then how come the room lights are on i was a brave kid hence i thought to check it out i was curious too i walked towards the house and as i reached the front door i heard footsteps inside the house i knocked on the door and said anyone inside i thought it might be some stranger breaking into their house but the response i got shocked me i heard trick or treat granny's voice she said in a mellow voice come on i am waiting for you with candies i was more than happy to know that she came back all well i pushed the door open and entered the house i have never been inside this house so seeing it for the first time made me a bit shy there was a couch on the dining in front of a tv set and stairs were leading up to the second floor i said in a loud voice granny where are you she muttered from upstairs come up kid i am here i walked up the stairs following her voice as i kept walking she kept talking i am waiting for so long but no other kid came glad you came i bought so many candies come and have it as i reached upstairs i saw a room at the end of the hallway pale yellow light was coming out from that room i walked inside and saw trick or treat granny laying on the bed facing her back towards me i could see that her body has become extremely lean as if she has lost a huge amount of weight in just a few days i guess it was because of her sickness she didn't turn towards me instead lifted her long lean arm grabbing a handful of candies come to this site i am not well i can't move much she said in a frail voice i felt like her voice was coming from a long distance though she was lying just in front of my eyes she started to laugh in that voice and i felt something was odd a feeling rushed down my spine that suddenly told me i shouldn't be here i told her you take a rest today i will come back some other time also it's late i probably should go home now i was just about to leave when i heard a huge thumping sound on the wooden floor as if someone jumped on the ground from a higher place i turned back and my skin crawled the blood in my veins clotted i couldn't believe my eyes granny was sitting on the floor like a frog saliva was dripping out of her mouth her eyes were blood red she gave me a terrifying smile and said in a demonic voice trick or treat and started hopping towards me violently i ran for my life i even tripped on the stairs and hit my head i was bleeding but i didn't stop i could hear the loud thuds of granny jumping on the wooden floor as she chased me as soon as i got out of the house i slammed the front door behind me and ran away i woke in the morning on my bed my mom and dad got really worried as i didn't come home with my friends they came looking for me and found me on the way to our house i was lying unconscious on the road after waking up it all felt like a nightmare but when my mom asked me what happened i told them everything i saw the look on their face changing as i told them all the details when i finished my mom hugged me to her chest and started crying loudly my dad didn't say a word and left the room quietly my parents didn't give any reason behind this reaction until i grew up i came to know that trick-or-treat granny passed away on halloween evening due to a heart attack they heard from mr smith that she was in a lot of pain when she died her tongue came out of her mouth with saliva dripping from it her eyes turned all red from the blood clotting under her pupils i didn't talk for an hour after hearing this i felt sorry for her thinking how much pain she has to go through on her last days but i will never be able to forget that horrible side of her till today on halloween nights i feel scared that she might come to visit me again so i don't know where to start with this i've never shared my story or stories with anyone other than my close friend i don't want anyone thinking i'm crazy anyways it was around christmas time when this all happened my friend and i were really into ouija boards but never had the balls to buy one even if i did get one my parents would pretty much disown me my family isn't super religious but they definitely believed in the ouija board enough to know how powerful it could be so as i was saying this happened around christmas time my friend came over to celebrate with my family since he wasn't too close with his he took me aside and we exchanged gifts he opened his first i had gotten him a couple of movies he'd been wanting when it was my turn to open my gift he stopped me before i could even read the label he said make sure your mom doesn't see it immediately i knew what he had gotten me i opened it and there it was my very own ouija board we had a christmas cake at my place then went to a bar nearby after we were done my friend offered to give me a ride he dropped me off i went inside changed into some comfortable clothes and set up the ouija board i've watched youtube and read enough of other people's experiences that i knew i didn't want to play it by myself i called one of my other friends who was looking for something to do after what seemed like forever she finally showed up let me tell you she was not happy when she saw the ouija board i didn't tell her what we were going to do because i knew she wouldn't show up if i did eventually i conned her into playing it with me she only agreed to play if i asked all the questions we sat across from each other with the board in between us our christmas tree was on my left hand side and towards the middle of the tree there was an ornament that looked like a little girl she's dressed in a green cloak type thing with a sherpa lined hood my sister has a similar one but hers is pink anyways i started off with the usual opening of the circle one of the first questions i asked was is there anyone here with us nothing i then felt like something was in the room with us i took a breath and said if there's anything here move an ornament on the tree nothing i said once more if there's anything here move an ornament on the tree after that i closed my eyes for a split second when i felt the slightest breeze out of the corner of my eye i see my ornament spinning counterclockwise my friend is quick to take her hands off the planchette and i yell at her to put her fingers back because you're never supposed to break the circle she said she's done playing the stupid game so i agreed to say goodbye she leaves i lock the door behind her and i pack up the board as soon as i close the box i get a phone call my mom is outside waiting for me to help her bring things upstairs i rushed to find a hiding spot for the board because no one knew that i had it i quickly throw it under my bed so i could deal with it later my mom then informs me she's going to my aunts to spend the night so i'll be home alone i was a little scared about what just happened so i called my friend asking if i could spend the night at her house thank goodness she didn't leave yet i packed a few things got my coat and left with her what i didn't know was later that night my family came back home because my sister wasn't feeling too well she had slept in my bed since i wasn't home the next morning when i returned my mom looked exhausted i asked her if she was all right she replied your sister came to my room terrified and screaming she didn't tell you i said no what happened my mom went on to say your sister had a horrible nightmare she said someone or something killed your dad she wouldn't stop shaking and refused to sleep in your room my eyes opened so wide something told me to go look under my bed and sure enough i was right the lid to the box from the ouija board was slightly open no one knew i had it i never asked my sister about her nightmare after that weird things started happening around the house all i know is i will never play with another ouija board again this happened today and i'm still freaked out about the whole experience i'm going to include all the things that happened leading up to this point to provide some context though this would be bad enough on its own i work at a kids toy store where i originally felt safe from creeps as i've had some in the past in the food industry where i feel there is more exposure to different varieties of people this is the kind of store with more expensive toys that you buy every once in a while and on occasion we don't really get too many regulars so no matter who you are if you come in more than two times we take note of you for various reasons it's also in the mall near where i live which i think is important to note about six months into my employment there was a man who came in with his daughter no big deal i interacted with them like i would with any customer right off the bat the father seemed off i don't know if he was drunk tired he said they had a long drive but why would you go shopping if you're that tired or just strange i was a bit uncomfortable more for his daughter's safety getting home but i tried to just get through the encounter and make a sale so they would leave he started to hit on me blatantly making my discomfort go through the roof something about how aggressive he was being especially in front of his young daughter with someone who was obviously a lot younger than him was alarming to me he was continually asking about if i had a boyfriend why i wasn't settled down yet if he could take me out or get my number he was relentless i wasn't sure if i was being just overly paranoid so i tried to continue about my business as he went to look at a couple more things with his daughter before checking out i set out to go stock the shelves a bit to keep my distance after he lingered a bit trying to catch my attention all the while he finally caught on to my avoidance and checked out my manager who was the cashier at the moment came over to tell me how he was discussing various inappropriate things about my body and what he wanted to do to me in front of his daughter still we were both disgusted we tried to brush it off and finish the shift fast forward to two or three weeks later creepy dad as we've come to call him returns with his daughter he corners me to try to ask for suggestions on products and i rushed to tell him random things before escaping to the back room i found some stuff to do back there and stayed there until my manager came back eyes wide she said he had took his time finally getting to check with his daughter and her toys he then proceeded to wander around about with her looking around like he was looking for someone she thought he was waiting around to see if i was still there but left when i hadn't come back in a long time i was a little scared but i figured if he was gone i was safe the next time he came in was about a month later i saw him walk and start to browse so i tried to go in the back before he had a chance to see me and decide to extend his stay i hid back there until the manager came to see where i was when she confirmed he left i returned to the front thinking i was safe again a half an hour of mindlessly doing work i look out into the mall to people watch since it wasn't that busy creepy dad was sitting outside with his daughter eating ice cream this wouldn't be that unusual if his eyes weren't burning into me i quickly tried to avoid his gaze and move closer to the back of the store and not be able to be seen as well he stayed there for another hour or so before getting up to start walking the mall i couldn't shake the anxiety i felt and soon found out why the location of our store is in a wider opening of the mall that is more oval in shape than the rectangular expanses of the rest of it this is because it's the center of the mall and contains some more stores than the two other straight ways of the rest of the mall sorry i don't know how to describe it without posting a picture and giving away my location and work maybe i'll try to draw it later this makes it easier to make full rounds in this middle part creepy dad was continually passing the store slowly then picking up speed to walk the rest of the way around he kept it pretty natural until he got to my store then slowed down to a pace that would look almost like he was window shopping except he was looking directly at me he did this for about an hour or so i'm not sure i tried to ignore it as best as i could he eventually disappeared and i was hoping this would be the last time i would see him it was about a month month and a half until today when i came in a bit rushed to my shift i jumped into action as it was a bit busier today than usual in the middle of me helping a customer the manager comes over to tell me to stay with this family because creepy dad was back a sense of dread washed over me and i struggled to stay calm and appear okay i saw over the customer's shoulders those same eyes burning into me he was watching me so intensely i felt the need to shift my weight so the customer i was with cut his line of sight off i played it cool but i didn't feel any drip of relief until i saw him checking out i was hoping the busyness of today would be a good buffer from his creepiness the shift went fine and i didn't give creepy dad another thought i clocked out and started to head out of the mall i usually take a back hallway out to get to the parking lot when i get outside i started heading to the lot and noticed there was someone outside smoking a cigarette by a different exit not too far away nothing too unusual but i always try to be observant as i was heading away from the door the person put out the cigarette and started to walk the same way that was a huge red flag and i picked up my pace fishing through my pockets for my keys in the corner of my eye i could see the person speed up as well at this point i was done and just wanted to go home and i ran for my car since it wasn't that far away keys in hand i fumbled with my keys a bit of course and jumped into my car locking the door immediately i look out my window and see the man was maybe two feet behind me and now was standing outside of my car seeming to contemplate his next move out of fear i was frozen staring at him after who knows how long of staring i realized it was none other than the creepy dad i started to panic and started my car hoping he'd take the hint and go away he started to creepily smile it felt predatory like he enjoyed my fear he then abruptly turned and quickly walked off down the line of cars i drove home as fast as i could taking an extra 30 minutes to take random turns so i can make sure i wasn't being followed after tonight i cannot assume he's some lonely bitter single dad who doesn't understand the dating game anymore it scares me that he's using intentionally or not his daughter is bait or a part of his sick pickup game i don't know how he knew where i park or when i got off he does always seem to know when i work because that's the only time anyone i work with sees him in the store i don't know if i should call the police or not but i really hope that i won't see him again if i do i will definitely update if there is any interest this happened a few years ago but i still think about it to this day i was on holiday in a city on the other side of the country celebrating my 21st birthday with my best friend we were having an amazing night out with a few too many drinks and ended up meeting two guys let's call them andrew and billy they seemed like really cool guys and we were into them so when they asked us to go back to their hotel room we said yes obviously a silly idea but we were young and drunk things were great on the way back to the hotel room we were all laughing and having a great time when we got to the hotel room there were two other men there as well let's call them ricky and jd who were at least 10 to 15 years older than us they gave us creepy vibes but we brushed it off we asked andrew and billy who these guys were and they said that they were colleagues as they were in the city for work and the company paid for their rooms so andrew and billy were in different rooms but we were all partying in andrew's room that he shared with ricky i got a little too drunk and my friend put me to bed she said she was going to billy's room and asked if it would be okay with andrew and i said yes keep in mind my friend didn't have a phone either so we basically had no way of getting in contact with each other another stupid thing i know so i'd been in bed for a while with andrew just talking and chilling when he says i just have to pop out and i'll be right back i assumed he meant just out of the bedroom not out of the actual hotel room but he left the hotel room to get something from billy's hotel room anyway i was just watching tv in the bed when the bedroom door opens and i assumed it was andrew but my heart sank when it was ricky the weird colleague he walked into the room and sat on the bed keep in mind i'm very naked at this point trying to cover myself with the blanket he said you do realize that everyone has left you alone in here right it's just you all alone no one is here and no one can hear you and continued edging closer and closer to me on the bed at this point i was completely speechless and absolutely terrified i was completely frozen in fear and i had no idea what to do i tried to say something but nothing came out he definitely sensed my fear and for some reason he just got up and left a sense of relief flooded me and i felt silly for overreacting that was until i heard jd other random colleague shouting get the [ __ ] back in there what are you doing this isn't what we discussed get the [ __ ] back in there and do what you were meant to do who gives a [ __ ] about that [ __ ] just get back in there and do what you need to do i ran to the bathroom and locked myself in because i was so scared but there was no way out and the only way out of the hotel room was through the front door and i had to walk past ricky and jd to get there i was so terrified i had a million thoughts rushing through my head and i had no idea what to do but i knew i had to escape i decided my only option was to just leave the room and be ready to defend myself if things were to go pear-shaped i threw my clothes on and grabbed my shoes i opened the door and ricky and jd were sitting on a couch close to the bedroom door jd said hey sexy where are you going in such a rush come and join us come here right now i said no thanks and ran to the front door and ripped it open when i got out i was so relieved but i was still in a random hotel in a random city with no way to contact my friend but i thought my best option was to go to the lobby and just wait as i was walking i heard two men yelling down the hall where are you we know you aren't too far away come back and join us you know you want to it was ricky and jd i was absolutely [ __ ] terrified by this point i began sprinting to the elevator i could hear them gaining on me i never knew i could run so fast but i just continued and didn't look back i felt like i was running forever until i reached the end of the corridor and my worst nightmare had come true i missed the turn off of the elevator [ __ ] idiot so i had to turn and run back towards where i could hear ricky and jd still yelling down the hallway i found the elevator and got in i could hear their voices getting louder and louder and i didn't want to imagine what would happen if they got into the elevator with me the door finally closed after what felt like a lifetime i thought i would go down to the lobby and just wait there because at least there would be people there so there would be some form of safety i got to the lobby and realized that there was no one in sight no one at all not even behind the desk i sat on a couch and didn't know what to do with myself i was absolutely terrified that ricky and jd would come to the lobby then i heard the elevator ding and the door open my heart dropped but it was andrew i told him what had happened and he was outraged that his colleagues did that and he took me to where my best friend was everything turned out fine but it could have been a lot worse so ricky and jd let's never meet again this story begins in eighth grade for context i am a white female and was struggling with really bad depression and self-harm 7th grade to 10th two years clean depression had a big impact on my memory so some sections of my childhood and this time is completely blank so this is as close as i can remember it but that might not be 100 accurate at the end of eighth grade one of my close male friends tom invited me to his birthday party there was about 10 guys there and me and my best friend female i knew about nine of the guys there but one i didn't recognize this party took place in a garden playground we played hide and go seek tag and capture the flag with fake swords as the sun began to set tom wanted to play hide and go seek in the dark there was a dark tunnel that went from the play structure to the rest of the park a majority of us started to run to the tunnel to go hide suddenly halfway through hands shot out and tried to grab people's ankles i tripped and landed on my hands and knees the second my hands hit the ground a foot hit my legs as i tripped someone else the hands in the dark laughed as tim's friends came out from the dark the person who tripped over me turned out to be the person i had never met we went to a bench right outside the tunnel to check for wounds and patch ourselves up we got acquainted and he introduced himself as davidson whitaker iii he was polite kind and easy on the eyes we had some stuff in common his birthday was the same as my father's and he was outgoing and an extrovert exactly what i needed to be a more rounded person the rest of the night was a blur but we spent most of the night talking as the party was coming to an end and people's parents were coming to pick them up he asked for my number in addition to my best friends he did it in a way that he only really wanted my number but wanted to be polite he never seemed creepy in doing this he wasn't unsettling he was just a cute boy asking for my number davidson or has he let me call him davis and i spent the next month or so texting almost non-stop every day i felt beautiful and wanted it was comforting at some point we became more than friends we were suddenly dating but i never wanted to go on a date i think he convinced me to go on some date as a group to some movie but i don't remember it the only proof i have of this exchange is a ticket stub and his word he finally convinced me to go on a real date i wore some jean shorts and a t-shirt he chose the location of a museum in the city if you know me you wouldn't know there's only three museums i like in the whole world and i hate normal museums as a kid my mom forced me to go to all of them whenever we traveled and i got sick of them quickly he picked me up from my house and now knew where i lived i didn't think anything of it at the time after we went to the museum i went out to dinner with him and my mom at my favorite thai place i even have an awkward photo to remember that moment by after the date however he sent me lewd thoughts he had that whole date with me he had attempted sexting before but i wasn't that involved i'd send a yeah or a daddy every 20 lines or so i've always been a people pleaser in both ways and just wanted him to be happy but this time felt off it felt real i couldn't pretend someone else was sexting him it was about me and i didn't like that it made me feel uncomfortable and so i just buried that feeling deep this was the first thing that felt off about him after that things got worse i wanted space sometimes and he didn't like that i would take a 30 minute shower and get back to 50 to 100 messages from him he started to make it racial he is african-american and kept on talking about how i needed some of his cocoa my family is from the deep south so anything racial makes me deeply uncomfortable his messages got more explicit he would detail any wet dream he had about me and how it made him feel it all made me so uncomfortable finally i had had enough i told him it was over and we needed to stop it had only been about two to three months but i couldn't take it anymore i said no he argued he said it wasn't fair he said i needed him he said he cared about me he said i was the only one i said no again that didn't matter to him we were meant to be and my no meant nothing to him that scared me i told him i wouldn't feel safe anymore around him and how much i hated what he was doing i told him that i wasn't comfortable anymore because he didn't know the meaning of no because i was scared he was going to rape me he said he'd never hurt me i told him to stay away from me from my house he showed up at my doorstep my parents invited him in because they thought we were still dating i was so ashamed it wasn't working out that i just couldn't say anything he stayed for food before i was able to get him out i told my parents shortly after he left to never let him return he continued with the one-sided sexting he sent nudes he sent 13 red roses when i didn't talk to him for a week i threw the roses out the window i've always hated flowers because they died too quickly but he never bothered to ask he showed up at my doorstep again even when i begged him not to my dad told him through the door to go away as i cowered in our living room he scared me so much i was never safe every guy around his height with his haircut gave me a fright i was terrified he would see me and rape me i got a boyfriend freshman year john a timid guy who i could break if i hugged him too hard john's heart was made of gold he made me feel safe yet davis persisted he texted me daily begging me to stop cheating he thought we had been dating this whole time i tried everything besides disengaging i told him i was gay now not entirely wrong i told him i was transitioning to male he is very straight and this was never meant to belittle trans individuals yet what shook him the most was when i gave myself an undercut not my hair he traded it like i was damaging his property this persisted unrelated to him i went to a therapeutic boarding school ended freshman year i got the help and support i needed because i had tried to kill myself during freshman year i got better and off my depression meds i was gone from technology and texting for 13 months and 12 days i thought i was better when i came back that i had matured and could handle him i messaged him august 20th beginning of junior year that i thought we could work it out almost verbatim he said all those other girls meant nothing you were the only one for me and he also said that we had been dating since that night in eighth grade i was naive and i thought i was in control so we tried to make it work it out i had two rules one you will never ever see me in person two i initiate when we talk i still felt scared of him and these rules made me feel safe he told me he drove by my house every time he went to swim practice and that he missed me i was having none of it i said he had three chances and it was over but he probably broke them 20 times junior year september i got back with john he made me feel safe i told him about davis and he was nicer than he should have been about my mistakes with him we laughed at the stuff davis said but deep down i was scared i am scared i had enough when i was scrolling back through our old messages i said no and he replied but my [ __ ] says yes i told him i was done and i blocked him in november i unblocked him on valentine's day and he sent about 20 messages of how much he missed me in the exact day count since i had last talked to him it scared me i blocked him immediately without replying my 18th birthday was riddled with fear because i told davis that i wouldn't have sex with him until i was 18 because of morals or whatever that's what i thought at the time but now i know it was just fear he knows my school he knows my address my current best friend is trained in martial arts and self-defense for a decade so i hung to her all day which should have been an exciting day of adulthood was riddled with fear that he would show up i haven't unblocked him since last valentine's day i haven't talked to him in almost a year and a half yet i'm still scared some days scared that the man who is obsessed with me is right around the corner when i was five years of age we took a road trip as was common in our family up to upstate new york to see my grandmother on my father's side as well as to tour around the countryside a bit there we were in rural upstate away from the region in which my grandmother actually lives and we were planning on staying in a bed and breakfast my father had booked ahead of time it had been an unexpectedly long drive due to weather complications and when we found the bnb in question we were all quite tired we went up to the door to check in and a woman missing her two front teeth on both jaws answered she invited us in but warned us that they didn't have any rooms for the night they were booked solid my father protested that he had made the arrangements in advance but she said she knew another hotel that had vacancies just up the way and she would give them a call and she assured him they would offer the same rates but first she insisted on showing my parents around as her husband was an artist and she wanted to show them his studio and famous artwork we were all invited in but after seeing the first few pieces of naked women missing their front teeth bound or being tortured in various ways my parents opted to leave the kids outside with grandma apparently most of the rooms were full to the ceilings with similarly foreboding images of dead or dying people with the occasional sculpture of menacing animals my parents were a bit creeped out but just figured these people were eccentric and they had dodged a bullet by ending up somewhere else we all waited out back while the woman called her friend beside a pit containing what could have been nothing other than an altar covered with pentagrams my mother mentioned that it seemed strange that not only had they not met the husband who was supposedly there somewhere having toured the entire house but there hadn't been a single sign of life or piece of luggage suggesting that anyone else was actually staying in any of the guest bedrooms in the supposedly fully booked bnb a side note that's probably not worth mentioning but that i found strange when my mother brought it up while telling the story later as i was five at the time a lot of the story has been narrated to me after the fact by different people who were involved on some level was that we stopped by a park to stretch our legs at some point before proceeding to the next place the storm was closing in on us and my parents wanted to be sure we had zero energy upon arrival while in this park my mother claims that one of us found and brought to her a small package with a pendant on it the pendant was a pentagram on one side with the third reich symbol on the other my mother took it away and put it in her purse we arrived at the next bed and breakfast to be greeted by a different woman also conspicuously missing her front two teeth upper and lower it was about this time that my grandmother mentioned that she had read a lot of articles recently about tourists being killed by some cult of satanists or some such in this area great she tended to tell a lot of tall tales so i think my parents kind of rolled their eyes and dismissed it but they made a point to mention it later the storm was now upon us we were all exhausted and there was nowhere else to stay that we could find anywhere near there my dad decided we would make do with whatever they had to offer what they had to offer was a slightly renovated barn during the bustle of moving our luggage in the woman kept inviting my brother three and i into the house saying she had some sweets and wouldn't we like to meet her kitties she made it clear however that my parents were not welcome into the house because it was too messy and she would be embarrassed we were herded away into the barn and told not to talk to the lady once inside my father who was by this time a bit creeped out went about checking the beds and securing the one room barn unit the windows had no coverings whatsoever and the doors had no locks we placed pillows from the couches in the window frames and my dad grabbed a dresser against one wall to block the door when he went to move the dresser he discovered it was on wheels which was completely silent he also noticed that the wall behind it moved a little when he shifted the dresser when he scrutinized the wall he found a seam he pushed on the wall and it gave way two invisible doors opening outwards into the night and just outside was a dark colored van which had been backed up to the opening livid my dad went about rearranging all the furniture in the room stacking the heaviest against the outward swinging doors and moving the mobile dresser with various loud objects behind it against the main door when he had completed this and we were all starting to settle down at about 11 pm the woman brought us fresh baked blueberry muffins now as i mentioned before i don't remember much of this trip but this is one element i have a vivid recollection of with the inclement weather and the rush to find a place to stay complimented by the lack of restaurants not anything in the area we hadn't had what one might consider a proper meal when you're five dinner is very important the muffins were fresh baked and smelled heavenly i wanted one more than i wanted anything else in the world however presuming probably correctly that they were poisoned or something was seriously wrong about them since this entire thing was beginning to feel like a horror movie my mother absolutely forbid us from even going near them she put them on a high shelf and sent us to bed i was so angry i went to bed hungry and irritable only two things happened that night that i could recall my parents slept very lightly when it all as you might imagine they claim they kept hearing talking outside my sister woke us all with a blood curdling scream around 1am for reasons unknown as she was usually a very quiet baby when my parents got up and milled for about an hour trying to get her back to bed my mom noticed something on the wall as she was walking her around and called my father over what i would later learn was that the picture hanging to one side of the door that during the daylight seemed to be logs in a recently extinguished fire pit and a tranquil forest scene was by night unmistakably burning corpses with a hooded smoky figure looming over them we got up the next morning packed up early and waited for the lady to get up so we could pay and leave while my parents were packing the bags the woman came around back and gave my brother and i small wooden cats carved into the form of napkin holders each a different color that she had written little notes on as my father was paying after loading us into the car my mom began kicking the gravel around on the drive absent-mindedly the woman came over to say goodbye and to wave to us with her gaped grin and my mother noticed that she was trying to discreetly recover the tiles that she was uncovering under the gravel before driving off my mother got back out of the car and uncovered one of the tiles and she claims it was the same pentagram with third reich symbol within it that she had seen a similar version of in the park prompting her to notice as we drove away that the necklace was no longer in her purse the likelihood of it simply falling out of the purse pocket she had placed it in was as she put it quite unlikely people listening to this story seemed appalled at the fact that i still have that little wooden cat that the nice lady gave me sitting in my bedroom i know this all sounds very strange but i can only assure you that it matches well with my memory of the events and all of the adults who were there tell the same story and two of them are not known to extrapolate at all personally i'm glad it's just a weird story we look back on with confusion and that nothing stranger happened that night update according to my mother whom i spoke to today it was near millbrook and one was a farm the other was an old mill i actually found the website for the bnb it's still running but with different owners i don't know that i should post the link however they seem like nice people who have improved it quite a lot here are the photos of the cat the woman gave me as a kid i just thought it was a cool old building with some cats and a nice lady so i have kept this for over 20 years about three years ago i was driving to my dad's house from across state in pennsylvania he lived far out in the country down a desolate paved road that crossed with an old dirt road as well as some unused railroad tracks the entire area was surrounded by deep woods and unused farming fields there were a couple of dilapidated old houses an old well and a few old cemeteries nearby i arrived at those crossroads i mentioned earlier after being on the road for about four hours and i decided to pull over and relieve myself i stopped my truck about 60 feet from said crossroad close to a small farm shed with some old equipment in it there was a single light bulb on the side of the shed providing the only source of light in the nearly pitch black darkness of the night on the opposite side of the road from the shed was a steep drop off into the ditch on the other side of some dense woods as i was peeing in the dark by the shed i was suddenly overwhelmed by a massive feeling of dread like someone had just punched me directly in the gut i had been around these woods all my life and i used to walk around the area at night as a teenager and i assure you that i had never felt as scared as i did in that exact moment i quickly finished up and goaded on my sudden sense of panic i ran back to my truck got in and locked the doors i flicked the headlights on and cracked the engine so badly that you could hear the gears grinding but all i cared about was getting out of there as soon as i began to turn back onto the road from the shoulder my headlights shone over the ditch and picked something up on the other side of the road about a foot from the asphalt my stomach immediately sank again there was something crawling out of the ditch on all fours it was hunkered down like an animal but its body looked almost human a human that was attempting to mimic a stalking animal it didn't look hairy but it was a uniform color almost yellow not yellow like a cougar or a lion but a sickly yellow that reminded me of jaundice skin its head was shaped like an oval but had no hair or ears that i could see the mouth was very very wide and looked like a thin straight line that extended all the way across the creature's face it was very very slightly upturned at the edges like a slight smile his eyes were very small and beady just like two black pinpoints it had no nose or any facial features aside from the mouth and eyes since i was around seven feet from it i'm certain it wasn't just a person wearing a mask even the body sort of seemed wrong but i can't pinpoint why i couldn't see feet or hands since there was about a foot of grass at the edge of the road whatever it was i'd say it was about the size of a 12 year old as soon as my lights hit it i could tell by its movements that it had been in the process of slowly creeping up the ditch to the road and when my lights hit it it sort of retracted slightly like it was surprised that it had been discovered i didn't stick around long enough to see what was going to go down next i floored the gas and flew all the way to my dad's house and stayed up the entire night freaked out the part of the experience that still utterly scares me to this day is that whatever i saw was definitely stalking up that ditch to get me when i had my back turned to it otherwise i can't possibly explain what had triggered those emotions when i stood there in the darkness with my guard completely down the only thing that came close to that sudden realization of grave danger was when i was nearly struck by a speeding car on a city street many years ago i don't know what could have happened if i had lingered around for a few minutes longer but i'd rather not think about it my niece got a little doll as a gift last year it was from a family member who has a not so good reputation with us this person has tried to use local witchcraft stuff towards my family in the past not that i believe in it much but it's still family so my sister accepted it and we took the doll home everything was fine before in that house my bedroom is located next to the living room while the others are a bit farther away crossing the living room in the hallway i only come for the holidays and i had been there for a week everything was normal i get to hear a lot of noise coming from the upper floor we have a dog there and from the neighbors because my room is directly above their backyard the night we brought the doll everything was quiet because it was the day after new year's everybody was sleeping after the celebrations and i was on my laptop talking to some friends suddenly i hear footsteps right outside my bedroom it didn't bother me because it could have been my sister's husband they were heavy footsteps like boots or men's shoes it sounded like they were crossing the hallway then the living room then finished on the kitchen immediately i heard the water on the kitchen sink running and the sound of dishes being washed it was odd because it was 1 15 am but it could have been someone washing the baby bottles i kept on listening after 5 minutes i heard my niece's playground being dragged from the hallway where it was kept to the living room it does a very distinctive noise and i'm 100 sure it was what i heard the noise kept going for a good 10 minutes or so i wrote my sister to find out if everything was fine but got no response after that i kept hearing these footsteps my dog was very nervous and barked at me when i tried to open the door to check out what was happening so i just stayed in the room i checked the time at this point it was 1 43 am and the sounds were still going until they suddenly stopped i went to sleep trying not to think too hard about it the next morning my sister calls me on the phone and tells me to get out of my room i did i went to the hallway and my mom sister and her husband were all there my sister asked me if i had put my niece's stroller in front of her bedroom door if i had moved the playground station i said no and told them about all the noises i had heard last night i thought they weren't going to believe me but it turns out that when my sister came out of her bedroom in the morning she found the stroller moved she put it in the right place and went to go get the baby bottles then move back to the room after that her husband got out to drink some water and found the stroller again in front of the door he moved it back to where it was supposed to be and on his way back asked my sister why she had put her stroller in front of the bedroom door they noticed there was something very weird about the situation saw my text from last night and decided to call me we started to freak out a bit and when i randomly grabbed the doll that was on the stroller i noticed a strong smell emanating from it like dry saliva it was nauseating it wasn't there the night before and nobody had touched the thing it was still in the gift bag my sister's husband got scared about that fact and decided to throw away the doll that night everything was calm again so growing up in a working-class latino family we didn't have the luxury of taking lavish vacations throughout the year however they didn't stop us from exploring the natural wonders of southern california through camping at a young age my sister and i understood the value of camping through our shared respect for mother nature over time we mastered surviving in the outdoors so much so that we desired to explore new campgrounds throughout the state on one such occasion a co-worker of my father overheard him talking about his summer vacation plans and suggested to him a new campground to check out to this day my parents nor i are unable to remember the name of the campsite yet we all agree that it was somewhere in the hills of san diego county my father was excited for the prospect of visiting a new national park and packed up the car for the customary family summer retreat the drive up to the campsite was long and dangerous even though we were driving during the day the steepness of the mountain coupled with the numerous blind turns had everyone sitting on the edge of their seats argument soon erupted amongst us as we didn't find any signs indicating where to go this was in the age before smartphones and gps eventually we convinced our father to stop and ask for directions as the campground came into view we all let a collective sigh of relief we made it and yet the place did not look like it was a national park at all there wasn't a ranger station or a welcome center anywhere in sight the lake appeared murky like a bog whereas the campground itself was devoid of life a proverbial ghost town with the only inhabitants being us with our bewilderment aside we cautiously surveyed the area finding any clues that will guide us to the keeper of this place out in the distance we saw a crumbling open sign dangling in the window of a dilapidated diner just as the sign implied we entered the establishment to inquire about the place pushing the creaking door open we were greeted by the owner of the diner a gaunt looking man who i would now say was plucked straight out of the movie the hills have eyes well how can i help you all folks on this fine day my dad replied we made reservations to camp here but i'm not sure if this is the right place we then handed the man our booking papers for him to inspect with his bony fingers grasping the pages he replied yeah yeah you have the right place i'm the grounds keeper of this here national park let me finish some paperwork on my hand and i'll get things ready for you and your family to stay here with us as he wobbled off to the back of the diner my sister and i retreated to the safety of our car although we were children at the time we both felt a sense of unease even dread at the thought of spending the night here despite our worries our parents reassured us that the vacation had only just begun albeit with a few bumps along the way as we neared the site all of our concerns were tossed out the window as it was time to transform this empty lot into our secure encampment the rest of the day came and went as our campsite was beginning to take shape the sounds of our radio along with the rhythmic banging of the hammer were the only echoes greeting us as the sun began to set this detail stood out to me and due to the fact it was early july here in southern california and there are always people camping around this time in either case we all just brushed it aside and thought that more people would arrive by tomorrow and they did on the following day of the trip my father went fishing at the lake while he was off on his own adventure my sister and i decided that it was time to have one of our own recruiting the aid of our mother we set out to explore the campgrounds to our surprise in elation we discovered that this campground had its own public swimming pool with our minds made up the three of us got into our bathing suits slathered on the sunscreen and made our way to the pool soon my sister and i were splashing around in the water without a care in the world until i noticed three suspicious men dressed entirely in black they came and sat at one of the chairs at the opposite end of the pool from where our mother was watching us at first i thought the men were new campers that had recently arrived at the grounds to examine the swimming pool but to my dismay the men just huddled around each other and whispered incomprehensible things while staring intently at the two of us my mother's instincts caught on to the predatory behavior and she decided to cut our excursion to the swimming pool short when my father arrived from the lake he said he was unable to catch any fish and that the fish he did find were all belly up dead in the water my mother then informed my father of the three suspicious looking men eyeing my sister and i at the pool this infuriated him my father brandishing his machete stormed out in search of the group of men ostensibly to talk some sense into them some time passed my father arrived back at the campsite dismayed that he did not find the men only a mother and her two little boys this point may sound insignificant at first but will become important later in the story as night fell my sister and i were preparing to go to sleep when we were suddenly jolted awake by the pleading screams of a woman her pleas were joined by the cries of two young children and various male voices demanding their silence my father recognized the woman's voice as the mother he saw earlier in the day camping alone with her two kids my father who is a former marine loaded his rifle and concealed his hunting knife he then proceeded to tell my mother to take care of us while handing her a loaded gun i then saw my father head out towards the campsite where the single mother and her children were staying my sister and i were petrified when we noticed the terror stricken look on our mother's face as the yelling escalated two thunderous bangs from the rifle rang out which put an end to the chaos seconds later we heard the crackling branches closing in as someone moved quickly towards us my mother with eyes wide and knuckles clenched aimed into the darkness ready to protect us at all costs to our relief my father emerged from the shadows with a fearful mother and her two sobbing children my father then claimed that he scared off the men who were harassing us at the pool and will be helping the mother pack her things to leave to ensure that they made their way down the mountain safely my father offered to follow her in our car until she got to the main highway in a moment of reprieve the woman held her children tight we all assured her that their safety was of the utmost importance and knowing my father any form of aggression needs to be handled quickly with pleasantries aside my father departed yet again to help the mother pack up her campsite and leave this backwater excuse for a national park the few rays of sunlight that streamed into our tent signaled the start of a new day since our father had left to escort the small family from the imminent danger with a look of apprehension on my mother's face my sister and i started to pack up camp knowing all too well that we did not want to risk our lives spending another night at this place i was making my way to the bathrooms when my eye caught the glimpse of our car slowly making its way back to camp i ran back to tell my mother and sister who noticed the car as well and soon the bloodshot eyes of my father behind the wheel came into view as he exited the car he informed us that the mother and her children made it safely to the highway this was then followed by a long pause with my father saying now let's get the hell out of here ourselves with that we all took our positions and packed up the rest of our camping gear before leading this godforsaken place my father informed the owner of the diner about what happened last night and about the three suspicious looking men the only thing that the emaciated looking man said was well it's a damn shame that you and your family can't stay here a little longer we then hightailed it out of there like bats out of hell vowing never to return ever since this horror wing experience my family and i have been unable to get my sister to go camping again as time went on i decided to ask my father where he had heard about that awful place to which he added a new detail not previously disclosed he mentioned that upon returning to work he wanted to confront his co-worker about the horrible camping recommendation he gave when he tried to locate him another co-worker stated that the same man quit a couple of days before my father was going to return from vacation my father was left speechless and confused upon hearing this was the man somehow connected to those three men if so what were their motives for harassing a family out in the middle of nowhere the answers to these questions we will never know but what i do know is this if my father did not intervene on that fateful night that single mother and her kids would have met a fate far worse than a failed camping trip timothy applied glue to his forehead and a little under his chin in order to secure his mask he'd be a monster a hideous troll hideous enough to conceal his real identity he'd been struck with morphia a rare condition which with time mutates skin and in severe cases even bone he was now 13 and the disease made him look like a monster worse than the mask that he would hide behind he watched himself in the bathroom mirror as he carefully applied the fake green hair then the mask he'd worn the mask each halloween for the last three years and was looking forward to again being a regular kid for that one night this was the only time he could disguise himself the other kids couldn't tell that there was anything abnormal or disgusting under the mask for this one night he could avoid their frightened looks and cruel laughter so timothy went out on his own even though his mother would not have wanted it it was a cold night in haleyville maple leaves had turned the fiery crimson yellow of indian summer it had rained earlier that day sticking wet multi-colored leaves to the sidewalk at dusk carefree goons and goblins splashed through puddles of idol rainwater running to ring doorbells they zeroed in on houses decorated with lighted styrofoam gravestones or plastic black cats these promise to deliver goodies after yelling trick or treat timothy the monster followed three or four smaller kids to a house that featured flashing lightning and a cackling witch on the porch as he cautiously stepped up to the door a hobo kid ran right into him almost knocking him over they both tried for the bell but the monster won out as the door opened they yelled trick or treat trick or treat only one candy each was carefully dropped into their bags a little dismayed they walked back to the sidewalk together hobo exclaimed i like it better when they let you pick the ones you want don't you there were some snickers in there i guess they're saving those for someone else said monster hobo suddenly recalled hey i know a house where they got candy apples let's go said monster hobo paused hey what's your name anyway timothy side monster no your real name dodo my friends call me tim he really hadn't had any friends but it sounded good to say it that way my name's sean i live on baker hey let's get going before all the candy apples are gone okay replied monster and together they ran down the darkening street before they got to the apple house they bumped into sean's other friends there was bobby as a scruffy davy crockett arnold was wolfman and superman whose real name was jimmy lance dressed as dracula this is my new friend tim said hobo but you can call a monster we're going to get some candy apples wanna come just been there they're all out wolfman disappointingly reported dracula came running up to the boys sweaty and out of breath there was this car full of teenagers i i threw an egg and it splattered all over the windshield suddenly came the sound of screeching tires as the car whipped around the corner oh [ __ ] here they come the blue car screeched to a stop all four doors burst open four seniors some wearing leather jackets rushed towards the boys the superheroes scattered they caught davy crockett by the arm and waved a tire iron in his face threatening to brain whoever threw the egg davey cleverly let a fresh one that he was holding behind his back slipped from his hand where it luckily fell into a low hedge as the teenagers were sure they had thoroughly intimidated the younger boys the driver yelled from the car hey guys let's go leave these little pucks alone and just as fast as it had come the blue hot rod burned rubber and was gone that was close whispered a relieved superman then came the third degree dracula started asking monster some uncomfortable questions so what school you go to what grade you where do you live then monster made an unforced error maple street i live on maple street why wolf man questioned is that where that really creepy guy lives on maple my sister said she saw him once in his backyard scared her stiff she ran all the way home it was a real monster she said dracula seeing an opportunity for more mischief retorted hey guys let's go over to the monster house in eggette hobo intuitively shook his head no i don't think that's a good idea what little hobo scared taunted wolf man dracula joined in it's halloween man we got some treats let's do some tricks yeah let's go they agreed that is except hobo and monster outvoted they followed along as they all walked toward the monster house they only had a short way to go just around the corner to elm then maple there were no street lamps on the block except for the pale amber light of a half moon and a lone jack-o'-lantern on the porch the monster house was eerily dark the superheroes silently stood there for a moment is that it superman whispered although the house itself was just about the same as all the other houses on the block davey crockett exclaimed looks kind of creepy doesn't it are you sure that's where the monster lives dracula question wolf man eagerly bellowed where's the eggs hobo tried to stop it before it started we might get in trouble he hesitated dracula sarcastically chided we might get in trouble we might get in trouble then he threw the first egg hitting the front door cool exclaimed superman give me one on that dark halloween night there was suddenly the wild frenzy of flying eggs then the stomping of the jack-o'-lantern timothy saw the madden glee in their eyes as they chanted monster monster monster monster monster monster stop he cried out stop it he pushed dracula dracula pushed back they tussled to the ground punching kicking and yelling then the unthinkable happened timothy's mask came off in the dim light his face looked even worse than it really was there was a collective gasp at the monster he'd been hiding all along stepping back in shock and disgust someone called out oh my god it's the monster their collective jaws dropped their eyes now were wide open in shock hobo knelt to the ground by the friendly monster side who was by then completely humiliated that's enough demanded hobo leave him alone over with the initial scare davy crockett giggled [Laughter] everyone except hobo was uncontrollably laughing at the hideous monster that just moments before had been a regular kid suddenly lights went on in the house timothy's mother opened the front door wolfman shouted let's get out of here and the giggling gang quickly escaped around the corner that halloween had turned into timothy's worst nightmare once again he'd been laughed at and humiliated but out of that humiliation he found a friend he remembered what his mother had told him you'll know who your true friends are especially in your darkest hour hobo sean finally asked so will you ever get better timothy explained what morphea was and that within a few years it was expected to run its course and he'd be just fine as they grew up together where one was so was the other they were college roommates best man at each other's weddings and lifelong friends over the years they shared countless laughs remembering the scared looks on those boys faces that halloween shawn became a doctor of rare diseases ironically timothy became a writer of horror novels it's been over 40 years they both have wonderful lives that was the night timothy found his best friend it happened just that way i know i was monster i worked as a flight attendant for a few years when i decided to take an extended sabbatical from college there were a handful of let's not meet situations that i encountered but one in particular still makes my skin crawl more than any other i was born and raised in texas but had moved to new york when i was 21 so when i found out at the beginning of a week-long trip that i'd have a couple of overnights in austin i was super excited to go to my home state for a few days my brother lived just north of the city and we planned to hang out and go to dinner the night i arrived when he got off work the following day we were going to meet up with our dad who only lived about an hour away so i get to the hotel downtown the crew and i check in then we each head off to our own rooms a short elevator ride and i get to mine we're not even five minutes later there's a loud hard knock on the door it was only around one or two pm and i hadn't called either my dad or brother to let them know i was in town yet they definitely wouldn't know what my room was i assumed it was maybe one of my crew mates so i headed over to the door before even making it to the door however a loud male voice boomed on the other side the front desk sent me about the bathroom problem you called in before he tried to open the door unlock the door and open up miss i need in now i froze in my tracks i hadn't even been in the bathroom yet let alone called anything to the front desk i'm a fairly petite chick and while i take no [ __ ] from anyone despite my size i still err on the side of caution slowly inching toward the door i look out of my peephole all i could tell was that the man on the other side was at least six foot tall easily over double my height no way in hell i was going to unlock the door i responded to the man telling him that he must have had the wrong room he continued to pound away while constantly turning the handle telling me that he kneed it in and he was getting in one way or another i panicked but thankfully i had the sense to grab the phone and call the front desk and the concierge confirmed that they had neither sent anyone up to my room nor had they received a call about the bathroom the entire time this [ __ ] guy was still determined to get into my room pounding and yelling luckily for me the front desk had dispatched security to my floor right away when the security officer stepped off the elevator a few seconds later i can hear them in the hall approach and ask the man who he was what he was doing and telling him he needed to leave the hotel he immediately got hostile and the front desk clerk i'm still on the phone with tells me the police have been called and were on their way in the meantime i was trapped in my room scared shitless long story short the cops show up pretty quickly and arrested the guy for trespassing and criminal menacing or some [ __ ] i later found out that the man was wanted in connection to a string of break-ins and violent sexual assaults in austin he had seen and stalked me from the minute i entered the hotel lobby apparently i was exactly his type of victim nothing else happened after that but it still rattled the [ __ ] out of me for the rest of my stay in this hotel

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