30 TRUE SCARY STORIES #5

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one I'm female was 18 or 19 at the time and working as a receptionist in the offices of an electronics company in Ontario the building where I worked with two stories the first floor were my death was consisted of my reception room the lunch room and some meeting rooms all the other employees around 20 of them worked in cubicles upstairs as a receptionist part of my job was to receive and sign for all deliveries typically I would be interacting with the same delivery guys every day then one company put a new guy on a route I wasn't too alarmed with him at first I was pretty friendly with everyone would have some small talk about how their days were and such this new guy would only want to talk about me though how I liked my job if I was happy that day etc wasn't too bad but then the small talk stopped and he started with the compliments nayaa you are so beautiful I guess I didn't mind that this wasn't something I was used to hearing what weirded me out is that that's all he would say sometimes repeating himself two or three times he began to say much longer than necessary at the office even sometimes popping in when he wouldn't have a delivery he would compliment me and then sigh loudly and lean on my desk when I wouldn't respond after one delivery when he was lynnie on my desk I looked up and he was staring at me smiling getting frustrated I asked if I could help them can I sit yes and pointed behind my desk I asked him what he meant I want to sit with you and what she worked before I could respond he began to walk around my desk and was really invading my personal space thankfully at that moment someone began walking down the stairs beside my desk and the delivery guy grabbed his paperwork and left for a few days everything was normal and his creep level went down a lot now usually I would drive one of my parents cars to work in our parking lot we would have a bunch of cars in it none of them with any identifiable features the only time I would ever be near my car was when I was getting to work or leaving this particular day I was dropped off at work so my car wasn't there delivery guy rushes in at his usual time looking worried he sees me and there is obviously relief before I can say anything he blurts out nyaaa where's your car I was scared I wouldn't see you today I stammered that I had gotten dropped off freaked out that he knew which car was mine and then the question started coming is it broken who dropped you off - you have a boyfriend he started to get a little upset asking these questions in quick succession I didn't answer and quickly signed the papers he had in front of me I didn't look at him and he eventually left I made a comment to my boss that day that the delivery guy had made me pretty uncomfortable just mentioned that some of the things he would say were a little strange I don't know if she called and asked for the drivers to be switched but I was really glad when I never saw him again - so I'll start with landscape background so you can better understand the story my boyfriend and I live in a little house right in the middle of all the businesses in our town our backyard is facing a sort of alley and our front yard is facing the main road it is a parking lot on one side and a strip mall type building with about five or so businesses in it one summer night me boyfriend and his cousin are all sitting in the backyard having a fire and a few drinks when this random older man wanders in our yard and asks if he could join we didn't have a fence at the time so we were kind of used to people wandering in trying to join our fun most times we just tell them as a closed party and they will leave without a prompt sometimes they won't leave but those are whole other stories but this guy mentions he owns a computer store next door so boyfriend being the neighborly type tells him he can sit and offers him a beer couldn't hurt to know a local business owner right well about 5 to 10 minutes into him being there he reaches in his pocket and pulls out some pills and says they're ecstasy and asks if we want some we tell him no thanks buddy but go hard he then starts very persistently trying to push these pills on me Oh have some fun he keeps saying so this pisses off boyfriend and he tells him to get lost and not so many nice words then after that I see him every day between noon and 2:00 like clockwork walking past my house to the liquor store he always has his little dog with him and stomps at my front yard to let his dog to his business I think he does this on purpose to drive my dogs nuts and get them barking because there's like a thousand other spawns for his dog to go anyway fast forward about a year I'm home alone waiting for boyfriend to get home from work being a cautious young lady I always lock my doors when I'm home alone so it's like 9:30 or 10:00 and I hear screeching tires outside and see headlights canna shining through the cracks of my curtains then I hear yelling so now I run outside to see what's going on and his boyfriend and his cousin they caught creepy computer guy but two feet away facing my living room window where I was watching TV trying to peek in at me but just retelling the story gives me the creeps imagine if I forgot to lock the doors or fell asleep on the couch with my curtains open I'm not sure exactly what he was up to but it couldn't have been any good if he was creeping late at night now he walks clear across the street to get his beer he won't even face our house I know this because I stare him down every time and sometimes I open my curtain fast to try catch him in the act myself the freaky the night boyfriend got a security camera so I'll update if we ever catch that creeper or any other creeper 3 although it is not my first time struggling with someone with mal-intent this is my first time posting so bear with me a bit of background I'm a very small person both in size and in personality I am a 5-2 Mick female with a pearl equip it a for staring at the ground as she walks and assuming the best in people when I really should be running the opposite direction in short I'm an easy target for people like the man I'm about to describe I live about a six-hour train ride from the college I currently attend fortunately the train tickets are very cheap so I'm able to visit home rather frequently my mother had just dropped me off at this train station in order for me to take my first train back to school I had already bought my ticket and was there a bit early so I decided to sit down in the foyer of the train station and here's the Wi-Fi to watch some podcasts and a very anxious person when it comes to being on time for trains so I kept frequently looking at the departure board to watch for my train after at least a half hour I finally noticed that my train wasn't going to the stop I needed to go to the tracks had needed maintenance and I had forgotten to check the train website before I planned my return trip having no idea how to return to school I called my mom told her the problem she said that she would return in about an hour due to traffic problems no big deal I would just sit there quietly and wait except he decided to sit next to me he was a young man probably in his late 20s tirelessly dressed and groomed he looked entirely harmless I ignored him and continued to watch my podcast a few moments later right here a slight mumbling in his direction and fill a light tap on my shoulders pulling my earbuds out I turned and see that the stylish man was trying to instigate a conversation by asking what I was watching as mentioned above I saw the best in the stranger and answered his questions about the podcast I was listening to and we soon devolved into casual banter but as the conversation progressed I became more and more anxious he started asking more personal questions like my name my social media accounts where I went to school my age I lied on every question and specifically when I said I was 17 9 19 I meant to deter him from venturing into the creepy territory of flirting by saying I was underage unfortunately this did nothing rather it seemed to encourage him he complimented my appearance mentioned how we should hang out try to give me his number all the stereotypical creeper statements I faked answering my phone claiming my mother had called me and was almost here and that I was to wait for her outside the station I got up said goodbye and left I decided that since my mother was in fact not actually outside that I would grab myself a snack at the Starbucks go to the bathroom and then go outside to find some other place to hole up in I got in line at the Starbucks and when I got up front I hear him call out to me my heart drops in my chest and he starts talking about how it was funny we kept running into each other and that it must be destiny that we were to meet I avoided eye contact purchase my snack and bolted out of the store to the bathroom I do my business quickly and move to leave when I see him standing outside he hadn't seen me so I whirled back around and hide in a stall after a couple minutes I leave because the lion was getting long and I see him walk into the male bathroom adjacent to the female 1 and take my chance and run outside as far away from him as I can while still trying to stay surrounded by people and stay safe fortunately it seemed like I had lost him I stayed outside and ate my sandwich for another 20 minutes and then my mom showed up and I left a little shaken safe so creepy stylish man at the train station let's never ever meet again thank you for this happened just this past weekend somewhere between Temecula and rainbow California and the whole incident took about ten minutes long story short driving back home early afternoon from Palm Springs on what would be a two-hour drive earlier that day me and a male friend were out hiking on Montecito I was tired so I fell asleep on the first hour drive home this happened around 2:30 p.m. when we stopped for gas somewhere between Murrieta or Rainbow California the blazes well populated and even had a target down the road and was not far away from a freeway exit while my friend was pumping gas this team about aged 17 to 19 came up to my friend asking for a ride even said he'd pay I was just waking up from my nap so by the time I was fully awake I saw this teen already outside my passenger side door and my friend agreed to give the kid a lift I gave my friend the silent what the fuck dude look as they both got in the car but kept quiet as not to stir anything I wasn't able to get a good look at this teen but from my observation he was a white kid dark brown or black hair possibly 17 to 19 21 being the oldest they were all black possibly a beanie had a backpack and an older model LG phone or similar he smells strongly of weed and some other musk it looked like an emo kid to me moment creepy kid got into the car he went all crazy and weird tried to sell us drugs and weed was eying the beats headphone my friend was wearing attempting a trade for drugs trying to convince my friend to do a porn flick said there was good money in it kept telling my friend he can do a casting call for porn that they should shoot some videos and even gave bogus website on where to get bitches he spoke like a gangster wannabe and to be honest I barely understood what he was saying he also tried to ask for money which means he lied about having money for a ride in the first place he mumbled to himself a lot laughing at nothing to which I assumed he was really high off of his rockers creepy teen also told my friend the car was trash since Oliver camping gear was in the backseat his murdered would jump from super excited to super quiet and pretty I was quite to near silent this whole time and obviously scared what I did not know was that he could see my facial expressions which was mostly about to cry from the passenger side of your mirror the kid noticed this and asked me in a serious tone my acting weird and went really quiet from that point my friend tried to distract him a lot with small talk while I scanned the road for a possible escape plan every time we asked the kid where he should be dropped off as we originally agreed to drop him a few streets down the creepy teens tone changed and he says keep driving then would switch back into pimp happy mode I finally and quietly signaled my friend to drive onto a crowded exit where there was a diner and gas station at least there would be witnesses in case this goes south bad thank heavens for rush hour traffic wide we were doing a store stop because creepy teen noticed we exited then once we parked told him nicely and calmly he needs to go took a while to convince him to get out clearly creepy kid didn't like me I was scared out of my mind my friend's car was this old clunker stick shift it tends to die or sputter and the gears sometimes get stuck so it took us a good 10 to 15 seconds to get back out of the parking lot the creepy teen gave me a long I can tell he was pissed at me though he seems to have liked my friend by the time we pulled out I can see he was calling someone on his phone after we laughed and drove back to the freeway that's when I broke down and asked my friend why the hell he did such a stupid reckless thing as he was the most paranoid person I know when it comes to strangers friend told me that the teen originally approached him saying his mom either forgot to pick him up and he just needs a ride a few blocks down was almost close to tears - spoke normal although desperate when my friend said no the team motioned that he will ask for my permission and went straight for me I was still napping this creep was determined to get into our car my friend panicked and felt cornered as the creepy teen was about to go to my side of the passenger car so he decided to play along and do what the kid wants my friend doesn't do well with confrontations and in his panicked state of mind made a huge mistake he at least admitted he fucked up big time I pointed out the kid could have easily lured us somewhere we could have been jumped or godness carjacked and we are very lucky hopefully the kid was only a high and crazy runaway rather than a criminal this is a harsh lesson to my friend about the dangers of taking up hitchhikers on the road I also told my friend if he had money and a working cell he could have just taken the bus or called anyone for a ride from the gas station later that night I spoke to my cousin who is familiar with the area it told me that place has a huge transient and homelessness problem and is known for a lot of drug dens mostly meth and heroin since that kid if he was homeless had a working mobile phone it's possible he was a drug dealer and was luring as to his accomplices to get jumped and carjacked I guess we really were lucky I had a few more camping and road trips planned throughout the year I have to admit the experience rattled me bad and I had a few nightmares since I was a near victim once of a road assault so this brought back a lot of bad memories I just bought some pepper spray yesterday and will carefully plan our route for the next trip to be safe and travel with more people also we'll keep an eye on my coolest friend to make sure he doesn't pick up strange hitchhikers Edit as of this afternoon my friend's car got broken into and was stolen it took the police about two hours before they found the car abandoned in a Chinese restaurant the most expensive thing that was taken in the car was his Beats headphones five I was driving back to my college for my family's house after Thanksgiving break I was traveling through a rural area in the Midwest and I suddenly had the urge to pee badly I was reading all the road signs I came across to see if there was a nearby town that I could stop had to find a gas station or something to use the restrooms unfortunately the nearest aisle was 30 ish miles away and I had to pee so so badly it was unbearable I finally made the decision to get off at the next exit that I found even though they don't lead to any tons shortly after I pulled off on the next exit I came across a gravel road I thought this was perfect because I didn't want to get in trouble for exposing myself in front of anybody it was a very private road just so you were all aware I'm a female it is very difficult for females to pee on the side of the road I thought the best course of action would be to take my auntie McDonald's cup and pee into that I did just that inside of my car just in case anyone drove down the lonely road I had finished my business and dumped the cup I did not litter only dump the contents into the grass on the side of the road I was starting my car and getting ready to turn my car around back the way I came when I saw a bright red car speeding down the road I was on it startled me but they drove right on past I thought to myself must be the locals out messing around I started to drive off and I saw a dingy rusted red pickup truck coming down the road after the car they two drove past me as they passed though I saw two male passengers who were staring straight at me this freaks me out but I told myself all the more reason to get a move on I still kept my eye on the pickup truck though and I saw them turning around coming straight at me this freaks me out so much I decided the best course of action would be to drive in their direction continuing on the gravel road as opposed to turning around giving them opportunity to chase after me I drove right by the Macan and saw that they were grinning at me I was so scared I had the gas which on gravel road doesn't do much good I finally got a grip on the road and headed along the gravel road I looked in my rearview mirror and they were following me again I was freaked out my hands were shaking my foot was flooring the accelerator and I reached for my phone now I'm not the person to call 911 in just any situation in fact I was scared to call 9-1-1 because I was afraid I was just being paranoid but as I looked in my rearview mirror again and saw them gaining on me I called the police when I called the police the operator picked up and I explained to her what was happening during this phone call the men in the pickup truck were so close but I couldn't see their front tires I was sliding all around the gravel road trying to stay on the phone with the operator she was giving me directions to the nearest town several miles away they followed me the entire way there all the way until I reached the police station I saw them turn around very quickly because they knew I was out of their reach I definitely learned my lesson from this and I think from now on I'll stick to peeing and public restrooms so creepy man in the pickup truck let's not meet again six I'm in my 20s now and unfortunately for me have had a ton of creepy encounters probably the worst is this guy from high school who developed a crush on me I'll call him Mark and use different names for other people tons of people in my time know this story and I'm going to try to avoid giving away a lot of hints because honestly he still creeps me out and this whole situation makes me uneasy mark was the same age as me and had been held back a year so I met him when I was a sophomore and he was a freshman I want to start out by saying Mark wasn't a bad looking guy it wasn't even socially awkward and was a talented singer and musician despite him not having your typical something's off vibe something was definitely off I was pretty popular and had some anger issues back in the day so I brushed off mark without even a thought about him but everyone was uneasy around him this included teachers and parents of other students I had to deal with mark because we were both in theater for sake of length I will skip the endless strange things he did and focus on what really put me off he started telling everyone myself included that he had a crush on me barely a day after knowing me he used to try to hang out with my friends and I constantly he started doing weird things like asking people where I was when I was absent or not at rehearsal because my role didn't require it if you're in a show you can go to all the rehearsals even if you're not rehearsing on stage that day and he started going to every rehearsal he would just stare at me and soon he got to the point of staying after much longer than required perhaps that would have been a strange if when he turned 16 and had a truck he didn't turn it in a parking spot facing the theatre accent and wait for me to come out always offering rides by my junior year the amount of times he would approach me and other people about how great I was was getting less annoying and more disturbing being as I had a reputation of being tough I basically just cursed him out and became exceptionally rude which really only made him try more something to note about me is I am a very picky eater and people who have known me for years can't keep up with what I do eat and what I hate but Mark started buying me food and giving it to me and it would always be these particular things that there was no way he should have known unless he just watched me constantly he started trying to give me money too and I always told him to get away from me and would threaten him in one way or another I noticed at rehearsals that money ended up in my backpack the same amount he was always trying to give me so it obviously was him winter started to roll around and I was just creeped out everyone basically said he was the creepiest dude ever and how I hadn't been completely freaking out before now was beyond them it was very close with three guys to her brothers Jason and Mike and my best friend Toby Jason and Mike went to church twice a week and announced to myself and some mutual friends that Mark had been kicked out of the youth group for inappropriate advances on girls they're apparently of all ages it was around this time mark just started following me sitting across from me and rooms at lunch in the theater being rude hadn't worked being neutral hadn't worked so I was just acting like he didn't exist at this point it was hard considering he started following us to dinner after shows and sitting at other tables next to us in restaurants here's where it gets bad and I didn't even realize this was as potentially bad as it could have been until I was an adult after rehearsal Jason and Mike headed home in Jason's car and I got in Toby's car they all lived in the same community and there was a park and a lake there and we decided to go walk around apparently mark decided following us wasn't out of the question and as we got to the parking lot he did two night security told him flat out they knew he didn't live there and to leave knowing me because I was friends with many people who lived there only later did mark tell us the night security asked him to leave and he said he was with us Jason Mike Toby and I just walked around throwing rocks into the lake and talking and Mark followed us being that it was cold he literally took it upon himself to try and put his coat on me and he assisted as I refused and finally I just gave in mistake Jason and Mike got into Jason's car because they were over mark being creepy and said we needed to get out of there mark tried to leave his coat with me but I didn't want anything to do with anything of his till B insisted he take the jacket and tell him to get lost as everyone knew we were best friends and he was over six foot four I said I could take care of it second mistake I took it off and handed it to him through the window of his truck and he said in a dead serious voice I'm going to put this in my shrine to you I remember i huffed angrily but didn't say anything and as I went to walk back to my friends his eyes went dead and he said so blankly you know you're the type of girl that makes guys like me bring guns to skull that was it for me I excused myself nicely without being too nice and got into Toby's car it goodell something happened and asked what when I repeated what I had been told he instantly waved Jason back to his car who had gotten out to come ask me why we weren't following them to his house once Jason was back in his car till they called him and told him what happened and said not to go anywhere until Marc left after about five minutes he did we all went to Jason's house and the three of them including Jason at Mike's parents said this had gone on long enough and that was a threat and I needed to tell someone but I refused saying he was just trying to scare me luckily for me Jason and Mike's mom knew my mom very well and after Toby and I left so he could drive me home she called my mom and told her what happened Toby decided to spill the beans the second he saw my parents saying if I wouldn't tell them he would my mother just heard the same story of this dude mentioning bringing a gun to school over me from two different people she called her friend who was a cop and she went to the school the next day what exactly happened to Marc I don't know all my mother our cop friend and the administration at our school did say was that it was taken care of and he was no longer allowed to be within 100 feet of me after this my senior year was filled with him staring at me but never coming up to me but throughout this year and the entire year after his comment to me people I barely knew would approach me saying mark said weird stuff like wanting to marry me and even creepier that he had a shrine to me I like to believe that there was never a shrine and he was just being weird but everyone in my life swears they believe this shrine existed I hate to think what would have happened had I not been with Toby Jason and Mike if Jason and Mike's mom didn't tell my mom and Toby also told her I was originally mad that they were going to adults about it but now realize that there is a chance that comment was more of a threat every now and then I wonder what would have happened if no one told if I hadn't obviously looked scared and Toby picked up on it could this guy have shot up our school killed me my friends and innocent people I like to think this was all a bunch of talk from a weird guy but so often people do end up acting on their insane ramblings Toby and I are still best friends and here and then mention it and I can never stop thanking him for involving Jason and Mike's parents as well as my parents seven a few months ago I was visiting a friend in South London and my car was parked a few streets away I was walking past the train station and my attention was focused on my phone as I was replying to a text message this is not something I would usually do as this area is prone to theft but it was important to reply suddenly this disheveled looking man has stood directly in my path and put his hand over my phone to get my attention before I could react to this he started asking me for money so that he could get a taxi I apologized because I couldn't offer any money and I never carry cash on the cards he kept telling me he was fresh out of prison and knows the type of person I am but I kept being polite and apologizing but he wasn't listening to me at all he started forcing his hands down my jacket pockets and suddenly my mind just switched and I started yelling at him and pushing him away from me this made him even more crazy as he started grabbing my waist trying to get to my trouser pockets the area was crowded with people watching us but luckily for me two men stepped in and got this crazy man away from me just as he pushed me back and I tripped over my own heels and fell flat on my arse we screamed a few insults at each other before the man walked off disappearing out of my sight the altercation must have only lasted a few minutes but it felt longer I felt so overwhelmed by anger and upset that I had to try very hard not to cry I wasn't going to let myself cry over the actions of this horrible man I made my way to my car and composed myself so that I could set off on my journey home I didn't realize I was going to have any more trouble I was driving down the road but had to stop for all the traffic that had built up in front of me the vehicle in front of me was a large van so it was completely blocking my view of the road and I had no idea why cars further down the road we're all sounding there car horns so anyway the van in front of me decides to drive around into the other Lane and I see that all the commotion was being caused by that same man that was harassing me 15 minutes prior he was in front of me walking forward and I drove slowly behind just praying that he wouldn't turn around and cause problems with me but he came to a stop and just stood there motionless I stopped behind him and I had nowhere to go the other lane was busy and I didn't want to get this man's attention but the traffic behind me started Horning the crap out of their cars and a man turned around thinking I was Horning the shit out of my car and ran to my driver's side when it was cracked down a few inches as I was smoking a cigarette to calm my nerves he was swearing and trying to spit at me through the gap he kept trying to grab at me through the window so I stubbed my cigarette on his hands to get him to stop it worked as he jumped back and I quickly took off now that the ruled ahead of me was clear after I had driven down a few streets I called 999 pleas and reported that a lunatic was causing trouble in the road the officer took a description over the phone and told me a few people have called them about this situation the entire drive home I kept imagining the argument over and over again and I was so angry at myself for not punching that guy in the face I just hope that in future I would be able to defend and stand up for myself against creeps like that as anything like this happened to anyone else listening to this eight this was about nine or ten years ago when the Nightmare Before Christmas in 3d came out in theaters I was about 12 at the time and was one of those kids who was obsessed with the movie I had explained to my parents why it was necessary that I see this movie in 3d so we decided to go out to Dublin a city my dad worked in that's about an hour away from where I lived and we go visit my dad's workplace then for lunch and a movie now since I was an edgy preteen I explained to my parents that I needed to sit by myself they compromised and said they would sit in the row behind me so they can at least keep an eye on me the theater made us go through what seemed like an hour of previews before the actual movie started but that was okay because halfway into the previews I needed to go to the bathroom I turned around to tell my mom and she offered to go with me I got mad and said I can go by myself then she pulled out my cell phone from her purse this was around the time of foot phones and I never really cared to have a phone so I always left it lying around and told me that if something happens to call her I rolled my eyes and said okay and left for the bathroom while walking to the bathroom I felt the presence of this guy walking behind me but he was walking uncomfortably close I could hear him breathing out of his mouth I get to the bathroom and opened the door and surprise surprise the bathroom was filled with other women and girls I turn around and see the guy had sat on a bench and started staring at the floor he was tall and lanky with long greasy blond hair I turned back and went into the bathroom there was a line in the bathroom so I have spent a good five minutes just waiting to go finally my turn to go came afterwards I washed my hands and my mom called me asking if I was okay I explained to her the long line and that I'll be back soon and hung up I got out of the bathroom and the guy was still on the bench as I walked past him he got up and started walking behind me again I had my phone gripped in my hand and I know what you're thinking but no I wasn't planning on calling my mom I thought I was a badass and was planning on throwing my phone at him and then proceeding to kick his ass my dad had spent most of my childhood teaching me how to fight and defend myself in case something like this happens I got in the theater and sat back in my seat and the guy sat in the same row a few seats down the movie had finally started and I couldn't even enjoy it because I felt the cold stare coming from this guy the theater was somewhat empty so this guy could have sat wherever he wanted but he chose to sit by me about 15 minutes into the movie I noticed him shifting one seat closer I looked back at my parents to see if they noticed but instead they're enjoying the movie so I start to think if this guy moves one seat closer I'll start a scene I must have zoned out on the movie because the movie is about half way in and the guys know two seats away from me he's leaning in and his arm is resting on the seat next to him as if he's ready to grab me without taking my eyes off the screen I thought this is it I'm gonna knock this guy out when I hear my dad yell get the fuck away from my daughter before I break your neck my mom threatens to call the cops I look and see the guy starts to run out but really wanting to go out with the promise I made to myself I throw my phone at him I missed and hit the wall the movie stops and the lights turn on the manager rushes in and asks what's going on my dad tells him he saw some guy try to reach over and grab me the manager calls the cops and I give them my statement the entire ride home was a lecture from my parents about being careful when you're alone in public and I just sat in the back of the car beating myself up about my parain that being said creepy movie theater guy let's not meet again 9 when I was a teenager I took a job at a local grocery store my job description was basically to be the gofer I fetched carts bag groceries clean messes set up displays under like it wasn't a glamorous job but I was young and it was money but I digress one day I was out in the lot in the middle of my fetching carts there was only a couple so I grabbed them and began walking back to the entrance of the store I was passing the last few parking spaces before crossing the little roadway in front of the entrance when I hear hey excuse me coming for my left I turned my head and see a man in the passenger seat of a big truck I was facing the store and the truck had pulled into a spot and the last row to the left of the store in a way that I was nearest the passenger and the driver was closest to the front doors of the store I replied yes and he motioned me to come closer I approached the truck carefully so I was just close enough to see n it has been years so I can't give a very detailed description but they were both broad and had beards and were probably in their mid 30s when I stopped the passenger asked there's a woman named April work here there was a woman who worked there with that name but she wasn't there that day I was young but not a total idiot and I didn't want to tell him yes because anyone who knew her would just go in and ask for her right I couldn't find the words but I guess my look told him yes I was just kind of standing there muttering arms and as he looks kind of exasperated with me and reaches down and pulls up his wallet and pulls out a $100 bill and a piece of paper that says look we know she works here I will give you this now and another one as a reward later if you just call me next time she comes into work and don't mention to her or anyone about this he sticks his arm at the window with the money and what I assume is his phone number now I'm scared two big men are offering a young looking girl $200 to tell them when another woman comes into work shady is an understatement I hadn't worked there too long and April was older late 20s I think but she was a co-worker and this was creepy my loyalty was to her not to weird strangers I quickly went from scared to mad and when I found my voice I very sternly said absolutely not I ditched the cars I had and practically ran back into the store I heard the truck start up and back out to leave on the side exit of the lot when I got inside I was shaking and breath and my manager immediately asked me what was wrong I relayed this story with my shaky voice and he went outside to check but they were long gone we went up to the office and he called the police and then called April to tell her the story I ended up having to write down my account of what happened and talked to a couple officers that showed up I reviewed the surveillance tapes with my manager and boss but the truck had parked out of range of the cameras unlike I said Shady I was allowed to go home after that and had the next two days off for about two weeks April didn't work and when I asked my manager if we had any idea about who those people were he said he didn't know when April did come back she took me aside in fact me I just told her I did what I thought was right and that was that she didn't tell me what was going on and I didn't ask I never heard anything more about it I left that job a few months later for a better one and still don't know the full story I'm just glad April wasn't in that day and her and the shady truck guys never had to meet ten boring intro I live in a cabin on about 50 acres of fields and woods with my mom we've been enjoying a day of sitting on her asses and watching television however I had to move my grandmother's yard this afternoon I told my mom that I have a yard to mow today and it went as follows me it's color outside I guess it's a good time to get off my ass mom or you could just call and tell her you'll do that tomorrow me now I'm gonna get my things together and go proceeds to grab headphones ecig etc juicy part so I headed down the driveway top the hill and lo behold there were at least 20 MS highway patrol cars in the middle of my field about 70 feet from my truck I just assumed that our neighbor who has a history of cutting up had gotten himself into huge trouble with the law over rugs or something when I was pulling out of the gate I told one of the local cops that I'm the landowner and asked if everything's all right he said it's going to be whatever that means on my way to my grandmother's house I called my mom and said I don't know any other way to put this other than there are like 100 cops in our field she said that she's on the way to check it out I called her a few times with no answer assuming that she's talking to the cops or something I knew she'd be safe with all those cops so I went ahead and started mowing the grass plus my grandmother is only a couple of miles down the road when I was about halfway done Moines she called me saying that the troopers had nothing to say but one of the local cops that we know said it was this guy wanted in Texas for shooting three people killing two and injuring one the guy drove into our field and shot himself after being confronted and surrounded by troopers when I was done mowing I headed back home to pick her up and we drove back to talk to the last few troopers I told them that I am the property owner and asked if it was all clear and if everything's safe now they said that they had just moved the body and car out so it's clear I said Wow all the way from Texas huh well be safe Thanks we drove over to the site after the troopers left right behind her old pecan tree were a bunch of tire treads and a giant bloody spot in the grass we are still in a state of what the fuck going by the press conference we just watched as I was typing this this guy shot himself as I was going up the driveway I didn't even hear the gunshot of sirens but I remember having my radio turned up so Randall Lieber olds I'm glad we didn't meet 11 please be aware the following story contains themes of animal cruelty when I cast my mind back to the events I'm about to describe I see images that could almost be from a dream or a fevered imagination it was utterly bizarre and I can't believe that it happened I grew up in Paisley a town in Scotland I used to hang out with a load of alternative kids and being too young to go to a pub we would stock up on booze at weekends and go adventuring we had heard about a huge abandoned insane asylum just outside of town it was called leaven Dale look it up so we decided to hit it one weekend and make a day of it the old place was located not far from the high school most of us went to and was close to a housing estate my clothes I mean about a mile into undeveloped land we got the booze shall get into our backpacks and made our way out to the place it was quite hard to get to we didn't realize there was an easier route yet so the eight or nine of us ended up jumping a fence into some little woodland that was nestled between a bunch of buildings to see if we could push through to the abandoned complex weirdly enough there was a little path in there that led through various tiny meadows and then into pockets of trees there was a small stream as well running near to the path but hidden by really tall grass as we made our way along I heard some sounds from behind me I was last in the group and saw a figure darting away from view into the grass surrounded by smoke I was really confused for a second and then shouted to everyone else to stop and take a look as we stood transfixed the grass suddenly started being consumed by ever-growing flames as it was a roasting summer's day the flames seemed to grow really fast and quickly I felt panic setting in it wasn't long before the flames were starting to spread all around us as we practically pushed forward through the grass to the next forest a bit of the trail I saw a deer in there terrified and it wouldn't run because the past ahead beyond the trees was on fire as well there was smoke everywhere and I remember a friend of mine shouting to run down the river and wait in there we all ran down through literal fire to the water there was no way out as the whole area was surrounded by really high walls with fences on top at this point so we had to crouch down with our heads right beside the water to breathe at all the fire burned for ages and we could hear animals screaming from what used to be the tree area we had been standing in it was now a huge fireball eventually after what seemed like forever the fire burned down enough for us to try and move out there was limited material to burn since it was a pretty confined area we pushed on up the river for a bit but it ended up going underground into a wall shaft or something so we had to double back and work up the path we ended up having to go through the trees and we were horrified by what we saw those of deer were stacked up near an opening that must have had air and were burned really badly the heat was still intense and there were still flames licking off the trees so I for one didn't want to hang around for too long but I'll never forget the image of those deer twitching and dying we made it out the other side and made it through the Laverne Dale complex ahead of all we could think of was finding a safe place to stop and have a drink and maybe another route home I was the only one who saw the figure but we were all pretty convinced that some group of people had set fire to the path from both ends whether it was meant as a prank that went too far we won't ever know but it was life-threatening in the end we ended up finding another path back to civilization thankfully that didn't involve walking through a confined area I wonder sometimes if it was a prank or if some really sick people wanted to kill us the heat is something I can't forget either it was like being in an oven or under a grill and our eyebrows were all singed off and we looked like we'd been covered in soot won't ever forget it and as ever team of pyromaniacs please let's not meet again twelve I grew up in a small city so when I moved up into the mountains in Colorado I took the opportunity to go on a fair amount of walks out in the woods all around my house or the most part I would only walk the woods behind our house since we had a very large property one day feeling bored of the woods behind her house I asked my parents and they told me I could walk the woods across the street I excitedly rushed knocked to go walking across the street as soon as I got to the edge of the woods though I was already a bit unnerved on the ground I saw the shell of a bullet I felt especially frightened because I have a fairly irrational fear of guns but I decided to get over my fear and continue on because the case was obviously old covered in dirt and such and we lived by a big hunting town so it was to be expected the next weird thing I came across was a pile of deer hair I obviously not knowing much about hunting saw it and thought that a doe must have laid there when she was having her babies at that moment I was excited not realizing that the hair was most likely the result of a deer being shot in that spot the final weirdest and worst thing I found was at a clearing in the woods a clearing I didn't realize was on a person's property at the time as soon as I got out of the clearing I saw a large block of styrofoam with two iron rods stuck through it to keep it standing in place and it was full of bullet holes looking around I noticed deer bones scattered around and the bones of some other animals including a full set of some small animals bones laying on a rock beside the styrofoam confused and not quite sure what I had found I decided to go and get my parents when I got them to come I first showed them the pile of hair and they pointed out to me how it was probably where a deer had been shot then I led them to the styrofoam and the first thing they pointed out was that we were right in someone's front yard mind you it was a giant front yard and the house was small off in the distance after looking at the dead animals we noticed two things not only did one of the animals have a chain around it Cheney to one of the poles the styrofoam was on but some of the animals I couldn't recognize at first were obviously domestic cats and dogs at the end of the day all we could do was walk home it sounds terrible but the animals were obviously dead for a long time and we believe they were killed by the crazy former owner of the property we were on the owner was long gone and the police force in our town was so small and poorly trained that they probably would have simply gotten mad at us for being on someone's property and not really care about what we found I'm sad that we couldn't do more but I genuinely believe no justice would have come from calling the police 13 I live about 20 miles from the city in which I work I live out in the country and about a short walking distance from my house is a highway and on the corner is a 24/7 gas station last week Saturday night I went by there before midnight to grab some Cajun peanuts I see one car parked on the side which is normal usually just a guy working and rarely any customers at this time do you ever feel this dread overcome you like you know something is wrong while I walk in and don't see anyone nobody behind the counter or in the store so I take my time and assume they're in the bathroom or a step to the back of the store surely they heard the chime on the door when I came in I'm feeling weird and uncomfortable so I wait a minute even though it seemed like forever so I call out anyone here I wait a minute more and put the peanuts down and walk out the door I check the car parked on the side and there wasn't anything troubling they even glanced on the back side of the store and there was nobody I'm pretty uncomfortable so I just called the police they show up 10 to 15 minutes later but it really did feel like an hour and they search the place they find the cashier dad in the men's bathroom beaten to death they call them back up asked me to recap what I experienced and then I went home that ain't even the fucked-up part so I get home and my dog is in the front yard pissing and just staring at me he is an inside dog and my front door is cracked open my heart is racing so I grabbed my dog and head back to the gas station and let the police know they send one of the guys to search my house nothing is stolen or out of place but there was sign of forced entry this was last week and about five hours ago I get a call from my brother who works for the County Sheriff's Office supposedly they pulled the camera footage and about ten minutes before I walked into the store someone came in started punching on the cashier and then dragged him into the bathroom on the footage you can see me walk in and look around and call out and then you can see me walk out and check out the car walk to my vehicle and make a call around the time I'm in the vehicle the alleged murderer walks out of the bathroom and sneaks out the back door and before leaving the view of the camera he takes off in the general direction of my house fortunately my wife was out with some friends watching Beauty and the Beast again but I'm convinced that I missed a murderer at the gas station and then he broke into my house this weekend had a new security system installed alongside a new front door but I'm pretty sure whoever did this is still out there and it I can address some comments I think it was a coincidence that he broke into my house if he actually did break into it it was late at night and there were no vehicles and since my house is within 200 yards it was probably just an opportunity I will address the comment about proof I had mentioned that my house is so close so if I give the article it will be essentially easy to know where my houses 14 this is an experience that has been bothering me for years so I felt as you finally post something about it in case it's helpful in some way I used to live in a subdivision in the middle of nowhere north of divide Colorado our gravel street ended in a cul-de-sac and we were the middle house of the three at the end of the street which was on the side of a hill because we were pretty far away from anything I was a latchkey kid and usually was home alone for a few hours after school this took place in the early 80s when I was about 8 or 9 years old one day shortly after the bus dropped me off and I got home I saw someone pull into the driveway I didn't recognize him so I hid behind our wood-burning stove in the corner he came up and started insistently knocking on the door and looking in the window he then strangely tried the doorknob he just wouldn't stop knocking so I came out thinking if this guy was a burglar and he saw me he would go away when he saw me he asked me through the door which had a windowpane if I could open the door and I replied my dad was in the shower he didn't react and said that he was here to see my neighbors mention them by name I told him they lived next door in the house on the left he said okay seemed a bit frustrated and started walking away to his car but instead of getting in his car he started walking around my house the house was built on the side of a hill so it had a walkout basement I started freaking out because at this point this wasn't normal and I thought he was going to try to get in through the sliding glass door in the basement which was locked I got ready to jet out the door and into the woods but then I saw him come up the other side of the house get into his car and tear out my driveway up the gravel road he never did go to my neighbor's who he said he was looking for solving I picked up the phone and called my neighbor halfway up the street you had to Sun my age and used to watch me sometimes she had seen the car speed up the gravel road and told me to come over so I took off running through the woods to my neighbor's house avoiding the road in case he turned around and came back of course I told my parents and I don't really think they'd let it sink in and since my neighbors were at home they said he probably mistook the house from my standpoint I am pretty sure if I opened that door I would not be here today no one randomly drives down my street much less into the subdivision in the middle of the mountains where I lived and I never saw the guy at my neighbor's house I vaguely remember my parents asking my neighbors if they knew the guy based on the description short a white guy round glasses long brown hair slightly balding and a long ish beard but they didn't know who that might be I've always felt he knew I was there alone based on his non reaction to me saying my dad was in the shower knew the layout of the house which is why he walked down the side of the house to the walkout basement and prefer to not leave any physical evidence which is why he didn't break in not sure of my neighbors knew him or not but because of the remoteness of the location and the fact that we often played in the woods I'm pretty sure if I did get snatched they would have chalked it up to me getting lost or hurt wandering around we moved out of state a year or so later never heard of any other local kids go missing but I can't believe that this guy didn't try to make someone else disappear 15 I had gotten out of the Trailways bus that I had been stuck in for five hours my roommate was with me and we had been travelling back to New York City to conclude the fall semester at her college it was winter break for the students so most of them had a suitcase or bag to bring home I had graduated at that point so I had two large duffel bags and one large paper shopping bag that held my pillows and comforter my other things had been picked up and driven down by my parents during the graduation ceremony so I literally only had the clothes on my back and some other nonsens like flip-flops and remaining school notes I was weary and anxious to be finally home I said bye to my now former roommate and I continued towards the a strain awkwardly lugging my things suddenly a woman spots me from the crowd she's much taller than me and built whiter but seemed very meek her voice was shaking and her clothes were dirty and mismatched it was winter but she didn't have a coat but was still wearing a braided scarf excuse me uh where is the bus to Boston she asked she was clearly American but had an unusual accent like a Midwest Minnesotan twang her eyes were darting towards a direction behind me I'm already a little suspicious and New Yorkers aren't known as the warmest people I also felt the vulnerable because I had so much literal baggage on me I quickly told her to ask an attendant and went to pass her she quickly stepped in front of me again very closely she wore very thick eyeliner that was smudged and had bruises on her neck which her scarf was covering she never made eye contact with me but kept staring past my direction nobody's helped me you got to help me find my bus she cried almost sounding like she was acting I pointed to a woman by an information desk no you have to show me where it is I don't know ma'am I have to go I managed to say in a low voice it felt like a setup where is the Boston bus she yelled at me and once again nodded towards a woman tending the information desk but she was clearly focused on me Red Alert went through my head because she insisted so strongly that I had to help her and there were dozens of other people and attendants around and my hands were tied I look to my side and saw dark figures in the corner maybe 25 feet from me and a woman awkwardly kept her hands tucked in her pants not a pocket I began distancing myself as the figures began moving towards me I finally yelled at her to get the fuck away from me while pretending to reach for something in my jacket her eyes flashed to the dark figures and suddenly her demeanor changed she backed up for me and said Oh up but I need to get to bus and bus um she was clearly distracted now looking back and forth into my big paper bag and then at the people she may have been working with now she looked nervous and after a few long moments she turned and walked away quietly into the women's restroom now looking at the sketchy guys in the corner I quickly turned and went towards the upstairs portion of the terminal left and hailed a cab I just wanted to get home at that point thinking about it now I'm wondering if she were someone who was trafficked or manipulated into drugs it was like she was an empty shell of a person but she was still young mid 20s or so 16 my idiot mom dated a convict while she worked as a psychologist at the Kingston pen he was in for a very long sentence for aggravated assault and my mother met him close to the end of his sentence she eventually was fired for being caught for the second or third time having sex with him in a utility closet but I digress when he was being released my mother asked me to pick him up from prison and drive him to the airport and I embarrassed to admit stupidly agreed so my boyfriend at the time and I go to pick up technical and not 45 minutes into our three-hour trip after picking him up he turns around and starts punching my boyfriend in the face busting his nose and lip I started yelling at him to stop and so he starts beating on me punching me in the arms and eggs mind you I'm driving about 90 miles per hour on the highway with no exit in sight I just want to add this guy is a big fucking dude six foot something and probably over 200 pounds of muscle covered in tats the whole shebang anyway I pull off to the side of the highway get out throw his bag on the side of the road and scream at him until he gets out of my car before speeding home I want to remind you all this happened on a Monday Wednesday rolls around and I get a text from my brother telling me to call him ASAP so I do and he tells me mom is in the hospital in a coma hooked up to machines feeding tube etc dead broken orbital sockets her jaw was broken she was missing many teeth shattered collarbone she cracked her sternum and had broken multiple ribs she needed reconstructive surgery on her face and metal plates pretend she has nerve damage now and can't smile on the right side of her face she has trouble eating too because she can't tell whether or not she has food dripping down her face and for the longest time she could only drink through a straw what had happened was after I kicked dipshit out of my car the cops found him wandering on the side of the freeway and took him to the airport Tuesday night he arrived he got hammered drunk and beat the shit out of my mother he started at 11:00 p.m. and nobody stepped in until 3:00 a.m. first responders didn't show up until 4:00 I guess a couple people witnessed it going down but didn't intervene until they saw Dushku new choke my mom out and start carrying her towards the tree line to finish the job in privacy my mom now suffers from extreme PTSD it controls every aspect of her life she is a fucking mess the equivalent of a human puddle I'd say so convict that will not be named let's not meet again edit I want to add my mother dug her own grave don't pity her that's absurd there's a lot more to her crazy relationship with him that I left out because I didn't feel that it was relevant to the story things like her smuggling drugs into the prison for him the police busting down the door and arresting him in the house for another crime the blood my mom had to clean off the walls after was insane in drinking again and jumping out of my car to harass other drivers whilst waiting at a red light when I was taking him to the store things like that 17 this happened in 1979 when I was a 17 year old girl I was in London for summer school and stayed with a family friend Jane in her apartment one night I went to a party and ended up staying really late being a poor student I decided to bus home and got off at the closest bus stop to the apartment which was still a good 20 to 30 minute walk by then it was after midnight and the streets were completely empty I walked down the street hearing nothing but the sound of my shoes clapping against the pavement I noticed this guy come out of one of the houses of the street he was walking towards me on the side of the road we passed each other without incident I continued walking down the dimly lit streets turning my head to see behind me at one point and saw the same guy only now he was walking behind me keeping his distance not wanting to assume he was following me or show any fear I looked straight ahead and increased my walking speed a bit after 10 long minutes of walking down several deserted blocks I finally turned the dark corner into my Street there was still about five minutes left till I got home I still one more glass behind me that he was still keeping his distance in that moment it became quite clear that he was following me a sense of dread spread through me on the dark alone the streets as I tried to remain calm and just get home as soon as possible the apartment was part of a and the front door was located at the back so you had to go around to get to it this meant that if I was fast enough there was a good chance he wouldn't see which apartment was mine I walked as fast as I could without running and finally reached the door no sign of him good with the key in my badly shaking hand I fumbled at the doorknob terrified praying to get it open before he finds me and I've never seen or heard from again my prayers were answered and I managed to unlock it finally I hurried inside and locked the door safe to be able to breathe again I went upstairs to my bedroom then I made a mistake my bedroom faced the street and when I entered I turned on the light the curtains weren't drawn and I saw him standing there looking straight up at me next thing you know he is ringing the doorbell panicking I ran downstairs into Jaynes room who was woken up by the doorbell explained the situation to her and asked her not to open the door she said she had to because she didn't want him to wake the neighbors I watched her go staying in her bedroom he asked is Mary there he must have decided to pretend to ask for someone when he realized I wasn't there alone she responded there's no one here called Mary he apologized and then left I've read this eye of relief and watched him through the window as he laughed as he was walking he turned around and I had the unfortunate opportunity to meet his eyes once more he scowled at me through the glass I shuddered the next day Jane told me about all the dodgy things and crimes that happened in that area turns out it wasn't a particularly safe area after that I only ever went out during the day I thankfully never saw that guy again but sometimes I wonder what could have happened if Jane wasn't there that night eighteen years ago I worked night shift at a very lonely and deserted mini office that had no security and only me on staff from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. despite being located in a rather busy and night by filled part of the city food delivery pickings were more than a tad slim so you can imagine how delighted I was when I found a great Chinese place that was open late and delivered to my work they had great portions and killer egg rolls so I end up ordering from there most nights and everything was great until phone guy entered the picture the owner had decided that he wanted a native English speaker to man the phones so that he could run the register and everyone else could just focus on cooking and delivery we will call the person they hired phone guy and I know all of this because phone guy told me and phone guy told me because he loved to talk this guy was a chatterbox and made every order feel like I had called him at home to chat instead of actually get my food well the normal order call started getting longer and longer as phone guy starts trying to chat me up while waiting for the credit-card machine he starts asking me about my age my race where I went to school all the red flags i deflected most of his questions except the one about race I'm white so I thought if I just told him maybe he would lose interest nope now he wants to know what kind of white which is not a question I had ever really been asked so I just answered honestly that I'm mostly German well turns out this dude has a thing for German chicks doesn't matter I'm second generation or that I've never been to Germany this dude is now full-on interested and starts going on about how Germans are so that sense so that and they make the best porn and so on and so forth this has cemented in me that I will no longer be ordering from these people as this is getting ridiculous eventually the Machine fries up and to call ends and I think I'm in the clear nope the guy who has been delivering my food up to this point looked like Ken from Street Fighter with a math problem complete with sleeveless red shirt and bandana the guy who shows up with my foot is not the regular delivery guy he is huge and as soon as he opens his mouth I realize he is phone guy internal screaming commences he hands me the food and just starts to talk and talk and talk I can't leave since he is blocking my only exit I can't shove him at the door since he has a foot and about 200 pounds on me so I just keep bringing up that I need to get back to work and oh it's so very late and boy oh boy will my boss be mad if I don't check in I finally bring up the fact that he should really be getting a move on himself what with the other deliveries he must have to make nope he proceeds to tell me that he paid the regular delivery guy to switch out with him for this one delivery just so he could meet his proline internal screaming intensifies eventually he even admits he has overstayed his welcome and leaves for the night at which point I lock the door behind him and stop ordering after that through happenstance I end up quitting my job about a week later for a better one and I think I am in the clear well months go by and my roommate orders from them turns out they had expanded their delivery area and asks if I could snag it when it gets there since she needs to hop in the shower I think it should be fine I mean this is a different address and not in my name so there's no way the phone guy will show up well I answered the door and the mask and takes one look at me and says oh man I can't believe it's you do you live here some guy has been looking for you everywhere since you stopped ordering and quit your job I can't wait to tell him I tell him not to do that and he laughs he hands me the food and leaves I hadn't worked that job or ordered in months fungi was looking for me this whole time well I am 100% done Yin rings my roommate gets out of the shower and I tell her what happened and she tries to brush it off just as there is a knock at the door I tell her I'm going upstairs and whoever it is don't let them in if we don't know them I listen at the top of the stairs and it is phone guy the delivery dude had gone straight back to work told phone guy and phone guy had thrown a bunch of egg rolls into a bag I used to order them all the time got the address from the order my roommate had placed and despite us not ordering anything else had raced to my house he handed my roommate the egg rolls and just kept trying to get her to let him in and answer questions about where I went where I worked now and what not she was smart enough to get creeped out and tell him to leave and as soon as the door shut I called the place and complained since I knew he wouldn't be there to answer the phone the owner answered and apologized after I explained what was going on he said he had daughters of his own and would take care of it phone guy shows up again an hour later banging on my door and screaming that I got him fired blah blah blah so we called the cops but he was gone before they showed up I explained what happened but they said there wasn't much they could do we were moving in two weeks anyway to the other side of the city so the problem solved itself due to amazing timing for those wondering I was in the area months later that the restaurant was located in and the place had shut down also I didn't want the egg rolls so my roommate ate them 19 a few weeks ago my boyfriend was running late to work so instead of dropping me off at my work he dropped me off at the metro station stopped next to his work there's a stop that's only a few minute walk from campus so I wasn't too worried about it as I'm waiting for the trainer to stop a random person thanks me for my service I'm caught off guard but realized that I had my military backpack on complete with my last name stitched on a man covered in face tattoos and wearing dirty smelly clothes overhears and walks over to me as well oh you're in the military my wife goes to choose the x position for Y unit and she'll you look really familiar were you dolled a party at the racetrack the specifics checked out but I definitely didn't remember a guy with face tattoos showing up at the event I tell him that I might know her but it's a big unit the train comes and I walk on to take my seat smooth Amanda Smith and you were recognized you I turn around and it's face tattoo man he knows my whole name and decides to sit down next to me on the train he starts asking me questions about my job and how his wife is doing he says that she was feeling stressed out with her job and that she was worried she was going to get fired I thought it was a little weird considering that she had been fired over a week prior but maybe he was trying to be polite and not embarrass her but then he started asking some strange questions where do we go for off-site training when do we go when's the next time I will train with her I realized something was really wrong so I get off at the next stop to try to get away from this guy he gets off the train too let's go together you never answered my questions I look for my phone to call someone to get me out of this situation and I realize I left it in my boyfriend's car I decide to tell him I got off at the wrong stop and tried to get on a different car than him when the next train arrives just kidding he gives off that car and on to mine at the next stop he starts threatening me about giving information about her so I stand up start making a scene saying that I need help a man intervenes and I get off at the next stop which is actually my top eye contact that woman and it turns out that since the holiday party he has started doing heroin and became violent toward her she and the kids moved out to an undisclosed location and he tried abducting them at least once he had become homeless so that explains why I didn't recognize him at all he did recognize me from the party and he was trying to figure out when she would next be around she had a restraining and no contact order against him so she encouraged me to contact the police if this ever happened again I decided not to take the train anymore and bitch my backpack altogether last week I was working late and decided to walk over by the train stop to get some food as I'm waiting to cross the sidewalk I hear Amanda good to see you I looked behind me and faced her two guys standing behind me no no no let's not meet and to have dinner as you try to figure out how to kidnap your wife I turn and take off sprinting down the busy road to get away I'm definitely staying away from the whole line forever 24 contacts time female at the time I was 19 years old I was living in a central flat with my older sister we were out this one weekend celebrating st. Patrick's Day me my sister and a few friends starting out having pints at an Irish pub we soon moved on to a popular hotel bar I was a bit tipsy at this point so I decided to switch to water as I had work early the next morning they were having a great time and nothing really seemed out of the ordinary but I decided anyway that I'd head home it was a 10-minute walk at the very most thankfully due to my early start the next day anyway I said goodbye to my friends and headed out into the nice clear evening I walked a couple of blocks and went to a 7-eleven on the corner to buy a bottle of juice there are always some semi sketchy types hi around on that street corner the surra black cab drivers tend to hang around waiting for customers so I didn't pay much attention to any of them I exited the shop and turned the corner to an empty street and hear footsteps behind me look behind it's a pretty big guy seemingly advancing on me I lifted my phone from my pocket and dialed 911 the call button cross the street to see if he would follow which he immediately did I was heading in a direction immediately away from the shops and I couldn't turn around without ending up face to face with him shit turned another street corner towards my door important to note is that this house didn't have a front door key as such it was a four digit passcode that granted access to the building and then you have to open your own door with a key the only thing I can think is don't let him see the code if he sees the code you're dead etc this type of sentence was pulsating in my mind and I started running in stiletto heels he too is picking up the pace and is running after me at this point I'm not really feeling anything it was so strange it was like I had the actions laid out in front of me I had to outrun him reach my door before he did there was no option as I made it to the door I covered my keypad with my hand before hurriedly punching in the code he didn't catch it nevertheless he is trying to forcibly push his way in I've often wondered how exactly I'd react in a situation like this you never know until you're actually exposed well apparently I get angry started shouting at him to get the fuck away etc he responds with laughter and no way you know I live here too so I asked him for the passcode and he is trying to laugh it off and keeps pushing the end I remembered I still had a sturdy grip in my phone and showed him the screen where I had keyed in 9-1-1 triumphantly I kept shouting abuse that he needed to leave right call thankfully he got a terrified expression on his face and ran on shaky legs I managed to get to the lift into my flat secured the door what felt like a thousand times I called my sister at first no answer I called my boyfriend panicking he hadn't been out with us at night he too was laughing it off told me that it was probably just some guy that fancied me and decided to fool around a bit I wasn't convinced and barely slept that night I told my sister the next morning after she'd asked me about all those missed calls my sister told me at that point that she got a weird vibe from a guy sitting across from the bar that he was staring at us we compared descriptions and they seemed to match she didn't remember seeing him at all after I laughed I still wonder sometimes if something serious could have happened and how strange it was that my mind fixated completely on the pass code 21 this story happened back in the late 90s when I was in second grade at that time my uncle my mom's younger brother was enlisted in the u.s. Navy due to the nature of his job he constantly traveled to other parts of the world he was frequently stationed in different countries sometimes for years at a time since he was usually so far away my family did not get to see him very often my mother and him were very close and I had a special relationship with him as well every time he visited a new place he would send me a gift a magic lamp from Saudi Arabia castanets from Spain rosary beads from Notre Dame and so on he always had a lot of fun and I treasured the time that we spent together this particular year he received some time off and informed us that he would come stay with us for the holidays I was beyond thrilled to be seeing one of my favorite relatives one day while both of my parents were at work he decided to take my brother and I to a nearby mall at the time my brother was 12 and I was 7 we had a good time going to the various stores getting lunch and watching skateboarders at an indoor park although my uncle loved us dearly I wouldn't exactly call him the most attentive babysitter while the three of us were heading out my brother and uncle were much further ahead of me both of them walked extremely fast and seemed to be engaged in their conversation being a very small girl for my age combined with having mime disease made it difficult for me to walk at their pace as hard as I try to catch up with them I only seemed to be falling further behind suddenly from the left side I felt someone grab me it happened in an instant and my mind raced trying to process what was happening looking up I saw him a face that I recall clear as day 20 years later he was an old man perhaps late 70s but his face was horribly disfigured all of his skin hung low and pored over his other features what I remember most was his nose was more of a giant tumor so large that it covered his entire mouth looking back it's now clear that he had Elephant Man disease the man did not say anything to me instead he crushed down to my level and put his face just inches in front of mine then he made the most intense eye contact I have ever experienced both of his hands were wrapped around my arm so tightly that I winced in pain abruptly he began shaking me as if forcing me to look at him I was so paralyzed in fear that I could not make a sound for some reason I simply stood there frozen staring directly at him while this was happening the mall was by no means empty people passed by but they either didn't notice or didn't care after about a minute which seemed far longer adrenaline got the better of me and I violently wriggled from his grip in tears I moved as briskly as I could towards my uncle and brother luckily the man did not follow me by this time my family members had finally realized that I was gone and both turned around while I approached them their backs were to me during the entire encounter so they had no idea what just occurred I didn't see anything to either of them because I was afraid somehow I had done something wrong when I got home I had bruises from where the man had grabbed me I hid them from my mom so I didn't have to explain what had happened the incident left me so traumatized that the very same night I went vegetarian in my seven-year-old mind every time I looked at meat I would think of that man's face and the way he had stared so intently at me I would have nightmares that he was coming back for me and was petrified to go back to that mall for many years now that I am an adult I will look back and wonder what exactly transpired did he want to kidnap me was he tired of being ignored by society perhaps he had dementia I will never know even though I have empathy and wish him well I will also take solace in the fact that we will probably never meet again disclaimer in no way shape or form is it my intention to speak ill of individuals who have any type of deformity or condition this story is simply my recollection of an event that occurred when I was a child please keep this in mind in your comments as I would never judge someone based on physical characteristics that they cannot control 22 okay so I live in northern British Columbia and this first incident happened in the middle of winter my boyfriend and I were having a huge fight at around 11:30 p.m. he snow plows in the winter so his hours are really whack and I soon retired to the front steps of my house to have a cigarette and feel sorry for myself my pity party was short-lived when I heard some faint screams it sounded like it could have been a block or two away I wasn't at first I just started with teenager screaming and goofing around late at night we've all been there right then I saw some cats in the middle of my street and thought maybe it's their meow scurrying in the wind and then I saw a couple voters making the rounds and I thought it could be their backup signals I was hearing the whole thought process was about a minute that's when I heard it again a bit clearer this time I got up and walked about a dozen or so steps to my front gate and that's when I heard it again except this time I heard them scream help keeping in mind everything I've heard so far he's just faint enough that I can't really tell where it's coming from so I walk out to the sidewalk and my eyesight is shit I think I see my across-the-street neighbor peeking out her front door so I muster up as much courage as I can and yell hey did you hear that screaming I've really bad anxiety so taking a chance at looking like some crazy person who's hearing shit was a big deal for me not to mention that if I felt like someone was getting assaulted that my anxiety could hold off one embarrassing encounter moving on my neighbor immediately said yes she did he was outside having a cigarette before bed in her backyard when she heard it see folks smoking really does save she said she was going to go drive around the block and asked if I would come with her I said yes we live in a really small town and it's Canada everyone is pretty nice we drove around for about 15 minutes calling out hello but we found nothing I was looking specifically for someone laying unconscious in a snowbank or patterns in the snow that may show signs that there was a fight we called the cops and nothing came of it sadly I just hope whoever was screaming that night is okay now it's been a few months since then and I was just coming home from an appointment today May 13th 2017 when my neighbor same one from earlier came up to me and asked if I saw anything last night apparently there was someone going door-to-door knocking on people's doors at 8:30 last night and when people weren't answering they were jiggling the door handles she said she was going around asking neighbors to see who else had happened to and so far is her and her left-side neighbor who had the same encounter last night at around 8:30 she was letting me know because she's home alone a lot because her man is out working and I'm home alone a lot because my man is at and I have a three-year-old and her left side neighbor is a woman who's home alone a lot too just a side note I live in a pretty good area everyone mostly owns their homes and it's a lot of old people or families weirdos trying to enter people's homes while they're home please let's not meet I have guns and dogs and I'm a fierce fucking mama bear I will cut you 23 this happened about four years ago I guess I always downplayed how creepy it was in my head so I didn't get too scared at the time but thinking back it got really creepy a side note that helps the story I lived in Massachusetts at the time about an hour outside Boston I met Jack over the summer of 2013 I was at a local country bar Jack was tall skinny bald a little nerdy but I liked it at the end of the night he asked for my number and I excitedly gave it to him he texted me almost immediately and asked if we could hang out together I had to work the next few days so we couldn't hang out but that didn't stop him from texting me almost 24/7 I worked at a Children's Museum as a guide on a treetop walkway so when we got busy it was hard to text back immediately Jack was never truly understanding of this but always had the frustration under lots of I just like talking to you and just making sure he didn't fall her I didn't know any better finally there came five days where I didn't have to work at all and man did he make the best of them I had Tuesday to Saturday off and he had a plan for each day clingy but I ignored it here was our schedule Tuesday and Wednesday it took marathon dates it was pretty average aside from the fact that it took a lot of convincing to get him to take me home at the end of the night he kept saying how much he was enjoying our time together and didn't want it to end it was at this point I noticed that he wasn't just emotionally clean but physically clingy - if any guy even glanced my way he would have his arm around me so firmly it would hurt one older gentleman held the door for me once and Jack rambled on for hours about how the man was hitting on me he declared he was lucky to have me all to himself creepy Thursday it was the fourth of July and he asked if I wanted to take the train into Boston to see the fireworks I was excited until he told me that we were going to head into the city at 10:00 in the morning it was a 90 degree day not exactly the kind of weather you want to be gallivanting around Boston n he said he had fun things planned and I believed him we arrived in Boston get off the train and start walking several times I asked him where we are headed and if he can slow down a little since he was speed walking but he ignored me and said he was figuring it out finally he admitted that he didn't really have any plans made and was hoping to stumble across something I suggested a few things that I knew about but he said no to all of them we walked around for hours it was so hot that I started to feel dehydrated and exhausted I suggested we stopped for water and sunscreen he said we would soon it wasn't until an hour later that I convinced him we needed to stop at this point I had such blisters on the back of my heels that my socks were a little bloodied and I had folded the backs of my sneakers and socks down and attempted some relief we stopped for five minutes to get water and band-aids then off we went again it was only a matter of time before I started begging him to stop me please let's just take the subway we can sit and it'll be cooler Jack I'll come hon walking is the only way to see Boston me Jack I need to rest my feet are bleeding we have been walking for hours the fireworks start in two hours let's just find some shade and sit until then jack no that's too much time to wait an hour and a half before the show started we were sitting on a bench I had convinced him to give me 30 minutes to sit and said I felt like I would pass out if I didn't by now I was in pain every second I was walking and had a nasty sunburn suddenly Jack got very sentimental he started going on about how amazing I was and how he had his heart broken before but I proved that love was still possible for him he claimed that he was falling in love with me and never wanted to leave my side then he decided that fireworks were stupid and demanded we immediately walk back to the train station and go home we ended the night on his friend's front lawn where despite my best efforts he made me stay until 1:00 a.m. at this point I was completely over it it had been a miserable day Friday he wanted to do something in the morning but I lied and said I was busy he called me and in a desperate voice asked what I was doing that night I told him I'd be at the Country bar where we had met but I was going with a friend he acted okay with it but kept texting me every few minutes to see what I was doing that night I confided in my friend about how weird this was all going she agreed it was getting to be a bit much and that he was going to show up at the bar tonight sure enough he did halfway through the night he came pushed his way over to me he greeted us and hugged me when he let go he kept his hand on my arm tightly I wiggled out of his grip and asked what he was doing here he said he had driven two hours from his house because he needed a kiss my friend got wide eyes and I dodged him casually as he tried to hold on to my arm again my friend faked being sick and I said I needed to take her home and we left quickly Saturday I decided I needed a break from all this Jack I needed time to plan how to get out of this relationship without a battle I lied and told him I had to work at the last minute at the Museum and I couldn't hang out he was so upset and sad that he wanted to hang out with me around noon I got a text Jack where are you I'm here to have lunch with you men you aren't here me you're at the museum Jack where are you I was shaking I quickly made up a lie that I had gotten a migraine headache and my boss sent me home suddenly his tone changed Jack well baby I didn't you tell me let me come home and take care of you me that's okay I need sleep that's the best thing for me I need to sleep it off looking at my phone is too bright it hurts I need to go to bed jack okay Get Well baby I love you I'll check on you later I didn't reply to any of his texts after that I stayed inside the rest of the day and almost forgot about it until I woke up around midnight to my phone ringing it was him he told me he was near my house on the way to the country bar he told me he was pulling down my street and to come outside I told him it was late and I'd wake up my parents he started begging me to let him see me he told me he just needed one kiss I said no he started getting mad he told me he had gone long enough without seeing me and that I was being very rude he demanded I come outside I felt sick I crawled across my floor and peeked at my window he was standing at my door I head and told him he needed to leave immediately he told me he loved me and I didn't answer he asked why I was being this way and I finally just came clean I broke the whole thing off I told him I didn't love him that he needed to leave me alone that I was sorry but I wasn't the one for him he hung up stormed to his car and peeled away the noise woke up my mom and I told her everything through tears we sat in the dark living room for the rest of the night waiting to see if he'd come back he didn't the next day I had to work I was terrified he would show up I told everyone at the Museum who he was and what he looked like he was not to enter the museum or the surrounding property thankfully I worked with three male co-workers on the tree walk that day I was like a little sister to them and they protected me all day one of them followed me home afterward to make sure he wouldn't be there when I got home my mom told me Jack had done a few passes by the house and she had called the police to make sure they knew after that he just disappeared he deleted his Facebook and I never saw him at the country bar again 24 my family and I lived in a nice house in a relatively friendly town from the time I was six until I was 11 the time was generally safe other than the time some guy tried to lure my sister into his car from the day we moved in the neighbors across the street heated my family we were never quite sure why but we figured it was because my mom had accidentally parked on their side of the street the first time we visited the house regardless we embarked on a five-year battle with them that continued back and forth until the day we inevitably moved out but the story comes from the strange and somewhat creepy unexplainable things that occurred while we lived across the street from them the husband and father of the neighbor's household was in his mid-40s he was bald and gave off kind of a creepy vibe he would always stare at his teenage daughter or my mom for the sake of the story we'll call him Joe Joe's father was important in the township for some reason this meant that Joe pretty much thought he ran my street neighborhood and basically anything within a two mile radius of his house so he did whatever he pleased this included taking my mom's parking spot cursing and yelling at her staring at us and giving us dirty looks he accused us of messing with his cars after we'd lived there for two years but we ignored it of course we hadn't touched his vehicle but he was willing to do anything to make us move out about a year and a half before we eventually did leave the street things took a turn in our little Feud my mom was the type of person to take things as a joke so she would constantly make fun of his accusations and insults until he put up cameras he claimed to the cops in our area that the cameras were to prove that we were in fact messing with the cars the only issue with his story was this the cameras didn't even face his vehicles they faced our house all the way across the street this meant that none of his cars were even in frame and to make matters worse one camera was pointed directly at my window I was only ten at the time so from that point on my mom made me keep my shades down and the curtain closed other neighbors in the time told us they had gone into his house and seen the video footage which really did point straight toward my window I still get chills thinking about that as if the cameras weren't bad enough there were various points in which my basement would be broken into and holes would be drilled into the pipes we had doors outside had led to our basement stairs and no matter how much we locked them the drilling didn't stop we eventually had to nail wooden boards to the entrance a few months before we moved my mom had come home from the store late one night to see someone jump from the fence that separated our yard from the street the guy just stayed in his car and stared at her to this day my mom is convinced that all of these things were just tricks Joe was pulling to get us to leave they worked Joe let's not meet again because quite frankly you're creepy even if you didn't hire people to break into my Hut's and basement 25 so this happened over this past weekend me and my friend absolutely love to explore abandoned places and the biggest place we've been which is where this story takes place is an abandoned hospital that is absolutely massive it's more of a campus area so not just one big building but multiple all connected by underground tunnels so the time this happened it was our third time there our first time there we just scoped it out and found an entrance we didn't explore second time we went in and met three others there and export some then this last time we went some weird shit happened so it's me my friend Josh and my other friend Tony and we go inside the same way we always do we end up exploring just the three of us alone for a bit and stumble upon three others and ask if they want to join us they ended up being really cool guys and were actually film students that go to a nearby college so we explore for around an hour and a half and were more showing them around rather than us all exploring because we've been there before so anyway we were in the upstairs of one of the main buildings and they are all just messing with the things around the room taking pictures messing with the piano I've already seen all of this so I take a few pictures then go stand near the other side of the room that we came into which happened to be right around the corner from the stairs so I'm standing there scrolling through my phone answering texts or whatever and I happen to see someone out of my peripherals I look up at the doorway leading to the right near the stairs and I swear I see a head poking around the corner then the head darts back around a corner but he's trying not to be seen so staying calm I walk over to the rest of the group and tell them what I think I just saw we all go dead silent and hear nothing so my friend Josh decides to be the first to look and I'm right behind him he goes around a corner and I'm getting my knife out just in case and put it in my hand in my pocket so Josh turns a corner and later tells me he saw this guy at the bottom of the stairs with a stick in his hand ready to hit someone then I came around the corner and he drops the stick so we greet him a little sketched out that he tried to get away like that and I immediately had a bad feeling as I think everyone else did first off he had no backpack no camera no mask for the best dose and whatever else is in the air and tattered jeans and a military hat kind of like a camel basic training hat little sketchy but there are six of us so really what's he going to do so my friend asks if he wants to explore with us and he says sure but he's trying to find a friend so we start going to look for his friend with him and I soon realize he's taking us in circles literal circles around the whole building going upstairs downstairs to the basement upstairs all the while he is texting or calling his friend every few minutes trying to find him so he finally stops after an hour of aimlessly wandering and we get a second to talk to him of the film students has been filming all day and asked if he was familiar with the place he says yeah he's been here a few times and knows the place pretty well despite him taking us in circles for an hour so the film student asks if he can get him on video explaining some history of this place and this sketchy guy says no no I can't I just can't do that this strikes me as pretty weird but whatever maybe he doesn't like to be videotaped or whatever so then miss sketchy guy insists we stay here while he goes and gets his friend and then he will meet back up here with us if we just hang out for 10 or so minutes his words so my friend Josh says that's fine we'll wait and asks for his phone number so we can get into contact well this guy refuses to give Josh his phone number giving excuses like his phone his dad as I see him unlock his phone so is definitely not dead so my friend just says here take my number then and he agrees Josh gives him his phone number and he goes on his way to find his friend the second he is out of earshot I get everyone together and we all share how fucking sketchy we think this guy is and decide we need to leave before him and his friend get back at this point we don't know where we are and were all turned around from going in circles for an hour so we just go back the way we came eventually we were in a familiar area but we can't find the tunnel back to the building we entered at so we walk up a staircase and there he was with his friend I was expecting him to be back with about 12 guys to do whatever to us so that gave me some peace of mind seeing only one guy so we follow him in circles for another half hour trying to find an auditorium of some sorts then finally I recognize where we are and see the tunnel we need to go down to get out so I tell everyone this is the way out and everyone agrees we need to go and were done with this guy so we say our goodbyes to this sketchy guy and his friend that are now telling us he knows what it is and to just follow him a little longer luckily Oliver's had bad vibes from this guy and just wanted to get the fuck out so we go through the last tunnel to get out and as we are in the room with the window I climb out off to leave there are these three guys all dressed in black typical metalheads with band t-shirts and gauges and chained pants stuff like that one of them is kind of fat one of them has a stutter and the other has hair that went past his eyes the kid with his daughter asked us if we've seen their friend which he explained was the guy with the camel hat on keep in mind this guy never mentioned anyone else coming with him just his one friend he met up with so the three guys asked us if we're leaving and one of us says yes and they go back through the window we need to go out to get to our vehicles and say we'll walk you out at this point I knew some sketchy shit was going on so I give Josh Lee this is fucking sketchy man look and he just looks back wide-eyed and we proceeded to follow them out well by the time any of us get out the three weird fuckers are gone nowhere in sight when they said they were here to meet the sketchy guy in the camel hat whatever their intentions were to rob us or whatever their intentions were not good so we all decide to part ways and leave quickly we'll make it back to our vehicles and needless to say we will not be going back there so sketchy guys in the abandoned hospital let's not meet again 26 my friend Carrie is a very quiet girl she's extremely nice but very introverted and conserved I went to a school with her previous to this one and we tried to get her involved in events but she always turned us down and went home to hang out with her grandmother even in university she is still expected to call home almost nightly to show that she's safe and in her dorm room one day Carrie had gotten friendly one lecture with a girl who sat beside her we will call this girl Danielle since they both lived on residence they walked home together and decided to stop in the dining hall for a chat and get some food everything was normal until Danielle steered the conversation into some rather odd topics first she began by telling her how she had been in a mental health facility for trying to kill someone in high school she began telling my friend that when she first arrived in this city she traveled downtown at night in hopes of finding an intoxicated homeless person that she would be able to overpower and kill she told my friend of different ways to disembowel cats and offered to show her how to do it she told my friend of how she had wanted to kill different roommates since she had first arrived on rez but was too worried she would be caught she also admitted that the only reason she was taking law and forensic courses was to learn to commit crime better Carrie already shy and timid around normal people quickly excused herself and left five minutes after their encounter ended I got a message on Facebook telling me in the entire situation and asking what she should do I advised she told a professor which is what she did both of us thought that the girl needed help but we assumed that she was probably lying or at least exaggerating in order to get attention a few days later I got another message from Carrie telling me about the events that followed after Carrie told the professor she was called in the next day by the please the school took the threats and claims very seriously but the police told her not to worry they also thought she was exaggerating or lying but said they were going to take her in that night for evaluation not long after Kari was told that Danielle would not be coming back to residence she had been admitted to a facility and was banned from the school a few months later we were informed of the charges that were being laid against Danielle animal cruelty animal neglect and child pornography they had found videos of her mutilating animals with my own research I find pages of her online discussing how she liked necrophilia pedophilia etc she proudly boasted about all her fetishes and claimed online that she had killed before it turns out she had indeed been in care before because she had tried to kill someone and had been kept in confinement since she had been removed from school as she was considered a danger to staff and other residents on rez her roommates have claimed that she was up all night and rarely left her room they also reported a strange smell coming from it and that she was a bit weird in her room the police also found a kit that she was preparing they found written fantasies about Breaking and Entering bida philia and rape and believe that this kit was being prepared for when she would finally go and live out these fantasies they also told Carrie that they believe she admitted all of this to her within an hour of meeting because she had somehow thought that she had found someone with similar interests and was looking for a partner to help last I heard she had pled guilty but her sentencing was postponed as they are doing further psychiatric evaluations of her fun times 27 this happened about a year ago during the summer I work at a local family owned grocery store that has its own package store with a package store comes a bottle return room and ours is particularly small with only two machines that may I add jam and break fairly easily we're located next to a gas station and convenience store so we get our fair share of strange creepy men they love to make young women feel uncomfortable and purposely break our bottle machines so the girls will have to fix them as a watch will forget a handful of regulars since we're a local shop and unfortunately many of our regulars are those creepy perverted men our bottle room is where this story starts it was a Saturday night around 8 o'clock we closed at 10:00 on Saturdays so although it was summer it was dark outside once we left work one of our regulars I'll call him Jim came in to return some bottles Jim is a slightly older probably in his 50s short man who smelled of sweat and beer and loved to sing while returning his bottles he didn't seem to be as creepy as most of the other men that come in but I was always cautious around him naturally my coworker I'll call him Nick and I got a call at the registers letting us know the bottle machines were jammed Nick volunteered to go and jam the machines since he knew who was behind the call Nick comes back to the front after a few minutes and everything is completely normal he helps a few customers out and wait to see if Jim will come up to the front before telling me he's going to fill the milk and egg shelves in the cooler protocol for closing the store it doesn't take too long to restock the milk and eggs maybe 10 minutes on a night where the shelves are empty but Nick came back within two minutes after he rings up another customer he told me Jim was asking to see you personally so just a heads up despite the gross feeling that gave me it wasn't out of the ordinary for Jim to say that NIC cleared his throat and then said quickly and Oh and he had a machete so there's that too now weird shit going down in the bottle room isn't unusual but I can say I've never seen or heard of a customer carrying a machete in any store I suggested we call the police but Nick told me he wasn't threatening anyone with it he was putting it back in his backpack so the cops probably wouldn't do much I shrug it off for the most part as I trusted Nick but still keep it in the back of my head to watch out for Jim 10 or 15 minutes goes by and there was no sign of Jim anywhere so I figured it was safe for me to assume he had left and would redeem his bottle slip another time the next hour and a half goes by smoothly and we are getting ready to close our registers and lock our doors when I see someone run by the floor-to-ceiling windows at the front of the building which is behind our registers so while I am working on the register my back is to the windows I shrug it off again but I'm still wary and decided to keep myself on high alert and return to my closing business out of the corner of my eye I see the same person run by the sliding doors to my left tripping the motion sensor causing the doors to open I recognized the person as Jim at this point I am getting slightly nervous and tell Nick that it was close enough to 10:00 p.m. for him to lock up he goes and locks the doors and I see Jim run by again totally ignoring Nick we finished closing and Nick shuts all the lights off but I tell him not to leave yet because I was feeling even more nervous about Jim running around outside as a side note Jim wasn't just leisurely going for a run around our store he was pacing almost like he was circling our store waiting for us to come out I let Nick know that I was very unnerved by especially since I hadn't driven to work that night and my mother wasn't there to pick me up he said it would be okay from inside of the store and we just needed to wait it out we were waiting in the aisles of the store watching Jim closely when I noticed a gleam of light reflecting off of something in his hand it was his machete I texted my mom to tell her to park right in front of the back door so I could jump straight into her car when she got there when McCann I deemed it safe enough to leave we took the opportunity and booked it out of there I saw Jim at the front of the store as my mom and I drove off and I can definitely say that event sticks out to me as the most unsafe I felt at work I can't tell you why we didn't call the police I guess I trusted Nick enough to also trust his word against calling them but looking back I think it was dumb of us not to call them some things to add I was a 17-year old girl at the time of this event and knowing that Jim was asking for me personally that situation had the potential to get a whole lot worse especially since we decided not to call the police I also don't know the laws of carrying weapons in the town I live in or at my place of work so I'm not sure if it was illegal to have it on the property of the store let alone carry it so Jim one thing is for sure I would really like it if we never met again especially if you are carrying that machete 28 I'd like to begin with the notice for all who want to follow this timeline this is the first of many events that took place during a very terrifying time in my life the volumes will span over different subreddits namely our paranormal or whatever else I see fit I'll spend time describing things that will be pertinent to future chapters as well my new stepfather at the time bill invited my mother little sister and myself aged 14 to move into his house in the summer of 2001 it was a small quiet Texas town that didn't see much in terms of excitement bill worked for the city and was well loved and known among policemen city employees and citizens he was about 6 4 and around 220 pounds a massive man he was also a hippie always talking about hundreds of concert experiences and his love for music in particular he loved the Beatles he adored them so much that he had an entire music room dedicated to the Beatles a drum set a wall full of Beatles memorabilia another wall with hundreds of ticket stubs stereo equipment and something bizarre and disturbing a newspaper clip of the broomstick murders now this clip was terrifying and bizarre for a couple of reasons one the story and brutal murders were in the mid sixties the pictures were not all censored and showed graphic images of the victims and the crime scene too the clip was out of place in the middle of a music room when probed bill just spewed out about the pride he had for his small town and how he just found every piece of history interesting he told us that we don't see papers like that anymore so we left it at that those needed some updating so we began placing up nicer wall decor and doing wall and four remodels the land was on about ten acres or so and had two sheds and a giant pit to burn things I found an old restaurant booth in a shed in the back of the property and spent some time cleaning it up hauling trash to the pit and making a cool hangout place for my friends and I this would be a place that I would spend a good chunk of my time while living at this country home a dog at a small fire pit and we would hang out late into the summer night telling stories laughing etc between creepy memorabilia and the house being stuck in the 60s it just didn't feel inviting it felt like Bill didn't want to let any of his things go or put them away to accommodate his new family he was particularly attached to the Beatles room hand oddly enough the kitchen the kitchen was a small room in the middle of the house floored with an old stained brown shag carpet it felt more like a regular-sized room that had a stove sink and cabinets in it he told us that the carpet was actually put down years after the house was built and we thought it was an odd thing to have a carpeted kitchen my mother wanted to pull the carpet up and stain the concrete underneath to make it more fit for a kitchen bill was extremely adamant on not doing this I vividly remember them going back and forth on the carpet issue finally bill cracked and we all grabbed prying bars to pull the carpet up Bill's demeanor changed quite a bit as we pulled up the carpet it was quite and could be described as nervous as we pulled up the portion in the middle of the floor near the stained portion we began to notice that the stain bled through to the underside of the carpet while it was difficult to determine the exact color of the stain against the branch shag the underside of the carpet revealed a large red orange blob we all stopped and asked him what spilled none of us were prepared for the answer an old lady friend of his was viciously murdered many years back her boyfriend got high on PCP and dismembered her limb from limb not before removing her head working for the city bill was present when the apartment was remodeled he kept the carpet he seemed to grieve and was sincere as he told the story it looked as though he wasn't aware of how wrong it was to possess something like that in a home horrified we stood back while he was still rolling up the carpet spreading it out revealed what we couldn't see before the story a blood and gore stain in the shape of a torso surrounded by satellite stains my mother immediately demanded him to roll it up and haul it to the pit to be burned he did as he was ordered and they had a discussion in their room bill suddenly wasn't viewed as a nice gentle giant anymore he was viewed as a colossal intimidating psycho this also immediately set off red flags and regards to why he was so attached to the Beatles room whether it was because of his love for the band or he had more awful things associated with it was up for debate he was apologetic to us about keeping more of an artifacts in our home but it didn't bring as much comfort my small family had just moved in and was already plotting on how to escape the situation this would unfortunately be the beginning of what would turn out to be a string of horrific events that summer 29 I'm a very open-minded person I don't like the judge books by their covers because so many do I like to meet new people and sometimes more off individuals take advantage of that my family attributed to the way that I dress interestingly or the fact that I'm very friendly while this time it backfired at the time I was a sophomore and a theater major in college so I was constantly in the arts building one day I get a friend request from this kid named Paul on Facebook I saw that he was friends with a lot of my fine arts major friends a year under me so I confirmed it he started sending me pretty friendly messages saying that he often saw me in the art building and wanted to say hello but was awkward no shit being the person I am I kept it loose and cordial one day I was sitting outside a building on campus after Italian doing homework before my next class from the corner of my eye I see someone approaching very slowly I lift my head and there's Paul he slowly says ah Master Masha right as if it wasn't me yeah hi Paul I say with too much warmth trying to keep it light and what I mean awkward I mean as awkward as you can get but I didn't want to judge or be rude he also had this distinct character to his voice very bizarre and sniveling like a villain in a movie he had crazy curly hair and always carried around his sketchbook he always came up with the reason to show me new sketches and tell me super personal things about his life despite my not knowing him his sketches freaked me out not that I displayed that and they were usually violent and full of ugly cartoonish women often topless or naked on that first day and from that day on when he would specifically find me outside that building on those days he would insist on walking me to my next class I kind of started avoiding that spot I really needed that time to get things done he still continued to send me long personal messages trying to get to know me he also commented and I pretty I was on my pictures I started to get pretty uncomfortable with his aggressiveness he would try to set up times for us to hang out and I just really tried to avoid that as much as possible I was in a play in a company outside school at the time and he showed up one night by himself totally baked occasionally I would glance at him and he'd be staring at me he sent me a message after the show saying I was the best-looking one in the production shortly after that I got a message with a link to a picture he drew of me he had based it off of one from my facebook to be honest it was pretty cool and colorful not at all like his other pictures and then I got a message from him admitting his strong feelings for me I kind of figured it was coming but I politely told him that I appreciated his feelings and his friendship but I was seeing someone my then long-term boyfriend whoops he freaked out telling me that I was awful and he did all those things for me ie coming to my show drawing me a picture telling me personal shit I didn't want to know but he never trusts anyone and I broke that that is that had died that summer and he had nothing to live for so he might as well just kill himself that escalated quickly I attempted to stay friendly and rational but that didn't work at all he cursed me out and booked me on campus whenever I would see him he would literally make a 90-degree turn and walk in a different direction if I happen to be close I would see him scramble to get away about a year ago so three or four years after that whole thing happened I get a random message from a blank profile with the name Paul that said thank you for contributing to my hatred of women really little old me did all that asshole funny thing is he was at another show I was in with the same company recently and sat in the front row slinked all the way down in his chair nope can't see you at all buddy I also randomly see him around the city and it still sends a shiver up my spine I often wonder if he ever drew me like those other women in his sketches or what he did to my picture ish 30 long ago when I had first gotten into college and moved to a new city in a new state because of it I was approached to help in a haunted house by the activities director at my college I didn't know the people who were asking for help at their event that well but it was supposed to be in a huge Church that looked like a castle since it was a former monastery and all proceeds would go to help the various local charities that the church was involved with I thought is my chance to meet some new people and make a few friends participants were encouraged to come in costume to help with the set up and to bring about a general festive mood I decided to go with Harley Quinn as this was a full decade before the Suicide Squad movie and I thought it would help me find other geeks in the process to be frightened so I have the pigtails and whatnot and I arrived to a very large stone building that does indeed look like a castle and that no one but me the event coordinators and one other girl showed up sidenote I have always looked younger than my age so I was clocking in at 15 at the oldest in this costume even though I was well into 19 at the time the people who approached me were will call them Bob and Sue along with another girl that were able to find who went to a different college they said more people would show up later spoiler alert the one did and we started unloading the cars and bringing things into the church I very quickly found out that this place was 10% actual service hall and 90% subfloors towers and old abandoned classrooms they had mapped out the whole thing for a medieval themed guided haunted house tour they complimented me on my gesture and I shrugged and rolled with it happy that I had accidentally matched the first sign of trouble came around 45 minutes after we started setting up the concessions room I was sent down into one of the lower floors to look for the other girl who hadn't yet come back after being sent to fetch cupcakes from a fridge and an old kitchen down there she was named Becca and was dressed as a fairy princess so the directions Bob and Sue gave me just barely got me to where I was going this place was a massive maze on the inside when I suddenly hear heavy breathing I stomp and peek my head around the corner to see a dude standing in the dimly lighted hall back to me looking through a space between two doors into a very bright room beyond I was having none of this and said in a very clear and overly loud voice can I help you this guy spins around like a top and proceeds to stare at me with wide eyes and a gaping mouth classic body language for someone who was just caught doing something they shouldn't have been at that moment the door behind him starts opening and he moves behind it and Becca coming through the door cupcakes in hand she looked scared and in a very fake chipper voice she says that she needs help carrying all these cupcakes and that we should really be heading back now I looked behind her as the door closes and see the creepy guy bolt away down the hall and turn a corner to who knows where I nod not wanting to leave her alone and we go back up to a higher floor when we get to the room where the concessions were being set up no one was there and as Becca sets the cupcakes down she informs me that there is a lot more downstairs but she is too scared to go she says that guy was following her around for a while ducking behind corners whenever she would turn around when she got to the kitchen she had engaged a walk at the top of the door and had stayed in there gathering things and pretending she didn't hear that dude breathing heavy and being a creepazoid she didn't have a cell phone because her costume the fairy princess didn't have pockets she was ready to cry when she suddenly heard me call the guy out and decided that now was the time to act and unlock the door and come out as quickly as she could before I left Bob and Sue pulled a Houdini and were nowhere to be found in the immediate area and she said she was too scared to go back downstairs I told her she should stay up here with the concessions in the much more brightly lit area and tell someone as soon as they came back and that I would go back down to snag the rest of the stuff I know this sounds like a bad idea and it was but that guy was scrawny and looked to be in his 50s and the same height as me so I was pretty sure I could take him since I was still pretty tough from constant farm work all through high school so I headed back down and this dude tries the same thing with me following but ducking behind corners every time you turn back around not saying anything but breathing really heavy I was far more angry than scared at this point and when I heard him standing outside the kitchen door like he had done with Becca I threw the door open as quick as I could so my face was about an inch from his and said I have the strongest feeling you're not allowed within 500 feet of a skull zone he was once again very shocked and before he could answer I slammed and locked the door I then proceeded to sing happily and loudly as soon as I heard him scuttle away back into the darkness I gathered together the soda bottles and boxes of candy bars into a couple of bags to reduce trips which probably took about 10 minutes unlocked the door after checking for signs of creepy McCree curtain and headed back upstairs when I got to the concession room and opened the door Becca was circling the concessions table to be away from who else Crypt Castle himself I set the bags down stood between him and Becca and said very loudly and in his face back the hell off grandpa he took offense to this and proceeded to storm out of the room this time rather than sneak away as soon as he was gone Becca started crying and I told her we needed to go upstairs to find someone and if we didn't go home and call the police from there because this was quickly escalating out of hand for either of us we head upstairs and see no one so we had at the door when who should stop us halfway down the stairs but sue she wanted to know why we were leaving and we told her everything she said that was impossible and that they had only left 10 minutes ago and that was hardly enough time for all of that to have happened I pointed out that the nearest Costco was easily an hour and a half away as traffic but before she could respond Bob was behind us on the stairs saying that he would be glad to take back a home but first we had to get the rest of the supplies out of the car Becca agreed and I decided to stick around since these people were beyond weird and I didn't want to leave Becca alone in case they decided to go to a movie or something and ditcher here with dr. Crippen Stein we finish unloading the car and just as we are about to leave sue pops back up and says we have to introduce ourselves to the pastor of the church before we go so we start following her down all these hallways the whole time she is gushing about this guy like he is an anthropomorphic Bible we get there and who should it be but barring creepy creep now complete with Pastor robes as soon as he sees us he looks uncomfortable and is trying not to look at us as sue was going on and on about this that and the other then sue brings up her wild imaginations about a man in the church and this dude actually straightens up and says that it was him and he was simply trying to help us but we kept being disrespectful and he had to go hide in his office from our terrible and inappropriate behavior Becca looks as stunned as me and this dude steps closer to me and asks for my parents number so he can have a talk with them about raising a child that knows how to respect their elders I then proceeded to snap so hard that I developed a rage induced forest whitaker i first off i am 19 years old and i will not be giving some psycho with a god complex and a thing for underage girls and a phone number of anyone I care about secondly you're pretty tough for known robes in front of someone who knows you publicly but we both saw how fast you ran when I caught you spying on my friend through the gap in that door like you get good housekeeping lessons from Michael Myers thirdly newsflash pigtails and free wings are not antennae beaming out a signal for you to follow girls down dark hallways but hey it looks like that asthma attack you had the whole time we were alone has magically cleared up must be a miracle at this point pastor creeps a lot looks mortified I guess he thought it wasn't going to call him on it Becker looks like she wants to hug me and Sue looks like she wants to kill me I mean she was livid it was at this point Bob who I had not noticed come in the room as I was ripping into his pastor proceeded to slap a hand on my and Becca shoulders at the same time and demand we apologize I slapped his hands away from both of us told them to fuck right the hell off grabbed Becca and marched through the halls out the door and down the street to the bus stop to downtown hoping we could figure out the quickest way to get her home from there we didn't say anything while we waited but once we were on the bus she thanked me and pointed out the worst part of this story that the church was going to have that haunted house still and that Bob and Sue had told her on the ride over that the pastor was supposed to be a tour guide for the kids while the parents waited at the concession stand I was horrified and said we had to warn people and stop this she agreed and said to leave it to her since she had a computer and a bit of clout back at her University I had neither as I had just moved there so I left it to her we found her bus bugged as she got on and I never saw her again what I did get was called into the activities director's office and regaled with a nasty message left by Bob and Sue stating that I was barred from ever returning to the church and because of the lies spread about their beloved pastor Bob and Sue had a terrible turnout at the haunted house and none of the parents trusted their kids with the pastor anymore essentially we had ruined their Halloween I recounted what had happened to the activities director and they said I was obviously making it up and barred me from future school events for a year I didn't fight it since I had a job I was starting in a week but I will always be grateful to Becca and wonder what she said and did to save those kids everyone held freezer here and thank you very much for listening to my fifth xxx true scary stories special my word I kept you waiting a long time for this didn't I tada and I gotta say it was very difficult to put this together really was but we got there in the end we got it done it's not quite as long as the last one but you know it should be over two hours so it should be a good listen anyway regardless as per usual I'll get to work on the next one but it might take a bit longer to put together so I'm determined that this will be the last special I do though the next feature-length video will probably be at Halloween yeah probably that but I will get to work on our regular scary story special as well and I'll get out as soon as I can okay so what day is this this is Monday I think it was planning on putting this up so if all goes according to plan you should be getting this at some point on the 29th I was very sensible this time I didn't kill myself I didn't stress myself I recorded the stories over the course of a few weeks and very glad I did I mean I wasn't meant there everything I think turned out better because not only did I give myself more time I was just more relaxed throughout the whole process I just want to say that while these stories are becoming a bit harder to get my hands on and don't worry I'm not going to stop doing stories I just might do these ones a little less frequently but I should be able to get a fine sources to do other different kinds of stories might do more of the retail ones the confessions of maybe I'll slate an extra paranormal and there once a week we'll see but I think we should be okay for having regular videos it just it might be a bit more variety than we've usually had but it might not be a bad thing people actually seem to be enjoying the different types of videos I'm trying on a Sunday so I think we should move we should be okay content-wise fingers and toes crossed I would of course like to say super big thanks to everybody that allowed me to use their stories in this video I meant to say that earlier I want to make sure I get it in before I forget and this marks I think it was actually yesterday on you just double-check the date he according to my my best estimate the 28th would have been the day that the literal day I officially went full-time on YouTube so that's what this video is in celebration of I have of course been doing it for longer than a year but I've been doing a full-time for about a year as of yesterday and I probably been getting myself some kind of a little treat might walk over to my local takeaway place not the local one but hang on feeling a bit parched but the there's one fairly near body that does bear food than the one that's closest the one that's closest doesn't that great so I'll make it some Chinese takeaway chicken chow mein yep thing man so I'm leaning toward got to treat yourself and with that I think I'm going to head off for now so until next time thank you very much for listening and take very good care of yourselves you

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