Crazy Roommate & Creepy Vacations | 10 True Scary Stories From Reddit (Vol. 25)

[Music] the story happened at the end of the summer of 2016 to give you a bit of backstory my boyfriend and I were both around 21 boyfriend Max and I used to share an apartment with another married couple mind you they were awesome unfortunately Florida wasn't what they wanted so they decided to move to Pennsylvania Max and I started looking for people to replace them because rent where we lived was pricey and we didn't want to have to pay for the whole thing on her own it was in a very nice area but not close enough to the cities so most people that told us they would drop by to check the place out would flake out last minute eventually we found this person that seemed to be a very nice and laid-back girl she then explained how she was only looking for a place for her boyfriend Dan know I tend to see people's auras when I meet them and I always get a certain feeling when I don't like them immediately I'm not a judgmental person in the slightest it's just something I feel and can't help I didn't not like this person straight off the bat but I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt because everyone else seemed to be okay with him so I thought I might be wrong and I was hoping I was as the time went by said dan started being super loud and invited people over on weeknights till 4:00 I am playing music loud enough for it to sound like it was being played from our room etc that knowing stuff like that too and being beyond disrespectful especially to me max wouldn't do anything about it and I'm kind of glad because I know Dan would have wanted to fight him or something dan was 22 at the time but had the mentality of a 12 year old now on a side note we later found out that Dan had previous mug shots for shoplifting and other stuff he also threatened to get me beat up several times I just wanted to give you a bit of insight on Dan so you understand what is coming buckle up it was a Wednesday night I got home at 5:30 and as I was walking upstairs and almost to the third floor which is where we lived I saw him coming out of the apartment but I don't say anything because I don't like him so I mostly ignored him but he started yelling at me and telling me to look at the apartment I looked inside from the doorway and I saw nothing wrong so I asked what he was talking about and in an angry voice he claimed that we had been robbed and that he had also just gotten home to this but I saw all furniture in there and whatnot so I'm thinking he was on one of his drugs he usually was I came in and didn't notice that my Wii U is gone but the rest of my consoles were there GameCube ps3 Xbox etc so at this point I was already suspicious of him I tried to keep calm as much as I could and call max to see how far from home he is we usually both get home around the same time as I'm calling Danny yelled at me again that he had called the cops and they were on their way and in these exact words he says do whatever you need to do because the police are on their way he told me that I immediately knew he had been home for a while because he must have had time to hide all of his weapons and paraphernalia and God knows what else he had within five minutes the cops were pulling in and so was Max one officer went upstairs with Dan and Max to write down everything that was missing and the other stayed downstairs I stay with him just chatting according to Max we were missing a lot in our room but Dan is only missing his ps4 I did ask him at last if it was possible to search Dan's car and I also said if he needed to search my or Max's car would be ok with it he said it wasn't necessary but agreed to search Dan's car the officer didn't seem to like Dan very much right off the bat either once they all came back downstairs officers asked Dan if they could search his car and that they also needed his ID he said he was okay with them searching his car but he had to go get his ID and keys from the apartment Max and I followed him upstairs we saw him get his wallet and keys and he left the apartment we don't want to be nosy and stay downstairs while they search his car so we stayed in the apartment a few minutes go by and he's still not downstairs with the cops so we start looking around the neighborhood but he had already vanished how convenient but since he had agreed that they could search his car and and no moment said they couldn't they went ahead and started looking in the car if it was unlocked and it was we found all of our stuff in his car one of her two-three ds's that were missing our ps4 controller we had no ps4 but we used to play PC games max's laptop some wii u games etc the next morning i put all of his stuff out by the dumpster and had a locksmith change our locks i thought of putting a restraining order on him but ended up never going through with it a few weeks later we saw his car parked outside a few yards from our building but we pretended like we didn't see him and we just watched him from our room with 911 dialed thankfully eventually he just left [Music] my wonderful mother is a travel agent and when I graduated college she was able to use points that she earns from work to get us tickets to Italy we are a wealthy family so we travel as lightly and cheaply as possible this means Airbnb and sketchy hotels with cheap rates we flew into Venice and spent a few days up there and then took a train and a boat over to Sicily where my mom's father is from we were there in early October so it was the offseason and we found a cheap hotel and they weren't busy at all so my mom was able to get one of the hotel staff to come to the boat dock and pick us up and take us back to the hotel it was about a 20-minute drive up through the mountains to where we were staying the hotel was basically little villas so every guests had their own building that was separate from the others I used the term villa incredibly loosely they were one-story one-bedroom buildings with bed sheets and blankets bought from a thrift store nothing matched the reception building is the only building that could get Internet and it was where the dining service was only option was to eat there because one we didn't rent a car and two the city closest to where we were staying and was down a mountain so it was impossible to walk up and down so at dinner on the first night three of the men who worked at the hotel or hanging around me and wouldn't leave me alone I kept pouring my mom and I wine and one was trying to serenade me he got so close to me that I felt like he was trying to kiss my neck I pushed him away and kept my distance from them the rest of dinner the following night my mom takes her iPad down to the reception area to browse Facebook and I stay up in the room reading my Kindle I didn't pay to have service on my phone if I wanted to use the internet it would be about 40 cents a minute I'm an hour into watching an Italian so proper on the world's smallest TV think Michael Scott's plasma screen and I decided to join my mom and the reception area to use their internet I go to leave the villa and the door is locked from the outside I didn't understand why the doors function like that but I was locked inside and they could not be unlocked from the inside I hurried up and turned my internet on and Facebook messaged my mom that I was locked in the room and that she should come up in and lock it for me I waited for it to show its scent and then I turned my internet back off after a few minutes I decide forget it and that kicked out the screen window in the bedroom and climbed out that way I started my trek down part of the mountain to the reception area maybe a 10-minute walk as I'm walking down the path I can see a small pair of headlights parked in front of our villa I'm hidden behind some trees so I could see the lights but they would not have been able to see me I shrug it off and continue walking I get down to the reception area in my mom looks shocked to see me I just sent huerto the chef who speaks no English one of the guys who was hanging around me to get you oh well he'll figure it out when I'm not there I sit down to enjoy the Internet while I have it but I wasn't able to get my phone to connect to the Internet as bummed as I was I let it slide and just read some more on my Kindle with my mom still browsing Facebook the men stayed creepy with me but I stayed pretty aware and away from them my mom is really sweet and very trusting so she didn't notice how they were acting towards me a few days later we were ready to fly back to the US where is the plan landed and I was able to turn airplane mode off my phone flooded with Facebook messages from two of the men that I met that worked at the hotel I had a Google Translate all of them from Italian to English the messages from the first guy the one who picked us up from the docks originally were harmless I think you are very cute messages like that the messages from the second guy the 35 year old chef who my mom asked to pick me up in his Vespa after she accidentally locked me in our room or worse first message obviously from when he first came up to the mountain to get me are you in your room where are you I want to kiss you second message are you in the bathroom I'm gonna wait right outside the door for you third message why are you sexy are you than here I'm gonna kiss you when I see you so I blocked them my mom had friended them and they would comment on photos of me on her profile and write really disgusting things so my mom had eventually blocked them too not sure what would have happened if I didn't decide to leave out the window right when I did this happened in the summer when I was 12 and was getting ready to enter seventh grade my mom had just dropped me off at my dad's and I went to my room to start getting ready for the vacation we were going to go on the next day a while later around 10 p.m. I believe I was sitting up in my bed listening to music through headphones when I heard a loud pop noise it startled me and I paused my music now to give some perspective my bed was in the corner of my room and across the room in the center was my window this is important for later and from directly across me was my TV there was a desk under my window and I thought that something might have fallen off of that I got up and walked across the room to investigate but nothing seemed to be out of place I went to my door and when I opened it my dad was coming down the hallway and asked me if I heard the noise I said yes and told him that I already checked to see if anything in my room fell we checked around the kitchen and living room and everything seemed normal by this point my stepmom joined us and we turn on my lights to double check since it seemed the source was in my room I had the idea to check the window and lifted my blinds I found a small hole in the window that wasn't there before there was also a small chunk missing from one of my blind strips and I called my dad over and he said it looks like a bullet hole my stepmom said the same and we called the cops I was shaken from this and waited in the living room until the cops got there I went in with them and explained what had happened they searched the room and then went outside their search they came back in and told us that the fence in front of my window had the same hole one of the cops went to the neighbor's house turns out it was my neighbor who shot through the window we live next to an elderly couple and apparently the man was suffering from either Alzheimer's or dementia I can't remember which he told the cops that we had been partying which we weren't we were all in bed and that we were too loud so we decided to grab his gun and teach us a lesson he shot through his side of the fence where my window happened to be my dad decided not to press charges because the man was suffering with mental illness and instead the man went to a home which I believe was already the plan before this happened but it's been almost eight years since this so my memory on certain details are patchy eventually the cops left after everything was settled and I slept on the couch that night we still went on vacation the next day and honestly that was ok with me because I did not want to be in that room two things that are the scariest to me out of all of it one to my knowledge the bullet has never been found the cops couldn't find it and neither could I or my parents who knows where it shot through and we know about where it hid in my room across from the window I had a framed poster of Van Halen an 80s rock group for those unaware and the bullet hit the frame right where the drummer's crotch was this was the only funny part about this and it still makes me laugh to be honest too the cops said I had a chance of dying that night they said it would have been very likely that if I had been standing up forth my bed were to be in the center the bullet could have gone through my skull thank you Dad for putting my bed in the corner to sum this up I'm not going to say shooter let's not meet again or anything like that because I'm pretty sure he has passed in the last couple of years so one the statement wouldn't make sense and two I feel it be really disrespectful but to be clear I have no hate for the man yes his reasoning in fact that he did that was terrifying but he was old and his right mind I wasn't hurt and I've never been upset with him or any of his family I wished him the best sin to get help out of all of this I'm just really glad that my bed was in the corner and that I didn't need to get up when he's shot through my window this event occurred only around five months ago still gives me minor anxiety to this day for context I'm mown and currently a high school senior this is all happened on a normal weekend just like any other one I was hanging with two close buddies of mine which I will refer to as Joey and keV now Joey and I are your stereotypical stoners and during this time especially it almost seemed like a contest to see which of us could get more messed up this particular weekend however he had me beat since he bought a tab of acid and took it early that afternoon keV had eventually met us at Joey's house not long after since we both got a kick out of watching Joey trip over everything eventually a couple of hours into our partying and keV and I were sufficiently baked we wanted to drive to the Dollar Tree nearby to get some cheap Arizona teas for the cottonmouth it was around 8:30 and we wanted to make it before close Joey obviously didn't want to stay at the house by himself so he came with now Kevin's an athlete didn't doesn't smoke a lot and ended up getting really baked and Joey didn't want to be left alone in the car so I volunteered to go in by myself which was a really bad decision when entering the store all seemed fine until I made my way to the back where the refrigerators were and instantly felt like I'm being watched at the time being a little stoned I had just blamed it on my anxiety until I turned around and nearly jumped out of my skin to see a creepy man staring directly at me he was hiding partially behind the end of the aisle only extending his leg out to peer at me from the round the corner he was a scrawny dude and was wearing dirty clothes and a black beanie I had kept eye contact with him for what seemed like hours I'm a fairly big dude and though I'm only six foot I do have a large frame which usually helps me in these situations so with the deepest voice I could make out I spouted something long lines of what do I look famous or something he stood up and began walking in the center of the Iowan started calling me Derek I don't remember everything but I do recall him telling me casually don't act like a stranger and why are you ignoring me man I also noticed he was holding one of those green sprite bottles in his hand it was clear from his slurred speech and pronunciations that he had to be messed up on something at first I thought he was drunk but his eyes just looked crazy I tried to tell him that he had the wrong dude and I promised him that we didn't know each other but it only angered him more and more it didn't take long before he was screaming at me I didn't know what to do other than trying to walk away from him but he continued to followed me around the store he started threatening me and describing how he was going to soft my fat fingers and make me eat them my last attempt to get this guy to buzz off was to walk to the cashier but he continued to act like a crazy person at this point everybody in the store which was only several others started to look towards the commotion I tried to explain the situation to the cashier over his yelling but she looked just as terrified as I was it took every ounce of bravery to try to ignore this dude and I tried to turn my back to him out of nowhere he broke the sprite bottle over my right shoulder and he started trying to wrap his hands around my throat and choke me the guy even left a cut on the side of my neck with his fingernails the adrenaline rushed into me and my only reaction was to break his grip on my neck and shove him to the ground my mind was racing with anxiety as I stood over him angry trying to be tough afterwards he just got up and ran out of the store I stupidly told the cashier not to call the police since I figured he had just booked it she was really nice and respected this since I also looked really hot a vitsin was obviously underage she was even kind enough to break the rules and let me keep the drinks for free as well as some band-aids I had felt relieved for the moments until I walked out of the store and glanced to my right to see him standing against the wall out of sight of the store's window with a large pocket knife in his hand I froze for a second until he started to sprint towards me I hauled it for my car lunch for the car door which to this day I'm happy was unlocked and through the car into reverse I peeled out trying to wrap my brain around what it just happened Jolie and Kev were freaking out at this point and asking me a million questions the stress and fear of everything finally seemed to affect me and brought me to tears at a stoplight on the way back to Joey's I constantly looked back and wonder if I could have done things differently if I was sober it feels good to be able to get off my chest since I've only told my friends about the encounter overall my life isn't all that exciting but this is by far one of the scariest things to ever happen to me [Music] this happened me almost a decade ago as a sophomore in a college in Manhattan I am a female who grew up in New York just a bit outside of Manhattan though it wasn't until after my first year or two of college that I learned to be a typical New Yorker and stop engaging with strangers on the street though I did have at least one super cool experience with a stranger that I spent like three hours with and never saw again but looking back on him like what on earth Thor how did you not get murdered sorry a very long winded way to say that I was a pretty friendly girl who especially when I first moved to the city would happily respond to a stranger on the street more often than not that proved to be a bad idea this particular time though I will never forget it was scary but even more so strange so I had just moved to a spot next to st. Mark's I am pumped to decorate my place and decided I wanted to go to the flea market on Broadway to look for cool artwork it's a short walk made longer by my wandering as I wander in the direction I need to go I end up walking next to a man who's probably a good two decades older than me he's tall tan and otherwise nondescript I don't know how the interaction started I'm assuming it was with eye contact and a smile first mistake then I willingly entered into a conversation with him why I don't know he spoke English and Spanish and for some reason I decided that I wanted to speak to him in Spanish though I am not fluent but no enough to carry a conversation and as a dumb 19 year old must have thought I was fancy or something I'm pretty sure the conversation was pretty innocent I mean I didn't know enough to let it get weird or anything I think he eventually asked if he can come with me wherever I'm going and I laugh because I'm a 19 year old female and have no idea how to navigate a situation like this / don't see how he could be serious eventually I thought to tell him that he couldn't because I needed to be quick because company was coming actually true - even though I should have just said no and then put my headphones in and walked ahead and it seemed fine for maybe a minute then I feel my eyes burning into the side of my head what have I done he wants to talk I don't want to talk I keep my headphones in smile and walk faster no he's still slightly behind me and walking briskly to keep up I crossed the street he crosses the street the flea market is in view I think to myself stupidly that he's not going to follow and if he does it'll be easy to lose him and all of the little booths finally I'm at the flea market and I ducked right on inside I don't see him follow breathe a sigh of relief and decide I can take a minute to browse I even managed to pick up some cool skyline / typical New York pictures as I'm wandering through each booth I see him being buddies with one of the booth owners he points to me what well so much for that sigh of relief I've seen too many crime shows and decide that the best way to lose this guy is to zigzag around the flea market looking back it's like really it's an outdoor flea market the size of a two-bedroom apartment you're not fooling anyone I also decide to call my friend will call her Jen I tell Jen that I need her to stay on the phone with me because some weirdo was following me and if something happens I need a witness she's a bit worried I explained the interactions and how I'm currently working to dodge my way through the flea market to get home she's half laughing at half scolding me and navigate my way out of the flea market undetected or so I think and start heading towards home I don't see him or feel his stare I start to think I'm in the clear I tell Jen that I'm keeping her on the phone until I get home and she agrees it's the best course of action so I've been out of the flea market and walking down Broadway for about three minutes and now Jen and I are engaging in normal conversation about life when all of a sudden something or someone grabs my right ankle I scream I hear Jen yelling my name yelling my name asking what's happening I turn around horrified to see the man from earlier with a huge grin he's crouched down on the ground on his way up he'd gleefully exclaims I'm a chihuahua what Jenna's still in my ear yelling at me to let her know that I'm okay and I'm standing in the middle of the sidewalk trying to process what on earth would possess a grown man to grab a strange woman's ankle and yell I'm a chihuahua I honestly can't remember how I reacted I'm pretty sure I just shook my head and ran away literally ran away down busy Broadway you better believe there were multiple other people in the sidewalk too not one bad and I like I said this happened nearly a decade ago unfortunately I have not met that Chihuahua again [Music] Lucis back in October 2018 when I had accompanied my mom to a clinic in a small town about an hour away from Frankfurt I'm in my late 20s and female we were there for about two weeks while my mom underwent treatment for cancer unfortunately soon after arriving she experienced a lot of pain in her leg and we later found out that the cancer had spread there and her leg could break at any wrong step this meant that if I was going to see anything I had to go alone this was fine as the town we were in was extremely small and filled mostly with the old and sick there was a larger town only about a mile away up bend over a fairly steep hill and a large park in between it was about noon and my mom wasn't going to need to be around so I decided to go for a walk around the park to get there and I just had to walk down the path cross a street lined with Inns and cafes in the side leading to the park there are twisting paths Criss crossing over each other a lot of benches a couple of fountains and one or two community buildings I choose a path that would take me right beside an underground fountain about as steep as my shoulders I'm five seven was steps leading down to the spout it was there that I first saw him I was heading almost directly toward the fountain when a man's head pops up looks directly at me I look back at him for a second thinking I had surprised him just as much and we do the normal look away quickly thing I was the only one who looked away when I look back I realized he was still watching me and then I noticed that he had one arm crossed over his chest and moving as though he was touching himself as soon as I realized this I looked away and changed my direction to give him a wide berth I was so stunned and in disbelief then I convinced myself that whatever he was doing had nothing to do with me and that as long as I kept walking he billed back to being weird all by himself I turned down a path that for the immediate area was wide open I was still close to the cafe and ends in the occasional person also taking a midday walk I was almost to an area that would take the path through patches of woods which would also take me out of the public eye when I looked back to see if the guy was still in the fountain nobody was gone surprised I quickly did a circle and notice he had taken off doing a wide loop that left a lot of opportunity for us to cross paths again if I didn't change directions once again I couldn't believe it I thought it's the middle of the day or in a quiet but not unpopulated town about a mile away from a larger one there's no one here but old and sick people there's no only a predator would be here now hunting me but I still stopped and decided to change directions again this time my idiot self decided to take a tiny path that would lead me to the base of the hill that would go over to the larger town and was heavily wooded I get up to where the trees started and decided to look again that's when I noticed that he had also changed his direction and was practically jogging away from me I looked back up the path and realized that continuing would leave me completely alone and vulnerable and even though I didn't know where it led I had a fairly good idea that the path the guy was jogging up would eventually connect to this path in the woods because they all did so I stood at the end of the path and waited until the guy was out of sight before I turned around and headed in the opposite direction through the grass of a pretty wide-open portion of the park I got to where I was a safe distance away and pulled out my phone to start recording myself I figured it would just look like I was video chatting with someone this is when I was shown without a doubt that this guy was after me because not long after I made it across the park but to where I could still see the path up the hill he comes down the very same path looking side-to-side looking for me they eventually spots me again I had very bright dyed red hair and was pretty easy to spot in such wide-open area it's at this point I feel safe enough because there are people nearby and I'm within running distance of the town should this guy book it towards me that I keep wandering around testing to see how far this guy will go it keeps following me trying to stay out of sight because at one point I turn around suddenly to watch him sprint back into some trees until eventually I go up a hill that has zero cover for him to use and I lose track of him I continued on to explore a different small town making sure I'm always in a public space and easily seen but I never saw him again trust your gut my head was telling me that there was no way this could be happening to me and I almost tested it by walking up into the woods but my gut screamed bad idea and I couldn't be more relieved that I listened trust your gut [Music] the story is a little bit different in this particular story I was on the other end I was the creeper I'll start with a little background on me so you can understand the type of person I am I didn't have a traumatic childhood I was never abused neglected or any of the stereotypical serial killer stuff in fact it was quite the opposite if anything my family maybe gave me too much and was overly protective I think this is actually what led to my issues I was never allowed to go to other kids houses unless my mother had met their parents first which led me being left out of things a lot I was also not allowed to watch a lot of movies at other kids my age were always talking about for example Jurassic Park was huge with my classmates when I was around 10 but I never got to watch it I believe I was 16 or 17 by the time I actually saw the movie for the first time this kind of thing led me to being further out of the loop couple that with the fact that my grandma would buy me pretty much anything I even hinted that I wanted which led to a lot of jealousy from other kids and I was more or less the bullied loner all through school I never really learned how to relate to other people and I'm socially awkward and have anxiety issues to this day anytime I have to deal with anyone I don't know well as far as looks goes I know people tend to expect creepers to be overweight balding guys with thick glasses and bad skin you know the typical 40 year old basement dweller I'm sorry to disappoint but I've always been told I'm a decently attractive guy I'm at worst average looking even in high school when I was an outcast I overheard a girl talking about me once and saying something along the lines of yeah he'd be hot if he wasn't so freaking weird so you really can't judge a book by it's cover relationships have always been a huge struggle for me for two main reasons one I struggle to even approach someone I don't know let alone hold a conversation figure out if they're interested and asked them out most of the girlfriends I've had usually pursued me and initiated the relationship the second reason is that being a other people was utterly draining for me it takes an extreme effort for me to try to appear normal around others I'm constantly worried about whether I'm doing or saying the right things I go through conversations in my head before I actually speak to make sure it won't be misunderstood my second-guess everything and sit there and analyze every tiny detail of the reactions to me to see if I'm coming off as I mean to the effort is utterly exhausting and most of the time I'd rather just be alone however I am still a human being and I still have a need for attention and affection the problem is I'm like a dog chasing a car I don't know what to do with it when I finally get it didn't it usually ends in pain anyway II go into the actual story here since I know you're not all reading this just to read about my depressing life history I was in my early 20s just after college the local rock radio station I listened to him got a female DJ who was on during the time I was usually listening to the radio she seemed cool played a lot of stuff I liked and was fun to listen to so I would tune in pretty much every night she would occasionally talk a little bit about a personal interests and I shared most of them she liked video games comic books rock music obviously and other somewhat nerdy especially for a girl things I was eventually convinced that we had so much in common that she was the perfect girl for me I followed her on Facebook Twitter Instagram pretty much every social media page she had even tracking down a personal Facebook and not just the public one she advertised on the radio I talked to her through social media whenever I could think of something to say which most of the time just ended up being song requests but she was always friendly and even gave me a shout-out on air one night I know I'm already sounding creepy but I swear my intentions were 100% innocent at this point I really just like this girl a lot and wanted to get to know her but had no idea how to go about it I started going to every concert the radio station sponsored which in our small town were not very big or very often we don't have any kind of arena or anything so they were all at bars with a few hundred people at most we got some nationally known bands but nobody major they were mostly up-and-coming bands or bands who were past their prime the biggest thing they had was in a field behind a bar with a couple thousand in attendance anyway she was always there of course since she worked for the station and because the concerts were so small I would always see her I could never work up the guts to go talk to her because at this point I had put her on this pedestal in my mind and just couldn't talk to her unless I was sure I would say the right things I couldn't have her first impressions of me being anything less than perfect so most of the time I just got drunk and talked to whoever was near me instead after a while of this I ran into a guy I worked with at one concert I was already pretty drunk at this point so I ended up telling him that I liked this girl but I was too afraid to talk to her her response was to drag my drunken self up to her and strike up a conversation when I'm drunk I am actually pretty outgoing so surprisingly things went well and I left very excited about everything I sent her a message on Facebook a couple of days later and she remembered me which was really encouraging and I ended up asking her if she liked to hang out sometime she agreed and I nearly broke my desk I was so excited since she worked nights on the radio as well as a second job apparently four hours a night on a small radio station doesn't pay the bills I ended up meeting her for lunch at the mall on her break lunch didn't go so well my sober self clearly isn't as charming as my drunken self and things were rather quiet and awkward in desperation I started talking about all the things we had in common and eventually I got really desperate and told her I thought I might be falling for her in hindsight probably not the best thing to say to a girl who just met you and she was understandably creeped out she politely excused herself to go back to work and I sat there and wanted to smash my head on the table I knew I had blown my chances with her instead of admitting defeat though I just had to keep trying I messaged on Facebook about a thousand times over the next couple of weeks apologizing for coming too strong and trying to get another shot she responded a few times and was polite but a lot less friendly than before eventually she blocked me and looking back I can't say I blame her at the time though I was distraught then my sadness turned to anger at first I was angry at myself more than anything but then I started thinking things like it was never really anything but nice to her I can't she just get to know me I decided I needed to talk to her in person again but she who clearly was not going to meet at this point so I would hang around her store in the mall but I always seem to miss her after thinking about it today I suspect they probably sent her to the back to hide when they saw me coming but at the time I just thought she must work a different schedule every day finally I waited for her after work at the radio station this was my worst idea yet as I mentioned she was on the air at night so it was after midnight when she came outside and got into her car to go home I followed her even at the time I realized I was being creepy but I was so desperate to be with this girl that I didn't care I mean this sort of thing happens all the time in the movies and the girls eventually end up with a guy in they have this crazy romantic story to tell right real life is not like the movies she apparently called the cops on the way back to her place because they pulled in right behind us and dragged me out of the car I was arrested and ended up on probation with a restraining order I never had any intentions of hurting her but I understand she had no way of knowing that at the time other than the handwritten apology letter which was read and delivered to her by a police officer I had no further contact with her she left the radio station and moved to another city shortly after I've been through court-ordered therapy and some of my issues have gotten better I actually have a girlfriend now and a pretty healthy relationship although I still suffer from anxiety and depression I'm managing it and living a reasonably happy life now I haven't creeped on anyone since [Music] that was at my cousin's church I was helping with the Vacation Bible School at the time I played havin a go Cooper played San Roque and Tim played Meshach three prominent biblical figures while helping with VBS Sam meant an acquaintance of my cousins Matthew Wilson Matthew was a socially awkward guy that had just recently moved to their church he seemed like a nice guy but lacked humor social skills and confidence Matthew was obsessed with Michael Jackson he would constantly try to mimic Michael Jackson's dance moves while they were impressively on point they still made everyone shudder with cringe he would try so hard to be funny and cool but he would fail miserably every time he was one of the most cringe-worthy people I know in person after spending time around Matthew I found that something was a bit off with him one day I told Emily that I thought Matthew was kind of weird and she responded with you know what's wrong with him right and she told me that he told her that he was physically abused and his parents hated him I had heard a story from Eric Emily and Eric told two very different stories the story that Eric told me was that Matthews parents formerly had a mild drinking problem but were fine now the story that Emily told me was that they were critically addicted to alcohol and was extremely abusive to Matthew I didn't believe the story he told Emily because Matthew was a notorious liar who exaggerated Saul most everything he says and his parents were some of the most affectionate people the next thing that Emily told me was the most shocking matthew was supposedly possessed by a demon she told me that he has episodes in which he starts to convulse and his eyes turn pitch-black I didn't believe that I told her that sounds like a serious medical condition but she was adamant that it was a demon she said that he would develop a sickening smile every time it happened and that she had witnessed it happened several times Matthew lied all the time I thought he probably faked it and she was just imagining the black eye part or he had something severely wrong with him nothing really creepy popped up for a while until about three weeks ago several people were staying over at my cousin's house me Matthew Nathan Matthew slow-witted brother who takes everything literally and Cameron a good friend of Tim Matthew was quite social actually he was playing Super Smash Brothers and cracking jokes however all of a sudden he stopped talking and playing the game he abruptly stopped playing in the middle of a match and walked off blankly he wasn't going to the bathroom or to go get something either he would just wander off no matter what he was doing beforehand it was totally random it didn't explain why he quit in the middle of the game and didn't respond to any of our questions he would ever eNom spells of being blank and creepy one minutes he would be social and then the next he would go emotionless and unresponsive later I woke up at like 5:00 in the morning and saw Matthew sitting up and staying blankly at the wall everyone else was asleep he didn't have his headphones nor his phone he was just staring at the wall creepily the next day he was as social as can be and didn't have any unresponsive spells to my knowledge at the time however $50.00 of Eric's money disappeared the blame shifted on Cameron but I believe Matthew took the money he was awake when everyone was asleep and is a known chronic liar Emily later told me that Matthew came into her room very early around 6:30 only about thirty minutes since she woke up she told me that he came in there seeking refuge from the crowded hot and smelly room me Tim and Eric and Cameron were still sleeping in the room right next to hers we had stayed up super late Matthew plopped himself down in Emily's swing without his phone or anything to entertain himself and stared at Emily from the corner of his eye Emily a little creeped out when to go let her dog in and wipe the mud off of their feet when she was going back up the stairs to return to her room she saw a tip of a shoe at the top of the stairway mostly hidden by the dark corner when she got to the top she saw Matthew sitting in the dark hallway slowly banging his on the wall as soon as she walked into a room he followed her in the room saying a faint emotionless whisper I'm not trying to scare you or anything she then lied to him to get him to leave saying she is about to change about one week ago Lena Emily's best friend revealed something very dark about Matthew Matthew texted her quite a bit bestowing his darkest secrets to her he had fallen in love with her which he freely told her she was only 12 and he was 15 he told her that he hears voices and every time he talks bad about himself it isn't him it was the demon he told Lena that the demon specifically doesn't like her because she is nice to Matthew I told Lena to tell him to stop and to block him she refused to because she felt bad for him the very night that Lena sent me some screenshots of messages that Matthew had sent her minutes prior he texted her as the demon and acted like he was possessed I had enough at this point I told him off through a text Cooper called my aunt who then told Matthew's parents the next day at church Matthew and Nathan showed up at a much later time than usual when he saw Elena he went up and gave her a very uncomfortable and strange hug in which she leaned his head against hers and apologized he exclaimed that it wasn't his fault he couldn't control it after the sermon I was talking to Tyler a good friend and out of the corner of my eye I saw Matthew staring dead at me I turned around to see math he was standing in the dark corner of the church giving me a cold unflinching stare today actually only just a few minutes ago while writing this he texted me tim and eric' he said and I quote I'm gonna take some time away for a while I don't know how long but it'll be several weeks if you see me at church don't talk to me don't ask why just know it's for the better I have theorized my cousin's that he might have a multiple personality disorder some cases of this have people switching eye color when switching personalities which explains the color changes during his episodes while not black several other kids who have also witnessed Matthew's episodes said his eyes do change when he enters these fits the popular opinion is that they changed to a very dark brown well Mathew normally has very light blue eyes also multiple different personalities can form when someone has had a very traumatic event I believe whatever happened to Matthew's past created the demon he didn't get enough attention as a kid so he subconsciously created the demon to get attention or he could have schizophrenia Matthew stated that he hears voices sometimes or the most possible answer this is a sick way to get attention and have been pretending this whole time so if you're reading this Matthew I want you to know you are a pathetic human being that uses superstitions to mask your own problems and insecurities even though it's inevitable that I will see you again I want you to leave and take your demon with you [Music] I found some cheap train tickets to Luxembourg and being the adventurous person I am decided last minute to book them and go all by myself due to some unfortunate okay lack of planning on my part circumstances I ended up on the train to Luxembourg with nothing to wear for the weekend except the clothes in my back I figured it was no big deal how boring would it be to have everything go according to plan for once Luxembourg City is quite small and after two days Sian most of what I wanted to see a quick Google shirts showed me that there was a beautiful forest some kilometers north of the city I thought it looked perfect so I bought a day train pass and set on my journey I managed to make it there and it was gorgeous I wasn't really dressed for hiking since I had no clothes her shoes with me at the time and didn't want to miss out on such an amazing experience so I ventured into the forest anyways I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt and ballet flats for shoes I told myself I'd stay close to the area where the buses and cars park and not do any crazy rock climbing or anything and nothing would go wrong boy was that a dumb assumption to make it was about 45 minutes away from where I started walking there was no one else around I walk along a sharp turn and there's a lady walking towards me she was probably 45 or so it seemed quite plain as we approached each other she suddenly says that's not okay I ignored this as I tried to ignore people in the street as much as possible and keep walking she has reached the point of being right next to me now and as she passes she says you can't do this there is no one else around so if she has to be talking to me I reluctantly turned towards her and asked part of me she says how dare you show up here like this I'm thinking she has me confused for someone else and I try to tell her she's got the wrong person and slowly keep walking she turns towards me and says this forest a sacred you can't come in here wearing shoes like that at this point um stopped staring at this woman confused I offer an apology and keep going but she follows me she says you don't understand you're ruining it I say nothing what am I supposed to say I see some big branches close by I could maybe use his weapons if I have to I don't even know what's going on at this point she's screaming now repeating it's sacred and my shoes are ruining the sacredness of the forest I stand my ground offer one more apology she tells me I'm going to regret it I don't know why but I told her that I had nothing else to wear trying to justify myself I guess then she tells me it doesn't matter I'm starting to feel relieved maybe she'll leave me alone now she says the forest is protected do you know who protects it I respond no realistically where can I run nowhere who can I call no one so I had to face this lady at all times don't want her attacking me from behind or something she proceeds to tell me that Jesus Christ is protecting the forest I not sounds about right she repeats that it doesn't matter to her any more than I am wearing ballet flats she then says that Jesus and God know since she told them she tells me that God will not let me leave the forest I say something along the lines of pardon and she tells me slowly that God knows I have forsaken this forest and I am a traitor in a sinner she tells me that I am NOT going to make it out of this forest you will never leave God will not let you he sees you here ruining the sacredness of the forest he sent me to find you you had your chance he will give you the punishment you deserve I nod I'm kind of scared but at least she left it up to God to punish me so I should be safe I just need her to walk away and we hold eye contact for maybe 45 seconds and then she turns and continues on I stay where I am slowly back up into a tree and wait while I watch her leave I was afraid she adds some nearby friends so I wanted my backup to something made me feel safer she was still within earshot and she said he won't let you leave you know nothing you can do will change that she kept walking and never turned back I waited 15 minutes with my back of that tree and slowly kept going I never saw her again [Music] that was a period in time where I had to live with three roommates in an apartment this apartment was a community with tons of buildings and a pool for everyone to use it was very nice from the outside but the landlords and services were terrible like refusing to fix her air-conditioning in the middle of summer but that's another story about a week or so after we moved in in October of 2016 my roommates Jeff Kylie and Kristen and I returned from the store after light grocery shopping we met a strange individual an older man in his 40s wearing sweatpants all the way up to his chest he obviously was mentally challenged so we were nothing but nice to him greeted him and stated our names after all of us but Kylie returned to the apartment to put groceries away she decides to invite him inside for some soda and chat I've always been socially awkward in a bit of an introvert so I avoided talking to new people and did my own thing a couple of days passed and we get a knock on the door it's the man again we didn't mind it too much it was in the middle of the day and we were for the most part home so Kylie lets the man and they do some art together but it began to get more and more habitual when I was having a drink night with Kristen we received a knock at the door at 7 or 8 p.m. we found this to be strange Kristen opens the door and it's the man again asking for Kylie I made it very obvious that I didn't want him in but she said oh she's out but she should be home in a little while I think the men replies can I have a soda Kristen agreed and he proceeded to let himself in without her inviting him and he sat down by me it was a truly awkward experience considering the two of us rarely spoke to him thankfully Kylie came home shortly after so I could ditch the room and let her talk to him I know I probably sound like an awful human but I have extreme anxiety in these scenarios things begin to get worse Kylie was fed up with him coming over every day and we decided to try to avoid him for a bit every now and then we would he scratching at the door we simply turned off the lights and stayed quiet until it stopped I think at one point Kylie tried talking to him about not being comfortable with him coming over so often but I can't confirm that it started to escalate a bit more when we came home one day and found a bunch of drawings taped to our door who brought them inside and looked at them I wish I still had the pictures of them but it was so long ago there were sketches of each of us and Kristen's cat they were distorted in a strange way like his perception was obscure just a really bad artist this sparked a series of basically every night we had to sit in the dark while he scratched our door and knocked we would keep weapons nearby just because you never know what someone is capable of the door was always locked but I don't recall him ever trying anything more than just the scratching we decided to take some action and talk to the landlord's office about it they said they couldn't do anything and we would have to call the police but we didn't want to call the police because we were certain this man had some sort of disability so we did the only thing we could think of we ghosted him the next thing we found on our door was a sign language booklet it was filled with scratchy notes written in pen words crossed out and written over multiple languages and poems we kept the evidence in a cabinet just in case we decided that later report it some months went by over the course of this happening it was the midst of winter and we received our final gift from our strange friend a letter and I can't recount exactly what it said but it was something along the lines of why have you all stopped talking to me do you not want to be friends anymore I'm very angry with you but sprawled out over two paragraphs I remember we felt a level of fear and discomfort with this letter so we continued to ghost until you eventually stopped I ended up moving out before the next autumn my roommates were a little too party animal for me but I hope to this strange man that we don't meet again hey friends thanks for listening be sure to subscribe and click that notification Bell to be alert of the Volvo future narrations if you got a story be sure to submit them to my subreddit our let's read official and give and receive feedback from the community and maybe even hear your story featured on the next video and join my discord to interact with me and other listeners directly and if you want to support me even more grab early access to all future narrations for just $1 a month on patreon and maybe even pick up some let's read march on Spreadshirt all the links in the bio thanks so much friends and I'll see you again soon

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Length: 57min 1sec (3421 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 25 2019