I ESCAPED AN ARMED ROBBER | 11 True Scary Subscriber Horror Stories From Reddit (Vol. 54)

I'm originally from Philadelphia Pennsylvania I was living in a pretty decent part of the city at the time but still had lots of friends who lived in my old neighborhood which was a little more sketchy having lived there before I thought nothing I'm going to visit them staying there late into the night and then leaving go home the majority the folks that live there were amazing good-hearted people who wouldn't hurt anyone however it was an area known for crime and drug activity on a normal night just like many before I had gone to visit a few friends at one of our mutual friends houses the street she lived on was a tiny one-way street very common in that part of Philadelphia that didn't allow parking some residents would park their cars up on the sidewalk but I was always afraid of getting sideswiped so I would always Park on the next street down a larger dead-end street with two lanes and parking on either side so I had to take a little five-minute walk to my car when I left her house at around 2:00 to 3:00 a.m. I hadn't been drinking however at that time in my life we had smoked on the weekends so although I was not stumbling and I was completely coherent I was a little foggy I turned the corner onto the street my car was parked along the side closest to me about 3 to 4 cars down I immediately saw a large Hispanic man with a big puffy jacket jeans and a do-rag standing against the clothes shops pulled down security gates just past my car immediately I got a certain feeling in my neck he was just standing there hands in his pockets staring straight ahead I started to slow my pace when I was about 30 feet from him he turned and looked right at me when he saw me he took out his phone and started to make a phone call we were the only two people on the street at being the middle of January at 3:00 a.m. and although I logically didn't have a reason to be afraid of this man or suspected would try to harm me this feeling of fear washed over me and I did not want to get in my car he kept looking at me out of the corner of his eye and acting sort of nervous the way I was parked and the driver's side was facing him so I was going to have to open my car door in front of him and leave myself totally exposed on many levels so I slowed down and took out my own phone and pretended to be talking to a friend asking her if she was almost there to meet me hoping that if he thought there was someone just around the corner on the way he wouldn't hurt me after a few seconds of this and a few moments of watching the man I started to feel sort of silly the initial adrenaline had worn off I guess and I chalked it up to me just being paranoid from smoking he had been talking on the phone for a few minutes and I knew I couldn't just stand there forever and I was almost angry at myself for being such a scared little girl and immediately assuming this person was out to harm me and also thought that maybe he was just as scared as I was to meet someone on the street this late at night so he was doing exactly what I was I laughed internally at myself after about five minutes of my charade I felt ridiculous and started to walk the final few paces to my car unlock the door and open it to get in it was the worst mistake I'd ever made as soon as I had the door open was beginning to sit in the driver's seat he rushed me and pushed me all the way into the seat he pushed something cold and metal into my side and put me in sort of a bear hug pinning me sort of halfway against the center console and - give me all the money you have right now or I'll shoot you he said this forcefully right up next to my ear two or three times I froze up and didn't know what to do I and my entire paycheck on me it was Friday and back then and we use check cashing centers on payday they would cash your whole check for you for about two dollars as a young twentysomething that was everything I had for two weeks but that being said I don't think it was keeping my money that made me do what I did it was much more like fight or flight instincts for a few seconds all I did was sort of whimper while he screamed at me but then my brain started working I said okay okay you have to let go of me so I can get it he pause for what seemed like ten minutes but was probably only about three seconds and slowly started to loosen his grip on me he never took the metal object out of my side and kept his other hand in the back of my head but I waited until he was a few inches away I started to turn myself around and acted like I was reaching for my coat pocket and at the last second I kicked him as hard as I could square in the chest he stumbled back about a foot and in one fluid motion I pulled myself all the way in the car pulled the door closed and locked the doors from the inside with the power/lock button for a moment we both locked eyes me inside the car and him on the outside and an instant his shock turned to anger he started beating on the windows and the doors pulling on the handles and screaming that he was going to kill me through the closed door my car keys had fallen on the floor between the seats when he initially pinned me in the car and the 30 seconds or so that it took me to reach down and grab them and get them into the ignition were the scariest and longest of my life I swore he was going to break my window and shoot me finally I was able to start the car and speed away him beating on the car and threatening me the whole time I never did see if he truly had a gun a Taser or what it was but I'll never forget the sound of something hard and solid hitting my windows and doors along with his fists I was certain the next punch was going to shatter my window and he was going to grab a hold of me and then my life right there I drove as fast as I could all the way home and didn't come out of my room for about three days he was never caught and the police tried to reassure me that he was not a resident and was probably just a transient looking for a drug fix but I'm not so sure either way I never went back to that part of the city alone or at night and a short time later I move far away to the next state I'm sure it was a combination of quick thinking and dumb luck that got me out of a situation in one piece and with all my rent money and I don't ever want to find out if I'd have the same luck a second time I come from a small railroad town in Wisconsin you know the state with a large roster of known serial killers and grew up in the peak email scene angsty times so as a form of entertainment and a subtle nod to what we considered rebellion in our young naive age we would walk around town amongst all of the country roads train tracks and abandoned buildings scattered throughout our little town most evenings the scariest thing that would happen as a deer would hop out and spook one of us or our more creative friends would try and convince us of some alien sighting or urban legend that they swore was true so we didn't take many claims amongst the group seriously this evening however was different as we made our way through the shadows are somewhat large groups splintered off into little sub groups of twos and threes we were a fairly large group of friends varying in age so the younger ones would often pull together towards the middle of our caravan while the older characters in our Bunch held ranks on the outer edges as we made our way back to one of the boys from our group's homes one of the more dramatic members of our group claimed that there was someone driving behind us at a distance slowly with the headlights off we all scoffed and started making jabs at him along with some childish ghost noises marking that the ghost car was going to get us a few more blocks down this boy that had claimed to have spotted our shadowy stalker grew more and more uneasy and studded out you guys seriously they're getting closer and I can hear the tires on the gravel noticing how anxious he now seemed and how far we still had to go the older members of the group began to take his claims more seriously but did so in a way that would freak out the younger members as we made our turn onto the paved floor that meant we were two turns away from our safe haven I said hey first I want arrived at the house gets to pick the movie we all watch since the younger children were usually subjected to watching whenever boring or spooky things the older one of us put on this made them take off at a full sprint as soon as our feet hit the pavement and we started our fast pace race back to the promise of locked doors and my friend's parents waiting for us headlights flickered on and sync with the roar of an older model engine at this point the younger children are running and yelling in unison questioning what was happening who is that i surpassed the younger children and saw the sign that held the name of their housing complex that was nestled in a few trees as I saw this I yelled for everyone to go under the sign we all skid to a stop and rolled underneath as the man slammed his brakes to a screeching stop he threw his vehicle in Reverse and began to circle the sign I noticed his overhead light was casting an unsettling shadow over his face that appeared to consist of glasses that were far thicker than the seemingly thin hair that the light shone through like a thin veil finally as he rounded the part of the sign that was the sharpest turn to move around I whispered loudly all right everybody through the neighbor's yard let's go we all moved at record speeds in comparison to our sluggish paces that we usually assumed when these late-night endeavours as we ran through the blackness that was slowly only getting darker due to the thick cover of trees that now surrounded us we suddenly and unfortunately realized that a neighbor had an otherwise beautifully landscaped yard that had small bridges and ponds through it as many of us ran while jumping over small ditches decorative Hills and long ornaments we finally saw the road that separated the neighbors home from our final destination as we all approached the road I saw a gleam of headlights approaching to our left nearing the road that we needed to cross to finally achieve our sanctuary for the evening as I saw these headlights approaching I yelled run he's coming we got to go as all but one of us made it past to the safety of the yard I heard a faint out behind me as I looked back I saw the youngest and by far smallest member of our ranks holding their knee while rocking next to a large rock I looked at the small child and back at the vehicle that was now speeding to turn down the road towards us and ran back to him scooped them up while yelling leave the door open leave the door open the rest was a weird combination of slow-motion mixed with the quickest experience of my life the vehicle sped and narrowly missed us when I arrived to that door I do a fall holding the crying child as though I was some athlete cradling the ball for the final score of a game one of the older children slammed the door behind us and we all sat and silently Psalm dois we told his parents what had just ensued I begged his parents not to tell the cops since we were all past our small towns curfew and now that a motor I wish that we would have at least told the non-emergency line so it was on record but it is what it is to this day I'm very weary walking home alone at night and now that I have a son of my own and he's nearing the age where he will start adventuring on his own I'll tell him this story so he knows that some scary stories are real [Music] for context I am a female and I was 20 at the time this took place 24 now I was attending a local school when I had started a new job to make some extra money I would go to school in the morning and work in the afternoons and evenings they had three weeks of training and I was being trained along with six or seven others I had been seated next to a guy that seemed around my age that's I would partner up with during activities his name was Tyler Tyler would follow me out on our breaks and even catch up with me when I would excuse myself to use the restroom I initially didn't think much of it because we were all new and I know it helps when you make a friend in your training class to talk with he started to write notes to me during class and grew more friendlier and attached he started to say flirty things to me which I thought was odd because he said that his son was born just a few weeks ago and he had a girlfriend I felt like it could have been interpreting it wrong and that maybe he was just generally a really friendly person he would start to make comments in my body after a couple of weeks and like how I have a cute butt and I would catch him staring at me across the building a lot he spent as much time as he could with me while we were at work I didn't mind since he was nice and I didn't know anyone there yet there was a manager there David that was super creepy and he too would make weird comments towards me he even added me on Facebook which I never accepted he would notice really also find ways to separate me in Tyler or prevent us from spending our breaks together Tyler knew how uncomfortable he made me but naive 19 year old me still thought that nothing too bad could happen because it was a workplace because of this one day Tyler had said some things to David that he knew he would get fired for so he told me he was quitting all of that took place in about a month but this is where it started to get creepy a couple of weeks after Tyler quit I received a text he called me by the nickname he gave me so I immediately knew it was him he told me he got my number from the system at his new job on his own he said he did work on cars as a side job before so it fit he also told me he missed me and debts he was like a moth drawn to a flame and he really wanted to talk to me I had reminded him that he had a girlfriend but he said they broke up I told him that I wasn't interested in him like that and that we could just be friends he didn't seem to take no for an answer because he would still flirt with me he would send at least 10 to 20 texts a day he would call me and leave voicemails he would get upset when I didn't reply even though he knew that I couldn't use my phone during school or while I was working not a full week went by and I had to tell him to leave me alone in the stop contacted me of course he didn't stop and I just stopped replying to him altogether and I blocked him on Facebook like clockwork every day would start with a good morning text and I would have dozens of texts missed calls and voicemails from him by the end of the day they would mostly send hey how are you and I miss you and variations of the sort but after a couple of weeks I noticed his car in the parking lots when I got off of work or even just driving by I would ignore it and I would just get in my car and leave he never seemed to follow me so I figured he was just being a creep and checking up on me I started to see notes in my car and ER my windshield wipers I was stupid enough to get out and get it once I saw it not thinking that it could be a trick to get me out of my car the first few were sweet nothings like his moth drawn to a flame line he used a few times telling me I was beautiful telling me how he would kiss me and call me the nickname he had given me then he would move on to say things like I hope nothing happens to your car the Texas started to die down at this point in volume but definitely starting to get creepier like I got your address from the system at work I could come see you right now and did you get my note at the same time the motion sensor lights outside my window would go off at around 10:30 to 11:00 at night I need pitch-black darkness asleep so I would wake up when they turned on I would look outside my window and would not normally see someone there but I didn't see a figure once I had a see-through bamboo shade with semi-transparent curtains over at that you could see shapes through I tried to quickly move the curtains to pull the shape up to see who it was but they were gone by the time I got to it and my guts I knew it was Tyler who had just told me he knew where I lived and was leaving threats in my car and this continued for weeks one day after I got off for work the asphalt under my car was wet I thought it was odd but didn't think much of it I got in my car and started soon after about 10 seconds the coolant leichter's blinking in my car's beeping at me I turned my car off and I go inside asking my coworker Brian to take a look at my car for me he came out took a quick look he had gone back inside with me and toe to have my other coworker coincidentally also named Brian to have him take a look since he was much better with cars after me and Brian are walking out I see Tyler's car parked next to mine I started to panic and more so when I see he's in it I whispered to Brian pleading him to not leave me alone with him and that's he was stalking me he pops the hood of my car and Tyler gets out asking if we need help Brian tells him no and then proceeds to tell me that the coolant hose in my car was cut and showed me where Tyler's still standing outside of this car looking at us smiling at me I'm incredibly uncomfortable at this point and would rather be inside the building so I say let's go inside to Brian he agrees and I call my uncle who's mechanic he came and put a new hose on for me and put cool into my car and confirmed that someone had in fact cut the hose it just wasn't possible for this to happen by itself that night my motion sensor light had gone off again by now I was angry and super tired of being messed with so I got a knife went outside and in the general direction of where I thought he still might be I loudly threatened to kill him and dared him to try something with a more colorful choice of words crazy I know after that my motion sensor lights stopped going off the Texan calls stopped I didn't see him drive by my work anymore he did send me a message on Facebook about a year ago under the name John Smith calling me the nickname he gave me the profile was brand new I immediately blocked him and I haven't heard from him since I live with my aunt for about five months and this occurred right after the bike night incident hardly a month in I've refused to go out at night after bike night but even staying in my aunts apartment wouldn't save me my aunt was perpetually horn again off again with my uncle and welcomed him back into the apartment around this time now that my uncle wasn't living with his parents again he began having his druggie friends over all at the time my uncle began having a specific friend over a lot I'd later find out that it was his spice dealer malicious Colin Earl Earl was in his early 40s with light brown hair eerily like blue eyes and an arrogant smirk always plastered on his face he was one of those that's anytime he looked at me his eyes would linger always looking me up and down Earl was actually told what had just happened to me and my bike nights on referencing my run-in with bikers you might remember this from a previous story that I've told on here before but evidently it didn't stop him in fact it seemed to encourage him my uncle would hang out with him in the living room leaving me very little places I could go without being around them one day my uncle and Earl had been drinking and hanging out all day they left mid-afternoon and I hoped they wouldn't be back for the night my aunt had spun herself into a horrible schedule due to heavily medicating herself and was to the point she literally slept all day and wouldn't wake up until about 7:00 p.m. at the earliest so I popped in a DVD I'm enjoying myself when halfway through my horror movie I heard the back door open and hear my uncle and Earl I groan and pause my movie literally get up from the couch when Earl walks in the living room he smiles huskily at the sight of me and I keep my eyes down trying to avoid his piercing gaze well you don't have to go baby doll we're not trying to kick you out and before I can assure him that I don't mind he walks back towards the kitchen and I just sit there waiting for a minute I can hear Earl and my uncle talking but I'm not nosy so after five minutes I restart my movie I hear the upstairs door open I figured my Uncle Earl are going upstairs to bother my aunt I sigh with relief but it's short lasted Earl saunters into the living room and I pause the movie again there's two separate loved seats and then the couch I'm on but he chooses the plop down right next to me I instantly scoot away unimpressed of his beer stinking self and he full-on smiles at me how are you doing today baby no I've had to deal with Earl long enough that I wasn't as passive as I would have been if he were a stranger I'm not your baby Earl you're more than old enough to be my father he laughs at that like it's a big joke and says Oh red so sassy tonight I like it I scoff at him and stand up to which he pulls me back down by my wrists having none of it a yell don't touch me Earl he smiles wickedly at me and replies what are you gonna do about it baby girl last I heard is that you needed saved when a man wanted you now who do you think's gonna stop me I tear my arm away from him and demand where's my uncle I stand up again he stands to and says you spending some alone time with your aunt he said I could hang out if I wanted I don't hide my look of distaste and he smiles widely at me again we'll have fun hanging out I respond Julian walk away he doesn't follow me I shrug on my jacket and decide to stand on the little balcony on the back of the apartment through the kitchen I'm out there less of the minutes when the door opens and Earl slides himself through no I say throwing my hands up in the air in frustration Livie girl here meow he insists from the angles he's standing I literally can't walk past him through the kitchen or down the stairs to the back alleyway move Earl I insist trying to push past him he grabs my wrist again and I lose it trying to throw a fist at him he easily catches my hand with his free one and last I've dealt with tougher than you little girl and wonder you couldn't save yourself it's pathetic it's like you're begging for someone to do awful things to you don't try that again unless you want me to push you off that balcony he then releases my arms and I yank them away I squeezed myself into the corner taking a moment to figure out what I'm going to do he pulls out a pack of cigarettes and lights one up offering me one I'm 15 Earl that's illegal and I don't like smokers anyway they stink and I especially don't like you he rolls his eyes at that and mockingly waves his hands in the air and a mock panic baby girl you don't have to keep bringing up your age I know will you look older and you act older so what difference does it make in regards to love being illegal does it look like I care he smirks and continues if you just let me take care of you you need to have so much fun his eyes darken as he whispers in my ear we could have a lot of fun together if you'd stop being such a little wench my stomach flips in repulsion and I keep my eyes down he continues my last girlfriend was your age and she loved what I showed her I for one scrunch at my face and disgust and hiss just because you took advantage of some other poor young girl doesn't mean I'm going to comply I should call the police he rolls his eyes knowing full well I wouldn't dare given all of the illegal substances in my aunt's apartment he drops his cigarette then and presses himself against me with my back against the rusty railing around the balcony I hear it squeak from the pressure and I become terrified it's going to break and I'm gonna go plummeting into the pavement below he smiles at the look of fear at my face and he's so close I can smell of smoky breath and feel his manhood pressed against me through his sweatpants he reaches a hand and touches the side of my face and then lightly traces it down my body just as I fear he's about to lean in and kiss me i watch the door thrown open and my beast of an aunt rips earl off of me and like he threatened to do with me my aunt shoves him against the railing except she got him halfway over it I'll kill you well if you ever come here again take my husband with you and get away before I break your neck she shoves him away and he stumbles down the steps stopping halfway down to light up again flipping off my aunt the entire way my uncle leaves moments later his head bowed down like a sulking puppy my aunt and I stand there watching them leave as they get to the little gate Earl turns around and blows a kiss to me yelling see you around baby girl my uncle shoves him and tells him to shut up and they walk away my aunt and I enter the kitchen and my aunt explains what happened uncle had come up to a room and she had actually just woken up so they were talking when she asked him where his favorite illegal substance was and he said that he still needs to get it from Earl to this she frowned and asked what was happening considering Earl had been with him all day my uncle had tried to play it cool but my aunt knew that my uncle would never have early without leaving drugs for my uncle she stood up demanding to know where I was to which he had shrugged my aunt began bolting for the stairs as my uncle had tried to stand in her way she had swore at him and shoved him aside as she hold herself to the back door and threw it open to Earl pressing himself against me which meant that my uncle had attentively gone upstairs to distract my aunt and I guess give Earl a better chance with me alone after all that had happened she made sure I was okay and kept the teasing of what a creep magnet I was at a minimal she grabbed her bong and took a few hits to calm down and we just hung out watching horror movies all night my uncle returned a few days later and was allowed back in but he stopped hanging out in the apartment with his creepy friends and completely avoided me Earl would still come by to pick up my uncle but he wasn't allowed in the apartment at all he blow me kisses and starts screaming at me every time he saw me so Earl seriously I hope I never see you but if we do I've got a fresh can of pepper spray calling your name [Music] I love my job because it gives me so many instances where stuff that only gets seen in movies are real it's gotten to the point where I feel like I'm not safe in public without one of my husband's knives on my person after this a common phrase I have heard all this month is while you're a girl you normally don't see women working in places like this I wonder why let me clarify I used to be one of those who'd wear nice clothes to work shorts tank tops etc however working in a place like this you have to be careful of who you are nice to because people take it the wrong way it's my job to be friendly and help but some people take it completely out of context I had a guy come in the other night to round ten to eleven talking to himself saying how it's one of those places I've never been in here being at work here I try and say hello and see if he needed help he doesn't make eye contact with me at all proceeds to walk to the opposite side of the platform and say the exact same thing over again to my best friend who was just keeping me company at work that day and stare at her intensely while walking around this guy was super tall then white with a really bad few tan lines and older I got a weird vibe off of him when he came in the door and it just got worse as she stayed in my store he started walking down I was talking to himself again and then making a huge circle in the store avoiding eye contact with me and when my friend and I started talking he asked can one of us come to the back area of the store where the lubricant is which is under cameras but is a tight area regardless being my creep writer was going off I said I can help you up here so I can help the other group as well he then started acting weird when another group of guys came in the store and talking to himself again the guys could see my face go from super happy to unnerve because of the creepy dude walking around my friend finally was able to get to the other two guys to catch what was happening as the creepy dude dumped his change on the counter to pay for a sample of lube and said I didn't know samples cost money I might have to come back really creepily he then got his change and started outside where one of the guys who just came in followed behind to make sure he left and he was talking to our outside camera and his roof I was so glad that he left after creeping me out for almost an hour flash-forward to the following day where I'm off for four days due to moving to a new place near work and my boss calls he says there was a taller older dude coming into the store looking for a girl that works here with a purse of some kind and he was instantly creeped out and told him to leave and not come back he wasn't sure why he was looking for me as I didn't tell him about the other night two days later when my husband went in to cover someone he said the exact same description of the dude came in with a purse looking for me saying was a gift for the girl who worked there I truly hope that no other women are girls who work in the adult industry like I do have to deal with this guy and needless to say I now carry my knife on me at all times [Music] so back before I had a vehicle to speak of I rode the bus everywhere and naturally wanted to use it to get to work one day whilst waiting for the bus to come a strange Indian man started chatting me up I'm a very patient a naive person and give most of the people the benefit of the doubt so I let him do his talking and my observations he obviously lived at the same apartment complex as me because there wasn't much else around and he came from the same direction as me to a bus station that happens to be deliberately in front of this apartment complex he wanted to continue this mostly one-sided conversation on the bus ride and we had a good distance and seating away from one another he didn't get the hint when my ear plug was still in that I kind of wanted to just jam out my morning bus ride and he moved closer to me to the point of sitting on my earbuds I'm not exactly the touchy-feely type and for some background I am one of those females that doesn't need much makeup for her face to be called gorgeous by some by standard and rarely used it looking like a kid when I didn't what I was going to be serving beer and getting tips of my job that evening and wanted to look presentable and I absolutely loathe most male attention especially from old geezers like this one who was probably older than my grandfather this move was very uncomfortable to me for one I didn't know this person and two he sat so close that his leg was touching mine and was so weird many days later it's late at night and the last bus for the night was going to run to take me home and at the large bus station I spot him he is in a bench next to this Asian female and she looks visibly uncomfortable with how he is talking to her and almost crawling on the bench to get near to her I take this opportunity to approach and discuss the other day to him that she should please not get that close to me again and he was furious he immediately started spewing off I'm not interested in you another not so savory things I didn't imply such a thing at all so ignoring him I asked the girl directly do you know this man and she shook her head now and looked like she was cringing in her seat and then I asked are you okay and she said I think so and then I proceeded to go back to my station spot and then I found a bus cop I told him the situation that the last bus for the night is coming why is he over there when he lives in my apartment complex and that she doesn't know him he got approached and he proceeded to be furious with the officer not a great plan on his end I was later told that he was banned from large bus stops for the next six months all because he wasn't cooperative fast forward to a few weeks later and not at my apartments pool wearing a tasteful one-piece bathing suit that covers all of the things I like covered if I could I would be in a surfing getup but Santa Gress I look up from drying off and in the window I see a strange movement and it's constantly jerking upon further squinting in the Sun I see a silhouette and the jerking not stopping is the worst place possible I unfortunately recognize the same Indian geezer gawking at a total stranger and whacking it to whoever happens to be at the pool I was alone but as soon as I realized what was going on I hurried out of there I have since moved many times and I've had vehicles for the most part ever since and have never had to deal with bus folk and ever again and as for the perverted old Indian guy starting an asian-looking youthful females please keep your distance [Music] this story happened to me December 2018 I'm a recent Navy veteran and have seen and dealt with a lot of situations which made it to where I don't scare easily just some insight on me I'm now a 28 year old male athletic build ready to take on the world since leaving the military for this story we'll say my name is Ron I started working as a security guard in Michigan Mall I won't name it in this story and I was loving my job and the people I worked with the night of the 23rd I was to work my first overnight shift which only consisted of one officer for eight to nine hours I didn't think much of it so I clock in for my shift at 10:00 p.m. and get everything ready for the night my first row through the mall I verify all doors are locked make sure no one is in the mall one hit all my checkpoints the night is running smooth around 2:00 a.m. I start making my way around the mall again to do another check I'm making my way to Centre Court where we have our Santa set up at and as I round the corner I froze him what I can only describe as pure terror about 30 feet from me I can see and smell a homeless man wearing a Santa hat holding a machete in one hand and would look to be a club in the other here this evil look on his face like he was there to do one thing and that was kill me I just froze sitting there running over what to do all I had was a radio and handcuffs this man had two weapons and I didn't want a chance fighting him but I knew I could outrun him to safety of my locked office I knew all the shortcuts and backhauls like the back of my hand then arcade games started playing music which I guess caught the guy off guard as he took his eyes off of me for a second and once he did I made a run for it as I'm running I can hear him right behind me yelling for me to get back here you're mine not once did I stop and I ran and dodged around the corners and bounded through the halls as fast as I could and made the final turns of the hallway my office was in I had one chance to type my lock code in the door get in and shut the door before he got me I finally made it to the door and can still hear him as he is now laughing hysterically I quickly and flawlessly punched my code in hop in the office and slammed the door shut there's only a second of quiet before he starts banging on the door thank God it was reinforced suddenly the banging stops I go to the monitors and he is standing in front of the door not moving an inch mr. security God come on out and let's make this fast it'll only hurt for a second and freaked out at this point because his intentions are quite clear I don't know why I didn't call the police and I should have I know I decided to wait him out an hour goes by and he hasn't moved I feel safe in the office but eventually people will start showing up to open shops I got to do something I finally called the police they said they had an officer right down the street and I was so thankful when I heard sirens and watched the man run out of there I watched him on the cameras and he ended up running right into two huge linebacker like officers and he never stood a chance after that night I refused to work night shift and actually left that job two months later but I will never forget that night or that voice it will only hurt for a second [Music] I've always been sensitive to the other side I won't deep dive into all the occurrences I've had anyone interested can message me for stories anywhere from shadow figures doppelgangers Michigan Wolfman poltergeists possible demons and more it's been a very interesting life none of these stories include the random dangerous encounters with strangers either I wouldn't be surprised of someone listening to or reading this as already rolling their eyes much like I do from time to time but I digress I'm a 29 year old female and as recently as September of 2019 I purchased a house it's an older home built in the 1800s it's sturdy and has plenty of rooms two bedrooms upstairs and down my room the largest of all of them has a walk-in closet the size of a small child's bedroom a call space attic above that and finally at the back of the closet is a door to an unfinished unused type of walk-in attic space I wanted to turn it into a small reading nook in the future but now my unease towards the area is becoming unresolvable I almost never use my closet I've noticed small things here and there that hint at the paranormal despite my sensitivity to the realm I try to explain happenings rationally before outright jumping to demon in my house such things include shadows without a source voices from my closet items missing are moved cold spots bangs on walls doors being closed that I left open etc typical spoopy stuff a lot of these things can be explained by me being forgetful or the fact that the house is almost 200 years old however no touching until this morning I'm a bartender my night ends around 4:00 a.m. by the time I finished at work at home get ready and into bed and this is important information I was laying in bed sleep mask on stories cued up and ready to sleep I turned out my lights and settled in I was still wide awake and just getting comfortable on a left side sleeper and I'm stretched into my favorite position legs stacked right foot behind left with the inside of my foot touching the mattress that detail is important imagine a very loose fetal position so I'm comfortable and suddenly I feel the sensation of a finger pressed gently into the inside of my right foot the one against the mattress and travel from my arch to my heel and sink away I tried not to panic I kept my breathing steady I thought through every rational explanation I could come up with then rolled over similar position opposite side it didn't happen again and I willed myself to sleep as I mentioned before I have seen and heard hens tours the paranormal but only recently have things escalated this touch wasn't the first occurrence of it letting me know it is however the first that I can justify with a rational answer the first time was before the lights in the hall had been installed so there was no light to go by I just left my bathroom and stepped onto the landing of the stairs when I heard the shower door rattle and slide partially my cat was steadily beside me bouncing and chirping because I was headed downstairs and at the noise she stopped and turned to the bathroom as I put my foot out to take a step down I heard the landing behind me creak and groan as though weight was being put on it heavier than mine and painfully slow I felt an agonizing sense of dread that someone was towering over me in my small hallway however I chose to ignore it and just went down the stairs with my girl eagerly racing me I rationalized an older home and creaks but I still called my boyfriend and explained what happened on my way to work he has seen and felt things here too and I think that's why he doesn't stay the night much anymore I know it's because I started doing renovations to the house I'm trying to return it to the glorious old house at once was with very minimal modern flair and the electricians used that crawl space in my closet to install the fixture above my stairwell and I believe it woke something up something much more interested in me than I am an int I went to a boarding school from the ages 11 to 18 I graduated last year and thoroughly enjoyed my time there just so you're aware boarding schools just aren't for kids who misbehave and are unloved my school was broken down into for boarding schools where you live slept and all of your belongings were in your respective rooms of course each boarding house had their own house master or House mistress mine was a great carrying an understanding gentleman who undoubtedly made my time at school much better each boarding house had about three or four corridors spreading around the house with around 10 to 12 rooms in each my school was over a hundred years old and had its fair share of deaths within its walls over the years a few teachers such as my house master stated they experienced weird and unusual things happen in certain corridors when the school was empty for the holidays the story I'm about to tell you may not seem the most scary however it is something that has intrigued me for the past couple of years my corridor at the time was on the upstairs portion of the boarding house it was a Saturday nights I was watching a show on my iPad the last time I checked the clock was 2 a.m. and I was thinking about going to bed pretty soon all of a sudden the corridor lights flickered on I saw the flash perfectly as there was a slight gap under my door and the light reflected on the bottom of my sink just a note that the lights are triggered by motion someone or something had to be moving in the corridor I thought okay it's just the lights it's probably someone just going for the toilet as I thought that the thick heavy double door swung open and I heard light footsteps walk past my room the story needed a lot of force to successfully open it was located halfway in the corridor the toilet was located at the end of the corridor and that's the door I heard screech open it's loud often annoying sound was very distinct a short while later I heard the door open and closed again with more footsteps heading back the way it came from the footsteps then stopped outside my door after pausing my TV show I began to get a bit nervous a certain sinking feeling something was up from my bed I looked underneath my door and I could see no shadow it wasn't a human standing on the opposite side I got up and walked over to the door anxiously I stood awaiting I cannot describe the feeling of nervousness during that moment it all happened so fast yet so slow and a few minutes went by before I finally opened that door nothing absolutely nothing it didn't make sense the lights the Delft door the toilet door the footsteps I have no idea what it was my house master often told me stories of strange noises and doors slamming shut in that exact corridor I firmly believed that it was a ghost on the other side of my door that night now before anybody asks yes my windows were shut and there was no wind a breeze I spoke to my friend's house master and other people who lived in my corridor all said that they had never experienced anything like it before there wouldn't have been time nor would it have been quiet enough for a person to get back to their room without me noticing like I said it's not the scariest story but a very interesting experience from my time at the boarding school the story takes place a good few years ago when I would have been around 10 to 11 years old and my family had just moved into our new house I live with my sister and my single mom so I guess you could consider us quite vulnerable although we never worried since the neighborhood wasn't sketchy or anything like that I'd like to also quickly mention that my mom wasn't a very social person so she never talked or knew any of the neighbors neither did she care until this whole ordeal happened I think we'd only been moved in for a week or two when this started but I remember that night quite vividly I always had trouble sleeping in one night when my mom wouldn't answer my calls I took it upon myself to go out to the living room to find her our living room had big glass doors that would go out to a balcony and do to us moving in the balcony was full of plastic bags and moving boxes when I walked out my mom walked in from the balcony with a knife and she looked horrified she started explaining that a creepy guy had been on the balcony when she was watching TV she only found out because he tripped on one of the bags so she ran out to confront him but he managed to run off I was horrified and sat there on the couch until the police came to talk to us about the guy who we found out was our neighbor and this made us feel very uncomfortable the next two encounters happened when I wasn't around buts are just a bit weird and creepy I think the next encounter happened when one of my auntie's was over and she spotted them standing in our driveway looking up at the balcony he immediately ran off when he was spotted but my aunt I notified my mom and she was extremely upset we nicknamed him anchovies because he was gross and anchovies were gross also since we never knew his actual name or at least my mom never told my sister and I the third time happened when we had a roommate living in her house she was one of my mom's close friends and was warned about anchovies this friend had already been through a stalker experience prior to this so she was on high alert nonetheless like the last time anchovies was caught in our driveway but this time was very specifically iron our roommate she noticed and chased off with a stick screaming like a madwoman the police were contacted again and we were told that anchovies had been warned that if he stepped foot on our property again that he'd be arrested and this seemed to work as we didn't see him for ages this last one is the creepiest part and it was the last time in ever saw in Chaves now I was a destructive kid and over the past few years had developed an obsession with lighting fires and whenever I got my hands on Leiter's her matches it was time to burn something on this specific day I had found a random little hole pits in our backyard which was completely open and the area I was in was on the edge of a property next to a road that divided the two lines of houses where we lived I gathered dry leaves grass sticks and even some paper and got to work lighting my mini fire it was going well I had been staring at the fire for about ten minutes when I happened to look up and see anchovies at the other side of the road staring directly at me my memories are blurry but I could almost swear he was wearing something on his face covering everything except his eyes which stared at me deadpan and just to clear something up he wasn't staring at me like a concerned adult he was literally just staring me down and it was extremely creepy I had no idea how long he was there but after making eye contact for about five to ten seconds I stamped out the fire and ran back to my house it was scary since up to that point I had never seen in Chavez before and the whole mass thing didn't make me feel any better now down the line our house burnt down it was in very early 2016 and I would have been 12 by then I wasn't actually there when the house down but my mom and her boyfriend at the time were and they were able to escape but we lost literally everything in that fire and it was very devastating the worst part is that the cause is still unknown firefighters rolled out natural causes and they didn't have any one suspect enough to accuse but my mom thinks it was an Chili's that thought has been in my mind since then we never found out why he did all of this I don't know if the police asked him or my mom knows but won't tell me I still think of the day he stared at me and it freaks me out to think he may have had very sick intentions but since then I doubt others see that creepy disgusting monster again [Music] I'm a 21 year old guy from Denmark back in 2017 I was going for a vacation road trip in the United States we started in Las Vegas where my mom visited an old woman she lived with for a year back when she was 16 in an exchange student we then drove to LA then Arizona New Mexico Texas and finally Louisiana I was and am very into true scary stories especially enjoying Krypton and unexplained creatures and skinwalkers and Wendigos and I told my family about it but my sister and her boyfriend tease me about believing in such things my dad doesn't believe in God nor is he superstitious or anything but he has had some strange things happen him so he is a little bit more open-minded and so was my mom because she's had experiences with some paranormal stuff when we were driving through the deserts of Arizona my dad had to have a smoke and we wanted to stretch our legs we got out of the car and my dad started smoking and everything looked normal and suddenly my sister says what is that and pointed towards the desert where we immediately noticed a lion sighs totally black cap like it was so black it absorbed the light it was just walking it had a really long and thick tail and it walks so freakin weird it was like a robot just totally stiff legs and then it notice us and just froze and turned its head really fast and just stared and then it turned its body without moving its head and started walking our direction then I said we should probably get in the car and get moving because I wasn't staying around waiting for it to reach us my family quickly agreed and we hurried to get in the car and took off for the rest of the trip my sister's boyfriend and sister didn't tease me about unexplainable creatures anymore we were really agitated by this thing I started google searching about animals that lived in Arizona and I couldn't find anything about a big feline that was black anywhere in the world like that the only big cats I could find were Jaguars and it's rare that there get black and not that black and it was also much larger than Jaguar and Jaguars cougars and mountain lions live in forested areas and definitely not in the middle of dirt and cacti I still think about this a lot and I've never found an answer to what this was and I believe even more now that there are creatures in this world that we just won't ever understand hey friends thanks for listening be sure to subscribe and click that notification bell to be alerted of all future narrations if you got a story be sure to submit them to my subreddit our let's read official and give them receive feedback from the 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Length: 57min 34sec (3454 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 06 2020