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three years ago i was living my then boyfriend in a one bedroom apartment in a little mountain town it was a half basement unit the bottom of all our windows were level with the ground outside it was an older apartment and not all the windows could fully lock one day my boyfriend comes home from work while i'm laying on the sofa and immediately runs the window near me and looks out frantically he then looks out every other window in the apartment then walks around outside looking in the windows when it comes back in i asked him what the hell was going on and why he was being a spaz i think i just walked up on a dude looking in the window at you he took off as i walked up this was naturally very unsettling but after discussing it and considering the time of day which was 2pm and the number of people out and about around the complex at the time we came to the conclusion that it was just a curious neighbor or something passing by that happened to glance in with that we forgot about it if only that was the end for the next couple of months odd stuff happened here and there someone would knock on the door occasionally and when i would answer it no one would be there i find things in the apartment that i wasn't familiar with or things like clothing items would vanish i didn't really think twice about any of it until one night my boyfriend and i were arguing around one or two in the morning and we're being a little loud we were standing in the kitchen face to face his back was to an open window with the blinds up halfway and i was facing it i missed our arguing i glanced behind him at the window thinking i saw the reflection of my face in it the window was open it wasn't my face there was a man with his face pressed almost against the window screen watching us given the fact that we were arguing and it was late i thought for a moment that it might be a concerned neighbor walking up to the window to speak to us a main walkway for the complex was right next to the other side of the window so i spoke to him hello can i help you i asked a little aggressively thinking that a neighbor was intruding on our privacy he responded to this by staring unwavering and cold right at me his face did not change expression he did not blink or move he just looked right at me a way that i've never been looked at before or since in an instant i realized that because this window was level with the ground the only way this man's face could be where it was was if he was laying on the ground outside the apartment or crouched and contorted to look into the window my heart sank i buried my face into my boyfriend's chest and closed my eyes in fear my boyfriend up to this point thought i was just messing with him when i buried my face into his chest only then did he say is there really someone out the window i whispered yes to him he felt my fear took a moment before he turned around by the time that he did the man was gone it was at this point that i started to think about the little odd occurrences that i had been experiencing and i assumed the worst i found a police report with his description and my brother loaded up my apartment with weapons to protect myself or at least to inform this peeping tom that i was armed after that night my boyfriend and my brother were on high alert there were a couple times when my brother came over that he saw a sketchy dude hanging around and even one time he saw him at my window he tried to follow him discreetly but the guy took off running as soon as my brother stepped in his direction the last night that i had an experience with this man i was sitting home alone on my sofa my boyfriend was at work at a restaurant about two blocks away he had picked me up from work an hour earlier and we had sat on the sofa together for a little while when we got home then he kissed me and left for work locking the door behind him after he left i continued to sit on the couch on reddit for a while in silence after about an hour of me sitting in their silence i hear the door creek open it's a small apartment so to see the bedroom and bathroom doors from the couch all i had to do was lean over a little bit to the left i assumed it was one of my cats coming out of the bedroom so as you can imagine the shock when i lean over and see that the door that's opening is a door to the water heater closet small storage space i look to the right and see both my cats sleeping soundly at the other end of the couch i look back at the door and it's still creaking open very slowly it opens enough for me to see it a set of fingers wrapped around the door easing the door ever so gently to open it as quietly as possible i ran my ass barefoot out the door into the snow and down the street to my boyfriend's work where i called the cops of course when everyone got to the apartment he was gone after that my boyfriend and i packed our and went to stay with my parents six months later we moved a thousand miles away from that town that was the end of it i initially found the sub around the same time i was trying to find other stories that were similar to mine or people to talk to who had experienced something like i did i had intended to write my story eventually and i figured after this week's events i had to i live a thousand miles away from where all this happened so part of me thinks there's no way this person could have found me but last week i hear a knock on my front door of my apartment i was expecting a package so i figured it was a delivery driver and didn't answer i'd go get my package later then they knocked again and again the third one made me feel uneasy so i waited there a good 20 minutes to check the door when i did there's no package no note no nothing someone was just knocking although it made me uneasy i didn't initially think back to my stressful experience in my last town then two days ago i went out for groceries i have a little patio and i go out there in the mornings just to chill or check out my plants and i've been known to leave it unlocked in the day on accident never thought it was a huge deal until i came home from the store two days ago and the devil to my apartment was locked this particular deadbolt can only be locked from the inside of the apartment period i assume someone robbed me because i dumbly left the patio door unlocked i called my sister and i called my current boyfriend which isn't the same boyfriend from earlier i waited for people to be with me and i went into the apartment through the sliding glass patio door nothing was out of place nothing of value was taken at this point my heart sank nothing was touched nothing was stolen someone was inside my apartment just because they wanted to be inside i told my boyfriend about my stalker and he did not take this lightly like my past boyfriend did i found out a police report and we looked for recording devices and cameras he put a nest of cameras up all over the place and we're on high alert i truly hope that this was a coincidence but if this man followed me across multiple state lines there's no one on this earth and i'm less interested in meeting so this has been happening for a year and a half now and tonight something happened that finally made me and my boyfriend realized that i wasn't imagining things about a year and a half ago after living in my apartment for over five years i suddenly started noticing that things would be out of place when i got home from work things that almost seemed out of place on purpose to mess with my ocd sometimes i would notice knives that were put back into the knife block the wrong way or little ornaments that i have around the house being turned to face the wrong way sometimes my clothes were hung up in my closet the wrong way little things like that where i'd feel something was off but there was no way to prove it and in all honesty could have just been me being absent-minded when putting things away after a couple of months of things randomly being out of place and always having that creeped out feeling things suddenly stopped being out of place and i put it to the back of my mind and stopped being so paranoid moved on with my life that is until about two weeks ago my cat had seriously been trying to tell me something when i had gotten home from work any of you who have a cat will know that exact meow it's not that i'm hungry or i'm pissed because you have been at work all day meow but more like a oh my god you will never believe what happened meow if that makes sense i didn't really think anything of it because cats can be jerk sometimes and i just assumed he was bored and wanted to complain the other day when i came home from work i noticed a pair of balled up socks that did not belong to me sitting on my bedroom floor my boyfriend came over the next night and i told him he had left a pair of socks here when he had stayed over on the weekend he looked at the socks and said that they were not his my heart sunk and so did his we both knew at that moment that someone had been coming into my house again and that i probably wasn't imagining it the first time a few days later i came home from work and found a bag from a lingerie store on the top of my couch it was empty this baghead came from inside my house as i just bought a bathing suit from that store a couple weeks prior and the receipt was still in the bag at first i thought my cat might have dragged it there but upon inspecting the bag there were no teeth marks as well as the cat couldn't have opened the closet door and got into the paper cardboard recycling that i keep in there on the top shelf the final and perhaps the most unsettling thing happened tonight my boyfriend met me after work and we went out for dinner we went back to my apartment after and when i went to unlock the door i noticed that it was already unlocked locking the door when i leave my house is one of the things that i'm most ocd about i don't just double and triple check it i quadruple check it it is not just a habit i have but something that is deeply ingrained into me everyone who knows me knows this about me as i even do it to their doors i have to check it four times or i get a icky feeling even my boyfriend was on red alert when he noticed the door was unlocked we entered my house and i was checking to see if anything was out of place he ran to the sliding glass door and tugged it it opened right up i never leave that door unlocked he witnessed me locking in on sunday when i closed the door because it was getting too cold he saw me check it four times and i have not opened it since we are both convinced that someone has been in my house whoever has been coming in somehow has a key the fact that they left the sliding door unlocked makes me think that they are planning to come back with ill intentions but if they have a key why would they need to unlock the sliding glass door unless they're trying to avoid the security cameras at the front door of my building either way i've already ordered a security system but unfortunately it's not going to arrive for a few days any suggestions on anything i could do in the meantime to keep safe also what do you guys think am i just being paranoid or should i go with my gut on this one update changed my locks the other day and set up my security cameras so far nothing else has happened i haven't caught anything on the security cameras other than my cat doing this thing during the day when i'm gone my landlord got back to me about the security footage from the front door and said that the only strangers he saw were buzzed into the building by residents so no weirdos or previous tenants with a key the police are still patrolling the neighborhood quite often which definitely makes me feel more secure i called the police this morning and talked to an officer who basically told me that as for now there's nothing that they can really do unless this escalates but you just say it was right to call in so they are aware that something might be happening he also said getting security cameras is a good idea as well as getting my landlord to change the locks he also said that they will send a patrol car down my street every once in a while just to make sure no one's lurking about the story happened when i was in college there's something about my early years in college that just seemed to bring on a slew of experiences that ranged from creepy to terrifying i don't know what it was about that time in my life this experience was somewhere in the middle of that spectrum anyway one night at the beginning of summer following my freshman year of college some of my high school friends and i were at a party we hadn't seen a ton of each other in the preceding year because of us all being away at college mostly just during school breaks and a few random weekends here and there so we were all feeling kind of giddy about having the whole summer together i wouldn't have normally gone to this party hosted by someone else we went to high school with but they all wanted to go and i wanted to hang out with them so i agreed this is not the mistake i made in the story that would come later on that night we got to the party and we realized it was almost exclusively people from high school which was kind of nice actually it was like a big reunion sumo prior inhibitions were gone and that was only partially because i started throwing back screwdrivers the moment i got there a couple hours later i was more than a little tipsy no i was full on drunk though not totally plastered yet which proved to be my saving grace in the story after a while group of my friends decided to split off the host of the party stephanie lived in her parents house still and it was in the middle of nowhere basically near a forest farce at night both scared and thrill me so drunk me suggests that we go exploring this is something my friends would not let me live down like not ever so anyway this group lauren hillary jarrod alex hugo dean and hostess stephanie plus myself obviously decided to go on a midnight walk through the woods it was pretty creepy not gonna lie but in a cool way at least i thought so a couple people in the group namely hillary and alex were pretty afraid but hillary wanted to go because her best friend was lauren and alex had to think for hillary and lauren which was a whole thing and not the point of the story but because of that they were both there they kept making comments about how creeped out they were and i kept telling them to relax no one else is out here i told them let's just enjoy this time together being drunk makes me really sentimental we walked through the forest for a bit and then came up to a clearing with a lake and a dock with tall grass and plus a shed and what turned out to be a bow house both of which had seen better days now stephanie and i weren't close so this was my first time exploring this forest but dean and hugo had before and remember this place they mentioned that they thought stephanie's parents forbid them from coming back there because it wasn't their property which was true it was like suddenly stephanie realized where we were i wasn't the only drunk one and her eyes got super wide and she looked nervous not scared exactly more like she was worried that she was gonna get in trouble and she said that we should go back i told her everything was fine since she could totally trust the judgment of a drunk person and because everyone else was drunk they all agreed with me except for steph but she was outnumbered and not about to go back alone even hillary and alex were okay with staying and because logic is a friend to drunk people everywhere i suggest we play hide and seek and most everyone agreed honestly i don't know why people kept listening to me now if i had been sober this was the kind of place i'd be kind of freaked out about in a cool way sure but not in a let's play hide and seek kind of way this is where things go wrong hugo was forced to be it because we were all and told him he didn't have a choice so he went into the woods and counted well we all ran and hide i saw dean darting to the shed but everyone else ran into the woods i decided to duck down on tall grass which varied in height sometimes i could kneel and sometimes had to be on my stomach to be totally concealed as i was hiding i heard voices in the trees nearby whispers like the speakers were trying not to be heard i was curious so i made my way towards the voices first on my hands and knees and eventually army crawling as the grass got shorter i nearly shipped my pants when i ran into stephanie in the grass who turned out to be doing the same exact thing as me when we got closer we realized it was lauren and jared and that was how steph and i realized they liked each other we were listening to them flirt and looking at each other i swear we had a telepathic conversation about how good they would be together but that was when we heard someone barreling towards us through the grass heart pounding i turned to see that it was just hugo throwing himself down next to stephanie and me and he looked terrified hugo what the i whispered because there's no way he counted as high as we were making him we were being real jerks to hugo that night he looked around frantically and then told us what had him spooked i'll never forget the sheer terror i saw on hugo's face and heard in his voice there's someone in the woods stephanie tried to tell him that it was probably just someone else from the party but hugo said no he'd seen a guy and hid behind a tree and this guy seemed to be in his 40s and he said the guy looked rough too and just had a bad feeling so he booked it it was just by chance that he found stephanie and me he's looking for something or someone hugo said telling us that the guy was shining a flashlight around as if on cue someone came walking out of the woods and then called out jim are you out here he sounded kind of angry and now i felt stone cold sober this wasn't right and it was about to get worse because that's when we saw the shadow of someone rowing a boat down the lake towards the dock the first guy walked out to the dock to meet the guy jim presumably and i heard him demand where is he the first guy sounded angry like he was expecting someone else to be there too and the second guy informed the first i up they proceeded to argue though i couldn't hear what they were saying then they went into the boat house i'm pretty sure no one had hidden in there but i worried about that plus the fact that two shifty guys were doing what seemed to be pretty shifty things we needed to get out of there i knew that but dean was still in the shed which was too close to the boathouse for comfort given the situation lauren and jared were now making out and totally oblivious and hillary and alex were knows where why had i suggested hide and seek that's what i kept asking myself when i tried to formulate a plan then we heard somebody running through the woods but like they were trying to do it so quietly i turned to see hillary it looked like she was trying to find somewhere else to hide unaware of what was happening i saw her run towards the boat house it was like time stopped i didn't know what to do or how to stop her honestly i froze but then hillary hesitated when she got close to the door she would later tell us that the voices she heard inside gave her pause and then the door swung open it was like something out of a movie hillary was now hiding behind the open door and the first guy stood in the doorway looking around i think he must have hurt hillary who was not being nearly as quiet as she thought she was if you close the door from the outside he'd see hillary and then we'd all be truly luckily he went back inside and closed the door we had to get the hell out of there but we still had to get dean lauren and jared as well as find alex we didn't have a lot of time i didn't think so we had to be fast then suddenly hugo stood up tucked his hands around his mouth and bellowed he apparently thought we were in a movie i just looked at him with a what the hugo expression on my face it was not what i would have done but i'll be damned it worked hillary came sprinting towards us asset alex who was hiding behind the bow house likewise dean emerged from the shed and lauren and jared detached themselves from each other the two men in the boathouse heard us too and came busting out but by this point we were all sprinting away i swear i never before nor sense ran that fast at one point stephanie tripped and i practically ripped her arm out of the socket while pulling her to her feet the guys chased us for a bit though i don't know how long because we kept running until we got back to stephanie's house the party was still going and the men hadn't followed us beyond the woods but we were all too freaked out to stay i called my brother to come pick us up and we all left even stephanie who left her house unattended except for all the drunk party-goers we spent the night at my brother's house that night and we went back to stephanie's house to help clean up the next day because honestly this experience kind of bonded us in a way lauren and jared are now married hillary and alex were both in the wedding i lived with dean for a bit following college and hugo is one of my best friends as a stephanie which is weird because we weren't really friends before that but i swear we thought we were gonna die that night all of us except maybe lauren and jared even dean heard what was happening outside the shed and was waiting for the right time to make his escape you can't go through something like that and not come out closer it's strange but also kind of nice like we have this shared history which was true before this because we all went to school together but it's different now i wanted to go back and investigate in the light of day but only dean wanted to go with me and i thought maybe it wasn't enough people i was still pretty spooked though intrigued stephanie told us later that she had told her dad when her parents got home that day and he and a few of his friends went back there and didn't find anything out of the ordinary they moved shortly thereafter not because of this so we never found out what happened but we've also never forgotten it so this happened a couple years ago when i was 13 my brother was 11. my parents had to go out and thought it would be better to leave me and my brother home alone so that's what they did they left taking my little sister who was six with them my brother and i were all the way down in our basement which is where we had our video game set up so the two of us were just downstairs playing mario kart on the wii we had the home phone in between us just in case our parents called about an hour goes by and the phone starts to ring we look down at the caller id and it's our uncle we decided to just let it ring and how our phone worked it would ring five times then stop one ring two ring three the phone stops ringing my brother doesn't pay any attention to it but i do realize that the only reason to stop that early is that someone picked up but we were home alone i get really suspicious and my paranoia gets the better of me i take my brother and we go upstairs to see the phone is still there but there's still a form on the third floor in my parents room we go towards the stairs and what we saw chilled us to the bone a man in his early 40s or 50s is all i can really tell you because the second i saw him my brother and i scream and run out the front door straight to our neighbor's house we tell them what happened and they proceeded to call the cops then our parents they come home fast and i don't know what's wrong with a man but he never left the house he just stood there the police arrested him and from what i heard he was placed in the mental hospital but that's just what i heard the story might not be as crazy compared to others but i just think of what could have happened to me and my brother if my uncle didn't decide to call after reading through some of the human trafficking stories on here i can't help but feel incredibly uneasy my heart is racing at the thought of what i may have avoided long post but it's worth it for reference my boyfriend is 6'3 and 275 pounds he's very stocky has a military style haircut usually wears a shirt with guns on it in some way and has a fierce beard this is important to the story about three years ago my boyfriend and i moved into a house with a couple of roommates near downtown in the big city of michigan i sent him to the store to get some staples while i started unpacking he texted me just after getting to the store saying he had the weirdest thing happen in the parking lot but that he would tell me when he got home 10 minutes later he texted me again saying that he was super creeped out and jokingly said if i'm not on my way in five minutes send help this is normal for his kind of humor when he got home he told me that he was on his way from the parking lot and a man stopped him offering compliments on his beard it happened a lot so he didn't think much of it the guy was dressed as if he was a lawyer or a real estate agent with nice shoes on and a watch very clean cut so he wasn't uncomfortable he said thanks and began walking inside the guy continued walking with him asking him where he was from what he did for a living and if he had kids or a wife my boyfriend's got lit up like fireworks after working in mental health he knew to trust it he made up some answers and told him to have a nice day the man said if you're ever interested in a new line of work you're just the guy i'm looking for my boyfriend continued walking without responding and didn't look back a few minutes into his shopping he noticed that the same man was appearing in the same aisles as him but would then turn around and go the other way at one point when he texted me he was sure that the man had snapped a photo of him from the other end of the aisle we both commented on the craziness and said that's some trafficking but let it go as it was over now not really wanting to believe it days later we run to the store to pick up some late night snacks we parked the car what felt like miles away from the store my boyfriend's the worst and we began walking in thankfully i don't really startle easily when we're out together because we both have concealed carry so i know if someone was attacking either of us we're decently prepared but i still jumped when the man's voice yelled at my boyfriend's name and added and his wife my boyfriend said keep walking and didn't hesitate thankfully i knew what he meant and i hauled my ass into the entryway of the store and i watched him talk while watching out for suspicious people or cars around them when they were almost inside i wanted the store and started chatting with the greeter so he didn't get the chance to talk to me the man again showed up in the aisles that we were in and at one point looked to be texting on his phone but was holding it up in front of him i was almost positive that he was taking a picture of us we didn't finish getting snacks it just left the store i waited with the greeter as my boyfriend got the car so i didn't have to walk through the dark parking lot i've been a power lifter at that point for a little over a year and was in great shape i was in the gym every day at the same time due to my work schedule and usually had my girl roommate with me but today i was alone for a quick and light lifting session i wasn't a minute into my gym time when the same guy walked in i never seen him there before and instantly felt like vomiting i text my boyfriend but he was away from the military so he was panicking from a distance remember your training keep your cool he wasn't in gym attire and didn't have a bag with him we were also in the gym furthest from the area that we live in they had the best equipment for my personal needs and games so i'm not sure why he had chosen it as he didn't have the i love the gym vibe he came over and said hello and i politely said hello back but didn't continue the conversation he said a few more things and a guy a few machines over could tell that i was uncomfortable he came over and pretended to be my friend asking if i was ready to go i said yes and that i just needed to grab my things the creeper man asked where my husband was and i pretended not to hear him as i kept walking when i came out he was gone but my new best fake friend was waiting at the bench outside the locker room he said that the man had left but he had let the staff know what happened and they said that he wasn't even a member but said he was there to pick up his girlfriend my new best friend walked me to my car and i switched gyms thankfully we now live far far away from the city and i've never had an encounter with him and neither has my boyfriend i honestly believed that they were trying to recruit him to make big money selling women and that i was just a bonus woman to sell thank god for strangers who stand up and save women you will never realize just how important you are my name is thomas i'm 33 years old i'm a black man that lives in baltimore city better known as be more or body more in the urban area where it's dangerous but when you live your whole life somewhere you tend to adapt to the area when i was 28 years old i was robbed at gunpoint by two men one day i was walking to my homeboy's house at 10 at night to buy some weed his house was about 15 minutes away and on the way back i went to the store because i had my cousin's independence card so i was definitely gonna buy some munchies for after i smoke on my way back home i saw a white car pass by and turned on the street a block away from me mind you i had my earphones in but don't have anything playing just in case someone tried something and i would still be able to hear them when i went by the block where the car went a black guy hopped out of the car and tried to catch up with the pace i was walking when i saw what he was doing i heard him say something i then took one of the earbuds out of my ear and said what the you say he then said kick that don't play with me that's when i saw the silver gun he was clutching in his coat i had a bag full of junk food in my hand and a bag full of weed in my shoe he said where's the money i said i don't have no money just a bag of weed that's when another black guy hopped out of the car he had a gun in his hand too he went to the right side of me another guy was on the left of me i took my shoe off and threw the bag of weed on the ground and said that's all i got he said put your shoe back on looking around nervously in my head i was like they're not just gonna kill me right here i'm gonna try to get the out of here so the guy on the left said yo if you don't pull the dollars out of your pocket i'm gonna shoot you i put my pants up a little bit more because i was preparing to run before i said anything i sprinted up the street in the direction i was already walking it was about three minutes away while i was running i'm passing people on the sidewalk they're looking crazy because i think they saw the whole robbery but when i got two blocks away from my house i run to the parking lot and headed by a gate they had a lot of high bushes and trees i caught my breath right there i couldn't run no more but i didn't stay long because i was scared i didn't know if they were chasing me i got the hell up and jogged the rest of the way to my house and when i got into the house i was out of breath i sat down i told my eight-year-old little cousin remember i was telling you how dangerous it was going out at 10 pm at night i was telling him earlier that day about another time i got robbed and how dangerous it is to be out at night in baltimore city growing up i spent every summer vacation at my grandparents house in rural tennessee when i say royal i mean their town was literally a cluster of homes with a singular one-lane road as the only way in and out 45 minutes from the nearest freeway on-ramp 30 minutes to a grocery store and an hour and a half to a sam's club costco my grandparents still live there and make the drive monthly but that what i'm trying to say is it's as remote as it gets i'd play outside for hours and hours and maybe see two or three cars it's a lot more built up now but it was nice while it lasted it was around 11 30 pm and me and my dad couldn't sleep because it was an especially hot and muggy night we decided to take a drive through the hilly curvy back roads that i absolutely loved and still do there's a scenic access site that was just a clearing overlooking a cliff about 15 minutes further into the woods from my grandparents house it wasn't very well known it was down a narrow two-track lane with a couple of dilapidated trailers lining it every quarter mile roughly due to the isolation and lack of any real police presence this area was full of meth during this time and there was a local rumor of some inbred cult in the woods keep in mind it was the middle of night by the time we got to the parking lot for the overlook which was just a gravel pit my dad has always had a bit of a intuition and asked me if i really wanted to get out of the car that made me hesitate but i saw the amount of lightning bugs that were out and catching them was my favorite pastime armed with a flashlight in an old tupperware container with some holes drilled in it we set off down the path to the cliff we immediately heard noises in the woods heavy footsteps way too heavy for a deer and there weren't really bears present in this area the woods were usually quiet besides that we both thought we saw something hide behind one of the trees out of the corner of our eyes and i didn't realize he saw it too until we brought it up in the car and vice versa here's where it gets freaky once we made it down the path to the cliff we saw an outline of a man he was about my dad's height 510 but he was as thin as the rail he couldn't have weighed more than 120 pounds here's the thing he wasn't admiring the beautiful moonlight scenery over the cliff he was standing perpendicular to it just staring off into the trees perfectly still my dad slightly nudged me in the direction of our car as i started walking back he shined a flashlight on the man as soon as the light was shining on the man my dad gasped and dropped the flashlight before literally picking me up and sprinting full force back to our car as we peeled out i had no idea what the was going on his face looked like a goddamn melted candle he said after a few minutes of silence after we had pulled out to the main road apparently the man had no nose just two nostril holes on his face the way he was described sounded like he was a burn victim we brought it up to my grandma the next day at breakfast she immediately turned pale apparently there was a meth lab explosion up in the hills a few months prior and they were unable to rebuild the building so they resorted to making their product in the woods and we're very defensive even homicidal about their stash this is my first time telling a story so here's a little detail you should know i live in a city where there's a lot of wannabe gangsters of a few gangs close to our city also my mom who's like a mother bear she's really protective of me she doesn't let me take public transportation or stay late outside of the house this happened a year ago after my senior year of high school my girlfriend who's a year younger has strict parents so at the time she didn't have a phone me being me i called up my best friend who actually lives quite close to her summer school she'd be attending basically every morning my grandma would drop me off at his house i didn't have my license and i just told my mom that we were hanging out however we used to take two buses to my girlfriend's summer school so i could see her before class started we did this for a while everything was great my mom wasn't suspicious of anything we never ran into any problems it was a good time however what happened made me realize why my mom was always overprotective my friend and i were on the bus enjoying the ride to our last stop a guy in a hoodie looking in his 40s or so with a duffel bag yelled at the entire bus to move along so the ladies could get through my friend who's kind of a loud mouth told the man to calm down oh boy did he mess up the man was so angry his eyes were bloodshot red popping out of the sockets yelling at my friend don't get lippy with me his spit was going everywhere he kept repeating his own name he then slaps my friend across the face and starts pushing him while we're on the bus he claims to be a gang member i kind of laughed on the inside because the man looked like a painter not a gang member i'm known for being a strong guy but something in my gut was telling me not to do anything crazy and the most i did was push the man with one hand he went flying and fell to the sea he gave one giant last slap to my friend and spit on the floor so there i am my friend beat red a bus full of people who didn't do anything and a crazy man who just assaulted a minor eventually we got to our stop and there he was on the other side of us right beside my girlfriend's summer school he didn't seem to pay any attention to us he was just messing around with his bag my friend gave the idea to jump the guy i was ready i mean i was happy to beat him however something in my gut was telling me not to it wasn't fear it was more of a sign as the man was getting closer i decided that we'd hop into the gas station that was right next to us we told the man working there to lock the doors as we panicked as he was inches away from the door one of the workers was outside and told the man to leave and he did we called the police an officer showed up and got a statement from my friend and informed us that he was actually just arrested only a few minutes after the adrenaline i was feeling was crazy i was bigger than the man and could have easily taken him if i wanted to but i'm a softy at heart and like to stay away from confrontation as we cross the street we see something on the ground that makes me sick to my stomach i knew my gut feeling was right a huge knife was laying there and it made me stick to my stomach that this man had it on him it made sense now this man who was a scrubby skinny guy seemed to have zero fear whatsoever towards two kids that could beat the hell out of him and why did he drop it did he even know he dropped it so many things were racing through my head i mean a dude on the bus did in fact tell me that he was dangerous and go straight to often but this was crazy my mom my dad my girlfriend what if i didn't make out alive that day and what if my friend and i ended up on the news what would they think so crazy dude on the bus let's not meet again my family and i were driving from ohio to wyoming one holiday season to visit family about 10 years ago due to the storms up north we traveled straight west instead of northwest at first and split the trip at omaha stay in the night before heading up through nebraska into south dakota once we were far enough north we turned west onto the i-90 at that point it had been over an hour since we saw anywhere that might have had a public restroom and we were on the state routes so no rest stops those of you who have traveled with young kids know that that's close to their bladder's limit and our daughter was begging us to stop somewhere to go pee south dakota was similarly deserted or even worse as we headed west finally we reached a desperately needed rest stop as my at the time five-year-old and i both needed to pee by then just as we pulled in the truck that had been following us for a while pulled in two i didn't think much of it at first until i started opening my door my head turned to the right where the truck was parked a couple spots over my eyes met the drivers and i just shivered he was a skinny white guy straggly gray brown beard with dark eyes i could see that he was wearing a dingy dirty blue plaid shirt he got out of his 90s brown and cream truck and started rummaging in the bed i told my husband i didn't want to go into the rest stop alone because of this guy and the weird feeling i got from him he thought i was being a little silly but agreed to come with us at that point the next stop was wahl south dakota about 100 miles according to the huge billboards we passed advertising it he thought it was better to empty his bladder even though he didn't particularly feel the need i grabbed my daughter and we headed inside followed by the guy who finished rummaging at his truck but wasn't carrying anything when i glanced back my daughter and i did her business in the women's restroom and headed back out the lobby as i expected my husband already was out there since he'd have to chaperone a small child the old guy was also in the teeny lobby area he was just standing there staring at my husband my husband rushed us back to the car as we were buckling in he locked the doors he told me that the guy hadn't gone into the restrooms and was just staying in the lobby the whole time he agreed with me that we might have just had a close call and he was glad that it hadn't just been me and my daughter out there however that's not the end of the story remember how i mentioned wall and that it was 100 miles away well that was 100 miles a pretty empty landscape but a decent number of turn offs from the interstate we didn't see the truck following us and thought the episode was behind us except when we stopped in wall to grab lunch and some road snacks plus look around the homely but fun little tourist trap in the middle of nowhere we saw the guy in the store not even 20 feet from us same face beard dirty plaid shirt thankfully we had already eaten so since he was staring at us again we quickly paid for our snacks and trinkets and got the heck out of there thankfully we didn't see him again but i was seriously creeped out until we reached our relatives in wyoming safely with no other side of that truck so i'm new to reddit and found this sub and think this story fits here i've had a number of odd frightening experiences in the woods since i'm a huge outdoors guy and pretty much outside all the time i can manage it so this happened when i was much younger i want to say freshman in high school probably around 2008 there used to be this road near where i lived in california called crook road it was barely a road no one traveled on it and it was surrounded by small patches of forests and abandoned barns and houses i would typically go there with my friends to skateboard and hang out this one night i was hanging out with two of my friends lucas and dorian and someone wanted to go to crook road to hang out since it was creepy at night it might sound lame but we loved exploring like a bunch of fifth graders and weren't really into smoking or anything so what else was there to do i asked my then 20 year old brother james if he could drive us down into one of the nature reserves by that road this specific reserve was larger than the others and had a network of gravel paths leading through it basically we were looking for unexplored territory to hike on soon one particular path we were traveling down had become so narrow james ford explorer couldn't pass through it so we got out and walked for a while chatting and just having fun we walked through the woods for about a half hour until it had gotten relatively dark out and the sun was gone at which point we turned around head back to the car as now i should mention that despite being near a lot of sub developments this patch of forest was huge i'd say about a thousand acres and really visited since it was easy to get lost in especially at night it was challenging to get the car turned around but james managed it and we're off down the road dorian proposed that we turned down a different path we had passed earlier since we had about another 40 minutes until our parents wanted us back and we agreed the dumbest path was a tiny pond dorian wanted to check out and take pictures since he hadn't got the opportunity to visit it at night it was slow going since the road was even crappier than the main one that we were traveling on that turned off a crook road minutes later we got into a slight argument dorian was convinced that james had taken the wrong turn since we should have arrived at the pond by now while james claimed that he had been driving straight the whole time it was dark after all eventually we came up to a fork in the road and none of us were familiar with it none of us knew which way to go so we ended up guessing and going left hoping that both directions ultimately led back to the main path none of us were scared or anything in fact we were actually excited and intrigued driving through the middle of nowhere at night it was at this point where we rounded a small bend in the road and the headlights fell upon a surreal sight there were four figures emerging from the forest and crossing the road wearing what looked like large cloaks and hoods up holding flashlights one guy at the back of the group was dragging a large duffel bag a human-sized duffel bag we all froze and stopped mid conversation as soon as our high beams landed on the four figures they froze as well james pulled to the left and went around them driving past them felt like an eternity because we couldn't have been going over five miles per hour due to the shitty road conditions sitting in the passenger seat i could see them inches beyond my window and they were indeed wearing black robes and holding flashlights i didn't get a good look at the bag but judging by the way the guy was holding it something heavy was inside that bag none of us said a word until the road straightened out and we were far past these guys at which point james muttered what the hell was that we continued down the road in silence until i heard lucas say holy and repeating himself in a louder panicked voice they're coming back i twisted around in my chair to see lucas pointing out the back window i could barely see anything but about a hundred yards away we saw beams of four lights shaking erratically the guys were without a doubt running after us all of us screamed for james to floor it and he sped down the road the car was bouncing and shaking uncontrollably as we flew over the berms and potholes i kept my eyes on the flashlight beams until we rounded another bend in the road and they were out of sight thankfully the path managed to take us back to the main path james gunned it down the main path until he popped off by croak road and got the hell out of there the weirdest thing about it was there couldn't have been a vehicle anywhere near those guys for 50 miles in each direction we would have seen one if there had been we had explored most of those areas before and there wasn't anywhere to pull off the road and park we didn't say anything more until we were back at my place we talked about it for a bit and then my friends went home and james and i went to bed i didn't know if i should call the cops or not but james who i guess would be the adult in the situation seem reluctant so i dropped it i never told my parents until just before writing this and they kind of scolded me for not telling them and that we should have contacted the authorities just to report suspicious people in the preserve i still wish to know how the hell they got there where they were going and what was in the bag this didn't happen to me but a close friend of mine he told me the story a few hours ago and i wanted to share it here says i don't think he has a reddit account for the purpose of the story i'll call my friend jordan anyways he lives in hayward and was attending a march for the black lives matter movement at around 4pm i think i don't know what street or anything specific like that he had just sent me a couple videos of the crowd marching and taking a knee so after about 10 minutes he said that they were passing through a street lined with shops and alleyways there was an old man sitting on the curb by one of the alleyways watching the march jordan describes a man as looking in the upper 40s wearing a black and white flannel shirt and jeans with a cap jordan had the misfortune of walking nearby said alley and the man stopped him saying something along the lines that he needed help fixing his passenger seat since the recliner handle was broken and it was a two-person job to get it back into its upright position the man gestured towards his car it was a black chevy malibu that was parked possibly in the most sketchiest part of the alley right towards the back kind of hidden behind the trash dumpster jordan declined and quickly walked away before the man could say anything else now for his sake i wish the story ended there but i wouldn't be posting it if it had i think sometime later like an hour maybe jordan decided to start heading home while the march continued he said he was cutting across some field that was between houses where only two other people were in sight as soon as he emerged on the other side his air was suddenly cut off as a thick arm wrapped around his throat and began aggressively yanking him backwards of course jordan yelled as loud as he could and thankfully the aforementioned two guys began to rush to his aid shouting at jordan's attacker the guy let go and push jordan as jordan stumbled forward he spun around and saw that it was a guy who had asked him for help with his car he hopped into a chevy malibu and sped off the other two people asked jordan if he was okay and comforted him and whatnot keep in mind jordan only told me this in a few texts and i haven't got a chance to talk to him about it so some details were spared i think jordan contemplated calling the police but didn't think it was worth it he told me that they were probably already busy enough and he might be ignored or have an extremely long response time to which the only information he had was a description of the guy and the car he hadn't got the license plate number jordan then went home and that's pretty much all he's told me so far it might sound cliche but please everyone stay safe these are terrible times and with all the looting and protests stuff like this is bound to happen i was 16 in my last year of high school it was a normal boring day like any other i was in class working away and wishing lunch would come quick i wasn't in the mood to work but that suddenly changed we got an announcement from the principal saying code black i looked at the code sheet and read that code black is a lock down i said to myself awesome no work but i knew it could be serious and i had to be sensible and listen to my teacher in case something bad happened my teacher quickly locked the door shut the curtains on the windows and cover the glass window on the door with a huge sheet of paper i heard a few other teachers rush out into the four year to lock the two doors our grade foyer is a huge room right outside our five classrooms in our grade block is a huge classroom where we have great assemblies and we can hang out there all recess and lunch i wasn't scared i'm not really scared of anything but it was quiet the quietest i've ever heard are grade block in fact the whole school felt silent it felt like it was the weekend and no one was there i sat on a bench seat which was close to the door i tried to look through one side of the window on the door to see if i could see anyone on the school grounds through one of the four year windows but the winters were covered up too much a few people started whispering to each other and i told them to shut up that i was trying to listen out for noises like voices and the sound of forced entry but nothing not a single sound it started to be a little freaky as we sat in a dark classroom completely silent all these questions started running through my mind what was going on is it in or outside our school grounds are we safe is it deadly are we going to be attacked what the hell is it i was expecting that we were going to be attacked so i fully prepared for it but after a very long while we got an all clear and went about our day at lunch rumors were going around saying that some idiot in our grade who i hated held the assistant principal at knifepoint he also had a list of people he wanted to kill including one of my friends i think he was expelled as there were no rumors about the aftermath so it just turned out to be a crazy day a few months later i was working away in class i was in a good mood for once but little did i know that that day was about to get better it was almost lunch when the principal made a code gray announcement i looked at the sheet and the code gray is somewhat untrustworthy around the school we didn't have to barricade ourselves in all grades just needed the four-year doors locked for safety and we were instructed to continue working while the situation was being handled i couldn't help but wonder what was going on i wanted to see whatever it was and my wish came true at lunch we gathered in the foyer it was a bit crowded as i said there were two security guards over the grade 8 block talking to a girl student the conversation started to get a bit heated i was praying for a fight but she walked away up the front of the school towards the office with security right on her tail we watched closely till they were out of sight there were no rumors but i remember teachers saying that someone was just having a bad day now here's the best part i was in my first year college i was catching my bus home i was in the back alone eating lunch when this girl who was in my grade 7 class high school boarded and sat with me we talked a bit and when i brought up the two incidents she told me it was her who calls the code gray from what i remember she wanted to bash this eighth grade girl real bad for some reason and security escorted her off the school grounds and to the parking lot where the cops were waiting for her however when she walked up the soccer field and tried to run but was tackled and handcuffed before she knew it i can't remember the rest of the story however i'll always have these two incidents and i'll have a laugh with others about them i have a story that isn't mine but it happened to my uncle he used to tell us the story when we went camping and it scared the lights out of me every time i heard it we live in utah and my uncle mark went on a mission at 19 they sent him to an indian reservation in arizona they paired him up with a companion named carl when they first got there there was a huge rift between the locals on the reservation with them being there they didn't want my uncle and carl staying on the reservation grounds eventually they came up with a compromise that they would stay on the outskirts in a trailer the reservation wasn't very big it was located next to a heavily wooded area the first night they were trying to get to sleep when all of a sudden their trailer started to shake violently back and forth startled and not sure what was happening they climbed under the table for cover mark could distinctively hear someone pushing it from both sides of the trailer like a group of people after five minutes it stopped the next day they made rounds on the reservation and were talking to the locals carl made a comment to one of the families that the trailer was shaking the night before the family got very quiet and then told them they had to leave they thought it was strange but didn't think much of it the next night it happened again they awoke to their trailer shaking back and forth again they climbed under the table until it stopped this went off for two more nights any time they tried to talk to anyone about it they get quiet and then tell them to leave mark started to think that due to the attention of their arrival the locals were doing this to scare them off the reservation then they go to a convenience store and they are talking together about how frustrated they were with the situation the clerk overheard and said they can't talk about it it's forbidden confused they ask him can't talk about what the guy continues to tell them about skinwalkers he says they are evil demons that were once native american witches if they talk about it the skinwalkers will come for their soul they just walked out of there baffled they thought it was just another scare tactic so that night when the shaking started again my uncle decided to be brave and confront them he went to the trailer door threw it open and yelled hey when he did that he saw three animals run off two were wolves and one was a bear but they looked strange almost with human features as he watched them run towards the trees all three stood up on their two legs and walked slowly towards the trees making a human cackling laugh it scared them so bad that they called the mission president the next morning and asked to be moved they were relocated that day for a year nothing happened one day they announced that carl had been relocated to another city and mark was getting a new companion jimmy they had to drive for about an hour to pick up jimmy from the airport the road they traveled went through some boundaries of the reservation they arrived at about 8 pm and met jimmy and then they go to leave the mission president tells jimmy we're driving through some dangerous areas at night so we can't make any stops so if you need to use the restroom you need to go now jimmy says i'm fine the mission president gets serious enough to even freak mark out i'm not kidding go do your business jimmy was assistant that he was fine so they hit the road as they were 30 minutes into the drive they were going through the area of the reservation boundaries jimmy starts complaining that he needs to go pee badly the mission president says we can't stop here you'll have to hold it jimmy keeps going on i really can't hold it so the mission president stops the car and says okay we have to do your business next to the door and if i say get in the car you better get into the car fast with a look at confusion jimmy says all right he opens the door and starts to do his business about five seconds later the mission president says nothing and just yanks jimmy into the car and floors it jimmy and mark are freaking out what's going on the mission and president says nothing and just increases his speed all of a sudden mark sees something next to the car to his right a giant wolf looking man was running out two feet next to the car mark looked at the speedometer and they were going 60 miles an hour and still increasing the wolf creature kept right next to the car for about 10 minutes until it finally took off into the trees shaking jimmy gets out of the car when they arrive they hadn't spoken through the rest of the ordeal jimmy says what did i just see the mission president says next time i tell you to take care of your business you take care of your business this happened a few years ago when my family was traveling out west we were traveling through saskatchewan late at night and i was in the front seat with my dad talking to him helping him stay awake we were on a two-lane highway in the middle of nowhere and it was one of those places out in the prairies with literally no trees and barely any buildings for kilometers i don't remember the last town we had gone through but it was a good 30 kilometers back and i remember the next town we went through was a good distance after this encounter after driving for a while we see this guy on the side of the road just staring at her car as we drove by he wasn't hitchhiking or anything and didn't have a car bike or anything with him he just stood in the grass right by the road staring at us and watching us go by this was in the middle of nowhere no trees no farmhouses nearby just a guy in a white shirt and jeans in the middle of nowhere needless to say my dad stepped on the gas after that it was definitely one of the strangest things i've seen and wonder what could have driven someone to just be out on the road at night in the middle of nowhere like that this all happened when i was 19. i'm not the best looking dude so i never had much luck with women and ended up on tinder i wasn't having much luck there either until like the third month of using it when a blonde woman named katie messaged me she was pretty enough that i just dismissed her as a bot it wasn't until three days later that she messaged me again which is odd because bots almost never messaged more than once i clicked on her chat and replied then looked at her profile what i saw was pretty generic but definitely wasn't a bot's profile we had been talking for about a month when she proposed the idea that i come see her i was pretty reluctant and she lived eight hours from me by car but i had to admit i really did like her quite a bit and i have been thinking about asking her if i could come see her for a while now after a bit of badgering from her i finally said that i would take a drive to go see her at this point i had no reason to doubt that she was who she said she was we had video chatted every other week called on most days i just assumed that i got really lucky things did get a little weird on the way there though she kept messaging me asking me where i was while making sure i was still coming at some points when i took more than 30 minutes to respond she would send me a slew of annoyed texts immediately i chalked it up to her being nervous about me coming to see her i was pretty nervous too so i couldn't blame her i had a hard time finding her house at first the directions she gave me were pretty confusing and it was back through a series of gravel and dirt roads and a large thicket of trees it was still midday when i came onto an old looking house a window on the second floor was boarded up but it didn't look abandoned just worse for wear katie's red buggy that she'd like to talk about was parked in front of the garage i took out my phone and texted her that i was here she only sent a smiley face in return when i got out of the car to knock on the door i noticed that someone was looking at me from one of the second floor windows i found it a little creepy but figured it was just her father or something she had told me that he comes to stay with her every now and again so i ignored it and knocked on her door she answered with a smile and gave me a kiss which surprised me and i followed her inside we sat down on a couch and started talking about our plans when i asked her about her dad you didn't tell me that your dad was here i said was that going to be a surprise or katie looked confused and told me that her dad wasn't here i still thought she was keeping up the act and told her that she didn't have to keep pretending and that i had seen him looking through the window at me from the upstairs window kitty went pale and said you gotta get out of here now we both ran to our cars when i questioned katie she informed me that her dad wasn't there and that she had been home alone until i showed up i called the police and while i was on the phone giving my address katie gasped and pointed to the window where i'd seen the guy last he was looking at us from the window again i got a better look of him and he seemed older and frail almost like he hadn't eaten anything in a while he left the window after he saw that we saw him the police took a half an hour to show up and the whole time katie was crying and mumbling about how she was an idiot for not keeping her doors locked when the police finally did show up one started asking me and katie questions as the other two searched the house they came back out a little later and told me and katie that they didn't find anyone they did find the back door was hanging open whoever it was had ran out into the woods but the cops were sure that the house is empty after the cops left she asked me to stay the night because she was too scared to be alone in the house right now i gladly did and we slept downstairs on the couch as katie's bedroom was a room that was right next to where the man had been kitty had also brought out a shotgun that her father had given her but she has never used i told her it was fine the man's gone but she insisted saying that she'll feel safer if it's out i'm glad she did later that night i was still wide awake watching tv katie had somehow managed to fall asleep from the kitchen i heard the sound of the doorknob being turned at this point i wasn't even scared i was just pissed i flipped on the light in the kitchen and pointed the gun at the kitchen door and there he was the guy that had been at the house before was standing on the other side of the glass door he looked shocked and i'm glad we had locked the door the man on froze and yet again ran into the woods i woke up katie told her what happened and we called the police yet again when they arrived they did a full sweep of the woods but found no one they told katie and me that it's probably a good idea to stay somewhere else for the night me and katie said our goodbyes she was gonna stay at her friend's house and i was going home i left a little after katie did i was on the phone with my brother telling him what happened my headlights were on as i was talking something caught my eye the man was standing at the corner of the house just watching me i gunned it out of there and didn't even bother calling the police again however i did text katie and she said she was gonna call the cops again i don't think katie ever went back to the house alone this happened about six years ago and i'm from san antonio texas it was fiesta season and me and my mom and sister were going downtown to drop my sister off because she was going to help my mom's friend with her food stand as my mom and i started to walk away towards the street we stood at the sidewalk waiting to cross this man who was probably in his mid-20s came and stood next to us no big deal right well when the sign said that we could walk across this burgundy-colored truck which i want to say is a 2000 model came racing by well most of you would just call him a jerk and move on well this wasn't the case in this situation it turns out that the man that was standing next to me and my mom well somehow his arm got caught in the driver's side window the man started yelling over and over again for them to stop the car he finally stopped the car and it turned out the man who was standing next to us the whole time was an off-duty police officer the man that was in the car was old man around his mid-70s at the time the officer took away the old man's keys and told him to stay there for a second the officer was being very calm and respectful so me being eight years old at the time i didn't understand why the next part happened the officer had my mom and i stay because we witnessed what happened from the beginning to the end if this went to court there want more evidence of what went down well when the officer walked away i took a good look at the old man and god this guy looked like he had been beaten up by life he had rotten teeth leathery dark skin and scruffy knotted hair when i took a good look at him i noticed he was reaching for something shiny in the passenger seat once he got a grip on it i immediately knew what it was it was a pistol and i got scared and yelled gun gun he has a gun the officer heard me scream and ran faster than ever seen anyone run and grabbed the man before he could pull the trigger and started yelling drop the gun drop the gun right now my mom grabbed me by the arm and we ran off when another off-duty officer stopped us and asked what was wrong my mom had a breath of me crying realizing how close i was to death we finally managed to yell some slurred words man car gun officer needs help and that was enough for the officer to know what just happened and said go around somewhere safe if you see another officer tell them to call for help if you don't find one call 9-1-1 he ran to help my mom and i started running again i took one last look before my mom said not to look and turn my head away but what i saw before my mom made me look away was traumatizing i saw two officers pulling the man out of the car and the second one trying to get the gun away my mom and i finally found another officer and i told him everything mostly because i saw more than my mom could describe the officer wrote down everything and started to head in the direction and my mom told him and we went home that day has traumatized me for life and i have been scared and haven't celebrated fiesta ever since now i only watch the festival on tv my mom still goes and doesn't remember everything that happened like me last year was the first time in a long time to go to fiesta because i had to be there because my friend's mom was gonna get proposed to that day and that place i was very paranoid to the point that people were asking if i was okay now i'm 14 years old and i'm starting high school this year but every now and then i think it back to that time where i could have been dead if it wasn't for that officer risking his own life to save a mother and an eight-year-old girl he didn't even know so to the officer that saved me and my mom i wish i had the chance to thank you and i hope you're doing great you've inspired me to work hard and take action when necessary i want to be a doctor in the navy so i can help people and to that old man i don't know who you are or where you are but if i see you again i want you to know i still remember what you look like and if you recognize me you better turn the other way because while i may be five two fourteen years old i'm a lot stronger now and i could take down my 24 year old brother who can lift over 200 pounds i won't hesitate beating you up for scaring me for life i'm a 26 year old who has lived in alaska my whole life this will become important later when you see just how far this person would go to try to be with me this all happened a few years back when i was in college like any woman at my age i made a grave mistake of attempting online dating i was using okcupid to try and find a potential partner but i also had listed in my bio that i was looking for friends one day this girl will call her jen messaged me she seemed nice and we got to talking and really hit it off but i made it clear at this time i wasn't looking for a relationship due to being preoccupied with work and school i should preface the rest of the story by saying that i'd like to help people and it's really hard for me not to honestly it has been the biggest flaw i've had over the years a contributing factor in multiple abusive relationships i've been in before and since this incident anyway the results of this has been that i tend to drain myself to try to help others and it attracts unsavory and unstable people we start going into conversation about our various interests and eventually we stumble across gaming as a mutual interest jen suggests we play a new game arc survival evolved it's a cursed rune of games that wasn't very optimized for any system to be honest it was an absolute dumpster fire of a game but at the time i thought it had a lot of potential so i spent countless hours making various bases and trading dinosaurs jenny and i spent a lot of time in the multiplayer building things and training dinosaurs and talking to having a good time during this time she opened up to me about a lot of the abuse she had suffered in past relationships and from family that didn't accept her for being gay having also been through some difficult times i felt a lot of empathy for her and would try to build her up and talk her out of self-hating talk when i had the energy too this is when the trouble started though i noticed that she had been a bit too friendly with me and kept being overtly sexual and flirting for a week or two it all started in the game role play kind of stuff she was really nice but totally not my type i had to address the situation multiple times saying that it made me feel very uncomfortable but every time we had that conversation jen would tell me that she understood and would back off you know the drill it never got through to her by this time we had started having communications on a chat app called telegram i wasn't always on my computer so it seemed like a convenient solution i started noticing that a lot of the emojis she was using displayed a very similar lack of respect for my boundaries just as before i'd mentioned this to jen that it made me feel uncomfortable i knew she had a lot going on upstairs but me being me i have always been a gentle soul it's always been very difficult for me to set firm boundaries and to keep those especially when someone is suffering one week i was very busy with homework and a double shift at work so i ended up getting home very late i booted up my computer just to check some emails as i ate dinner before zonking out when steam loaded i noticed that i had 100 missed messages and comments all from jen about 30 minutes later my phone starts going off mind you this is at 12 am alaskan time so this would have been 3 am for her she called my cell phone number with what she has saved from telegram she was absolutely out of control from the moment i picked up the phone she was screaming obscenities and slurs intercepted with confessions of love and desperate pleas for me to unblock her so that we could be friends again and that she would make it up to me and all that crap i tried to explain to her that what she had done was out of line and that i just didn't have the emotional capacity to go through another abusive relationship but she was having absolutely none of it i did the only thing i could do i ended the call and blocked her number five minutes later i get a call from my unrecognized private number and pick up knowing exactly what i was in for it was her again calling from her parents landline i immediately hung up 15 seconds goes by and my phone rings again i dismissed the call my phone rang again about five minutes later from the same number this goes on for a solid 15 minutes before i turned off my phone and went to bed it was a fairly sleepless night but thankfully the next day i class in the evening so i had the opportunity to sleep in i woke up from my okay sleep and turned my phone on to find over a hundred missed calls and about as many voicemails i checked my telegram to talk to a different friend about the chaos that was going on to find messages from six new accounts most of them just off the wall tax filled with the same out-of-control ramblings that she had said on the phone they were the texts of someone who had completely lost it all over the place in tone and message switching back and forth between i love you and awful slurs with little regard of spacing punctuation capitalization or general legibility i was horrified i mean i had seen a fair share of breakdowns but never ones that impacted me directly then i got a phone call same unknown private number hoping that she had calmed down enough to reason i picked up the phone and she started sobbing and screaming starting right back in man as hell i screamed into the phone for her to shut up and for the first time in probably 14 hours she did very clearly i told her not to call me again and that she had gone way over the line and i wanted nothing to do with her after this in a calm monotone voice she makes me shudder to this day when she said what do i have to do to prove my love for you do you want me to kill myself how about my dog i can kill her for you honestly i was shocked i just told her no and that if she loved me she would move on and get help this was the worst possible answer immediately she started screaming again i hung up i'm shaking again just remembering this all she called me back consistently for the rest of the morning until i turned my phone off the next day i went in and got my number changed hoping that that would be the end of it a few days passed and i'm at work my boss comes over to me saying that there's a call from my mom i thought nothing of it until i picked up the phone and heard jen's voice on the other end she started talking about how she had started cutting herself and how she would keep going until she was dead if i didn't unblock her so i hung up the phone without a word i told my boss to not bother me with phone calls unless it was from a known listed number on my emergency contact file with my new phone i set up telegram began i started going through blocking all of her other accounts but this still wasn't the end of it for about six months after the whole thing went down every few weeks i'll get a new telegram contact on a new number begging me to unblock her so we could be together i know it's not some big climactic end but honestly what could i do all i knew of her at the time was her first name screen name and state if i had reported to the police nothing would have been done anyways the cops here don't take kindly to queer people like myself so i just didn't want to risk any bs with them oh and to the gen the out of control lesbian from ark survival evolved i hope you've gotten help but please let's never meet again when i was 13 my family moved from a village to a city the city had a fairly high homeless rate so of course there was a lot of people looking for somewhere to stay so there's an old family friend who runs a leasing agent who lets me use some of the unoccupied houses as sort of a recording studio i record music in my spare time as long as i keep it clean and clear out and make myself scarce for a while when there are viewings and it works fine for me so one of the houses on the outskirts of a city i was in for a while about two years back had a weird lock sometimes it would lock properly and sometimes it wouldn't so one night around eight i lock up and started cycling back home which at this time took about 40 minutes so i was home about a quarter to 10. i started to play my ps4 about an hour later i realized i forgot my wallet so i cycled back got my wallet and decided to check the rooms just because i hadn't locked the door properly so i go upstairs and open one of the rooms lo and behold there was a man maybe in his mid-30s laying on the bed as if he owned the home both of us just looked at each other startled i guess we came to some sort of non-verbal agreement and i showed him out creepy so random homeless guy i wouldn't mind meeting to hear your story just not at midnight in a house you're not supposed to be in a few years ago when i was 17 i was at a county fair it was around 11 at night and i was standing there with my friends talking and eating to understand what happened next you have to understand it was crowded and loud an old man approached me and told me a lady needed my help i moved away from my friends to try to hear what he was saying we were near one of the exits to the parking lot the man walked me to the exit but i wouldn't exit with him the whole parking lot was dark packed full of cars and there's no people out there he was pointing out to the parking lot and trying to rush me frantically saying she's over there hurry she needs your help i kept asking where i don't see anyone i couldn't even see far because all the large trucks in vance blocked the view of the whole lot the man said she's behind that car and started pulling my arm i wouldn't let him pull me and said no i can't see anyone then he pointed to the opposite direction of the parking lot and said over there i looked the only person i could see off in the distance was someone pushing a big car with trash bins on it and i said that's someone who works here then i walked away from him really fast and went back into the fair my friends asked me where the heck i went they didn't even see me leave when i told them everyone was tripping out that i almost got kidnapped it was embarrassing i felt really stupid it's so creepy to imagine what could have happened i thought that was only something i had to worry about when i was little i don't want to meet him again and sometimes think about anyone else who has met him in similar situations and it worries me so background i grew up in la crosse wisconsin a semi-small city with low crime rate at least back in the day when i was 14. it was such a quiet nice city and no one even locked their doors people would say hi to each other on the streets you could pretty much go to anyone's house for dinner and their parents wouldn't get too nervous about it you could walk home by yourself at night from your middle school basketball game without fear which is what i was doing this particular night it had been a long game and went later than normal my parents both had to work in the morning so they didn't go so they could get to bed early which is fine because they went to all my other games it was about an eight minute walk from my middle school to home so there weren't really any concerns for my safety so i'm walking right i'm wearing a pink sweater and jeans over my basketball jersey my hair is a sweaty mess but i was in a good mood because it was a good game i was walking in a relaxing fashion unconcerned and unaware and that's when i felt it i can't explain how i knew but i just knew i was in some sort of danger i looked around me and parked near the blacktop fence was a jeep with its lights off i couldn't see who was inside but i knew someone was for some reason i ducked my head and walked away from it hoping that i didn't catch their attention no such luck the jeep followed me they pulled up next to me and i saw the window open and i booked it didn't look back just ran i had such a negative feeling about this jeep i didn't stop until i could see my house and i thought i was safe just as i stopped to catch my breath i heard the engine rev behind me and it was the same jeep tearing it down my street be lining towards me i was in the position where i couldn't run anywhere safe in time because i was a big open space near the road so i just stood there frozen in terror i was backing up and must have looked every bit the victim with my sweaty hair and white face because just as the jeep pulled up near me and the door opened some guy across the street yelled something i don't even know what the guy said but the jeep store slammed shut and peeled away i didn't even think the guy which i feel bad about because he might have just saved me from something horrible but i just ran home i threw myself inside and slammed the door behind me scaring the out of my mom who was just heading to bed when she asked me what was wrong i told her and she woke up my dad we consider calling the police but since i didn't have a facial description or a license plate there wasn't much to give them all i knew is it was a dark jeep and it chased me after that night my parents never let me walk home from school again a week later the newspaper said that there had been a gang rape of a young woman at a nearby parking garage five minutes away from my house and a jeep was mentioned let's call her sam all throughout high school and even a bit afterwards we were best friends even though we were best friends i felt like i didn't really know her if that makes sense we were pretty wild teenagers drinking smoking hanging out with older guys sam always dated super sketchy guys when we were 16 sam started dating a 27 year old named john disgusting i know i had my fair share of dating guys way too old for me as well so i didn't really see anything wrong with it at the time also predators have a sketchy way of making you feel like there's nothing wrong with what they are doing i have my fair share of trauma due to older men from that time of my life but that's a story for another time she didn't have a car at the time so she would regularly ask me to drop her off at places to hang out and cover for her for mom contacting me because this relationship obviously was hidden from her mom being a teenager i was like sure whatever she's my homegirl and she would do the same thing for me plus i met john several times before and he seemed decent enough at the time please keep in mind i was also a teenager at the time and obviously now realize that he's a predator and that it was wrong he would give us alcohol and stuff and would invite us over to party with him and his equally disgusting friends their relationship seemed fine at first but turned toxic within a few months i mean duh he was a grown man manipulating a little girl he would constantly demand to track her phone location and control what she wore he also cheated on her multiple times but she always stayed during the time that this happened i stopped driving her to see him one time she called begging me to drive her over and i said no she went on to explain that he was drunk and if i wouldn't then he would pick her up if they got into a crash due to drunk driving it would be my fault so i ended up driving her to his house i was furious with john at this point for hurting my best friend and had a rebellious teenager give no attitude so as soon as i walked into his house to drop sam off i started screaming at him for being a manipulative piece of his response and the dark twisted yet emotionless look in his eyes still gives me chills to this day i can break your neck so easily thankfully i was standing right by the front door so i ran out to my car immediately and sped off the next couple of years were kind of fuzzy also i asked him to stop talking to me about jon because i was sick of hearing about him basically they were constantly breaking up and getting back together sam dated a string of other guys but would always cheat on them with john when we were 18 this is when things started getting progressively weirder and i started to distance myself from sam because of it long story short sam had a new boyfriend who she seemed crazy about and i was relieved because she finally seemed overjawn then she heard through the grapevine that jon was engaged and she became irate we were hanging out when she heard the news and she was like i just have to go home and process this she immediately left and i was like whatever i'll give her space she calls me a few hours later and is talking super fast and laughing a lot i was like you good she was like yeah i just broke into john's apartment and smashed all of his i know i have this new guy i'm dating but i've been hooking up with john still don't hate me and i'm sorry i didn't tell you but anyway i feel great i broke his tv and cut up his sheets too bad john and his fiancee weren't home i never seen her act like this before and i was so alarmed what would she have done if they were home the break-in was never reported to the police because she told john it was her and if you went to the police john's fiancee would have likely found out that he was cheating on her with sam now at this point a smart person would have completely cut her off but i didn't i stopped hanging out with her as much and we naturally grew a bit distant because i had moved across the country for college but we would text at facetime every couple weeks so at this point you're probably thinking okay so what about the murder hang tight we're almost there in 2018 john's fiance was found dead the police immediately ruled in a suicide because there was a note and the gun was found in her hand all of her friends and family insist that she would never do that i know this because i have a few mutual friends with his fiancee and it was understandably that that's all they would talk about she was known to everyone as being extremely positive and cheerful they pressured the cops to investigate more and lo and behold one year later john was found guilty of murdering her he's currently in prison and it chills me to the bone knowing that i was in this house on multiple occasions and used to frequently hang out with him so now moving on to why i think my friend may have had something to do with it last year she was visiting my city and asked to meet up for dinner i was like sure why not we're gonna be in public and i do miss her and it would be nice to catch up while we were at dinner she had her phone on the table and i saw a call from the name jail ringing on her phone she quickly excused herself to take the call and was gone for a couple minutes when she got back i was like what the she explained that she visits john in prison regularly and they talk on the phone almost every day i was like why he was found guilty of murder why do you want anything to do with him she looked me dead in the eyes with a look of pure evil and malice and said i'm the only one who knows what actually happened no one else knows the truth i quickly changed the subject finished my dinner real quickly and made an excuse to leave i was terrified at this point and had no idea what she was capable of i hightailed it back to my apartment and blocked her on everything and haven't spoken to her since i know this isn't solid proof that she was involved but her past behavior the break-in coupled with the chilling comment and the fact that she regularly visited a convicted murderer in prison leads me to believe that she has something to do with it at the very least she knows more than she's admitting sam let's never meet again i just turned 20 in march of this year and started to get out more on my own i was always shy i never wanted to go out alone but now i started to feel a bit more comfortable i just ordered myself a pocket knife i actually have a few now and would carry it with me most of the time when i went out on daily walks this one time in june was the one time i was blessed to have thought of bringing my pocket knife with me it was around 8 pm when i decided to go for a walk usually i would try to go in the morning or early afternoon but it had been raining all day so my walk was delayed i put on a white hoodie and was about to head out when i realized my knife wasn't in my pocket i went back up and got it then was on my way my usual walk is about three to four miles i'm a faster walker so i could cut the miles to about two and a half hours max i would take this side street to the main road that had a walkway about half a mile before it turned into a suburban area before you hit the suburban area there was a path that cut through a forested area that had a few cabins and parks as i made my way i noticed a figure hanging by a tree on the far side of one of the cabins i took a quick glance at him and continued past him for your insight i'm a trans male and five one so i would get mistaken a lot for a small 15 year old kid as i made it to the end of the path i noticed out of the corner of my eye that the man was now 15 feet away from me this dude was pretty tall at least 6'3 he was well built and was wearing torn jeans and a worn hoodie that seemed a bit too big for him i began to speed up my walking as i turned the corner and shot a quick glance behind me he was still behind me just staring at me as he was making long strides towards me at this point i was beginning to freak out he seemed to get closer with every step and i quickly took a hold of the knife from my pocket and had my finger on the flipper the next part is burned into my memory for life i felt a large hand grabbed my shoulder and pulled me back i have no clue how i managed to quickly whip around and flick open my knife and swipe towards his face in just a few seconds though it felt like minutes the man in the blink of an eye jerked his face back bringing up his hands as my knife sliced his palm he let out a pain deal and fell back a few steps clutching his hand it felt like i had just scraped him but his hand was already bloody and a small pool of blood was starting to form at his feet he looked at me with anger filled eyes and then took off the other way i stood there for a few minutes before realizing what just happened and i went home as fast as i could to call the police i answered their questions and then they took the knife to get a blood sample of this dude i was shaking from this experience and stayed with my brother for a few nights a few weeks later the cops returned and told me that they found the guy and that he was wanted for sexual assault i was shocked and happy that they found this bastard my knife was also returned to me a few days later after high school many years ago i was in a bad place my guardian had kicked me out after graduation she didn't want to help me find a place to stay so i lived in my car for a couple months i met some heavy metal dudes at work one day i had seen them around town and all my other friends knew who they were everyone loved them we became friends over a couple months and they offered for me to move in with them i agreed looking back now i wish i would have just stayed in my car my two main roommates were brothers named andrew and seth they were in a band they also believed in a call and anything of that sort i really never believed in that stuff but i'm not one to tell someone what they should believe they let me live with them rent free for several months so who was i to complain being the only female in the house full of young men i was always looking over my shoulder you never know who you can trust turns out i was right to worry over time their friends started staying with us for long periods of time sometimes weeks their friends were another group of brothers that they had gone to school with there were five brothers in total but only two stayed with us consistently the younger brother mark was very polite he cleaned up after himself and always helped out with the household chores the other brother adam had a laundry list of mental problems he had apparently done some bad drugs back in the day and it had developed into what seemed like psychosis of the religious sort he had done time in prison for assaulting a woman with a bible he would often look you in the eyes and tell you he could see how you die once he told me that i was possessed by a demon and i needed my soul cleansed everyone else in the house knew he had these problems but he was their friend they helped him through the hard times and gave him a place to stay otherwise he would be on the streets i was always on guard around him after the things he told me no one else seemed to be as concerned as i was they should have been one day i was sleeping and my phone rang it was my boss he asked if i could come into work an hour early it was only 12 pm i was broke and had nothing better to do so i said yes i got up and began getting ready to leave i walked out into the living room to see mark and andrew sitting on the couch while adam sat on the floor by the tv he was watching scripture videos on youtube some real end of day that was fairly common so i went about my business i said goodbye and left for work my worksheet was almost complete when the phone rang my boss answered and handed the phone to me and said for you i was the cashier so i assumed it was a friend that couldn't reach me on my phone i answered the phone and heard a man's voice that i didn't recognize hi this is detective williams something happened at your apartment today and we need you to come to the station to talk about it i left work immediately i assumed one of the brothers had been arrested for dealing drugs or something i was very wrong i got to the station and was buzzed in an officer escorted me to a small cold room with a camera he gave me a bottle of water and left me by myself for 30 minutes my mom was racing thinking about what could have happened he came back in and informed me that adam had stabbed and killed andrew at around 1pm i was shocked i just left the house an hour before that happened and everything seemed fine i asked if there had been a fight the detective informed me that there hadn't been a fight and it seemed to have happened out of nowhere i gave my statement to the police and left were nowhere to go still shocked and confused out of my mind our apartment was a crime scene so i went to another friend's house to watch the news report since police wouldn't give me any information on the case over the next couple of days information began to be released adam hadn't just stabbed andrew once not twice but he had stabbed him over and over again and nearly decapitated him after the murder he had ran down the road still holding the murder weapon he called 9-1-1 and informed them what he had done i watched the news report in horror we had known that he was unstable but this he had fully confessed to the brutal murder and provided police with his notebooks he had apparently been planning to murder all of his brothers my roommates and me he thought that we were possessed by demons and this was his way to free us luckily none of his other intended victims were there that day mark unfortunately witnessed the murder but he luckily escaped if i hadn't got the call from my boss to come in early i wouldn't be alive today so to the man who brutally murdered my friend and wanted to murder me let's never meet again i was 14 years old when i had to live with my grandparents i had to live with them because my sister was in college my parents were divorced they lived in an old bungalow type house it was one story and we have stairs that immediately goes to the attic an attic which no one really uses just puts stuff up there it's too hot and very stuffy the sole window up there didn't really help the attic had old creaky wooden floors that i remember that i had to polish with the coconut shell because that's how we do it here in the philippines that my grandparents are very traditional anyways my room was near the stairs leading to the attic like he opened my door then turn right and the stairs are immediately right there i hated that because every time i left my room i would expect something to immediately crawl down from the attic one night my grandparents had to pick up my aunt's family from the airport but because there's hellish traffic here they had to leave at 7 pm and weren't expected to come home until 5am so me a 14 year old girl would be alone the whole time i told them i would be safe here we live in a gated community with tons of guard dogs everything will be okay or so i thought before they left we had already had dinner so i was stuck cleaning all the dishes as i was doing that i could hear a bunch of neighboring dogs barking a lot i didn't really think much of it because the dogs did that from time to time when i finished cleaning up from dinner i immediately locked every door and window and turned off all the lights before heading to bed when i entered my room the lights were on and it looked normal my anime posters were on my wall my closet was untouched my bed was next to my locked tinted windows we had tent on them because i was on the first floor and my grandparents wanted to make sure no one would peep in at a young girl's room they were also barred because my uncle who used to use this room always escaped through there to go to parties this was my grandparents solution to that nothing was out of place to alarm me everything was normal until i turned off the lights as soon as i turned off my lights a silhouette of a man illuminated by the street lights outside he looked like he had thick curly hair in a skinny build i thought i was having hallucinations so i turned on the light and he was gone i turned it off again and he was back on gone off gone i sighed in relief i was just tricking myself out i guess or something else was casting the shadow i double checked the lock of my door just to be safe one was a door knob locked and one of those door latch type locks i tucked myself in it was hard to fall asleep when a lot of dogs were barking outside they weren't our dogs it was the neighbors but as i was finally falling asleep i heard something from above me moving something in the attic i pushed down the thought i'm tricking myself again i hug my pillow it's just the rats i said to myself these rats seem heavy and we're also pushing furniture around my heart sank when i heard them hurriedly go down the stairs and stop at the bottom i covered myself with a blanket and waited for something i was also wishing my parents would have given me a phone at a time like this suddenly i heard the doorknob gently fiddled i wanted to vomit when i heard a click followed by a quiet turn of the knob the knob turned but didn't budge when they noticed they tried to push through this time i finally stood up shaking i was a kid home alone with no phone no means of defense all that was saving me was this thick door from the old days i softly pushed my body up against the door and locked everything up again i didn't want to make a sound i didn't want to scream i didn't want him to know i was there i don't know why he stopped but he did i didn't go back to bed i just sat there by the door waiting it felt like forever i heard footsteps go up the stairs but i just sat there i saw something move in the corner of my eye there out the window the shadow was back i forced myself not to look all i could think was thank god they're barred i don't remember what happened after that i think i fell asleep or i was too scared to even think straight i just remember the next day my family and i were having breakfast i casually brought it up to my grandfather i think i heard footsteps in the attic last night my grandmother scuffed it's probably rats i've never brought it up again i don't want to worry them but i do know this our dogs were caged up near the gate and were far away from my room so they wouldn't have seen anything the only dogs who were near my room were the neighbors also there is nothing outside my window that could cast a shadow that looked like a man lastly the attic window was opened i've been wanting to share this story for a while so here it goes in 2007 when i was 12 years old my family took a trip to key biscayne florida with some of my cousins and family members naturally while at the resort my cousins and i would all hang out at the kids club where there were always a bunch of kids to hang out with epic chicken fingers and ranch dressing and fun games for us to play there was this director of the kids club who watched us and facilitated the activities his name was dan in retrospect dan was a major creep he was around 40 years old super tall and skinny and was balding badly the worst part is sometimes he had us call him dan dan the animal man side note these sort of memories leave me in awe of how naive and blinded i was to danger as a kid if i ever met this guy now i literally wouldn't want to get within a five foot radius of him and there i was as a 12 year old thinking he rocked time is a wonderful thing anyhow i digress it was made clear to all of us that for unknown reasons damn was leaving the hotel in a week none of this phased me one of our last day at the hotel i lost my cell phone it was a bright blue chocolate cell phone i quickly told my parents that i couldn't find my phone and considering it was already the second phone i lost that year my mom yelled at me and told me that if i didn't find it i would be grounded i hardly ran around the hotel looking for my phone and along my way i went to the kids club to see if anyone found it the room that was typically busting with kids was eerily quiet and empty dan was sitting on the couch all by himself hey dan did you by any chance to see my phone dan responded yes i found it and put in the lost and found in the basement come with me thinking absolutely nothing of this i mindlessly followed behind dan as he led me around the back of the hotel we walked for about three minutes and arrived at the foot of a stairwell going into the basement we were standing at the back of the hotel in a strange area and there was no one else in sight it's down here i asked confused i was staring down a long flight of stairs leading into absolute darkness the walls were made of unpainted concrete and it looked no more than the storage area let alone a basement with a lost and found dan nodded and held the door open for me motioning for me to head down the steps something in my 12 year old self suddenly woke up i'm not sure if it was instinct's fear or luck but i immediately knew i had to get the hell out of there before dean could say anything i blurted out never mind i think i left it with my mom and darted away from the stairwell and back to the hotel lobby i was so shook enough because something about the situation didn't feel right i knew he was going to hurt me and as a kid who wore rose colored glasses and was overly trusting of others this really meant something i tried to compose myself and figured i'd investigate a little bit more i walked up to the concierge of the hotel and asked him where the lost and found was because i had lost my phone the nice woman at the front desk told me that the lost and found was right there at their desk she then asked me what kind of phone i lost and after i told her it was a blue chocolate flip phone she smiled and pulled it out from the box under her desk someone turned it in earlier she said and handed me my phone wait you're telling me the loss of found isn't in the basement i stammered no sweetie the hotel is under construction and the basement is being rebuilt there's no electricity down there or anything yet this scared the absolute out of me and i couldn't shake the feeling that this man was dangerous at the time i was sharing a hotel room with my cousins and she was the only person i told considering that she was eight at the time i think i really freaked her out now i'm 26 and i still think back to that moment and wonder what if what would have happened if i went down to the basement with dan dan the animal man it feels truly like one of the most critical junctures of my entire life and i'm so happy i knew to get the hell out of there before it was too late i recently contacted the hotel to inquire about the past kid club employee named dan from 2007 just to see if he was still around or on a sex offenders list or in jail i even told the hr this whole story but they still refused to give me any information about him and it sounded pretty sketchy about it we'll continue to do research and if i find out any more information i'll add it to the post my husband and i were at the supermarket and our baby was being especially fussy so we took her out for a quick drive the motion usually calms her down it only took about 10 minutes to settle her and i was still in the store but was unsure how much longer i would be and there's poor cell reception inside he pulled back into the parking lot and waited for me it was an unseasonably nice day so he took her out of the car seat and sat her on one of the benches outside the store he took a business call and it just sat down absent-mindedly rocking her in the carrier when a woman well-dressed mid 30s average height fit build approached him it's not uncommon for people to ask to play with our baby she's got big rosy cheeks soft wisps of gold hair and the most adorable toothless grin especially when she's deep into a nap but her nap schedule was paramount so my husband was preparing to tell the woman she actually couldn't play with her baby right then she walked over right in the direction brimming with nonchalant confidence and before you could even finish this sentence explaining that she was napping and not to be touched she picked up the carrier started walking off he was in shock for a minute not fully believing someone would be ballsy enough to do something so sinister in plain daylight so he said excuse me put her down as panic mounted she remained calm the entire time but when he called after her she started walking away more briskly than when she approached he ran full speed ahead and tried to grapple the carrier out of her hands finally resulting to restraining her arms the woman yells help he's trying to take my baby kidnapping 911 help kicking him in the shin and pulling a pink bottle of pepper spray out of her bag of course no one in the parking lot was clocking their earlier interaction and assumed that he was really a kidnapper a lone man in a deadpool t-shirt versus a teeny well-dressed woman immediately a man knocked my husband to the ground and was holding him down he could hear bystanders encouraging the woman to file a police report but she was doing a very convincing job of acting shooken up and insisted that she just wanted to get home to make matters worse for my husband she was driving a minivan he was in a raw state of panic realizing the entire parking lot had banded together to inadvertently facilitate the kidnapping of our daughter he was begging and pleading with them but no one was listening they just kept screaming at him that jake was up and he needed to lie still and wait for a police and stop terrorizing the young mother my husband finally had the novel idea to show them family pictures on his phone but too panicked to think clearly this manifested as him shouting i have pictures of that baby on my phone which of course everyone interpreted as him having stalking photos or worse pornographic images of the baby it was at this point that a man i can't entirely blame this man considering what he thought was going on keep my husband as hard as he could in the ribs it was at this point i was coming out of the store and i thought he was being robbed by these people i was yelling for security so panicked my chest constricted and i could barely get any sound out it was only that i realized that he didn't have our baby with him when i saw she was being held by a woman i was relieved i thought maybe the woman had intervened to move her daughter out of harm's way while my husband was being robbed and was walking away to get help i couldn't find a security guard outside the store so i ran up to people holding my husband down waving my wallet pleading take everything you want just letting them up and leave us alone one of the men holding him down said something like lady we need to wait for the police to deal with him i was so confused why would muggers have called the police i just kept stammering what do you what do you mean what are you talking about and made out someone saying he tried to abduct this woman's kid i didn't understand and was sure i misheard him my husband would never hurt a child and we have four kids if he wanted to commit a crime bringing it home another kid would have been at the bottom of his list i kept trying to understand what the man was saying and suddenly it all clicked i looked around for the woman who had the baby carrier and she was halfway across the parking lot i wanted a total ballistic tiger cub mode and literally left out on my heels i sprinted across the parking lot i'm not a ufc fighter and i've never even taken a self-defense class so all i could do was think to grab this woman by the hair and squeeze her throat with my other hand which didn't do much she was getting away even as i grappled with her amazingly none of the bystanders had yet connected that my husband was telling the truth and that this woman was fleeing with my baby i yanked her as hard as i could and that was enough to make her drop the carrier so i screamed i was so scared and surprised that i actually threw myself on top of the carrier covering the entire thing like a blanket i stayed that way without saying or doing anything else the woman left not one person tried to stop her even though she was clearly leaving without the child that she claimed was hers which would be pretty damn incriminating if i watched the scene unfold within the next couple minutes police had arrived after all that there were still several bystanders who explained it as my husband trying to kidnap a baby the police to my heart assumed that she must not have had bad intentions the first questions they asked me after getting the description of her weren't investigative they were more questions thinly veiled trying to convince me not to pursue charges still placing the blame on my husband a small sampling do your husband and the baby look dissimilar is there a chance she thought he was abducting the baby and was trying to intervene could your husband have been doing something inappropriate or violent to the baby that would make her feel compelled to extract the baby from the situation did she seem groggy or confused could she have mistaken either of them as her own family members they spent more time verifying that the baby was actually mine then they concerned themselves with the fact that the baby wasn't actually hers my husband had called his brother at this point who works in the office with a lot of lawyers and connected with one who gave us the priceless advice to get every officer's name and badge number to request copies of the store's security tapes right away and to escalate our complaint higher up the chain if these officers weren't taking us seriously finally we had reason enough to believe we were being taken seriously and we went home we were both shook and cried until we had got our other kids from school my husband was seething with rage and grappling with a feeling of helplessness from how little he was able to do he also had two cracked ribs from when the man kicked him to the officer's credit they did ask if he would like to press charges considering the man was generally convinced at the time that he was on the right side of intervening in a kidnapping and stated talked to the police and apologized profusely when the truth became clear my husband declined to press charges amazing and frustrating there were still people that stuck around to talk to the police who were giving my husband dirty looks and one man even implored the police to involve cps to verify it was actually our baby alright so this happened to me last night i want to share with you because it's pretty creepy for some context i've been working at a bank for about seven years and i've always enjoyed the steady income that it has given me two months ago i was laid off from my job and having no other form of income i became to feel very stressed one night later as i put my kids to bed my heart began to race uncontrollably i thought i was having a heart attack but as i began to calm down i realized that i was just experiencing an anxiety attack i never knew what an anxiety attack was before i experienced that so it really scared the hell out of me the next day i decided to go to the doctor to see what i could do to prevent it from happening again he told me the best things to cope with my anxiety is to walk as often as i can walking releases endorphins which results in happier moods i took his advice and decided to walk every night at around seven to eight walking was great i enjoyed the peacefulness of it and began to meet new people in my neighborhood that i never knew existed i observed the intricate details in all of the old well-kept houses grand pillars that guided the stone walkways to the carved maple doors or different sized bricks that somehow fit together to create beautiful walls the more i observed the houses the more i wondered about one of the houses that stood out from the rest it didn't look as well kept as others i want to say it looked haunted but it looked like it was vacant i never saw a tv glow from a window or a light of any kind there wasn't even a car in the driveway it was just existing with other houses i asked people who lived in the general area if they knew of anyone selling it or if it was being renovated and no one really had an answer last night as i walked down the sidewalk i came to the typical street corner that i pass every night when i walk the corner has an old stone bench and it faces a vacant house as i walked i saw an older woman sitting down on the bench facing the house when i walked closer to the woman i noticed a strange attire she was wearing it was like what you would wear to a funeral she had on an all-black dress with a black hat and a black veil covering her face to make the situation less unnerving i said hello to her and in the quietest recipes town she said hello it sounded like she smoked a lot now you're probably wondering why this bothered me so much although her demeanor was quite unsettling the most unsettling thing about her was that after she said hello to me she crossed the street and walked inside the house that i thought was faking it was like she was waiting for me on that night just to show me that the vacant house isn't vacant for a little background i'm a scout i've been a scout since i was eight years old and last year i was leader of my team so i had to do all the paperwork and calls for finding places to camp it was mid-november i had to find a place to camp but since i was lazy i decided to wait a week before the actual weekend i decided to call some owners so i could have places to sleep as i called the numbers all the owners were unavailable or simply not there but then i see a number which i never called before since it was at the end of the list i call and the old lady picks up the phone i do the basic presentation and all she agrees to let me and the team stay at hers and we make arrangements i go to a property to check out everything such as portable water the place to put our tent in the campfire the place was kind of dark but it was nice the week passes and saturday arrives saturday is ending well and we did some great games and ate a lot and we had a good night show as i go to sleep in the tent i stay awake to finish paperwork for the next day it is now midnight and i decide to sleep because we have to wake up early to go to church as i switch off the flashlight one of my newbie wants to go to the toilet aka the trees and ask me to come with her i can understand because it's better to be accompanied at night especially in the woods she does her business and i suddenly hear some noises far away but not too far i tell myself it's nothing it must be some animals trying to find food we go back to the tent and that's when i hear footsteps approaching as i hear those footsteps i remain calm and tell myself maybe it's the old lady making sure we didn't put the fire too close to anything but i still have an odd feeling because it's midnight and why would she do this at this hour it goes silent and i don't hear any footsteps for about 10 minutes then i hear more coming to our tents thankful all of my girls were sleeping because they would have been scared as you hear the footsteps which seemed to come from one person i hear others coming from back of the tent and i was like okay this is getting weird i need to do something i checked the tent and thank god one of my newbies left some ambers from the fire so i could see everything between the fire and the tent a minute passes by and a silhouette is just there between the fire and my tent i stopped breathing i literally froze i started to move towards my phone when i saw the silhouette coming closer to the zipper of my tent i sent a message to one of my bosses who always camps near the areas just in case something happens but i knew she would take too long so i had to do something and think fast that's when i had the idea i put the alarm on my phone the silhouette started to unzip the tent and i actually saw fingers from below but as the silhouette heard the girls waking up she or he sprinted back from where they came from that's why i saw two other silhouettes sprinting back in the same direction everything ended well 20 minutes later my boss came and stayed the night and we never had to deal with those silhouettes again thankfully hello my name is trent what happened to me is true i'm from a cattle and sheep ranch in montana i also have four saddle horses the ranch that my cousin and i own is about 4 700 acres comprising a flat crop and hayfield stretching on both sides of the yellowstone river the ranch is located 11 miles northeast of the town of savage we run a ranch that's 38 miles upriver from us that is where this incident occurred the least ranch is huge comprising of over 13 000 acres the folks that own it are multi-millionaires from oregon who only visited a few times per year the ranch is a very rough terrain and three small creeks run through it in the very northeast corner of it the land flattens out and there's an old coral system there is also a long vacant house nearby in a draw we had leased the ranch since the mid 2000s and had no trouble until about five years ago it was normal to lose a few cows in the yellowstone breaks but we have lost 130 since 2016. around half of the cattle we were able to locate the animals that we found were pretty eaten up by coyotes but a few that we found were not these carcasses looked a lot like the other cattle mutilations with the skin around their eyes the ears and utter completely missing it was highly unusual to lose this many cattle as they were at home throughout the winter and there are no predators in eastern montana that could kill full-grown cow all of the cattle that were missing were cows and always between the ages of three and five years old this event took place at the end of june last year we just trucked the cattle to the ranch two weeks prior and i was checking on them that day usually my cousin or her son rode with me but they were moving the irrigation pivot that day so i was alone i parked my pickup next to the corrals and unloaded my horse this was about 9 30 am my horse's name was ace he was a very large horse that weighed a whole ton and stood 19 hands tall ace was not very quick or fast he had great endurance and you could ride him all day through the roughest country and he would not tire it was a pretty usual day until about 1 pm when i saw something that didn't belong about a mile away i could see an animal bounding up a hill my initial reaction was a deer because it was as big as one but had proportions more like a mountain lion i tried to ride closer to whatever it was but i couldn't find it it was odd but not that crazy so i just put it in the back of my head the day continued normally until i returned to pick up my trailer as i went to load ace i noticed that the rear axle in my trailer had just come apart keep in mind that i not used it earlier that morning so there was no reason for that to happen it was getting pretty late around 8 pm and it took about an hour to get back to the house so i decided to leave ace in the trailer there and take the pickup home the corral fence was alright but the gate latch had rusted shut to where you could not close it i had a roll of barbed wire in my pickup so i used it to secure the gate after i put ace into it as i drove home i noticed a few large lights in the complete opposite direction from the corrals they resembled combine lights even though they were further apart and brighter also there would be no reason for a combine to be up there i arrived home at 10 30 without having any trouble the next morning my cousin his son and i rode up together to fix the axle and get ace back when we finally got to the corrals we saw ace wasn't there the wire holding the gate shut had not been meddled with so there was no logical way he could have escaped the corral had not been used in decades so there's grass growing inside but that day all the grass was turned up and you can see where ace had ran for a while this was quite unusual as ace was always calm and quiet we looked for him the whole day but could not find him but we were severely limited because we were on foot the next day me and my cousin's son returned with a fixed trailer and two horses to continue the search for ace i also brought my dog daisy we split up to cover more ground and every two hours we would meet up around three in the afternoon while i was riding around the rim of the steep with a draw daisy suddenly scurried down into the draw i tied the horse i was riding penny to an old cinder tree and followed daisy down the sides of the draw were incredibly steep and i was struggling to make it down there on foot for a horse as big as ace it would be completely impossible as i got to the bottom i could smell something dead and i immediately knew it was a's he had not been touched by predators but was heavily mutilated he had the same mutilation as the cattle with the skin around his eyes being gone as well as the skin around the lips however his back legs were completely free of flesh and was just bone his rib cage was also opened up with all of his organs being gone as i looked around i could see skeletons of at least three cows and it was obvious that this was some type of dumping ground for whatever did this i was completely dumbfounded on what had happened there was no way ace could have gotten here by himself so he must have been carefully placed there i also like to mention that where he was found was a whole two miles away from the corrals nothing was adding up and besides i just lost my favorite horse i sadly returned to the spot where me and my cousin's son were gonna meet up and we both rode back to the pickup after talking to my cousin we decided not to renew our lease our current lease will expire in 2022 my cousin's son spends a lot of time on the internet and thought it sounded very similar to what happened at the skinwalker ranch in utah for the past month i've been studying what happened but have been unable to come up with a definitive answer when i was in high school this guy fell in love with me and his friend gave him my snapchat i knew who he was i had spoken to him like twice so i added him back not thinking much of it at the time snapmap was new and i didn't know there was a ghost mode or whatever it's called so no one could see your location we started talking and quickly became friends i had no idea that he had feelings for me until he asked me out on a date i nicely declined making excuses for why i couldn't go and that's when things started to get creepy he googled my street and literally counted how many houses there were before mine so he could find it then he sent a picture of my house and said isn't this your house i said it wasn't because i was so creeped out but he continued saying he knew it was at that time the idea of him using snapmap didn't even cross my mind since i was panicking so much a few days later i had to go to the drugstore with my mom to get her medicine i stopped talking to him but before i left he texted me something i left him on red since my mom told me to hurry and start walking towards the drugstore the drugstore was about 20 minutes away from my house there was a guy used to like working at the drugstore so me and my mom were guessing about him looking at me and smiling i was 15 years old when i came back home i had internet i didn't have data so obviously my messages came up one of them was from him i opened it and he asked where were you 20 minutes ago i answered um nowhere he said you were at the pharmacy the worker is cute isn't he you have a crush on him i was so scared and finally realized it was because snap maps so i deactivated it that was the start of him abusing stalking and sexually assaulting me for the next year regardless now that i think about it and understand snapmaps a lot more if you don't have data your position doesn't update so how did he know where i was and how did you know i had to crush on that worker it still creeps me out to this day but i'd like to believe it's just a coincidence okay so this happened about four years ago when i was 16 i was super vain and worried about my appearance i always wanted to look pretty so i would go all out when i went out or took pictures curled hair fake lashes the whole nine yards but i've since had kids and have a man that tells me i look beautiful when i look like a hobo and never bother with makeup or anything anymore anyways i had my snapchat account set to public so anyone could watch my stories or snap me i always figured if someone is weird or whatever i can just block them yeah right well one day i'm out to lunch where my mom i'm out to lunch with my mom when a random dude messages me he says i'm pretty and all this and that but being super nice but i didn't really care to talk to him so i was just giving him one word replies hoping that he would get the hint because i hated being rude then he asked me if i can send him nudes absolutely not and i tell him so well he didn't like that he told me that i was a and he hated women because they're all bunch of and i'm just mad because no one likes me okay i told him that he was a psycho and laughed at him and he threatened to sue me for defamation so i thought that was the end of that well it wasn't i blocked dude and go about my day when someone asked me on snapchat i looked at the user info and their snap score was a zero and their username was something really weird they didn't snap me or anything but continue to watch my stories every single day fast forward a few months and this person snaps me i was doing the same one word replies because i really didn't feel like talking do you think i would learn from the first time but nope he starts with nice small talk then out of nowhere sends me a couple of different selfies of myself that were posted on my stories months ago he asked me if i can print them out for him gives me the size he wants them in and says he'll give me his address hold up what i immediately shut it down then this dude sent me a couple pictures of myself framed in this house on his wall now i told him off real good and blocked him then another account adds me another weird username i remove it and change my account settings he still has my username so he adds me from a million different accounts which i won't add back they were all super weird usernames i won't give the actual usernames but on snapchat you can choose different display names and they were all pretty similar to his usernames one was i'm wet another was just add me back snapchat also tells you how the person added you via phone number user search quick ad etc they all said user search so i know he searched it up and every account had a snap score of zero so obviously i just made the account and i knew it was him weird who keeps adding me on snapchat years later because i won't send him nudes that's not me this happened in arizona about seven years ago while on our bi-annual fishing trip to the black river out in the fort apache indian reservation each year we would take a little dirt road only accessible via 4x4 vehicles all the way until it ended the only people we ever saw out there were cattle ranchers that never really went past the tree line which was about a half hour drive from where we camped needless to say we were always way out in the boonies there was one way in and one way out and we camped at the very end of the road this trip in specific was our fifth year going out to the same spot twice a year and this would be about our 11th week long trip at that spot never saw another soul outside of our party of five all ten other times we get up super early sometimes a little bit before the sun we get everything ready to fish all day wanting to get as much fishing in as possible before it got dark this experience happened on the third day of eight we were up eating some breakfast instant oatmeal packets and protein bars for those who care and we were getting our gear ready for the day this was when the sun wasn't quite up yet we still had lanterns and headlamps on to see with all of us right there we hear footsteps coming from the road we all look up and see two middle-aged native american men walking down the road no gear with them both looking straight forward not even acknowledging our existence walked straight past us up a trail along the river we were spooked because we'd never seen anyone there in the many times we had been we figured that they may have been camping up a bit further down the road we went down the same path a bit later and about an hour in we hear rustling from the other side of the river then we see a fawn burst out of the trees and start running downstream a few seconds later two very mangly coyotes come springing out of the same spot chasing the deer they eventually cross back into the woods and disappear from view over the next five days we never saw those two guys again if they had gear i wouldn't be suspicious of this however to avoid us on the way back they would have had to go extremely out of their way to get back to the road and it wouldn't be feasible on top of that the coyotes did chase the fawn back downstream where the road was i used to have my profile set on private to avoid creepy encounters like this i put it back on public after a while because of a rally i attended and wanted to put my name out there one day i received a text message to my number he claimed to be a man that saw me on instagram and thought i was beautiful and wanted to get to know me more at first i thought it was just some sick joke one of my friends was pulling on me but quickly i realized it most likely wasn't because the older man followed me shortly before that text i didn't see it before the text because i didn't have my notifications on for instagram i was skeptical and asked him how he got my number in the first place and i thought it was really weird he claimed he got it off instagram off of my email somehow but i checked my email and my signature didn't have my contact information but that wasn't the only flaw in his claim i didn't have any of my personal information displayed on my instagram in no way shape or form he proceeds to keep texting me introducing himself really specifically as if we were texting on a dating app saying he was a woman's doctor or whatnot as creeped out as i was i didn't want to be rude and take him off so i politely asked him to not contact me because i wasn't interested in being friends or getting to know a man in his 50s that gave me a flimsy idea of how he got my contact information the conversation went on with him carrying a lot of it and me repeatedly declining his weird and extremely creepy offer he continued to glorify my ethnicity culture and looks attempting to try to connect with me on some way or another eventually i got really tired of it i started to tell him that i would call the cops and report his number if he didn't stop texting me he passed up aggressively threatened me telling me you're gonna regret that bouncing back and forth between that and being passive saying i'm just trying to get to know you better please give me a chance i get lonely i may be old by age but everyone says i have the heart of a 19 year old i eventually stopped answering and at this point had already gotten some advice from my friends to block the guy on everything hope he was only bluffing in his aggressive threats and that he was just a desperate old man from then on i usually take an extra look around me before entering my car going out being more careful on social media and whatnot it was mostly just terrifying how stubborn unwilling and aggressive he was towards me telling him no and that i'm not interested and how i still don't even have a solid way of knowing how we obtain any of my information this happened about six years ago i was single and on bumble i met zach and after talking a bit agreed to meet we went to dinner and got on well he had brought flowers and arranged with the waiters to put them at the table which i thought was unexpected but nice he had been to a good school had a good job and was polite and funny he basically checked every box on paper he told me stories about his friends and family all seemed totally normal we went out for drinks after dinner and went home the next morning i get a text from him i had a great time let's do it again although there was nothing wrong with him i just didn't feel a spark so i said thank you so much for the great night i explained it wasn't really what i was looking for but had a nice time meeting him i expected that to be it or for him to say no worries but i got another text what was wrong least she could do is give me another chance he offered drinks nearby i didn't answer that's where things took a turn zach started sending me extremely long messages how dare you do this we had something really special i've talked to all my friends and they said it sounded like it was something special too he would get angry you're selfish and heartless how can you hurt me like this the least you could do was answer me and would then apologize i'm so sorry i'm a good guy i just feel so strongly about this because i never felt this way before and i know this is true love i need to know why you don't see it too please tell me what went wrong let me give you the chance to see what i could see it went on and on essay length messages about how he felt about me and what we could be together this continued all day every day for about a week 20 plus long messages a day and he would constantly call me by the weekend i was getting calls almost every 10 minutes my doorbell had also started ringing constantly when i would check the door camera whoever it was was crouching down so i couldn't see them that day i blocked his number i didn't get any more surprise visits and moved shortly after in the following years i met someone and we had a son together life went on in the last week i checked my linkedin and instagram i had two new requests both from zach although you seemingly still want to zach let's not meet again never have ever thought that i would have to worry about someone stalking me this is from a couple years back so it's hard to get every detail i'm sorry if it's not perfect from a young age i've always been told about stranger danger and such i actually had facebook at a really young age because my parents knew i was aware i only really got it so i could play this game called yoville anyways i started an instagram and grew a significant amount of followers it's kind of scary not knowing who follows you but i modeled and it never crossed my mind that someone was watching it all started when i was going on a trip and received a snapchat from a username hot daddy okay nothing to it right sent a picture of his private parts weird but it's nothing new to many girls i didn't reply and went on with my day i wasn't paying too much attention to my phone because i was at the zoo so every now and then i would take a look on my phone and reply to my friends and such i looked at another message and noticed hot daddy again text me saying you opened my snap i wouldn't ever think you'd reply do you still live on insert address obviously i was shocked i wasn't going to say i moved so i said yes i did he explained that he had seen my instagram photos and me being around town he named the street that was right by me so i know he must have lived somewhere down there he then replied i've been seeing you for years and was so nervous to talk to you i was a little confused thinking it was a joke from one of my friends i mean who would actually stalk he just said a bunch of weird things that i couldn't wrap my mind around i asked if he was stalking me or something this wasn't a friend that i knew but a part of me wished i was i was always skeptical of the old house after my dad passed away it wasn't the nicest neighborhood and a lot of scary things happened when i lived there it was only my mom my 15 year old brother and 17 year old me hot daddy replies i've only seen you walking around i've never stalked you but i can if you want me to he also insisted on picking me up and taking me to mcdonald's mind you he still thinks i live there i wanted to make sure it wasn't one of my friends playing a joke on me so i asked him to send me a picture it was a man i blocked him i don't know if it was a joke but one of my friends actually lives on the road she opened the door one day to a white man asking to marlon he exclaimed her and pushed open the door a little bit until she replied no he got her on snap as well so i knew he knew what she looked like he was an easy target to spot because the majority of the people who lived down that road were not white he also was a construction worker so it was easy spotting this was two years back so hot daddy or wherever the hell you are i hope we never meet i was on a hitchhiking adventure from bc canada to antigua guatemala which started in september 2019 this post is taken from notes in my journal which i also wrote as soon as i could after this insane experience if you've ever hitchhiked before you know how amazing it is and how many cool people you can meet out of a thousand of rides across 40 countries i've only had two bad or dangerous encounters thumbing it this was my second one i was taking a break from traveling to find weed trim work in california's nevada city a beautiful little town with a very interesting crowd but got stuck a few times over for not getting a ride all day i ended up sleeping at night at the love's gas station which i've done plenty of times before i've slept in worse places at least luv's has a bathroom in the morning i was a little more desperate to accept rides because no one was stopping and it had already been a whole day i just wanted to get out of there a pickup was speeding past me and slams on its brakes then slowly backs up inside a man and a woman in their late 50s and he says in the husky voice where you headed boy nevada city any distance helps well get in we're going to yuba they seem normal enough even without most of their teeth and hair so i jumped in it all happened in rapid succession one i toss my bag in the back and jump in two i shut the door three i notice a pile of guns and bullets on the floor four before i have time to rethink my decision we speed off so i'm trying to assess whether or not i'm in danger and they start telling me how this guy just got out of jail for aggravated assault and how he beat that so bad he can't think straight no more and they both laugh she was holding her seatbelt over her chest they both smiled like and they started asking how much money i have i think yep i'm not safe here after hitchhiking all this way i don't look particularly wealthy i'm filthy i need a shower i look no different than the stereotypical homeless guy so i try to seem more poor than i am i'm broke as man that's why i'm trying to go to the city i'm hoping to make some cash trimming the man looks me in the eye well you'll find it all right you'll find it good don't be afraid to do no dirty work if people try and they'll try to you you them first you get what i'm saying put your eyes on the damn road jesus christ the woman points forward and he swears back into the right lane he asked me if i smoke and knowing that california has legalized weed i put two and two together he's offered me a joint so i say yeah i smoke with the wild look in his eyes he exclaims great and we turn off the highway and start down a dirt road i'm more than worried and i look behind us in the back of the truck is my bag a chainsaw pickaxe and a plastic tarp over something didn't help my anxiety finally we stopped from the front of the clearing the woman takes out not a joint but a meth pipe it's the first time i've ever seen a meth pipe and a lot of things start to make sense when he lights up and exhales into the car i've never seen smoke so white i roll down my window as fast as possible because i don't want to smoke that the woman takes some as well and they try to tell me how they were gonna collect money that a woman owed them that damn is gonna pay today one way or another damn straight she better have that money i'm gonna grab her and say where's my money well she'll have it all right she'll have it or else say son you ever steal something because we could make twenty thousand dollars today i don't know exactly how to answer this guy and he repeats twenty thousand dollars today here smoke some of this and hands me the pipe nothing like meth ain't that right i gently reject it and say that that's not really my thing which he surprisingly takes well and smokes some more before he puts it away and drives back towards the highway his driving is terrible swerving speeding hitting the brakes abruptly and starts trying to convince me to help him steal marijuana plants you'll hold the gun and i'll drill the hole and i'll keep a lookout yeah baby girl will keep a look now you got to be careful if you hear any dogs because them are nasty see this bite and he reveals what looks like a terrible scar in his arm i didn't really know how to get out of this situation so i sounded as confident as possible and said that i was meeting a friend look for work together and they will be expecting me today we neared the end of yuba city and they pulled over to the side well it's your funeral you don't want to eat fine by me but if you ever want the cash you call me he hands me a number hell no i think thanks i will quickly retrieved from my bag smiling nervously the woman says with the wave take care god bless and they speed off i'm standing on the other side of the road thinking what the hell was that just happy to be out of that car meth heads one and two thanks for the offer to steal marijuana plants but let's never ever meet again not too scary and nothing bad happened but i think it could have this was last june just before i turned 18. me and my friends went on a surfing holiday to the english town of cornwall we decided to go to a place called the eating project which was a massive indoor rain forest but it was quite far away we got a bus which dropped us off five miles away and planned to walk the rest we ended up getting lost and to make matters worse it started pouring like heavy rain and we were stuck in the middle of the english countryside we decided to see if anyone on the road would give us a lift so we did the usual stick your thumb out hitchhiker thing a few cars went by until a truck stopped it was two very big grown man that looked a good few years older than us we felt a little uneasy when we saw them since we were four young looking girls but i went to their window to talk to them anyway the guys looked me up and down in a very creepy way and i asked if they were going to the eat-in project they said that they were going wherever we were and that we should get in their truck at this point i was slightly freaked out and noticed the open beer cans sitting in their cup holders i probably said no thank you and that they should carry on and we would find another car driver hesitated and looked me up and down again before speeding off i was a little freaked out after that but we ended up getting a lift off some nice elderly americans in a minivan so it turned out alright in the end i'm glad none of us got in the truck with them though hi there i'm usually a reader like a lifetime reader i'm less not me but i'm a first time poster anyway here's something that happened to me recently i had gotten a notification saying that someone had added me on snapchat i checked how they had added me and it said they added me by user i added them back and they immediately text me just a simple hi and how are you doing sweet right now in my mind i knew that this could go two ways i would reply and have an actual nice conversation with them or they could just ignore what i said and send me unwanted pictures while i got lucky or so i thought they went the first way and they were really nice until they lied i asked them how they found my account and his response was i randomly added you i then asked how old he was he responded with 25. i'm a female that is only 15. please keep that in mind i told him that i shouldn't start texting him and he said he understood and called me love red flags hours later he started texting me again asking me if it was possible to get to know each other and go on a date i said no because i'm underage he didn't take no for an answer and comes at me with but i want to spoil someone i'm the manager at this company that i've been working out for four years blah blah blah and like i said i'm a long time reader so automatically i was like hell no i know how the goes he then proceeds to tell me about himself and to my shock he lives in my city i turn off my location and everything he starts asking me and i ignore his questions and ask him what he looks like he tries to play the reverse uno card on me and i play it back earning his username instead of his name he had before he had blocked me so dear mateo that's not me ever again whether it's on social media or real life and yes i still don't want to go on a date with you this happened on the same hitchhiking journey i mentioned in one of my previous stories it was dark out and pretty late a trucker pulled up we discussed beforehand that we would take turns sleeping so that we wouldn't be caught off guard by anything this trucker seemed a bit off emotionally he shared how his wife had died he never shared how and we never asked i was uncomfortable with the topic he had the same song playing on a constant loop throughout the entire drive i wonder if the song reminded him of his wife and i'm sure it must have as it was a love song funny how one of my other creepy hitchhiking experience involved a man with an entire tape on continuous lube go figure so i was pretty tired i want to rest in the back while my friend stayed awake and kept conversation with a trucker i must have not been sleeping for terribly long when i awoke to my friend's voice yelling at me to get up and they were getting out i had a sense that if i hadn't gotten up and out quickly i wasn't going to be getting out i hurried and hopped up into the pouring rain right on the freeway he left us there and sped off apparently she had dozed off and awoke to his hand up her dress i have no idea whether the man would have harmed us and i'm sure the story would have gotten a whole lot creepier either way thank god we made it out of there in one piece i was on snapchat for like 20 seconds when all my friends have already reposted some weird messages saying a senior had threatened to shoot up the school the message by the guy said mothers were mourned siblings will cry fathers will remember i'm going to kill someone this week god help me then there was this video of him shooting in an ar-15 i was creeped the out i started calling my mom and dad crying and begging them not to take me to school tomorrow luckily they said they heard and me and my big sister didn't go to school even luckier the three kids were arrested for the plot of that threat and nothing happened that day i don't know what happened to the guy who said it but all i know is soon he'll get the help that he needs this is a continuation of a story i posted on entitled parents here's a quick summary on two previous occasions i had picked up a lady that was hitchhiking with her kids the lady was a con artist and not a very good one and had trained her kids to be a part of her con with scripted dialogue the story happened about two years ago after i had forced her to get on my car outside of a police station on the day in question i was driving alone i was nearing a traffic circle in my hometown when two young ladies jumped in front of my car forcing me to stop the two young ladies claimed that some guy was chasing them and they needed to get away from there i live in south africa a country known best for its crime this also happened around the time that my hometown has serial rapists going around targeting young women and i just happened to be in the same area that the last attack had occurred overall i didn't think twice about unlocking the car and letting them in the two girls looked around the same age with one being very slim and the other leaning more towards the larger variety the skinny one got in the front seat and the bigger one on the back the one in the front was called jen and the one in the back kira i asked them if i should drive them to the police station but they said no and asked me to drive them into town apparently their boyfriends would meet them there jen hasn't said a word since getting in i was driving in the town's direction when the following dialogue occurred between them like in my previous post all the dialogue has been translated from afrikaans jen friend i don't want to sleep on the street tonight kira i know but don't worry god will provide us a miracle jen but where will that miracle come from kira maybe he already sent it this would have sounded like an obvious ploy they'd ignore it and simply try to get the girls out of their car to me though this meant something more you see the moment that jen had spoken for the first time alarm bells started going off in my head i had heard this dialogue before not more or less the same dialogue the exact same dialogue it was then that i had recognized her she was the daughter of a female hitchhiker i picked up a few years prior and those were the same exact words that had been spoken between her and her mother i never mentioned the mother's name in my previous post but she had introduced herself as nastasha i continued driving but cut the conversation short so how's nastasha kira obviously taken back by my question who who who's testasha you know jen's mother nastasha jim was completely silent again kyra said no she's not jen's mother really that's interesting and you don't know her at all kira no i mean yes i mean we do know her but we don't know her jen started sobbing won't you please help us we're hungry and we can't afford food i looked at kiera and wanted to make a snarky remark but decided that was beneath me kira had now started up too and was also trying to fake cry jen was a much better actress some dialogue ensued with them asking for money and me refusing i don't remember the exact line exchange eventually i softened up and took them to mcdonald's drive through they both ordered the most expensive meals they could see on the menu and i paid in cash stupid mistake as we were waiting in the drive-through again this is south africa so this usually does take a while kira asked if she could borrow my phone and send a text to her boyfriend to say that they'll be there soon i sighed but handed her my phone the food eventually came and we continued driving i was getting pretty uncomfortable and wanted them to get out of my car then they started asking me for money again and more of the same dialogue ensued next thing i knew kira started to seductively massage my shoulders from behind her voice had softened and she was talking in a seductive tone i pulled the car to an abrupt stop and told her still polite but firmly please get your hands off me kiera didn't listen and started moving her hands down lower i repeated i said i was cut off by jenna saying listen to him kira he said no kira obliged and took her hands off me and gave me my phone back why do you still have it cure protested for a moment but then handed it back quickly i looked around for my wallet it was no longer where i had put it where's my wallet we don't have your wallet i put it right next to me it's no longer there where is it we didn't steal your wallet i'm gonna count to ten and then what you're gonna take it from us two young girls along the car with you after we're almost just assaulted who's gonna believe you over us i was silent for a few seconds considering my options strangely enough they were right the scales were not tipped in my favor here i told them to just get out of my car kira protested but jen quickly obliged and made cara follow i sped off as quickly as i could livid i got home still blazing and took a while to cool off later that evening curiosity got the better of me and i took out my cell phone going into my set items the following text is what she had said set item number one we have one we're bringing him to you now set item two almost there whatever the sender had replied she had been smart enough to delete it but obviously forgot about the scent items to this day i still wonder what would have happened if i driven them all the way to where they asked to be dropped off and i don't really know oh and i officially found my wallet under my car seat all the cash was gone of course this isn't scary per se but it's always creepy when someone that you've known forever and thought of like a mentor is revealed to be something much much different so i had this boss who i'll call mike and he had to come in to fill in for a few months while my regular boss was on maternity leave he was pretty amazing he inspired me to work harder and even ended up promoting me the two of us and a third employee that i'll call james we're always working shifts together it was fun just laughing and kicking ass because we all had a similar sense of humor and james and i were definitely the best employees there after mike's time to fill was over james and i were super bummed because he seriously was the best manager he was fair and rewarded hard work and truly cared about his employees satisfaction he just made everything fun even though we were working harder we both looked up to mike as a manager and a human being we have the most respect for him and vowed to keep in touch when we parted ways well fast forward a year or so james and i ended up dating we kept in touch with mike and he was so happy we ended up together because he thought we were both great people who deserved each other we saw mike a few more times and kept in touch over the years through social media when james proposed and we started playing our wedding we knew we wanted mike to be in it he was part of the trio before james and i even knew we would be together and the three of us had a bond we asked him to read something during our ceremony and he accepted expressing how honored he felt well when it got to the day of the wedding mike was nowhere to be seen we kept calling him as the ceremony was quickly approaching and finally james got a hold of him mike told him that he couldn't get out of work and wouldn't be able to make it we were both taken aback a little because the mic we knew and looked up to would never bail like this and never even let us know we figured that there had to be a reasonable explanation and were very disappointed but the wedding had to go on we had james niece do the reading even though mike's name was printed on the program well fast forward again a few more years we had only spoken to mike a handful of times since the wedding but he had also taken the time to write a beautiful lengthy recommendation letter in that time period there were no hard feelings about the wedding and james and i still shared the highest opinions of our friend then mike kind of disappeared off of social media and the next time we tried calling him his phone number had changed james and i exchanged sentiments of concern and hopefully he was doing okay but it didn't go much past that one day james got a random call from my number that wasn't on his contact list he answered it and it turned out to be mike so he put on a speakerphone so i could say hello too we had our brief pleasantries but then mike got into the reason for his call he wanted to know if he could stay with us for a day or two my reaction was of course but james shot me a sharp look so i added well let us discuss and we'll call you back before concluding the call james inquired about what was going on mike said that he was living with his father to take care of him because he was terminally ill but that he couldn't stay there another night because he checked the camera footage in their home and saw his dad on tape standing over him with a knife while he slept when the call ended james said he thought something was off i didn't get why he'd instantly be that suspicious i mean the story was insane at all but it was mike james said something like we haven't heard from him in forever and now he's calling us for a favor he lives two hours away and we're the ones he calls why wouldn't he just seek help from someone closer he has family in the area too i agreed that it was odd and it definitely conjured up a lot of questions including why were there even cameras inside the house but still i didn't like the idea of leaving mike hanging if he was truly out of options i told james we should call back and probe a little more when we called back james asked if it would be easier for someone closer to help him out and asked about family in the area mike gave a vague explanation on why everyone in his life turned against him then with the most mopey disappointed voice he said it was okay if we couldn't help him that he understood what was going on and wouldn't bother us anymore james and i both looked at each other and said we'll call him right back we quickly discussed that this was all very strange but that he would have to be pretty desperate to contact us for help we acknowledged that his little bit about understanding if we were unable to help was meant to manipulate us and we felt conflicted about everything but ultimately decided a few days couldn't hurt we called him back and told him that he could come and figured we'd give him the address and that would be that he then said he no longer had a vehicle and we need to be picked up we asked about him catching an uber and he said he had no money that he could access at that moment which we didn't pry him on it was getting a little late and it was a long drive to his location so we asked if there was anywhere he could stay for the night and we could make the trip in the morning he said he would just sleep on a park bench or something which again we knew was meant to manipulate us but we didn't cave on this one we asked where we should pick him up the following day and he gave us his dad's address immediately after we got off the phone we were like what the has been going on with mike that has ostracized him from his family and friends it cost him to lose his car he had been making four times our salary when we first met him he had a brand new car and now he didn't have enough money for an uber we went and picked him up the next day and i got out and ran up to him and gave him a hug he seemed oddly unresponsive to my affection so i just shrugged him off and showed him to the front passenger seat where i'd been sitting he was super tall so let him sit up there and i hopped in the back when we got to our house we showed him the guest room and he put his things down and immediately asked if we could take him to the grocery store jake said he was done driving for the day so i said i would take him but commented that i thought that he didn't have money on him he told me that he had food stamps which there was no way he would be qualified for with his old job so i knew something was up but i wasn't going to dig into the personal details of his finances so i logged into my mind and kept my mouth shut you might be thinking it just sounds like someone fell on hard times and that's basically mike's story as well but it was just very vague in important areas and full of story after story of people that were determined to destroy him for no known reason whatsoever one or two bad eggs is believable but no one is the innocent victim in every scenario he was telling us that he had no idea why his life has fallen apart and why those close to him seemed to turn on him out of nowhere or why so many people were out to get him without seeming to have any motivation two nights turned into a week and finally james asked what mike's plan was mike acted hurt and said that he'd be gone in the morning we told him that he didn't need to leave immediately but we would like to have some kind of idea of his plans for going forward that night in bed james and i discussed it and decided we would tell mike he could stay as long as he needed if he wanted to help around the house and keep his room relatively clean because it contains several antique items of james mother we were also going to ask him to help me with some entrepreneurial decisions as mike had claimed to be a totally self-made successful entrepreneur before this streak of bad luck series of fortunate events and had recently been laid off we presented our offer the next day and mike excitedly accepted we thought it was going to be a rewarding trade-off for both parties now this story isn't about my marriage and i'm not going to go too far into the wealth of problems james and i had but a little info will be necessary james was always highly critical of me and often talk down to me he seemed to have nothing but negative opinions i wasn't perfect but i wanted to be loved and worked my ass off for james approval i was continually trying to make him happy but no matter what i did i would fail in his eyes after a few weeks mike clearly started to see some cracks in our marriage despite the fact that james toned it down in mike's presence trying to be a good wife i acted like all was fine in front of mike and never mentioned any dissatisfaction in my marriage mike and i started to spend a lot of time alone in our entrepreneurial pursuits he was supposed to be teaching me the tricks of the trade within several avenues of making money but we kept coming out with little success he had excuses and explanations for why his wisdom didn't seem to be progressing us forward at all but he was someone i greatly looked up to as a professional and a friend and believed that it would all pay off soon like he said after living together for weeks enough talking among all of us have been done to start noticing weird contradictions to many of the things mike had told us but he always worded things in a way that left a slight amount of room for doubt if you were to question any of it there was never a way to straight up catch him in a lie mike also wasn't fulfilling his end of the deal at home they kept saying he'd take his turn to do the dishes and such but probably only did it once or twice and he completely trashed the guest room not only was he garbage everywhere but he left food and drinks and they would be lost in the sea of clothes and trash and we could smell things rotting there's a melted tub of ice sitting on his bedside table for weeks i didn't care as much as james did and suggested we remove his mom's things from the room but i did agree that it was disrespectful meanwhile things were getting more and more icy with james and i and one day when i was out with mike on a job i broke down in tears about how much i was hurting and about how james treated me mike offered words of comfort and reluctantly admitted that he picked up on how mean james could be and said he was very sorry and that i didn't deserve it mike haven't been possibly the only witness i have ever had to what i've been going through in my marriage this was amazingly validating mike agreed that it was incredibly unjustified but made me a promise not to tell james that i said anything because he didn't want to appear like he was taking sides the next day mike had once again volunteered to take turns doing the dishes so i didn't do them i hate doing dishes and happily left them from mike when he assured me that he would handle it well mike got a call informing him that his dad didn't have long to live so he wanted to see him james didn't seem at all interested in helping so i volunteered to take him this day for moral support and we headed out mike started telling me that his dad had dementia and mixed up weird things so he's advised not to take anything to heart he cited a few examples of things he previously said and they were more like accusations one of them being that mike had stolen all the money in his savings but really couldn't reconcile the vast difference between the mic i met eight years ago before and someone that would rob his dying father while visiting his dad i didn't say much and i didn't want to insert myself into a private family moment but i kept noticing things that were weird like his dad was fully conscious and talkative and he didn't seem like a dying man at all he even asked us to get him burger king in the middle of it all i kept trying to justify things in my head like who am i to say a dying man can't want a final meal at burger king a few hours later james called irate that i had left without doing the dishes that mike had promised to do he chewed me out and threatened a divorce which is always his go-to to try to whip me into shape and having recent affirmation from mike that i wasn't the only one that saw james emotional abuse i said fine divorce won't be thrown in my face anymore so divorce it is back in mike's dad's room his dad was yelling about the money and such and mike looked at me and awaited single of the metronida was talking i started to really question what happened with his dad and if he was really even dying but it wasn't something i could just really handle investigating at the moment giving that i just separated from my husband when we left the hospital mike's dad was still alive and eating candy bars i know where else to go so i went back home and slept upstairs on the couch i didn't speak to james for two whole days and then mike said that he had talked to his mom and i could stay there for a week i wondered why his mom wasn't the one helping him if they were in contact and on good terms but i just accepted the offer i couldn't take being in a house anymore mike said that he was going to go with me and stay there too which i thought looked really bad but he said he spoke with james and that he understood and was fine with it i spent the entire week crying and talking to mike about how i felt and he even woke up in the middle of the night with me and if i woke up and started spiraling downhill he made no advances on me or anything of the sort after the week i wanted to stay with my parents and mike went back to stay with james i eventually saw them both when i came over to get some things and in talking with james he was very much ready for mike to leave they barely seem to talk and didn't seem on good terms whatsoever one night i got the weirdest impulse to ask james if mike ever said anything about me that he made a promise not to tell me james hesitated for a second but said yes through a series of questions we inched through both of our experiences with mike he had been playing into our rapid declining marriage and using everything he observed against us he had been going out and teaching me things about money and he did the same thing he did as my boss those years before told me my strengths and complimented my ability to catch on to things quickly we didn't have much success but it was very obvious not on account of me however he was going back and feeding james terrible opinions of me claiming we weren't making any money because i was so dense and hard to teach mike would also comment on the very same thing he told me that were unacceptable that james did except he would tell james he doesn't know how he would live with someone like me and that he would go insane he was carefully and strategically forcing our marriage to fall apart by exacerbating our personal fears and insecurities and systematically violating and encouraging our resentment for one another he did this in such a way that neither of us doubted his sincerity for a moment until i finally got a weird feeling and decided to ask that night and even more then i didn't really anticipate finding out that he had been two-faced and manipulative to that extreme james kicked him out the night and neither of us had talked to him again as far as i know i haven't spoken to james in a year and a half i proceeded with the divorce despite because even though mike was an insincere piece of he caused me to get enough distance from james that i was able to see that i deserved much better last i heard about mike was from his mom who called to see why he had been asked abruptly to leave james house i told her what he had done and she didn't seem surprised i asked if she was aware of any mental problems he might have and she said she didn't want to betray her son by giving details but that he isn't right in the head i asked about several of the traumatic events that might claim to be a victim of and she said there's never been any evidence that any of that really happened i don't know why he actively initiated the final downfall of my marriage because i never felt it was an attempt to be with me i don't get what his motivations or gain would have been mike's mom text me a few days after he left james house to tell me that he had been admitted to a psychiatric facility it wouldn't be out for a long time but she wouldn't elaborate so former boss turn friend turn delusional sociopath let's not meet again you

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Published: Fri Jul 31 2020