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scary stories by the crackling fire this is a special edition exclusively showcasing my cousin and best friend we shouldn't be here I think you'll find that he has a similar narration style to me and I think you'll enjoy it very much if you enjoy his narration in this video please click the link at the top of the description to visit his channel he has many high quality narration videos and many videos that are specifically designed for you to fall asleep to now let's give a warm welcome to we shouldn't be here it was my junior year of high school and I was new most people were very friendly and honestly regardless of this negative experience I had I still think it was the best school I ever went to I ended up hanging out with the skateboarders most of them were decent enough guys we always had a great time listening to music and hitting up our local McDonald's after school one of my best friends Matt had a twin brother named will will for some reason didn't like me at all and was always rude to me I tried asking Matt one time why will hated me so much and he just said something along the lines of that's just how he is whatever it wasn't my problem and I never did anything to cause it so I let it go during the next school year I met a guy named Jesse Jesse was odd but he seemed harmless enough so I wasn't too worried in the beginning we rarely talked and were mostly just acquaintances until one day he came up to me in the hallway handed me a note and walked away I was confused but headed to my class before I got a chance to read the note when I got settled in at my desk I opened the note he was mostly nonsensical he said things like I want to watch you get into arguments with your mom you're really pretty I think we'd be good together and the strangest one I want to watch a play you know by herself it wasn't until the end that I felt the wave of chills through my body the last one said I want to watch you in your room from outside your window he ended the note with his signature and his phone number no way this had to be a joke no one would write something so weird and be serious I let it go and my friends reassured me that he was just kind of weird we'll made fun of me for it he found it hilarious Jessy began showing up around my locker it started out small with him just being there one period then it turned into every period every time I was there he popped up somewhere in the hall our lockers were on separate sides of the school we had no classes together and there was really no reason why he would be showing up all the time but he always made his presence known somehow sometimes I would feel somebody watching me and look around to see him somewhere in the hall sometimes just standing there staring at me I absolutely hate being stared at it makes me uncomfortable there's no particular reason it's just always bothered me I just tried to ignore him and assumed it was part of his weird crush that he had on me until he followed me home one day he didn't talk to me just watched me walk to my house which was down the street from school he stood across the street until I walked inside then he went back to the school to get home wherever that was I knew he never went that way and was thoroughly creeped out I never told anyone but I knew that he was aware of where my house was now was he going to show up would he watch me outside my window like he wanted to I never saw him near my house again but I was still freaked out a couple of weeks later I found a picture in my locker it was hand-drawn and signed with Jesse's signature the picture was creepy was an angry looking snowman full of stab wounds that bled into a pile around at the bottom of it I was really freaked out but again I let it go I wasn't sure what I could even do thinking back I should have told a teacher or the principal but I wasn't the type to make waves and assume that he was just playing some kind of weird and sick joke I showed my friends again and they said it was creepy they asked me if I wanted them to talk to Jesse for me but I declined again not wanting problems after all I was new at the school the will didn't make fun of me this time though he looked angry when he saw it but never said anything to me about it after a couple more weeks during study hall I asked my teacher if I could go to the hall to read since it was too distracting with other kids talking he let me go and I had it out will was sitting against the walkers also wanting to get away from the noise he looked up at me then back down to his book typical will ice had a few walkers down and got comfortable to start reading my book from down the hall I heard footsteps coming our way I didn't look up since it's a pretty high-traffic area because the bathrooms are close by the footsteps stopped right in front of me and I looked up to see Jesse looking down at me with a smile on his face and a folded up piece of paper in his hand he leans it down and gave it to me when I opened it I was immediately upset all over again it was another drawing this time a Care Bear with a butcher knife in one hand and his heart and the other had a huge bloody hole in his chest I looked up at Jesse and he just smiled down at me in the most sinister way I didn't know what to say but I didn't have to we'll saw the picture and how upset I was he stood up and walked over to Jesse grabbed him by the shirt and slammed him against the lockers leave her alone and don't ever talk to her again or I'll beat the life out of you will told Jesse I was completely dumbfounded will hated me he never said one nice thing to me Jesse was equally surprised by the reaction as he barely knew will he mumbled something and walked away but he never bothered me again but still occasionally showed up around me at my locker we never spoke after that though I didn't get any more interesting notes or pictures and he never followed me home again I was thankful to the rudest person I knew for standing up for me and Stephanie and when I felt that I couldn't I've grown into my own having no problem standing up for myself but I'm still thankful to will for what he did I never got to tell him but I think he knew I'm turning 22 at the end of the month and this event happened almost a decade ago yet I still remember it so clearly I still think on it often and bring it up to my family as uncomfortable as it makes us it reminds us on how dangerous the world really is as a little backstory growing up I'd always had extremely fair skin blond hair and white eyes the kind of thing that specific creeps unfortunately go for when I was just around the bend of becoming a teenager my older sister who's 8 years older than me was in the military and had been gone for quite some time now however she was finally coming back home to good old USA soil a few states away at a base in Kentucky my parents and I were excited and planned to leave for the weekend so we could finally go and see her for the first time in years it would only be a few days but we were happy regardless we ended up seeing her of course and had a few days to be able to go out to eat open her accumulated Christmas presents and go to a nearby mall in proximity to the hotel that we had been at I've never seen someone so happy to just wear normal civilian clothes right from the get-go our last night together felt odd as we walk to this mall just one of those creepy vibes you get from an unfamiliar area it wasn't too long until closing and at this time Frey malls closed at around 10 p.m. I'm sure you know what happens at malls you go in and you look at everything the four of us came across the last store we would be stopping at for the night before leaving we walked in and it's not particularly a store would go into expensive street wear clothing like the pesky 12 year old I was I go back and forth pestering my mom and dad walking around the store as my sister looks around as well suddenly my sister walks over to my mom as I'm near my dad and whispers something to her a man with a most defined black mustache I remember have been tailing us and doing the typical retail routine hi is there anything I can help you with can I help you find something but he's being too persistent and only asking my dad these things the man didn't speak broken English but his accent was incredibly thick perhaps Indian or Turkish we think my sister and mother walked out of the store and keep eyeing back at my dad the alright let's go now look now me being 12 feeling even worse vibes I don't understand what my mom and sister are wanting to leave so bad but I start to catch up to them regardless as my dad starts noticing us leaving he begins to walk out as well but the man stops him as I'm still in earshot I find out at this point that the man has been staring at me almost the whole time with my aloofness to the situation he looks away from me into my dad and asks so how much for the little one my dad visibly confused chuckles uncomfortably thinking it's some kind of weird tasteless bad joke my mother and sister don't hear this and are still waiting for my dad and myself to catch up several feet away what my dad says hoping for some kind of explanation the man proceeded to say that he wanted to purchase me visibly protective dad mode now and realizing the man is completely serious we don't do that here his rising tone was palpable he starts to hurry me away to my mom and my sister and we started leaving as he tells them just what happened the whole drive back to the hotel my sister just constantly getting more and more upset saying if she had known she would have killed him and honestly I'm not sure that there's really anything we could have done but regardless the entire situation was beyond uncomfortable especially now that I realized the implications of what was going on needless to say we never stepped foot in that store again this happened about 15 years ago at the time I was dating around and I had a few creepy encounters during that time but this guy takes the cake he was an acquaintance that my brother had met at a bar a few times and was showing around the local area because he was new to the country my brother set us up because he was apparently desperate for a girlfriend and I guess I was pretty desperate too because we went on a date together that date was probably the worst date I've ever had I showed up to the restaurant where we were meeting acting he was late which isn't a huge deal so I let it slip and we went to sit down to be honest I knew from the start I wasn't really attracted to him but I thought I would be polite and see if we had a nice night he started off polite too he held the door for me pulled my seat out it wasn't really necessary but it was nice anyway then when we were sitting down waiting for someone to come and take our orders that was reading the menu and he started talking about how much his fiancee would have liked this place that took me by surprise and naturally I asked him about his fiancee he revealed that he had a fiancee before moving over here but he had just left her to move to another country I asked why they had broken up and he said they never really broke up as such but he got fed up of her nagging him about various things so he moved away I really didn't know what to say after that so I changed the subject and started asking him more about himself and where he used to live it wasn't really very forthcoming eventually our waiter came and started talking to us to clarify for the next part our waiter was a man of color and he had an unusual accent for our area so my date stares blankly at him for a while then turns to me and says you understand this guy I said that yes I can understand him before telling him our orders after he left my lovely date to continue to shock me he said I wouldn't normally leave ordering to the lady but that brown guy really weird and I didn't get it Wow way to tell me that you're a racist and a sexist in one breath again I was speechless for a few moments before I got angry with him I don't remember exactly what I said it was something along the lines of well I'm not a lady so I can order for myself just fine thanks and why make racial remarks then he got annoyed with me and told me that he wasn't being racist he just wasn't used to that kind of person where he was from I pointed out that he wouldn't have met me if you just stuck to people he was used to in his own country he did calm down then and told me that he wouldn't want that because he's glad he met me honestly I found that a little weird given that I didn't see any way to say that this date wasn't going well and he didn't know me very well at all but I decided since we had ordered I should stay and get my meal and tried to redeem the evening before I we even never see this man again so I answered some of his questions about me basic getting to know me questions and small talk stuff for the most part then started on about my previous dates if I was a virgin whether I would be willing to wait until marriage and then be submissive to my husband or not it was at this point I realized that I was most likely on a date with a religious bigot hence the misogyny weird attitude to sexual stuff and all his other closed-minded bullcrap so I settled for a none of your business now I need to leave I checked the prices on the menu and left money from my half of the food plus a tip on the table and got up to leave he said he didn't see why I was being unreasonable with him as though this had been a normal date then told me that I couldn't expect him to take my money because that was an insult to him fine you want to pay for a meal that's not getting eaten you pay for it I'm not that mad about spending my money that'll stop you so I took my money back and walked straight out I just assumed that yes it was an awful evening but I wouldn't have to see him again at least I wasn't even back to my house when my brother started texting me asking where I was because my date had called him in tears saying I had gone off for no reason and he didn't know where I was or what to do thankfully my brother was pretty calm about it and assumed that I had left for a reason I explained everything to him and he was pretty surprised too after that night we both tried to cut contact my brother stopped him meeting up with the guy and we both walked the Facebook account we had for him to my brother also blocked his number because he would not stop texting and asking about me alternating between being really worried about me to saying he hoped that drop dead then he started making endless different accounts on social media to harass us he told my brother he didn't know why we weren't talking to him he posted a bunch of weird posts describing me in detail before going on to call me a lot of horrible names we kept blocking them and moving on then the harassment got worse he either found me and followed me at some point or got my address from a friend and turned up one day standing around outside my house asking him to come in and speak to me when I refused to let him in he grabbed my arm to prevent me from going in either and started to tell me that he didn't want me to go in because I would never find a man who loved me like he did and that if I walked away from him again I would regret it one day when I was old and lonely he went on and on like this for ages and - ages while I tried to pull my arm away from him before I got fed up with this and yelled at him to get off of me and leave me alone and then I kicked him in the shin he let go of my arm but cursed at me and said I was being ungrateful to him but I took my opportunity to run inside and lock my door he started banging on my door then trying to push it inwards I was getting both upset by this man and just super fed up with his presence in my life so I grabbed my phone and called the police telling them that someone was trying to get into my house I was told someone would be there with me soon but twenty to thirty minutes later there was no sign of them anywhere and I was getting quite upset because this man was forcing my door and I thought the lock was going to break soon so I called my brother who lives nearby just because I knew he would come even though I wasn't sure he'd be much help about 15 minutes later my brother turns up and after a brief conversation I didn't quite hear outside the pressure was gone off the door I waited a few minutes and then texted my brother to see what was going on and if it would be all right to look outside now he didn't reply and the next thing I heard was the police turning up I went out to see what was going on apparently after my initial call they had received another call from a neighbor saying that there were two men fighting on my lawn I guess this was my brother and the guy says my brother looked out of breath and pretty shook up and the guy wasn't around anymore my brother explained to the police that he had tried to stop the man from getting into my house and then the man had hit him I told my side of the story and some of my other neighbors were asked what they had seen and were able to tell them about his attempts to get in plus there were marks on the outside of my door where he had been trying to repeatedly get in the police went to look for him and a few weeks after I called and told them and they told me if they thought they had found him but when they wanted me to look at the suspect person it wasn't the same man I didn't hear anything else and I don't know whatever happened to him I didn't see him again so I'm probably safe after 15 years but regardless I don't ever want to see him again this story happened to me when I was in the fifth grade so about 15 years ago when I was about 9 or 10 as a disclaimer I'm not good at confrontations and some pretty stupid decisions were made it was Christmas Eve we were getting ready to go across the street to my grandmother's house for dinner and presents my mom was in charge of the dessert which only mean it to be drizzled with some sort of sweet sauce from a can we didn't have this last ingredient so my mom asked me to go to the store to get one this was in Mexico where people can quite literally open up little miscellaneous stores in their homes slop a name on it and you had an establishment so I walked to the store which was located on the same spot where my house was but on the street behind it there was a tree in my backyard from where I could see the two-story house that doubled as the store so to get there I had to walk to the corner turn left go to the next corner and turn left again on the street perpendicular to both my Street in the stores there was a house with a lot of vegetation on its front lawn we used to call it the jungle it had a tall concrete fence and a wooden door so you couldn't actually see the house only the outside and a bunch of greenery in the yard on my way back home I was daydreaming and I didn't notice this drunk homeless-looking oldest man in his 50s standing by the wooden door that leads to the jungle I looked up about three meters before I would have quite literally run into him and I sort of II yelled a little because he scared me he was looking at me and smiling slightly Swain he says hi hello how are you doing I won't get it nice to meet you then he puts his hand out for a handshake and I actually shake his hand after this creep shakes my hand I try to pull it back but he wouldn't let it go but now he's pretty close to me asking me if I wanted to come with him I'm freaking out so I don't really remember exactly what he said I was trying to look for an excuse to get home and I told him I did not want to go with him but my dad would get mad and go look for me if I didn't go home immediately he agreed he told me to ask my dad for permission to go with him and let me go my speed walked back home scared that he would change his mind and follow me when I got home I left the can of whatever sauce I bought on the table and headed straight to my room my mom asked me what was wrong because I was pretty shaken up but I was scared of telling her and I just went to my room my dad then walked in I suppose because my mom asked in the - to find out what happened and I told him everything my mom was by the door so she heard it all and I swear I'd never seen my mom so furious she went to the kitchen and grabbed a knife and put it in the front pocket of the sweater she was wearing she told me to walk to the exact spot where it happened and that they were going to walk behind me out of sight I guess to catch the guy I remember being really scared walking by myself again but knowing my parents were behind me made it a little better but the guy wasn't there we walked around to try and find out where he had gone but we were never able to find him and we want back home honestly I don't know what my parents would have done if we had found him anyway apparently the description I gave my parents matched a pretty well-known adings that lived by and run the neighborhood years later I heard that he had died of an overdose which made me less paranoid when leaving my house at least until we moved so creepy addict homeless creepy dude I think the universe that we'll never meet again when I was about 13 or 14 this new guy called Jack came to my school now I had a fairly large body of students and it was situated in a heavily populated neighborhood so no one really made a big deal out of new people but he was quite shy and looked out of place so I thought it would be nice if I introduced myself to him just to show him around and make him less uncomfortable oh boy it was I in for a ride Jack was very tall and had a rather large frame for his age at first he didn't come off as creepy just a little bit on the awkward side but then again that's not really out of the ordinary for hormone ridden preteens so no flags were raised I don't really remember what we used to talk about at first but he would always be around to make sure to say hi to me and specifically me as in he would say my name even if I was with a group of friends he had talked to before looking back I'm pretty sure he might have liked me but I was never really into guys so I didn't notice it at all things started to get weird when our our teacher gave us an assignment to decorate the covers of our sketch pads was something that we really liked and or were passionate about mine was probably some crappy band I listened to at the time his was a picture of an open-heart surgery not an illustration not a fictional heart surgery an actual literal picture of a human heart in all of its gory fashion the teacher much like everyone else was very put off by it and probably had a private conversation with him but as far as I remember he was still allowed to keep it at a sketchpad even if it was a little bit on the graphic side later I approached him and asked why that picture exactly and he told me that he was really into cardiology and had been to watch surgery videos on the internet and wanted to study it in college that's still pretty weird that he would choose such an explicit image but I guess that least it makes a little bit of sense right wrong in the subsequent weeks he would go on and on about how he's working a part-time internship at a hospital downtown because his grandma works there apparently she was a nurse and pulled some strings to get him into the medical world since he liked it so much even went as far as to wear scrubs to school one day obviously it wasn't true no one in the right mind would let a thirteen-year-old work at a hospital that just wouldn't happen he seemed to believe it though where at least he believed that he wanted me to believe it I really don't know what was going on in his mind at some point he asked me if I wanted to see some tools that they used at the hospital to which I said sure why not because eh I didn't think he was being serious and B I was starting to get scared that if I didn't play along things wouldn't go so well for me and to my absolute surprise he did bring a bunch of medical tools to school scalpels scissors the kid had an entire dissection kit in his bag I'm not sure if he brought them or stole them from his grandma I'm leaning more towards the latter but it's needless to say that I was and this is no overstatement freaked out I still don't know why he thought bringing them to school of all places would be a good idea but then again we never hung out outside of class which in retrospect was probably for the best so he must have thought that this was his only chance to WoW me with his extensive knowledge of all things surgery I of course after pretending that everything was fine and that what he did was totally normal reported it to the principal and they called his grandmother who was just as shocked as everyone else to find out that her grandson had did this I don't know what went down but as far as I remember he got off without consequences and also this happened to nearing the end of the school year and after that I moved to a different place for unrelated reasons so I didn't really think about checking thankfully he didn't try to hurt me or anyone else and I think he just genuinely thought it was acceptable to bring a bunch of potential weapons to school but I can't help but wonder what could have happened if I gone on his bad side or didn't pretend to go along with this fantasy world he was a notoriously volatile and I guess I was just lucky he liked me I'm pretty sure he was mentally ill I know that he was at least depressed because so was I and we briefly talked about it back then but now I think that he was clearly delusional this was almost a decade ago so people avoided talking about mental illness like the plague and the school probably didn't investigate it any further or pointed his family in a good direction which to be quite frank really sucks so yeah creepy kid from middle school I genuinely hope you're doing better but I'll never forget our interactions and not in a good way so this happened around four or five years ago when I was in high school as a freshman when I was 14 a little context when I started high school I was very shy and introverted but somehow I ended up becoming really close friends with the prettiest and most popular girls at school so these three girls were all used to being the center of attention and it didn't bother them it was about the end of December and our exams for the semester were finally over that day to celebrate us four decided to go to the nearby mall and see a movie it was the first time we had all gone out together instead of hanging out at school so we were very excited even I ended up dressing up and putting on makeup we get our tickets we're laughing we're having fun when one of the girls suggests that we go and get snacks from the market inside the mall because it's much cheaper than the ones that are at the movie theater makes sense so we went three or four floors down to buy some gummi bears and whatnot now the thing is I have anxiety and a very strong instinct but when you have both people usually don't tend to believe you and say it's the result of your anxiety when we enter the big market I immediately felt that something was wrong I ignored it for I didn't want to ruin our first proper night out the girls headed towards the drinks first and that's when I noticed them in the drink aisle there were these two guys looking at us while talking and laughing all while doing that and the time it took for me and my friends to pick up the drinks they never once broke their stare nudging and whispering to each other one of them was well over six feet and seemed pretty strong the other was blonde he was shorter but he was still taller than the three of us I was uncomfortable with their stares but I just figured it's a man being disgusting perverts and I urged my friends to move on when we moved to the next aisle I saw them again not a minute after us they stood at one end while we were out the other still looking straight at us they're whispering now seemingly more heated I grew really anxious at that and quietly pulled one of the girls aside and told her that I thought these dudes were following us my friend says were four pretty girls it's a normal for guys to look at us you're just being paranoid she flipped her blonde hair while saying that leaving me behind and moving to the next aisle I had no intention of being left alone with those guys so I followed after them very quickly we went to aisles over and each time they followed us whatever I tried to see what they were doing discreetly their gazes would be upon us the smaller blonds had one of the creepiest grins on his face but didn't quite reach his eyes the tall one was smiling but I can't forget the fact that he kept looking his lips I was growing more and more anxious at this point but the final straw was when we moved to the register to pay for our things they came to the register right across from us when I looked up the blonde one winked at me still with that smug grin plastered on his face the friend that I talked to a little earlier saw it as well I think you're right they are following us she whispered into my ear and we told the other girls this as well it was about 9:00 p.m. at this point and our movie would start in half an hour so the floor we were on was getting less crowded with each minute there was a cosmetic shop right across from the register that we were at we decided to go there because a there was the closest place and be guys when he go into the small cosmetics shop we bagged our items paid and - into the store before the guys could move hoping that they would leave us alone now we waited and pretended to look at some nail polishes instead of leaving like we thought they would they started pacing in front of the store waiting for us to come out we thought about getting the store manager to call them all security but we knew that the security here sucked so he didn't call them the four of us stayed there waiting to see if they would leave what they didn't they just kept pacing left and right looking at us the way the mole is designed when you get out of the shop where you are you can either go left or right if you went left you'd walk into a long hall take another left and there would be the escalator if you took a right though there were only bathrooms at the end of a hall and it was pretty empty indoors those guys got us there I knew that that would be it so we decided to make a run for it when the men passed the store for what felt like the millionth time we took off running towards the escalators I dared to look back and saw the two guys behind not running like we were but following us fastly had it not been for the fact that we had to run up the four stairs and lose these guys as fast as we could I would start sobbing right then and there after that I didn't dare look behind me and we just kept running until he got to the doors of the movie theater and threw ourselves in there was a security guard there so he told them everything we gave descriptions in case they figured where we went and waited they didn't come after us though maybe we lost them maybe they decided that the trouble wasn't worth it as the sense of safety kicked in and the adrenaline left I had such a panic attack I don't even remember the movie that I was excited to see when the movie was over we peaked our heads out but fortunately the guys were gone we went home they never had to deal with them again I'm pretty sure I'm being stopped and I have been for the last two years this story starts around the fall of 2017 I was walking back to work from lunch when I passed this girl and noticed that she got up and started walking behind me she took a different route and didn't follow me a few days later it happened again but this time she was following me I assumed she wasn't following me at the time because where my office building is situated you have to go up a set of stairs and pass a few other buildings and she did not follow me to my building after a while I noticed we took the same train home a lot of the time she would be watching me when we made eye contact she would look away then she would continue looking when she thought that I wasn't there's a wholefoods across from my office I went there for lunch a couple times during the week I started seeing the girls sitting in the window for lunch and she would almost always get up as soon as I left and walked the same way I did around this time I began seeing her more frequently during lunch time or when I go to the Metro she was almost always there after a couple of months of this I started noticing that she would get off the same station as me sometimes sometimes she would walk the same way as me once I got to my condo where I lived with my brother she would always pass but never follow me up to the entrance during this time I started receiving phone calls at work from random phone numbers that at the time I assumed it was spam there were two either to be silenced on the end or the person would hang out the immediately I also started receiving fake Facebook requests from people I already knew or were already on my friends list December of 2017 comes and by this time I'm not going to Whole Foods as often if she gets off the same station as me I go into a restaurant or go shopping for groceries before I go home around this time an old friend that I went to high school with contacts me out of the blue she started following me on Instagram we text a couple of times and I accept for follow request she contacts me again about a month later from a different number but this time she's texting me frequently I'm talking about every to every other day I'm not one to mcmean or show when I'm annoyed too often but after months of this which he asks me if she's texting me too frequently I do not hesitate to tell her that she could lay off of it she stops for a week or so but then starts texting frequently again this whole ordeal should have sent red flags up for several reasons during this time she would ask me so many random questions like how you would if you were trying to get to know somebody she would ask for selfies which I declined because I don't like taking pictures of myself and that would tell her that there are plenty of pictures of me on Facebook she would ask what I'm doing on the weekends and the names of my friends on occasion which I wouldn't tell her that I thought it was weird that she'd want to know my friends names I always sent her a couple of videos of fun things I'd do but that's it August 2018 rolls around I'm still seeing creepy girl everywhere during the week I get pulled into my boss's office he says that a few co-workers received fake screenshots from Facebook of me talking badly about them now I never post on Facebook I would never talk crap about my co-workers on social media I don't have a grudge with anyone nor do I know of anyone who has a problem with me I'm fairly easygoing I managed to clear things up with everyone involved and I still have my job of course my friend is still texting me fairly frequently and I tell her what had happened a couple of days later when I got home from work I tell her I don't want to get too much into it but she keeps pushing me for details I finally told her I was going to bed and she got the message the more I thought about all the times she would text me the more uneasy I got some things that she said just didn't make sense especially from the way I remember her we had kept in touch over the years but just not as frequently and we had to touch base for a while before I heard from her back in December a couple of weeks later I decided to reach out to my friend on Instagram at the Instagram she last messaged me through wasn't there however there still was the Instagram for her that I followed and that followed me back I reached out to her and asked her what her phone number was the phone number is completely different and it turns out that she was never the one texting me nor did she follow me on Instagram I tracked the number and it turns out to be from one of those fake phone number accounts I requested to be blocked from the service and I never hear from my friend again after talking about it with my brother and a couple of friends I'm almost 100% certain it was the girl that was following me these things only started after she appeared the phone calls to my office the fake Facebook requests a few days before I was pulled aside by my boss my friend texted me and told me she had a weird feeling about me I wanted to make sure that I was okay I just thought she was being weird at the time and didn't think too much of it this whole ordeal was really scary when I look back on it because I sent videos of myself and my address at one point my friend even confirmed a post my brother made with pictures he tagged of me on Facebook I was texting the stranger for eight months about my life and they also apparently have access to my Facebook page I still see this girl since she obviously works in the same area as me she doesn't follow me around as much but when she does see me on the Metro she always watches me or sits somewhere that she will be able to make eye contact with me I'm always careful now if anyone Texa me from a unrecognisable phone number and I am just paranoid I know this story might seem a little bit all over the place especially what the conclusion I came to of the girl posing as my friend but I had to get this off my chest because that girl still freaks me out to this day so this was perhaps the strangest day I'd ever experienced it is honestly so surreal and bizarre that I really don't know how else to talk about it I was 12 at the time which was six years ago and was going school supply shopping with a friend before the start of eighth grade I had to take the subway to her house and my parents didn't actually let me take the subway since it was quite a bit more dangerous than it is now though I insisted on it and my parents finally let me go I was always really aware on the subway and this was all before the me2 movement and at 12 13 I had already been preyed on by various sexual predators on the subway ie men grabbing my thighs lifting up my skirts I thought I could handle them although they did scare me a lot so I had to transfer to this above ground station and as I was standing there minding my own business I noticed a man down the station who was harassing women and perhaps the most unusual way I've ever seen he was wearing Valentine's boxers a wife beater that was stained yellow with sweat and a massive styrofoam cowboy hat he had a massive handlebar mustache it kind of looked like Eggman from Sonic he had a giant pillow shaped like a salmon with a salmon design printed on it he had this all held up with guitar straps he was chasing women down the platform by spitting on them or clicking at them as a cowboy would do to a horse I froze up and was absolutely terrified though also in a bit of all who was this guy my train came and I realized that I had to walk past him to get on to it I walked slowly and tried my best not to make eye contact with him though the clicking began and I found myself running as fast as I could until I jumped onto the train I found a seat but realized that he had gotten on as well fortunately the train was very crowded and he got a bit distracted clicking that not underage woman I don't remember exactly what happened as I think I was in a bit of shock but some kind of fight broke out after some guy stole his styrofoam cowboy hat and started tearing it apart I got off the next stop and just decided to walk I arrived at my friend's house and we hung out for a while I told her about mr. salmon as I like to call him we watched Green Day videos normal 12 13 year old stuff we both got off the money from our parents and buy some other random stuff like ice cream and makeup before we head out to the nearest staples the nearest staples was in a Jewish neighborhood and they certainly do not like outsiders we were getting all sorts of looks in the store as we were the only non hazarded kids there we were both wearing t-shirts and shorts and that did not all seem pleased by that we got our stuff all those grossly overcharged by the hazarded cashier who was giving us evil glares and then decided to go to some kind of bakery since we were hungry we walked into this bakery and asked for two muffins immediately they asked us if we were Jewish I'm literally just one-eighth Jewish but my friend was Jewish and was prepping for her Bar Mitzvah so she said yes quietly and I said no since I'm literally not I'm blonde blue-eyed and gangly at the time after about 10 minutes they handed her her muffin we had to wait 45 minutes before they gave me my muffin which immediately smelled kind of weird before I could bite into it it has the dick grown-man sat down at our table and told us that unless we were Jewish we shouldn't be here and what my friend said she was Jewish he told her how she was sinning by looking like that he finally left and I took a bite of my muffin only to find out that it had been filled with meat we left shortly after that Wow some preface before the story I work in a shoe store in a small town the kind of town where everybody knows everybody 28 but apparently I was 19 only for ladies work here with myself included the youngest being 17 then myself the managers are late 40s early 50s this happened on three separate occasions within about a week and a half also this guy was not at all looking around the store for shoes that for sure is clear by the end the first encounter was Tuesday around 3 o'clock it's pouring rain outside and I'm the only one on the floor this guy comes in so I comment about the weather and see if he's on the search for anything he replies with no I'm just waiting to get into the car so I'll have a look around ok great so I'm checking some shoes and tidying you know I'm facing this guy because he's the only customer in the store and I'd rather not have anybody steal so I glanced up and this guy has this eyes locked down on me I get a weird vibe and I think to myself no I'm not gonna do this I got into the back and grabbed the assistant manager I tell her this guy is giving me weird vibes and can you come out and be around me she agrees and then asks him how he's doing but the guy does not want to talk to her minimal response and no eye contact he's in the store just about 40 minutes waiting he eventually leaves when he realizes she's not going anywhere the second encounter now was on a Friday around 5 p.m. I'm literally telling my coworker the 17 year old the story about the creepy guy we are at the front of the store so we can greet everybody coming in I see this guy walk by and go up the street so I tell her that that's the guy we carry on chatting and he's now headed back to his car he steps off the sidewalk and off the curb stops dead in his tracks turns around comes back to the store he walks through the door and I do the usual pleasantries but I'm not going out of my way for a conversation so I manager is here at this point so I let her know that he's the guy that I had a really weird vibe with she keeps an eye on him goes and tries to have a conversation but again he is not having it he will not talk to anyone older than me which is really weird in this town so we just decide to ignore him and try on the new stock while he browses he's in the back room and has positioned himself facing the mirror on the back wall nothing weird about that yet so I glanced back and he's literally locked his eyes on me in the mirror wherever I go he watches my manager takes notice and puts herself between him and I so at this point we've all talked to him he's only interested in me though my manager tried to deter him and his creepy escapades she says oh is your husband picking you up at 6:00 so I of course quickly responded with yes but it doesn't affect the guy she says oh there must be something going on in town there's been about three cops drive by but again there's nothing no response from this man so she says there's some stuff in the back room that I need you to do and she walked me back and tells me what to do thirty seconds after I'm in the back this guy leaves so fast but that's not until he's talked to the seventeen-year-old and says to her there's some shoes that I need in the back I think would fit but I want to be discreet about it keep an open mind that this man has never once even tried to attempt to try a shoe on he literally stood stationary the entire time he was there and the third encounter is Monday at 5:30 so it's myself in the assistant manager again I'm working in so close which is 6 p.m. she's done at 5:30 saw him alone for half an hour we were headed back up to the front so I can start closing duties and she can clock out and guess who walks into the store creepy guy so he's back again and I'm visibly uncomfortable he goes straight to the work boot section the assistant manager refuses to leave now she's not leaving me alone everyone in the store has had a bad vibe with this guy at the point so even she's uncomfortable she grabs her cell phone and calls up her son is the only readily available male we have so we are parallel with the creeper at this point she says can you come to the store right now in a fairly quiet tone but the guy heard it for sure by the time we finish walking up to the tills this guy frantically leaves he says in a hurry oh I didn't see anything today and he leaves a couple of seconds after he leaves her son comes up he comes in and grabs the guy's plate number but also videos this guy leaving to get the best plate the creepy got killed out of the parking lot and he never returned again a few days ago I'm walking downtown in the mid afternoon when I become aware of a presence walking behind me it's a busy city and a crowded street so I don't think much of it but this man stands right behind me for a few blocks I can hear his breathing behind me becoming ragged and coarse he's breathing heavily and it gets heavier as he follows me I don't want to turn around or make eye contact but I can sense him following me then I hear him say it honey if you slow down I'll never catch up to you I get terrified I feel my blood run cold and I whip around to confront him he's big at least a foot taller than me and I can see on his chest one of those sticky paper ID tags it's from a mental hospital a mental patient has been following me for blogs and now was trying to get me to slow down I turn away and immediately cross the street not looking back but he appeared to stop following me at that point I'm just still terrified by the incident that's how this story would be told if I were the woman but I'm not I'm the guy and this is the story about how I accidentally became somebody else's let's not meet story I have been out of the office for over a week due to a nasty bronchitis virus that utterly wiped me out and my girlfriend my poor loving girlfriend who nursed me back to health has now been stuck at home sick and this was my first day back at work I feel bad for her I decide to try and do something nice for her she's an avid player of an Elder Scrolls online and you see which just released a new expansion and that expansion allowed for a new class and she had put off getting the expansion in order to focus on picking up the slack for my illness so I decide I'm gonna go get it for her I decide on my lunch break to go to the nearest gamestop and get her the digital code saw my lunch I head out now here's the thing the local gamestop and to my office are on opposite sides of a very large hill remember also I've been sick all week with bronchitis now I get to the games stop by the digital code and text her a picture of it along with the message very jokingly told her that she needs to wait til I get home to play it because I'll never catch up otherwise then I start heading back to the office and I start walking back up the hill and this is where the heat and the humidity and the fact that I'm walking uphill after once again having bronchitis starts to take its toll and I begin to I'm quite sure very audibly breathe heavily I also just so happened to be walking the exact same path of a woman who has ended up walking right in front of me and I've now been walking behind for a couple of blocks two important things about me first I'm a tech nerd so I have the SmartWatch the bluetooth earbud the whole nine yards second I'm a big guy in the six foot to 240 pounds college athlete who still works out a lot and could probably beat you up sort of way I'm a scary-looking guy I'm a gosh-dang teddy bear who posted pictures of his cat on reddit and what had hurt a soul but I'm fully aware that in the wrong context let's say you were a five foot woman and do you think I'm following you could be freaking terrifying so what's the tech nerd relevance here SmartWatch bluetooth my girlfriend calls me and I tap on my watch to pick up the call without taking the phone out of my pocket which syncs directly to my Bluetooth earbuds my girlfriend here's that audible chime on her end and knowing I've picked up launches into how she couldn't wait and is already playing without me and that's when I quite jokingly as I'm glad she's feeling up to it tell her honey if you don't slow down I'll never catch up and the woman ahead of me freaks out and whips around and I immediately realize oh my god she thinks I'm talking to her because I'm not holding a phone and I've been following her for the last two blocks audibly wheezing and then I realized something else remember how I said that it was my first day back to work I still wasn't 100% and I had left my work ID at home and I work in a very secured government building the kind of building that doesn't just let you into it even if all the security guards know your face because you've been there for ten years now no ID you still got to go get an ear cavity search level screen in and wait for your HR to verify that yes you still work there and no you're not a disgruntled ex-employee looking to steal confidential files but once you've got your morning colonoscopy they do give you one of those odd visitor badges so you can come and go in the building throughout the day without having to have your pride and personal boundaries violated every time and this little sticky badge that I still have stuck to my chest there's the name of the government agency which I work for what agency is that the Department of Mental Health because I despite looking like someone who may have some point in his life had a nickname like mousse which has on occasion I think led some to initially get the impression that I might be a tad slow on the uptake am legally the regional legal director and deputy chief counsel for the state office and helped Human Services her eyes move to the badge she stays motionless for a moment then turns and quickly hustles down a side street it was at that moment I say to my girlfriend I think some lady just thought I was trying to kidnap so here's tu downtown lady who I'm pretty sure thought I was some heavy breathing pervert mental patient instead of a government bureaucrat who was just trying to do something nice for his girlfriend on his lunch break while vastly overestimated his own physical well-being let's not meet again because I'm afraid your heart won't take it also I'm sorry this happened about a year ago I was on Grindr looking for either fun dates or new relationships for those of you who are unfamiliar with Grindr it's a social media app that is designed primarily for gay men and many people use it to hook up with other men one day I was scrolling and I received a new message from a guy who will call Brian I took a look at some of his profile pictures read his bio and decided that I was interested in him we started messaging back and forth and he seemed to be a really kind charismatic guy who really knew how to hold up a conversation something that is very hard to come by on the app a few days went by and we eventually exchanged numbers he seemed a nice enough and I wanted to see if he was this great in person as he was over text message so I asked him if he wanted to go on a date with me he very happily agreed so I scheduled a date with him the plan was that I was going to drive to his place pick him up and we would grab some lattes at my favorite local coffee shop it was around 6 p.m. and I sent him a text message to tell him that I was leaving my house to which he responded with a quaint I can't wait to meet you I smiled at his supposed kindness then in the middle of driving to his house I received a phone call from him so I picked up and the conversation went mostly as follows I said hey Brian what's up Brian said hey quick change of plans I'm feeling tired and I would rather not go out would you be okay with staying at my place we can watch some shows and order some takeout I said I mean that's not really what I had in mind I'd like to go out and do things on the first date Brian said oh don't be such a buzzkill just come over I won't show you a bad time as he spoke on the phone I got a really strange feeling in my gut like something was wrong about how he talked to me before I met him I imagined his voice and inflections to sound a lot more light-hearted because the way we texted was very whimsical and fun but over the phone he talked as if he was in a hurry perhaps slightly frantic however despite my gut feeling I decided that I would accept his offer maybe he was just tired or stressed from the work day I pulled into his driveway and he greeted me at the door it looked like his picture and he was very handsome he was wearing fashionable glasses and his dark hair straight hair contrasted with his light skin when we go inside I was greeted by one of his roommates who was playing Dark Souls and all of their own I wanted to be polite so I approached the roommate and introduced myself I didn't want to come off as rude to Brian in case this date ended up going really well while I'm talking with his roommate Brian calls my name and beckons me to walk inside his bedroom I politely excused myself and followed Brian into his room when I walk inside I saw something straight out of a horror movie only this was real and right in front of me there were candles lit all around and when I got a closer look I noticed that there were several altars scattered across the room ancient-looking figures animal bones jars with unidentifiable liquids inside some sort of dagger next to a cat's skull the whole shebang I don't remember all the altars but I do remember a couple one of them was on the floor and there was a glass container that held some kind of yellow liquid with animal skulls surrounding the container another altar was on a shelf next was bed and this one had a few candles surrounding some kind of doll with his eyes sewn shut and its hands missing now that one was creepy and bizarre a part of me was telling me to nope the F out of there immediately but I thought that maybe I was overreacting to someone's religious choices I didn't know much about cult religions so I didn't want to assume that this guy had any kind of male intent plus I can be a little reactive at times so I decided to stay and go along with the ride when we walked into his room I wanted to calm my nerves and because I have a really curious mind I decided to ask about what these altars were for he told me that he would tell me about them later a weird response but again I brushed it off my shoulders thinking that he might just be a bit eccentric I can be a little weird too so I try to be empathetic and understanding then I point to one of the altars and ask about it he frowns at me in scowls don't touch that his voice startled me his intense inflections paired with his angry expressions than to lump straight to my throat and I felt threatened I was almost four feet away from the altar not even close to touching it and yet he just yelled at me like a father yelling at his kid to stop messing around at church I was confused and thinking I had done something wrong I apologized in the blink of an eye his scowl turned into a smile and he kindly invited me to sit with him to watch a show what really weirded me out was the fact that his smile looked and felt genuine he had just gone angry but all of a sudden he didn't care and serve me up a really kind disposition I was unsure of how to process what it just happened so I just decided to sit down with him he seemed to be acting pretty normal once this ordeal had happened we started to talk about ourselves after some time he became really sweet and soft-spoken similar to how he was over the text messages and we were able to share some stories about our lives it was starting to feel like an actual first date and my nerves subsided a little bit I was probably just overthinking everything else he then turns on his TV now mind you I was still a little bit freaked out by his random outburst so I was on guard so I offered to invite his roommate to come and hang out with us Brian's roommate seemed like an old average Joe when I met him and I just wanted someone else to be there to act as a buffer I wanted to see how he would act around other people but when I gave him my idea he immediately shut me down and his personality switched from easygoing to stressed and angry he started cussing out his roommate to me making it clear that he absolutely hated him the switch was so jarring I started to panic again then he changed the subject and started to talk about me he said that he found me really attractive and in the process his fingers started to graze my thighs I needed a second to collect myself though so I excused myself to get some water when I stood up he immediately slapped my butt and told me not to take too long I walked out and close to the door behind me it started to make my way for the kitchen I was hoping to chat with his roommate on the way and see if I could ask him some more about Brian but he was asleep on the living-room couch so I just made a beeline to the cabinets in search for a cup I thought about walking out and driving home because I didn't appreciate his sudden touchiness but I started getting paranoid he had all of those alters and he didn't tell me what they were for I've seen some horror films about the occult and that truly had no idea what this guy was capable of yeah he was sweet at times but he was showing me some really aggressive behavior who's to say that this guy isn't able to put some kind of voodoo curse on me yeah it's dramatic I know well you can never be too sure so I grab my water and cautiously head back to his room when I walk back inside I saw him sitting on the couch with his legs criss-crossed and his eyes closed when I approached him I saw his mouth moving but I didn't hear anything coming from it I got weirded out by this so I called his name but he didn't respond scream I called his name a second time and he opened his eyes uncross his legs and went back to watching the TV without at all addressing why he was doing what was he doing I was getting really worried but I did what I could do to keep my cool I didn't want to do anything to upset him or make him lose his cool i sat next to him on the couch and we started talking once again he was completely normal unnerving me normal it's like I was in the room with the real-life dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde except Bryan was able to switch between them seamlessly I needed to do something but what was I supposed to do I couldn't call him out because he might lash out at me in some malicious way but I also didn't want to stay because he was freaking me out but I stay anyways and I try to devise some plan to get out of there without making him angry at some point he gets up to grab his phone and I thought that I would try dishing out some of the same medicine that he gave me so I grabbed his butt maybe it would release the tension that I was feeling maybe he would like it and make him less aggressive regardless I wanted to try something made my move and give him a cheeky but grab immediately he turned around and swatted my hand away and lunged at me he had his hands crawled up in a fist and he flung it towards my face his fist was inches away from making a connection with my right cheek but he stopped a mid punch in that moment I saw that his eyes were wide open and his facial expression was cold and emotionless he was right in my face my heart was beating so fast that it felt like I was seconds away from an aneurysm he was looking directly at me and my eyes stared back at this moment I felt like the prey to his predator then he unrolled his fist put his icy hands on both sides of my face and started to squeeze you're just so cute he pulled me in and forced to kiss I absolutely did not want to kiss him but I was paralyzed he couldn't will myself to push him away his words are patronizing sort of like he was talking to a dog and it felt even more like this because he had just scrunched to my face against his I felt disgusting kissing someone who had almost just punched me in the face but there was nothing I could do in that moment again I didn't want to risk pissing him off he slowly pulled away gave me another sweet smile and sat down pretending that nothing had just happened just started staring at the TV I told myself I'm over this completely his behavior was becoming more erratic and more unpredictable his room was creepy clearly had associations with the occult and frankly he was scaring me I eventually decided that I'd rather deal with the Voodoo looking altars later on then stay at his house and have to put up with the immediate danger so I snapped myself out of the anxiety induced trends I stood up and told him that I was starting to get sick and that I wanted to go home he got angry and tried to convince me to stay the night but I gathered my courage and insisted that it was time for me to leave he begrudgingly let me but it was clear that my decision upset him I didn't care anymore I said my goodbyes and told them that I would text him later I got in my car and drove home shaking and sweating I felt relieved to get out of there but nervous that he might try to do something the uncertainty of it all is what truly shakes me up but thankfully no actual harm came to me who knows what would have happened if I stayed though I blocked Brian's number as well as his Grindr profile and even now I keep my own Grindr pictures private I haven't heard from him since but I still fear that he's going to try and come after me somehow someday a little bit of backstory Colorado Springs December 2017 after a horrendous several months getting away from the abusive father of my two children betrayals at the hand of his family and my own and a failed attempt to move out of state to Colorado resulting in five months of homelessness with my two kids I was at the end of my rope now at the time there was a very specific trail cutting through the middle of the springs where the homeless could camp and generally not be harassed or removed because a large stretch of it was owned by a nearby business by this time I had become a part of a significantly sized group of other homeless who I will always think of as family we all watched each other's backs and they were especially protective of me and my babies especially the close-knit group of five strong guys that were in my direct campsite for the sake of not getting too long-winded I'm only going to focus on one of them Jason who spent a significant deal of those five months by my side helping me look after my children for a little bit of context Jason is an ex-marine he wasn't super bulky but he was certainly ripped in a lean sort of way and had a perpetual air about him that he was not ever going to be messed with the latter statement was kind of necessary given our situation so Jason and I are hanging out late at night with the rest of our little crew after I put the kids to sleep in our tent one by one our other camp mates fell out into their tents to crash for the night eventually leaving only myself and Jason by the fire the way our camp was situated we were between two other camping groups on one side that was a camp of meth addicts and on the other a small collection of winter grey tents or some of our kind of friends lived one such friend was Dean he'd just gotten his social security for the month and came to share the celebration with us in the form of alcohol cigarettes and weed now I'm not really a drinker but I didn't mind a shot or two to take the edge off of the week of mental breakdowns and I certainly didn't mind a little bit of weed to top it off Dean brings these things and shows off to us this Halloween mask that he's been gifted that looked like a skull with red LED lights in it sighs we chat for about 30 minutes about this and that and he takes off to the fence camp on the other side to continue spreading the wealth but before he leaves his very last words to me are if you ever need anything for those kids you just tell me and I'll do whatever I can in a heartbeat I graciously accept his sentiment and wish him a good night I appreciate it but at the time I think to myself I probably won't take him up on it unless I really need to and he's a bit of a dirty old man sometimes he has a habit of flirting with well all the women all of them and I frankly don't have it in me anymore to invite that sort of potential moral obligation into my life considering how I ended up in this situation to begin with so about another 20 minutes goes by and Jason and I are still warming by the fire and chatting about the various petty conflicts that arise between all of us local hobos on the daily when suddenly this man just appears a couple feet to my right we're an all-black Carhartt gear a black beanie he has rather piercing light-colored eyes looks right at both of us and asks hey do you know where I could find Dean Jason and I are confused especially me and we both say we don't really know by now it's at this point that I look down and see this man is holding a hatchet in his hand and also that there were seven other people similarly dressed and armed that have managed to spread themselves out through the entire camp without being noticed until this very moment and they're each looking at the different tents in our little grouping but not opening them or anything I swear to god it felt like a scene straight out of the walking dead like a group of Meegan's saviors had just come to mess everybody's day up at this point I'm about to jump out of my skin but Jason being the man that he is puts his hand on my shoulder and quietly instructs me to stay calm the man asks us if we really don't know where Dean is and Jason gestures down the trail and telling them he was here about 20 minutes ago and then he went off somewhere that way he didn't say where I will never forget how well he kept it together and managed to keep me together nor that even though he was sending these people in the vague direction of Dean it was also quite deliberately sending them away from my children we may not talk anymore now but I'll always owe him an unpayable debt for this and so much more then the entire group slips off in that direction in dead silence and I lose track of where they're considering the fire flight in my eyes but I'm cemented to the spot out of pure shock and anxiety beside I in the direction they went in to make sure they don't come back it is at this unfortunate moment that Dean decides to emerge from the neighborhood camp and he sticks out like a sore thumb wearing a Halloween mask I see the lights on the mask come out of the camp and his silhouette in front of the glow from the neighboring fire and the whole group of people just surround him and he goes down he disappears into the darkness and so today but the story isn't over yet for the next two days I'm just in a state of shock I've always been a horror buff a writer and illustrator but I've never actually been so close to a situation like that and with my children literally sleeping six feet behind me quietly wrapped up in their Arctic great sleep gear all I can think is thank God they didn't wake up everyone in my camp and another camp down the way that also consisted of our tight-knit group wanted a less accessible spot it's been those two days being amazing human beings who did a lot to help me look after my babies in that time while I came out of the shock and we figured out where would we move to to get away from there but then the police showed up they hadn't even come because of what happened but because they got reports of me and my children in the area and wanted to check on our well-being and bring us a care package which was really wonderful of them so I asked them if they were aware of what happened and they seemed it confused several reports taken and an investigation later I had been given assistance via the Department of Human Services to get my kids into a hotel and then later helped by my brother into a different one so I was in the process of looking at low income zero rent housing for me and my kids courteous of my new DHS worker while I was in this situation when on Christmas night after I've spent a few hours after my kids bedtime crying over not having been able to get them anything at all for Christmas I finally step outside of my hotel room door to have a cigarette once I'm satisfied that I don't look like a hot mess to be clear in Colorado Springs and the surrounding areas is completely normal at this point for literally anybody to walk up to you and ask you if you want to smoke weed and then it happens everything's fine and you probably make a new friend but this time wasn't one of those times a few puffs into my cigarette and I hear a man's voice say fright to me hey I look over and there's a man who looks like he's probably pretty lean underneath black car hearts and a black beanie but his scruffy longer dat face isn't covered up and car hearts are really common out this way so naturally I don't jump to any conclusions and also note that my room is in the direct line of security cameras also being a female young adult in the lower echelons of life I get approached like this a lot so I respond politely but seriously hey what's up I have this huge blunt that I was about to go round back and smoke you want to join me I look him in the eye for a moment noting that he also has mihail eyes and snuff out my house smoked cigarette thanks but I'm good right now have a good night and with that i reinter my hotel room and put on every single possible lock before sitting over on the bed with my kids and proceeding to stare anxiously at the window and hotel door for well over an hour before I finally feel exhausted enough to pass out I was almost certain it was the same man it's possible that it wasn't but he did not have the friendly vibe that usually accompanies hey want a smoke encounter and he kept his eyes squarely on me the entire time from that point I didn't see him again and this time called the friend with a car to help him move over to another hotel across the highway before two weeks later leaving Colorado to return to my previous state with the babies since then even though I've been through a lot more I finally got my own place with the kids and I don't rely on anybody else to keep me clothed fed or housed and we are also much more happy for it still every now and then I think about it at one point I talked to one of my old camp mates who's a close friend of mine and he told me that it turns out not only had Dean stolen money from at least one local meth dealer but had also had a history of luring women into the forest and murdering them and that that was the reason for what happened to him I won't go into detail about what exactly ultimately happened to Dean but it was pretty gruesome when they found him I assume if that man was the same and he was coming after me it would be because I'd spoken to the police about what I'd seen against the advice of my peers I don't know it just seemed wrong to pretend like nothing had happened even considering what I found out later Dean might have been a little flirtatious with me once or twice but he never tried to force anything and otherwise was actually a pretty kind guide to me and found several toys for my kids during our stay at the camp so needless to say I had a lot of mixed feelings on the matter in any case I felt pretty lucky that things didn't go worse than they did and I could go my entire life without ever crossing paths with a man fitting that description ever again this happened last year in autumn and I hope it never happens again I moved to this country at the beginning of the year and already I quit a crappy workplace job by June after being unemployed and basically a housewife for a few months I finally found a job which didn't require me to speak the country's native language by the time that this incident happened I was in the middle of training and quite happy with everything one thing I never liked here or the people well not all the people but some there are way more street beggars and shady faces around here than I was used to back at home just like every morning I headed to the bus station on my way there I saw a guy staying somewhere near a small building which was selling the tickets he looked a little disoriented he had a winter hat and long pants and sweaters on despite it being very hot outside and from the look of his overall appearance I could tell straight away that he has nowhere to return home to I passed by him and all was good until I heard someone shouting behind me I didn't look back directly just look to the sides but it was enough for me to realize that this guy was shouting at people and probably he yelled at me as well I also saw that a bus was coming so I picked up a fast pace to catch it then started praying to whoever heard me that this guy does not get on the same bus as me as always i sat on the window side to ensure that there is a free space next to me that people can occupy if needed I'm trying to be considerate of others so I always leave the space closer to the passage free when I sit down on a bus but this one time my consideration backfired I sat down a nice lady sat next to me and the doors were about to close but guess what the guy from before appeared pushed the lady at the door more aside and jumped into the bus doors closed the vehicle started and I made sure to continue praying that he will go to the front of the bus but he didn't it all good I thought I have this very nice-looking lady sitting next to me she will act as a human shield for the first few minutes the guy was walking around in the middle of the bus talking to people uncomfortably closely people of course turned away some even relocated to the front of the bus when the guy was approaching them somewhere close to the first station was the moment when this guy turned towards us and started doing the same to this lady next to me when the doors opened the lady stood up and quickly got off I should have followed her instantly but for some reason I didn't and that's where I messed up the guys sat right down there right what the lady had fled from almost in an instant if I had reacted quickly enough I could have gotten off as well but I didn't so there I was stuck right next to this guy who clearly has something going on in his mind luckily or not I had noise cancelling headphones on so I felt somewhat protected maybe he somehow knows that through over the ear headsets I wouldn't hear him and he will let me be I'm not sure if he actually knew or he just didn't plan on paying any attention to me either way I was kind of relieved that he didn't come into my face trying to speak to me he was mainly shouting at other people who just got on sometimes he said something about tickets from what I could discern maybe telling people to use their tickets he himself didn't have one though and when he was silent he moved back and forth on the chair while biting his bone like he had hyperactivity issues as I wasn't on his target list the only thing I had to deal with from that moment on was the smell he had a very strong urine odor surrounding him like he was doing his thing directly into his pants never wants to wash to them in ten years I leaned as close to the window as I could and kept looking outside as the bus was approaching the station where I had to get off I felt this frustration was building up in me how will I get off I can't even speak the language of the country let alone ask someone like him to please allow me the space to exit the vehicle at every station I hoped he would get off but he didn't seem to be wanting to I also hope that someone from the crowd would take action to get him off but no one did and of course the checkers come only about one day when you don't have a ticket but when you actually need to be saved there are nowhere to be found my only luck was that he took interest in somebody else from that crowd and stood up he then started singing something that sounded like the communist anthem and tried to get the crowd to sing along with him he made the hand movements and eye contact with lots of people but then he finally got out of where we were and started moving towards the middle of the bus that was my chance and I took it I never pushed myself through crowds as fast as I did back then as soon as the doors opened I boosted out of the bus and didn't even look back I almost ran straight into work though I wasn't involved in grave danger I was traumatized enough to fear bus rights to this day and keep a lookout for strange people I don't wait for saviors anymore I get off if I have to and absolutely do not sit down when people like this are nearby lesson learned I was 16 when this happened and to give a little bit of insight as to why I was often out at night I didn't get along with my birth mother I often couldn't stand being within the same walls as her and used to park down the street as my escape I'd go down there whenever I could I would stay there for long after the Sun went down there's a couple of reasons why I stopped staying after dark this is only one of them but it still freaks me out to this day I just finished a rather rant filled phone call with one of my friends hanging up to see that it was almost 10 o'clock I figured at that point my mom had gone to sleep and that it was late enough for me to start heading home as reluctant as I was left the park and began down the street lamp lit Street towards her house it wasn't the most secluded Street I'll say there was an intersection that led into another town so cars would often be glided down the road however didn't stop it from being a little bit creepy at times there was a church that I passed by each walk to and back from the park and it had a largely empty and dark parking lot it wasn't lit by any light and someone could just appear out of it at any time surprisingly this guy didn't appear from it I saw him walking towards me on the sidewalk his hood pulled up to hide most of his features I felt that gut feeling and was contemplating running across the street but by that time I had mustered the courage to try he was right in front of me he pulled down his hood and revealed himself to be a guy who looked to be in his early 20s it was dark so I couldn't exactly make out too many distinctive features he did have a beard from what I could tell and he smelled strongly of alcohol I was unable to move any parts of my body despite feeling myself grow more unnerved by his presence he pulled out a cell phone and turned on the flashlight turning it on and placing it in the middle between both of us I can now make out more of his features not that I wanted to he had dark hazel eyes and the mop of curly hair that looks like it hadn't been washed in the few days he had this light grin that didn't sit well with me and his teeth were stained with a little bit of yellow aren't you a bit young to be walking out here so late at night he asked and I could feel the feeling in the pit of my stomach get worse I didn't answer him it started to slightly back away from him finding that I was starting to regain my sentences his smile got wider as he chuckled unfazed by my discomfort a cutie like you you must have a boyfriend right he pressed more firmly on that question and I found myself longing looking to the other side of the street desperately thinking of an excuse to leave him standing out there I have to go and yes I do I lied hoping that he would drop his attempts and keep walking past I was wrong so very wrong well I would still like to get your number just in case and that grin he wore faded into a more serious look there was no way I was going to hand over my number but I was terrified of what his reaction would be if I flat-out refused him how about you give me your snapchat I found myself blurting out which now I think back to it it was probably the best decision I honestly could have made I slowly pulled out my own phone and opened at the app getting ready to type in his username he was smarter than he let on though before I could react he took my phone for me and typed it in handing it back only after he had added me back I took this as my chance to bolt away and waved without saying anything finally getting to the other side of the street I was going to delete him as soon as I got home as I looked down at my phone I saw he was already typing to me I refused to look at it until I got home and I saw that he already had the intention of us meeting again tomorrow night I took a deep breath and texted him back that I had no intention of ever meeting him and that he should consider going after girls his own age I've blocked his user and turned off my phone for the night the next day went a little bit more smooth I no longer felt sick to my stomach and decided that wasn't going to go back out for a few days just in case he stuck around to try and catch me off guard again I was glad I hadn't around 7 o'clock one night I had seen another user trying to add me I added it just to see if he had really tried to trick me he messaged me almost immediately claiming that I was being hard to get and that he wasn't just going to let me get away that easy after all he knew where I was and he would wait for the right moment to come and get me that's when I realized I had never turned my location off in the maps and he knew exactly where I was currently living I could feel my unnerved feeling return as I felt like I was going to vomit he said he would meet me at the park in an hour and if I wasn't there I should expect him to show up at some point to my house maybe not today maybe not tomorrow but at some point I panicked and immediately deleted my snapchat making a new one and telling one of my closest friends about what had happened I stayed at her house for a few days and came back to fine he never attempted to show up but to this day I still wonder if he had tried coming one of those nights I wasn't home waiting to someone else peek in and find me I live with my dad now and this was about two years ago I haven't seen her heard anything from the creep since no I couldn't remember his username and he didn't give me his real name either that was also what was so terrifying about it I'm just lucky to not have seen what he would have done to me if he had actually gone to me the events described in this story happened nine years ago in Russia in Siberia it was 2011 I was 17 and I was a typical high school student during the last year of school studied hard and mostly cared about the finals but also secretly longed for some overwhelming romantic love in my life my high school was affiliated with the University so every autumn we had students who came to do their teaching internship or practice how we called it it usually lasted for two to three months depending on the subject that they talked and usually these were female interns who came in as in Russia the majority of teachers are women but that's another topic but this year it was an exception a new intern who was an extremely good-looking guy who was around 24 to 25 and who taught math had this geeky charm even though he didn't teach in my class at least half of the girls there how to crush on him and it is not an exaggeration to say that a fair share of the school got crazy I was no exception of course so every time I saw him in the corridors I smiled and tried to catch his attention because in my head he looks like a perfect Prince Charming and with every day I was more and more into him I thought he also liked me but you can never be sure until something happens and something happened he found me through the social media and wrote me a message from an empty profile saying that he has been watching me that I'm beautiful and that he wanted to get to know me sounds romantic right I couldn't believe my eyes when I got the message it was a dream come true he asked me a whole bunch of different questions ranging from my favorite movie to where I lived and it turned out that we lived close by on the first evening we chatted all night and he even suggested doing a romantic thing as to turn the light on you know in the window so that we could see each other he was finishing his practice in our school at the time so he called me out for a date after it I agreed but decided to slow down and to communicate only on social media as I was really shy in real life and I needed a time to adapt that was when it started to get creepy first he started to tell me that I was meant for him and that there's no way around it and he felt it from the first time he saw me but judging from my answers to his questions he understood that I do not behave correctly and I need guidance I want a career and I want to study in Moscow well the woman should care for her man and her own family so I should stay in my hometown with him his logic was that he was my fate and us meeting was also fate so what else to look for in this world so he offered me his educational services through some religious stories he sent me and through abstracts from the Bible that I started to receive daily from the second day since we met that has started to get on my nerves and I didn't like him as much anymore but only after the next creepy thing did I become really concerned in three or four days since we met he came to my house and asked the concierge the number of my flat since after the first evening he knew that I lived on the top floor and tried to get into luckily she did not let him in he wrote a message to me that he wanted to do a surprise for me and maybe meet my parents this was when I understood that this is not romantic and it's actually abnormal and I told him that I need a break from our communication and I deleted him from social media he didn't want to take a break and he started to follow me on my way home from school as he said to talk and to clarify that he only wanted good for me which was exceptionally creepy and while the first day he followed me to the bus stop later tried to follow me up into my house all that seemed to infuriate him not calm him down somewhere he got my phone number and during the last days of school I received messages like I'm in the school building run and hide I imagine you all so scared hiding in the girls bathroom while I'm still here then the peak of the story was when I came back home from school and I had three or four days break from his attempt to talk to me and the concierge told me that the guy came in and left a box for me I did not know what to do with it so I brought it home yeah I know that was stupid of me like I said I was 26 and he wrote me an SMS that if I open the box he will leave me alone I decided to throw it away since I sneaked inside the box and saw that there were some chocolates and a treat for my dog but at this point I did not exclude the fact that it could be unsafe after that I finally told my mom about all this mess that was happening because before that she was aware only of the romantic side of the story she decided to interfere immediately once she got all the details so she took his phone number and called him she told him that if he doesn't leave me alone she will tell the school administration about his actions and he will have problems at the university with both the practice and his ethical principles in general I would love to say that he disappeared forever after that but he didn't this all was happening in March and then he graduated in June and started writing and trying to stalk me again judging from the reports of my grandmother but this time he could not I got accepted to Moscow State University and moved there soon once I moved away I never saw him again this happened back when I used to be on Grindr but it always reminds me of how glad I am that I'm no longer doing the online dating thing there's quite a bit of backstory here before the creepy so if you aren't interested in that feel free to skip ahead for those unfamiliar with a grinder it's a gay dating app that shows guys nearby it makes you use your location while using the app but it doesn't give your exact location unless you send it to the person directly anyways I got a message from a blank profile one time no name no picture no bio the only thing that popped up was how close he was less than a mile this happens a lot because there are a lot of closeted guys out there especially back then being an overweight guy in the gay community I had to take anything I could get because most gay guys and my community wouldn't even give me the time of day he started off nice enough introduced himself as Jesus and asked me how I was doing and all that sort of small talk he told me he was into chubbier guys and after exchanging pictures we both agreed that we found the other one very attractive he asked me if I'd like to come over to play video games and maybe have some fun I'd only met a couple of guys off of Grindr and although we had some good times it ultimately didn't pan out however I had met them somewhere public first so I'd never met anyone at their place or ever had anybody come over to mind I figured it had been long enough and some casual fun might be nice plus he was really cute and actually my type he agrees to come pick me up since I'm only a few blocks away apparently he lived in the nearby trailer park I decided I'd like to shower first and he says he'll head over then he says he's really embarrassed to ask but wonders if I'd be willing to lend him $20 supposedly he lives with his mom and she had left for the weekend without any food money for him I know it was really stupid in hindsight but I felt really bad for him I tell him I don't have any cash but he says that's fine I can just send him some money through an app I don't remember what it was called but it was something like the Fed mo I go ahead and send it take my shower and to let him know I'm ready he says he's heading out but can't find his keys I say that's okay I'll just wait for him outside I hadn't given him my address yet but I was almost ready too however when I asked if he had found them he never responded minutes went by then an hour I messaged him again to ask if he was still coming and I could see him going on and offline so I know he was reading my messages I finally just accepted that he was ghosting me and probably just wanted money I messaged him one last time I told him that it was pretty messed up and explained that if he had just asked I probably would have given him the money without having to go through all that what can I say I can be somewhat a softy fast forward a couple of weeks I never hear anything back for him so I just blocked him I get another message from someone on my Grindr relatively close to me his profile is also blank which raises my suspicions he tells me he's also into chubby guys which really makes me suspicious because it's highly unlikely two chubby chasers live so close to me we trade pictures again and it's a different guy however he suddenly asks for money in Grindr you can create as many accounts as you'd like all you really need is an email address there was tons of spam accounts on that that were automated there was a real pain in the butt anyways I called him out because I was pretty sure it was Jesus now first he acts like he doesn't know what I'm talking about he calls me crazy and then blocks me I felt a little bit bad because I thought maybe I had made a mistake and just chased off a guy for nothing then again his sudden offensive reaction made me have doubts weeks go by and every so often the same guy tries to fool me even though I don't fall for it eventually I blow up on him and asked him what his problem was we started going at it and eventually he says you won't say this to my face I tell him that I would gladly tell him to F off in person not that I expected him to actually show up this time he responds with alright we'll see about that be there soon now it was a little bit worried at this point because it crossed my mind that he may not actually be gay and he might be some sort of homophobe looking to bash some gay guys my mind always goes back to those men who have been murdered after meeting up with someone on Grindr however I realize I never gave him my address so I say nice try but I never gave you my address yes you did stupid you just don't know it was me be ready I'm on my way at this point my anxiety starts setting off because I did give my address to the guy who had to cancel last minute good I didn't think anything of it because it was before Jesus had messaged me a second time I try to think about what to do so I decided to try and document his threats I say I know I didn't give you my address besides what do you want with me anyways he says you'll see I've got something for you now the trailer park is always having police go by there and my neighborhood is separated from theirs by a bayou and night I always heard gunshots out there so I began to panic what if he had a gun what if he brought friends with him I say oh yeah and what's that he says something that'll shut you up I'm outside I started freaking out because I couldn't tell if he was just trying to mess with me or if he actually was outside I've been screenshotting everything and sent it to the grinder administration to report him for credible threats of violence I wasn't sure if I should call the cops or not because if he was lying I didn't want to look stupid plus I wasn't sure if it was even enough for them to do anything I decided to peek out from the upstairs window and see if I could spot him if I could get the make and model of his car maybe I could at least have something to give the cops I live in the middle of a cul-de-sac so when I look out the window I can see all the ways at the end of my street when I looked out I saw a car that I've never seen before parked on the side of the road at the end my heart was pounding because I just knew it was him but a part of me was hoping that it wasn't I decided I would just test him and see if he was really out there he says I'm waiting I say I'm outside already where are you of course I wasn't but if that was him and he did know my address then why wouldn't he just parked outside my house sure enough I was right he says yeah I see you you're gonna get it now I said then come give it to me I'm right here he says just you wait I knew he couldn't see me from his car because I was peeking out discreetly out of our windows and our windows have a privacy shade on them or people can only see a black screen from the outside a few more minutes go by and the car takes off I have a feeling that he was using Grindr to triangulate the area of where my neighborhood was but of course he couldn't find my exact house because it hadn't been him who I'd give him my address to Grindr later sent me a message saying he'd been banned from the app and they would contact the local authorities I never heard anything else after that so I don't know what became of it the cops never contacted me if they did pay him a visit and I'd never heard from him again this story has genuinely chilled me to the core I'll work as a lifeguard at a summer camp I hear things I shouldn't because people assume that I'm not paying attention which is how I stumbled into this mess last summer one camper named Mary got onto the radar of every person working there it started when I was guarding the pool a few counselors were chatting near me about how this older girl was stalking a guy that she had a crush on at first not dismissed it until one counselor started saying in a lower tone that the girl was sent to our boss because she started saying some freaky stuff Mary was never somebody you'd see and say let me distance myself from her at first glance always surrounded by people laughing smiling telling jokes loud enough for the lifeguards to hear that type of person she never gave off any weird vibes whatsoever but I couldn't really tell because I've only seen her a few times that summer yet I can tell you she has a thousand-yard stare that definitely creates a sense of uneasiness Jesus looks at you and you feel like she's looking right through you but then again Mary is so charismatic that you overlook it as just something she does hearing that Mary pulled something like this was alarming to say the least apparently she was telling people that she would die for this boy and that anybody who got in her way with hey things like that if you had to go talk to the director because it scared a few people but she apparently said it was all inside jokes between her and some friends the counselor seemed very unsure and I was uneasy after hearing that for the rest of the summer I heard a lot of counselors saying as she was saying more and more worrying things that kept being brushed off as more inside jokes our boss sent out a memo to everybody saying that we needed to ignore what she was saying and further discussion would be grounds for getting fired Mary heard the staff was uneasy and her mother complained I forgot about her once the summer ended and assumed she wouldn't be invited back to camp or rather she wouldn't return on her own accord because of all of these complaints but I was more than alarmed to see her back again this summer smiling and laughing with her friends now this leads us to the incidents that made me tell the story the first incident happened when Mary was swimming with a few other people her Posse mostly they were all playing in the four feet when somebody jumped onto her if he got really mad and suddenly started yelling at the girl and then raised her fist I blew my whistle and told her that if she punches the girl she's out of the pool I've never felt such a chill run down my spine until she turned and gave me the nastiest look imaginable then Mary started talking she's a dumb girl I hate this girl she's ruining my fun she has no power the second incident came when I was walking to the lunchroom two days later she was standing near the door and once she saw me began to start saying things like the previous incident but the one that really got my hair sticking up really made me nervous was when she said she has no idea what I'm capable of it was harmless to hear what's so chilling coming from her the final incident happened a few days ago back at the pool I was talking with a few of my co-workers I joked about her statement to some co-workers but then one of them told me she was coming right towards us I turned around and she looked right at me I could barely see her since I wasn't wearing my glasses but I just knew it was eye contact she walked up to me and without warning jabbed her finger into my chest Mary immediately began telling me that I was essentially a waste of space I could be gone if she lifted a finger the final straw came when she told me in the most hauntingly sure tone that she wanted my head because of all the problems that I've caused her remember all I did was ask her not to punch her friend or she'd be kicked out of the pool one of my co-workers happens to be a former quarterback and got between us he told her that she was extremely out of line with those statements and that our boss would hear of this Mary only laughed and said we could try and give him her kicked out of camp but then she looked at me and in short told me I was going to be sorry I ended up going right to the supervisor after and with all of my co-workers who witnessed it vouching for me he went straight to my boss I was never actually spoken to but I stopped seeing Mary around camp after that her mother found me however and apologized on behalf of Mary I later found out that when I asked her not to punch her friend the guy she was stalking from last summer saw this incident embarrassed her enough that it finally opened his eyes leading to him telling her to never speak to him again although this happened in 2015 I'm posting the story now because it has been really heavy on my heart today and is genuinely making me feel sick judging from the sociopaths that I've heard in several stories I think this is where she belongs in September 2015 I moved to Colorado and was trained for my new job by a really great guy that will call Anthony we became fast friends but only that as I was seeing a guy that I met on tinder and he had a girlfriend that will call Katy my roommate and I invited Anthony over non-stop and sometimes saw Katy she struck us as unnerving ly happy and attention-seeking by October Anthony and Katy had a civil breakup after only dating a month they had been friends for over seven years previously and Anthony felt that suited him better than their relationship in November Anthony and I realized our feelings for each other but we were apprehensive about going public with it so as to not hurt Katy and not to alarm Anthony's extremely religious family Anthony's dad as a pastor it is also important to tell you that Katy has been living with Anthony's sister Anna and her husband and three very young daughters Katie and Anna are best friends and Katy is extremely close to Anthony's family not two weeks into our relationship Anthony receives devastating news twice in one day his father has prostate cancer and Katy is pregnant with his baby I still vividly remember Anthony coming over and collapsing in my arms crying in shame and hurt he told me that day that he would completely understand if I wanted to tap out of our relationship I told him that day that I would stand by his side and we would endure this craziness together by December Katy has pitted Anthony's entire family against 10 framing him as an unsupportive flaky father to be that cared for neither her nor their baby's well-being she posted videos of Anthony six-year-old niece singing to her baby belly and had late night sobbing fits with his sister over his lack of support Anthony continues to earnestly support her over daily phone calls text messages financial support for medical bills and even agrees to go to counseling Anthony and I continued to have a healthy happy relationship and I come to see how broken he is in his attempts to please this raging ex-girlfriend Anthony remains steadfast followed to be begging to go to parental appointments with her and driving 45 minutes after working 12-hour shifts to support her but every time he shows up he receives sorry they got me in early and I'm already done with the appointment texts from Katy Katy manipulates everyone again and again going so far as to plan the gender-reveal party on my birthday a random Wednesday near Christmas so that Anthony and his family won't be celebrating me but her and their child I nearly lost my mind and hurt that Christmas with my family and friends questioning why I would stick around for this man that would soon be a father to somebody else's kid but I stuck by Anthony knowing that he was a 27 year old man of integrity and that our love could overcome how incredibly difficult this was following the holidays Anthony was encouraged by his father to stand in front of the congregation confessing his premarital sex sin and asked in support for forgiveness from the church my shoulder shook with sobs as everyone stared at me judging and maybe even pitying the girl dating the future baby daddy I continued to have minimal interactions with his family who probably saw me as the reason that Anthony wasn't fully supporting his baby mama On January 22nd Anthony received a Facebook message from a man who claimed to work with Katy he stated that Katy was mentally unstable and is not pregnant she laughed when she bought her ultrasound on fake pregnancy calm we couldn't believe this news if we were absolutely floored when her ultrasound was an exact replica of the one sold on that website Anthony sent the proof and the storage was parents and sisters and begged for them to see reason they claimed an intervention of sorts where they cornered her and presented the evidence the stunning finale to this whole deal was that Katy didn't even cry she apathetically admitted that the ultrasound and pregnancy was fake she was flown out of her parents house where we hoped they would get her the help she needed however in no time she was back in Colorado with a new job yet another Social Work job with a Christian adoption agency we were nauseate 'add that's such an unwell sociopath could be allowed to work with vulnerable children over unable to find a platform to report her to a Social Work governing body what would have happened if she had been allowed to carry this pregnancy out longer a fake pregnancy belly something drastic two months later a new story revealed that a nearby Colorado woman cut a fetus out of a pregnant woman because she needed an infant after faking a pregnancy it wasn't Katy but all I could think was what would she have done if her fake pregnancy escalated to nine months I still wonder if I should have had a restraining order put against her years later I still feel alarmed that Katie lives a normal life and faced zero repercussions for the harm she inflicted on our family obviously so many details were left out and there aren't words for the lasting damage she wrecked on Anthony's relationships with his family members when she posted on social media as she had a new boyfriend it took all of my self-control to not message him saying please be careful she faked a pregnancy for three months without batting an eye Katie had a Masters in Social Work and was employed at a governmental agency she was intelligent scheming and calculated she purposely lied to and manipulated not only Anthony but her best friend Anna and her innocent six nine and ten year olds Katie we still hurt Amira Sidious lie and stay out of our lives forever I haven't thought about this story in a while but when I remembered I knew I had to tell you a little bit of background info I'm a pretty short guy around five four I was out with three other people and my friend's mom one friend that I'll call Cass for this story is 410 and very very small Sara is about the same height as me and the other friend James is a regular 5 foot 8 guy this is kind of important my friends and I are really into knives and cool swords so we found a store that sells pocket knives flail maces etc we were there because Cass turned 18 we wanted to get a pocket knife by herself for the first time what happened in the store wasn't really important she ended up getting two knives and that was that we were pretty hungry after since it was close to dinnertime so we decided to hit up the McDonald's right next door now this knife shop is in well not that great of a neighborhood everyone around that area are people you shouldn't usually look out for on a nightly walk around town we're getting to the McDonald's to order some food James and casas mom stay in the car while Cass Sara and I head in to order some food we're standing in line chatting about ketchup for some reason and this guy a massive man probably around 63 easily 250 pounds walks over and starts talking to us basically barging into our conversation I'm a pretty paranoid person so my alarm bells were already going off I already knew this neighborhood was kind of sketchy and this guy sent off so many red flags for me he stood extremely close to us and just pretended like he knew us I can't remember the full conversation but I ended up ordering and getting my food early and sitting down and Cass was next as the line moved up forecast to order this guy stood in line with her and walked with her to the register like he was her parent or something remember she's a very small 18 year old my alarm bells were ringing off the hook and I carried my pocket knife on me in case of crazy people like this I turned around to kind of securely pull my knife out of my jean pocket into the pocket of my sweater I turn around once it's in there and this guy was turned back to the counter staring straight at me as I pulled it out I think he's somehow noticed I pulled it out but didn't say anything about it I was pretty discreet about doing it but my back was to him and I don't know how long he was staring at me I honestly think that the action of me taking my knife out may have scared him off from doing something taking my friend or something he could have easily grabbed Cass and ran away I think it may have made him back down a little which was a relief Cass got her food and sat down but we waited for Sara's food which unfortunately took about 10 to 20 extra minutes to come out I don't even remember if the guy ordered anything you may have gotten a coffee or something then he went around and sat directly behind us and stared at us the entire time we tried to text James to come inside with us as he's the most intimidating out of all of us but he wasn't answering the phone we ended up calling casas mom to force James to come inside I'm pretty sure he overheard us because he started to leave as he left he started talking to another group of teens about three looking like upperclassmen in high school he leaves and James walks in we explained the situation and he seems slightly unamused but it was fine as long as we had an extra set of hands we leave the McDonald's and the guys nowhere to be found less than five minutes after he left we get into the car and tell her mom to lock the doors and to leave because we're pretty scared but that's not the end though as we left a huge white van with no windows in the back and relatively tinted windows in the front was sitting close by and we told her to hightail it out of there and as we left another guy was standing on the sidewalk having an argument with the air needless to say we don't go back there without our knives because we never know what kind of crazy people that we will run into pre-warning this will be kind of a short story because i had to leave some details out to ensure that it's left anonymous when I was around 15 I had started babysitting the family with three kids two boys and one girl their mom knew me as the oldest was friends with my little brother and had asked my mom if I could help her out just because she had started taking on more shifts and her husband was doing the same they lived right next to my high school it paid well so I agreed despite not having that much experience pretty quickly I realized that it was going to be difficult the kids were great but I was nervous around them the oldest was fine just played on his xbox most of the time or did homework but the two youngest were a different story the middle child daughter was completely obsessed with horror movies and on more than one occasion I had to hide the knives from her since she wanted to reenact them and the youngest son tried to set fire to the Christmas tree I know what kids can be like since I have a lot of younger and older cousins but these ones drove me insane and I would constantly worried about them hurting themselves or each other if they played up I would threaten to call their mom which normally would work it was after a few months that I realized if I had mentioned that the dad that's when they would just start to behave and do what I had asked so that's what I started doing now I never really met the dad I just knew that the guy was really tall and had a big build but was always described to me as still being really nice so I never thought about it on this occasion I said to the youngest boy that I would call his dad if he didn't stop behaving which resulted in a huge tantrum so I ended up calling him and explaining lucky for me the dad was getting off of work early so he said that he would get home as quick as he could and apologized for the kids behavior when I had explained this the kid was sobbing and ended up locking himself into this room that day the dad got home and they weren't joking when they said he was tall I'm only five three and I'm 15 at the time when I saw him having to crouch a little to get through the door because of his size I remember thinking oh my god no wonder the kids won't misbehave when he's there I said hi and apologized for calling him at work what she just brushed off and said that it needed to be done and not to worry we were both sitting on the couch I can't really remember why but I think we were talking about what days they needed me for now at this stage the youngest two had one outside to play while I was with the oldest as I had just been tidying a little bit from dinner I was pretty weirded out because his oldest started to get pretty antsy when asked to go to the shop kept making excuses to his dad so I just offered to go I could see the dad visibly frustrated and just wanted to defuse the situation now I would like to point out that everything seemed normal at this point but I remember feeling very intimidated by the dad I had only met him this one time and spoke for no more than 20 minutes it turns out that the oldest I said to his mom that he didn't want me left alone with his dad as he had apparently been watching me a little too closely during our short encounter the parents had asked me to babysit later on in that week which I had agreed to however in the space of a few days that quickly changed I got a text from mom apologizing for the last-minute arrangements but saying I couldn't babysit I was a little agitated since I had changed plans but wasn't too bothered and just said it was fine and just let me know if she needs me she had asked me to come around to get my pay for the last two weeks and I decided to just nip around before going home as soon as I was in the house I could tell that something was off but not wanting to pry it I just went in to say hi talked about books for a little bit and then I left it wasn't until the next week I think or maybe the week after when everything kicked off I came home to my mom being upset and angry pacing the living room while my stepdad was trying to calm her down I immediately went to asking her what was wrong feeling a little bit worried instantly she just threw her arms around me and started crying and holding me I had meant to be babysitting but again got canceled on so I was home earlier than what I said originally holing away confused I asked her what was wrong again it turns out my mom had been trying to get ahold of me but my phone had died I had went to babysit and nobody was home so I just decided to head back on the bus but wasn't able to let my mom know she sits me down and starts trying to ask any questions about the dad and my time babysitting confused I had mentioned that I only met him once and only really spoke to him on the phone a handful of times when the kids were acting up not even my mom starts pressing on and asking if anything else had happened and kept questioning me saying I could tell her anything I just looked at her confused and told her that nothing had happened and asked what this was all about I always remember her taking a deep breath and saying oh thank God before letting me know what happened now as I said the details are vague because this was on the news turns out the guy had killed somebody while working and been taken in by the police during the interrogation it turns out that he admitted to beating his wife and there were speculations of assault there was also mentioned that one of his types of petite girls that had dark hair which happened to match my description at the time and my mom was terrified in case something happened I'm turning 23 this year that still scares me when I think about it I remember feeling like I was gonna throw up and had a sinking feeling in my stomach my mom held me close crying she had words sick all day and scared in case something that happened needless to say I stopped babysitting for the family right then and there I felt so awful for the wife as she was honestly one of the nicest woman I've ever met about a week later I get a text from her as it turns out I had left some books so I had said I would go get them after the phone call when I saw her my heart sank she obviously had not slept and was putting on a brave face for the kids who weren't sure what was going on we ended up sitting in the kitchen that I gave her the biggest hug just trying to comfort her I had mentioned that if she needed help with the kids since he was gone I would try and help but she immediately refuses as it turned out people had started attacking the house she gave me my stuff and paid the wages with a little bit more money I would add and said she appreciated it but it would be better off if I just took a step back from the family as she didn't want me getting hurt for being associated with them to this day I still remember them I still think about them and it still scares me after thinking about what could have happened I still talked to the younger kids who are a lot older now and even helped tutor the younger girl I helped the oldest when he was starting high school because I noticed the kids bullying him for what his dad had done which was awful considering it wasn't the fault of the family overall I feel bad for the children and the wife but I'm so glad the dad isn't there anymore to lay his hands on them when I was fifteen raywilliamjohnson was the most subscribed to channel on YouTube I feel it necessary to say now that he was not the YouTube where the story is about but I feel that this is important to include for context doing some research for this story he was the first Youtube channel to ever reach five million subscribers so he was very popular at this time in his show he reviewed viral videos and as a teenager it was one of my favorite things to watch every week he picked one subscriber video to provide the comment question of the week to which his subscribers would provide responses in the comment section a friend and I thought we had a great question to ask and sent it in every week after filming it by the fourth or fifth week our video was selected and aired on that week's show in hindsight there definitely wasn't that much traffic coming into my account but at the time it felt like it I had 30 some messages in my message box at a time and quite a few comments on the original video I can confidently say let's not meet to anyone in that comment section garnering some very disgusting comments my friend at the time was 13 and my message box didn't look much different now as a teenager with low self-esteem I was so pleased with a lot of this new attention I was actually taking the time to respond to a lot of my messages ignoring the disgusting ones thanking people for congratulating me on getting picked and occasionally starting up a conversation with some Internet strangers one of the most calming questions I got asked after this video was how old are you and of course I offered up that information because why wouldn't I one specific person sticks out because he continued talking to me consistently every day and every day I would have messages from him and I would respond he was just chatting just being nice I thought he had a YouTube account a small one I've had a couple of thousand subscribers having had eleven myself all of which being friends I thought it was so cool that his channel was quote and quote successful he asked me how old I was I told him 15 he told me he was 21 it was initially quite tame for a conversation but after a few weeks he asked me for my phone number I'm naive I gave it to him because he was so nice and he didn't live anywhere near me from what he told me he lives several states away then he texted me all the time he tried calling me around here or I started to get creeped out he began talking about wanting to meet me now at this point I had seemed to catch a predator in school and I started getting somewhat suspicious I never gave him more information than the state I lived in and my first name that seemed innocent enough but he started getting flirty and creepy and generally uncomfortable to talk to I slowly stopped responding making all of the phone calls said I was busy then he found my social media accounts and tried talking to me there I told him I had a boyfriend which was a lie but he still sent me some generally discomforting messages even looking back this guy made me feel so uncomfortable that even thinking about it now or seeing his user name makes me feel sick and tense the message that really got me the one that finally scared me enough and the one I can actually remember after all these years said I'm going to come to Ohio and find you and when I finally do I'm gonna hug you so hard I'm going to squeeze and squeeze you until your eyes pop out of your little head I never told my parents but I was lucky enough to be able to get my phone number changed I started getting paranoid that he would finally checking the locks closing the curtains I removed him from my social media changed my user names and display names to make myself harder to find because you know I was actually a teenager and my priorities were to be in contact with my actual friends all the time surprisingly got quiet for a while and slowly I gained some feelings of safety back I actually even started a new YouTube channel at the recommendation of some friends and started putting myself out there again doing more media production which I loved and garnering a small following of around 1200 stringers none of whom ever made me feel so unsafe thankfully a few years down the road I started freshman year of college I just turned 18 you know why don't you know he found me again followed me on all social media set me messages again posted some comments on my old youtube channel all at once I felt so sick I remember all the creepy messages and unsettling feelings and just generally breathlessness I had when he started telling me that he would find me and he was coming for me I had a brief panic attack before swiftly blocking him on everything my profile pictures with me and my new college were in the gear and everything I would have been significantly easier to find now and I knew that I hardly made any friends that first year of college I didn't leave my room my chapter that happened I never went to parties I scarcely made any friends every so often I remember the experience and I get sick this is one of those times I've since graduated I've moved far away with my boyfriend I still check my locks and curtains aggressively every night sometimes three and four times even if I'm sure that I had done it well I'll never understand is how a grown man at 21 would be so interested in a 15 year old girl and especially still be interested after silver years the entire memory disgust me he's still post to that YouTube channel and all I can think about is how he tried to get with me when I was a minor a child he was a predator he took away my sense of safety up to this point he's certainly on my top ten list of people who I never wanted to count her again and I hope I truly truly never will have to for the past number of years I've been working in a moderately sized amusement park in the middle of a city I'm at the admissions desk meaning that the work is quite administrative answering the phones responding to emails and admitting customers to the park being in the middle of the city you do meet a lot of interesting characters from old locals to travelling tourists for the most part I do enjoy the work that's involved but every so often you would speak to a customer or receive a complaint which doesn't really do much for staff morale yet I do always try my hardest to stay positive over the years I've seen plenty of people stand in front of me at the front desks there have been drunks stoners happy - sad people angry parents and an abundance of complaints to top it all off but in that time until last week a customer had never angrily threatened me personally before so for some context about how this conflict began the specific amusement park which I work in has a family loyalty system in that you can purchase a ticket which is valid for a set number of people to visit the parks as many times as they'd like within 12 months if they wished they can come back to the park all 365 days of the year using this ticket now the catch is that it's only valid for the people who are named on the ticket and there's also a photograph on the ticket once scanned through so that we can identify those people whose ticket is valid for when they arrive now some procedures are in place so that the tickets can't be misused otherwise it can be passed around by neighbors and friends and families and we would essentially be letting people into the park for free basically let's say a group of four arrived to the park and only two were named on the ticket only those two would be allowed in under the ticket the other two would need to pay for their admission now if a ticket is given to the administrative staff member and no one present is named or photographed from the ticket it will need to be retained by the staff and will be sent back to the owners with a warning if it happens the second time the ticket will be cancelled with this in mind last week a family of four approached my till and handed me one of these loyalty tickets upon scanning the ticket I saw that none of those who were present in front of me were photographed on the ticket the biggest giveaway was the father of the family who on the photograph was in his mid-30s with cropped black hair the man in front of me was in his late 50s early 60s with long gray locks seeing this I asked the guest if the ticket was theirs as there was a different family in the photo in front of me to which the father replied yes our friends sold it to us before they moved back to Poland it's ours now in one of those thickest Russian accents I've ever heard since starting my job there now selling or transferring these tickets is prohibited especially without any notification to the amusement park beforehand and 99 times out of a hundred it was sold to us by our friends as the excuse use when the ticket is just being borrowed amongst friends after hearing this and clarifying that no one there had been on the ticket originally I informed the father that unfortunately it would not be able to be used on this day and the admission fee of $15 per person would need to be paid the father asked for the ticket back to which I told him I couldn't do we would retain the ticket and it would be mailed back to the original owners by ourselves when he heard this the father's demeanor changed completely and he just held out his hand ordering me to give back the ticket I don't usually do well in confrontations and try to avoid them when necessary but the way he spoke just rubbed me the wrong way and I insisted that it was out of my ability to give the ticket back he once again ordered me to put the ticket back into his hand pointing to his hand with an increasing level of anger and his voice that sent chills down my back he even told me that he would personally give him back to the owners himself despite them having moved to Poland this continued back and forth for one or two minutes and realizing it wasn't going to go anywhere by arguing with this man I placed the ticket behind the counter and was looking for a loyalty ticket application form to show him where seats the consequences of misusing the tickets as I was pulling out the form the man lunged over the counter to grab the ticket when I swiped the ticket onto the floor out of his reach he then lunged once for me but couldn't reach that's when I lost all patience with the man and raised my voice at him telling him he just couldn't do that I picked up the ticket and told him I was taking him to the back office to be canceled at this stage of the security guard approached and told me to find a supervisor to talk to the man I went into the back office to tell a supervisor what happened they took the ticket and came back out onto the fool with me the man was now in the heated argument with security over how I had stolen the card which he had bought originally my supervisor checked the ticket once more confirming that it was being misused and told the man once again the ticket was going to be cancelled he proceeded to argue with her growing more and more frustrated and changing the story from before apparently he was now the original owner of the ticket and I he didn't know who the family and the photo were it was clear that if his family hadn't been there he would have picked a fight with her the security guard or myself as he was starting to escalate into hysteria after some time he calmed down enough to throw $100 at me to pay for the $60 fee for his family as I was handing him has changed he leaned in closely and said softly remember this the world is a small place I will see you on the street one night and you will wish we had never met he left and I continued to serve two more customers in somewhat of a daze before the park manager came over to my till and invited me into the office to explain what had happened after I explained the incident to the manager and told him what the man had said to me at the end the manager called for a number of security guards to remove him from the park this was achieved in less than thirty minutes with what has been described to me as violent opposition I don't know how he was removed I wasn't there to see it yeah his family was allowed to remain in the park the rest of the day went by without incident the park opens until 8:00 p.m. usually yet if it's particularly quiet upon closing time some of the admissions staff are allowed to leave early while the guests exit the park on this day I was let go at 7:30 p.m. I don't have a car but luckily my sister was on her way home from work and stopped by to pick me up I waited in the office until she arrived chatting with the supervisors and making light-hearted talk about what had happened during the day until my sister texted me letting me know that she was right outside the admissions building on my way out I was scanning the carpark for her car and don't my way over I saw the man from earlier greasy gray hair sitting in this car staring right at me and he is watching me approach first foot second I thought this was the very moment of reckoning he had been telling me about before realizing that he was probably just waiting for his family to come out since he hadn't left his car to teach me a lesson yet despite this he never took his eyes off of me as I passed his car and looked at me with nothing but pure hatred I've genuinely never seen someone look at me that way before and it half terrified me a week or so has passed and I haven't run into the man since no phone calls or emails from him either so I'm in the clear for now either way to the angry Russian man with the gray hair who threatened me at work you're not allowed at my part again I dog sit for a family friend they might prefer to have somebody stay at the house with the dogs I grew up in a town in the middle of nowhere and I loved the countryside so for me this is like a staycation because I live in the city now you never have any time to myself their house is in the middle of nowhere when I say nowhere I mean this place takes two hours to get to from my work and is about 45 minutes to the nearest town there is one neighbor within five miles and he lives directly across the street I'm used to this where I'm from it's supposed to give you the space you need but also help you to feel safer knowing you have at least one person nearby however this guy has done nothing but make me feel unsafe I get to tarry in Johnny's house and they're telling me the drill when to feed the dogs when to water the plants then as they're loading up their stuff to take it to the car Terry says oh and don't forget to tell her about Steve John says oh yeah don't worry about the neighbor across the street he was homeless the guy drinks a lot and he's a little bit off but totally harmless heck the guy has lost his license so many times all he can do is Drive a moped to get to town however just in case this is where we keep the gun steve has three don't tread on me Confederate flags and two plain confederate flags all of which are hanging from his porch of course he's a little weird even takes me to his gun and explains that it's loaded and if I were to use it I don't need to [ __ ] it just pull the trigger very hard at this point I kind of brush it off you keep a gun in your house when it takes police at least 45 minutes to get to your home still I've got no worries I'm used to drunk weirdos I know how to handle them I love this life in the middle of nowhere and I've got two protective dogs that will attack on a one-word command so I'm feeling pretty safe Terry and Johnny leave around 3:00 p.m. I took the dogs for a walk and played some frisbee and began to unload my stuff while they're still worn out from all the running as I come back out for my second load of stuff I'm staying there for a week and needed work clothes and my xbox to keep me entertained in the late evenings I hear the neighbor Steve slam his door and seemingly having a phone conversation I first just hear his voice faintly then he yells where did you go the dogs are hearing him now and started to growl softly I say calm down boys it's all right just Steve remember you probably want some privacy let's go inside as I grab my stuff I hear meal again I do care about my kids screw you and then I hear him throw something on the unpaved road behind me turns out to be his cellphone as I'm grabbing my stuff the dogs started going crazy and run a few feet behind me barking and growling viciously I dropped my stuff and turn around to see the neighbor at the end of the driveway probably 50 to 75 feet just staring at me I yell at the dogs to calm down and to go back inside they do I then give a friendly wave to Steve in my head I'm thinking this is kind of weird but he's probably been drinking plus they said the guy's harmless enough dogs have before and never had a problem with the neighbors he then takes a single step forward and says in a manipulative voice you all right Steve is wearing dirty jeans work boots a dirty red hoodie and a red hat with a confederate flag on it he's also got dirty brown hair to his shoulders and a beard that's probably five inches long yeah I'm pretty good my name is PIP just dog-sitting for Johnny and Terry to this week and ready to go in and call it an evening with the boys I look down at the Daleks to see their reaction they look like they're about to attack and I'd never seen them like this before how about yourself we sat in silence for about 30 seconds before he stated I'm asking if you were all right I'm Steve nice to meet you Steve thanks for being a good neighbor and checking like I said I'm good are you all right against silence now this silence lasts for probably a whole minute and a figure he's wasted I should just get inside with my stuff so I turned around and finished grabbing my stuff and as I do I hear him take one more step on the gravel driveway the dogs bark again I turn around and Steve says I know them them dogs won't do nothing to me they are some dang good dogs that's for sure I begin feeling very uneasy so I close my trunk and turn around to see if he's going to say anything else I was about to tell him that I was going inside and then instead awkwardly say yeah I'm he cut me off yeah what healed of shocked and I say yeah I'm going inside now thanks again for checking Steve I'm fine I've got the dogs this week have a good night I turn and go and the dogs follow me with no problem Steve continues to stand where I left him for literally 10 minutes just staring at the house this house does not have a front door there is a side door and a back door the back door is the main door because the front of the house has big green fluffy privacy trees so I can't even see his house to the front window you can't see either doors from the street you have to come out into the property to see them it's about 6 o'clock and where I'm at the Sun starts going down around then but doesn't actually get dark until around 9:15 p.m. during the summer the dogs and I are on the couch and I forgot my gaming headphones all in while playing the video game online all of a sudden that dogs start freaking out running towards the back door barking and growling I'm thinking to myself what's going on they don't do that unless someone pulls up in their car and they don't know who it is I'm not having anyone over so I grabbed my knife which is always close by and start walking towards the back door the dogs are still going crazy and I have no idea what they're looking at I don't see anything but then I look closer I see taillights in the driveway seemingly hiding behind my car I then try and focus in and see that Steve has turned around staring at the back of the house from his moped ducking behind my car I get the dogs to be quiet and I had to see what he was doing the dogs are still growling but at least they're not giving away my location right now I watch him for five minutes no movement just a creepy stare in my direction I don't think that he can see me but I'm not sure he then shuts off his moped and crouches next to my car where I can see him now peeking into my windows when I lived in the country I never locked any doors not my house my car nothing since I work and live downtown I naturally keep all of my doors locked at all times I don't see him try and get into it but he walks around it a few times he's not crouching anymore obviously he feels like no one is watching him or it gives a crap that he's looking into my car but he is only taking a single step stop him looking into my car then at the house then he repeats a single step at a time man this is creepy at this point I text Terry and tell her that Steve is doing some weird stuff and I tell her I'm starting to feel weird and uncomfortable I get a text back reading call the cops if you feel unsafe they know about him they can come talk to him remind me to tell you about the time he was standing out by the tree at 6:00 a.m. when I was leaving for work when we got back we think he had a psychotic break how comforting so I talked myself down some this guy is just wasted however if he starts getting close to the door I'm calling the cops it's a dumb idea looking back because the police takes so long to get out here I'm watching him as he's made his second round looking into my car he then gets on his moped and drives off as he passes the window that faces the driveway he sped up trying to make it so I wouldn't see him if I was just watching TV now it's around 8 p.m. and the dogs started going crazy again I look out and now his moped is parked in plain view and he is standing on the walkway just thirty feet from the house staring and talking to himself I had previously turned all the lights off so that he couldn't easily see it and see what I was doing I see him take a single step towards the door now I'm twenty nine feet away I grab the gun I've called the dogs down there in full-on protective mode one dog to my left and one to my right it's around 8:15 p.m. now and I call the cops I explained the situation and that the owners think he had a psychotic break as I'm halfway through explaining why I'm starting to fear for my safety the operator says man what's your address again I tell her and then I tell her my address I'm sorry man but you're not located in our County I will have to transfer you to a different County are you serious the owner said that the cops in this area know him very well and know how to handle him isn't that you guys yes ma'am that is us but you are located in a different County that's not our jurisdiction the operator then transfers me to another County when she answers the phone with the average 9-1-1 what's your emergency I'm silent I'm looking out the kitchen window and Steve has come up about four or five feet since the last time I looked out there now when one what's your emergency I then explain what's happening and explained that I was transferred because I'm apparently not in their jurisdiction she then tells me to remain calm and turn all the lights on I said yeah right this guy is waiting for me to do something like that the doors are all locked and I do have a firearm if he enters I'm going to shoot him she then tells me that it's safest with the lights on so I turned the lights on he notices turns and gets on his moped and drives back to his house I tell her what happened she asks if I would still like to have an officer come out absolutely I want an officer to come out apparently the cops in your County know him but she transferred me to you this is the third time he's coming to the property and he's getting closer and closer to the door I don't feel safe someone that is not me needs to talk to this guy calm down ma'am we will still send somebody however based on where you were located it might take a while for wanting it out there that's fine I just want somebody out here thank you I asked her if she would stay on the line until he got there or no she says that one is on its way out but she needs to be available if anyone calls in she told me if he comes back and I'm still uneasy to call them without hesitation it's about 9 p.m. now and the son is getting ready to set completely again the dogs go crazy now I'm getting really mad and walking around the house with a loaded gun so that if Steve sees me he sees that gun too I'll look out the window and see his moped but I don't see him what where is he from the window in the kitchen I can't see the back door so I go upstairs one dog follows and the other is too old to climb the stairs and I peeked down through the bathroom window Steve is on the back porch lighting matches and throwing them down on the wooden porch he doesn't seem harmless anymore he's talking to himself and twisting his head back and forth like he's getting warmed up to fight or have a conversation with another one of his personalities or something I start filming him from the upstairs window just in case I die so that I could hide my phone and then when they find it they know it had to be this guy the Sun is down and it's starting to get dark he steps up to the door and starts knocking he then starts pounding on the door I'm pretty good at staying calm in a situation but my heart started beating so fast that my Fitbit had to change my heart rate tab every two seconds if he gets in here I'm going to have to kill this guy or he is going to kill me I could see pure hate in his eyes then he stops pounding at the door quickly he turns away and runs to his moped starts it and takes off faster than I thought a little bit could go not even a minute later the cops pull into the driveway I had mentioned to the dispatch operator that I have two dogs who will bark at the officer but will not attack unless give him a specific word they are trained and I do have a firearm I will leave the firearm inside when I go to meet the officer I met the officer the dogs didn't growl simply gave a single bark to let me know that someone was here I went outside to meet him and told him that the guy just took off on a moped he says oh yeah I just passed him when I turned onto the road I explained that he is an absolutely drunk all crazy and if he sees him on his way back that he should definitely pull him over because I'm quite positive he's under the influence of something normal people don't just act that way the cop basically shrugs everything off and says well are you gonna stay the night here I told him no I will leave the dogs overnight and come back in the morning I asked him to stay a while while I packed everything up and he nodded I go inside give the dogs 11 treats and create them for the night I take off and returned the next day with my dad my dad begins walking the perimeter to try and show him that a man is also staying here I'm a 24 year old female if you're wondering then Steve we're in that same dirty outfit and hat while holding the 24 case of Budweiser is standing at the end of the driveway again I'm watching him from the front window I see my dad at the other end of the yard as he comes into view Steve turns around and walks back to his house I later learned that Steve has been to jail multiple times due to domestic abuse his kids are not allowed to see him due to his violent nature and he bought a four-wheeler no one knows how he gets his money to get these things Terry and Johnny have never seen him leave for work they've only seen him leave on his moped or four-wheeler empty-handed for an hour or two and returned with a case or two of beer I don't know who he thought he was but every time he looked at that house in my direction there was just pure hate in his eyes who knows what would have happened if I didn't call the cops as early as I did but from now on if I have to dog-sit it definitely won't be at those people's house I got really lucky with my random roommate draw in college my roommate Mandy and I've ended up becoming best friends we still are although we live in different parts of the world now we keep in touch fairly often and I know I can always depend on her if I need her about two to three months into freshman year everything was going well we were going out together every weekend and both Davey and around I knew that before we went to college she had been in a relationship and she would still talk to her ex-boyfriend on and off her boyfriend Shane was in the military at that time I think he was in Germany she didn't straight-up say that he was abusive to her and it even took her years later to admit that he was but it was obvious from her stories that he was a scary guy I don't think that he ever got physically violent with her but I remember that she told me one time he threatened her that if she cheated on him he would send black girls to her house with knives pretty weird and racist but sending anybody to your house with knives is scary also anytime that she attempted to completely cut off contact with him and block his number on social media he would make hundreds of accounts and even email her to harass her obviously from what she told me it was clear that this guy was a piece of crap I think Mandy talked to him online a lot more than she ever told me at this time if he was in the background of my mind because I had never met him and she was seen a few other guys at our College about halfway through the year we stopped hanging out as much basically there was a fight in our friendship group and we took different sides we weren't mad at each other but there was definitely a bit of a divide through the year I had met tons of people at parties when I was drunk and didn't remember all of them as a result if I saw someone request me on Facebook who went to my college I assumed we had already met and I accepted them one of the girls names was Vanessa I don't remember exactly when she added me but she slowly started messaging me I would ask what I was doing on the weekend I wouldn't reply too much or because I already had friends to go out with and it wasn't keen to meet up with people that I didn't remember Vanessa's photos were a bit more provocative nothing too out there but just a little bit sexier than average there was also another girl Manny who had added me I didn't really remember adding her either but she would also message me from time to time and ask that I did for fun from her profile that looked like she didn't go to my college but was going to go there the next semester she looked a bit more innocent and basic I thought I was being nice and helping by replying back to her since she was going to be a new student there soon one night I was chilling and smoking with my friends what Vanessa message to me she says something like me and my man are in town we have a hotel room want to meet up I actually would be into having a threesome but I was pretty sketched out since I didn't really know this girl or her boyfriend I'm very high at this point when suddenly this girl sends about a hundred pictures of her performing a specific act on her boyfriend I was completely taken by surprise and disgusted no one likes a picture like that the weird part was that they were all the same picture not a bunch of different pictures but literally 100 of the same picture then once I opened the photo I realized that was kind of a timeline thing like how you see at the bottom of the screen when you're watching a show and it shows how much time is left so this was from an adult video that someone paused screen shot and said to me 100 times I was completely freaked out and immediately I blocked the girl I went back to the room and told my roommate about it and tried a brainstorm who it might be that would catfish me and send those photos I was actually worried that it might be the roommate who shared the same suite as us she was in her own room but we all shared a bathroom she was obese and had really strange pictures of herself on Facebook she was always nice in person but we never talked to that much right when that happened my roommate Mandy mentioned there was some weird stuff on her toothbrush so I thought maybe this girl was trying to sabotage us or something then a couple of days later mani the innocent Facebook girl who had been messaging me asks so do you ever hook up with girls I immediately booked her to another catfish pretty sure no real girl would actually say that later that week some girl added me on Facebook I could tell straight away that it was a fake account but I checked out the profile and saw her likes were all stuff to do with the military over the next few weeks a bunch of obviously fake accounts tried to add me on Facebook and Instagram they all had similarities they all had sexy pictures had some mention of the military and were saying that there were lesbian or by the military connection is what stuck out to me and I realized it was probably Mandy's boyfriend when I asked her about it she admitted straight away that she thought it was him too someone had been adding her from a ton of fake accounts as well I think she was too embarrassed to say that it was probably him from the beginning this all happened between 2012 and 2013 now I can spot a fake count from a mile away I received Facebook requests from accounts that I could tell were shamed for years after that he had a way of targeting certain people he would add the last 50 or so people you added so then when he would request to follow you we saw that two of mutual friends and figured that's how you knew each other apparently over time he did that to all of Mandy's friends the crazy part I'm the only one who it didn't work on even her cousin was the same age as us ended up sending naked photos to him disguised as girls online Mandy and I have talked about it a lot and she thinks it's a sick way of trying to tell who her real friends are he has two kids now with some girl and he still will message me from Mandy's fake account but we'll never admit that it's him even when she calls him out for a little context I moved out from my family home around 10 months ago to go to a university across the country I have a very crazy hair color and very long hair so I've been noted by both friends and strangers many times about it and about how easy I am to spot from afar anyways I got myself a tiny first-floor apartment in a building in a very calm and family-friendly area around the city because of this I did not feel too unsafe about living on the first floor considering that my bedroom had a big window with transparent curtains only about half a meter up from the ground looking into a small grassy hill leading into a Foresti area behind the building I was quite excited about moving out for the first time so I happily overlooked this fact and the rude landlady besides of this city is within the Arctic Circle meaning that since it was summertime there was Midnight Sun also noteworthy it would eventually be no Sun at all for about two months during wintertime the landlady told me both and the other female student that I lived with that the small area behind the apartment building that our windows looked into were off-limits no one would ever walk there so it was supposedly safe to keep the curtains open at all times in order to reach this area a person has to either climb over a 3 meter tall wooden fence that went below the area ground or climb this about two meters off the ground wall leading up to the foundation level and the grassy area outside my window there's nothing in this area but a strip of grass and in wintertime deep masses of snow that goes all the way up to the window a few weeks after moving in I started feeling a little creeped out for seemingly no reason I would sit at my desk and read and feel as if someone could be watching me from behind the trees on the other side of the fence as it started getting darker I realized that anyone from the outside could easily watch me as if I lived in an aquarium when the apartment was all lit up then one day as stupid as it sounds I was trying to get a good selfie light in front of the window where I'm at and suddenly walked by it really startled me and I almost dropped my phone by the surprise so I sat down for a moment and laughed to myself thinking about how silly it must have looked with me pressed up against the window all consumed with myself I tried to reason with myself that it was probably just some man taking a shortcut to somewhere else or maybe it was the caretaker of the building so I just drew the curtains together and left it at that from then on every now and then I would suddenly see the man walking past my window always when the curtains were open it would happen when I was sitting at my desk studying or sitting in my bed watching TV I could see someone from the corner of my eye walk by slow enough for me to turn and register to be the same fully grown kind of gray-haired man in a blue jacket but it was never long enough for me to take notice and his facial features or anything distinctive by walking there you could get a full view of my room and me sitting at my desk at the time I started thinking about the landlady's claimed that no one was supposed to ever be walking back there so I asked my roommate if she had noticed anyone walking out there - she laughed - asking if I was even sure that I saw someone now these events did not happen that often but often enough for me to really start wondering if it was not just a shortcut that this man was taking I half jokingly texted my parents about it telling that I was an easy victim with the aquarium window and transparent curtains my mother naturally freaked out and decided to send me some non see-through light blocking curtains before they ever arrived I started noticing that this man did not just walk by my window once sometimes maybe a half a minute later he would return from the other way and then walk by again I have to point out once more how narrow this area is making it so that his jacket would almost slide across my window while walking past after the new curtains arrived the problem seemed to be solved I could finally sleep at night again and thought no more of it lived my life unbothered until I finally went back to my hometown for Christmas it was when I returned back that I realized something was definitely going on I had began dating a guy and brought him home to watch movies during which the curtains were open and it was pitch black outside one night where for unknown reasons I felt very restless and my insomnia was just more terrible than usual I woke up around 5:00 a.m. and peeked out the window to see deep enlarged footprints in the snow stopped me very close in front of my window they also let across the area but judging from the shape of the footprints it seemed that this person had walked back and forth now this alone is very creepy the idea that someone had been standing there close to the window trying to peek through the gaps of the curtains but there was more yellow snow everywhere under the window yellow drops on my windowsill this psycho hadn't hissed on my window I was exhausted and tired so I did not think it through right away I just told myself it was indeed nasty and creepy but perhaps it was just some guy stumbling home drunk after a night out and needed to relieve himself as I woke up more though I realized that it was very illogical for a drunk to manage to climb his way up there not to mention that he would choose a window instead of a wall as the Sun went up I looked out the window more and it just seemed way too determined that someone would just choose my window out of the row it seemed kind of personal and angry I was living alone at this point - as my roommate had moved out a few months earlier the curtains into her room were always open and as I want to check the footprints had just walked right past the window towards mine while trying not to freak myself out too much I thought about previous suitors and all that people that might be pissed off that I was seeing someone new but it really did not fit their character then I remembered that man who had been walking outside my window in the months after I first moved in maybe he had been watching me this entire time and did this to mark his territory or something sick like that as for recently things did not work out what the gaya was seen and since then nothing more as far as I can tell now that the snow is melting it's hard to tell if somebody is out there at night and I always keep my curtain closed I'm still freaked out and I wanted to color my hair back to a normal color so I wasn't so noticeable I can't wait to return to my hometown again for this summer so I can finally feel safe while sleeping at night you

Channel: Being Scared

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Id: ePlUPIc6ye8

Length: 183min 40sec (11020 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 14 2019