Sleep with 1 Eye Open Horror Stories | True Scary Stories | Vol 5

this happened last Friday and I'm still stumped for reference I am a male in my late 20s and live with my girlfriend who is currently away on business I work for a large financial institution in the UK and often work very late as I hate bringing work home for some background info we bought our current house a few weeks ago and during the moving process I was away with work leaving it down to my partner and a few friends my car has also recently had a complete electronic failure so we are down to using just her car the house itself is located in a small gated community off the country road on the outskirts of an upmarket town in the UK it's surrounded by woodlands and if you didn't live there I know someone that does chances are you wouldn't have heard or even knew it existed in total there are eight houses in the community and the main gate gives access to the first six where my house is located and there's a further two gates at the top of the road which lead to two very large mansion style houses the houses which haven't got individual gates are about 100 feet away from each other and have enclosed rear gardens and the neighbors are all business type who are very often at work and keeping themselves anyway about two days ago after leaving for my business trip I get a call from my girlfriend who seems shaken and tells me that there's a man standing in the garden and that she can't see his face but he's walking around and crouching in the tree line so concerned but not 100% convinced that she does have a vivid imagination and it's the first time she's been home alone in her new house I told her to lock the doors go into the bedroom and call the police if she sees them again I returned to her Sydney's train station on Tuesday and agree with my girlfriend that she'll pick me up in her car then I'll take it home as she's scheduled to go to Manchester for a conference I meet up with her grab a coffee and see her off to the train then drive the car back to our house it's roughly 9 p.m. I parked the car in the driveway head inside I shower watch some reruns of king of the hill and a head up for bed I get awoken with a light being shined into my bedroom window from downstairs I get up to investigate crouching to avoid being seen and head into the study next to our bedroom and open up the curtains to cover the French doors that lead to a small balcony my heart drops when I see that there's a man that has now moved towards a back door and is trying the handle the house is an l-shape so although I can see him you can't see me without moving around from the back door he stops for a while begins flashing the light on and off back into the woods before walking calmly back into them I call the police and make a report nothing happens on Wednesday but on Thursday when I'm giving our cat a bath I hear the garage door being messed with I'm in the bathroom directly behind the garage so I'm moving to the kitchen and get a knife before I head into the garage to check what's going on when I enter the garage so noises stop and I hear running down the driveway and away from the house I call the police and they send an officer around to check the property all they find is small knife marks and scuffs on the bottom of the garage door on Friday I get my car delivered from the dealership and decide to work from home I also parked my car in the garage leaving my girlfriend's in the driveway around 11 p.m. I'm in the upstairs study listening to music and working when I find myself freezing I thought I was gonna stop breathing as I felt like someone was watching me turning to face the French doors I see a man nondescript looking around 35 wearing a coat gloves he was carrying what looked like a torch standing on my balcony our eyes met now filled with rage I get one of my golf clubs from the golf bag and charge towards the door he climbs down the balcony and runs off into the woods I've never seen this man in my life before and I'm sure it's the man that's been causing the problems recently it also dawned on me that he would have only seen my girlfriend before and only seen her car maybe he thought she lived alone I notified the police and have bought some security devices and installed them on my property as well as parked in my car in the driveway with hers we don't know who he is or why he's doing this but we're hoping it doesn't happen again Update sorry for the amount of time that has elapsed since I posted this originally life has been hectic and in all honesty these events have become more personal and traumatic which resulted in searching for our next home so we'll be able to get out but due to the lockdown situation in UK our search has been on hold when I was 18 I was living in a small town I was friends with the ratty skaters around and they helped me connect with this dude that sold me weed he was around 30 at the time he gave me pretty good deals and lived nearby I wasn't driving at the time so it was convenient for me his name was max max has always struck me as a weird dude but I honestly quite liked his weirdness not in a romantic way or anything but I like weird people we had normal buying interactions that never lasted more than 10 minutes buy some pot smoke a bowl that's it he'd often tell me he could drop it off at my house but I never let him know where I lived because as I said before he was weird I wasn't afraid of him but was definitely aware that he and his offers to deliver were weird one day in May 2000 18 I was invited to a bonfire by the same rioting skaters that introduced me to this guy I had no idea that he'd be there nor was it important to me at all I brought the guy I was dating at the time and said hey to everyone including max we stayed for a couple hours and some of them played some music on their guitars near the time I was leaving the bonfire around 11:00 p.m. Max was getting upset about something and through is a guitar in the bonfire I didn't know what he was angry or upset about and paid no mind to it this happened as I was leaving with the guy I was dating I got home and went to bed when I woke up there are paragraphs on paragraphs of crazy text from max ranging from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. like a constant stream of text stating things such as you know how much I loved you you are a cruel [ __ ] he would go back and forth between saying I would give you the world if he let me and you really deserve him though he said some scary things like you're a predator and should be snubbed out just wait and you are stuck I will either love you or to the fullest extent of my powers behold right now I pay the worst death on you and that [ __ ] boy [ __ ] to top it all off he said losing you is like losing a mother to me and told me to tell him I never loved him and that I wouldn't hear from him again if I did so that's what I did I said I never loved you don't message me again and left it at that I didn't get a response nor did I care to get one max never expressed any romantic interest ask me out or anything this is all out of nowhere and he was 11 years older than me I was barely 18 that night he cut all his hair off and posted naked photos on Facebook curled up in the fetal position talking about being a statue of shame it's as if he had a breakdown but I had no intent of causing that and didn't think I would offend anyone by bringing the guy I was seeing everyone else seemed to like the guy abroad about a week later max text me pretty late at night and asked me if I saw the flowers he spread along my sidewalk saying that he stole every flower in the vicinity of my neighborhood that night I asked him how he knew where I lived and said I hadn't seen any flowers so you must have got the wrong house I also told him he shouldn't do that as I never felt anything for him and so on he told me that he had heard I lived in the same block as another skater guy we were both friends with and he wasn't wrong the skater guy lived by was on the other side of the block and I never walked that way so I never saw the flowers I blocked his number didn't hear from him again for weeks weeks later I woke up after a rough night and there were loads of flowers on the sidewalk right outside my house along with a little bouquet at the top of my walkway I was pissed I wasn't scared yet cuz stupidly I am blocked his number and text him asking why the [ __ ] were there so many flowers outside my house this confirmed that he did indeed know where I lived and I still to this day feel so stupid for texting them and making it known that after weeks he had found my house he responded saying hmm sounds nice twas me I basically [ __ ] out and block his number again about a week later I was out of town and my roommate texted me a photo of a heart with a peace sign inside of it and my name written under it drawn in chalk outside my house when I got back into town I went to the courthouse and begin the process of giving a stocking order against him when I left the courthouse I went to Max's work and told him that he needed to stop the behavior and that he was stalking me he looked me straight in the eyes with no facial expression and said if you don't leave I'm calling the cops I got angry or said call the cops I was just talking to them about you and then I left his work in a rage soon after this I began driving again I once drove by him and he noticed me next day I woke up with my cars covered in flowers I presented my case to the judge and she put a stocking order in place he was served with it by police officers and I thought he wouldn't bother me again I was wrong after the stocking order was served he made several other chalk messages on my sidewalk left random gift for me like chalk and beheaded my little pony heads on beer bottles I always brought these things to the police station but they said I need to catch him doing a take a photo or get him on a security camera I got a security camera and really hoped I would catch him it turned out my security camera was stupid I had to skip through second-by-second by hand it was an impossible task I was terrified leaving my house at night at this point I never had my curtains open any more and I was so frustrated that my livelihood was being taken away from me ultimately I unblocked his number in hopes that if he would text me he'd be violating the stalking order after a few days it worked he sent me we were texting something like forgive me we are charming this is harming let us try again by now it's September and he finally goes to jail he's facing up to a year in jail it has to save their entire court date I'm finally starting to calm down and able to go outside at night even if it's just to go to my car but I even let myself have the curtains open sometimes I am starting to feel alive again bright when I start to feel secure my small-town life someone posted bail and he's released only after 3 months in jail and I went back to living in fear we still had some court dates coming up and I was optimistic that he would serve more time for ruined my life for so long his lawyer kept pushing the court date back to gather evidence and after six months of pushing it back the state decided he wouldn't do anything anymore and basically closed the case I moved out of town about three hours away so he didn't actually have an option to continue his behavior living in this new place I feel saved I can walk at night I don't have to have my curtains closed all the time it's been over a year since they decided to close the case about a month ago he he began to respond to my friends Instagram stories friends that lived here in this new town telling them how fond of me he was I have always had him blocked but my Instagram isn't private so he may have found me that way I have since changed my account to private and he hasn't messaged any more of my friends I refuse to be fearful now the way I was then he will never find where I live or where I work now however my life changed after this experience I will always be more aware of people and their weird energy I will always close my curtains early in the evening and make sure all the windows and doors are locked I will always live in a bit of fear maybe not of him but if it happening again he ruined my life for a year and I truly wish he had gotten more time in jail he deserves it so max let's never meet again I'm a male when I was 19 I'd really got into weightlifting at my university rec center there was a massive complex with multiple weight rooms two indoor tracks Olympic swimming pool the works I would lift four or five times a week and often cool off with laps in the pool one day in the weight room I was approached by this guy named Brett he didn't look like a student he was older probably in his late 30s early 40s but very friendly the rec center wasn't just for students and anyone could purchase a membership casual conversations is pretty common in gyms and I was so naive in those days I didn't even think anything of it when he asked me personal questions like where I was from or where it worked which was a grocery store in my hometown the next town over I didn't see this guy at the gym every day but it was common to run into him multiple times a week we chipped the [ __ ] for a bit and I began to sense that he was more interested than just saying hi he mentioned that he had been in my grocery store where I worked and didn't see me there and wanted to know what my schedule was despite me being naive I immediately recognized that this was not normal and I didn't want to talk to this guy anymore I lied and told him my schedule was different every week and got back to my workouts one day not long after I was walking into work at the start of my shift which was 9:00 a.m. and he was there just hanging around he called out and tried to talk to me but I told him hey man I got to go to work after that I didn't really talk to him in the gym anymore looking for me and my job was too weird and it really pissed me off he'd approached me and I'd coldly say hey and look away the final straw was one evening when I had just finished swimming laughs the shower room was an open room with four shower stands each one had four nozzles pointing north south east and west so four people can use at the same time no curtains no partitions which may seem odd these days but I never thought anything of it since I grew up swimming at a pool I was in there alone showering my swim trunks were drying on the rack I glanced towards the doorway and saw this [ __ ] peeking around the doorway watching me shower he immediately ducked back and was gone by the time I finished up and went to get dressed I went straight to the service counter and reported what had happened Ali knew his first name but they seemed to know who I was talking about I never saw him after that I'm a 19 year old female and at the time that this all happened I was 17 so just to give you some long and necessary background I was and still I'm dating a guy named Kyle that's not his real name but go with it we shared a small group of friends we were all pretty close to each other we almost did everything together especially when it involves smoking and doing other hard substances they were all pretty chill and trustworthy friends or so I thought anyway one day two weeks before my junior year started I was hanging out with the group at one of their houses I just so happened to fall asleep after a while being there I woke up maybe five minutes later to one of my friends touching my inner thigh just a note that was all he female on this group and my boyfriend wasn't there when this occurred when the front touching me noticed that I woke up he immediately stopped and I ran to the bathroom crying I have been sexually assaulted before so just going through it again isn't the greatest feeling a few minutes passed by when I left the bathroom I pulled one of my friends aside and told them what happened his response shocked me he said he saw what happened but didn't stop him I don't know why he did it and I guess I'll never know that same friend told me not to tell Kyle because you didn't want our friendships to be ruined well I obviously told Kyle that night and he was understandably pissed off we came to an agreement that we would no longer be friends with them anymore a few days went by still avoided in the group and we would receive a lot of messages from them but they were shocking and hurtful messages saying that I'm being overdramatic that it's my fault that it happened exactly nothing happened he didn't really sexually assault me and so on I was pretty destroyed reading all those messages coming from those so-called friends but for some stupid reason we all became friends again when school started I know what you're thinking why would you go back to that shitty group of friends I guess our only lame excuse is we hate confrontation and we wanted things to go back to normal I wanted to feel normal again well obviously it wasn't the best idea taking those friends back especially the one who touched me because it started to really affect me mentally I became super depressed I developed really bad trust issues with everyone including my boyfriend I would constantly have panic attacks throughout the day and started self-harming again I was extremely suicidal and I was failing all my classes because I rarely showed up to school the school attendance and staff had no idea what was wrong with me I would refuse to tell them and my family one day came around and I couldn't hold it in anymore I told my family and at first they were supportive but then it changed quickly I don't really want to go in details but for a long time I really felt alone later on around November 2017 my boyfriend did something behind my back with another girl he didn't cheat on me he just sold some girl pot but for some odd reason I mentally got worse I just didn't know how to cope with anything that has happened to me I started mentally abusing my boyfriend like extremely bad to where he hated himself deep down it made me happy I wanted someone else to feel pain too but it got so bad where we broke up twice but got back together the same time each day we were in high school now fast forward to around February 2018 one night that's when it happened I was having trouble sleeping and it was getting late I also had school the next morning so I was getting pretty frustrated finally around 1 a.m. I started dozing off I found myself awake about 10 to 15 minutes later I noticed a tall figure standing across the room in my closet at first I thought it was my older brother messing with me because he's done stuff like that before as I tried to say his name I couldn't that's when I realized I couldn't speak I couldn't move I was paralyzed so I'm staring at this figure in my closet wondering what the [ __ ] is happening the figure starts moving closer to me then I noticed that it kind of looks like it's floating towards me I can throw myself panicking but I can't move or say anything when the tall figure reaches the side of my bed I kid you not it bent over and grabbed my nose now I couldn't breathe through my nose or mouth I'm just staring at this dark figure its face was so close to mine but I couldn't make out any of its features I felt my heart trying to break out on my chest my lungs hurting like hell because I couldn't breathe I legitimately thought I was gonna die but suddenly I quickly sat up gasping for air I looked around my room for that figure but it wasn't there I was scared I was terrified I didn't know what just happened I just thought it was the most realistic nightmare of my life I mean I guess that kind of thing happens right the next morning when I boyfriend picked me up for school I told him about the realistic nightmare he said that's creepy and that was that a few weeks later I brought it up to my older brother and that's when he told me that I probably had sleep paralysis I had no clue what it was but after hearing the definition and doing some research I was really freaked out I read online that stress anxiety depression and other things like that can cause sleep paralysis I realized that everything that had been happening to me recently played a big part in my sleep paralysis episode that night I'll be lying if I said I didn't have trouble sleeping for a while after that but I eventually got over it but every now and then I get a little nervous to go to sleep fast forward to now 2020 Kyle and I are doing well better than ever we are ready in our own apartment we have two cats and they are absolutely amazing our three-year anniversary is next month and we're extremely excited on another note September 22nd 2019 I was diagnosed with extreme depression and anxiety disorder but I now go to therapy and take medication to help with that I've honestly never felt better and happier oh and in case you're wondering we no longer hang out with those city friends anymore the story happened when my best friend and I were 15 years old we had to take an important exam at end of the year so we attended some private sessions in order to prepare because of this we could only hang out on Saturdays after 5:00 p.m. we were at the mall and after a bit of window shopping she asked me to come outside in the park so she could smoke a cigarette she took it from her mother but I didn't smoke I never liked it I accepted as I was used to her requirement so we were in the malls park walking while she was smoking that damn cigarette it was like 6 p.m. but it was already dark outside as this happened in winter let me describe the place we were at this is a large park full of trees and big rectangular shaped bushes on the side aisle there were some restaurants a full 10 meter gap an exit to a dark street and to the parking lot there was another big space and a place for skating we thought we were a hundred percent safe as we were still walking on the Malta property we arrived near a strange exit when a man about five nine approaches and asked his first cigarette my friend tells him that she doesn't have any more cigarettes that she got it from someone else too he seemed like he was in his late 40s was unshaved and wearing a red hood which almost covered his eyes I tell him that we have to go to which you responds with some incoherent words we both knew something was off so he took a step back why are you scared I won't do anything to you he said as he was still approaching don't worry I meet a lot of girls like you he said then start to mumble another word under his breath that we couldn't understand we didn't know what to do we didn't know if he had any weapons behind us was a big bush in front of us was him if we chose to run in different directions he'd be able to catch at least one of us and take one of us with him there weren't many people but the ones who were passing by didn't seem to care about our terrified looks my friend started to repeat that she was sorry but she couldn't help him and I think one of the passer buyers hurt her fortunately a man about 63 they looked a lot younger and stronger than the creep stopped and asked why he was bothering us but wasn't given a response my friend took the chance crushing the cigarette with her foot as quickly as possible and started running I as a complete idiot remained frozen for a few more seconds and looked into our saviors face then started to spurning we didn't stop running until we were sure that he couldn't see us anymore both of them left and we got back into the mall safely and we never told anyone about this encounter I was seven years old my brother was about ten it was well past her bedtime when her mom woke up off the couch and put us to bed our dad worked construction out of town back then so is often just us three at the house for weeks at a time up the stairs and immediately to the right was my parents bedroom don't we left put you in the middle the hallway taking another left down the hallway led you to my brother's room the opposite end was my room which was also across the hall from our upstairs bathroom at either end of the hallways our window doors we always kept lock and rarely used the door on my end led to a balcony overlooking our front yard and the door my brother's end opened to the back porch as a house leans on a small hill my brother and mom are both in the habit of waking up in the middle of night to use the bathroom I only knew this because I was always a light sleeper and they just couldn't help flushing with the door wide open this night however my brother stopped on his way back to his room and came back towards the bathroom I'm gonna try to go pee before I go to bed the past few nights I've been too afraid to walk to the bathroom I keep seeing man wearing stripes at the end of the hallway I don't know if my mom wrote it off as my brother telling ghost stories or trying to scare me or she was just half asleep and didn't catch it but she didn't react to my brother's confession at all I on the other hand was terrified by it the fear seen a ghost like that at the end of the hallway through the windows is the reason where I started running up the stairs to my bedroom at night years later when I was about 18 my mom and I were having a conversation in the car about the dog we had for a very short time when I was little we were sharing stories about max tendencies towards destroying my shoes and other unruly behaviors when I mom blurted out do you remember that time when I opened the front door for the cops and max ran inside the kitchen and started tearing open the bag of dog food we had this really caught me by surprise because in all the ten years I lived in the house and we never once called the cops or ask her what she's talking about she looked equally sip prai's as if she just revealed something by accident oh that's right I never told you because you're too young at the time so one night I woke up hearing noises outside my window when I looked I saw a man staring into my bedroom she wanted to describe how turning on the light caused him to take off running and has to grab my dad's pistol before calling the cops I can't remember all the details I gave them back then when they showed up it was a tall white male wearing striped shirt and jeans short dark hair something like that they said it matched the description of a man they were looking for in the area it turns out that he had escaped jail on a murder charge I know it sounds obvious hearing those stories back-to-back but it wasn't until a few years ago in my mid-20s that it pieced it together down my brother had unknowingly warned us about a murderer who spent multiple nights casing our home it was about 12:30 or 1:00 a.m. and I was driving home from the movie theater my friends and I had just watched the conjuring which put my mind in the creepiness fueled hyper aware state I was driving through the downtown am I not small not big town and downtown is kind of like an old historical looking district usually there are very large crowds of people outside of this one downtown bar called the Grove but it was raining and drizzling even though it was raining it was a Saturday night and I live in a part of Florida where people learn not to care about light rain so I was a little surprised to literally see no one no one put this lone woman I'm at a red light next to the Grove and I see this lone woman standing at the edge of the intersection that I'm stopped at she's not moving she just standing on my sidewalk to the right of me staring about 45 degrees up into the sky in the direction that I am currently headed at I look at her as light changes to green and I Drive past I Drive slowly almost hoping for her to look down and make eye contact because the way she was staring upward was confusing and just comforting she doesn't look down at me though she just keeps staring upward down the road that I'm driving on so I pass her and just think to myself that girl is freaking weird whatever I hope she's OK to get home or something like that I driven down the road several blocks still thinking about how weird that girl was then I see a man standing alone on the sidewalk to the left of the road I'm on almost perfectly marrying the girl the man is standing there complete staring up in a 45-degree angle into the sky but he's looking directly in the direction of the girl at the very least the two were four blocks away from each other there's literally no way they could see each other but they're both looking at the same exact direction of each other just up into the sky what were they looking at why were they alone why were they not moving I still haven't guessed the reason to any of these what did I Drive under before I get started I want to inform everyone that I will be changing the names of the people involved for privacy reasons and I can say that this is 100% true let me tell you a little background about my house set up this will come in handy further in this story I live in a small trailer with my parents and five siblings I am the oldest being 16 and I'm a female the trailer I live in if you walk in from the front door you're straight in the living room then going left through the large French doors you're in the kitchen furthermore off the small kitchen a tiny hallway is located there which has two doors the door at the end of the hallway was my brother's room and the room on the left was mine and my sister's and in the front of the house past the living room is another hallway that leads to a small bedroom that's my parents room this happened in the summer about two years ago I have always been around the paranormal and my parents have always believed that I'm the cause of it when I was born a lot of unexplainable things started happening and it has followed me everywhere I came home from going out with some friends and my sister for this story I will call her Ana was only six at the time and was deep asleep we had a bunk bed I was on the bottom bunk as I had to wake up in the morning for school I opened my door around 11 p.m. after taking a shower checked on Ana who was sleeping with her eyes open I was used to it and I got on to my bed and grabbed my phone to watch some videos I must have been on the phone for some time as when I went to lay down for bed as I had school tomorrow the time read 2 a.m. now for everyone to know I have really bad tinnitus so I needed white noise before going to sleep tonight I decided on some music after 10 minutes of searching I found some tunes that I liked I then shut my eyes but then started hearing small footsteps running down towards my room it sounded like it came from the living room I don't know if it is normal but I can tell who is coming near by the sound of footsteps but these were weird they were small so I knew they were children's but very light and definitely running I keep my eyes closed trying to think of who could potentially be approaching my room but I couldn't tell like I normally could I then heard my door open I heard a child giggle and I froze my eyes still shut and I knew that this was no one in my family after a few seconds I slowly opened my eyes to find a small girl maybe around the age of six looking like she was closing an invisible door she put her hands on the door the real one and laughed I froze again watching this girl who had a very old dress on which was a faded yellow with white lace on the bottom and the style of the dress reminded me of the Little House on the Prairie she then turned around and rested her back on the door and slid down putting her butt on the floor her knees up and the dress roughed she put her head onto her knees and giggled like she was hiding from someone playing a game I finally shifted my blankets making a small noise which made the small girl look over at me gasping like she didn't know I was in the room she had very long dark hair I want to say brown hair we locked eyes and then like mist in the Sun she vanished I freaked grabbed my phone and messaged my close friend so I could remember what happened and to calm myself down my heart be pounded and I counted sheep trying to calm down which must have worked as I woke up in the morning I went to school and told my close friend who was very concerned as she read my message after busting on me for smoking the devil's lettuce marijuana which I did not and she did actually believe me I came home and told my mom who looked at me eyes wide and told me I was lying and that I was trying to scare her I spoke up and told her no that this happened I have a message sent to my friend to prove it she then told me that around the same time she heard two kids playing out in the living room she got up very angry thinking it was Ana and my younger brother playing but she opened her door to find the living room empty confused she went to check on my brother and sister to see if they were asleep and they were this is only a small amount of what has happened to me and my family in this house I am writing this story in my apartment the day after this event occurred and I cannot feel at ease no matter how hard I try some context I am a 24 year old female 5'4 and 115 pounds I recently moved into a crappy apartment in a large city in Texas with my boyfriend we ended up in this place because we owed another apartment money at the time and in order to get a nicer place we needed to pay off that debt so we signed a short six month lease and though we paid off the debt already we have to finish the remaining months regardless as to not break another lease this current place is cheap very old as we unfortunately discovered not surrounded by the most trustworthy characters the layout of this apartment has a front entrance gate and as you enter it goes around in an upside-down u shape all the way to the exit gate the parking spots were all along the area in which you drive through the complex each apartment door has a semi-private entryway unless facing the street so it is hard to see exactly which door the person enters if you're in the parking spaces mine is one of the semi-private entry ways there are also dumpsters around each corner of turns throughout the u-shape our apartment is at the back left corner of this u-shape the first incident that occurred was rather unnerving to me considering this layout of our apartment it was 7 a.m. and I groggily opened our apartment door to head to work I looked down and my blue backpack that I kept in my car after moving was open and on the ground in front of me I wasn't starting my next semester of classes until a month from then so I had no reason to take it out or have much in it the few contents were thrown outside of the backpack and it was right on my doorstep I looked at it obviously weirded out and proceeded up and around the corner to see my car in the distance doors wide open I was of course pissed that somebody broke into my vehicle but I was extremely uneasy that they somehow knew whose car that must have belonged to considering the bag was right in front of my doorway this bothered me for some time but as it was the first week I forgot about it now I am in the fourth month of my stay at these apartments and I am beyond ready to leave and never come back yesterday morning was normal I got up got ready and hopped in my car as I was passing the dumpster a mere 30 feet away from where our cars are usually parked I rolled down my passenger window and chucked some crumpled up trash threw it into the dumpster something I do often to keep trash from piling up in my car and then I drove on my way my day was tiring due to having three finals and an appointment so once I got home I was relieved as I connected to Wi-Fi I saw my boyfriend and sent me a snapchat at 1:30 p.m. as he was heading to work at the time I opened the snapchat to find a picture of four police cars blocking off the turn near the dumpster weird a message to him it must have been a homeless guy or someone breaking into stuff he replied yeah I guess maybe it'll be on the news later or something i sat down thinking nothing of it which considering my normally overactive imagination was unlike me I went onto YouTube and was getting ready to chill for the remainder of the evening when my phone buzzed again I opened it to see a text from my boyfriend a link was attached showing a helicopter view picture of the corner of our apartments where the dumpster was sitting the title read body found an apartment complex dumpster on Northwest side I stared for a moment and then felt my face go numb and the slight feeling of nausea creep into my gut I immediately called my boyfriend and he seemed surprisingly unconcerned about the entire thing I on the other hand could only think of the decaying corpse of a person who I tossed trash onto unsuspectingly that morning apparently the body found was a woman 35 to 40 years old with blunt trauma to the head they don't know if she was killed in the complex or just dumped there the complex has its security gate broken and open half the time anyway so who knows all I know for sure is that I need to talk to the office about ending my lease right away because I no longer feel safe in this place I'd like to start this off by saying that I'm a 19 year old girl about 5:5 weighing 110 pounds to many people I'm considered tiny and approachable to give a little backstory I have worked at a pharmacy for the last year and a half mainly doing grunt work garbage runs filing masking boxes and the like along with my normal prescription filing duties my office is located in a pretty sketchy part of downtown in a major city it is on the third floor of a four-story building that faces a busy road in the front and an older run-down residential area to the back where the garbage bins are fenced in next to the underground parking entrance directly across the alley that the bins are in is a worn down yellow house that rarely sees the light through the overgrown trees and vegetation in the yard behind the gate I had never seen anyone in or around that house during my daily garbage runs though I did notice two very large cane corso dogs that were caged on the rickety deck I kept getting that feeling of being watched during one of my more recent trips to the bins and I hesitantly glanced towards the creepy yellow house to find nothing out of the ordinary now I'm an avid horror fan used to being a little bit spooked by cliches like creepy houses and spend my days being paranoid over everyday circumstances constantly looking behind my shoulder and being suspicious of everyone that moves around me so I chalked it up to me being paranoid the feeling never subsided so as I rushed to finish the job I took one last peek behind me and saw a very tall slender man with unkempt shaggy gray hair wearing a tattered white tank top with holes and stains peering out the bay window over the deck and straight at me at this point I had never known someone lived there as I had never seen anyone and my customer sir this instinct kicked in and I gave him the best polite smile that I could form he did not return it and continued to burn his eyes into my being and after what seemed like hours he slowly retreated back out of sight never breaking eye contact this was just my first encounter with this man but oh do I wish it was my only one the next few times were normal with me glancing every now and then to see nothing but the pitch-black inside of the house and a few birds fluttering around his yard until the day that is burned into my brain forever it was a hot and sunny Tuesday and I had worn a navy dress to keep me cool during the day the time comes for me to do my garbage trip and I grabbed my exacto knife that I used to break down cardboard and slipped it into my dress pockets pulling my small cart of cardboard and garbage or on the fence and then to the partially enclosed area of bins I look across the alleyway and see the man standing on his deck he walks over to the cages and lets the dogs out and they sprint down the stairs of the deck and up to the chain-link fence surrounding the yard and begin barking furiously in my direction after getting refocused on my job at hand I parry otic Lee peered over my shoulder and out of the corner of my eye to keep tabs on this man until the last time I did so when I could no longer see him standing on his deck but rather he was slinking along the sidewalk out of his fence and in the shadows of the trees from his yard he paced back and forth about thirty feet in each direction before spinning back and going the other way I began panicking and rushing catapulting the cardboard into the bin and that's when I heard the sound rocks from the gravel alley being stuffed under heavy footsteps I mustered up all the courage I could and turned my entire body to face the man my hand in my pocket gripping the knife tightly ready to defend myself to my horror the man was less than ten feet in front of me head down staring at the ground with one hand behind his back and the other in his pocket as he closed the gap between us I heard a voice from behind me to my left I turned to investigate the voice and it was a young man a tall gawky man probably around 23 or 24 that I had recognized from the cafe on the first floor with a garbage bag in his hands he asked me is that your cart I glanced towards the cart and dumbfounded I responded with yes he struck up a conversation with me and came close and rested his hand on my shoulder and looked me in the eyes and whispered come with me he grabbed my cart and began walking towards the building and this is when I turned back to look at the man who had scurried back across the alley to his fence scrambling to open the latch while shoving something into his pocket and cursing under his breath shooting daggers at the Kafe man when we made it back into the parking lot adjacent to our building he stopped and said I was on my way to the bins when I noticed that man coming toward you I hoped asking about your cart and being near you would deter him from whatever he was thinking of doing now you be safe and bring a partner every time you go down here or you can come grab me if no one else can we said our goodbyes and I thanked him profusely I never went down alone again after telling my co-workers what had happened to the young man in the cafe at the time your small talk seemed meaningless and forced but it very well could have been the reason that I am still alive I'd like to start off by saying my parents live on a plantation in the middle of nowhere in Mississippi I won't say specifically where due to privacy growing up it was me and my brother who is four years older than me and he's still my best friend to this day my dad was a farmer so me and my brother both grew up with a love for outdoors and adventure we have over 7,000 acres and a total of six barns my grandparents owned this land before my father inherited it I was 6 years old at the time of this encounter and my brother was 10 my mother had just passed and it was just us 3 left we were out one day exploring the barn my dad was out in the fields tilling to prepare for the crops we had coming in we ended up down in the community which was about two miles or so from our house which consisted of seven houses that were out in the woods by this time they were overgrown and under kept due to their lack of tenants who were in charge of the upkeep to give you a bit of insight into how these looked I will try my best to give a brief explanation they were all wooden houses one-story of course with a small porch and a large wooden door they had two windows on each side of the front door and windows all along the sides all broken the grass was waist high and the tree limbs had broken into the windows and some had even grown into the side of one of the houses my brother was carrying a machete to chop away some of the undergrowth so that we could get to them we entered the front house that was a bit bigger than the rest with tin on the roof and a brick chimney the steps broke under our feet and my brother had to help me climb up the porch had almost completely rotted by this point I'm not a tall girl and my legs are especially short making high cabinets and big steps difficult for me even now my brother went first opening the door with a heavy kick from the wood being warped and disfigured he shut the door the best he could behind us we entered the house to see most of the floor was missing revealing grass and even small trees growing through the floor rodents scattered every direction making me Yelp but my brother just laughed there was a mattress to the left and the springs were the only thing remaining all of a sudden we heard a loud crack right outside the door causing both of us to freeze where we were my brother whispered that it was probably a deer and to be super quiet so that we had a chance to see him we both slowly crept over to one of the windows to try to see outside and to see the deer we both had a love for animals and enjoyed watching them as we reach the window we heard very hushed voices and I very distinctly remember the deep growl of one of the voices telling the other shut up I don't know where they are I don't know where they went but I swear when we find them I will kill all of them I don't care I'll kill them all before I go to jail then he erupted into manic laughter that echoed through the woods I remember the look on my brother's face I knew he was terrified my brother was only 10 at the time but he was almost six feet and almost nothing scared him if he was scared I definitely knew that I should be too he whispered for me to crouch down so he couldn't be seen through the window I crept down next to a rotten couch that wreaked of decay the smell alone made me gag tears were spilling out of my eyes and I kept my hands over my mouth to keep my sobs quiet I bit down so hard on my hand I remember tasting blood my brother was peering over the side of the window his face white I heard limbs breaking as the trespassers were making their way toward every house to find us I remember thinking God that my brother had shut the door my brother motioned me to come towards him and I slowly crept to where he was trying to make as little noise as possible he told me that he was going to open the door and that when he did I needed to run all the way back to the house and try to find dad he kept nudging me towards the door and he was getting frustrated when I wouldn't move I heard one of the men tell the other one to check the big building and my heart froze the house we were in was significantly bigger than all the rest and I knew that they were coming for us we heard sticks snapping from every direction and in my child's mind I knew we were going to die nothing is scarier than thinking you're going to die at such a young age I was absolutely terrified I was behind my brother against the wall and he was holding my hand I remember how sweaty his shaking hand was and how fast his heart was beating he had the machete brandished like some sword in a sci-fi movie and I almost chuckled at the sight as scared as I was the door to the house was kicked open and there stood four men standing about six feet or so in height they all looked like they hadn't bathed in years and I could smell them from where they were standing they smelled of rotten meat and body odor their teeth were yellowing some missing and they looked like they had been beat up covered in bruises and blood the blond guy in the front was the first to speak his voice still terrorizes me to this day well look what we have here a knight in shining armor and a princess he laughed my brother spoke in a deepest voice he could manage this is my dad's land you better get out of here he he's got guns and he'll shoot you he knows where we are the blond guy chuckled shaking his head and took a step towards us the next thing he said chilled me to my core your daddy can't save you no one can and he took another step towards us he looked over at me and my blood went cold he smiled and I could see that he only had one front tooth and only a few were left in his menacing smile I loved pretty blond girls I'd love to take you with me my own pretty little girl I've always wanted a little girl I cried out and buried my face into my brother's back as I wept screaming for my dad daddy can't save you now he screamed and my brother lunged towards the guy and swung the machete as hard as he could almost knocking himself over from its weight all of the men started laughing maniacally my brother stepped closer to the men swinging the machete again coming inches from the blonde guy's face he leaned back to avoid the blow and started laughing louder the sound was like something out of the most awful horror movie I could hear the cracking in their voices their smiles made it even worse all of the men were in the house with us now and the lanky black-haired guy shut the door behind him they kept inching closer to us and my brother was telling me to stay behind him as he kept the machete pointed toward them then the most heavenly sound out of nowhere we heard a truck horn and my heart jumped into my throat the road leading to the community was maybe 200 yards from the house with few trees between it the guys went stopped straight and bolted out the door one of their legs fell through the floor and he quickly yanked it out and bolted we looked out to see my dad and cousins jumping out of his truck with their guns in hand they fired a few shots missing the guys by inches my dad ran into the house and scooped me up my brother was crying and my dad was too he hugged me and my brother so tight that day my dad never let us go near the community again and only let us go into the barns if he was with us he told me recently that he had thought we were dead already and he will never be happier than the day he found us alive as for the guys after my dad and cousins arrived they bolted deeper into the woods and my cousins pursued them but gave up after a mile or so my cousin still swears that he shot one of them in the leg but it was never confirmed my dad told my brother that he was coming to the barn for a drink and to rest for a minute and heard my screams and they immediately followed them to us my brother and I both received intense counseling for the next few months afterwards I'm 22 years old and I still wake up in a panic reliving the worst day of my life with those awful men I am so thankful for my brother for doing his best to keep me alive I'm even more thankful for my dad and cousins and that they had given the fields arrest even if just for a moment god only knows what would have happened to us if they had not shown up it scares me to this day to think about it in high school some friends and I really enjoyed exploring abandoned buildings in the small city I was in and climbing occupy buildings we generally went as a group of 3 to 5 - people didn't feel safe enough and 6 felt like we made too much noise and would get caught these two experiences happened when I decided to go with only one other person the first experience was my junior year of high school when a close friend and I decided to go to a 5-story warehouse and cotton mill compound at around 9 p.m. in the late fall the majority of the night was uneventful and I really liked this place because it was big and open and you could generally see to the other side of the warehouse 300 to 400 feet on each floor however on the third floor there was an office building and in the basement a very damp dark and cramped storage area we wandered the first floor for about 45 minutes before going to the basement because there were generally cool signs that we could snag to decorate our rooms the entire time we were down there I felt like there was someone behind us peering out from around the corners and through the fences dividing the storage areas but every time I turned around we were very much alone I never heard anything just that feeling I didn't say anything because I didn't want to seem scared for no reason so we continued without any actual incident and moved to the second and then third floor the third floor is one I generally steer clear of because of how claustrophobic it made me feel in the darkness with only two flashlights to reveal the surroundings the office spaces were laid out with one long hallway running the short side of the building and multiple long hallways running the length of the building these long hallways had small square rooms on either side and the white walls were covered in spray paint tags quotes and artwork as my buddy walked into one of these rooms I once again had this funny feeling and I turned around shining my light back down the hallway and looking into the short corridor that we had just come from as I did this I saw shadow at the right side of the doorway and watched it quickly dart to the left across the doorway and deeper into the building away from the stairs I immediately called out to my friend and told him what I saw he thought I was messing around and trying to scare him I told him no because I had a rule that we don't scare others while exploring because someone could get hurt convinced that I had actually seen something we left as quickly as we could and I explained the feeling I had when we were in the basement which he stated he had felt as well but didn't want to seem scared either I still do not know what or who that was it still creeps me out because my flashlight was the only light source there this floor has no windows and it was a distinct shadow from my flashlight though I never saw anything to create the shadow even though it crossed in front of the light the second experience was at an abandoned grain plant a few miles outside of town the building is about 18 storeys tall has a small office space connected to the bottom and is surrounded by massive 10-story cone-shaped buildings which I think were silos but we could never really figure out what they were exactly I was with my girlfriend and she really wanted to go exploring with me so we decided to go there that night when we arrived the area already felt weird because it was bright and everything had a brownish tint to it even though it was midnight we hadn't pulled out the flashlights yet and there was no moon that night I just decided that our eyes were adjusted to the darkness and moved on as we walked the two football field access road to the plant it became eerily quiet no wind or movement of any kind the only sound we heard was the leaves under our feet once we got to the overgrown parking lot and loading docks at the base of the building we stood and stared up at the tower and hesitated she turned to me and said that she didn't feel right about this I told her she wasn't alone because I had a feeling of dread about going up even though I only had fun and happy experiences here even late at night we decided to go home and watch movies instead and we both still believe that if we had gone up there that night something terrible would have happened I must insist that I am an adrenaline junkie and normally do not shy away from these experiences but for some reason that night I had the urge to turn and run I don't know if a stair would have given out on the exterior of the tower ten plus stories off the ground or of someone or something malicious was waiting up at the top but I am glad I spent the night watching movies and eating microwave popcorn instead this happened in 2015 when my husband and I were together we've since separated and perhaps this story will help you understand why he and I married that year and he always was a little off sometimes more off than on he served in the military and was proud of his time served and I was proud of him too however he had a tendency toward visual hallucinations I'm not sure if it's the PTSD or his familial history of mental illness but he saw things usually it happened while driving once he saw an 8-foot spider casing the side of a barn while we were riding along the road he asked me if I saw it he was panicking I didn't see it let me paint a picture my mom lives deep deep in the rural South further down her Road our old houses people still live in and use outhouses to this day they collect rainwater to drink etc before you get to my mom's Road there's a well-kept farmhouse pretty close to the main highway my sister says she's seen a dozen men walking out in the fields behind that house dressed immaculately in white suits I promise everything that what I'm saying is true to the best of my knowledge my husband and I pulled into the highway one night after dusk and our gaining speed as we passed that house he's driving and I'm in the passenger side head back and the farmhouses on the right of the car suddenly my husband swerves and screams my eyes open in a blur I see a white human shaped creature running at the car pale white maybe gray skin crazed angry eyes I don't recall that it was wearing clothing I just remember the flash of white skin and those eyes human eyes unmistakably human with all the rage and wild contempt that only a human being could be capable of it was running right for my door but we passed it right before it made it to the car my husband screamed and asked if I had seen it I don't know why I can't tell you why but I told him that I didn't he described it to me and I reiterated that I had not seen it later on I confessed that I did actually see it so I'm not a complete liar I can't let go of the feeling that it wanted to do harm to one of us it seemed I had locked eyes with it but it was only a split second so I wonder what my mind had filled in to make sense of the situation much more strange things happen to my husband and me but I can't talk about those things I feel safe enough describing this however for some reason he seemed like a beacon for the unusual and the unexplainable he and I separated due largely to his decreasing mental health so I'm not sure what he's been seeing these days but I know that we both saw something that night I'm just not sure what it was I remember about three or four years ago me my stepmom and my stepsister were pretty bored in the house and decided to take a walk around the trail to our local park when we got there it was crowded with people people playing basketball playing tennis playing volleyball and soccer lots of people were having picnics and family barbecues as well it was nice seeing all the friendly faces and seeing people having a good time that made me have good vibes and I was in the mood to start moving around and get to walking we started making our way to the trail the trail started right under the shaded part of the park where everyone was barbecuing and playing music we started walking and after about 10 minutes I realized that we were the only people walking the trail the trail wasn't that big if he walked at a normal pace you would lap around the trail once every 15 to 20 minutes we lapped around the trail once and I noticed a guy that was randomly standing on the side of the trail I couldn't tell if he was looking at us or not because I have bad eyesight and I didn't wear glasses at the time but as we got closer to him I realized that he was indeed looking at us as we walked by I didn't think much of it at all I just assumed that he was checking out my step-mom because a lot of men thought that she was very attractive about five minutes after that we were on this part of the trail where it kind of went into the woods out of sight from anyone me and my stepmom were talking about something random when we both heard footsteps behind us we both looked back it was the man who was looking at us earlier my stepmom and I looked at each other but still thought nothing of it he was about six hundred feet behind us not close enough for us to suspect anything so about two minutes after that I looked back again to see if he was still there and he wasn't what the hell I slipped up and said I was really confused we were too deep in the wooded side of the trail for him to have turned around and walked back so quickly but I just brushed it off as we made it out of the wooded part of the trail we saw the man again this time he was walking towards us smiling Hey ladies he said he looked at each of us looking for a response I shot him a friendly smile my stepsister wasn't even paying attention because she was on her phone with her earphones in my step-mom says hello how are you doing and then he began making small talk with my stepmom saying things like it's such a beautiful day today isn't it or this is just the perfect day I started to get a little tired of fake smiling and acting like I cared about how much this man loved the day and how it made him feel I guess he caught on to my annoyance by him and he says well it was nice talking to you fine young women enjoy the rest of your day we walked off I glanced behind me and he was watching us walk away this is when I started getting weird vibes from him we wanted to walk around the trail at least two more times before we left so after we walked around the trail for another lap we saw the man again this time he walked up to us with his hands on his hips he says I know you guys are probably tired of me talking to you but I forgot to mention that I was barbecuing and wanted to know if you guys wanted to join me my step-mom trying to be nice says Oh what did you cook and he says that he would show us if we just followed him I started having a funny feeling about this guy my step mom wasn't having it though she asks him where he's barbecuing and he pointed to another wooded area park that was off trail where a lot of people didn't go because of the simple fact that there was no trail playgrounds or anything right over there he says smiling I decided to set up over there because my method of cooking uses a propane tank and the park doesn't allow you to use those so I hide it he laughed my step mom said no thanks and tried to ease her way out of the conversation as we were walking away he ran up behind me and grabbed my arm pulling me toward him I yanked my arm away from him and loudly asked what the hell was wrong with him my step mom turned around saw what was happening and sprung into protection mode she grabbed her mace out of her pocket that was attached to her keychain she told him to watch himself or she'd etham up he said that he didn't mean any harm by it and then ran away we made our way out of the park and into the parking lot and made our way home fast forward a few weeks later I was upstairs in my room when I heard my stepmom yell what the hell this can't be real I ran downstairs and saw that she was watching the news the man from the parks mug shot was on the screen I stand there looking at the TV and disbelief no way he had been arrested for raping and beating a 20 year old woman he left her for dead when I saw that it happened in the same park that we were at it clicked he was trying to lure us into his trap he was going to seriously hurt us if we had believed him he would have sexually assaulted us and more it makes chills run down my spine whenever I think about that man don't ever ever let your guard down there are some seriously sick people in this world I'm on mobile so please don't mind the grammar anyways it was late at night and I was sneaking at my girlfriend's house with her to go to somewhere with our friend me my girlfriend withered across the street on some church stairs waiting for a friend pick us up we were just chatting about her plans for the night and whatnot when we noticed some guy walked to your neighbor's car it was around 1:00 and we started paying attention to this man as it's a whole demeanor was strange he looked inside walked across the street and then not sure if he noticed us at this point crouched and hit by a tree when a car drove by we didn't know what he was doing at the time but he was hiding so the passing cars didn't notice him as the cars leave he gets up and continues down the street looking into cars at this point I'm texting our friend asking if he could hurry and he says he's having trouble sneaking the car out of his house without his parents knowing we're pretty rebellious if you ask me just kidding but he says you'll be soon this is when the man crosses the street to the side where me and my girlfriend are waiting clearly doesn't notice us sitting on the stairs under a light he goes to a car and opens the trunk of it he crawls right in and closes it back up the car was an SUV type he's doing god-knows-what in the car for about five minutes the whole car is slightly shaking he gets out and starts walking down the street where he finally notices me and my girlfriend sitting he just looks at us mumble singing under his breath and puts a fist out for a fist bump I'm no stranger to weirdos so I fist bump him and he mumble something again and just walks off it looks like he had little kid book bags on because it had some sort of graphic on it no our friend came not even 30 seconds after that and so if we had seen a guy walking on the sidewalk he said he didn't notice anyone we think the guy was hiding from him as he drove by as well that was that I called the police just to make sure they knew and to have a patrol car out in case he came back to the car not sure if he was ever caught I'll always wonder what you were up to creepy guy who was able to silently close a trunk recently found this subreddit but this happened about six months ago I live in apartment with four floors there's a man that lives in the fourth floor he's about middle-aged a fall it's only ever seen him with his mom because she is the one who guides him around and usually doesn't leave him unattended I notice every time I see him this man he has ice stuck on me literally once he sees me there's no looking away he has the creepiest stare fast forward to the day where I felt the most vulnerable I was walking up to my apartment complex usually the walk is a bit long once I'm a couple steps from my door I noticed a familiar face yes it was him he was alone this time which made me scared to death not knowing what he would do he stared at me from the moment when he saw me to the moment I closed the door and locked it behind me five minutes passed by and I'm in my room eating and I hear my mom talking to someone living room I walk out and it was him why the [ __ ] did my mom think it was okay to let him in I don't know apparently he was ringing the doorbell non-stop until he got someone's attention which happened to be my mom's my mom opened the door and last what he wanted and he shoves my mom pushes the door open walks in and points in my room saying my girlfriend my girlfriend's in there which was creepy that he knew which exact room to point to my mom proceeds to say that no one was home at the moment that was when my sister heard him and walked out my sister kicks him out immediately a couple minutes later he's ring the doorbell non-stop this later goes on for another annoying two hours with the doorbell consistently ringing my sister looks into the peephole once in a while the man in his whole phases in the peephole and is laughing to himself while my sister's cursing him on the other side he bangs the door here and there but it's constantly being creepy through the peephole every other time we would look to the people either has his head down his face in the people or him walking back and forth laughing at himself this proceeds for a while until I call the cops you know how that goes I called three times and waited for about two hours waiting on the other side of the door while this men would not leave me alone cops didn't do [ __ ] I haven't seen the man since but I'm so scared of any future encounters never one experiences again so to the creepy neighbor on the fourth floor let's not meet so this story happened when my best friend and I were about 15 years old I'm sorry for my bad english I'm not a native speaker we had to take an important exam at the end of the year so we attended some private sessions in order to prepare because of this we only hung out on Sundays after 5 p.m. we were at the mall and after a bit of window shopping she asked me to come outside in the park so she could smoke a cigarette she took it from her mother but I didn't smoke I have never liked it I accepted as I was used to her requirement so we're in the malls parking lot while she's smoking that damn cigarette it was like 6 p.m. but it was already dark outside as has happened in winter let me describe you the place where we were this was a large park full of trees and big rectangular shaped bushes on the side aisle there were some restaurants at a full 10 meter gap and exit to a dark Street and to the parking lot another big space and a place for skating we thought that we were on 2% safe as we're still walking on the malls property we arrived near the strange exit when a 5 foot 9 man approaches us and asks for a cigarette my friend tells him that she doesn't have any other cigarettes because she got this one from someone else - he seemed to be in his late 40s wasn't shaved wearing a red hood which almost covered his eyes I toned that we have to go to which she responds with some incoherent words we both knew that something was off so we made some steps back why are you scared I won't do anything to you he said as he was approaching silence don't worry I've met a lot of girls like you he said and then started to mumble other words I couldn't understand we didn't know what to do we didn't know if he had any weapons behind us was a big bush and in front of us was him if we chose to run in different directions he would be able to catch at least one of us and probably take her with him there weren't many people but the ones who wore passing by didn't seem to care about our terrified looks my friend started repeat that she was sorry but she couldn't help him and I think that one of the passer buys hurt her fortunately a man maybe six foot three who looked a lot more younger and stronger than the creep stopped and asked him why he was bothering us he wasn't given a response my friend took the chance and crushed her cigarette with her foot as quickly as possible and start running I as a complete idiot remained frozen for a few seconds and looked at her saviors eyes then starts burning I'm not sure how to translate it but the six foot three man said in a strange language something across the lines of fly ahead while I started to depart we didn't stop running until we're sure that they couldn't see us anymore both of them left and we went back to the mall safely and we never told anyone about this encounter so creep from the mall let's not meet again this happened around 10 years ago and in the south of the UK for reference I'm a 28 year old mound and at the time I was working part-time at a fuel station on a road which linked a small village to a Ring Road into a nearby city the village itself is quiet high-end and extremely expensive to live in it was the sort of place that you only had one chain store and it was a Waitrose everything else was either boutiques or preferably own gourmet grocers so as someone who has always enjoyed cars it was always fun to see what kind of high-end luxury sports cars would adone from the forecourt on any given day this is where I met Michael Mike was in his late 40s dark hair and well dressed always wore grandeur Ralph Lauren or on his work days tailored Canali suits etc he was an all-around nice guy exceptionally polite which was actually rarity as most of the residents of the surrounding area seemed to despise anyone who didn't qualify for the additional tax bracket we got chatting about his collection of vehicles or the watch as he wore he always showed up wearing some kind of Rolex and driving an Aston Martin Range Rover Porsche so there was always a lot to talk about I got to know that he worked in finance and the conversation got into what I was planning to do with my life also to work in finance and we would always have these pleasant conversations until I left that part time job in favour of taking up an apprenticeship for all of my uncle's brokerage Michael is important and we'll get to that why shortly something to be known about my uncle is that he is a man with a lot of fingers and a lot of pies literally as well as his broken property portfolio jaw stone if you take away for cash flow purposes I think we all know what that means and as such I had occasionally step in a delivery driver when the driver would let him down luckily my uncle also lived in a previously mentioned village and the main pizza place he owned catered to the residents of said village so tips were usually quite decent and my uncle would usually throw me a few quid for helping out passports a summer of 2008 I've been roped into dropping off a few pies at a property on an extremely prestigious Road average house priced well above 1.4 million and I'm a tree to actually get close enough to see these houses actually looked like as they're all gated and set far back from the road behind a shrouded trees and shrubs so I find the place and buzz the air calm when a voice comes back sort of muffled just saying yes so I answered with the name on the takeaway and the gate slowly opens I make my way up the driveway to a very large mock Georgian home complete with detached four car garage that when I see Michael's number plates he has his initials for his cars with the numbers one two and three and it was the same for his wife I was interested to see up close the sort of life this guy had if I'm completely honest especially as a young inspiring financier uh exited my car brought up the pizzas and the double doors opened that's when I saw an unfamiliar face looking back at me it was man early early 20s maybe thin shaved head I can remember he was wearing no shirt and some scruffy jeans and trainers he was also holding something behind his back hey bring the pizzas through the kitchen I can remember his voice being hoarse and barely audible with an accent I've never heard before nervously I said nothing and just looked at him which made him visibly angry bring the pizza through he repeated more aggressive this time I finally responded where's Michael this is Michael's place right and it was completely true that in situations like this your mouth goes completely dry and to always follow your gut this guy was setting off alarm bells and telling every fibre of my being to just get off the property unfortunately for me that's when it dawned upon me that it's a gated property and I was locked in this is when things went from bad to worse I remember the terror swelling up inside me when he moved his hand from front of him to show a large kitchen knife in utter the words run I dropped the pizza onto the gravel left my car and decided I'd have a better chance of survival by running down the driveway and lifting myself over the gate they were the wooden type which had no decorative spears the top of them luckily but all the while I could hear his feet crunching onto the gravel behind me I didn't look back and managed to pull myself up over the gate and hurling myself onto the pavement beneath me the adrenaline to my system still had me running for what seemed like hours but was perhaps 10 minutes at most until I was a good few streets away and I decided to call the police police met me at the park I was hiding at when officer stayed with me and the other they proceeded to go to the property and with another patrol car at first I got the distant impression that they didn't believe me or thought that was up to something but after my uncle arrived to pick me up and vouch for me being sent there to deliver pizzas for the PC in question back down upon their arrival at the property they found nothing just my car with slashed tires and broken windows alongside feces smeared across parts of the kitchen there was food strewn about the place and also Neto found in one of the bathrooms but no sign of the man who threatened me Michael and his family at the time were visiting family in Australia that later found out I never did go back for another shift at the pizza place and although I understand this may not be the most crazy or horrifying encounter on the subreddit it's something that always stuck with me wealth and apparent financial security is just completely illusionary people are people and there are always some sick and tormented people out there who will always find a way to carry out their twisted actions and if anything I've had more encounters with crazy people since moving away from my council estate routes and into suburbia I've recently posted another encounter here on let's not meet in regards to something I experienced when working front of my uncle's businesses and coincidentally he ended up calling me this morning I told him about the supper I didn't then subsequently explain what reddit was and that's when he chose to share this encounter with me this is all verbatim and it's not exactly a short story so I appreciated main trial off at some points but I wanted to stay true to my uncle's account hence why it's word-for-word understandably this will irritate some readers the following is from uncle's perspective and the use of eyes refers to himself this would have happened around 20 odd years ago very long time ago and it's when your father and I ran the call center doing the contracting work for various businesses all within the financial services in history and roughly around 50 staff including managers and supervisors and so on and so on there were a lot of different than DNA was still very much in its infancy as was technology we didn't have the same Mac's as the things that you would do now if you ran the same kind of operation on top of this for running all of this out of a warehouse on the Industrial Estate right next to the gypsy camp because that's all we could afford for the amount of floor space we needed the campaign were working on wasn't going as well for us for the most part we're just working out of phone books and the likes of Leeds as data costs and so does cost a fortune so we're under a lot of stress to meet the sort of deadlines and promises your father made it to the b2b clients and we weren't in a great place we were facing the possibility of cutting the staff down to at most 20 agents with two managers that's when I met Kevin we heard of him from a few associates who ran with similar operations as ours yeah someone who could provide leads and genuinely have the ability to turn companies around and so your dad got in contact with him and went from there we didn't actually hear back for about a month after contacting him so we're very much the mindset of well [ __ ] all this over close down and start something else and on the day we hyped her selves up to tell everyone you've all lost your jobs we got a [ __ ] phone call out of the blue who was on the phone Kevin long story short we discussed our situation discussed his situation gagged his interest and dressed things up with a little bow on top to perk him up by the end of the call he agreed to come down from Scotland to meet us and discuss options in person so on Monday we meet with cabin in the Hilton and didn't like him instantly I thought it was overbearing condescending in a complete egomaniac but your father and his infinite wisdom decided to hear him out and it turned out the cabin had a huge metal leads from one of the sources in America and needed a team of salespeople to dial them we need to dial 25 agents and in return we'll get a flat amount and payment which would allow us to move premises upgrade equipment etc so we agree and the contract was there enough and we'd be in our venture in order to maintain a more hands-on approach to the business and to keep his contacts in the u.s. happy Kevin ran a flat close to the office and would often visit the office to monitor the progress which would normally consist of him looking around with a coffee it's also important to mention that Kevin had next to no people skills and stuck me as either socially awkward or maybe somewhere on the autistic spectrum or something as soon enough we began to get complaints from some of the other younger female staff that Alan would watch them too closely and hover around the woman's bathroom which of course we had to take seriously but we weren't really in the position to piss the guy off who was potentially our Savior so we begin to hold [ __ ] meetings every time he showed up to get him off the floor and into the meeting room which for our time worked but eventually he'd have to take a phone call halfway through and excused himself I later learned from one of the managers that he would hold the phone to his ear and just watch the girls closely not saying anything and then follow them into the makeshift kitchen area and press himself against them or at least stand very close to them and make them ask him to move or brush past him we decided to hold a meeting with the female members of the staff to ask them about their concerns and some if there is anything we do to make their time at work more enjoyable deliberately not mentioning Kevin just to test the waters and one by one they had something to say about Kevin some were just uncomfortable with his general demeanor and some had been groped by him and even propositioned which was the final straw really so we decided to speak with Kevin and cut ties and look at ways to exit the contract which is when we get an email from Kevin saying he's moving back to Scotland and we'll be moving back to Scotland and awal me be making quarterly visits so were understandably ecstatic better lead source remains but contact with the staff will be limited and we believe that no more problem shall arise and we can wear the caring boss hats who valiantly drove away as sex pest which would no doubt boost staff morale fast forward about 12 months in Kevin's visits have all been uneventful and the contract is drawing to a close and we're excited to get our cut and to expand and move on to another primary contact with Kevin gets in touch with another plan to extend our contract and package all our company up to be sold to a blueshift company which specialises in the financial service industry the act as broker and takes a cut but we make even more money than we originally thought as well as half of the agreed amount we received this particular contract was supposed to end just as goodwill gesture he mentioned he had a few contacts in London in the US which would be interested in merging or operation into the current sales team for more dynamic cells approach so this was something to ponder on and we agreed to get him back anyway I was thinking over the idea and decided to go to the local pub when I ran to a guy called Karl who also ran a similar business as myself we got the chatting and he brought up Kevin saying something along the lines of you're working with Kevin Smith aren't you and unsure how he knew that asked him why why would you want to know to which he responded with that guy is a [ __ ] nutcase mate honestly the things I could tell you about him in at first I thought here we go this is just more gossip and [ __ ] but most likely jealousy but curiosity got the better part of me and I asked him go on then why is he another and he left some more took a few sips of his lager and off-the-cuff said you know that geezer murdered his wife yeah and immediately I scoff but Karl's face was serious stone like and unsmiling no he didn't I said still laughing he killed his wife mate I wouldn't make that up I can always remember the look in his eyes when he told me that I was a nerd but still you can't believe anyone in business and I decided to probe him some more what happened I asked her something to that effect I don't know the whole story he kept it very quiet you won't find it in the papers or in the news or anything but basically his wife was found battered no signs of a break-in in the only DNA in the house was his he's a wealthy guy though never got in the press and he managed to get off but I tell you he's a dodgy bloke we had him with us in 98 and we exited out of our contract got loads of complaints about him he's a perv mate so I'm thinking Oh bollocks we have a murderer as her main source of income and the guys off of his rocker but I don't let on the Karl an instead tell your dad and he says he's fine he's eccentric from a different era and we shouldn't just hold out a bit longer you know your dad's like he gets the moral compass of a bloody war criminal but stupidly I relented and we enter the new contract and true to his word we received after the original greed Commission fee so we were able to move offices and this is when Kevin decided to move back down to the south and take permanent residency at her new office to oversee the packaging process so he set himself up in the office opposite to the hallway the woman's bathroom and would spend most days on his phone or just Lord earring again by that time we had a major staff overhaul and employees skilled salespeople and management staff so we're confident that Kevin would behave and we wouldn't have to repeat of last time but unfortunately this was short-lived as an ad minister and complained HR that she saw Kevin having some alone time in his car outside while watching some of the girls who go outside to smoke obviously this kick-started the rumours of Kevin being a pervert again and his odd behavior did not help so we decided to seek legal help and eventually were able to get out of contract Kevin and her mind sets was long gone and this would have been back in the early Oh threes when I was working late at the office alone when I saw a figure moving through the office towards my enclosed office in the back I knew it wasn't security were the cleaners as securities were permitted to enter offices without permission when a staff member wasn't present and the cleaners had left earlier besides which the cleaners we had was a rape an Asian woman in this figure which was now barreling towards me was much larger in both height and width I stood up and moved towards the door to lock it when I saw Kevin's facing the other side now Kevin was a big guy probably about 22 stone and around six foot four must have been around 12 stone and six foot one so easily push and barged in through the door I can remember going for the phone to dial security when he gets on top of me in instead of the beating that was expecting he was trying to pull the watch off from I around my wrist confused and understandably pissed I tried to get him off of me but his weight was making it difficult to move and I would just remember him looking me dead in the face and without saying anything I was completely blank somehow I managed to get him off of me I think I managed to knee him or something and ran off to the reception area which I got security topper and Kevin who was attempting to escape out of the fire exit I wasn't hurt or anything and I didn't press charges you got a warning for the police and that was that last I saw of Kevin now this is where it gets bizarre about three years ago I bumped into Carl in Monaco and we got talking about the old days when the topic of crazy Kevin came up I told him about the time he got into my office jumped on me and tried nicking my Rolex Carl was laughing along with me and asked when exactly was that I told them it was back in Oh three and this is what he said I can still remember it word for word that couldn't have been that long before he topped himself then shock naturally I asked himself to repeat what he had just said he hanged himself no three had no money at the end I'm not sure if he told you but he were married to this gal who had a son when he was liable to settle this contract with the American chaps he tried bumping her off to get the life-insurance money everything he owned was on Finance everything didn't own anything I was completely gobsmacked Kevin never even wore a wedding ring and in all the years I had known him he never once discussed a wife or child and all the coral is a bit of a [ __ ] stirrer turns out Kevin ran into house opposite Carl's brother-in-law I'll tell you what make the stories about his first wife seem more plausible I've also worked out why he went my wrist I think at first he was angry we backed out of the contract and he probably viewed us as responsible for his life sprouting out of control so he probably did want to be the [ __ ] out of me but I think the fact that he had no money and probably needed it quick to settle the contract and impending lawsuits you decided to try to steal my watch the pawn it the bastard this is just my theory though and he could have been off his tits that was the end of the conversation eight months ago I moved from living in a downtown part of my city to a quieter neighborhood they got the reputation of being a great place to raise a family in July I had a close friend over for dinner and drinks he decided to catch the late-night bus home at 1:30 a.m. the bus stop is on a major road only a 10-minute walk from my apartments my Road runs along parallel to a base of a steep hill and the buildings on the side of the street go onto the side of the hill but only accessible from the next road up on the other side of the street there's a small elementary school and the retirement home they set back away from the main road a bit the road is lined with ancient old oak and maple trees bushes and completely lacking any streetlights my friend and I were walking along the side next to the hill we're walking past an intersection we noticed a car coming up towards the intersection road and didn't think too much of it I just pointed in the road my road starts going uphill as we were trudging up the hill I noticed the headlights of the car that we saw earlier pointed towards us then continuing around I assumed that the driver is making u-turn and didn't think much of it after my friend boarded the bus I made my way back the way I came this time walking on the other side of the street as I crested the hill I noticed the dark side and parked at the bottom which wasn't completely out of the ordinary I continued walking past the car and made to the next block which had the retirement home on it this is when I noticed the headlights on my back again and it was the car that had been waiting at the base of the hill I remember being a little spooked trying to convince myself it was fine I didn't have my knife on me so the next best thing was to take my phone out and make it obvious I was on I notice the car had moved to the block I was on and I stepped next to the dumpster on the street as I neared the opposite end of the block the ante castle pulled a car so it's angled in front of me and preventing me from easily crossing the street the driver of the sedan rolled down the window about half way and I couldn't really make out their faces at all I heard a heavy accent of a man's voice saying I've complimented you and you've been ignoring me I told him I had it hurt him and it said thanks then he catches me off guard and asks a bizarre set of questions DS speak French you know why don't you speak French and you reply where are you going I didn't reply how tall are you I just said tall at this point I wasn't frightened anymore but annoyed and looked at my phone said hey look I'm meeting my friends I need to go then I rounded the car and crossed the street and behind me I could hear him screaming where was I going he and call me a rude [ __ ] and literally string of random expletives then he sped off down the street that's when the terror hit me again and I realized that we stood a couple blocks of my place and he was now pissed off and if I kept down the same path he could round the block and cut me off again I was now in the block with the school so I ducked into a dark alleyway and hid there for several minutes in case he's renting the block waiting for me after a while I finally continued and darting to my apartment as quick as possible I left the lights off and made sure the door was locked debo included my apartment looks onto the main road and the door is actually on the other side towards the hill I was paranoid that he would see my activity in my unit and know where I lived somehow I filed a police report online but haven't heard anything sentence okay this happened to me last year keep in mind this has told him the perspective of a female I started school at a local Community College I was looking to make new friends since I never really had the opportunity before I was a weird fat kid throughout elementary in high school college was a chance for me to reinvent myself to actually make friends and fit in for once it's College no one gives a [ __ ] if you're weird you're all just trying to get through finals after all well I classless one kid let's call him creep because that's what he was anyway me and the creep had our ite class together I see him every day but didn't talk to him much he stayed in his corner of the room i sat with my friend and the older lady will name J I had a TARDIS backpack yeah I know it's not bigger on the inside by the way anyway he saw this and said it was cool I said that was cool we talked a bit about her interest as we walked to our next class he was into cosplay as was I and we both enjoyed BBC programs along with anime he seemed friendly and I went about my day things got uncomfortable up to that he started showing up everywhere that I did mostly you wouldn't bite himself to lunch with me and my friend asked he was disgusting we went to lunch one day and he ordered this burger with peppers onions of mayo mayo is the bane of my existence mind you he didn't use napkins the thing smelled terrible and he wiped out has already stained pants it wasn't pleasant to say the least he kept popping up places and inviting himself to lunch and I was beyond done with him I have a habit of attracting weird people I don't know why I was just ready to cut and run if it came to it anyway he invited himself to lunch with me again when s wasn't present he said he had a crush on ass and I knew s went through a bad breakup I told him to leave her alone but he was insistent on me seen she liked him I said no leave her alone he left after that and I enjoyed my shitty spaghetti then the freaky thing happened I was leaving to go to my car one day when I ran into him we talked a bit but I was trying to get away from him but he really insisted on talking eventually I tried to excuse myself saying that I was going to go to my car and I would talk to him later he followed me he said it was fine and walked with me towards my car he then proceeded to tell me a funny story about him getting drunk and punching his crazy ex in the face like that would totally impressed me or some said I did what any normal person would I looked him in the eye and said no got in my car and drove off he [ __ ] off and left me alone after that that wasn't a really creepy part though now I learned a few weeks ago he killed someone before apparently he got into a fight and stabbed someone in self-defense the circumstances were more than shady though but the police in my area are pretty shitty the guy that creep stabbed ended up dying so yeah I was stalked by someone who killed another person and I lucky a few years ago I moved with my family right before I started college unfortunately it was kind of far from the University I had been accepted into so I've been trying to find a place to run it close to my University my dad helped me and showed me an ad on Craigslist there was a nice-looking house for rent and it was close to my university I decided to set up a meeting to go check out the place I showed up in the afternoon and unfortunately I was alone my dad said I was an adult and a big guy so I shouldn't worry about meeting this person this old guy greeted me and then goes you ought to follow me to get to the house for rent I always confused and said your ad said this was the house for rent why do I have to go somewhere else he says this is my house I'll take you to the one for rent I'm a little confused at this point and follow him to his other place I kind of figured if things didn't look right I just leave when we get there I noticed the house looks bad it looks like people were in a I didn't see any cars around so this seemed odd he looks at me he says don't you want to check it out I said I don't know this isn't what was in your ad it looks like other people are there he tells me that there are other people checking it out and I could join them something just feels off about this whole thing I told him I wasn't interested anymore this place looked a bad shape from the outside and appeared to have people in the house when he asked why I wasn't interested I told him I was far Drive for my school and work he got mad and accused me a wasting his time I said I'm not the one that advertised a house and then to hunt a person it's not the one from riot he began to glanced nervously towards the house and asked if I was sure I didn't want to check it out I told him no and left he never contacted me again thankfully I'm not sure what his attentions were but something just felt wrong maybe he was just trying to show me the house but I didn't like that he lied about the house to begin with and there are people inside the house I'm not sure what was going on there but I really didn't want to find out I also didn't like how he was looking at the house when he was asking me if I was sure I didn't want to go check it out it seems so bizarre he went from being mad to getting kind of desperate for me to go inside I know this sounds like common sense never go alone to a stranger's house but you always think yeah it'll be fine I learned my lesson I was telling to use VR headset on Facebook marketplace a man who lived in my town five minutes from my home messaged me saying he wanted to buy it everything went normal a we agreed that I'd bring it to him after work at about 5:30 so today after work I go over to his address it's winter so the Sun has set it's a normal house normal Street when I knock on the door a thirty year old man opens it I recognize him from his Facebook page instead of handing me over the money he tells me he left his money inside and I should come in I politely declined knowing that setting foot in a stranger's house was a big mistake especially since I was alone he continued ass but eventually he gave up he turned to walk into his house to what I assumed was his living room he emerged a few moments later and stood there in the middle of the hallway holding out the money he stood far enough back that I would have to walk into his home to get it the fact that he so badly wanted me to cross the threshold into his house set off alarm bells in my mind I held the box I was holding in slowly with one hand go down the path we stared at each other for a long 10 seconds before he sighed and walked out of the house over to me he snatched a box for my hands and dropped the 20 euro on the floor accidentally he stood waiting for me to bend over and retrieve the money instead I put one hand in my pocket slipping the key between my fingers just in case I flicked some damage to get away I think he realized whatever his plan was wasn't gonna happen but he's he sighed again and picked up the money for me he handed the money to me he just turned away without another word I slowly backed out of his garden before jogging to my car which I parked further down the road maybe I'm just paranoid but this whole situation made me feel so uneasy I just know I won't be doing that again you

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Published: Wed Apr 15 2020