TRUE SCARY STORIES | Ultimate Compilation [VOL.7]

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I first met my friend netic and middle school at the time we weren't really friends but I did get to know him a little bit frankly he scared me when I first met him he was one of those kids who were all black gave himself piercings during class using safety pins etc he was bipolar and had a slew of other issues as well including being on drugs at the time - fast forward a few years to high school I didn't really have any friends and was kind of a loner I also have a fall birthday so I was one of the first kids in my class to turn 16 and get my license and start driving myself to school Nick had grown out of the golf druggie phase got on medication for his psychological problems and seemed like a fairly normal guy now one day he was talking to me and asked me if I could give him a ride home I was happy to since at the time I was pretty desperate for someone to hang out with I ended up becoming very good friends with him and another guy he hung out with and the three of us pretty much spent all of high school as a group looking back they kind of took advantage of me as my family had more money than either of theirs and I was more than happy to share I drove them to lunch and paid for it part of the time when they didn't have money it was never anything major just a few bucks here and there and we really did have some good times they were pretty good guys for most of the time but I do feel like that was at least part of the reason they became my friends even if that was the case it was worth it for me because they were literally the only bright spot and otherwise miserable high school experience it could be an asshole sometimes especially if you spent more than a day or so with him at a time I took a week-long trip to the beach with his family and ended up hanging out with his brother more than him because he drove me insane there was a particular incident at a go-kart track where he literally was screaming at a ten-year-old kid and trying to pick a fight with the kid's father after the race because he had cut him off on the track he then got pissed at me for not backing him up when I was too busy trying to crawl into a corner and pretended like I didn't know him because he was being so ridiculous I was embarrassed and friend or not I was kind of hoping the guy would kick his ass because he deserved it after high school Nick stayed in our hometown and went to the local community college while me and the other guy went to the State University a few hours away and were roommates we would see Nick when we came home on the weekends after that year he joined us Nick struggled and was in and out of school never really trying that hard at one point his girlfriend from high school cheated on him and he took it pretty hard they started adjusting his medication and I don't think they ever really got quite right because he was never the same again during this time I introduced him to my girlfriend sister we actually had gone to school with her but never really knew her until I started dating her sister anyway they started dating and at first it was cool we could go on double dates and stuff I was a little worried though because I knew he could be an asshole sometimes and I was afraid of what might happen if their relationship went south her parents hated him and I was always trying to defend him as best I could without making them hate me too I had gotten engaged to my girlfriend so I felt like I was always in the middle between my future in-laws and one of my best friends eventually they got engaged to which her parents really hated they rushed into getting married I think that had been together for less than a year at the time they moved in together while we were still in school things went south rather quickly he started expecting her to support him quit going to school and said he was going to live on disability for the rest of his life because of his issues and on top of that they pretty much fought constantly they had only been married for around four to five months when he started threatening they had only been married for around four to five months when he started threatening to kill her he even went as far as to detail the plans he had to come up with to do it needless to say she left and they got divorced after less than a year this put me in the awkward spot of having to choose between my fiance and her family lay or one of my only friends I tried to defend him as best as I could saying things like he is not really like that his medication is still messed up he doesn't mean it he won't really do that but how can you truly stick up for someone who's threatening to murder his wife I did the best I could but ultimately if I wanted to keep my fiancee I had to lose my friend our other friend was supposed to have been my best man but he refused after what happened with Nick so I ended up losing both of my friends over the ordeal pretty much exactly what I have been afraid of the last time I spoke to Nick he had come into the store I was working out with some people I had never seen before I said hey I'm waved and he immediately flipped me off and walked out the door so that was pretty much confirmation that our friendship was completely over I'm really not sure how any of this was my fault but apparently I was supposed to completely leave a six-year relationship and break things off with my engagement because he was a psychopath and threatened to kill her sister and she left him I really wish this was the end of the story but it continues her sister found someone new who was an amazing guy and is now one of my closest friends and I have far more in common with him than any of my old friends he has been like a brother I graduated got married moved homes and started a family my now wife sister got remarried to a new guy and they had a kid together who is now 3 years old everyone was happy and we pretty much forgot about Nick until the day he came back to town and started working at the local grocery store my mother-in-law was the first to see him and pretty much forbid her daughter from shopping there anymore she was terrified that he would come after her or her kid if he solved them they ended up moving to the other side of town shortly afterwards anyway so not really a big deal I wasn't as threatened by him so I continued to shop there I assumed since it had been five years that he has moved on with his life too I would see him working a register or something but other than that I really didn't go out of my way to avoid him one day I saw him looking at me and sort of nodded I didn't speak to him because of the way our last interaction had gone I was met with the coldest air I've ever seen after that any time I was in the store he would be there following me around it was almost the way a store will have a worker shadow someone they think might be stealing whenever I looked up it would be nearby when I left the store he would head outside to bring in carts or something and watch me until I was in the car leaving the last time I shopped there I made the mistake of taking my newborn son he started fussing so of course I picked him up and I tried to calm him down at that point Nick walked by and slammed into me nearly making me drop the baby he then walked off like nothing happened I decided that day it would probably be best if I just started shopping at Walmart and realized that I'd forgotten to sit out the trash to be picked up it was around 3 a.m. when I went outside to move the cans to the curb as I walked out of my garage a large van with blacked-out windows suddenly came down the street and just stopped at the end of the driveway I was nervous since it was 3 a.m. and it clearly was not her neighbor so I took my time fiddling with the cans beside the house waiting to see what they were going to do eventually they slowly went down the street and stopped I put the cans out as fast as I could and went back inside making sure all the doors were locked I went to sleep with my gun on the nightstand it was also around this time my grandmother's house was broken into whoever did it knew where everything in her house was because they didn't rummage through anything they went straight to where her jewelry was and took most of it and then they went straight to the closet where my grandfather's guns were and took several of them as well about a week later they returned and cleaned out what they hadn't taken the first time we have no proof so the cops won't do anything but we're fairly certain it was Nick he had been to her house before and I had shown him the guns when we were friends since whoever broke in knew exactly what they were looking for and exactly where to find it that pretty much narrows down the list of suspects I've seen the van driving around in front of the house late at night several more times since it's becoming less frequent since I started shopping elsewhere and thankfully nothing else has happened I keep my gun nearby at night now I'm still hoping that this doesn't escalate again about four years ago I was a junior at a small college in LA County bordering my town with a large cavernous region known as Turnbull Canyon it's the kind of place that has a healthy amount of creepy folklore surrounding it with an area emphatically known as hell's gates stories of cultic activity gang killings abandoned mental institutions and the like the kind of shit you hear about any place old enough to have a reputation in reality most of these stories were spurned from a tragedy that occurred years prior a woman's body had been found at the base of the canyon and from then on the rest is history nevertheless when a photographer friend asked me and another buddy to go out to the canyon in order to help him take some photos of the LA skyline I had to oblige the canyon is about a 30 minute drive from our campus now we have been listening to the King of Limbs the entire Drive which proved to be the perfect ambience to get me feeling pretty anxious about our excursion I should also note that I'm a pretty anxious guy in general so traveling out to a remote area preceded by its reputation for scary occurrences admittedly had me thinking twice about the decision at the top of the canyon there is a small residential area a few ritzy houses surrounded by trees and woods in order to venture into the canyon itself you have to follow a main trail with several smaller arteries that split off into other directions but ultimately culminate or so at the base of a steep hill adorned with an old water tower overlooking the city anyhow we parked our car at the top of the canyon road got out of the camera gear and made our way out to the trailhead around 1:00 a.m. at this point after watching the trail for about five minutes Dave the photographer decided it was time to set up his first shot while Jeff our other friend and I kept watch eventually he got the shot he needed and we continued walking for another five minutes or so before Dave the senator set up his next shot at this point the trail head had disappeared behind us completely and we were a little less than a quarter-mile away from the water tower while setting up the tripod we noticed the faint glow of headlights off in the distance which was strange because the trail wasn't meant for cars nor was it big enough for them to pass through if I recall it was only about five feet wide with shrubbery on both sides this was clearly a bit of a red flag for us as we were the only people out there so we immediately packed up our things and ducked off into the brush waiting for the car to pass on eventually an old pickup truck idle to a stop about 50 yards from where we were hiding the truck itself was old and rickety sitting on a lifted chassis the bed of which was missing entirely growing up in the country I knew was the type of truck typically owned by backwoods folk who lived in the boonies and preferred to be left to their own devices we watched an agonizing anticipation as the truck just idled in place for several minutes before flooring it down one of the other trails the roar of the engine echoing throughout the canyon clearly we were spooked at this point the three of us speculating as to our next step Jeff and I were reluctant to continue while they assured us that it was probably nothing perhaps just a guy off-roading as he put it so with great reluctance Jeff and I trudged on behind Dave toward the water tower to get his final shots nevertheless I couldn't shake the feeling that something was off about the truck I mean I knew plenty of people in high school who would go off-roading for fun in the woods but never on finicky Canyon trails barely wide enough to hike on Malone Drive it just didn't sit right with me after walking without interference for about an hour we finally made it out to the water tower climbed up to the top and took in the view of the city gave once again started setting up his equipment while Jeff and I stood on both sides of the water tower keeping watch just in case the truck came back there was nothing at this point nothing at this point it was around 3 a.m. Dave decides he's got all the shots he needs so we pack up our equipment and commit to heading out before it gets too late seeing as how all of us have classes in just a few hours just as we were preparing to descend the hill the truck comes roaring out of the canyon below us back onto the trail at which point the driver attempts to climb the hill revving his engine loudly scared shitless the three of us slid off the side of the hill into the brush clinging on to plants and rocks as the truck finally made it atop the hill slowly driving around the tower we could see the glow of headlights each time it circled above us after waiting for nearly ten minutes while also try not to make any noise the truck eventually descended the hill stopping in the middle of the trail not more than a hundred yards away we watched as a scruffy man mid-fifties stepped out of the idling truck and into the glow of its headlights moseying around while looking at the ground he then note down looking at something in the dirt surveying the area intently as he did so it became increasingly apparent that he was tracking something our footprints this next part still chills me to the bone as my friends and I huddled together watching in complete terror another men wearing a long dark parka emerged from the bush right where we had been hiking joining the other men at his side apparently he had been out there the entire time while we were walking the trail just watching us following behind at a safe distance the two of them talked for a while we couldn't hear a word they continued scanning the area looking at our footprints but eventually got in the truck and drove down to one of the forks in the trail we sat in silence for a long time waiting nearly two hours to ensure the coast was clear at which point we made luck help back to the car down the canyon and back to our campus just in time for class I was a bouncer at a bar years ago it was a normal Friday night completely packed the usual customers were there and they knew not to get too crazy at around 11 o'clock people usually started to get out and sometimes I would have to break up a fight or two tonight was no different and around midnight a guy got too touchy and feely with a woman she didn't like that and I had to escort him out the guys I kicked out were always good guys but just had too much to drink I will usually see them again and they would apologize for their behavior this Friday night shortly before closing time a man threw his drink at the bartender and cut his head open I grabbed the guy and threw him outside they would normally struggle for a second or two and then realize that they had no chance of overpowering me this guy was different he struggled the whole time and he was almost able to stack up to me I could tell he had a violent temperament and was used to fighting after his ass hits the sidewalk out front he sits up and says something like he'll be back or that I would see him later I can't remember exactly the bartender was all right but he did need to go get a few stitches it was closing time anyway so we just told everyone that we were wrapping up the place in 20 minutes and we would appreciate them making their way out I hope to clean up as I always do and when I was finished my buddy who worked at the kitchen always left with me out the back door we were walking down the alley behind the place when two of us noticed that there was somebody behind us we just kept walking I turned left on the street where my car was parked my buddy crossed the street and continued down the alley I cut turning around to see if the guy would follow me or hem but I didn't see him cross the street or turn the corner that I had I got to my car and drove for miles to my house I had the following day off but the day after that I was scheduled to work again before I left for work that night my good friend and the owner of the bar called me and gave me terrible news my buddy who was walking with me the other night was attacked and stabbed to death in the alley I couldn't believe it I told the cops about the jerk in the bar that night but they never found out who killed him I don't work at that bar anymore but I did for another two years after the incident that guy never showed up there again I feel very strongly that it was him who attacked and killed my buddy that night this happened too many years ago probably about 20 years ago actually my single father moved myself and my two little sisters to a not terrible but not great suburb of Denver Colorado the divorce had shattered him and our home my mother left him for another man and the burden of raising three girls befell him skip forward a couple of months on ten my sisters are eight and six we had grown fairly accustomed to the neighborhood and the clothes surrounding areas my dad is working 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Denver where all the best pay is and the responsibility of my two little sisters became mine I was the eldest after all we hadn't quite melded with other kids in the area yet but being the three of us we didn't mind we were capable of entertaining ourselves we used to ride our bicycles everywhere to all the surrounding neighborhoods the hiking trails along the river that led everywhere even along the train tracks which we could find numerous amounts throughout the town one set of tracks in particular in fact the closest said to our home had a long ditch like a valley along both sides of it I think in retrospect it had been some type of barrier to prevent the river from flooding out the neighborhood across the street anyway on one side of the tracks it was a sheer drop-off with heavy bushes and undergrowth preventing the ground from being easily accessible and on the other side there had been a path carved out it appeared to be by vehicles maybe servicing the train tracks in prior years but it was extremely deep they called it dead man's ditch I found out later on but this information doesn't become relevant until later so as I said we used to ride our bikes around town a lot especially in the summertime during the day while dad was at work and we could travel further than he allowed we also had a game we played similar to punch buggy combined with a license plate game if any of us saw a license plate with double or triple characters consecutively example double B's or triple zeros we would announce it and then we would attempt to hit one another it was barbaric but we were siblings so it's not outlandish I don't want to share mine or my sister's names here but on this particular day we have been riding around for hours and we were past the hottest part of the day it was cooling down and was gearing up for sunset we had made our way back toward home and we were less than a two minute bike ride from our house I had been hanging back a bit so both of my little sisters were in front of me the youngest in front the middle coming up on her left and myself about six feet behind a few minutes prior a silver sedan had driven past us going the opposite way the cars plate had double sixes which I had called first as we were heading up the street I heard a vehicle accelerating patiently behind me this set off red flags because where we were riding we actually affected the oncoming lane this vehicle was heading the same way we were I turned to look and automatically glance first at a license plate the at a silver sedan mister double six was back now I could see him he was Hispanic in his mid 40s wearing a blue and red flannel with no shirt underneath he didn't say a word he just looked at me for a second and then sped up veering into our lane I watched in horror as his open driver side window lined up with my baby sister and he reached out and grabbed her hand and a handle to her bicycle he slowed down a bit trying to pull my sister off her bike and into his open window but something happened in his car because all of a sudden he released my sister and put both hands back on the wheel she took the chance and pushed like hell on her bike racing towards dead man's ditch my other sister and I followed suit after a moment of what I now know is tunnel vision I heard the acceleration of the sedan again behind me by this time we were all hysterical and I was trying desperately to seed through tears this guy wasn't giving up whatever his deal was he didn't want to let it go dead man's ditch was approaching quickly thinking on my feet I directed both sisters down the ditch assuming double six wouldn't destroy his vehicle attempting to follow my youngest sister cowered in fear at the top whimpering about being afraid of falling the middle sister did not need to be told twice she flew down the hill like it was nothing as I caught up to them the car was right on my back tire so I said just go this guy is going to kill us I remember hearing her taking a huge breath and letting her bike go down the hill I held my breath until I was right behind her all three of us made it down the hill and the guy pulled his car right up to the opening of the path he got out of his car and he was naked wearing only the apper mentioned flannel shirt and boasting a giant hard-on which he proceeded a tug and wave in our general direction I stood between my sisters and the screep and after a few minutes of his exposure I guess he decided that we weren't worth the destruction of his car he got back in his car and drove away my sisters and I were both hysterical although my 10 year old mine had switched a business mode and a tier ceased to follow my only concern now was getting my sister's home safely we waited for about a half an hour but the car never came back we braved the emerging trail and hightailed it home when we got home we told Dad everything he was outraged understandably so and took us in his car to drive around to try to find the man but we didn't find him but my dad called the police once we got back home and we filed a report unfortunately with only a description of a silver four-door car with a license plate that began with six six and a older Hispanic man wasn't enough to track him down they Phil then dead man's ditch a couple of months later but not before it had saved our lives I'm telling this story on behalf of my best friend Tom who I've known since childhood he served with the army for several years an infantry with the first Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment after he returned home from his combat tour in Afghanistan he had more than a few stories to tell I am immensely sad to say that we lost Tom in a car accident recently however this is one story from his time in Afghanistan that I always felt was a good one to share Tom agreed he also visited let's not meet occasionally but never quite found the time to sit down and write about his experiences there are many stories that will forever remain between me and him but I know this is one that he's always wanted to share with that in mind I'll do my best to pass it along I want it noted that the details are somewhat hazy as it's been a long time since his last retelling in 2013 Tom's unit was deployed to Afghanistan Kandahar province he was a private first class at the time and had been in the Army for a year by the beginning of the tour with the last several months of that assigned to the 1st Ranger Battalion he had gone through immensely difficult training up to and including jumping out of several airplanes to get to where he was now and as such was eager to finally do his job he ultimately participated in 19 combat missions during his four months in country all of the night raids aimed at high-value targets local Taliban cell commanders and other persons of interest you see the Rangers and other special operation forces specialized and nighttime operations they train at night and operate frequently under the cover of darkness the Taliban lacked widespread night-vision optics whereas each individual Ranger was equipped with some of the finest and Odie's money could buy and the accessories to complement them with that advantage on top of their large numbers and superior training it was hard for them not to feel like they owned the night whenever they went out however this wasn't always the case one night Tom's platoon was tapped for yet another HIV tea raid after the typical briefing and preparation process the 30 or so guys border the Canucks and proceeded to the targeted location disembarking under the cover of darkness to secure the area tom was a member of a two-man machine-gun team his team leader corporal Kyle Mann the m24 o L machine gun as his assistant gunner it was Tom's responsibility to carry spare linked ammunition belts call out fire adjustments and act as a bodyguard to the Corporal and his weapon should the enemy attempt to flank them after leaving the chopper Tom and Kyle moved forward to their designated blocking position a vantage point in which a fireteam can set up and intercept enemy forces attempt to enter or leave the targeted area the target in this case was a small village seemingly abandoned and heavily deteriorated with crumbling masonry and multiple bombed out huts the entire place was incredibly unsettling showing no signs of life other than a single black cat that's linked amongst the shadows of the buildings the moon was high in the sky at night bathing the ramshackle collection of seemingly ancient structures in an eerie light after ensuring the m2 was set up Tom surveyed the village focusing on a damaged stone wall less than 50 meters away there was a hole punched out in the center of it and just large enough for a man to stick his head and shoulders through he watched the hole intently for almost the entirety of the mission and from a laser lined up and m4a1 at the ready expecting the barrel of an ak-47 to appear at any moment but it never did the rifle teams proceeded into the village and searched it from top to bottom finding no trace of the HVT they were after or any signs of life at all for that matter Kyle and Tom relocated to link up with several members of a rifle squad in a large ditch over a hundred metres away from the target site they continued to watch the perimeter as discussions were being held on how to proceed that's when all hell broke loose one of the platoons senior sergeants came running over yelling at Tom and the other Rangers to get the fuck out of the ditch the comms net exploded with orders to fall back to the LZ for immediate exfiltration Tom and Kyle were beyond confused had a OD picked up on something maybe they were all standing on top of a buried ie D belt something far from unheard of the Canucks double-timed it back to their location and landed allowing all the Rangers to board after a final head count to ensure no one had been left behind the helicopters lifted off and returned to the airfield the mission had lasted less than an hour seemingly ending as soon as it began all without a single shot being fired and no contact with van or so tom thought after returning to base the platoon was debriefed and the reason for the sudden scrub of the mission became very clear shortly after Tom and Kyle had posted up in the ditch signal collection specialists attached to the Rangers had picked up on enemy radio chatter and the vicinity of the assault force very clearly and calmly the Taliban had spoken there are six men in the ditch two of them are Manning the machine gun on the leftmost edge they are facing the northwest you can flank them if you follow the brim they proceeded to list a multitude of details about the assault force and their positions they were stalking the Rangers hunting the hunters based on the chatter it was clear that an unknown number of insurgents were setting up for a potentially deadly ambush other than the intercepted broadcast the Rangers had been completely unaware of their presence none of the men on the ground had seen any indication of enemy activity the trained canines hadn't picked up on any scent the drones an overwatch aircraft circle in the area didn't see a damn thing even with thermal vision yet the Taliban were listing numerous meticulous details about the Rangers as if they were standing next to them in the darkness it was a humbling experience for the entire platoon for Tom that mission always sent a shiver up his spine looking back on it even though later ops during the same deployment involved full-scale firefights and ambushes this story takes place two years ago while I was still in primary school I was 12 at the time there was this organization for young girls who needed help building their self-confidence and basically have fun while they still could because once we get to high school the activities wouldn't be arranged anymore one day there wasn't many girls so the leaders will call them Lisa and Beth decided just to bring the class to the playground next to the school where we went twice a week it was around 4 o'clock in the afternoon at the opposite end of the playground is a row of houses there was a woman maybe in her late thirties in a boy about 7 years old in the corner they both had dark hair and looked to be of Asian descent I don't remember what they were doing exactly but I just got a very uneasy feeling I didn't really like the woman and didn't want to get very close to her she just seemed so odd in her mannerisms and gave me the creeps but luckily they stayed in the corner and I stayed close to Lisa and Beth so I figured it would all be okay we played for about 15 minutes before we took a short break I was just randomly looking in the direction of the fence when I noticed a boy at the end of the playground behind the fence he was about 25 feet from the mother and the other boy he looked about the same age and had blond hair I thought this was odd as this young child was there all alone I suddenly noticed the mother walking towards one of the houses on the opposite side of the playground and I spotted the two boys approaching each other I turned around to Lisa about them when suddenly my friend Jody ran past me crying hysterically Lisa began to panic at Jody's behavior and asked what was wrong before they could get a straight answer out of her I heard a scuffle and noticed the two boys were now locked in a physical altercation then I noticed the woman returning from the house and my blood went ice-cold she was holding a large knife in her hand and was heading directly towards the boys all the girls in my group ran out of the playground two of them are crying and I stood paralyzed and shaking convinced I was going to witness a woman stabbing what appeared to be a seven-year-old boy to death Beth began moving quickly towards the woman to intercept her and Lisa went to break up the fighting boys when Beth asked the woman why she had the knife she just laughed sarcastically and said something about cutting down some branches to make a tree house that made no sense at all because it was in the middle of autumn so there were branches all over the ground Lisa called the police and we were all told to move further away for safety ten minutes later we noticed red and blue lights coming from the distance I tried confronting Jodie who was still crying but I was having trouble keeping a brave face myself after being confronted by Beth the strange woman had gone back in the house to put the knife away I guess she got the sense the police were on their way after the police arrived she was interviewed but wasn't taken into custody probably because there wasn't enough evidence to arrest her the mother of the second boy eventually arrived and held him tight I don't know why she left him alone there I assume he just walked away from her and she lost him so that's my story I still don't know what she was planning on doing with that boy who was fighting her son but with such a large knife her intentions could not have been good when me and my best friend were younger we would ask our babysitter to take us to the school playground at night so we could play hide and seek we lived in a small town where everyone knew everyone and we were friendly with one another so this wasn't abnormal or dangerous at least not at the time when naívi went over past our bedtime but our parents were cool and let us stay up to play hide-and-seek at one point I was trying to find my friend and my babysitter as I looked for them a course will be drove by the playground their lights were off and the windows were tented I watched them as they drove by and felt as though they were watching me when they were out of sight I instantly forgot about it and went back to seeking it came to be around midnight and our babysitter thought that it was about time to go of course we beg to stay a little longer but he said it was late we started to walk up the hill that was behind the school we then all heard a car behind us and we look over to see the same car driving on the grass towards us my babysitter instantly grabbed both of us and threw us over his shoulders and started running towards the bushes that cut us off from the other Street the car started to speed up and so did my babysitter when we got to the bushes my babysitter forced us through and up a metal fence behind them I ended up getting cuts everywhere but worst of all I cut my leg on the fence and was bleeding badly I could hear the driver of the car calling out to us asking in a kind voice where are you then in a serious and scary voice I know you're in there I'm gonna find you we ended up getting to a house that had lights on and our babysitter banged on the door begging to let us inside and that he had kids and one of them was bleeding a woman who we knew as Emily opened the door and pretty much dragged us inside and shut the door behind her later that night the police were called and I was sent to the hospital to get stitches and a shot for the rusty metal I had cut my leg on it doesn't end there though later that week my dad was watching the news as usual and a story came up it showed the playground that we were at a couple of nights ago and showed two medics rolling a body covered with a white sheet into an ambulance the girl had been dead for a couple of days and her body hadn't even been there for very long the killer was never found so he could still be out there sometimes I wonder if the man in the car get us would we have been in the same situation that girl ended up in and she would have been watching the news to see our bodies being rolled into an ambulance it makes me feel guilty but I will never and have never stepped another foot in that playground since when this happened I was about 12 or 13 I was staying the night of my friend roses house and her mom left us to care for her little sister while she went out for a few hours being the good babysitter's we were we decided to head over to a local park that had a playground just hang out for a while and let her sister play we had been there for about 30 minutes and we were just hanging out and pushing her little sis on the swings when two guys showed up and sat at a picnic table close to the playground the first guy looked to be in his teens probably 510 short dark hair brown eyes and medium build but the other guy had to have been in his early 30s he was very large probably at about 6 1 250 pounds and had a full beard and shoulder-length curly hair with green eyes we noticed when they sat down but didn't really give them a second thought apart from their age and physical appearance there was nothing that really stood out about them until the older guy whose name was Chris decided to start a conversation with us at first he asked us our names and gave us theirs and then asked what we were up to today still being a polite kid I was raised to be I answered him but I kept my answer short and continued to play with Rosa and her sister he kept asking questions like where we were heading later and rather he wanted to hang out with him and his nephew who was the younger guy whose name I can't remember all the while getting closer and closer to us as he was talking we told them that we were just going home after roses sister was done playing and that we weren't allowed to go anywhere else he then offered me some beer that he had with him and asked me if I smoked I never drink in any alcohol at that point and I wasn't about to start then so I declined his offer he then told me how pretty I was and asked me if I had a boyfriend and without skipping a beat told me that he had recently just gotten out of jail and was looking for a girlfriend I told him that I didn't have a boyfriend and I wasn't interested in having one either during this whole interaction he would occasionally address his attention to his nephew and from the interactions that they had I quickly caught on that they were in a gang which is when I actually started getting nervous as even I knew that you didn't mess with the people in the local gangs I knew that we had to be careful about what we said next he was quite after that and I figured that they were going to move on and bug someone else but I was wrong he then asked me again what we were going to do later and if we wanted to hang out with them instead telling us how much fun we would have and how they could buy us a beer or whatever we wanted I told him again we couldn't go anywhere and we had to watch roses a little sister then he went quiet again I know we should have just picked up and left right then but I had just started getting into my rebellious stage and thought we could handle these guys no problem and they weren't really a threat we weren't ready to go back to Rose's house just yet and he went in sat on another picnic table thinking that if we ignored them they would get the hint and go away of course not one minute later Chris and his nephew came and sat with us his nephew stayed at one end of the table but Chris decided to come sit right next to me and started telling me again about how pretty I was and how he could be my boyfriend and we should just go and hang out at his place or wherever I wanted to go at this point his nephew started looking kind of nervous he was very casually chatting with Rosa but I could tell he realized how young we were and that his uncle was really starting to cross the line he told him he thought they should go do something else because Rosa and I couldn't go anywhere but Chris wasn't having any of that I don't remember what he said next as he was still sitting next to me but the next thing I know he puts his arms around my shoulders and pulled me into his side I was completely caught off guard and didn't even know how to react I never had an older guy that close to me let alone touch me like that I know I should have at least pushed him away or done something but I just froze he kept saying again and again how he could be my boyfriend and he would take good care of me asking me if I could go somewhere with him but I told him no and started trying to slowly get out from under his arm without making a big deal out of it at that moment I started getting scared as he was getting really pushy and I didn't want to piss him off as it was just us in the park and I couldn't see or hear anyone else around he then pulls me closer to him and this time he kissed me it wasn't just a quick little peck it was a forceful lingering kiss that completely threw me off my mind started racing I couldn't believe what just happened and even Rosa was just sitting there with a look of complete shock on her face I decided that I had enough of this and we had to get out of there I pulled away one last time and he told me again we should go somewhere to have some fun he wasn't very creative and just kept saying the same things over and over again just worrying them slightly different it was now very obvious what he had on his mind I told him that it was getting late and we had to get Rosa's little sister home as her mom was going to be back soon he didn't seem very happy with hearing that so I told him that we had to take her sister home but maybe we could come back and hang out with him some more it was obvious he didn't want to let me go but promised that we would come back finally I guess he either believed me or just decided to let me up so I could go get roses little sister to carry her home I had dis turned around and was getting ready to tell Rosa that we had to leave now and suddenly he changed his mind and stood up and came over to me I had just put roses little sister down for a moment as she was getting kind of heavy for me and I knew that we had a ways to walk so I wanted to give my arms a break for just a second he took that opportunity to grab me from behind and pull me into him kinda like a bear hug with his whole body pressed up against mine a whole flood of emotions ran through me at that moment fear confusion and still a bit of denial that he would really do something to hurt me but I knew it was wrong either way and I needed to get the hell away from him I was still kinda in a state of shock at the time but I knew I had to keep my wits about me I decided to play along and try to work out a way for him to let us leave without making him mad or I think I was lying to him I told him again that we had to go and that Rosa's mom would get mad and come looking for us but I promised him that we would just drop her sister off and come back he let me go but still didn't seem convinced I told him again as convincingly as I could that we had to take Rosa's sister home and told him just to wait for us there he seemed to have bought it so he quickly started walking back to Rosa's house while he and his nephew were sat at the table as we started walking I glanced back and saw his nephew trying to get him to leave again so I thought great they're leaving so there's no way they're going to see where we're going or follow us wrong just as I thought they were leaving in the opposite direction Kris decided to follow us we had a bit of a head start but he was a really big guy and was gaining on us quickly we hurried as fast as we could because we didn't want him to see where she lived so once we got on her Street we took off running we finally got back to Rosa's apartment and thought they were in the clear I could hear Chris calling out my name but I couldn't see him so we all went inside as quickly as quietly as we could once inside we all went over to the window I could still hear Chris calling out my name and getting really close so we decided to stay quiet and carefully watch from the window to see if they had seen where he went luckily they kept walking past Rosa's apartment we both breathed a huge sigh of relief and then started freaking out because neither of us had ever experienced anything like that before but we were so glad it was over and we were in the clear shortly after that Rosa's mom got home I mean we're not to meet her in the parking area neither of us had any intentions of telling her what happened as Rosa's mom wasn't the nicest and we were sure we would have gotten into trouble even though we didn't do anything wrong we all get back upstairs and we're just chatting with Rosa's mom and her younger brother then we heard a knock at the door my heart stopped as I could swear I heard Chris's voice on the other side of the door we both went back into the kitchen as Rose's mom went to answer the door it was Chris and his nephew again somehow they must have seen us when we went out to meet her mom in the parking lot and saw which apartment we went into they asked Rose's mom if we were there but luckily we were smart enough to give them fake names and even then Rosa's mom was having none of that and told them to get the hell out of there and slam the door in their face of course Rosa's mom knew something was up and asked us if we knew them but we weren't about to admit that and we just told her that we had no idea what was going on or who they were I don't think she really bought it but she left it at that and told us not to answer the door later that evening her mom was going out again so it was just Rosa and I in the apartment we were just hanging out in the living room talking about how crazy that afternoon turned out to be and how glad we were that we didn't get into any trouble and then we heard it two voices that sounded very familiar just outside the window I was terrified to even move and then came a knock at the door there was no way that we were going to answer it so we just kept as quiet as possible and prayed they would just go away they called out our names and tried knocking again then one of them tried turning the doorknob thankfully Rosa's mom had locked it on her way out they tried knocking one more time what we heard next was their footsteps walking away from the door we never saw either of them again and we didn't go back to that Park again for quite some time it was an incredibly surreal experience however I will never forget his face the feel of his body against mine or that he reeked of cigarettes and beer this is a story I've been sitting on for a long time mostly because it makes me realize that it's not over yet the clock is slowly ticking until the time comes when he is free and while I hope he's long since forgotten me something tells me he hasn't I should back up this happened in 1999 when I was a sophomore in high school and 14 years old I had just moved back to America from the Middle East where I spent about five or six years because of the standard of dress there and the fact that my old school had uniforms and I had no social life I didn't own a t-shirt let alone a pair of jeans every day I went to school wearing a long dress or a long skirt with my mousy blonde hair tied back with a scarf like a headband I was awkward mousy and had a hard time making friends this was a couple of years before 9/11 but in my little town there there was still animosity towards anyone different and with my British accent and the fact of where I grew up I was pretty different I only had three friends Joe Nathan and Kenny Joe lived on my bus route though he was way out in the middle of the country so he and his two younger brothers were always the first on the bus in the morning and to last off the bus in the evening our day always followed the same schedule I would get on the bus go sit next to Joe and we talked for a little bit until we got to school then we would hang out with Nathan and Kenny for a bit and go to our separate classes I was in advanced placement classes and they were in the regular ones so I didn't share any with them but every other day our lunches coincided so the four of us will get to eat together then in the evenings Kenny and Nathan would get picked up and Joe and I would take the bus home I don't really remember how we started dating I think Joe told me that he liked me and I said that I liked him back and then our routine would change ever so slightly and that we would start holding hands on the bus and at lunchtime while Kenny and Nathan teased us relentlessly it was so innocent even 4:14 Joe was sweet and thoughtful and completely non-threatening he was the type to always make sure you had the better half of something always the first to offer his coat when you're cold and always pulling out chairs and holding doors open a real gentleman this went on for weeks though it stayed strictly at school we weren't able to see each other outside of school because he always had to go straight home or his mother would be furious sometimes he would come to school with bruises but he always said it was from roughhousing with his brothers and I didn't really have a reason to doubt him then one day there was a upcoming half day from school Joe suggested that he come over my place and we could have our first afternoon together we were both excited he would take the bus to my stop and then either walk or my parents would drive him home later it was going to be great I was beside myself with excitement everything went smoothly until the actual half day one of his brothers had found out about his plan and told his mother she then called up to the school apparently shrieking like a banshee and demanding that he come home not a minute late or he would be in a world of hurt he told me at my stop that he would go home talk to her and then be back as soon as he could even if he had to walk I was worried but he kissed my cheek and said everything would be alright and that he would be there in an hour or so so I went inside and waited and when I finally got tired of waiting inside I went out with my dog and waited I thought about calling him but the one time I tried that before his mother had spewed a bunch of venom at me for Goering to call their house and the idea made me cringe so I just waited eventually the Sun went down and he never showed up and never called I was disappointed but I decided it was probably for the best and what about my evening as usual the next morning when I got on the bus for school the bus driver looked at me and suddenly started sobbing I thought that was odd but it was kind of a dreary day in general so maybe I was reading too much into it I started heading for the back of the school bus and noticed that Joe wasn't there neither were his two brothers that was odd I was starting to get worried but I thought that maybe their mother had taken them to school herself that day the bus route went along as normal for a while until we came to a heavily forested area where the driver pulled over she was shaking and crying and just not acting like herself almost immediately I looked out the window and see three policemen walking up to the bus apparently they had pulled up behind her she talks to them for a moment and then one of them leads her off the other takes the wheel and the third comes and sits by me meet I get to sit next to an officer I thought and then I thought that I was in trouble especially since there were so many other open seats but he was very nice and we chatted about school and life until we got to the campus then both of the remaining officers followed us inside and went into the office I went to meet up with the boys where I usually did but Joe wasn't there either neither of them had seen him we just hope that he was okay and went about our morning and first period I received a page to come to the office immediately I thought it was about some scholarships I had been working on but I thought it was weird they pulled me out of class when I got there the principal the counselor and the police were all there I suddenly felt like a caged rabbit and then they told me what happened the night before when Joe got home he had told his mother that he was coming to see me and that was final obviously they argued about it she grounded him and it came to blows I found out later that his mother had been very abusive to Joe which he doesn't excuse what happened but it does add some understanding at least to me after the confrontation was over he laid in bed all night planning on what he would do he decided that he was going to wait for his brothers to go to the school bus and hang back telling them that he would drive himself to school which wasn't too far out of the ordinary once they were gone he would take a butcher knife from the kitchen and finish his argument with his mother once and for all the next morning everything went as planned for the most part he got his brothers up and dressed and out for school and watched until they were at the end of the long driveway to wait for the bus then while his mother was sleeping he went into her room and stabbed her multiple times meanwhile on the other side of town the gloomy weather was causing troubles with the bus I don't know the details but I know that it was a few minutes late starting its route one thing I realized while riding this and that Hollywood seems to miss half at a time is that when you stab someone while they're sleeping they tend to wake up and she did she screamed and tried to fight back but he was too determined and too strong since the bus was running late the brothers were still standing on the side of the road waiting when they heard the screaming they both turned and ran back to try to help they tried to defend their mother but Joe turned on them slicing one of them across the palms and the other in the gut then he ran when the bus arrived she saw one of the brothers staggering up the driveway covered in blood and her panic she kept going and called the police eventually he made it to the corner store a little ways away some stories say he crawled there but I can't really confirm that nor do I really want to after the police finished questioning me I was sent home I remember lying on my parents bed staring at the TV while live coverage of his capture played or maybe it was a repeat I don't remember but I do remember seeing the news chopper filming as the police helicopter followed after Joe as he ran across the field there was a calm perched out the door and braced on one of the landing struts as the chopper got lower he jumped out and tackled him that was the last time I ever saw Joe the part that creeps me out though was what happened afterwards he pled guilty and was sentenced to 40 years for the murder and 20 for the assault on his brother not long after the letter started I never kept any but they were long crazy ramblings about how we would be together forever how he did it for me and how he truly loved me and he would do anything to be with me no regret no remorse he was happy about what he did if it meant I was his we moved a while later and the letter stopped I'm happily married now in getting on with my life but every time I think about him I remember he's up for parole in 2020 what happens when he gets out happens if he comes looking for me this story is told from the point of view of a female this happened a few years ago during my first year of university I'm from the UK and I studied in York which is generally considered a pretty safe City I was with my friends on a night out clubbing and as often happens on nights out I lost them I was tipsy but by no means drunk and at this point my friends weren't answering their phones and I had had enough so I decided to walk home my house is only around a 20-minute walk from town and we always walked home so I didn't think much of walking home by myself when I started walking this guy starts walking next to me he was Asian maybe around 24 so not too much older than me I was 19 at the time York is a pretty friendly city and tipsy students talking to other tipsy students they don't know is just the norm so I assumed he was just like me just another alcohol infused person making his way home he started chatting to me about the usual crap asking you what I studied in things like that we only been walking for a couple of minutes when he started asking me if I had a boyfriend at this point I started feeling uncomfortable we weren't in a secluded area but it was around 3:00 in the morning and there were no cars or other people around my mind didn't instantly label him as some crazed serial killer but a boy just trying his luck which again is pretty common when you're a student it wasn't really a big deal but I didn't want to walk with him anymore we'd only been walking together for around five minutes at this point so I tell him it was nice meeting him and that I was at my house I step outside some random house and stood there waiting for him to walk away but I think he knew I was lying and he didn't leave this is when I started to feel really unnerved he smiled at me and said my car is near here do you want to live so I can make sure you get home safely when he said this I became terrified my chest was so tight I couldn't even speak I just sort of shook my head and mumbled some incomprehensible answer next he comes right over to me and grabs my arm saying they just wants to help me get home I remember feeling numb and like I wasn't a part of my own body anymore it felt as though I was watching it happen to somebody else and not me I always thought that I would fight back if something like this ever happened to me but instead I was frozen in fear I don't remember where the car was or how long it took us to get there I just remember feeling kind of floppy and letting myself get tugged along the next thing I remember was him opening the passenger door and me getting in I think he asked me where I live but I couldn't answer at this point he started telling me what a pretty girl I was and how he just wanted a nice girl to talk to at home I sat completely still and staring ahead he then put his hand on my thigh and started stroking it and then began touching my breast while continuing to drive one-handed I felt disgusting and guilty but at the same time I thought I deserved it for getting in the car in the first place so I just let it happen I remember thinking I should fight him off or try to get out of the car but I honestly couldn't even speak let alone some of the energy to struggle I had no idea where he was taking me but I knew that we were heading away from the University area after around 10 minutes I seemed to unfreeze and it really hit me what was happening I genuinely thought I was going to die in that car I asked him if I could get out but he just kept smiling at me I'm only 5-1 and built pretty small I didn't really stand a chance of overpowering him and honestly I was still too scared to try anything at this point my cell phone started ringing I'd forgotten I even had a I've never answered anything so fast in my life it was one of my housemates who elbows on the night out with asking me where I was I didn't even look to see if the guy was responding but the next thing I know he's pulling over and telling me to get out of the car I had no idea where I was so I walked around looking for a street name and rang a taxi I was sobbing and told the taxi driver what happened and he told me to tell the police and even offer to take me there but I couldn't bring myself to do it and I didn't want to stay in that car any longer than I had to I got dropped off at home and promised that I would inform the police in the morning I never told anyone else about what happened that night and I blame myself for being stupid enough to walk home and for not being strong enough to fight I pretty much willingly got in his stupid car and let myself get assaulted I could have been raped or murdered this whole incident has made me very distrustful of men I have depression anxiety and issues with self-harm which were triggered by what happened this story is from the point of view of a female a few years ago I held two jobs one at a taco place the other at a small general store the taco place was always busy we were separated from the customers by a counter which was about elbow height interactions with customers was pretty much kept to a minimum so we could be fast and focused on making food and moving on to the next customer working at the general store was a lot different it was much slower paced except around noon when every old person in town wanted to shop it seemed I usually work nights at the general store and days of the taco place the work of the general store consisted of cleaning and unpacking boxes to stock the shelves and the majority of my chores didn't involve me being behind the counter this led to a lot more interaction with the customers in a more friendly environment it was here that I had the encounter with the crazy man he was a bald white guy somewhere in his 30s or 40s since I didn't have a car I was getting rides to my college on the other side of town by my boyfriend who is now my husband the first time I saw this creep he was walking along the sidewalk blindfolded it was a busy road with lots of traffic and he had on a fucking blindfold I guess he thought he was cool or something by showing off his ability not to stumble and die but he just looked with a crazy person when my boyfriend couldn't drive me I had to walk it was only a couple blocks from my apartment so it wasn't too bad the only time I had to walk in the dark was at the end of a closing shift so I was never too worried one day I was working at the taco place and the blindfold man tries to talk to me I brush him off and get back to work hoping the next customer only giving him a brief comment and then dismissing him apparently this made him mad because he stuck around hoping that work would slow down but it didn't I didn't see him again until a few days later he came into the general store wearing the blindfold again he took it off to shop and then came up to the register to pay he didn't say anything he just stared at me as I ring up his items and told him the total he handed me a wad of sweaty crumpled the bills that he pulled out of his pocket I generally put them in the register and gave him his change I handed him his bags and he stared at me some more and then left I washed my hands and then continued on with my day I had forgotten all about him until a week later he shows up at my job at the taco place with a yellow plastic bag from the general store he had obviously gone there first and then came to the taco place looking for me for once who were slow at the taco place he called me over to the counter I know your mom he said I honestly didn't doubt that my mom was into some heavy shit back then and this guy seemed to be a Tweaker suddenly he pulls out an envelope full of $20 bills and throws it on the counter smiling he backs away towards the door not saying anything else what's this for he shrugs and says I want to help you guys out I take the money and look at it I then test it with the Pens we have by the registers it was all real he had actually given me a wad of cash that came out to be $500 don't get me wrong I was grateful but I was also sketched the fuck out after my shift I walked over to the police department which also was in the same lot as my other two jobs I rang the intercom and they eventually sent out two police officers I explained the situation they didn't really take me seriously they thought I was being some paranoid girl trying to friendzone some nice guy they told me that there wasn't anything he had done wrong and that money was mine I had been willing to give up the money as evidence in case it was stolen or obtained due to selling heavy drugs the guy did claim he knew my mom that of course turned out to be a lie the cops left and nothing more came of it I had put the incident behind me until I saw him again it was at the store and I was ringing him up this time instead of staring and saying nothing he asked me for my phone number now guys never hit on a girl who works in customer service she is obligated to be polite to you but that doesn't mean she likes you just because she's being nice plus it's an extremely uncomfortable situation to be in anyway I came up with the first excuse I could I don't have a phone he didn't even blink he just went from standing there - suddenly leaning over the register and growling in my face what's the matter you don't like me you think you're too good for me I gave you all that money what's wrong with you I took several steps back what the actual fuck then I heard my boss call my name from across the store asking me if I could help her adjust some shelves the guy then walked off and left the store I took a moment to call my boyfriend and have him come pick me up at the end of my shift I realized that was good thinking on my part because the guy was standing outside the store smoking a cigarette and waiting for me after that I have my boyfriend pick me up and drop me off every day until I finally get a vehicle to drive to work later on everyone at the taco place was talking about a stabbing that happened last night they told me that the guy waited under someone's car while wearing a blindfold once they were about to open their door this fucker stabs him in the ankle and slides out from under the car I guess he didn't realize that there were other people in the same parking lot because as soon as he saw them he took off running a few days later I went into my second job and my supervisor who had been with me the night the creep was waiting for me showed me a picture in the newspaper and an article a few towns over this guy had stabbed someone else but he had actually killed them this time he stabbed a woman thirty-two times before he was arrested on sight he hadn't seen anyone around this time with his blindfold my guess is that there was enough light that he can make out the outlines of people the first time but the second time he chose a darker more secluded location so lucky for me I didn't become a victim of this creep but it's just scary to think that someone this crazy actually lived in the same town as me it's really something else when you wonder about how many killers or would-be killers you might come across hunting is an avid hobby of mine and it runs in my family my favorite animals to hunt are deer and boars as they are quite a challenge and I love a challenge I also love hunting in general and camping in the woods it's therapeutic for me as you're in nature's natural habitat which can be greatly appreciated when you're by yourself accompanying this are the type of people you meet while hiking I have met people who have shared their food and campfire with me but most of the time it's your animal friends who accompany you I wish the story was all about that but things took a turn for the worst I had recently completed an assignment which I would describe as long-winded and quite boring even though it was my favorite topic human biology due to this I decided to take a five-day hike across a vast stretch of woods that were brilliant for hunting as a hunting enthusiast I decided to hunt for some deer and possibly some boars if I came across any so I prepped my water filter packed my tranquilizer and hunting equipment as well as my pop-up tent and some snacks I took the three and a half hour drive to my destination I was stoked as I could unwind around nature and enjoy the atmosphere the woods provided I arrived at what looked like an abandoned parking lot around 3:30 p.m. all of the bays were empty and the Ranger's office looked as if it had been unoccupied for years I brushed it off park and began my hike the place gave me a very uneasy vibe as if the woods beyond the ranger station were kind of sinister I can't really describe what gave me this uneasiness but I honestly just chalked it up to the place being abandoned and creepy either way I headed out onto the path and began scouting the area for animals these woods were quite exquisite the Sun was shining through the trees and the animals were up and act I came across a few deer but no boars unfortunately fast forward to 8:30 p.m. it was an eventful and it was getting pretty dark now I need to add that I'm quite a paranoid guy as I was wrong at the age of 15 and even though all was okay in the end and that paranoia of something or someone lurking in the shadows stayed with me in the back of my mind and especially makes it so far known when about alone at night anyway I whipped up a fire cooked up some marshmallows and warmed up some beans minding my own business after this I decided to go on a late-night hunt as I did a two-week course on how to hunt prey in the woods when it's dark and I think it really paid off 15 minutes later I put the fire out as I prepared to leave but then my blood ran as cold as ice and my hands started to shake when I saw the silhouette of a person about 100 meters away from me it was unexpected so I internally freaked the fuck out as well as this I noticed a knife in their left hand and it looked like they were crouching and stalking something as they had their knife at the ready I believe it was a man about 6 foot tall and his back was facing me so I believed that he didn't notice I was there after shooting bricks while watching this man for about five minutes he disappeared into the inky night I got over it pretty quickly I figured it was just another hunter like myself I honestly wished that was the case fast forward about an hour it's around 9:45 p.m. and I'm feeling confident enough to go back out and into the black wilderness and catch a deer or two or maybe even a boar I pinpointed where my tent was on the map and went on my way with my hunting equipment ten minutes later I'm practically in no-man's land everywhere around me was pitch-black but I knew what I was doing I was stalking a deer which had noticed me and was about 50 meters in front of just wandering around I grabbed my tranquilizer and place the deer in my sights that's when I heard a twig snap my eyes darted my legs turned into jelly and I jerked my neck towards the source of the noise there was a fucking silhouette that appeared out of a tree to the left of me about fifty yards away and just watched me not the deer but me his size told me that he was the same guy from before six-foot roughly 200 pounds he stared at me and I stared back my body was still as a stone but a sudden outburst of adrenaline was causing me to shake I couldn't see his face as it was too dark fuck was he some kind of late-night human butcher will I ever see daylight again um I just about choked out who's there I tried to say in the calmest voice I could but the fear was obvious in my voice the man raised his hand with the knife and pointed his index finger at me that was it I fucking bolted it almost tripping myself up and hitting my head on some tree branches twig snapped rapidly behind me the son of a bitch was chasing me I looked back once and saw his right hand brushing tree branches to the side of him his knife gripped tightly in his left hand I then realized that I dropped my tranquilizer fuck it I can buy another one I know I should have just shot the guy but it's amazing what one can forget in a horrifying situation even if it's a gun I wasn't going back for it a ton of thoughts were going through my head while I was fleeing why me what does he want money food that was when I honestly thought I pissed myself as he said in a rapid tone there's a good fog he then had the audacity to start laughing in a patronizing way and I couldn't take it anymore I sped up and let me tell you it's amazing what the human body can do when adrenaline and instinct takes over I've never ran so fast in my life I made a hard right dive into some nearby bushes and eventually lost the guy I heard his footsteps go in the opposite way and it turns out that I went in a huge fucking circle as I could see my tent about 50 meters away I was fucking shaking and tears were starting to form but I stayed strong I tuned in my ears to the inky blackness and I heard nothing I saw nothing I was not going to turn all my phone light as it would make me a visible target I carefully made for my tent and checked my watch it was now 10:30 p.m. I sat still in my tent listening to every small noise I could from the woods I held my breath as I heard a twig snap behind me and with that it was accompanied by a low sinister voice you think you could run our rim with that my tent was sliced open and the fucker popped his head in he was fucking licking his lips and his eyes were wide open and locked with mine news he screamed as he pulled out his knife fighting was not my strong point but going to the gym made me a pretty able guy so as he tried to stab me I grabbed both of his arms and fended off him plunging the blade into my torso I tried to disarm the fucker and he laughed during the process I thought he was trying to intimidate me however I was ready to kill him to defend myself i restrained his left wrist but his knife was inches away from going into my foot so I stepped onto his right hand and pulled back on his left wrist then snap his left wrist was broke he Leno a blood chilling scream I now had the upper hand and I took advantage of it I got the knife from a shattered hand and gave him a taste of his own medicine I something I keep into his right hand and he screamed I land a few punches and I think I broke his nose I grabbed my arm in pain as he fought back and bent it in an awkward position but I honestly couldn't afford to care about my injuries he tried to kick me but I punched him in the face until he was unconscious I then checked my phone no service I picked up the fucker into a fireman's lift and I remembered my way to the Rangers office as it was exactly west from my tent after an hour of struggling with a potential killer on my shoulders I found the ranger station and to my surprise a young man around 20 years old was there I collapsed onto my knees and I explained the situation and as it turns out the guy had slashed my left bicep but the adrenaline known me to the pain the ranger called for backup I don't know how long it took I left my belongings I was not going back up there to retrieve them the Ranger offered to drive me to the nearest hospital in my car and I did I took him up on his offer the Night Stalker was taken away semi-unconscious the next day I woke up in a hospital bed to an officer sitting next to it and what he said next was burned into my memory never to be erased when I first saw the killer his bag was towards me knife in his left hand and was crouching as I mentioned earlier it turns out he was stalking another hiker who he brutally murdered and mutilated they found chloroform at the scene hence me not hearing any screams or cries for help I found from then onwards to never go hunting by myself again the next time I went hunting was six months after this incident with four other friends although the woods can have a beautiful atmosphere never judge a book by it's cover as the tables can turn within the blink of an eye for all of you going camping and hunting stay safe and remember don't think these things can't happen to you this did not happen to me but to my boyfriend a few years back and I decided to share his experience we used to live in a small farm town were the largest store to visit was Walmart so often we would want to buy clothes and other things like that we had to drive an hour to a larger city where there were malls and other options one day my boyfriend will call him Carl and his friend Edgar and Edgar's little brother Fabio decided to head out to the city and go to the mall to buy some clothes they decided to head out around 6 and jumped in Edgar's car and began the drive not even 30 minutes into the drive the car starts to make a weird noise and started to smoke so Edgar pulled the car over to see what was going on now keep in mind that this road is completely isolated it only has one gas station near the entrance of our town but other than that it's just empty countryside after checking the car they decided there was nothing they could do about it and would have to call for help now at the time none of these guys had phones so that meant hiking back up the road to the gas station which would take about an hour or more to get to Edgar tells his little brother just to stay behind and wait in the car while they went to the gas station his brother was only 12 years old so probably not the smartest idea for him but I guess in their minds it was okay anyways Carl and Edgar began to hike up the road and decided that if they cut across some fields they would reach the gas station in half the time and after quite a bit of walking they arrived at the gas station and used the phone to call Edgar's dad of course his dad was angry that the car was in bad shape it was even more pissed that Edgar had left his little brother all alone he told him and called ahead back to the car and he would drive down the road and meet them there after work so they hung up thanked the guide to counter and head out on the long walk back to the car by this point it was dark and when they arrived they were exhausted and just ready to go home they walked up to the car to get in and they notice that Fabio was gone and the front window had been smashed open and glass was everywhere Carl and Edgar both began to freak out and yell for his brother while looking around the area to see if anyone was nearby the two of them both began to freak out and yell for his brother while looking around the area to see if he was anywhere nearby they decided to turn on the car so that the headlights would illuminate the street and hopefully help them look to see if they could find his little brother or what may have caused the damage they soon heard the sound of a car coming up and turned around to see Edgar's dad pulling on the side of the road beside their car once he found out that Fabio was missing he began to freak out as well they were so busy being frantic that they didn't notice someone was walking towards them from the direction editors dad had just come from it was Fabio he was confused and wondering why everyone was yelling and they explained because they thought he had been kidnapped Fabio was surprised to see the window was broken since the car had been in perfect condition when he had headed to the gas station to get something to eat Edgar and Karl then realized that that was why they never encountered him since he had taken the main road things quieted down as the guy started to inspect the engine it was only then that they began hearing a rustling noise everyone went quiet and listened Edgar's dad yelled for whoever it was to come out he grabbed the tire iron and handed Carl and Edgar to other random tools to hold on to as he walked towards the brush it was then that a stranger emerged from the leaves he was tall and skinny and by what Carl told me he looked to be strung out on some type of drug with bloodshot eyes and his movements were just off Edgar's dad asked him what he was doing out there to which he replied out for a walk Edgar headed over to the stranger and started yelling at him for breaking into his car the guy became very defensive and started yelling back about how he didn't do it at this point Carl was still across the street with Fabio when he noticed more movement in the brush and as he looked closer he noticed that there was another guy and girl trying to sneak behind Edgar and his dad it looked like the girl was carrying a large bag and the guy a long pipe Carl cried out to Edgar and his dad and they quickly turned around to see the two people just crouching down behind them Carl said he wasn't quite sure what happened Carl said he wasn't quite sure what happened next since it happened so fast but a fight broke out between everyone as the scene unfolded Carl was still beside Fabio and the car and was getting ready to join in when everything went silent it was then they noticed that Edgar had a gun pointed at his face from the drugged out guy who is just shaking and stammering that they would shoot them he kept pointing the gun first at Edgar's space then his dad and then back again he told him that they would let them go and not follow them or else he would shoot the both of them in the head he and the two others walked across the street and into the field disappearing into the darkness Edgar and his dad were bloody from the scuffle and told Carl and Fabio to get into his car and that they would come back tomorrow to fix the engine everyone piled into his car and they took off Carl said that the car ride home was silent now I asked him if Edgar's dad ever called the cops and he said to his knowledge they never did Carl was dropped off at his house around 1:00 a.m. and called me right after that I remember thinking how close he had been to to never coming home Carl thinks back to that day sometimes and thinks about how lucky he is to have survived that year there were a lot of car break-ins and we all wondered if it was the same group of people I guess we'll never know there's always a reason to be afraid [Music] [Music]

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