What is your SCARIEST/CREEPIEST encounter with real people? (r/AkReddit)

whenever I see a scary thread it ends up being about ghosts and whatnot that's not scary I find real people more strange and eerie than the paranormal what are you scariest encounters with real people I'm so happy this question was asked this is the only good story in my whole life growing up I always wanted to go on a bike ride at night something about it seemed really cool to me it wasn't until I was 13 that my mom finally left me she told me to wear my helmet have my phone take a flashlight and she set the parameters for where I was allowed to go she gave me about four miles which was a lot to me so right after the sunset I was off I loved it there were no people out walking their dogs no kids running around the temperature was perfect etc it was really fun so fun that I ignored the limits my mom set you see where I was biking was all walking paths it was one of those grassy areas between two neighborhoods there's this long path that went at least 600 feet at a 25 degree angle I was flying down this hill having an absolute blast and darted right through the parameters my mom set these limits for a reason everything on the inside was close to houses and people the outside more specifically the place where the path I was only two was barren I rode along this path for ten minutes before I could only see some of the lights of the houses on the inside of the limits after 15 minutes of riding along this dirt path I hear singing it sounded about 30 to 40 feet in front of me I stopped riding to hear it better it was a woman's voice she was singing Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles but she wasn't singing the words just the melody of the vocals her voice was strange you know how when you have phlegm in your throat your voice gets scratchy that's what her voice sounded like I inch forward to try and see her I get close enough to see the silhouette of hair bouncing up and down like she was head banging I decide to get my flashlight out I'm thinking that maybe this person is in need of help or something or maybe this is an insane person in the light will scare them away so I take the flashlight out of my pocket pointed at her and on the moment the light hit her she stopped moving completely she was facing away from me she had disgusting hair that seemed to be sticking together in clubs some of her hair was ripped off - she was wearing a very oversized bright red hoodie I was almost too scared to move I think she was too I conjured up as much bravery as I could in said sari in a very poops this is the wrong room kind of way she didn't respond I turned off the flashlight and put it back in my pocket just as I was turning my bike around she screams she screams in an awful awful high-pitched voice I damn near crapped myself as I throw myself back onto my bike I hear her voice getting closer to me I book it as fast as I can I don't look behind me and I don't stop pedaling her screaming group quieter and quieter until it dissolved into the howling of the wind TL DR went on a bike ride at 13 heard someone singing Eleanor Rigby in the darkness shine a flashlight on her she freezes turn it off she screams and runs at me as I bike away I once worked as a live-in staff member in a college dormitory during the summer we housed a few summer school students who remained on campus near 30 it may be significant to point out these students tended towards the highly academically motivated oftentimes high stress students if quiet one warm day in late June my office received a call from a concern that she and her family was unable to reach her brother who lived by himself in a room on a summer school floor this wasn't unusual as our office frequently dealt with students avoiding their kith and kin due to frayed nerves or general social awkwardness our normal protocol to check on a student is to try to reach them by our emergency contact information failing that go check their room to verify they're living in the building and perhaps available than an air then have them called our family to verify we followed up on the original request also we are to only enter a room with another staff member present to ensure personal safety of staff and students I failed to reach this student on his room and mobile phone and was working short-staffed so since I was on my own I decided to pop up to his room and check on him I arrived on his floor around 2:00 in the afternoon and the floor seemed deserted as I had I found his room number and immediately noticed the sound of a movie playing on a TV or computer from behind the door I knocked three times and announced that I was a staff member checking on his health and safety no answer I didn't think this was that remarkable college students are notorious for leaving electronics running while not in the room I checked the floor showers and bathrooms and found them deserted I returned to his door and knocked three more times waiting about twenty seconds between each knock no answer this is when my instincts started to buzz I worked in residence halls a number of years as a professional and something about all the pieces of this puzzle weren't adding up family concerned about his health and safety electronics running someone must have started them recently within the timeframe of a movie runtime summer school students and their idiots and chronic behavior something wasn't right I was by myself so I probably let myself get more worked up than if I was with someone else a deserted dorm floor even at 2:00 in the afternoon often times evokes cooporation memories of the Overlook Hotel I decided that for some sense of closure or sanity I needed the immediate resolution of keying in to this students room even though I was by myself and not technically supposed to do so I knocked on the door one more time for good measure again announced myself as the hall director I keyed into the room and my spider-sense went off even stronger the room appeared relatively vacant the student appeared to be living out of a suitcase which is unusual for someone staying no less than eight weeks for a summer school session the bedding was tehsil like someone had been sleeping in it and all the lights in the room were on and as I had suspected there was an open laptop on a desk running on battery power playing the matrix but no student I began to start rationalizing to keep from feeling unsettled surely this student and I had crossed paths on my way to his room I'd never met him before so I wouldn't recognize him otherwise and perhaps he was just down in the lobby picking up delivery food for a late lunch sure that's it then I turned to leave planning on trying to reach the student later in the afternoon or that night as I turned to leave I noticed another odd piece of evidence the accordion closet doors which are removed in most rooms due to disuse particularly single rooms like his were still in this room and they were closed odd I couldn't remember the last time I actually saw someone used those cranky dysfunctional doors then my intuition spiked higher than ever crap crap crap I realized I was alone in a room with a potentially suicidal student who may in fact have completed just that and I am about to be the guy who discovers the body and then has a crapstorm of paperwork and undesirable tasks not the least of which would be calling the family back to break the news I felt like I was talking to myself when my voice cracked as I spoke to the closed doors and announced my name and title and that I would be opening those accordion doors in three seconds I fumbled with the latch on the doors and finally managed to get them disengaged and as I slid the doors apart I was unprepared I don't know what I really expected a hanging gunshot wound I'll tell you what I didn't expect a seven dark-skinned Indian man staring at me embarrassingly as though I had found his secret hangout we stared at each other for a good 15 seconds without blinking breathing or speaking I finally realized what was going on and my natural emotion was disbelief all I could think to say was um are you in here hiding from me he looked at me and said yeah my heart was still racing I turned to leave him before I shut his door I turned back to him and said call your sister she's worried about you and frankly I am too TLDR I met an Indian in the cupboard literally scared me one night around 3:00 a.m. I was dead asleep with my ex-boyfriend next to me all of the sudden I hear someone in my house asking if anyone was home I woke up my ex and told him to go see what the hell was going on he was a total chicken crap and made me go I get out of bed can't find my glasses but the guy is still shouting I come out of my bedroom in my pajamas and see there is a big ball dude in what looks to be a police uniform standing in my entryway I'm squinting trying to get a good look at him and he looks at me and says I just wanted to tell you that your door was left unlocked and you should lock it i mumble something to the effect of oh thanks and he leaves my apartment I'm still as blind as a bat but I see that he walks away instead of getting into a car no policeman would be policing the the area I live in on foot the next day I called the local police station and asked if any officers had reported this incident and they said they would check with the on-duty officers and get back to me they called me the next day and said no one had done this I still get freaked out when I think about this happening and I wish I knew what that guy was up to when I was 18 I worked the evening shift at a convenience store over the previous three nights three stores from the same chain had been held up at gunpoint in my small city so my manager had basically been prepping the all week to get robbed I was understandably on edge all night I was down to the last few hours of my shift and I was finally starting to calm down a little bit when a guy with his hat pulled down low walked in came right up to the counter and started reaching into the inside of his jacket and said you know those days when you should have just stayed home I think this is one of them time was moving in slow motion at this point and my heart was beating out of my chest after what felt like 10 minutes the guy pulled his wallet out of his jacket and asked for a pack of cigarettes anticlimactic but scary nonetheless TL DR almost pooped my pants over a pack of cigarettes my brother came into town on business and invited me to bar hop on his expense account I let my wife know not to wait up and met up with him once I got off work we spent the night going from bar to bar catching up on what had been going on in our lives until the last bar closed around 2:00 to 3:00 a.m. then we stumbled back to his hotel room and passed out I woke up the next morning around 7:00 a.m. and went home my wife had already left so I didn't see her an hour or so later she called me and asked where I had gone so early that morning I was confused cause I didn't get home until after she had left for work I explained this to her and she got really scared she explained that around 12:30 to 1:00 a.m. she heard a key in the front door and the door opening she sat up in bed and saw a male figure come in who she assumed was me and go into the living room she assumed that I had just decided to sleep on the couch rather than come into the room and risk waking her up so she just rolled over and went to sleep a few hours later around 5 to 6 a.m. she heard someone moving around downstairs again and then the front door opened and she watched the personal even heard the she thought I was heading out and just rolled back over to sleep again we lived in a neighborhood of townhomes where every house looked the same so we guess someone just got the wrong house and had a key that was close enough to ours to work then woke up and realized they were in the wrong house and got the hell out we call the locksmith and had the locks changed that day this story is 100% true I experienced it myself in the summer of 1991 when I was about 10 years old I lived on Wood way Drive in the Fox Harbor apartments in Paducah Kentucky if you look up the address you will see some woods just to the north of the apartment complex my friends and I played in those woods every day after school and all day on the weekends through the few years I lived there we cleared a small area in the woods and created a fort from various things we got out of dumpsters it was our own place that no one else knew about and it was awesome one day as we were walking to our fort off in the distance we saw a man walking through the woods he was walking parallel to us but in the opposite direction like cars traveling on a road but with about 70 to 80 yards separating our paths we stopped talking and stopped dead in our tracks when we saw him we never saw anyone in the woods especially not adults when we stopped moving he did too he turned towards us and looked right at us as I stared at him and was able to make out the details of what he looked like I noticed that he was wearing what looked like a Halloween mask a generic mask not Michael Myers and carrying an axe in his hands we stood there in silence and motionless for what was probably about 10 seconds he looking at us and us looking at him the he started sprinting straight at us we did the only thing we apparently thought to do run straight to our fort we were probably about 50 yards from the entrance to the fort and in those 50 yards he gained a lot of ground on us when we finally made it he was upon us all of my friends scurried up a tree and were screaming but I was the last in line by the time I could try and climb the tree he was standing right there by us he was screaming like a lunatic and waving the axe in the air I was scared had no idea what was going on and my mind was blank on what I should do I grabbed a large stick and took a nice big baseball bat swing and cracked him on the with it he stumbled back a bit moaned and took the mask off I recognized the face it was the landlord and manager of the apartment complex a man who is probably about fifty years old he wanted to play a joke on us and thought this was the most appropriate thing to do he was a ducking psycho TL DR was chased by a man with a mask and an axe through the woods I fought back it was all a joke that we didn't find funny when I was quite young I was out at the park walking my dog German Shepherd when I realized it was getting quite late and I was the only one left in the park a man dressed in a dark hooded top on a black scarf covering his face jumped the fence that leads into the alleyway behind the park and started marching towards me but he hadn't spotted my dog who was off sniffing around or doing whatever dogs do my dog got between us though and there was a kind of standoff for a while my dog was really tense and growling with his heckles hackles raised and I didn't know what to do I didn't know if my dog was going to attack the man so I just kind of froze after a while the man backed away jumped back over the fence and ran away down the alley I put my dog back on his lead and went home but he was still tense the whole way back I was a little freaked out but perhaps not as afraid as I should have been looking back on it now I didn't know what that man wanted or what he was doing there or what would have happened if my dog wasn't there with me there would have been no reason for him to go into the park by himself and come towards me like that I shudder to think about it I think if the man had made a move towards me my dog would have attacked him well I hope the [ __ ] was real in Toronto there is a subway system run by the TTC or Toronto Transit Commission they often square off certain parts of the subway route which is pretty ducking basic in order to do some upgrades or fix bits lately they've been shutting down the subway rides into downtown on the weekends anyway they were doing some upgrades on the track and we were going by pretty slow making sure not to run over anyone while they scampered out of the way out of nowhere the power cut out now I should say that I wasn't the only one in the train car the cars are decently long and I was at one end and some woman was at the other end when I walked onto the train it was up at her end where there was a giant bubble of seats empty around her she was displaying the typical signs of bat-crap crazy and people sort of avoided her everyone else was off getting off at Yonge but I still had another couple stops east ago she was laughing audibly and I tried to tune it out by listening to some music but it never really worked it was so chilling that my brain sort of just kept ignoring the music and focusing on her so eventually I just unplugged the music and sat back trying not to crap my pants so anyway the power cuts out and Here I am sitting at one end as far away from her as I could possibly be and the lights turn off for some reason she stopped laughing in fact she stopped making any noise at all when the lights came back on about five seconds later when I had sufficiently crapped my pants she wasn't at the far end she was about three seats away from me staring at me the second the train stopped I bolted for the ducting door after she relocated she didn't make another sound she just kept staring ducking creepiest moment of my goddamn life edit grammar here is a very creepy thing that happened to me one winter I was pushing my limits and winter camping a lot but I had this crazy tent with a fireplace the limits part was just the fact that I was so low and pretty remote in these places this was rural SW Colorado Canyon country there wasn't that much snow at all on the ground but it was zero degrees Fahrenheit that night well it was a full moon and I was Restless so at about 2:00 a.m. I got out of my tent fires still going and went for a long walk I ended up climbing up some stuff that was probably a quarter or half mile from my tent slash vehicle but up above it so I could see down on my tent and campsite clearly it was really beautiful down there then we lit from the inside by the stoves fire and dimly lit from the outside by the big moon I was enjoying myself and just about to head back down when I heard distant gravel crunching I had been there since noon that day and not a single vehicle had driven past so I was kind of put off and decided to stay up there until they drove past the noise grows louder amazing how far away you can hurt in the canyons at night slowly and eventually I can see that it is a car on the same road so I stay put and watch it's going really slow I can see a lighter being used quite a bit I'm not saying they were smoking meth but they were smoking meth and it's something like 89 Caprice or something like the old cop cars and really crappy so I'm just watching still in a very wistful mood and feeling somewhat powerful for my perch they near the bend where they'll be able to see my tent and round the corner brake lights they slow way down and seem to pause at my tent for an eternity probably only a minute or so but now I was on high alert and pretty nerve-racking I had no kind of anything weapon wise on me just a hatchet down by the tent for firewood but they drive on I'm pretty relieved but still shaken now thinking about what if they come back so I decide to chill for a little longer and make sure I see them exit nope they turned around down the road and came back I watched as they parked a ways down the road and got out and started walking down the road towards my camp it was such bright moonlight which slick rocks all around that I could see this all happening somewhat clearly but I couldn't make out much more than the basic scenes and there were still lots of big shadows I proceeded to watch for quite a while as they approached my tent look all around the outside look in the vents where it probably looked like I was sleeping the bag was in there with bedding mess with my vehicle and then walked back to their car and leave I pretty much stayed up there until just before dawn and only came down when I knew I could break camp and bail there were footprints in the snow on the outside of my tent and I kept imagining what it would have been like to have just woken up and not known what happened just see the footprints after that I started carrying a a spot locator beacon be battery-powered motion detector alarm see shotgun and I started using a much smaller tent and sometimes I even camp in a bivy 20 or 30 feet away from my tent and just put my pack in the tent this way if someone starts messing with the honeypot I have enough to get some awareness and do the right thing TL DR potential serial murderers passed me by this just reminded me of the most terrifying thing that has ever happened to me my senior year of high school me and three of my friends went up to this tiny cabin in the middle of ducking nowhere Michigan that my friend's grandpa's now by middle of nowhere I'd say this is probably the most remote location I've ever accessed by car about 30 miles out we lost cellphone service Google Maps didn't have a map of the location there were no street signs and the roads barely qualified as such the last leg of the drive was one single road went for maybe five miles with no intersections and ended at the cabin and nothing else anyways cut to the next evening we have been swimming and drinking a few beers at this nearby pond but it's getting pretty dark so we decide we need to head back we get close to the cabin and realized that not only is the light on but the door is open and there is the creepiest looking dude I've ever seen just kind of standing there looking out the door in our direction sensing danger we immediately bolt and get as far away as possible none of us can sleep and we don't have cell phone service to call 9-1-1 so we basically just hide and freaked the duck out all night long the next morning we work up the courage to go back to the cabin where the door is still open we rush inside grab our crap take note of the fact that nothing is missing we had laptops iPods liquor etc there and that the ducking panel to the crawlspace slash attic area is open get in the car and drive all the way back to Ohio to this day I have no idea who the duck he was and why he happened to be in the middle of absolutely nowhere looking through the cabin we we're staying in but to this day I refuse to go camping etc /ne we're too far from civilization duck now I'm going to have trouble sleeping tonight I once lived in a sort of bad neighborhood in a very tiny house with my brother who was rarely there old house so it was a little creepy and also felt like anyone who wanted to could have broke it in one night I was getting ready for bed it was pretty late on during a hot summer we didn't have a/c so I had one of those two fan window deals the blinds were pulled down to the top of the fan I was changing for bed I sleep in underwear and a t-shirt I slipped out of my pants and changed my shirt I don't wear a bra to bed because duck that I am about to hop into bed when I hear a low masculine voice say let's see those titties again I think my whole body stopped working for five seconds while I absorbed the fact that there was a creepy peeping tom right outside my window and I was alone in a house that he could get into if he wanted it was the first and only time I called the 911 I had a panic attack waiting for the police and the very nice 911 lady had to calm me down bright note apparently it was a slow night because they sent three cars I was so happy when I moved [Music]

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Published: Sun Sep 22 2019