True Scary Stories for Sleep with Rain Sounds | True Horror Stories | Black Screen Compilation

hey there welcome back to bedtime chills tonight get ready for three hours of spine tingling true horror stories paired with soothing rain sounds to help you relax if these Tales give you chills please hit that like button I'd love to know where you're tuning in from so share in the comments below your support means a lot now settle in and let's dive into these chilling stories together a father's worst nightmare almost a reality so this literally just happened about 6 hours ago I watch a lot of creepy stories on YouTube and this is one of

those instances in life that really makes you wonder how messed up people really are true monsters look like humans I hope this story can help save a life someday I want to start by saying thank you to all the true horror story and arear on YouTube if not for enjoying your creepy videos I'm not sure I would have been as observant here's my situation backstory my wife and I don't live together she had become aggressive over the last few months mostly toward our daughter our daughter is almost 18 months old and is my whole world

I am unemployed at the moment but my mother has been helping me a lot today around 400 p.m. I took my daughter to the store I usually do this around the time she wakes up from her nap my daughter is a very active child and can't seem to sit still for more than 10 minutes without getting cranky I usually let her walk with me holding her hand and patiently walking at her Pace I usually just get a juice for her but today I needed some extra groceries that I was short on flour sugar and some

noodles I also remembered we were low on milk and grabbed a gallon on our way back with all that I was carrying I wasn't able to hold her hand so I made sure to walk behind her but that only made her walk more slowly as we made our way to the registers I was continuously urging her to keep walking which she would do but only for a second before her attention would be drawn to another rack with whatever was on sale where she'd see something colorful on a lower shelf I was getting a bit fr

frustrated but I didn't show it in my voice I kept urging her to keep walking and she kept getting sidetracked with everything I was carrying I started to wish I had grabbed a basket at the front the customer service desk holds register one which was thankfully open I want to mention that my daughter is very fond of saying hi and waving at everyone I set everything up to get rung up but the service attendant was busy with the return at the C customer service area so I had to wait the entrance to the store was

to my right with the only exit door behind the service desk leading into a small foyer before the main doors as people entered they had to pass the customer service desk I was being fatherly to my daughter trying to entertain her with patty cake and The Itsy-Bitsy Spider while we waited for the cashier to check us out my daughter frequently waved at people passing by and said hi in her squeak he toddler voice some people smiled and waved back While others stopped to admire her at this point I'm used to people doing that it makes

me happy knowing my daughter isn't shy or cranky like some of the kids you see in stores the lady was ready to check us out and I told my daughter to hold my hand since I wouldn't be able to watch her closely I had to pull my wallet out to retrieve my debbit card and briefly let go of her hand I kept looking her way to make sure she wasn't wandering off the lady handed me my receipt when she suddenly yelled at someone behind me what are you doing with his daughter she bellowed I turned

to see a man who had picked her up and was running toward the entrance doors I was shocked the doors didn't open since they were one way and the cashier quickly picked up the phone yelling that she was calling the police I was stunned but quickly realized I what was happening I carry a pocket knife usually to break the seal on my daughter's juice I ran after the man as someone started to open the entrance doors he didn't get a chance to run through before I slammed my fist across his Temple I decided not to

use the knife as I didn't want to get in trouble the man stumbled and I grabbed my daughter from his arms he then ran out the door empty-handed the police arrived arrived about 5 minutes later and asked me what I had seen I explained that I hadn't seen the man's face clearly as he had Shaggy Long Hair a beard and was wearing a hoodie they took statements from several witnesses including the cashier and had other officers searching the area someone said the guy ran behind the building but the officers didn't find anyone the police took

us home and asked more questions like have you seen him before and do you know anyone in like the man they also asked about our home life CPS had been over earlier in the day to discuss my wife's Mental Health Plan and the police had been here before the officers asked if we needed any groceries or anything else I told them no the officers left leaving their cards in case I saw the man around about 20 minutes later there was a knock at the door to my surprise the officers have returned with the largest box

of diapers I have ever seen a large box of wipes about six large grocery bags and a couple of bags of toys I fell to my knees and cried after they left I spent almost 5 minutes choking back tears as I thank them they had left us a Christmas card saying I was a strong father that have had so much go on recently and that my daughter was lucky to have such a great dad there was $100 in the car too with a not saying to get a drink or two if I needed it I

don't drink so I'll probably get some extra Christmas presents for my mom and daughter to the man who tried to kidnap my daughter I hope the police find you I have always had an innate fear of the night not so much the dark but the night itself as a child my imagination was filled with stories of creatures that come alive after dark and the safety that a house and light provided I never had anything concrete to base this fear until one night when I decided to go with a buddy of mine to a baseball game

after dropping him off I got stuck at a red light at 2: a.m. of course that night the game went into Extra Innings so I didn't get a chance to drop my friend off until well after 1:00 a.m. everything was fine on the way home until I hit a light right before with a street leading to my house it was a te Junction and I needed to turn left the light was one of those who think is broken until it finally turns green right when you're about to run it naturally I pulled up just as

the light turned red I would have run the light seeing as there was no one around and it was nearing 2 a.m. on school night but earlier that week I had heard the phrase character is what you do when no one is looking and for some reason that was the night I decided to prove to myself that I had character big mistake I stopped at the light feeling proud bordering on self-righteous but then I glanced out my window and noticed a woman sitting all alone on bus bench we made brief ey contact before I quickly

looked away but it was too late out of the corner of my eye I saw movement and realized she was heading toward me I looked again and saw she was carrying a bag I quickly checked that my doors were locked and my windows were up then I hovered my foot over the accelerator bracing myself for what was to come I was hoping for just an awkward exchange praying for the light to change before she reached me but I knew the odds were slim she walked right up to my window put her bag down and began

tapping on the glass nervously I glanced up at her and she motioned for me to to roll down the window I had automatic windows and I imagined pushing too hard and the whole thing sliding down so I took a deep breath and lightly flicked the button the window moved down only a fraction but she didn't seem to notice or care she leaned in and began to speak my boyfriend heard me I have a friend who lives down the street can you give me a ride at this point I should give a brief description ion of

a bag lady she was small skinny and of indeterminate age she could have been in her mid 20s and had just lived a hard 20 plus years on the street or she could have been in her 60s having lived a moderately tough life either way there was no way to verify her story just by looking at her she seemed worn down by life not just by a boyfriend but there was something about her delivery it was robotic practiced and disconnected from the moment that made my skin crawl after a brief internal debate I told her

I couldn't give her a ride and needed to get home after my first refusal she leaned in closer and repeated herself my boyfriend heard me I have a friend who lives down the street can you give me a ride this time I felt more confident in my refusal and told her I had a curfew and needed to get home she leaned in a thirst third time and began again my boyfriend heard me at that moment the light changed I lifted my foot off The Brak and slowly rolled forward muttering an apology she didn't move she

just looked at the light then back at me she leaned even closer and said five words that have haunted me ever since you made the right decision then she picked up her bag and walked back toward the bench I sped out of the intersection crying and screaming all the way home I have no idea what she planned to do or if people were waiting in the bushes to jump into my car if I let her in but that encounter has haunted me ever since confirming in my mind that nothing could happens after dark I'm a

girl living in northern Europe I won't go into too much detail about where this happened because I don't want people to recognize me from this story this story takes place in October when I had a part-time job at a research center this was in a bigger city not in the middle of it but about a 30 minute bus ride from where I lived at the time keep in mind that the workplace was in an industrial estate so the only people who really spent time in the area were the workers from these companies I worked all

three shifts mornings evenings and nights but I mostly did night shift shifts because none of my co-workers wanted them I'm a night all anyway so that 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. shift worked well for me this happened on one of those night shifts it was a Thursday night and I was one of three workers there we didn't work together we were all in our own departments doing different kinds of work far from each other in the building I worked in a cam lab doing Water Analysis it wasn't a customer service job so we were basically

all alone and it was usually really quiet and peaceful we didn't have security guards but it was nearly impossible to enter the building without an ID card all doors were locked and everyone who worked there had a card that you held up to a sensor on the door to open it you also needed the C to leave the building these locked doors weren't just on the outside they were inside the building too so even if someone somehow managed to get through the first store without the card they couldn't get further into the building like into

the labs for example the door locked again immediately after you got in or out considering all that we never had to worry about anyone Uninvited getting in even at night on this particular night I took the bus and headed to work I greeted my co-workers who were leaving as their shifts had just ended and I met the other night shifters in the women's dressing room everything was normal I was in a good mood and so were my two co-workers when our shift started we parted ways and went to different laps about 3 hours into my

shift at 1:00 a.m. I decided to take my 20-minute break my two co-workers had gone on their break earlier so I had to go alone this time our break room was a lounge with a couple of long tables chairs a mini kitchen and a bathroom I'm not going to lie this big Hall with old flickering ceiling lights was not my favorite place to be alone at 1:00 a.m. when the whole building was almost empty and it was Pitch Black outside there were big windows in the lounge but I couldn't see anything outside just darkness there

was always this same Eerie Vibe at night so I was used to it 5 minutes into my break I decided to go outside to smoke the cigarette I put my jacket on took my stuff with me and opened the door with my card we had a smoking area at the back of the parking lot about a 1 minute walk from the door if I said I wasn't scared to be alone in an empty parking lot at night as a young girl I'd be lying this was the only part of the night shifts I really didn't

like but I really needed that cigarette nothing bad ever happened and I live in a generally safe country so I just hoped for the best there was this nasty white plastic chair in the smoking area I sat in it and lit my cigarette from the smoking spot I could clearly see the entrance of the building since there were bright lights above the door usually I just stared at the door without really noticing it because I mean it was night in an industrialist area and there weren't many interesting things to look at all of a sudden

I noticed a person walking up to the door it was a man wearing a trench coat and a top hat holding a briefcase I had never seen this man before either at work or anywhere near this place he stood still in front of the door not moving just facing it even though nothing bad had happened yet just a strange man standing by the door I can't even explain how scared I was I had to somehow get past this man to get back inside he didn't know I was there he didn't see me what if he

did something to me while I tried to get inside was he trying to get in what did he want and who was he this was the only door where I could enter the building from outside so I had no choice but to try and ignore the man and get inside but what on Earth was this weirdly dressed man doing in this area at 1:00 a.m. there was clearly something he wanted from us and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to know what that was I started walking towards the man and the door while he

still stood there on where I was in the parking lot the closer I got the more scared I became I had to stop and think again I knew it was part of my job to confront unwanted people trying to get in and to tell them how to contact our customer services but this was 1:00 a.m. with a strange man who had appeared out of nowhere and I was an 18-year-old girl alone I had a good feeling that I shouldn't go to that door door I decided to call my coworker who was working that night and

ask if she could meet me at the door to let me in so I wouldn't have to face this mail alone I went and hid behind my co-worker's car in the parking lot to make the call I crouched in a position where I could still see the man through the car windows I wanted to see if he would leave and where he'd go my coworker answered the call and as I started whispering into the phone explaining the situation I watched in horror as the man turned around and stared directly at the car I was hiding

behind I don't think he saw me but he definitely heard that there was someone talking behind the car what happened next was straight out of a horror movie when the man realized there was someone behind the car he started slowly and quietly approaching me not knowing I could see him through the window and here's the terrifying part he wasn't walking or running he was on all Force crawling toward the car I couldn't even scream I just froze with fear and the phone fell from my hand as the man got closer to the car I saw

both of my co-workers opening the door waiting and shouting at me to run and come inside they didn't have to tell me twice I ran inside so fast that the man didn't even have time to react by the time he got up and started running after me the door was already closed the second he heard the door lock he turned around and started speed walking away eventually disappearing into the darkness we called the cops immediately and they arrived not long after but they didn't find anything or anyone bad man disappear as quickly as he had

appeared and no one has seen him since after the shift my co-workers walked me to the bus stop and waited with me until the bus arrived making sure I got home safely I'm first forever thankful to these lovely women for opening the door for me before that man got me God knows what you have done I haven't worked any night shifts since then and I definitely never will again the black sedan one night I was sitting in my kitchen eating dinner while my family was in the living room watching TV together I have always been

a Wallflower as I was slurping my ramen noodles I glanced Out My Back Door I looked along my backyard then glanced up towards my fence there was a single Road in an empty Field behind my house as I looked towards the road I saw something unusual there were occasionally cars that drove by on that road but this was different I was staring at a dark sedan with tinted windows that was parked right by my back gate I dismissed it as someone pulling over to reag or something of the sort I finished eating my dinner took

my bowl to the dishwasher and glanced out my back window the car was still there it had probably been about 10 minutes since I last looked that's when I began to feel suspicious I called my stepfather over and mentioned it to him he gave me a confused look looked out the window Shrugged and told me there was probably some logical reason why they were parked there and that they would probably leave soon my stepfather and I were the same that way always trying to figure out the logic behind things after that I decided I might

as well investigate a little I turned my back porch light on to see if there would be any response nothing so I decided to walk out onto my back porch and stare at the car to see if I could see the person as soon as I looked at the car it immediately sped off I mentioned that to my stepfather he also seemed suspicious we ended up watching the backyard at night we didn't see anything for about a week so we assumed it was a coincidence that they left at that moment during the next week the

family was watching a movie together except for me I'm a major introvert I was sitting in the basement watching some anime when I heard my mother let out a scream I immediately rushed upstairs with my two younger sisters in a panic and my mother are freaking out my stepfather was working late so he wasn't home I asked what happened my mother then described what happened she was watching a movie with my sisters and glanced out the window facing the backyard that's when she saw it a man was standing about 3 ft from the window she

described him as a man in his early 30s about 6'0 in she said the second she screamed he smiled and quickly walked to the road and got into a dark sedan I immediately got baseball bat and walked outside to investigate nothing seemed out of place and the man was nowhere to be found I went back into the house made sure my sisters and mother were fine and told them to lock the doors every night if they saw something even slightly suspicious I instructed them to let me or my stepfather know immediately I was on high

alert the next night and spent a good 3 hours watching the backyard when my stepfather came home I made sure he was aware of the situation he was we both took turns watching the backyard there was nothing that night the next night my stepfather had to work late again so I watched the back and occasionally took breaks I had a baseball bat sitting by the door my mother and sisters yet again we're watching a movie together for a little while I got distracted by the movie and didn't even notice it a black sedan had pulled

up to the back then suddenly I had a strange feeling and looked out the back window there he was halfway across my yard he hadn't noticed that I was aware of him yet I got up slowly and told my family to stay in the house they looked up confused but as soon as they saw me reaching for the bat they knew they started to get really freaked out my mother told me to be careful I grasped the bat in my hand and flung the back door open the man must have been spooked by my family's

reaction because right as I slammed the door open he was already turned and headed to the gate he got it open and bolted towards his car I had nearly caught up to him when he opened his car door his keys already in the ignition when he he got to it he slammed his foot on the gas pedal as I got to the car I threw my bat as hard as I could and it shattered his back window as I threw the bat I went to look at his license plate it wasn't there after that I

questioned everyone in case they had any information about him that's when my sister mentioned that she had created a MySpace account a month before this all started happening she showed me her profile and she had been talking to someone who was obviously trying to pretend to be a young teenage boy to talk to young girls she had given him our address there was no doubt in my mind that this was the guy fortunately I must have scared him off because he never showed up again we called the cops but they said there was nothing they

could do about it except increased patrol of the area which they didn't every time I think about this I consider what would have happened if I hadn't been been there or if I had never noticed it scares me so unknown stalker of lurking in the backyard it's best for you if we never cross paths during my early 20s I worked as a meter reader in Iowa City Iowa a meter reader is the person who records how much electricity gas or water you've used each month if your meters are on the inside and you want an

accurate Bill a meor reader must enter your home whether you're there to let them in or not just to clarify we only entered homes if consent was given when the customer first signed up for service customers also provided us with keys if necessary entering a home when the owner is in prison is something that I never got used to no matter how loudly I knocked I never shook the uneasy feeling that I wasn't welcome the inside of a home is the ultimate private space a home's exterior is just the image of ourselves that we project

to the rest of the world but the further you venture inside the closer you come to truly seeing what kind of person lives there and if you want the raw unfiltered truth head for the basement I ate basements I've seen walls that look like giant static fil TV screens until I realized it was roaches scurrying across a white background cobw so thick and Dusty that it looked like the cotton candy machine exploded at the spider County Fair I've seen rats snakes waste weapons neglected children abused pets homeless squatters massive hordes bizarre sexual items a makeshift

lab and even a coffin there are rational explanations for all these things well maybe not the coffin but there was one basement where what I found was beyond the grasp of logic and that's what made it so terrible terrifying it was an old apartment house from the outside it looked like every other house on the Block I entered the back door and found myself at the top of a staircase I ran my hand along the wall until it grazed a light switch I flipped the switch but no lights turned on I wasn't carrying a flashlight

a typical route involved five or 6 hours of walking so I carry as little as possible often times I used the light from my handheld screen but it only illuminated whatever was about a foot in front of it so oned with the world's worst Lantern I made my way down into the darkness once at the bottom I blindly shuffled across the room one baby step at a time with arms outstretched and head down I eventually reached the Far Side of the basement I shine the dim light from my handheld along the wall and discovered two

doors each door led into its own small room I chose the door on the right and found the mirors in a far Corner as I entered the reads I began hearing noises coming from the other room something was moving and there was whimpering That Grew louder the longer I listened I eventually realized it was a dog it sounded weak and distressed I tried to open the door but it was locked at this point the dog dog was scratching the other side of the door I felt helpless I reported it when I got back to the

office but I couldn't shake the thought of that dog it stuck with me over the next month until it was time to return so there I was 1 month later back within that basement at least this time I knew where the mirors were located I shuffled back to the little room on the right while keeping my ears open for any sounds coming from the other room this time I heard nothing I read the mirors and started making my way back but I couldn't shake the memory of that dog was it still trapped inside that room

my curiosity got the best of me I stood outside the door for a few moments listening still nothing that's why I made a huge mistake I tried to open the door I had no more than jiggled the door knob when I first heard it screams blood curling screams unlike anything I ever heard sounds that I didn't think a human was capable of producing short piercing I pitch shrieks followed abruptly by a low drawn out gut moan that ultimately morphed into something that I can only describe as crying but much louder it was all over the

place like some sort of psychotic free form Jazz I stumbled backward nearly losing my my balance I shouted something like hello who's in there there was no response just screams are you okay do you need help still no response just screams there was no doubt that I yelled loud enough for him to hear me he didn't want my help he wanted me gone I fumbled my way through the darken room toward the exit when I reached the top of the stairs I just stood there listening I was trying to wrap my mind around what I

was hearing I waited for the screaming to stop but it never did when I finally left it was still as loud and demented as when it began I felt relieved but that quickly vanished when I realized I had to do it all over again next month I reported what I'd heard but nothing came of it as my return Drew nearer a sense of TR grew inside me what kind of lunatic sits alone in total darkness and silence my mind freed to endless explanations for what kind of Hell lay beyond that door by the time I

returned I built him up in my mind so much that anyone other than the Devil Himself would have been let down but there was no sign of him the next month or even for several months after I had nearly given up on solving the mystery when a stroke of luck pulled me me back in one night I went to a concert with my friend Laura after the show I gave her a ride home she had moved somewhat recently so she had to give me directions I didn't pay much attention to where she was leading me

until she pointed to a house a ways up the street I couldn't believe it she had moved into the house with the Mysterious Room in the basement this sounds weird but have you noticed anything on about the basement at this I began to ask but before I could finish my sentence she blurted out a crazy gu Liv down there finally I had confirmation she went on to tell me that even though her apartment was in the Attic she often heard him yelling late at night but that wasn't all she had actually met him one day

while walking to her car she saw him standing on the lawn he stood perfectly still with no expression on his face he was directly in her path so she cautiously made her way around him she noticed he was staring at her so she offered a friendly ey as she passed he had no reaction except for one unsettling exception he stuck out his tongue then quickly sucked it back into his mouth and resumed acting like a statue thoroughly creeped out she got in her car and drove away two or 3 months months later I finally met

him myself I entered the back door as I had so many months before this time something was different there was a light on an abasement i peered down the staircase at the bottom a ragged looking dog was staring back at me it was the same dog I had heard during my first visit then I noticed something else behind the dog I could see a pair of be her feet the ceiling blocked my view of the rest of whoever was standing there but it didn't matter I knew it was him I should have left right then

but I didn't I know this probably doesn't make sense but at this point my desire to finally get some answers outweigh my fear I shakily called out me your reader and started to make my descent as I made my way down more of him was revealed he looked to be middle-aged his head was shaved and his eyes were wild he was wearing pants but no shirt what I remember most was how lean and sing Leia's body looked it had the look of a body that was never at rest I explained who I was and what

I was doing there to my surprise not only did he talk to me but he actually sounded somewhat normal the volume and pitch of his voice were odd but he said the same sorts of things that people typically said to meter readers I even started to doubt whether or not he was the same man I had heard screaming but his behavior slowly removed all doubt as I read the meters he rapidly paced back and forth he was constantly ringing his hands together and spastically cocking his head from side to side the longer he talked the

more agitated he became he began grimacing and little verbal ticks started popping up in his speech every so often he blurred out a loud awe in the middle of a sentence he was trying to suppress these sounds but he was losing the bow I started to make my way to the exit he followed his verbal Outburst grew louder and more frequent I was petrified when I reached the stairs I drew our conversation to an end and said goodbye as I turned head up the staircase he could no longer hold it in screams the very same

Unforgettable screams that I had heard coming from the lock room I ran up the stairs as fast as my legs would carry me flown the door open and rush back into the daylight a month or two later I had a couple of friends including Laura over to my place I was excited to tell her about my encounter but as I was relaying what happened I could tell that something else was on her mind when I finished telling my story she told me about something she had seen a couple of weeks earlier one day she noticed

lights flashing outside her window she looked outside just in time to see police officers placing the man from the basement in the back seat of a squad car she later found out from another tenant that he had assaulted someone with a sharp object that was the last we ever saw of him I don't know what became of the man in the basement I like to think that he got the help he needed but maybe that's just because I'd rather not think about the alternative that shining gold tooth so this happened when I was roughly 9

years old my mother and I went everywhere together since she was a single parent we attracted a lot of attention at times in public places she was young and gorgeous with silky black hair pale skin and light brown eyes I however was her little Shadow with a shock of long blonde hair rosy cheeks and blue eyes because she looked much younger than she was people would often ask if she was babysitting or some of the more Brazen folks would ask if I was adopted since we looked so different since she and I had pretty much

been on her own my whole life she always taught me to be wary of of strangers and keep an eye out for anything out our place we've had some other weird incidents happen to us in the past anyway she and I had been driving home from my music lesson one Friday which was usually at the local junior high school but this time due to a change in my Teacher's schedule it was at a junior high school across town pretty far from our suburb so as we were our way back it was getting pretty dark being

that it was late fall and the sun was sitting much earlier than usual mom glanced at her dashboard and groaned we were almost out of gas she resigned to pull over at the nearest gas station and fill up just enough for us to get home oh nothing unusual she went to pay and hug are you serious I heard her say through the window the outside card reader wasn't working not wanting to leave me outside she locked up the car and took me inside to pay the cashier she even promised I could go and pick out

a snack the sleeping man at the cash register was obviously not prepared for this at the end of the day he mumbled then snapped awake and nearly fell out of his chair with a jumbled sorry ma'am how may I help you I'm sure her beauty didn't really hurt in this case he started talking to her about her day and I let the voices Fade Into the background while I stared at the treasure Trove before me that was gas station junk food to a 9-year-old with about 32 sweet teeth it was Heaven chocolate bar crunchy chips

sour morsels what to choose what to choose I was so lost in a Ry of excitement that I almost failed to hear the Bell over the shop door ring almost in walked an African-American man who almost seemed to walk with a kind of Limp were he standing fully upright i' guess he was maybe 6 ft tall he stopped in the doorway looked first at mom as she was perusing the magazine rack then at me his gate changed something in his eyes seemed to sharpen and he made a beline in my direction he immediately began to

talk to me well hello there little one he drawled you picking yourself out something tasty I stiffened a bit but there was no harm done yet he was just being friendly yes sir I said in all her motherly Instinct mom walked closer to me from across the tiny shop and put her hand on my shoulder looks like your mama taught you will saying yes sir like that now where you headed I said home sir he made a knock a little shrug as he turned over his shoulder I noticed he was looking in the direction of

our car parked outside now where would your daddy be he glanced down at Mom's hand on my shoulder just in time to see the absence of a wedding ring I felt her bristle unconsciously he's home waiting for us she lied it was nice talking to you I snatched a pack of Bubblegum from the Shelf quickly as she turned me toward the cashier and paid one arm still around me the obliv as cashier bit us a nice evening and I turned to see the man standing there smiling at me ear to ear with a white grin

on his front right tooth was a shining gold cap that caught the floresent just right I had never seen a gold cap on front tooth and was stunned I was out the door as quickly as I had seen it and hurried to the car with Mom the gold tooth still gleaming in my mind as soon as we got in mom locked the doors as she was accustomed to and said well that guy was a little creepy with a giggle we quickly forgot about him and set our merry way home while I smacked my bubblegum happily

it was early evening and almost dark by the time we got across town and back to our sleepy wooded suburb it was dark out and a half hour later mom had a late night shuttle party to attend she worked for NASA and my 19-year-old aun Paige had been dropped off and was waiting inside for us so she she could watch me since the party would run late mom kissed me goodbye gave Paige the usual rundown make sure she bathes and brushes her teeth and was on her way so it was a normal evening Paige was

watching reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I was in my pajamas already playing Pokemon Crystal on my game boy still masticating a l of pink sticky bubblegum that must have accured seven or so pieces then I nowhere the doorbell rang it was about 8:00 at night and Pitch Black outside and I heard Paige Grumble about who comes around at this hour while telling me to go see who it was I got to the door and peeed outside the little window to the left to see who it was he was an African-American man about 6

ft tall with a heavy coat on a little odd for Texas even in the fall in the darkness I couldn't see his face too well but I did see a nondescript F parked in her driveway behind him since there were no curtains in this window he saw me almost immediately and said hello there would you open the door for a minute I want to ask you something in a heavy draw as I heard Paige walking up behind me to the door I saw him smile not just a smile but his lips curled back and even

in the dim light I saw a shining gold tooth gleaming almost unnaturally before me he was the man from the gas station in my 9-year-old mind I was dumb struck very confused but also instinctively afraid something about seeing that tooth set me off and as Paige opened the door as sliver I slamed it shut turned the deadbolt and yelled I'm sorry you have to go away now he looked surprised to see Paige standing behind me for the Split Second the door was open but I wasted no time in moving I grabbed her hand and yank

her into the hallway out of sight where she was about to keep me the mother of all talking to what the hell was that for dummy he was just a man at the door what were you thinking of course I breathlessly tried to explain the gas station and the creepy Vibe but all that was lost on her as she sighed noie my hair and returned to her shows on the couch I called Mom and told her what happened and she came home immediately I was lucky to have a mom who trusted my instincts we all

got little sleep that night but we still never hurt from the man with the gold tooth again it was not until a little later that Mom and I started to piece together some of the implications while the idealistic 9-year-old me tried to say well maybe I was mean maybe it was a coincidence that he turned up here I remembered that the gas station we stopped at was 30 minutes across town I also noticed there were no other cars in the driveway and he had not seen Paige at all until she opened the door if he

had been waiting near our house he would have seen my mom leave and thought I was home alone the fact that behind our backyard was nothing but a huge open field with tall grass also made for a stomach turning coincidence the gas station the conversation the van the distance the heavy coat it all made me feel so uneasy and to this day that shining gold tooth is still etched in my memory this took place a few years ago when I was a freshman in college this is the first time I've recounted this story in full

detail to anyone I attended College in a rural mountainous area in the Northeast a small school tucked away in the Rolling Hills of the mountains it was the type of place where the beauty and Casual Grace of nature chapos with the ugliness of humanity the newspaper was Ultra conservative and you couldn't venture too deeply into the woods Beyond a few trees without seeing some trace of substance activity you know the type of place I mean anyway one of my new friends from college somehow discovered an abandoned train trestle deep in the woods about 5 miles

from campus in no man's land basically I don't remember how he found this place because it was very much off the beaten path The Trestle crossed above a river that placidly flowed about 40 ft below it was actually quite beautiful and we began going there maybe three times a week just chilling on the Trestle watching the water below and the Open sky above we drink 40 oz bottles there smoke a bit and bring girls along we even began jumping off the Trestle into the water below and then climbing back up it was was just a

very college wide thing to do or Chill Spot basically so one day just needing to get away from the dorms and away from it all I decided to go by myself to The Trestle for a swim it was about 700 p.m. so I still had a good hour or so of dim sunlight and I brought a flashlight for the walk home when it was sure to be dark I made the trick through the pathways of the woods as I had done a 100 times before left my towel and flashlight on The Trestle and jumped into

the water the water was about 10 to 15 ft deep I'd say it flowed almost imperceptibly you might as well have been swimming in a stagnant pool however about 50 yards away from The Trestle the River Narrows and the current picks up significantly then about 20 yards after that there is a waterfall that bubbles and splashes with extreme violence maybe 20 ft High we used to watch large objects go over and never come up again so there I am dimly bobbing my head in and out of the water doing underwater flips Etc when I pop

my head out of the water I happen to glance to the side of the river and see a man walking towards the water the water is kind of impeding my view so I don't see him fluidly walking towards the water I more see him in different stages of being closer to the water like flipping through a flip book he's 15 ft away then 10 ft away then 5 ft away I can barely give you a description maybe 6t tall pale skinny with black hair pulled back in a ponytail what I do remember most about his

appearance was the extremely empty look on his face and in his eyes like he was doing something mundane taking out the trash or raking leaves I'm treading water not knowing what to think and I see that he is no longer beside the river he has dove in and is swimming straight at me so fast so fast I try to swim the opposite way but within a minute I feel him grabbed my ankle and Tuck I try to scream but water fills my mouth while I'm underwater he lets go and goes up for air then grabs

back on and pulls me again it seems like he's done this before and I never once see him after he jumped in the water he's gradually pulling me to where the current picks up before the waterfall I start to realize this and just completely flip out kicking screaming cursing to no effect finally I feel the current start to take me and as I twist away towards the waterfall I look back and see this guy just casually swimming back to where he jumped in the water not even looking at me this is by far the scariest

moment of my life as I approached the waterfall long story short I go over him underwater for a long time over a minute the water above relentlessly pushes me under the only reason I survived was that there was a large log that had gone over and I grabbed it leveraging it against the bottom to push me away from the crushing water I survived obviously but then I had to trick the miles back to my dorm in the dark without my flashlight every step of the way thinking he would come back to finish the job the

next year a football player drowned going over that fall the news said it was because there was an extreme current due to recent rainfall but I've always wondered about that I grew up in Indiana and when I was 17 I got my first car and started exploring I lived in a pretty suburban area but if you drive an our South you find yourself in the middle of nowhere there are tons of corn fields and abandoned houses my friend and I began driving out there frequently exploring these abandoned places my dad had bought a camera for

the family a bit earlier so I would take it along and shoot some photos of the houses we became quite good at finding them too we looked out for the usual signs broken mailboxes long grass heavy wear on the house Etc but sometimes we still worried about whether some of the places we visited were completely abandoned the best houses don't always look obvious from the outside if a house appears to be in decent Condition it's more likely to have items inside if it looks super obvious like having all broken windows or missing a door kids

have probably already found it spray painted it and caused damage we were respectful about it and wanted to explore places that others didn't so we saw on more subtle locations I remember my friend and I were coming back from a concert in Indianapolis one summer we spent the night at my cousin's place in the city since the drive back is really long we left during the day and started taking alternate routes back to find any cool places to explore we were driving down this long dir Road one of those that doesn't even have a name

called something like country road 3282 or whatever after a while we saw a long dirt driveway on the left and in the distance we spotted a really rundown house we pulled into the driveway and drove down it was probably a/4 mile long there was a big no trespassing sign which usually indicates the place is definitely abandoned I know that sounds silly but it made us much more confident about entering a house we parked and walked up to it the door was falling off and the windows were cracked inside the house everything was thrown around it

had that typical musty abandoned house smell but it was Stronger more rotten perhaps and just really heavy I don't know how to describe it it was just really strange I figured that since most of the stuff in the house was scattered and moldy that was probably the source of the smell there was a tiny room to the side but it was completely dark so we walked past it we walked towards the stairs stepping over broken glass there was a lot of it it's common to see broken glass on the ground but a huge area was

completely covered in it it made loud cracks as we walked I started feeling worried we climbed the stairs which were also covered in glass at the top there was a long hallway two rooms were open on the side and at the end was a closed door the two rooms were mostly empty I saw a bunch of garbage in one room Black hoses mason jars and soda bottles with tubing we kept walking and approached the door opening it suddenly the smell hit us hard it was an overpowering combination of chemicals and rot and then we spotted

him there was a guy in the room he looked really frail and super gaunt he wore baggy clothes and had sorce all over his face he was holding a rifle and staring right at us I couldn't speak I noticed some beakers bottles and tubing on a table that looked like a really bad science fair project he lifted the gun and we sprinted out we escaped the house started the car and drove off we called the police and it turned out he and a friend were squatting there and running a lab for illegal substances the police

found one guy upstairs and the other was in that really dark room downstairs he heard her car arrive and was hiding in there watching us I have no clue why he didn't try to stop us he was probably just really out of it the broken glass was there to make noise to alert them if someone else entered I feel so lucky to be alive and safe because they could have easily harmed Us and nobody would have known where we were and they would have been safe I I haven't gone exploring abandoned houses since that neighbors

I've recently moved to a new area due to my work and it's far away from my family and friends it's a weird C the saac I'm currently working on finding friends here but I work Monday to Friday and visit my parents on the weekends so it's very hectic I start at 7:00 a.m. and finish around 6: :30 or 700 p.m. so you can imagine that when I get home I just want to eat and go to sleep one day I come home to find an old couple standing outside my door they introduced themselves as the

couple that lives directly opposite my house and even hand me some homecooked dinner I thank them and mentioned that I invite them in but there's still a lot of boxes everywhere and I feel quite embarrassed I tell them I've moved to the new city alone for work we chat for a few more seconds before I head inside I put the food they gave me in the fridge thinking I'll just go straight to bed in the morning I noticed the food they gave me is half eaten and sitting in the sink I figure I must have

been way too tired to remember eating it the next night I'm coming home from work and see the old lady waving at me from her kitchen window I vaguely waved back and head inside nothing else happens that night the following evening I had the worst day at work I had to stay an extra half hour due to an unhappy customer and had been craving my bed all day when I pull up outside my house I see the old couple standing outside theirs are they keeping track of what time I come home I ask myself I'm

really not in the mood for creepy Neighbors in small talk I don't know these people and I don't understand why they're trying to socialize with me after the day I've had I'm not in the best of moods I braced myself for the awkward conversation I'm about to have as I get out of my car I wave vaguely in their Direction and start fumbling in my purse for my keys Excuse Me Miss come over for some dinner you look so tired the old lady he says I mumble something about being too tired feeling my frustration Rising

they won't let up I'm about to step inside my door when the old man walks over places his hand on my arm looks me dead in the eyes and says something cheerful about how his wife makes the best pie okay whatever I figure I'll go over for a cup of tea and some pie and nicely explain that I've had a rough day and should be heading off hopefully they'll take the hint after I shut my door I step into their house the old man slams the door shut and locks it they both proceed to tell

me that around 7:30 p.m. they were watching for me to give me some chickens stir fry they had cooked they saw a man standing in my bedroom window he walked downstairs and they could see him through the living room window as he entered the kitchen they saw my car pull into the culde sack and the Man rushed back upstairs they had called the police and tried to stop me from entering ing my house whoever it was had clearly been upstairs hiding my heart dropped I felt dizzy I glanced up at my bedroom window expecting to

see someone there but there was nothing just the curtains wide open the police arrived shortly after and I had to wait outside while they searched the house in the crawl space right outside my bedroom door they found a homeless man curled up he had been living there for the past 2 weeks according to him he had snuck in when the movers had left the door open while struggling with something he had been in the house watching me while I slept and would come out while I was at work and gone for the weekends I live

in a fairly large town in the midwest it's not one of the top 100 cities but it's in the top five in my state my my house is near a Crossroads in my neighborhood it's not one of the corner houses but the second house in from the corner so if you're standing at the corner of my block facing the houses my house is visible two houses down if you look to the right or turn to the right there are two properties including my neighbor's Corner House the street parallel to mine then a church and its

large surrounding property aside from the church and its parking lot is surrounded by a wooded park it's not dense but there are a lot of trees and it's pretty creepy at night still standing in my corner if you look down the road and across the parallel Street to mine there is a long windy road that leads up to the back of the church about 80 yards away where a bright Bri Orange Building light shines on the church at night a little further down the road SLP parking lot there is one long street light so it's

pretty creepy and very dark around the church except for right near it the lights by the church kind of amplify the darkness if that makes sense like candles in the dark plus the road that connects my street and the Church Street is fairly dark since it has no street lights of its own sorry for that long description but it's essential to the story when this story takes place I was 13 at that age I was going through puberty and had undiagnosed anxiety and OCD disorders so I was a paranoid worrisome and hormonal teen until this

night I thought all my worrying was just paranoia this particular night I had three friends at my house for a sleep over it was summer and we wanted to rebel and whatnot so we decided to play Ghost in the graveyard which was basically hide and seek in the dark we mixed up different styles throughout the night but this round we went for a two on two style I'm not sure why we decided to go with Partners probably for some safety reason but I'm sure glad we did Ned and Duncan are about 5' 10 in and

thin while Devon is about 5' 4 in and thin I'm the big guy in the group being about 5' 10 in and stocky during this round my friend Ned and I are while Devon and Duncan are hiding being at we had to count inside my house to 60 or 100 I don't remember I think we were aiming for maximum hiding time men and I finished counting and walked down my driveway we're chatting joking around about nonsense and just enjoying the night we get to my corner and look across the street into the next Corner House's

yard it is dark and has some pine trees but is not terribly black we think we see movement and yel out oh good hiding spot guys really original this will be quick and just come out already yet we see no more movement we wait about 20 seconds hoping they'll come out so we don't have to rent too much but they don't we think we were wrong and jumped the gun so we shrug it and turn left down the dark short road toward the Church my neighbor's Corner property has pine trees surrounding his back yard and

the properties on this small stretch of road and no lights on and plenty of trees as well it was a nice dark tow with light at the end that was not welcoming we walk about 10 ft toward the church and from the middle of the windy road leading up to the church we see a silhouette emerge from the dark wooded area on the right into the orange glow of the church's backlight because of the dark and the way the light is coming from behind the silhouette I can't see any details of this person it's an

oddly shaped person because it looks topheavy abnormally so as if someone is holding a large oversized garbage bag that is too cumbersome were Duncan carrying Devon piggyback Style on his back which is what Ned and I think we start laughing at their Ridiculousness I think they are being cocky since they are both faster than us or it's some ploy to take us off our game and mess with us we keep walking slowly down the street toward the the figure calling our buddies for their stupidity when I hear this very freaky whistling emanating from this guy

it sounded like someone was purposely making a Happy tune into a creepy tune drawing out certain notes bouncing the airf flow all in a very low pitch I really can't compare it to anything I've heard before it was just incredibly eerie and unsettling this is when Ned and I slow down our walk and stop laughing the figure keeps walking slowly toward us whistling That Tune that sent shivers down my spine men and I try to keep our poker faces we're laughing nervously saying things like ah really funny guys yeah you're too close to us now

might as well admit we're going to get you as we're doing this I'm still trying to discern if this is my buddies or something that has malicious intent and because of the lighting and atmosphere I can't tell all I see is Shadow and shades with no distinguishing characteristics and the orange light that is more of a distraction and helpful suddenly I hear a commotion behind me and I turn to see Duncan and divon running from the exact spot where Ned and I had thought they were from the pine trees near the corner of my block

the street light they were running under seemed like a spotlight signifying safety and Clarity men had apparently been thinking the exact same thing we both do the stereotypical slow turn catching each other's wide fear-filled eyes as we Face The Whistler he had stopped across the street and was about 5 ft away from the mouth of the church's driveway we were just a few feet away from the parallel Street ourselves The Whistler also stopped whistling man and I stood there in fear for what felt like a minute the crystallizing moment I have realizing this was some

unknown guy who at the very least enjoyed messing with two teenagers or most likely worst case scenarios were most likely for me thank you anxiety some mutant ghost who wanted nothing more than to tear into our flesh and laugh about it in reality it was about 5 seconds for Ned and me to realize the situation I booked it first back toward my house as Ned was right behind me and soon overtook me my fear intensified when I heard a third set of Rapid footfalls coming from behind me however by the time we hit the corner

near my house and I turned toward it I saw nothing no one was there no one was chasing us I had no idea where he went we met in my backyard and Devon and Duncan were laughing at missing them n and I didn't care and were like did you guys see that thing did you hear him whistling they were laughing at us saying we were messing with them and trying to to make excuses for missing them when we had them n and I were Gob smacked we were convinced they had to have heard or seen

something nope apparently n and I shared a hallucination where our friends didn't pay enough attention to care this whole time I'm staring at my neighbor's tree line and the small part of the side street I can see from my yard making sure the Eerie Whistler won't get the jump on all I see are pine trees an empty road and that damn bur orange light that will unsettle me for years because all it had done for me in a moment of Terror was amplify this frumpy figure's creepiness this story takes place in August of 2015 in

the mountains of Southern Oregon I am a USA Security Forces Airman military policeman my girlfriend was at work and as a swelteringly hot day began to turn into thunderstorms my buddy Nick another military cop and I decided to explore some back roads and get out of the heat in town southern Oregon is crisscrossed with logging roads some actively used and many totally forgotten and overgrown Nick and I spent many of our days off starting on roads that we knew finding roads we didn't know and driving for hours into the mountains eventually navigating back to pav

roads on this particular day with storm clouds building over the mountains we set off on a road we had never traveled and began the drive into the mountains after driving for around an hour we hadn't seen nor heard any signs of other people in the woods we rounded a bend in the thick for woods and emerged in a meadow that was totally surrounded by thick Aspen Groves the meadow was perfectly flat and eily still we both noticed the strange Stillness almost immediately no birds hardly any insect noise no squirrels and certainly no other people on

the far side of the meow right at the edge of the tree line there was a picnic table the table was very odd however it was painted a bright orange and was much larger than a typical picnic table in a park remarking on this Nick drove through the meadow to get a closer look I remember being apprehensive as we approached the whole scenario was exceptionally strange the overall Silence of the Aspen growth was settling also it was nearly impossible to see far into the trees as Aspens grew extremely close together when we parked by the

table I hopped out of the passenger seat of the truck to check it out I'm not very tall only about 5' 5 in but regardless the table was ridiculously oversized and practically unusable the seats were nearly at chest level meaning I would have to climb up to even sit on them as I was looking at the table Nick called me over to the truck and I noticed he was looking back into the Aspens at first I couldn't see what he was looking at but then I noticed a splash of color that was completely out of

place in the thick trees a small Onan tent was set back in the trees about 50 ft from the strange table I had an initial feeling of dread and felt certain that there was someone in the tent and if we could see the tent they could see us there were no campgrounds in this area no people no main roads for Miles surely someone camping so remotely would be at the very least a strange person however as we observed the tent we didn't see any movement or he any sounds coming from it Nick suggested I call

out I didn't want to but I did hey anyone in there I yelled no reply feeling completely on edge Nick and I thought about driving away and leaving this strange area but we began to feel the worst what if there was a body in the tent what if somebody had gotten kidnapped foolish I know but we thought it all the same after some debate we decided to have Nick turn the truck around to drive away from the camp should we need to leave in a hurry he would be waiting behind the wheel with my heart

pounding I started walking through the trees toward the tent I was totally keyed up my senses on full alert when I reached the campsite several things struck me as odd backpacks were scattered all over no fire had been built and no would collected the tent the tent was literally full of backpacks and women's clothing full of dread I turned to leave and tell Nick what I had seen as I left I heard Nick start yelling let's go let's get out of here not knowing why he was yelling I ran back to the truck when I

broke out of the trees I saw beat up old for tourist on the road blocking us from leaving the meadow I immediately leapt into the passenger seat and Nick floored the gas pedal the car was occupied by two men a third person was laying against the window in the back as we drove across the meadow the driver had attempted to block us from the road but Nick drove around them and accelerated the way we had come from I looked back and saw the car attempting to turn around on the narrow road Nick drove like a

mad man and though I was honestly terrified that they would catch up we hit the highway without seeing the car again I still do not know if the person in the back was male or female I called the state police and they promised to send a trooper out to check out the scene however I received a call the next day from a trooper stating that the campsite the backpacks and the women's clothing were all gone though he could tell people had been in the area the strange table was still by the thick Aspen Grove I

have not returned to the area and do not intend to I'm a 21-year-old female pretty petite standing at 5' 2 in and around 110 lb so I'm not exactly someone who looks like a big threat or anything now I should mention that this didn't happen directly to me from the start I wasn't the target of the creeper but I was kind of pulled into the situation which obviously doesn't sound very pleasant either however I'm glad I was there back then anyway this happened to me last year in Winter while I was waiting for a bus

I go to college that's about 15 minutes of walking away from my apartment but back then every Friday I had to take a bus downtown because one of my classes was at a different faculty it was a late afternoon class so when it ended it was usually dark outside especially during winter so it was around 6:00 p.m. and I was huddled a little on my coat while waiting for the bus the street was already dark except for this one Street Lamp that provided only a very dim light to the bus stop it was no big

deal though because it was a usual Friday evening for me so I just waited with my headphones on minding my own business a tug on my sleeve pulled me out of my thoughts and I turned my head to see what it was I saw a girl standing right next to me she was shorter than I was probably around 11 or 12 years old but the thing that struck me immediately was that she looked really scared so I pulled my headphones down turned to her more and asked if she was all right the girl I'll call

her Lucy didn't say anything only shook her head and still held on to my sleeve as if her life depended on it now when I think about it maybe it did at this point I got really concerned because there was a small girl clinging to me and looking terrified I looked around quickly eyeing the surroundings but when I didn't find anything weird or suspicious I turned my attention back to her hey what's what's up what's wrong I finally asked because it seemed like there was nothing to be afraid of except for the bus being late

due to the snow but then she looked over her shoulder and I followed her gaze finally spotting a dark figure crouched near a tree there's a small very poorly lit park close to the bus stop he followed me through the park he's creeping me out Lucy whispered in a shaky voice I instinctively pulled P her a little closer moving my arm around her shoulders I told her to stick with me and asked her where she lived fortunately she could take the same bus as me to get home so we waited for it together I have

to say that I'm a pretty chill person it doesn't happen very often that something unsettles me I often walk home from school when it's dark outside and nothing has ever happened to me but that guy just being crouched there and watching us was definitely unnerving he didn't move an inch though so I eventually looked away from him and kept my arm around Lucy's shoulders minutes passed and nothing happened both Lucy and I eventually relaxed a little and I almost forgot about the creeper there but then Lucy squeaked and jumped which startled me and I quickly

looked to see what happened it turns out that somehow the guy moved closer and was now crouching only a few steps from us how the hell he managed to move so silently is a mystery to me but I suppose it was because when I relaxed I let my guard down plus with the poor light I just didn't notice him move either way the guy was crouching there head tilted a little staring at Lucy as if he were trying to get into her head or something under the light I could see his eyes were wide and

his lips were stretched in this really unnerving grin that just makes you go what the ever loving Heck if I had been there alone and he was staring at me like that I would probably have been terrified because even though he was crouched down it was obvious he was much bigger than me there's no way I could fight him off if he tried something but he wasn't staring at me he was staring at Lucy and my protectiveness kicked in especially when she pressed closer to me clinging to my coat for dear life I tightened my

hold on Lucy keeping her close and stared at the guy for a good minute I swear to God he didn't blink once trying to ignore him clearly didn't work so I finally decided to do something I tugged Lucy around me and stepped between her and the guy glaring down at him back off I said doing my best to sound at least a little threatening even though my heartbeat was skyrocketing at this point and my hands were shaking not sure if from anger or fear maybe both he was creeping the hell out of me so I

didn't even try to be polite a guy crouching down and staring into a little girl's Soul like that that's just not normal the grin on his lips disappeared in a matter of milliseconds and he finally looked up at me surprised it almost looked like he didn't even notice me until I blocked his view of Lucy and spoke to him but then the surprise was gone and he gave me the most intense glare I've ever seen if looks could kill I would have probably been lying in a pool of my own blood there he didn't say

anything didn't even move just stared at me and I was thinking what the heck now what what the hell is wrong with this guy at this point I saw only two options grab Lucy and get the hell out of there or confront the guy it took me just a moment to make up my mind I'd be damned if I backed off and ran he would probably catch up with us anyway so I let go of Lucy I kept a hand on her arm the whole time because I just needed to feel that she was still

right behind me both for her safety and my own comfort and stepped toward him I was more Angry than scared now because Lucy whimpered behind me and screw anyone who scares a little girl like that I've always been that kind of person who gets really cold and hostile when angry which luckily doesn't happen very often my friend always jokes that I would scare the devil out of hell so I stepped closer to the guy greeting my teeth and returning the glare as well as I could I think I said something like get out of here

or so help me God I'll kick your teeth out and shove them down your throat I'm not a violent person I knew I couldn't do what I said I would but it was the first thing that came to my mind and I said it so calmly and coldly that I surprised myself there was a long moment of silence after that the guy was glaring at me I was glaring at him nothing was happening but then his hand twitched and he stood up and I was thinking holy hell this is it this is how it ends

he was slim but damn tall even though he was a little hunched which only made him look even creepier his lips were a thin line now and he narrowed his eyes at me I stayed where I was though keeping my eyes locked with his and not moving an inch and after a long moment he moved he leaned to the side a little as if trying to look at Lucy who I could feel clutching the back of my coat and I immediately stepped to the side to block his view I swear to God he growled at

me when I did that however the sound was more frustrated than angry and after glaring at me once more he finally turned away and began walking off swaying a little it looked like he had a bit of trouble staying on his feet he didn't look back but I kept my eyes on him until he disappeared into the park only when he was out of my sight did I turned back to Lucy and wrapped my arm around her shoulders again telling her it was okay that he was gone and I'd take her home I stayed calm

on the outside but my heart was beating like crazy in my chest until the bus finally arrived a few minutes later I got off the bus with Lucy and and walked her to the apartment building where she lived she thanked me and hugged me at the front door and I told her to avoid the park for a while and to tell her parents what happened which she promised to do I waited until she was inside the building and then I returned to the bus stop and waited for another bus to finally get home I went

to the police the next morning because even though the guy didn't do anything there was no way I could just leave it be God knows what he would do if I hadn't been in there and he got his hands on Lucy better safe than sorry so I told the police officer what happened and described the guy to him as well as I could I luckily haven't seen the guy since then but now I'm anywhere near the bus stop or the park I can't help but be on guard and look around it's been a year but

I still get this weird vibe from the place especially when I wait for a bus I don't know if I just read too many horror stories for if my instincts were right and he could have done something horrible that day but either way I'm glad I was there to help Lucy and I hope she's safe fake police carjacking or Worse all right I live in a major city in the South it's a pretty big city and as such one finds themselves driving everywhere at all hours of the day this is not an elaborate story more

typically terrifying but there are enough unanswered questions that it still gives me the creeps to think about it was around 1:30 and I was driving home from a friend's house with my then girlfriend Allison we had been partying a bit but as I was driving I had opted to maintain sobriety Allison had a few drinks but nothing serious and it was spread over several hours now the house I was leaving is not a particularly bad neighborhood but it's not a good one either in this city where I live there are many gentrify areas where people

dealing substances live next to four person families it's a place where you are fine during the daytime but you wouldn't want to be walking the streets Al late at night being familiar with the area I decided to take a little cut through Street as I pulled onto the street I ended up at a stop sign I looked behind me and there was a truck that pulled out of an adjacent rode behind me to my left I moved forward from the stop sign and he continued to follow me I thought nothing of it the road didn't

have many Street lamps so it was pretty dark and I couldn't get a look inside the truck's cap I drove about another 20 ft and all of a sudden I saw blue lights in my rearview mirror cop lights now I thought oh darn not again how however as I looked into the rearview mirror I noticed several things that didn't seem right for one there are many police trucks in the inner city area sure there are some but they are not common secondly the police lights are not on the top of the cab like a normal

cop car but next to the actual Headlights by the grill like a detective's car I also noticed there was an air freshener dangling from his rearview mirror I've dealt with police officers on numerous occasions but I have never seen one with a stereotypical pine tree freshener lastly as I kept moving forward slowly contemplating the situation and considering pulling over I noticed the final strange variable there was no police siren no horn no noise it was late it was dark and I continued to Drive slowly as I thought about all the odd factors if I had

only noticed the first two factors I think I may have stopped but the fact that the blue lights kept flashing without any siren was just off also I know in my state it is legal to pull into a welded area at night just for these circumstances I decided that the air freshener the position of the lights and the lack of sirens were just too weird I wasn't going to risk pulling over in a bad area so I decided to move forward at around 20 mph until I got to a gas station the truck continued to

follow me there are a lot of speed bumps and road signs on this road and thinking there might be a cop pulling me over I abided by all the laws the final straw that determined this truck was a false police officer he also obeyed all the traffic laws when a cop wants you to pull over you pull over and if you don't they aren't going to stop at a stop sign to let you give away this guy stopped when I stopped moved forward when I did and even turned as I decided to get to a

more populated Road after about 100 yard he turned off his lights both the blue lights and his main headlights took a left behind me and peeled away it was at that moment I knew he was not a cop I don't know exactly why I avoided that night I drive a nice car so it could be a carjacking but I don't want something worse if it weren't for my ex-girlfriend's presence I may have stopped ultimately I'm just happy I didn't creepy camping experience about 3 years ago I went camping with two friends of mine on Kelly's

Island it's kind of woodsy but we were staying in an area right next to the beach with a bit of a muddy Decline and some brush between us in the sand there was a man also tent camping on the other side of us and he was staying pretty close but that's just how closely the reserve plots were spaced I guess I remember the only time I gave him a second thought before all the weird things went down was toward the start of the weekend I had to rinse my legs off at this little spigot that

was across the path and directly between our plots I noticed him staring at me really hard we had a harmless interaction and I was unfriendly but he sort of seemed like a creepy kind of guy even just from the way he was looking fast forward a bit to the last night of our stay two of our friends went off to this karaoke bar in town and I couldn't because I was underage so it was just my friend Liz and me it was getting chilly and dark so we were trying really hard to get a fire

going but we were both pretty useless about an hour into drinking beer and cursing at the Tinder and each other our neighbor wandered over from the beach though I don't remember seeing him go past us and see seemed really amused by how much trouble we were having he insisted on giving us this starter log he had and said he was going home the next day anyway he was so ridiculously nice about it so I was feeling kind of bad for thinking he was a weirdo so he fetched it and gave it to us and we

all chatted a bit before he went back to his tent finally we got the fire started and just talked for like another half hour again this guy wandered up from the beach but we didn't really notice him get past our camp to get down there in the first place again and he was really cheerful he said I see you girls finally got the fire started it's a good thing you have that starter log in a sort of wink wink NCH n way and we were pretty awkward about that he went back to his tent and

to my knowledge didn't leave his own sight except for one more time that night the idea that he was sneaking behind us as quietly as possible ible and not knowing why he would still creeps me out a bit our two friends finally got back a while later though and turned in for the night pretty much immediately which was disappointing by the time we heard anything from that guy again though they were in bed and it was almost pitch dark we were trying to be really quiet because it was after 10 p.m. and we were drinking

in a state park that made it so we could hear nothing but the water and some animal noises and it made it really obvious when he made this weird rustling outside his tent when we looked over he was wrapped up in a sleeping bag or a heavy blanket staring from his own fire and being super intense about it like a dog fixated on treat Liz and I were creeped out by then and went to retrieve a flashlight from the car just in case we sort of lost track of him again while we were talking even

though we were really aware of him staring us down still eventually he it came time for me to grab the other case from the trunk so I got and was sort of bobbing along fumbling with the keys and the flashlight when the light stopped on a shoe like 6 feet in front of me this guy was standing by the car staring at me with these big sort of panicky eyes he was literally chanting this at me while he stood there I just want to watch I just want to watch I just want to watch I

had no idea what to do I sort of told him okay because I was freaked out and grabbed the case then ran back to Liz and the fire for some reason we didn't go and find a ranger or wake up our friends or anything we sat there like idiots knowing that this mentally unstable dude was watching us while we sat around a fire I just remember being so on edge after bumping into him at the car like that and I was driving myself crazy imagining how he go nuts and hurt us all the last time

we looked over before we went to bed he was back at his own plot lying in his sleeping bag on his stomach presumably doing something inappropriate with a hand we couldn't see with and I'm being serious a pair of clunky binoculars what the heck we went to bed very shortly after told no one and got on the ferry the next afternoon possibly one of the grosser parts of the story was his car being on the ferry directly in front of ours with license plates from a small dealership in in the same city we were from

which is about 130 mi from Kelly's Island I copied down his license plate number but never did anything with it Professor creeper waits for me at the bar an important detail to the story this all happened in a small city in China with me being an American white female foreign students studying Chinese at the time keep that in mind when I first arrived in this country I really enjoyed going out and drinking with my friends back then everything was so fun and new and I wanted to experience the night life most of all whenever we

would go to the bars in the University District of town we always seem to happen across professors from our school they're always excited to meet foreign students so they usually treat us to drinks and chat with us one day we came across a comp computer science teacher from our University a 20-year-old guy named Mr cheu Mr cheu always seemed way too friendly and a little awkward towards me but he was genuinely nice helpful and friendly we exchanged pH numbers and texted each other often most weekends we would end up running into each other at the

bar while with friends after a while I started to get the feeling he had a crush on me he always said things things that were a little too sweet a little too flattering and it became pretty obvious after a while I made it a point to keep my distance from him and to not reciprocate his sweet words after not seeing him for a few weeks he texted me at 9:00 p.m. one night and asked if I had ever tried bio which is a traditional Chinese liquor that's basically 60% alcohol I said I hadn't he said

I should come to the usual bar and he buy a bottle so I could taste it at first I agreed on politeness and then after 10 minutes of thinking about it I realized just how inappropriate it is to go meet this guy alone and drink with him so I immediately texted him again and came clean telling him that I really shouldn't see him again and that was that and his story I really didn't hear from him again but the story isn't quite done yet the lady who owns the bar we usually frequent as a good

friend of a classmates what I heard from my classmate 3 days after we're totally shocked and horrified me later I would go to the bar to confirm the story with the owner just to make sure it's all true it goes like this apparently Mr Chu comes into the bar like he does almost every weekend just after 2,100 he orders a bottle of bio and pours two glasses he says to the servers that he is waiting for a girl later the girl never comes he ends up staying anyway and singing some karaoke getting really drunk and

having fun with the servers who usually pour themselves a few drinks and loosen up on a slow night a server finds a small glass of bigio on the table and drinks it probably thinking it was his shortly after the N winds down and Mr Chew leaves they start cleaning up then one server starts acting a little funny not drunk funny more like High funny he starts stumbling around taking off his clothes making disturbing noises and eventually falling over passing out the drink Mr Chew poured for me that night was laced with some kind of substance

his plan was to give me high or P pass out and then take me back to his place and take advantage of me why I relay this story to another good friend he said yeah it's not the first time he's done that with a female student great I just wish you had told me that earlier thank God I I come around and decided not to see him that night or ever again I guess the moral of the story is to pay attention to your feelings if something feels wrong creepy inappropriate or whatever it probably is

the spare key a bit of background I was about 13 at the time this occurred and had just arrived home from school I did not have a cell phone then also my dog is an off Adventure which is quite small and she isn't a fan of people anyway on to the story I walked up the steps leading to my house and jevel the door knob as I reached for my keys the door was unlocked and I immediately reprimanded myself for forgetting to lock it I walked into my house and it was silent this was very

unusual my dog is always sitting at the door ready to greet me when I come home from school but I didn't see her anywhere Alfie I called I heard a sound coming from her K in the kitchen this was why I started to get a little freaked out why on Earth was she in there she hates her kenel and only goes in there when there's a thunderstorm did my parents put her in there before they left that morning I rushed to her kennel which was unlocked and had the door wide open I peeed in at

her and noticed that she was huddled up in the back and seemed scared she came out when she saw it was me but kept her tail down the whole time I was certainly weirded out but I thought that maybe she wasn't feeling well so I sat down my backpack and carried her downstairs so that she could sit with me as I relaxed once downstairs I flopped onto the couch and turned on the TV a few minutes into my show Alfie's ears perked up and she started growling Alfie doesn't growl I switched off the TV and

listened I figured she had probably just heard the heater switch on but I didn't hear anything I sat there for another few seconds and definitely heard something it sounded like someone was walking looking around upstairs I couldn't tell where exactly the sound was coming from but I thought it was from the floor directly above me the floor where I had just been I got up slowly and walked toward the door that led into the garage I opened it and saw that neither of my parents' cars was in the driveway I just stood there for a

moment considering my options I could just go upstairs and check maybe it was nothing but maybe not I could go upstairs and bring some type of weapon the garage had a ton of stuff that could be used as a weapon but knowing me I'd probably name an innocent plumber or something I decided to stay on the safe side and just go outside I grabbed the cordless phone and Alfie opened the garage door went out and sat on the picnic table in my backyard once out there I felt ridiculous it was probably nothing just a weird

sound I was wrong as Alfie walked around in the yard I looked up at my house I scanned the windows starting on the first floor and moving up finally I looked up at my bathroom window there was a face staring down at me it was a man probably in his late 20s he had dark hair and an emotionless expression on his face I nearly screamed I looked down briefly to grab the cordless phone and when I looked back up he was gone I dialed my dad's number frantically and before I even heard the phone ring

I heard my front door slam and someone went down the stairs the front door is on the other side of the house from where I was sitting my dad answered and as predicted he thought I was being dramatic I refused to go back into the house and sat outside on the picnic table until he got home he looked around probably trying to humor me and it didn't seem like anything was stolen however the spare key was gone creeper with a plastic baby doll tonight I am ashamed filled with much regret but mostly fear I just

had the living house scared out of me and I never want something like that to happen again to anyone anywhere no matter how good of a story it makes later so here's what happened I share three dogs with my girlfriend and she recently suffered a concussion after a horse riding accident so I've pretty much taken on the role of a single dad for the time being I had just finished making dinner and remembered that the dogs needed to go for a walk ASAP lest they transform into demons from the seventh ring of hell and ruin

my only 2 hours of free time my girlfriend and I usually take them out together but seeing is how she's been feeling ill I elected to go out alone this is about 1930 we attend UC Davis which for all intents and purposes is a really safe School the city is comprised mostly of students and educated professionals so it's not abnormal to see a young girl jogging through the parks at night alone it's that level of safe right next to my girlfriend's house is a Park which is one of many that run in connected through the

northern part of town they call this series of parks the green belt and it's a popular spot for cycling or town Obsession jogging elderly people doing Tai Chi and dog walking the whole thing is rather long so we usually walk only for a few minutes before stopping and letting the dogs run around off leash it's against the rules but nobody follows the rules so forget that I'm going to make sure my dogs are good and tired before I go home I let them run around in the dark with lighted collars and eat a banana jamming

to some Michael bé like a boss after they're done I leash them up and start to head home as I'm walking on the sidewalk I can see a figure walking in my direction illuminated by one of the few stre lights that line the green belt he's really tall and lanky and has the general shape of the alien from science what struck me as odd how ever was the fact that he was walking really really slowly not snail Pace mind you but much slower than a normal walk that and his walk was too methodical almost robotic

in its Simplicity he just looked like he was standing on one of those walking escalators in the middle of airports just moving forward slowly and without much effort the worst part was I could tell he was holding something in his arms I kept walking through forward dragging my silly dogs who in hindsight were probably freaking out it's really ironic too because it was literally yesterday that I was telling my girlfriend who often complains that our little white poodle gets too alert and Barks at random things that she should be thankful because one day penny is

going to bark and there will actually be a criminal around the corner or something so this guy comes into full view as he Glide walks toward me and I can see that he's cradling a baby to his chest only he's not really Kling it he's merely holding his arms in a basic cgle position kind of like that fake cradle motion you make when you sing Rocka by baby it looked fake especially given the fact that he wasn't supporting the head at all all the while he's not looking down at his baby but instead staring intensely

at me with this horribly blank stair as he passes me I steal a glance at his baby and I can see that it's not moving it just lays there to my horror I can tell that it's a baby doll or at least that's what I really like to believe otherwise I just witnessed some Next Level messed up stuff before I can realize that it's a plastic baby I give a short out to try and break his Blank Stare he just keeps staring at me though and even keeps his head lock on as he passes by

turning his head to keep looking the worst part was his face which just looked like a blank wall I've never seen anybody emote less than this man he had glasses and was sort of balding but the really defining feature was the Michael myeres stair it was Unreal I walk on and it takes me a few seconds to register what I just saw I turn my head around and this is where the situation gets real under the street light the man has stopped walking he slowly slowly turns his head around and starts to stare at me

again with that Blank Stare at this point I've opened up my big can of nope and started to walk faster after a few seconds of power walking I turn around again to see that he's not only turned his head but now his whole body is facing me still holding his plastic baby doll I would B my phone and call my girlfriend to show that I'm on the phone with somebody and turn around to keep walking all I tell her is hey stay on the phone with me will you and put the phone on speaker she

immediately gets that something is wrong and makes random conversation with me to make it seem as normal as possible we do this for a bit all the while I keep turning around quickly to the horrifying side of this tall blanky balding man holding a plastic baby staring at me in the dark in the middle of the park mind you with no one around in sight finally after the fifth or sixth time looking back I see him turn around in a slow methodical fashion and continue walking in the opposite direction never once did I see him

look at his baby I called the local police to tell them about it but the woman on the phone gave me some serious attitude and told me they'd send someone to look around the area I realized I may just be the world's biggest baby right now after all he didn't do anything to me but I wish you could have seen his face the sheer lack of expression and just how Sinister it felt anyway it's late now and I'm going to lock any and all windows and try to sleep holding my dog for protection I'm really

sorry to everyone whose real life scary stories have seemed like nothing but entertainment to me I'm glad we can share this stuff on here and I imagine it's more than fine to talk about it in hindsight but this stuff is real and it's really scary and we'd probably be better off if things like this didn't happen in the first place about a year ago during my final semester in college I worked at a department store in the mall I didn't have a car yet so I asked for day shifts because it was a 2-hour bus

ride back home essentially if I had a closing shift I'd finish at 11:00 p.m. but wouldn't get home until 1:00 a.m. sometimes I'd be given closing shifts much to my annoyance since I had a 6:45 a.m. class and my mother's worry because who wants their kid on public transport that late sometimes she could come and get me but it would be too much of a hassle to get my younger sisters out that late so I never asked her my managers being the inconsiderate people that they were assigned me a week of closing shifts fully aware

of my situation I was upset set but whatever one night I had just finished my shift got on the bus I sat in the back and was minding my business when my iPod died I was annoyed but I just kept my earbuds in and occupied Myself by playing a crossw word on my phone about two seats behind me I heard these guys speaking Spanish now my stepmother is Puerto Rican so while I understand a fair bit of Spanish I don't speak it I heard them talking but didn't pay attention because it's rude to EES drop

until they said that girl up there my ears perked up I kept my earbuds and so that they thought I couldn't hear them and continued listening what they were saying was horrific to paraphrase they knew my stop the second to last one before the bus gets back to the terminal and while my stop is at the front of my neighborhood it has no street lights and is empty at this time of night to put it simply they were planning on snatching that girl up I was about 20 minutes away from home so I knew I

had to act quickly since I knew they could see me there were two seats behind me but across from me if that makes sense I pretended to play on my phone oblivious while I was actually texting my mom mom can you please meet me at the bus stop 5 minutes went by no answer we were getting closer to my stop so I decided to call her cell no answer I called the house phone and she finally answered it was about 12:30 a.m. so she was asleep I tried to talk as cheerfully and calmly as I

could this was our conversation hey Mom did you get my text uh no what's up oh I sent you a picture of these jeans I'm going to order online I get home I really need your opinion so I really need you to look since the sale ends at 1:00 a.m. she got the hint that I needed her to look at herself so I said goodbye and hope for the best we got to my stop and I saw my mom's car I snash my things up and high tailed it off the bus I didn't even look

behind me to see if they were following me I jumped in the car and told my mom to just go I looked in the rear view and saw the GU staring at the car the next morning I called my job and told them I quit no more public transport for me thanks to my stepmom for teaching me Spanish thanks to Mom for giving the hint so my creepy story takes place around 3 years ago on a very average night a friend and I were watching television at her parents home we were broke in in our

early 20s so we took advantage of the free cable her parents lived in a tutor style house on a corner lot in their neighborhood this means that in the living room where we were there is a large window facing out toward the street since it was pretty late in the evening her parents had gone to bed and we were the only two awake in the midst of watching some mediocre TV show and chatting we heard a knock at the door we could see the silhouette of a very large man through the decorative glass panels my

friend approached to ask what he needed and to quietly lock the previously unsecured deadbolt a telephone I need a telephone I need help can I come in and use your phone my friend said sorry but no it was too late at night and she didn't feel comfortable letting someone in after a few more half-hearted attempts convincing her to let him in he left the doorway he was gone but we still felt uneasy and immediately woke her father to tell him what had happened her father grabbed his shotgun and headed out into the front yard after

stepping out of the door he asked us if we had been smoking out there he had wed of cigarettes while outside the neighbors cross the street to see if we were okay they said they'd seen the man lurking in the doorway and looking through the the windows for a long time they were getting worried and wondered if they should call the police soon after they come to check us he was back making his way up the street back toward the house my friend's father shouted at him to leave letting the stranger know that he had

a gun and was calling the cops the man didn't act like he even heard he just continued to determinately walked straight toward us the neighbors bolted back to their house and we ducked inside side and locked the door while my friend's father went to call the police I huddled in a chair by the window the curtains were drawn but I happened to catch a peak outside through a small Pary there he was this huge bearded man standing on the street corner and staring directly at me he saw me see him slowly smiled and began to

wave people don't normally frighten me but that smile was predatory he in harm he liked that we were afraid I grabbed the curtains and shut them tighter it took about 20 minutes for the police to show up we gave them a description and they quickly went to scour the neighborhood after nearly an hour of searching they came up empty the man had either hoofed it or hidden somewhere we never saw him again but this encounter still haunts me the door had been unlocked the whole time he'd been watching ing us if he just tried the

handle for fun who knows how badly this could have ended and the thing that really kills me just a few nights before this I had a nightmare that we were in the same house in the same situation but the man had successfully broken in and attacked us so friends lock your doors and draw your curtains even Suburbia can be a creepy place the long drive home when I was 19 my friend Betty took my jacket she walked away with it on and I followed her I put my hands on her shoulders from behind and tried

to take it off of her her boyfriend Leroy then came up behind me grabbed a pressure point in my shoulder and twisted me to the ground I don't remember exactly what he said but it was something jealous and aggressive this shocked me because I am a straight female and I hadn't done anything remotely flirtatious a few nights later I was at a party with a group of friends and we'd all been drinking I ended up along with Leroy he was being friendly and jovial so I decided to apologize I knew I hadn't done anything wrong

but I didn't want to be on bad terms with him he said he was sorry too and that there were no hard feelings we ended end up joking around and having a nice time we all slept in various places around the house where the party was held a few of us woke up early in the morning probably around 5:00 a.m. I offered to drive lero home and a friend of his mean Soul said he was on the way and would come along the three of you got in the car I was in the front seat

and they were both in the back seat Leroy started giving me directions to his house house he lived in a town nearby but I didn't mind his directions began to get strange as he led me deeper into the countryside Saul commented that this wasn't the most direct route I could hear Leroy quietly arguing with Saul then I heard Leroy say come on I'll let you go first no one even knows were're with her Leroy then told me to turn into a driveway this driveway l into a field with a forest on one side Saul spoke

up no I've known her for 15 years she's a good person Leroy started getting angry ranting and yelling in the back seat even Hing the back of my seat I kept driving but I had no idea where we were at that hour on a Sunday morning there was no one around I began wondering if I should crash into a tree or drive up to a house and bail fell out to bang on the door instead I decided not to escalate the situation and pretended I was deaf to the chaos behind me I passed by the

field as Saul shouted some directions I thought to myself at least I have Saul but then I remembered that Saul only had one arm and I started worrying about him too in between Leroy's outbursts Saul told me that Leroy had decided he wanted to go to breakfast at his house Saul lowered his voice and whispered think about it people saw leave with her what would you do with the car Leroy fell silent finally I arrived at Saul's house they both got out and I drove home stiff with Terror and blinking excessively I grew up in

a rural area our Housing Development was originally farmland mostly tobacco I think and at some point it was bought by the government divided into three to seven acre lots and sold to private homeowners so each house sat on a few acres of land and most of the houses were built well back from the road the main road in development leading to the highway is about a mile long in fairy winding the closer you get to the highway the more heavily wooded the area becomes and for the last quarter of a mile there are no houses

at all the summer I was 16 my family adopted a yellow lab and retriever mix one day I was home alone and since it was so nice out I decided to take the dog for a walk down the main road when I got to the end of my driveway I noticed a man walking on the opposite side of the road he looked like he was in his late 40s or early 50s and he was tall with muscular arms I noticed his arms because he was wearing overalls without a shirt underneath he was walking in the

same direction I was heading and we made a contact I smiled and said hello he nodded and I went on my way the dog excited to be outside was pulling at the leash so I passed the man pretty quickly a few minutes later I glanced around and noticed that the man was pacing me still on the opposite side of the road and staring at me in a way that made me uncomfortable he started talking asking how I was doing and commenting on the nice weather then he told me I'd look pretty I thanked him and

walked faster I was approaching one of the bins in the road which Twisted away from the houses and became more heavily wooded I was anxious to get to a more populated area the man kept talking though I don't remember most of what he said until he commented damn you look good looked around and started crossing the road towards me reaching out his hand even though what he said wasn't explicit his manner expression and tone left me completely terrified I was so afraid that I couldn't move right before he reached me my dog went crazy barking

growling and lunging at him the man backed off to the other side of the road and I turned around and ran home once inside I called my parents at work and told them what had happened but they were busy and brushed the whole thing off I never saw the man again I'm so grateful I took the dog with me that day I don't know what would have happened if I had been alone but Micah tells me it wouldn't have been good some people need to start taking care of their own kids when I was 24

I decided to experience life abroad so I joined a to become an opair fancy words for nanny in the USA this is my messed up story it isn't creepy just all messed up a family interviewed me and decided to pick me as their inh home nanny for their 2-year-old girl and their 4-year-old boy the family lived in a pretty well-off area in San Francisco and the couple was still married and in their mid-40s so 3 months after I was interviewed I finally arrived but they couldn't pick me me up so they sent a driver to

get me at the airport I struck up a conversation with the guy since it was a long drive and I was new to the city I wanted to know what there was to do and such when we reached my future home for the entire year the lady told me there was one rule in her home which she had never mentioned to me before I was never to say no to the kids I finally met the kids who were quite lovely and the boy immediately liked me I am a sporty person so I decided to take

up Brazilian jiujitsu and muai as activities since I used to train back in my hometown this will be relevant later on about a week into my moving she gave me this talk about a book she was reading that said kids want to control everything the only things kids could control were eating pooping and changing their diapers so if the kids didn't want to eat take a crap or change their diapers I couldn't push them too their body was wise enough to tell them when the diaper was bothering them when they were hungry Etc I had

never seen a kid crying like crazy when you ask them to change their diapers but that's what the 2-year-old would do and of course I was forbidden to say no to them and I had to let them be in control so they never ate while I was supposed to feed them but when they felt like it Etc she also told me that they didn't believe in spanking timeouts or any kind of punishment so what I was to do when the kids were beating the everliving Daylights out of each other was to say stop grab the

aggressor and try to get them to be empathetic with the victim so one day the 2-year-old really wanted my phone and I ended inside my pocket and Bam she slapped me across the face her mom saw her and tried to have a talk with her telling her that hurt me that I could cry Etc has anyone actually tried to reason with a 2-year-old she wasn't being successful so she eventually just took the kid away then there was this huge incident where I took the kids to take a bath and apparently the water didn't go which

isn't true so she forbade me to ever take the kids for another bath she was afraid that I would leave the water there and the 2-year-old Who Loved baths would try to go in and fall and drown I explained to her that I would never have expected the water not to go since I was quite sure I lifted that thingy that blocks the plumbing and that we never went upstairs when we did I made sure to close the bathroom and even the toilets slid but she wouldn't believe me and somehow implied I left the water

there on purpose to drown the kids then she told me she didn't feel comfortable with the kids going into my room because there was a window nearby and she feared the kids would jump from the bed to the window and fall out two floors to their death which was quite hard since they would have needed to climb to the bed and then to a chair and then to the window it just made no sense she was crazy about organic stuff every single item she had inside her fridge and kitchen was organic including the kids candies

I was allowed to have my own candies and sweets as long as I kept them hidden from the kids however when I showed up with a Coke she wasn't too happy one time we took a trip to some organic ice cream place and I got chopped ice cream as I was pouring it in my cup she came right next to me and said that is aspartame don't you know that thing is really bad for your brain if I were you I would need it please don't ever give that to my kids after that there were

all these weird things she used to tell me like one day I left some chicken that I no longer wanted to eat so I just set it aside to have it later on the next day she had a talk with me telling me that food on plates absolutely grossed her out that she didn't even clean her husband's plates so why she she do it for someone else to which I replied I had set it aside to eat it later and her face fell to the ground and she said you eat that that was sitting out

for a long time and it has bacteria you will get sick I mean it's San Francisco cold and the food wasn't out for days just for a couple of hours she kept telling me things to try to scare me into staying home things like there are raccoons outside so here's a flashlight so you can scare them away but there are also coyotes so you might not want to stay out until too late which sounded quite weird given that we were in the city that place in town is super dangerous there are plenty of Thieves over

there in another nice part of the city where another Nanny lived anyways one day she calls me and asks me to have a cup of coffee with her which surprised me since we both lived in the same house and it wasn't like we were friends to just go for coffee so I came and she tells me that she feels that we're not a good match and that she thinks I should move to another family she said she had loads of negative feedback about me and overall it had been such a horrible experience I was quite

shocked and asked her what kind of feedback but she wouldn't tell me because there was so much she had already called the opair agency representative who turned out to be this extremely dense lady she explained to me that I had two weeks to find a new family or else I had to go back to my home country I had only been in San Francisco for two and a half weeks in the meantime my host mom was saying that she and her husband had booked a room in a hotel for me for 3 days and that

maybe I should go stay somewhere else the agent was listening to all this and she felt quite happy with herself after negotiating that I should stay for one week with a family that wanted me out ASAP so I could make a bit more cash then I should ask friends to stay with them or something because although she was supposed to make sure the nannies were fine she couldn't have me at her place since she didn't even have a mattress or a couch for me to stay Etc my host mom then said that during the time

I stayed with them she would monitor my cell phone to ensure I didn't misuse it and that she would be very concerned to have me around the kids I was like what I am a decent person I am not a criminal or anything like that why would the kids suffer because you don't like me however I told her that if she wanted me out I was fine with that that I cared to say goodbye to the kids but that was about it I could be gone the next day and she was like honey don't get

me wrong but they won't even remember you and she got pretty offended that I wasn't exactly upset about leaving her family the next day I came out of my room and didn't want to be near the kids that much since she had this fear that I would harm them or something so she told me that I could just go ahead and lock myself in my room the whole day if I wanted to so I did but a friend of mine texted me she was going downtown and asked me if I wanted to come with so

I could get a new Fone so the new host families could reach me since I was required to give up my my phone at the end of that week so I left the home and I started running late so I sent her a message telling her that I was going to be a bit later than I thought but that I just didn't feel comfortable around her and that I felt like I was a threat to the kids and overall that I felt bad about the situation so what she did was immediately call the agency and

told them that I had threatened her and her family the agency called me right away and told me that I was not supposed to go back to her home anymore or she called the police on me also I couldn't go get my stuff without someone from the agency present and it might be the case that the agent would actually have to pack my suitcase for me since I might not be allowed inside the home anymore she texted me and said I was not to come to her place at all and she immediately canceled the phone

and the carts I was completely shocked I told them that regardless of how good my English might be it's still my second language and it is expected did that I make a few mistakes that she was already treating me like I was a criminal and a monster and I obviously didn't like that but they weren't listening to me and said look just stay somewhere until 8:00 p.m. when we can go get you we're too busy right now so I was left completely confused I hadn't had any breakfast that day I had no money on me

and it was only 1 p.m. I sat at a bus stop and started crying luckily for me my friend was off bus and saw me and I went home with her by 8:00 p.m. I was picked up by the same agent who took me to a friend's place she now insisted I stayed with her but I felt so disgusted by her not listening to me and furthermore when the previous day she had insisted that I stayed with a family that didn't like me that I refused her help the next day the agency sent me an

email telling me that because I had seriously threatened my host family and refused the agent's help I was being removed from the program that they were canceling my Visa right that moment and that I had to leave the country immediately and that's how I ended up abandoned in the streets of the US with only 100 bucks on me no Visa which is really bad in the US and no ticket to go home one of my newly made friends heard my story and told her mom who immediately took me to some lawyers they kept asking me

what I had done to them to make them so angry and so upset and hate me so much and I kept saying I had hadn't done anything which is still true they tried to negotiate that they let me back in the program but they said they couldn't they reviewed the contract and whatnot but there was no way around it I finally called them and told them that I would go to my own country's Embassy and complain that I had been brought into the US illegally that they were making me an undocumented immigrant and putting me

in danger Etc so the least they could do is give me a flight especially since I had just worked there for 3 weeks and there was no way I could have known they were going to kick me out like that and I obviously had no savings I had spent most of them paying to enroll in this program they at least agreed to buy me a flight back home this all happened in the span of 3 days from the moment my host mom asked me to leave to the moment when I actually left the country I

only stayed in the program for 3 weeks before I was expelled a few days after I left one of the girls I used used to hang out with told me that the family had just hired a new 18-year-old Nanny they were trying hard to convince her of how dangerous the city was and make her feel like she owed them something by buying her a laptop and allowing her to bring her friends home for a barbecue so my friend asked my former host mom why she had kicked me out like that and the answer was simply

because she was going out too much and I was afraid of the sports that she used to practice so basically she wanted me out for going out during my own free time rather than stay locked in my room and because of martial arts months later I spoke to the guy that picked me up I arrived and he told me that the family found out he had been talking with me that night so they called his boss and had him punished for talking to me I always wonder if that lady will keep saying just how everything

is out there to harm you and if her kids will grow up and get tired of that and not listen to her will she then try to reason with a teenager would which is just as hard as reasoning with a 2-year-old I feel bad for those kids because life doesn't say yes all the time she was 44 years old was very successful and worked from home her husband was making loads of money if she wanted her kids to grow up with such a peculiar education where they're never told no she should have raised them herself

and not bring people from other cultures to try to do so all that these kids really wanted was their mommy I am 22 years old and live in Toronto Canada in a nice suburban area while I was about 18 years old I had a house party at the same house I live in now my parents went to our cottage for the weekend it was a beautiful summer evening and there were about 25 maybe more people here we were all drinking and being obnoxious teen aers as expected around 12:00 a.m. the police showed up I'm sure

it had a lot to do with the fact that my ex and I were in my driveway having a screaming match the officers didn't ask about alcohol or anything like that they just told everyone who wasn't spending the night to leave and warned that there would be trouble if they had to come back after the cops and most of the guests finally left I told everyone to keep the party inside because I didn't want it to be loud outside I decided I needed some fresh air and some time to myself after the events of the

night I went out into my backyard and sat in a patio chair leaning my head against the wooden fence behind me I began to doze off my friends Christina and Romy thought it would be a good idea to sneak up on me and scare the crap out of me I let out a huge scream I'm still not sure how long I had been asleep it couldn't have been that long about about 20 seconds after my scream we heard another scream from somewhere else it was almost like a delayed Echo it was definitely the scream of

a woman and it sounded like it was coming from down the street we walked towards the part of my backyard with a chain link fence so we could see the road and down the street it was very dark probably around 1:30 a.m. and the street was dimly lit by street lights just as I was about to say it must have been someone walking by trying to be funny Ramy pointed at a girl standing about 20 ft away at the end of someone's driveway just staring at us she was wearing a short black dress had long

dark hair and her skin was so pale at almost seemed to glow in the dark I suggested that she looked a lot like our friend Laura who I last saw extremely intoxicated I thought maybe she had wandered out of the house and was trying to mess with us Christina volunteered to go inside and look for Laura while Ramy and I stayed in the backyard trying to figure out who this girl was I screamed again to see if I would get the same response and I did she screamed back almost immediately then I called out AA

she responded with yes Ramy and I decided we needed to approach her and try to get her back into the house safely before the cops came back and we got into serious trouble we got by halfway to the girl and she still stood there like a statue she didn't move or make any noise just stared at us I started to think to myself that this couldn't be Laura because if it was she wouldn't just stand there like that we still couldn't make out her face suddenly Christina called out to us Laura's inside passed out those

words HD me like a ton of bricks and I froze all of a sudden this mystery girl started laughing hysterically so loud that Ramy and I both jumped I mean she was laughing so loud it was unbelievable then she turned around and ran up the driveway toward the back of the house still laughing like crazy even when she was out of sight I could still hear her laughter as if she were right next to us we turned around and started power walking back to the house when we were startled by loud banging that sounded like

metal Garbage kin smashing together this girl really creeped me out so I went inside locked all the windows and doors and it under my covers to this day I have no idea who she was what young girl in her right mind would just stand there by herself when approached by two strangers one of them being 6' 2 in and 210 lb she was either incredibly Brave and just wanted to mess with us she was drunk or on some serious substances or she was something else else that I don't even want to think about the weirdest

part of this story is that the next day I saw the man who lives at the house where the girl was standing and I asked him if he had heard or seen anything unusual between 1 and 2: a.m. he said he heard nothing it seems almost impossible that she could have been so close to his house making so much noise and he didn't hear a thing I used to reside in the city of Houston I grew up in the suburbs but moved into the inner city as soon as I could get away from the strip

malls and chain restaurants I moved to interloop Houston the 610 Loop is a freeway that unofficially separates the Metro Corp from the residential and Industrial outskirts of the city to a small historic neighborhood the montros district that was mostly attractive to college students artistic types young people and the lgbtq plus community montros is pretty socially liberal and probably the most out their Houston neighborhood culturally speaking it has lots of cool antique rental properties and Garden Apartments for singles and couples in their 20s but it's not the kind of area where most people can afford to

purchase a house or a space for a family I was very young when I first moved to montros so I soaked it all in the dive bars restaurants music clubs coffee shops Street Festival and proximity to the museum District it was great but every pro has its con montros wasn't super crime rting or anything at least I never felt unsafe there but it was a little rough around the edges substances were easy to come by which meant a high concentration of substance users obviously and the behaviors that often come with them and car break-ins were

relatively common my window got smashed twice in four years which seemed about average there was a decent sized homeless population to be mindful of don't get me wrong many of them were perfectly polite and harmless but there were a handful who were bold Shameless and persistent while muggings weren't the norm to my knowledge none of my friends were ever mugged it was definitely important to be aware of your surroundings if you were out and about especially if you were alone or it was after dark so one morning around 0 800 I headed to work I

stopped off at the drugstore on the corner next to my apartment to grab a juice and some cigarettes before hitting the bulk of my commute there's typically at least one homeless person hanging out in this particular Pharmacy's lot at any given time but it's not worrying they're usually passed out and no trouble just resting in the shade from the structure away from the hot sun as I was walking in I saw a grizzled white homeless man wandering around the far end of the parking lot quite a ways from me it seemed strange as they don't

tend to pan handle here and it's too boiling hot to be comfortable wandering around on the asphalt in direct sunlight additionally I didn't see any cars parked on his side of the lot and no one was around for him to interact with so his movements seemed aimless and random he sort of glanced my way but it was hard to tell from that distance if he was looking at me or not from where I was standing it looked like his eyes were just randomly darting around fixating on one point of the parking lot then he quickly

stro to that empty spot and found another spot a few feet away to look at before skittering over I didn't feel threatened but I was definitely aware of his presence and questioning his stability I made it into Walgreens undeterred got my stuff and waited in line to pay I was inside for 2 to 3 minutes tops I stepped out the exit and glanced toward my car I felt relieved when I didn't see the man on my end of the lot so I started walking to my parking spot I had made it maybe 5 to 10

ft from the store's exit the car was another 20 ft or so away when he appeared seemingly out of nowhere and stepped directly in front of me blocking my path he asked me if I had any money I could give him he was older and pretty worse for wear I felt bad for him but I was creeped out and in a hurry to get to work I told him I often say the panhandlers and it was usually true sorry I don't carry cash I stepped around him and kept walking quickening my Pace I heard his

footsteps follow me just as quickly from behind me he demanded I know you have change at this point I was rushing to the car a hair away from breaking into a Sprint sorry I can't help you I loudly responded without glancing back toward the man who was still on my tail I hit the unlock button on my keys and had my arm out ready to reach for the door handle my hand slid onto the handle I yanked my car door open and jumped into the driver's side of my sedan before I was even seated correctly

I immediately reached out to slam and lock the door too late the man was now facing me standing in the space between the open car door and me blocking it from closing with his entire body my car was just your standard four-door so as you can imagine I was now an awfully Close Quarters with the man to make it even worse he leaned down so that his face was just about level with mine his hair and beard were unkempt and his eyes were wild as if I needed further confirmation I didn't this was not a

sane individual give me all your money he didn't Point any weapons at least that I could see or scream or raise his voice he just sternly said the words in a very matter of fact tone as if this were the obvious directive and my compliance were given I was terrified I stared up at him for a second not knowing what to do in an instant adrenaline slammed into me and instead of immediately responding to his demand I kept a contact with him on my left side while my right hand shoved the key into the ignition

and turned um mil was all I could squeak and ladies and gentlemen I've Reddit that was the day I ran over a Hobo's foot I would do it again too if I had to follow for 10 miles one night in early 2016 my girlfriend and I went out with a friend I don't remember everything we did that night but the last thing we did before dropping our friend off was go out to eat it was late probably about 2:00 a.m. when we pulled out of the parking lot to leave a car pulled up behind us

as we went on our way it followed we were in a busy part of town so we didn't think much of it however my girlfriend is cautious about things like that instead of taking the most common route to drop our friend off at her car she decided to cut through it's mostly a woodsy area but there are several houses spread out and in one spot there are some business type buildings we almost never see anyone driving there especially at night well when we turned so did the car behind us no big deal maybe they live

on one of these roads every turn we made the car made it was starting to weird me out luckily our friend was still oblivious I'll break here to say my girlfriend is a speed demon she drives like a bat out of hell she started slowly picking up speed and the car did too finally she said forget this and flirt it I don't remember how fast we were going I just know it was faster than what she usually drives on those roads and faster than what was safe anyway this car was doing its best to keep

up with us even when we went down the road with the business buildings instead of the one with the houses the car still followed us by now our friend realized what was going on and she was freaking out in the back seat we finally got back to the main road and we didn't see the car anymore we reached my friend's work parking lot where she left her car and we sat there for a few minutes trying to get her to calm down so she could drive home the same car pulled into the parking lall with

us we sat there for a few minutes just trying to figure out what they were doing about a minute later another car pulled in and parked right across from the first car the people in both cars got out and were standing there staring at us my girlfriend started the car again and they got into the first car the one that had been following us as we pulled out the parking lot I made sure to get a good look at their faces so I would know them we went across the street to a diner we frequented

because it was the only place open on that side of town at that time of night and I'd always been told to go where there are people we were also hoping our favorite waitress would be there to tell her about this weirdness she wasn't there so the three of us headed to the bathroom between waiting in line and talking to each other and to some of the women waiting it took us about 10 10 minutes when we walked out the doors that separated the bathrooms from the rest of the diner they were sitting in the

booth directly across from the doors and they were staring my girlfriend and I noticed them our friend didn't we got of there and went back to the car the whole time they watched us through the windows they had even parked right beside our car we down in the car locked the doors and went back to drop our friend off I I wouldn't let her get out of the car until I made sure nobody was lurking I told her to go straight home to make sure she wasn't being followed and to let us know when she

got home and was inside we returned to the diner parking lot to ensure the guys were still there which they were we stayed there for maybe 2 minutes then we left the whole way home we were checking to make sure we weren't being followed this is so far the creepiest thing that has happened to me that involve people the man in the duck outs I was about 15 when this happened my mom had roped me into accompanying her to the park near her house to walk her dog since it was dark out and she didn't

have a phone I wanted nothing more than to be at home playing Psychonauts so I spent most of the walk there chattering about that the park itself is moderately sized there's a small slide and monkey bars combination along with a swing set in one part while the rest is taken up by a baseball field and a soccer field with loads of ground in between there are woods behind a chain link fence where many substance dealers Fishers and dog walkers can be found it's a little shady but nothing too dangerous for worrying since it was too

late to take our dog into the woods where she liked to play in the river that cut through the middle of it we just circle the playing fields I'd say this is where it gets weird with our Unleashed dog constantly circling back to us and never straying too far but that was normal behavior for her so we thought nothing of it until we approached the baseball duck outs it was funny because while we walked around I joked about having 911 typed into my fall in case something happened we laughed and changed the subject but we

felt dead silent when we heard a raspy hello from one of the dugouts as we neared the dog was growling looking like she wanted nothing more than to bow for home in retrospect I wish she barked at him to scare him into letting us be she's a coonhound with a deep throaty bark for a moment we were frozen on this spot the man continued on asking us what our names were my mom grabbed my arm at that point and we ran toward the exit of the park with a man calling behind us where do you

live forward SL what's your address I think he called some other things as well but we were in such a hurry to leave that I didn't catch them we rushed to put the dog back on our leash and I was quick to pull out my phone however before I could even dial the number a police car drove past and pulled into the park This Is Not Unusual since I live in a college neighborhood we doubled back and my mom informed the office officers that there was a man in one of the dugouts who' said some

worrying things they asked for our phone number to update us if they found anyone and advised us to get home and lock the doors a little while later while he sat at home with all the doors locked the phone rang the police hadn't found anybody and it was likely he vanished into the woods I spoke with my mother about this since I felt like I should get her permission before posting this and she added that the man said help me to us I still think we were in the right for reacting like we did but

I wonder who he was and what he wanted he just stood there staring at us this incident took place while I was 19 years old I had never been away from home for more than a few days debate camp in high school probably doesn't count the college I attended was so close to my parents home that it felt more like sleep away camp for 4 days a week I knew that never leaving my comfort zone was hindering my growth so I signed up for an internship through an organization in my college and pack my bags

for Greece this trip offered me the chance to spread my wings and try my hand at being independent I wanted to step out of my comfort zone and what says leaving the comfort zone better than going to a country where I didn't speak the language and had no family or friends all in all the was great I faced many obstacles but it taught me valuable life lessons such as fighting to get what you want never taking no for an answer and being cautious around children who might distract you with their C A these lessons I'll

hold with me forever but the most important lesson I learned was alertness and trusting your gut this incident happened after I had been living in Greece for about a month so by that point I was very comfortable there I had had established my routine I woke up at 8:30 got breakfast took the tram SL Metro to the office arrived by 10 to 10:30 worked until 5:00 got home relaxed for a bit and then went out with the other entrance around 700 to explore the city I always got home at varying hours but I was never

worried because the area I lived in was wellit and very crowded as we lived right next to a huge Square also I had my roommate Andrea a boy from Venice who was always waiting for me at the apartment and was semi- Dependable not to say I wasn't cautious in Greece for example while I was out and about in the city I was always on the lookout for suspicious looking people I even had my purse secured across my torso but as soon as I was in my neighborhood I would relax it was a safe neighborhood one

night I was walking back to my place from the tram When a Stranger approached me it was around 11:30 p.m. and I was two blocks away from my apartment there were still a bunch of people walking around in the area so I put my headphones in and was briskly walking back when I felt it someone was walking right behind me I scooted to the side of the sidewalk expecting them to pass me but they followed me so I stopped and turned there was a guy standing there with a plastic bag filled with something wrapped in

it are you Indian that's all he asked me yes I am can I help you in my mind I figured this guy might be a foreigner or tourist Like Me Maybe he needed some help getting somewhere but only spoke Hindi and needed a translator oh I'm half Pakistani he just kind of looked at me expectantly at this point I was very confused and still rooted on the side of the sidewalk what did this guy want I was buying dinner for my mother and I saw you more staring he seemed normal but something felt off I

just wanted to run away from this guy oh do you need something fight or flight was starting to kick in I began assessing the guy he was skinny and a head taller than me could I take him I don't see many Indians so I wanted to talk to you what language do you speak he was struggling with English if it was a conversation he wanted that wasn't happening out of the corner of my eye I started to look around there were still people nearby so I could always scream for help I speak English and Hindi

I don't know why but I was getting a weird energy off this dude oh my English is not very good thank you Jesus I could use this as a way to end the conversation and go home oh I'm sorry well I have to go so bye I started to walk away from him walk actually isn't strong enough I was basically jogging down the street I'll walk you back well great no I'm fine this guy was not getting the hint no it's okay this guy wasn't taking no for an answer and he was easily keeping up

with my Pace clearly fly wasn't an option here he started asking me questions why I was doing in Greece how long I was there for where I was staying I answered as vaguely as I could this guy didn't need to know anything about me we were now within 200 ft of my place and I knew I couldn't let this guy figure out where I live but I couldn't keep walking with him either I don't know why but I felt I needed to get help I could call for help maybe Andrea or the police except I

had no minutes left on my phone because I was almost done with my internship great I started to slow down as I saw a split in the road we were almost at my apartment and I couldn't find a way to shake this guy off me that's why I saw the answer to my prayers a few doors down from my apartment was a funeral home this place was open 24/7 no matter what time of day or night I came home these guys were always there I guess you never know when someone's going to bite the dust

the owner was an older man whom I saw every morning on my way to work he was sweet and always greting me in the morning I figured you would let me stay there or call Andrea or the police something was better than nothing I suddenly turned to the stranger it was nice meeting you but I have to leave now I pointed at the funeral home I have to go do you know what that place is let's go on walk instead he looked at me like I was a crazy person but the suggestion spending any more

time with him set off an alarm in me and I just knew I had to get away from this guy no I have to go I shook his hand no idea why I did that and ran across the street like the Devil Himself was behind me he called out after me but I didn't even try to comprehend what he was trying to say I walked no ran up the steps of the funeral home and burst into the office the old man wasn't there instead two men were in the room they must have been in their

late 20s they were both tall but one was portly while the other was wellb built I didn't care that they weren't the old man I just started talking can I please just stay here for like 5 minutes there's this guy and he's not leaving me alone I don't want him to know where I live and I live next door can I just stay here please the well-built man was very confused too much English too fast but the portly man on understood and explained the situation they were very sweet and had me sit down while they

got me a cup of water oh I forgot to mention a detail about the office the entire front and side of the office were functionally made of glass so those on the inside could see the outside and those on the outside could see inside the men introduced themselves to me the well-built man was cus and the portly man was yanis yanis sat me down a chair that had its back to the glass wall he's a persistent one yanis was handing me my second glass of water and I had been sitting in the funeral home for

20 minutes The Stranger was still standing across the street from the funeral home he just stood there staring at us Yan his motion to costus and costus went and stood outside they were having us stare off in the meantime yanice was trying to help me calm down not an easy task because suddenly I knew I was right to run away from him I mean come on standing outside a funeral home at midnight and staring at a girl for 20 minutes is not Behavior exhibited by normal people everyone if was turning into a worst case scenario

in my head what if I had gone home and he had followed me what if I had continued talking to him or walking with him finally Costa stair seemed to work and this guy turned tail and started to walk back up the street I started picking my stuff up and profusely thanking ananis and cus for their help I turned and looked out the window to see how far away this guy was I needed to be sure he wouldn't see me leaving the funeral home just in case he started feeling chatty again and then I saw

where he was walking and I swear I almost fainted from the funeral home I could see this guy had walked the seven or eight blocks from the funeral home back down to the main street and had turned towards the tram maybe it was the fear in my brain making me lose it but all I could think was maybe this guy followed me home on the tram when he was out of sight yanis and costus ushered me back home it was almost 12:30 a.m. and they wanted me back safe in my house luckily the way the

street bends around the funeral home means that anyone walking from the direction I had come can't see beyond the funeral home so they couldn't see my apartment I got home safe and filled Andrea in on what had happened the rest of my trip went smoothly and I got back home safe I honestly think that if I had been more alert and Vigilant then I wouldn't wonder if that guy followed me home from the heart of Athens to my neighborhood if I hadn't put my headphones in maybe I would have noticed someone following me earlier or

maybe I wouldn't have looked like a Target and even though the climax of my story is a guy staring at me while I sit in a funeral home for 40 minutes I can't help but feel like that dude could have been a serial killer I never knew scooters could be so extreme I really love my neighborhood around Christmas I live in a Suburban feeling neighborhood in a pretty big city they go all out for the holidays here and everywhere is lit up with lights it really lows you into a false sense of peace and calm

especially at night when not many people are around I had just finished my stats final and was done with this semester at school to celebrate my male friend girls speak for a guy I'm dating who is less than a boyfriend but more than a one night stand and I went to a nice dinner and had a couple of drinks male friend Sam is a really nice guy he's a mild-mannered librarian with a quiet speaking voice who wears glasses and a lot of Cardigans I am a pretty small person and I was a bit tipsy on

this occasion anyway Sam and I were walking back to his house from the bar we had passed the main street in the neighborhood where most of the bars are Sam's house is pretty close to this Main Street basically walking with your back to the main street you pass a bar then a parking lot next to classy liquor store and then you're right at Sam's house when we were walking past the bar I was feeling all drunk and lovey-dovey enjoying the Christmas lights then I saw Scooter Boy approaching I don't think he was much older than

16 he was riding one of those Razor scooters pretty gracefully he wore nondescript jeans and a black hoodie he jumped the curb of the sidewalk and passed the parking lot then jumped the curb right in front of the bar almost hitting us but dodging at the last second one of us must have flashed an annoyed look because he immediately said did you just teare me down Sam and I were both confused then Sam gently said no man we didn't you're fine at this point we both kept walking in the direction of Sam's house the kid

decided to follow I remember his eyes looked pitch black he was pale and had a little scab on his chin this may be an onway to describe it but his facial expression seemed a little bewildered even though he was clearly Furious us he definitely either had social problems or was impaired my guess would be he was using substances as that is the substance of choice in my neighborhood as he followed us past the parking lot he kept pretty close to Sand's side the whole time he ranted about how he had just harmed someone and showed

a scabs on his knuckles he talked about how angry he was and said I swear someone's going to die tonight maybe you we kept trying to Plate him saying it was okay at one point I said you're fine dude just go off and have a good night this seemed to upset him even more and he said I'm telling you I'm going to mess some things up and I ain't no dude neither we finally got to Sam's house and I realized it was probably a really bad idea to go up the steps and go in one

because I didn't want this person to try to push his way in with us and two because I didn't want him to know where Sam lives and come back later to harass him thinking quickly I stopped and said Sam why don't we go to the bar luckily Sam got my drift and said it was a good idea and we turned around and backtracked to the bar being drunk and nervous I tried to light-heartedly chat with Sam and ignore scooter boy who kept following us I mentioned being excited about drink specials and Scooter Boy said ain't

nothing special we finally got to the barge door and when I stepped up to open it Scooter Boy stepped directly in front of me and got in my face I could smell his rancid breath and his eyes seemed so black that for a second I thought of all the blackeyed children creepy pastas at this point my scrawny librarian friend grabbed my shoulder pulled me behind him and puffed his chest out as he stared Scooter Boy down my hero Scooter Boy took a step back and the path to the door was open I a Sam who

was standing his ground and clearly about to confront Scooter Boy and went into the bar the kid didn't follow us so we decided to have a drink and see if he'd leave after a kind of expensive hug glass of wine I poked my head out the door checked the street and parking lots and didn't see him Sam and I booked it back to his house where I made my appreciation known about seven or eight years ago my family was living in an area that bordered a not so Savory part of town for the most part

we all felt pretty safe but every once in a while some crime would bleed over into our neighborhood so we were all very conscious when came to keeping ground floor windows closed at night walking home with a buddy after dark locking car doors Etc we certainly weren't paranoid but we were aware of the potential robberies and incidents that came with the neighborhood anyway a few weekends out of the summer we would go visit my grandparents at their house a few hours away and come back late Sunday evening this particular weekend we pulled into the driveway

and immediately could tell that something was not right I should clarify the side door to our house locks automatically but opens out to a little porch area that connects the driveway to the backyard at the time we had a very sweet but very Dopey dog who was inclined to wander over the porch from the backyard into the driveway so the door on the driveway side was always closed even if our dog was coming with us we closed the door out of habit when we came home that night the door was wide open we sat in

the car watching the door in silence for a few moments someone ventured a half-hearted guess that it could have been the wind or a confused mailman but we were all suspicious and a little on itch following my dad at the steps to the house we all stopped short when we saw the door to the house of Jar this is a heavy door that makes an unmistakable click when it closes and locks no matter how we tried to write it off in that moment it was no accident for the next 20 minutes my mom my sister

and I sat dead silent in the kitchen with our clueless dog while my dad and brother God blessed them made their way slowly around the house one by one they called out when they finished inspecting a room TV room nothing missing dad's office nothing missing bedrooms nothing missing and no one to be found everything was exactly as we had left it they arrived back in the kitchen and our nurse slowly started to calm our optimism returned maybe someone did leave the door open on our way out we were in a rush and might not have

noticed how lucky we were that our door was open for a whole weekend and no one took advantage just as we were about to say good night and part ways my sister's face fell she was pale white and staring at the door on the kitchen counter right beside the door was a single Peach freshly bitten I have been waiting for you years for one of my family members to fess up and say that they were pranking us despite the horrified look on everyone's faces in that moment I still wanted to believe that it was a

joke I'll be a cruel and long lived one the strangest part about the whole thing is that whenever we left for the weekend we would take all the produce in the house with us whoever this Intruder was he brought his own Peach with him late night phone calls it all started when I was 14 about 7 years ago my relationship at the time had just ended badly and an older female friend of mine had promised to call and comfort me I sat up until 2 or 3:00 a.m. waiting for a call I should have assumed

was no longer coming in the dead of night my phone finally rang assuming it was Jesse I picked up the phone and started having a conversation with her about what was going on on that's why I heard the voice it was scratchy and deeper than hers I don't even know how to describe it but to this day I can remember it the voice seemed to go along with what I was saying so I finally decided to ask your voice sounds odd they quickly responded oh I caught a cold okay I thought I was pretty sure

it wasn't Jesse at this point but I was interested to see how this would play out so I went along with it the first thing this voice asked me was what I looked like I laughed and responded no different than I looked earlier today when you last saw me the voice responded making some excuse that her mind was blurry and she couldn't remember so I should describe myself so I did so in detail then I decided to ask you're not Jesse are you of course they denied it but I asked a couple more times reassuring

them that I wouldn't be upset if this individual was not her I was just curious who I was talking to finally he told me his name was Jack at this time I was almost absolutely sure I did not know a jack so I asked him how he got my number he told me he got it from a girl at a party it must have been a fake number but I sounded nicer anyway I don't know why but I right away assumed this was one of my friends were a girl from school being rude and handing

out my phone number so I asked him what she looked like he quickly told me he couldn't remember anyway I started to talk to this Jack he asked me how old I was I told him and asked him back he told me he was 24 or something there was a drastic age gap between us but not not to put me off he asked me personal questions the first being what I was wearing I was naive and described the cute little pajamas I had on I didn't know why you would want to hear about my pajamas

with cats on them then he asked me what school I went to I told him and he said he lived in Little Italy which was actually extremely close to my school he asked me what bus I took home and I was dumb enough to tell him he told me there was a high possibility he had seen me on the bus before this actually was the first thing to make me a little nervous so we talked a little more he told me I should come over sometime and then I went to bed every couple of months

I would receive a phone call from him they were always at inappropriate times in the night they started with him asking me why I was wearing he would then describe girls that looked like me he saw on the bus telling me what they were wearing when he saw them and asking if it was me they never were as far as I was aware then he always say I'm having a party you should come over I'd ask him why he was on the phone if he had people over he'd then say I'm having a party for

one or I'm having a party for two just me and you at this point he seriously scared me but I was just too naive to speak up I told my friends about him the boys I need joke that they would show up to these parties and teach him a lesson but I didn't want anyone hurt for all I knew he could just be a lonely guy looking for a friend or worse he could be big and scary and my friends could get themselves in trouble so I just laughed and told them not to one day

while I was at the mall with a particularly protected female friend of mine she was my best friend and had kind of taken it upon herself to be my older sister and protect me from the creeps out there so anyway in the middle of the day at the mall I got a phone call from him when she asked me who was on the phone she told me to hand it to her she then went on to ask him if he knew how old I was she told him he was creepy for calling a 14-year-old girl

and that she would not hesitate to hunt him down and hurt him if he continued I didn't hear from Jack for a while I thought he was gone for good one night I was having a sleepover with my protect AC a friend and another girl as we were going to bed at 3: or 4: in the morning my phone rang without hesitation or thought I picked it up the voice was Jack's he started talking to me and I was speechless I guess fear pain in my face because my friend turned around and her eyes met

I just need to throw her my phone she put it to her ear and started I don't know if it was SC scaming were just the most threatening tone I ever heard but she kept repeating I told you not to call here how dare you call you know she's 14 right then came a lot of cursing and yelling throughout the whole time I could hear his now shaking voice pleading could I talk to the first girl I want to talk to the first girl again let me talk to the first girl my friend spent what

seemed like at least half an hour ignoring every word out of his mouth and yelling at him calling him a pervert and refusing his please after that he never called again on a side note months or maybe a year or two later my mother and I were down in Little Italy this was rare for us to come down this particular Street and I couldn't get Jack out of my head I was spooked and the evidence showed on my face until my mom finally asked what had me on pins and needles I I told her there

was a guy named Jack who lived down there who scared me as I said that name her expression changed she appeared more worried than I was she explained that when she was very young she worked in an old toy store in Little Italy the manager of the store was in his early 30s back then and named Jack there was always something off about Jack the way he looked at kids the way he treated his teenage employees my mom told me she' quit cuz she felt there was something very wrong about him she described him to

me and while there were lots of similarities it's hard to say if it was possible the Jack I knew over the phone was the same Jack who ran the toy store I mean there must be a lot of jacks out there right still The Coincidence was spooky creepy whisper outside the window to begin I want to explain where we lived we resided in the Foothills on 5 acres of land down a gravel road we own horses and pigs and all that jazz there were no houses nearby however you could cross a creek behind the house

and over a small mountain to a GED Community you would never want to go outside though due to the mountain lands lurking around at night needless to say other than the flood lights on the house there were no lights around around ever one night my dad was working late which ironically never happened my brother my mom and I were home alone in our very large house I was only about 6 years old but I remember all of this vividly for whatever reason I was sleeping in my parents room with my mom that night while my

brother stayed in his room all of a sudden my brother burst into the bedroom around 0300 slamming unlocked my parents' bedroom door and said he was hearing someone Whispering his name and telling him to come out and play The Whispers sounded like they were coming from the closet or from the window which are right next to each other my mom thinking my brother was dreaming whether his neighbor friend across the creek was messing with him especially since our rooms were on the second floor made us wait in her room while she went to check things

out when she walked in she heard some shuffling noises toward the window and her back into the bedroom locking the door she called the police who showed up 20 to 30 minutes later while we sat quietly staring at our window to see if we could spot anything the police searched the house and property and found nothing but roof shingles in our front yard which is where my brother's room faces side note our house had a small awning over the front porch so someone could easily walk in front of our Second Story Windows facing the front

yard however they warned us that there were many hiding places around the house so they would monitor it for a bit around 6:00 a.m. my dad got home to find the police sitting outside he informed them that he saw a man jogging down our Gravel Road toward the main road wearing all dark clothing they thought it was strange since in our area you didn't ever go jogging early in the morning when mountain lion's feed yes this is a real thing where I'm from and attacks and sightings happen often first furthermore he was not in any

type of workout gear it turns out they caught the guy and he was breaking into homes in the GED Community trying to lurk kids to his car while they walked home from the bus stop