4 True College Horror Stories

[Music] it was my first year of University I had just finished unpacking all of my stuff into my room and my family had just left later on that same day my roommate finally arrived and right from the get-go I knew this kid was the most socially inept person I'd ever met I introduced myself as Dan sticking out my arm for a handshake he paused looked down at my arm as if he didn't understand at first then laughed and went oh and gave me an almost dead fish handshake I had to ask him for his name

since he didn't even tell me when we shook hands he was Dale I tried to make small talk but he just answered my questions with yes or nose occasionally awkwardly laughing or smiling within minutes we were both just sitting on our beds on our laptops not talking to each other I was upset and planned on requesting to be placed with a different roommate anyone would be better than Dale I thought Dale was just a really awkward kid but I soon learned he was much more than just that I met some of the other kids on

my floor and they seemed cool so that was good I came back to my dorm after looking around campus the first night to find Dale still in the same position he was in when I left I said what's up Dale and he didn't answer not to my surprise it was 9:30 I didn't have anything to do so I turned out the lamp on my side of the room and went to bed I didn't actually fall asleep anytime soon though Dale was on his laptop until 3:00 in the morning when he finally closed his laptop I

fell asleep pretty quickly but I woke up within the hour the blinds to our room had been opened and the moonlight now creeping into the room made everything visible including Dale sitting on the side of his bed looking at me I sat up rubbed my eyes and said Dale what what the hell are you doing he whispered back sorry and laid down the next morning I woke up to find Dale had already gotten up I felt like it was the first time he left the room it was a Saturday the first Saturday of the Year

meaning orientation and all the campus festivities during the orientation as my group was walking by the school Gardens I heard a couple of students ahead of me saying what is that kid doing in there I saw who they were talking about it was Dale literally sitting in the dirt behind a patch of bushes rubbing the bark of a tree with his hand the orientation leader didn't notice otherwise I'm sure she would have said something I just walked by not saying anything eventually telling the two kids I overheard that he was my roommate as a way

to start a conversation and maybe make some friends they apologized for me none of us really knew if it was appropriate to laugh or not but we did I made friends with those two kids and we made plans to get together that night I also learned when I got back to my dorm that the school found another roommate for me things seemed to be turning around quickly for the better I left the room that night to go meet up with the two kids I met and when I got back Dale was sitting on the desk

chair facing the door I said oh hey what's up he said nothing very matter of factly I sat down on my bed and opened my laptop and realized I forgot to lock it I also realized that all of my emails had been opened emails I was pretty sure I didn't even read and a bunch of folders of mine had been opened Dale must have snooped through my laptop when I asked him if he did he responded no very loudly half a second after I even finished my question I could read him like a book This

creepy kid was literally going through my computer when I was out I knew he did it but I didn't pursue it I was ready to go to bed so as I went into my bed to look for my pajamas I felt like my clothing had all been moved around as well I knew I'd be out of there forever by tomorrow so I didn't say anything I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of a zipper I sat up and saw Dell on the ground going through my bag I turned the lamp

on this time confronting him about about it he played dumb saying I think you have my toothbrush by mistake it was the closest thing to wits that he'd shown up until that point still I knew he was lying and I knew something was wrong with him so I couldn't get physical with him the next day I met my new roommate in the same building and everything went well Sunday night after having a decent conversation with my roommate who is no social butterfly but was Miles better than Dale we both turned off our lights and went

to bed for the third night in a row I woke up at some off hour of the night to a strange noise it was a weird clicking noise it wasn't consistent but I'd hear it at least twice every 30 seconds I got up hoping to find something innocent like a heavy bag putting pressure on a weak floorboard or even a mouse but as I scoped out the room I realized the sound was actually coming from the other side of the door the NightLight in the common area was always on so when I looked through the

peephole I was able to see the scalp of the person standing on the other side of our door they were looking down so I couldn't see their face but now that I was paying attention I realized the tiny clicking noises were actually coming from the doorknob I was sure the person was trying to unlock the door I dialed the number for the campus police department and they showed up in under 5 minutes to the common room and only then did I feel it was safe to open the door I found the officers to have Dale

in cuffs I had a feeling it was him I told them everything that he was my former roommate who was going through my stuff so I switched dorms only to find him trying to break into my new dorm they took him away I don't know what happened to him after that but I never saw him again he either got suspended for the semester or expelled I got through the rest of my years at University like anybody else however the nightmarish experience I had with Dale still pops up in my head every now and then I

went to Binghamton University for 2 years I quickly made a big group of friends there and we'd go out every weekend one weekend on a Friday night in October when my group didn't have any big plans together me and two other close friends decided to hang out in the school Nature Preserve by the lake there was this little clearing on the far side of the lake that was convenient for fires since it was so far from view of the school or campus security kids would sometimes but not often come here to smoke pot drink and

do basically all the other drugs it was a relatively unknown spot on campus by most and we like that about it tonight we just brought a bunch of beers lit a fire and hung out having what we referred to at the time as a bro chat as the night progressed time seemed to pass quicker as the alcohol began to take effect eventually it got to the point where we were all laughing so hard that one of my two friends was on the floor rolling in the leaves that was when my other friend stopped laughing and

went sh we all perked up and listened and heard the crunching of leaves and branches in the distance we threw our bottles in the lake since we were all under 21 and it wasn't unheard of for campus police to come through the woods on weekends to catch kids doing drugs we tuck the rest of the beers into a backpack I was moderately drunk so my paranoia was higher than usual that was probably the case for all of us the fire exposed us to anyone passing through the woods but the thing is this spot was so

unknown and far from campus that it was rare to find anybody else that deep into the woods it sounded like just one person in the [Applause] distance the sound of a tree branch snapping not too far away freaked all of us out none of us were really the confrontational ones from our group so we were lacking that one person who would have the confidence to stand up and yell out to whoever was out there instead we all just sat in silence shushing each other we heard what seemed to be somebody or something circling us or

at least walking around in a CA shape around our little campsite it literally started to feel like we were in the movie The Blair Witch Project because these sounds in the near distance like cracking tree branches and leaves crunching on the ground kept echoing over to our campsite we laughed about it at first but I personally soon became terrified of who or what it could be out of the blue a huge thud made all three of us jump at first I didn't understand even though I saw what caused the sound it took me a few

seconds to digest the fact that a branch had been thrown into the center of our little firesight one of my two friends took off running while my other friend and I sat behind looking at each other half laughing half concerned I feel like we did didn't know yet if this was some kind of joke or not then my friend let out a scream of pain as he was struck in the face by another tree branch I grabbed the backpack helped my friend up off the floor and we hauled ass back in the direction of our

dorm when we made it to the road separating the nature preserved from our dorm we stopped to catch our breath but whoever was out there proved to be following us when we heard footsteps coming closer to the road we continued to run back to the dorm and when we got back to our floor we found our other friend in his room already we looked out of his room window down to the woods there was someone pacing back and forth by the woods and every time a car passed they would walk back into the woods eventually

whoever it was went back into the woods for good to never be seen Again by us we continued our drinking session in the dorm room and within 10 minutes we were all laughing about it it wasn't until the next morning that we all realized how terrifying that experience Act actually was we never really went back into the woods past dark after that this takes place during the first week of school my freshman year at the University of Iowa I was just starting to get comfortable with my roommate he was dedicated to the idea of rushing

a fraternity and Rush week was starting the next week but the parties were starting Thursday of the first week my roommate didn't want to go alone because it would be harder to meet people that way so he wanted me to go I happily agreed to go with him even though I had no interest in rushing a fraternity I still had intentions to go to parties after all I was attending a party school my roommate wanted to go to one frat party on Thursday and then parties at different frat houses on Friday and Saturday on this

Thursday night we were headed to perhaps one of the lowest ranked frats I'm pretty sure it was an underground one too but his logic in attending was to have a backup frat in case the higher ones wouldn't give him a bid the frat house was really far from campus in a much more slum downtown area we pulled up to a corner house and if it weren't for the blasting music in cars parked everywhere we would never picture this house as a frat house it literally looked like they settled with the first house they found we

knocked on the door to immediately be greeted by some short chubby guy in a white T-shirt holding a solo cup his shirt had sweat stains by his armpits and midbelly area he told us to come right in the party itself was in a horribly dimly lit room with probably 50 guys bunched up into the living room it was hot as hell in there to make it even worse I think I saw maybe two girls at the entire party neither of them even close to attractive I gave the party a good 20 minutes talking with one

overweight Foreigner after another all giving off antisocial vibes eventually I waved for my roommate to get ready to leave but a huge group of guys by the door made us decide to wait a little longer to avoid the awkwardness of leaving early I continued to drink the cheap beers they were serving I think I downed five cups before I could even feel the buzz a heavy guy approached me with a tiny bottle in his hand and handed it to me smirking and saying that'll get you shitfaced I fake laughed and thanked him expecting him to

go away but he just watched to me as if he were waiting for me to drink it so I did it was maybe two shots worth of some kind of hard liquor the guy then started making conversation with me and every time I hinted that I was trying to get away he would try to pull me further into this otherwise one-sided conversation things started to get really blurry pretty soon I remember feeling dizzy all of a sudden and the room seemed to be getting darker that was the last thing I remember before waking up in

a dark room laying in a bed I could hear the sound of music muffled behind closed doors so I knew I was still in the frat house it was a very dark room however I could still make out certain Furniture in the room and a small closet door not much else though but even over the blaring music I heard the sound of a plastic bag being crunched from the closet as if somebody had stepped on it by mistake I ran out of that room and down the stairs back to the overcrowded living room I found

my roommate and pushed him out the front door past a group of guys still standing in a circle right next to it during the car ride back to campus I told my roommate I was drugged he almost called the cops but I said it would be foolish and pointless my roommate then asked me an awkward question was I taken advantage of I didn't feel any type of pain and my clothes were all still on the same so I assumed not when I did a time check I realized I'd only been out for maybe 10 minutes

before waking up whatever the guy gave me must have been a dud or something thank God that was my college experience of attending an underground ghetto frat party and it remains to be my scariest life experience I had a single dorm my first semester of sophomore year it was in the corner of the floor kind of secluded from the rest of the dorm rooms since it was in its own little section you had to turn a corner to even see the door it was nice because I'd be able to still talk with friends on my

floor invite people over to my room and still have privacy when it was time to do homework or go to sleep a few weeks into the semester while studying for a Bio exam the silence was interrupted by a noise it took me a bit to realize it was a light tapping on the door it was so light that I almost didn't even hear it I yelled come in but the door didn't open so I got up to open it nobody was there I walked around the corner to look down the hall nobody somebody was obviously

messing with me I went back to my bed and continued studying this time leaving the door open nobody came back the next night a few minutes after shutting the lamp in my bedroom to go to bed the tapping on the door returned only this time it was much louder more of a knocking sound I called out who is it and again the knocking stopped and nobody answered I got out of my bed quickly and opened the door to see my small private Corridor was void of any people again I ran the 10 ft from my

door to the corner to look down the main hallway of the floor nobody the next morning I asked some of the other kids in the dorm if they had been messing with me everyone said no the next night I woke up after having been asleep for 3 hours someone was knocking on my door again this time louder than ever I had trouble deciding whether to open the door or not this time with a bout of Courage I hopped up and opened the door nobody was there as I was expecting but this time I fullon sprinted

down the tiny Corridor isolating my room and when I turned the corner I saw the back of somebody disappearing behind the far corner on the opposite side of the hallway I ran as fast as I could down the hallway and as I turned to the next hallway where I saw the person a few seconds earlier I saw a door at the end of the hallway shutting it wasn't a dorm room it was a bathroom I felt like I was ready to confront whoever this Joker was so I pushed open the bathroom door with Force the

light was off I turned it on expecting to see somebody hiding in there but I didn't see anyone my first instinct was to check the two bathroom stalls which were both shut I got on my hands and knees and looked under the two stalls two heavy black boots could be seen from underneath one of the stall doors I took a deep breath and pushed the stall open I was confused there were the boots sitting on the floor but no person to wear them and then I heard a creepy giggling noise not a feminine or childlike

one it was a kind of laughing that I could only imagine to be that of a really old crazy man for some reason my confidence was gone on and I was scared shitless therefore I ran back to my room and shut the door I hopped back in my bed and started texting every friend I had of course everybody was asleep though the knocking happened one more time that night I ignored it it went on for about 30 seconds before whoever that person was finally gave up I spoke to everybody on my floor the next day

nobody else heard any knocking and everybody swore they weren't pranking me everybody seemed sincere I don't know why this person chose to harass me or who this person was judging by the boots and the laughing I heard this was an older man though and that disturbs me