What's a MEMORY that Still CREEPS You Out to this Day? | Reddit Stories

what is the creepiest thing that has happened to you or a friend or family member that creeps you out to this day this isn't Supernatural or anything just good old human creepy in the late 90s I went to a yard sale about six blocks from my house I live in a fairly small town I found this silver cigarette case that I thought would make me look stylish and Uber sophisticated at the bar I bought it for $2 from a guy that was at least 85 years old I took it home and immediately dropped it on the sidewalk and dented one corner but it was still goodlooking so I used it for a while after a couple bar trips it became a pain in the ass as it only held eight smokes so I tossed it in a nightstand drawer and forgot about it a few months later I saw another yard sale at the same place and stopped to look I found a cigarette case just like the one I bought and picked it up it not only had the same dented corner but I opened it up and there was a cigarette that was my brand inside for some reason I felt the need to buy it again for $2 from the same old gezer when I got home the case was not in my nightst hand I will never forget the smile that old [ __ ] gave me when I bought it the second time that's unsettling did you ever see the old guy again saw him around town a few times never went back to his yard sales after I found out the first case wasn't in my nightstand I delivered newspapers in a fairly rural area the summer after I graduated high school one night it's pouring rain and I'm driving down this dirt road that is a dead end to a farmer's house I've been down this road a few dozen times times and know the routine drop the paper off in the box at the end of the drive whip a shitty back up the road and off to my next stop this time as I'm getting out of my car to place the newspaper in the holder I see this man in the ditch wearing a drenched white shirt running at me as fast as he can he got within 20 ft of me I could see what my mind pictured as a hatchet or axe I had never ran so hard in my life edit I ran back around the front of my car jumped in and took off everything happened so fast that I almost didn't realize where I was it must have been about 5 to 10 mil later that I attempted to call 911 no signal using my Motorola flip phone in the middle of nowhere in the year 2000 I had to stop at a farmer's house to call the police at 2: a. m. turns out the guy killed himself within an hour of his run with me in that wooded ditch I had not thought about that night in a long time kind of rattled nerves again thinking about it I had a dog once that was super loyal and loving and would always come running to me when I called and would almost crash into to me whenever I had treats for him one day sitting in the living room all of his hair stood up on his back and he was just staring over my shoulder growling and showing his teeth no matter what I would do to try to get him to come to me he would never break his stare at that one spot and just kept growling I eventually carried him out of the room because it was freaking me and my roommates out so bad growing up there was an extra room upstairs in our house we used as an office it had a closet with one of those tiny attic access doors on the side we'd sometimes all be downstairs watching TV and we'd hear a creaking sound moving toward that room the room was next to mine and sometimes I'd find the closet door open with the light on and the little door to the attic cracked open there was a spot on the wall that hour declawed cat would always attack there was missing paint from the cat attacks all of that was creepy but the night the dog who never came upstairs without my dad started barking in the hallway by my room toward the office was the worst she barked and growled for a bit then she started backing off into my room while looking up as if staring at the face of a person coming toward her she backed into my room then squealed like she'd been stepped on and ran into the far corner from my door and put her nose and eyes into the corner and whimpered I picked her up and went downstairs to sleep on the couch that was 14 years ago and I'm still freaked out by it I worked with a lady once who was pretty old I'd say about 70 years old since our job was pretty boring we talked a lot and she had all kinds of crazy stories but this one creeps me out still she said when grandma died they had her buried in a wood box in the backyard as was pretty custom in those days well years later they have a family plot in a cemetery and decide to dig her grandma up to move her to the family plot she said when they took the lid off the coffin it had claw marks all over the inside the Grandma had apparently been buried alive before a lot of modern medical equipment such as heart monitors and even before a lot of modern medical knowledge regarding death and other states such as coma and unconsciousness this sort of thing wasn't totally unheard of it could be all too easy easy to mistake someone in a coma as being dead and bury them there was even a case in France where someone had become drunk and was buried alive with attempts to rescue him coming too late as in his attempts to escape his skull hit the coffin side fracturing his skull and killing him digs in some cemeteries have often shown multiple premature burials in one site indicating such a thing was common you can find many articles about them some of them are pretty horrific it's the reason that in the 18th and 19th centuries particularly there could be found examples of safety coffins which had built into them methods of allowing the buried person to alert someone as to them being alive however as far as can be told no one was actually buried in one as an actual burial creepiest thing I remember ever happening to me didn't involve paranormal things I was walking to the store late at night probably around 11: to 1:00 a.

m. don't remember but the streets were isolated I live in the Bronx in a not so safe area but I've grown up around the not so nice people in this neighborhood all my life to not be afraid that anything will happen to me since a lot of them actually look out for their neighbors they still aren't nice people to others but I digress while I was walking the streets were completely empty until I heard footsteps behind me being the cautious person that I am I turn around to take a good look at the man for a long minute just in case I had to identify him later growing up in an unsafe place this is typically my line of thinking being that I'm a short girl five apostrophe 1 and this man was twice my height I was a bit creeped out but kept walking like normal after a while he caught up to me and asked if I was Dominican I sternly said said yes and kept walking he then asked if I was 18 this was 3 years ago at the time I was 17 and I replied no and was ready to cross the street because he was freaking me out as soon as I said no he looked at me disappointed and said oh never mind then and ran away from me it was such a small thing but it really creeped me out thinking about what may have happened if I had told him I was 18 and what exactly this guy was planning when I was 6 28 years ago my mom and dad took me and my younger sister to a MLB game leaving my grand mother to babysit my youngest sister when we got back my grandmother told my folks that two guys had come by the house with photography equipment and asked whether a young girl with red curly hair Liv there and that they had spotted her and that she would be a great child model for some advertising work they were doing when my grandmother said she wasn't home they said they would come back another time my grandmother and mom didn't think much about it but my dad said something's not right here and called the police 15 minutes later several FBI agents showed up and began conducting interviews with my grandmother and my parents while I ran around and showed the agents my matchbox police helicopter turns out we had been targeted by a child theft ring the photographers would take a bunch of photos and wait until the toddler through a tantrum and the photographers would then ask the mother to go grab a toy to keep the child entertained while the mother was out of the room they would grab the child and bolt leaving everything else behind the FBI told my folks that my sister had already been sold and would have been out of the country within 24 hours if they got her we were advised to change preschools and other aspects of our daily routine it still gives me the chills to think about what could have happened to her needless to say Mom became pretty overprotective it was a few years before she even trusted us with a babysitter reminds me of a story this happened just recently a guy made a Craigslist posting saying he was a talent scout and ran an agency he got the interest of a father grandfather and his granddaughter this guy's specialty was casting families preferably children under the guise that he was looking to produce a film and needed actors not too long ago the grandfather and his granddaughter went to meet this guy up at the house they actually drove by 2 hours early to check out the house before going to it there was a for sale sign outside the house and it appeared vacant the family drove by later at the agreed time of meeting in the morning and were greeted at the door by a man in a suit he tried to convince the little girl to come inside many times the grandfather got a bad feeling and left turns out in an unrelated Sting the police caught this guy for CP charges he had 10 counts of CP and his home was raided the father/ grandfather around the same time reported this incident to the police when the police found this guy he had a bag with him in it was a knife zip ties sex toys and he even had plastic sheeting he was going to pretty much kill the grandfather then abuse and murder the child his plan was to get this all on film the camera was set up and ready to go luckily the father and grandfather had a gut feeling something was off and reported the incident this guy happened to be a kid I pretty much grew up knowing for about 15 years he was even my brother's roommate for a while he was always very creepy and I couldn't never pinpoint why exactly I felt my stomach Dr reading this news this guy has been inside my home went to parties I had my birthday party I have had multiple conversations with him luckily he won't be getting out of jail anytime soon new story for further clarification I've told this story before when I was 15 my stepfather got stabbed right in front of me there was an altercation in the middle of our street at 2: in the morning that woke our whole house up my stepfather and my uncle were still up drinking and went outside to see what was going on there was a young man kicking the [ __ ] out of one of our older neighbors and alcoholic gentlemen who lived a few houses down from us found out after where the young man was dating the older man's daughter my stepfather and Uncle went out to break it up and in the commotion my stepfather was stabbed by the guy he stumbled back onto the porch and fell and I tried to catch him his blood smeared down the front of my shirt the younger guy took off and we called 911 we were in the hospital until the early morning when me and my mom got home there was a message on our answering machine it was a friend of mine from school crying and apologizing for calling in the middle of the night but she had just had a dream that there was screaming and a fight and I was covered in blood she begged me to call her back the time stamp on the message was the same time as the stabbing this is in the late 80s before computers and even cell phones really I lived on the other side of town from her there was no way way she could have known what had happened lived in the Hollywood Hills and this happened in the early 80s crazy knocking at my door at 9:00 p. m.

I go to answer the door and there's a lady there just hysterical talking about there's so much blood she looks normal and is dressed in clean clothing so we let her in she tells a story about seeing someone get stabbed I call the police and two uniformed LAPD officers arrive in 10 minutes they take the lady away and tell us that she has was reported missing has a mental condition and lives up the street all good 30 minutes later another knock at the door two different cops this time responding to the call they have no idea who the other two cops were take our information and statements description of the officers and the lady as well radio conversations back and forth ensue and they really don't have any idea how any other cops could have picked her up because they were given the call 40 minutes ago kidnapping attempt in the 1980s Sacramento neighborhood late at night visiting a friend when I was maybe 9 to 10 years old three of us walk out to go play at this Park Elementary School several blocks away at around 10: p. m. at night we were playing frisbee in the street in front of the school and our frisbee lands in the street as a white van pulls up and stops as if to allow us to get our frisbee I walked toward the van and grabbed the Frisbee then moved to the side to allow the van to pass as the van passed the sliding door opened and a guy dressed in black like a ninja came flying out and tried to grab me he had a hard harness on and the van had been rigged with a telescoping mechanism that allowed him to come out around 5 ft while hanging from this harness like they do in some haunted houses where people appear to be flying and it was operated by another person inside also dressed in black so there was at least three people involved in this attempt I barely dodged his attempt to grab me and all three of us ran toward the elementary school and hopped the fence about 6 ft tall ran along the fence though bushes and then hopped a second fence about 15 maybe that allowed us to be inside the school we were scared as hell and could hear the van driving around and assumed they were in Hot Pursuit we found a way to get onto the roof of the school from inside thank God and proceeded to observe the van driving around the school for at least 30 minutes in an obvious attempt to find us this scared us even more because one would think there would be kidnappers would flee but I suppose they thought we could identify them this was before cell phone so we stayed up there until around 45 minutes after we last saw them it appeared that some of them were searching for us on foot also which added to the fear we eventually escaped and went back to my friend's house and never told anyone in our family out of fear of being punished creepiest thing will forever be the man who watched me at my window it's nothing paranormal but honestly I was texting my girlfriend playing a game and I heard rustling outside my window keep in mind I live in the basement as an apartment at my mom's house I don't have any curtains and I turned off my iPod I could see someone actually [ __ ] staring at me this went on for about 10 minutes I texted my little little sister to get the [ __ ] bat and turn on the lights upstairs after he saw the lights he ran off I have never been more creeped out except for the recent occurrence thought I imagined the foosh and plop sound in the middle of the night I brushed it off next morning stepdad was cleaning the yard and found the AC cover in the other window well I went upstairs to get ready to wash my mom's car when they told me they asked me if I heard anything so I told them I keep a knife and an aluminum bat with me for the people who will likely ask why we haven't called the police we did the first time they said they couldn't do anything short of breaking into the house we're stuck dealing with this person or people until they do break in edit to everyone saying I need to get a gun I cannot legally obtain any firearms in the house due to the nature of my mental illness BPD while I am stable right now everyone in my home and the state decided it would be best not to keep a gun in the house so I am keeping my knife as I am still allowed to keep that and my bat my friend is probably going to hand over his BB gun for my use I've posted this story before when I lived in South Africa I traveled a lot with a Christian Missionary slh humanitarian Aid worker he handled the spiritual stuff I tended to work more with the local mostly kosa people helping them with non-spiritual issues in July 2010 we went to a village in the middle of nowhere as soon as we stepped out the truck we knew something was wrong we hadn't been able to contact our guy in the village all day and there was no one around at all Pete and I went from house to house looking for well anyone but everywhere was completely empty eventually we saw a figure run around the corner of a building on the far side of the village it was a young woman starkk naked running straight for us her arms were flailing and she was running with like an animal occasionally dropping to all fours then back on her feet as she got closer Pete told me to get back in the truck then he screamed at me to get in the truck I'd seen this guy watch a Coosa witch doctor burn a dozen chickens alive and not bad an eyelid so when he lost his [ __ ] I knew it was serious I closed the truck door as she reached us she was covered in blood there were cuts and slices all over her face arms and breasts one of her ears was missing I think there was a lot of blood her teeth were bloody and she had a look in her eye of absolute Untamed rage the screeching sound she made is unlike anything I've heard before since I can still hear it so vividly in my mind looking into her face seeing her wide psychotic eyes eyes and gaping mouth as she made that Unholy sound froze me in my seat Pete had started the truck and already started reversing up the dirt track but she followed he turned the car all the while she was scratching at the windows and metal work then sped off up the track she followed us she didn't keep up obviously but for a while I thought she was going too I've never seen someone run that fast in bare feet the journey back to our base town was almost silent I spent most of it concentrating on the sound of my own breathing and the rumble of the road I asked Pete what that was and what we should do he said the girl was no doubt insane had a psychotic break or something but the locals would have immediately thought her possessed if she didn't kill herself the other villagers would within days he suggested they had gathered in one house for safety I saw a lot of [ __ ] up [ __ ] in that country tldr the reavers from Firefly are real and they live in rural South Africa I have a story that didn't happen to me but rather my friend's dad this guy isn't the type to [ __ ] so I believe him 100% my friend's dad will call him Jack and his brother will call him Tom lived with each other in the 80s it was just the two of them living in the house no one else so this one night Jack is coming home at night and walks into his living room to see a bunch of old people sitting around talking as he walks in they all just quiet down and awkwardly look at him as he walks by he doesn't see Tom anywhere so he just assumes Tom will be back to tend to his guests Jack has work the next morning so he goes in his room to get some sleep but is kept up from all the people talking he walks out from his room and is promptly met up with Tom who is coming out of his room to tell Jack to keep his friends quiet however Jack was coming out to tell Tom to keep his friends quiet they walk out from the hallway into the living room only to see that it's empty with the leftover smell of musk when I was 7 years old my mom gave birth to my little sister me and my dad went to visit her in the hospital to check out the new family member as 7-year-olds often do I got bored so my parents sent me to the kiosk right outside the main building to get an ice cream as I was walking towards the kiosk I cut over the lawn as it was a shorter walk suddenly I feel and hear a really heavy thud right behind me I turn around to see the Warped mangled body of a man in a hospital gown maybe 40 to 50 cm from where I was standing the man had jumped off the hospital roof after receiving news he had terminal cancer my mom and a lot of the others in the birth Ward even saw the guy flying past the Windows the guy basically just fell short of killing me with him a group of doctors and psychiatrists asked me to get emergency therapy but I insisted on getting my ice cream and go home this day I can still recall the thud of the body hitting the ground and his body lying the next to me clear as Crystal I still tell this story sometimes mostly when I'm drunk or high I don't know why it comes up but I think [ __ ] stuck with me edit hey guys seems like this was a popular story so I'm going to answer some of your questions I believe it was a pistachio ice cream which is the freaking best my parents were very considerate and really wanted me to talk to them or someone about it but I feel like at the time the concept was too extreme for me to grasp and it felt scary and unnecessary for me to talk about I mean the guy was dead and I'm still alive so I guess ice cream therapy was the way to go I have talked to them about it in later years to the guy doubting the story my mother was still in the hospital and got told it was a suicide not an accident and it was related to the poor guy's bad news as I explained I cut over a lawn so it did not happen directly directly by the entrance believe me I wish this was not a true story at all I do not think I'm traumatized in a way that affects my life but when you drink and do drug stuff comes up and sometimes it feels good just talking about it in a sort of [ __ ] yes I am alive fashion am sorry if my wording and spelling is not top grade as English is not my first language life rules and I love my family smile just a few months ago while I was still in school I rented an old house with two of my friends I lived in the basement and they each had a room upstairs several strange things happened to me while I was living in that basement the first was that I had just gotten a dog and he was about 4 months old at the time now and then right when I turned the TV off to go to sleep my dog would start whining and growling at one corner of my room he would usually not get on my bed because he wasn't allowed but during these times he would jump on my bed and get as close to me as he could all without his eyes ever leaving that corner this happened about five times over the course of 4 months then toward the end of the school year when I was about to move out the scariest thing that has ever happened to me in my life occurred under our stairs was a little door that led to a small space that had a dirt floor there was also a really weird old wooden piece of what looks like a map nailed to the inside of the door so it's a pretty spooky place up until the day before this incident we had kept a small chair in front of this door that I laid my coats and things on but we had some friends over the night before so we brought that chair upstairs it was dark probably 8:00 p.

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