SHE PRETENDED TO BE MY FAMILY | 10 True Scary Stories from Reddit

[Music] last year I started law school in Los Angeles I have never lived in a big city before and I was really excited to be in a massive City with over 4 million people and ever since I was little I always knew that I had a half sister in Los Angeles but my parents had this weird anger toward her that always made it feel sort of like a taboo topic of course I looked her up on social media and I knew what she looked like but that was about all we had never actually met and

she was never that active on social media so there wasn't a lot that I could see out of nowhere one day in my first year of law school I got a friend request on Facebook from my sister her profile seemed legitimate and she had faced friends and her profile picture look like her she sent me a message inviting me to a little dinner party at this park with her friends we could finally meet each other for the first time I was new to La still am and I had no idea which parts of the city

to avoid at night I was so excited about that idea but I had a lot of anxiety about it too it would be nice if we met and totally clicked and became besties for life but what if we ended up sobbing like we were in some dramatic movie scene what if I tried to talk with her and she just didn't click with me and she started showing me an attitude or Worse what if it's all going well until we have some kind of disagreement someone said something hurtful and then we both began crying in front

of everyone honestly if she suggested a cozy little Bakery for desserts instead I would have gone but going to a park with other people didn't feel right I thought it was like such a precious moment that I didn't want to have in front of all these other people I couldn't bring myself to go and I didn't want to risk having a meltdown in front of other people I was worried about how messy it could get a few weeks later I Googled that Park just to see what it was like maybe we could meet up there

together just one onone and that's when I learned something was wrong now I won't say the name of the park but anyone who's lived in Los Angeles for long will tell you that it's not a safe place for girls to be having a dinner party especially at night the area surrounding that park has very high violent crime rates it's controlled by gangs even people who do illegal business in that Park are forced to pay a tax to the gang in exchange for being left alone and so now I was really concerned and curious I actually

tried to get a hold of my sister myself she was an undergrad at the time a local College I had a friend who went to her school and I asked my friend to reach out on her campus and ask her if she'd be okay with meeting us they connected and the three of us met at my friend's house it was great we got along so well and my friend was also very happy to do that for us and the three of us had so much fun and we weren't bursting into tears but we let out

a few and we had dinner we watched a movie and we spent the night at my friend's house when I told my sister about that whole thing she said that she hadn't used Facebook since high school so clearly someone was impersonating her I would have told her to report the fake account but apparently it had already been deleted she knew that she had been impersonated on social media though another one of her friends had been scammed by someone pretending to be her and it was some scheme involving fake concert tickets or something like that someone

had been impersonating my sister they knew that I was in town and they literally tried to lure me into one of the most dangerous parts of LA at night I have no idea what their motives were and I don't even know if I want to find out meeting my sister after all these years was a beautiful thing but the whole backdrop was [Music] terrifying when I was 16 years old I'm a female I was walking to a store near my house I was a huge pothead and would walk to the neighborhood nearby to get my

stuff and then take a shortcut through said neighborhood to the store to get blunt wraps I was walking through an abandoned apartment building and a very Nic dressed man was walking through and asked how I was doing I ignored him and just kept walking in the area that I was walking there's not really white men in suits so I was kind of thrown off I get to the store and I'm walking back and a white truck is parked in the corner of the apartment building so I opt to go to the long way on the

busy street the truck drove up to me and the same man jumped out and picked me up so fast that I didn't even have time to think I was only 100 lb at the time and wasn't nearly as strong as him I tried to scream and hit him with my elbow but there was no luck a lady that's heavily on drugs that always walks around my city came running at us and yelling to put me down he actually did put me down and then sped off almost 10 years later I I always stopped to give

the woman food and actually just paid her to get rehab and I guess now she's doing great reunited with her grandchild and working not as creepy as some of these other stories here but definitely never walking alone again after [Music] that little backstory before we begin I'm into laring and and for those who don't know what that is we basically spend the weekend in the woods dressed as medieval fantasy characters and interact with each other I go to these events with my friend and my partner and we meet some more friends when we're there there

are all types of people at these events but 99.9% are Absolute Angels I had yet to meet the .1% but wish I hadn't and before the event started a guy Greg swung by my tent while I was setting it up my partner and friend were setting up the secondary tent up a path and couldn't see me there were five other people to my right and I had never met the guy before but as soon as he said hi I had a bad feeling he was maybe around 510 obese a neck beard basically what would fit

the description of what you might call an incel he approaches me and asks me if I'm here alone and I say no I'm here with people but don't mention my partner or friend directly he asked me if I'm a gamer to which I say yes and from then on he starts rambling on about Ark survival which is a game that I personally have like 3,000 Plus hours on he tells me blatantly wrong info misnames the dinosaurs tells me stuff that's impossible to do in the game even with mods Etc and every time I correct him

I can see that he looks to be getting even more annoyed I end the conversation saying I have to go back to setting up the tent and he leaves now fast forward to around 10: to 11:00 p.m. the event has started which means that any mention of the real world such as Cars TV pop culture Etc is forbidden by a rule called decorum we're playing a campfire game with my friends and my partner and the guy comes by to sit with us he sits next to me I move over he scoots closer I move over

and he scoots eventually I get up and sit next to my friend as we play the game he keeps referring to the real world and to video games so we tell him either to leave or to make an effort and speak properly and he leaves the next day I go up a trail for fake hunting Gathering resources as I head back down towards the village in the middle of the woods with no camps to hide in he's there waiting for me on the trail he ask if I'd like to go get coffee or something sometime

to which I respond no thanks as we continue down the trail I tell them I need to collect plants for my potions and if it'll excuse me I'll be going back to my Village to drop off my bow and grab my basket I start walking quickly but he follows me grabs my arm and says I could come with you you me alone in the woods looking for plants it sounds like the perfect scenario I freaked out and Rush down the trail toward the village when my neighbors see me they look very concerned they ask if

if I need help and I tell him in all honesty which is our code for saying take me seriously this isn't part of the game this guy is being creepy and following me and they grab their weapons foam weapons and tell him to back off before they carve him a new one I stay with them for a few minutes before calming down and hanging out with my friends nightfalls and we're having fun with various fights and encounters happening and around midnight I decided to go to the bathroom by this point I hadn't seen him since

maybe 700 p.m. as I come back in the dark he jumps out from a bush and pins me against a tree he tells me he's disappointed that I've been leading him on and that he doesn't understand why I would hold another guy's hand and hug three others but not him I tell him that I hold my fiance's hand and hug my friends but he's neither I also tell him to stop his nonsense in all honesty and he responds but what if in all honesty I just want a little kiss huh just a little kiss and

then you can go I yell no and try to push him away my friends who were on the other side of a nearby Bridge hear me scream and they grab their weapons call my neighbors and about 10 people come rushing over to help the guy lets me go and tries to explain to my Rescuers saying he was just interrogating me for information about the demons our foes and the LARPing situation and my friends who have seen him act like a jerk before tell him not to move that they're going get the lar owner to deal

with him and he tries to talk them out of it but my neighbors tell him to sit down or he'll be visiting death's altar before he has a chance to leave my fiance very worried takes me aside to make sure I'm okay the owner arrives and I explain everything that has happened and the owner takes Greg out of the game for a talk from what I heard he was finally told not to return to future [Music] events back in 2013 I lived in Providence Rhode Island and had moved there for a new job it was

just me living there in a quaint and spacious townhouse with my then four-year-old daughter we were relatively new to the area and didn't know many people but did become familiar with a kind older gentleman who lived next door his name for the purpose of this story was Ben he lived in a connected townhouse with our two units abing each other and our street was lined with beautiful floral trees and quite nice but Providence is weird in that the conditions of the house and little neighborhoods can vary drastically Street by Street we were near a few

rough neighborhoods but I felt relatively safe in my new home I remember a few nights prior to the to this specific night I saw a Facebook post with a safety tip to put your car keys next to your bed so if anything ever happens you can press the alarm and scare an intruder off I've never been overly concerned about my safety and rarely took advantage of any tips I saw on Facebook so I'm not sure how or why I suddenly decided to heed this advice I was reading a book in bed with my light on

in my second floor bedroom hours after putting my daughter to sleep when I heard a loud sound outside I peered out the window to take a look and saw nothing I had taken some melatonin that evening turning off the light and went to sleep it was maybe a half hour later or so when I was suddenly woken up by what felt like almost an earthquake the room Shook and I heard a loud thud half awake I gasped and sat up wondering if it was my imagination or if I actually felt something and immediately ran to

my daughter's room thinking that she had fallen off her bed or injured herself or something as I swung her door wide open there she was sleeping soundly and sweetly and I was confused I heard another loud bang and had this sort of eerie feeling that something was wrong but I couldn't figure out what I grabbed my car key fob and took it downstairs as I nervously inspected the first floor I swore to myself that if I heard one more sound I would press that alarm just in case but I didn't it was silent after that

I returned to bed and took a while to fall asleep again but soon shut my eyes the next day went on like any other day when I noticed a friend of mine had repeatedly called me in the afternoon and I picked up my daughter from preschool and called the friend back did you hear he said no what news outlets were mobbing your street about an hour ago and the News trucks were even in your driveway and I sat silent confused three men broke into your neighbor's place last night tied them up at gunpoint and stole

thousands of dollars worth of items and took off with his car I immediately fell to my knees and began sobbing I had heard it all happen and I almost pressed the button I almost but I didn't I sobbed and felt completely unsafe I asked a friend to come over for the night to stay with us and it wasn't until the next day that I got the chance to speak to Ben Ben explained the whole story and told me the cops wanted to talk to me so I could share what I had heard and experienced he

said the man smashed the window in his basement and entered through there the sounds that I heard before going to bed apparently the timeline suggested that they saw my light and me peering out of the window and waited 30 minutes or so until my light was out to enter the premises they didn't real realized that he was home and since he had gone to bed early that night it was suggested that they cased his place beforehand he had been asleep when one of them started rumaging through his things upstairs in his bedroom which was directly

on the other side of my closets separated by a shared wall the sounds and vibrations I heard were apparently the Intruder knocking him down after realizing Ben was there the Intruder cut Ben's mouth threatening to kill him if he made another sound and this explains why I heard nothing further while I was investigating afterwards after they tied him up he remained restrained for over 12 hours and eventually broke free before calling the police I broke down and apologized to Ben profusely explaining what I had heard he simply replied that while he was tied up all

he could think about was how glad he was that it didn't happen to me and my little girl I honestly don't know how I would have coped if my daughter and I had experienced that level of trauma firsthand Ben seemed to be okay considering everything but it took me a long time to feel safe again and to let go of the guilt they never caught the men and I ended up ordering a taser which is illegal and some mace and for the first time I even considered getting a gun but I decided against it thankfully

I haven't experienced anything close to that since and sincerely hope I never do I'm glad Ben was ultimately okay but next time I'll listen to my [Music] instincts this happened fairly recently I was trying to get a train to the city for a night of drinking with some friends unfortunately the trains weren't running to the city center that day for some reason so they had a replacement bus service instead and so off I toddled looking for where they'd hidden the replacement buses in the train station after a while it seemed like I was on the

right track and just as I'd found a very promising Corridor I heard running footsteps coming from behind me I glanced around to find an Arabic man sprinting to a stop beside me I know he was Arabic because he tried to offer to teach me Arabic while I was trapped with him later on he asked me if I knew where the replacement bus service was I replied that I was probably just as lost as he was and that I was just trying to find it myself I thought that that would be the end of our interaction

but he continued walking beside me fair enough I thought we're both looking for the same thing so maybe he thinks we stand a better chance of finding it together I wish I turned around and darted into the bathroom or something and it turned out that the corridor did lead to the replacement bus and the driver was standing outside the doors he assured us that we had plenty of time and were the first ones here he opened the doors to let us in and the bus was completely empty I decided to take a random seat in

the middle and huddled up next to the window ready to put my headphones on but where does this guy choose to sit in the completely empty bus right next to me trapping me in the row of seats I thought it was a little weird at the time but figured no harm would come of it he asked me why I'm headed to the city center I tell him I'm meeting friends there for a girl's night out and then very pointedly put my headphones on and start finding a good song to listen to he insists that he

could join us and I tell him it's girls only and I don't really know him he answered that we could get to know each other and he'll buy me a drink I tell him no thanks I just want to see my friends today the bus has gotten moving at this point and there are a few others on board and from there he proceeds to Badger me with questions all of which I ignore or give one word answers to after a bunch of them my replies become variations of I just want to listen to my music

now and I'm not interested in talking sorry he starts complimenting my body telling me he thinks I'm beautiful and repeating over and over I really like you my only responses now are leave me alone every so often and un visibly shrinking away from him as he's leaning closer the bus driver doesn't seem to know where he's going for his next stop and the City Center is ages away I'm trapped in the seat and starting to really panic he starts stepping up to I love you and leans right up to me making kissy sounds with his

lips and that was the moment my hero intervened it was a man around my age sitting a few seats back and I'll quote what I can remember the conversation hey excuse me mate she asked you multiple times to leave her alone and through very gritted teeth that creep tells him to F off you need to move away from her you're clearly bothering her you mind your business we're fine and then to me do you want him to move and me practically pinned against the window getting scared yeah and the creep gets up and storms up

to the man do you want to fight do you want to go right now I'd rather you control yourself and leave her alone the creep is visibly ready to start throwing punches when the driver calls back if there's a problem and if he needs to kick anyone off the bus the creep quietly says no and moves a few seats behind my hero much to my relief and I mouth several thank yous to my hero who Just Smiles like it was no big deal the creep tries following me off the bus but my friends meet with

me and so he walks off but I'm just so glad that my hero intervened when he did [Music] this isn't something I would normally post and I hope I don't regret it somehow I saw someone briefly mentioned the subreddit in a YouTube video and thought that it would be the perfect place to share a story of a horrific thing that happened to me a story I've never told anyone I'm not sure if anyone will see this but I'm sharing this in hopes that it will inspire someone to stay safe safer than I was I'm not

sure if trigger warnings are needed or suggested here but just out of consideration of other I'd like to warn everyone that I will be briefly mentioning assault with as little details as possible one year ago around this time I was bored in scrolling the web nothing unusual for me when I decided to go on omegal Omega was a now shutdown website that allowed you to talk to strangers via video or text chat it was around for a long time and I used it frequently when I was younger as a Time waster there were plenty of

creeps on this sure but I've had an equal amount of pleasant interactions and conversations on the site on omegal you could type in tags basically keywords that describe the type of conversation or person you're looking for and you would match someone with the same ones I always used alt for alternative I feel like it weeded out a lot of rude people and connected me to more people my age and for reference I was 19 at the time I connected with someone who called himself Cain and we started chatting via textt he said he was 23

and I said my age back we exchanged some small talk and before I knew it we were talking all night and I mean all night we lived in the same time zone and IID stayed up until 6:00 a.m. chatting about philosophy and life and our interests just because he was entertaining and I was having fun when we were talking about our general areas that we live in he said abruptly we should meet up sometime I laughed but it turns out that he was very serious and it turns out we only lived about 3 to 4

hours away from each other so he was actually considering this I'm an anxiety-ridden person but for whatever reason I thought that this might be a normal thing due to the fact that I just spent hours and hours talking to him and I didn't pick up on any red flags I said sure why the hell not I know I know this is incredibly stupid of a mistake to make and I have a big heart though and frequently make the mistake of giving others the benefit of the doubt and so just like that we started planning a

camping trip he was set on doing it just days after that morning because that was when he was off of work next I agreed because I didn't have anything to do at the time I asked for his number so we could talk somewhere else other than omegal about the trip and he gave it to me I texted and noticed the messages showed green on my phone and this indicated that he was using a Samsung or Android phone and teasingly I said something along the lines of what's up with the Samsung and after a few minutes

he texted back saying that he had two phones and that one was for work and that was the first red flag that kind of went off in my head why would he need two phones for work at his age I mean of course there's possible reasons but it just set off that sort of intuitive feeling you know one that I regret not listening to I asked what his job was and he said that he worked for the state he added that he really isn't allowed to share details about his job because he signed papers saying

that he wouldn't and that he could get fired if he were to violate this agreement I was still wary of this but I just figured that he worked for a police station or the Town Council or something to do with law enforcement and that I was probably overthinking it days passed and the date for our camping trip approached quickly he wanted to take me someplace to where he lives nimham mountain in New York don't worry this isn't near my house at all and I don't really care about violating his fake privacy after what he took

from me obviously I wanted to do at least a little research about where I was going so I popped the name into Google and a bunch of results popped up about the soil on nimham Mountain being contaminated with arsenic due to the old mines in the area all of the government and state articles that I read said that it was still safe to hike there and that you should just wash your skin and shoes after hiking I still had a feeling of unease about the whole thing though and I texted Kane and asked him why

we were going to some place that could potentially be dangerous and he assured me that nothing would happen and said he chose the spot because it's somewhere him and his friends frequently camped and this slightly reassured me he does know the area better than me after all my parents are definitely over suspicious of everyone strict is also a safe word and for good reason though they're just protective I told them that I was meeting with a friend that I met over a video game and that I've already known him for a month I knew this

would be less likely to freak them out than the truth they were adamant that this was a horrible idea but finally let me go off when C pulled into my driveway he didn't come inside and waited outside of his car for me after a brief introduction my mom rushed out to meet him and asked a few questions about the area we were headed to and then we were off we pulled into the Starbucks by my house so he could get coffee since he was tired from the drive up and we sat in his car for

about an hour and a half afterwards and during that time he asked me to rate the playlist that he put on and showed me how he writes down every single song he likes in a little notebook that he kept in his car I thought it was weird but kind of sweet like what guys these days write down songs you know and after an hour or so pass I told him that we should be going and we can get to the campsite before dark he kept saying just five more minutes and after about 30 minutes of

insisting we need to leave to make it on time he finally lets us start onto the road and while we drove the 4 hours to our destination Cain mostly talked about himself he told me long stories about his friends and a girl that he used to date that he doesn't like and I thought this was strange who talks about another woman to a girl like this and after telling stories for about 2 hours I tried to deviate to a brighter topic and ask what kinds of things he's into hobby wise I already knew the stuff

that he told me online but I was trying not to suffer from awkward silence or any more of his weird ramblings he said that he thinks that eating healthy is important and that people who eat junk food are stupid he also says he only wears sustainable clothing that's made from cotton or wool I don't have a problem with being sustainable or whatever but he was saying it in a really obnoxious way and then he turned to me and asked the first questions about me since we got in the car well you brought you to omo

and I told him that I was bored and that I like meeting new and interesting people and that was about it and he nodded slowly and thought and grinned showing the most expression I've seen on his face so far he said he likes to go on a megal and tell people that he's a soldier in Russia and that he was torturing people as he spoke to them and I sat there in silence and kind of just stared at him waiting for him to say that he was just kidding and that he was just some messed

up type of humor I guess but he didn't he just laughed and said what as we neared the campsite I mentioned that I was getting kind of hungry he said that we can stop at Whole Foods before going to camp for the night and in my head I sighed about this knowing that he was probably going to judge me for whatever I picked out there but it wasn't a problem for me I was hungry so I agreed and in Whole Foods he made me pay for both of our meals because his card wouldn't work there

he didn't even cry it seemed like and this kind of annoyed me but I was just eager to get to the campsite so I paid and we sat down outside to eat after about an hour we were finally ready to get to Camp we drive up the mountain and he bowls into a small parking area with about three spots cars were parked there and older men were surrounding the car smoking weed nothing that they were doing was wrong at least morally to me but it just made me uncomfortable that we were there so late at

night and before I could even mention C says that it's too cold for him to carry our supplies to the campsite which was about a 10-minute walk and set up camp I was taking to back by this I said what do you mean I'll help you we didn't come up here for nothing right and he insisted and told me to get out of the car to feel how cold it was he said it would take a while to pitch our tent and that it was too much for us there was no way that I was

getting out of the car and facing the men in the parking spot next to us so I rolled down the window half halfway and stuck my hand out it was freezing he was right about that that night it was in the 30s and the wind chill felt worse being higher up I was annoyed but I agreed to sleep in his car for the night and I was sad that our trip was basically wasted he sat in silence for a while seemingly uncomfortable that I was annoyed and Unsure how to comfort me I slinked back into

the passenger seat and started to scroll on social media just trying to pass the time he grabbed my phone out of my hand and said come here and he patted on his lap I was already annoyed at the situation and confused on what he thought he was doing I said you're funny and reached for my phone that he had tossed onto the floor of the car and before I could get to it he reached over and scooped me up out of the seat and tossed me onto the back seats he then proceeds to do terrible

things to me I don't remember most of it my eyes were squeezed shut and I was praying for it just to end but after he was done he pushed me back into the seats and got dressed and he smiled at me and said I was it and I just stared back at him with tears in my eyes and he climbed back into the front seat propped his feet up on the wheel and went to sleep I didn't know what to do I sat there Motionless in the back seat for about 2 hours trying to process

what had just happened to me I considered calling my mom calling 911 and I thought about it for what felt like forever I had already been assaulted once in my life and it broke my parents' Hearts I knew that learning of this would absolutely destroy them and I was also afraid of what would happen if I told them I didn't want my dad or brother to go to jail for life because they were angry and got revenge against this guy and I just sat there all night watching the men outside stare into the car and

smoke their joints I don't remember falling asleep but I eventually woke up to wind hitting the car and I was in a fetal position sitting upright holding my legs with my arms Kane noticed that I was awake and said it was time to go I was so scared of him it felt like my heart was leaping out of my throat adrenaline was pumping through my body and I started scanning the back seed of our overnight bags for something I could use as a weapon in case he were to come at me again and I ended

up holding on to my full metal water bottle it wasn't deadly by any means but it could knock someone out and holding it made me feel a little bit safer I stayed in the back and Kane started driving I asked where we were going and he said to get breakfast almost as if that was obvious and it was silly of me to ask after driving down the mountain back into the city we pull into a parking garage and he tells me to get out that we were here I get out of the car and cling

close to it not not wanting to let him get behind me I was thinking about making a run for it but didn't want to risk getting chased and overpowered by him I followed him to a little Mexican spot on the corner and he told me to order pancakes so he could have some and this obviously made me more pissed than I already was but I didn't say anything because I was afraid that there would be consequences if I showed negative emotions at this point I ate a few bites of my food and he happily ate

the rest off my plate he paid quickly with cash and took me back to the car where he lay down in the back seat he says he was going to take a nap because he didn't sleep well last night and I didn't want to argue with him so I just let him sleep how could he sleep so soundly after what he had done to me though I asked he slept for about 3 hours and the whole time I was watching YouTube videos trying to calm myself down and keep a clear head it was around 9:00

a.m. and around this time my mom was waking up and texted me saying that she wants me to be home I told her that Cain was taking a nap and that would be home soon and she didn't like the sound of that and insisted that i' come home now I was happy to have a reason to just get out of there one that might be actually convincing the Cain and I woke him up and he became angry with me saying hey don't wake me up next time play on your phone just watch Tik Tok or

something I was shaking but I managed to say that my mom wanted me home and that we needed to go he said to let him sleep for 30 minutes more and told me to set a timer on my phone so I did 30 minutes felt like 30 hours and once it went off I woke him once again and this time I filmed myself waking him up because I was afraid what was going to happen he was angry once again and I told him that 30 minutes was up I asked to leave begged him to leave

and he said no over and over he said we aren't leaving yet I was shaking uncontrollably but put on a brave face and pretended like I was being playful and I said okay well I guess I'll just get an Uber then I turned around and started open the car door when I felt his hand grab my shoulder and digging into it and yank me back into place I honestly think I blacked out from Fear for a few seconds there and he says where do you think you're going and his hand was still on my shoulder

his fingers squeezing into my skin my mind was racing and I was on the verge of tears and this caught his eye and I quickly played it off by saying my mom would call the police to come get me if I wasn't home soon I had mentioned earlier that my dad works in law enforcement so this was a little bit more believable of a lie and At The Mention Of police something changed in his face and he started to look frantic he let go of me and happily agreed to drive me home and I felt

a deep sense of relief the deepest relief I've ever felt and swallowed the lump of my throat as he climbed into the front seat and started our 5-hour drive back to my house the drive back was much quieter than the drive up I didn't say anything unless he initiated I just gripped my phone in my hand and tried not to make eye contact with him I wondered if he had any remorse for what he did in those moments and when we reached the town where I live it was about 11:30 at night C pulled onto

the main strip to get to my house and I saw flashing lights behind me and my first instinct was be scared because my dad is a cop so I've always made extra sure not to break any traffic laws the police pulled us over and two men stepped out of the cop car I frantically rolled down my window so they could see my familiar face the daughter of their boss and one of them greeted me and both looked concerned and disappointed that I was in the car with someone getting pulled over the other cop told Cain

to get out of the car while I explained what we were doing out so late I spared the IL and horrific details I was tired and scared and I needed to be safe in my own home I also didn't want them waking up my sleeping dad with such bad news I overheard the second officer ask Cain about his info when he said what's your name son Cain mumbled and he said to speak up the name he gave was not Cain and he told the officer that he was 22 not 23 and my heart sank into

my feet and I sat motionless while they explained to Cain that he missed a stop sign and that they're just letting him off with a warning they told me to get home and I nodded my head when we pulled off I let my emotions take over and started screaming at this stranger that was sitting next to why did you lie to me what is wrong with you he looked distressed from the volume of my yelling and he told me to calm down that he was sorry he lied he said that he only lied about his

identity for his own safety and that honestly baffled me considering that he had just assaulted me and I screamed at him all the way to my house as we pulled in and I threw the car doors open and started throwing my stuff out into the lawn desperate to just get far away from him he tried to talk to me to offer more pitiful excuses for his disgusting actions but I screamed at him to get away from me and that I never wanted to see him again I gathered my stuff off the lawn and hauled it

into my room while my parents slept soundly unaware of the terrible secret that I now had I woke my mom up and told her that I was home as she requested and once I got to my room I just broke down what happened to me was starting to sink in as I was sobbing silently into my blanket my phone lit up from a text saying cane and it read I'm sorry about what happened I really am if it makes you feel any better I just got pulled over so that's my karma I guess let me

know if you want to talk and I felt a wave of nausea hit me like a train I screenshotted the message blocked his number and deleted his contact and I haven't heard from him since and I haven't hung out with anyone since besides my boyfriend who thank God I met later and is normal I still think about what happened almost every day and I still feel sick when someone I don't know gets close to me even if it's just a stranger passing by in the grocery store I know that what happened was the product of

my own irrational teenage actions I know I shouldn't have met up with someone I didn't know but I had faith that he would be a normal person somewhat at least I just wish that I would have listened to my instincts and my parents' warnings I don't know what would happen if I didn't make up that police story and I don't even want to think about it and I will never meet up with someone I don't know again and while trying to cope with what had happened to me I Googled nimham Mountain again and I found

a link that said Cane Mountain North Trail Loop New York and if you made it thus far or you take anything away from the story please let it be this trust your instincts and trust your gut if something feels wrong it probably [Music] is this happened a few hours ago and I'm not scared anymore just angry my pizza got stolen in my town There's a story that a guy has moved into the Deep Woods close to our town I never believed it as I go for night drives occasionally and never saw him or anything resembling

a man that lives in the woods anyway tonight I decided to go for a drive and drove past a pizza place and being hungry I decided to get a pizza before I went home in my head I had a plan to eat pizza and play some Minecraft as I'm in my two we Minecraft face at the moment I paid for my pizza and started walking in my car with the pizza in one hand and my phone in the other messaging my friend if he wants to place some Minecraft when I get home I look up

from my phone to cross the road to the car park and I see something under my car it looks like a shadow or something dark I put my phone in my pocket and pull out my keys unlocked the car to scare off anything close to the car and I was thinking it maybe a cat or a dog just hanging around my car but when I unlock the car nothing happens no cat running away and nothing running away the shadow looked like it was cast from the driver's side so I was going to have to look

at what it was whether I wanted to or not to get in I put my keys away and pull out my phone again and turn the flashlight on to see better in the dark as I turned towards the driver's side of my car I see him a dirty naked guy with big eyes staring right at me he was crouched down trying to hide from me now I don't usually get scared of anything but this guy terrified me it looked like he rolled around in mud and it dried out on his skin and his eyes looked

creepy bloodshot and kind of bulging out of his head and of course he was naked I get startled and jump backwards out of instinct dropping my pizza in the process it falls out of its box and onto the floor I start moving back slowly and Shout at him to get out of my car he looks up at me then at the pizza then back at me he tilts his head to one side and then jumps towards the pizza like a dog grabs it and starts running away down the road and I assume he ran all

the way to those woods I wouldn't know where he went as I didn't feel like following him I lock my car and run back to the pizza place to stay there for a bit the workers obviously don't believe me when I tell them what had just happened but but I know what I saw and once the fear subsides after a while I realize that this guy just stole my pizza angry as I was looking forward to it I decided to get another one and run to my car this time I get in put the pizza

on the passenger seat and go home once I got home I locked all my doors and windows and I even locked my bedroom doors I feel a little scared still and I think I'll be playing Minecraft until the sun comes up [Music] this happened like 6 to 7 years ago I played soccer for one year in Community College After High School and I knew this guy because he worked for the athletics department and he was another student Tuesdays and Thursdays I had a 1-hour gap between classes this guy noticed me in the library and asked

what I was doing there and I told him I had an hourlong Gap and he started coming regularly to hang out I didn't mind because he seemed like a normal guy he wasn't waiting for anything but he just wanted to hang out he brought me little gifts a few times like chocolate and stuff and he was being a little too sweet for someone I barely knew and I really didn't think about red flags with the gifts I remember he always downplayed it he would say something like uh they had extra Kit Kat bars today in

the office do you want some and he never said that he purposely bought KitKat for me I know a lot more about boys now than I knew back then and I think that he knew that buying me gifts would be too much but he still wanted to do it without doing it I guess the soccer season for us ended before Thanksgiving the only teams that kept playing after that were going to the playoffs not us after Thanksgiving we had finals in that brief period after the soccer season and before Thanksgiving he asked me about my

classes for second semester to be honest I hadn't been super organized with course registration and I honestly didn't know also the counselors were completely clueless I didn't tell him that but I remember saying that I didn't want to have another Gap hour like this because it wasted so much time and I don't think he was happy to hear that he also asked if I would play another season and I said no to that I needed to manage my time better and playing soccer every day was not helping I think my mistake was that I just

said too much and was kind of unfiltered and I used to do that a lot back then saying too much without thinking about how it affected other people's feelings and that was on the last Thursday before Thanksgiving so no more hour gaps to hang out anymore we had Thanksgiving break we took finals and we had winter breaks and everything was great winter break was when the real problem started though in the mornings this guy literally showed up outside my house while sitting in his car the first time I didn't believe it was actually him the

second time I checked and it was and by then it was really clear that we both knew what was going on he was stalking me and that wasn't all I posted on my Instagram story sometimes about the places that I was at and this guy literally showed up there several times like girly stores at the mall where he had zero business being he did lots of things like that and he also started pointing his phone at me like he was taking pictures and that was even weirder I basically stopped using social media over this after

winter break this continued and when my parents were at work this guy came during the afternoon too I called the cops a few times and they went and tried to talk to him and he basically told them that he wasn't going to talk and that was it I think the cops wanted to help but they could never do anything about it because he was careful not to break any laws like he didn't trespass he didn't make any threats and he didn't show weapons I have no idea what he's doing now my guess is that he

eventually gave up maybe his little Obsession kind of became old and he found other things to pay more attention to at least I hope so but if he still comes by I have no idea I think the most frightening challenge in all of this is that I couldn't tell my parents since I knew that they would completely freak out [Music] this happened four years back it was the middle of winter and the night was unseasonably warm without a hint of snow on the ground I left my apartment around 8:00 p.m. to go for my daily

walk I worked nights and my schedule was screwed up hence the 8pm walk figuring I would cross the bridge into the city nearby for further context I'm a very tall guy who's fairly athletic and I was in my late 20s at the time I'd rarely had a problem walking at night and at the time I felt safe doing so I put on my headphones and headed towards the bridge the first 20 minutes were uneventful I passed by old houses a subpar Mexican restaurant a really good Mexican restaurant a sketchy gas station some newly built upscale

apartments and finally I was at the river enjoying the view of the bright lights over the dark flowing water not yet Frozen I crossed the bridge into the City and hit a crosswalk button at a four-way intersection and then no notic someone standing on the corner opposite the only other Soul I'd seen outside that night seemingly she was doing nothing and I assumed that she was waiting for an Uber to come pick her up since she didn't seem to be waiting for the light to change the street ordinarily busy during the daytime was completely silent

the light changed and I crossed headed in her direction as I neared her I noticed that she would cast glances in my direction and then Look Away almost sheepish and she did this multiple times and I figured that she was maybe unnerved by me and I sympathized figuring that it must made her uneasy us being the only two people on a very dimly lit Street as I passed by I took in her outfit mostly because I thought she looked cold and she wore a knitted hat with tassels a sweater that looked too thin for the

winter tight jeans and a little plastic children's backpack on her back I thought that maybe she was in her teens at first but upon closer inspection she appeared to be in her late 20s or 30s she had short crop light brown hair and a pale complexion she was skinny and was of average height I was maybe a head taller than her and I walked by and continued down the street I passed by high-rise hotels on my right and left and made my way into a Central Park during peak hours this place would be packed with

tourists and locals alike but that day at an odd hour with a pandemic in full swing I felt like the only man in the city I admired the brilliant display of lighted trees as I crossed through the center of the park then figuring I was at a good halfway point in my journey I made my way around an old marble and stone Library back towards the bridge as I turned the corner of the library back onto the street from which IID come I nearly collided with someone moving towards me it was the same woman I'd

seen not 10 minutes earlier my noise cancelling headphones were still on so I pulled down on one side and said something by way of apology she said nothing in return instead she stepped back from me and stood below a street light not making eye contact she stole tiny glances at me that same tick that I'd noticed before and I put my headphones back on and nodded good night and headed towards the nearest crosswalk reason told me that she must be heading in the direction I'd come from since we'd nearly run into each other headed opposite

ways but some part of me whispered that she wasn't headed that way and sure enough when I turned to look she was trailing closer behind me her strides surprisingly long and energetic and I found this odd that I continued to watch her out of the corner of my eye shortly after I reached the crosswalk as I stood there waiting for the light to change she caught up with me passed me by and stopped a car went passed and as it did so she squatted over her plastic bag a few meters from me rifling frantically for

something looking up at me on occasion I had a button on my headphone stopping my podcast so that I could hear her better and when I found disturbing about the motion of her looking through her bag is that it struck me as fake as though she were pretending for some reason she was barely looking inside and her careless motions struck me more like bad acting and something about her motions the way she kept looking at me it all felt wrong the light changed and I began to walk quickly but she was faster she stood suddenly

darting past me towards the museum swinging the half openen little pink backpack over her shoulder and I watched her silhouette disappear into the darkness beyond the reach of the street lights I hoped that that was the end of that and after a few beats of not seeing her I let my guard fall a little restarting my podcast beyond the museum was a patch of poorly lit sidewalk in front of a squat building with mirror-like Windows I wasn't far far from the bridge now as I made my way back there I turned my head to look

at the reflections of buildings and street lights in the windows and to my horror a dark figure sprinted silently towards my reflection dreamlike I'm not sure why maybe out of sheer confusion but I turned to meet her she hurdled towards me perhaps surprised by my sudden turn she halted meere feet from me staring her eyes were wide and looked frantic wild and she kept looking at my arms and then back at my face as though sizing Me Up My Accidental Bluff had worked and in the darkness I suppose I must have looked more prepared to

fight back than I felt she gripped something small tightly in one hand though she held it off to the side and in the shadow of the building I couldn't see what it was seconds dragged as we stood there staring at one another immobilized by fear and confusion I waited for her to make some move to attempt to use whatever object that she held in her hand just then to my enormous relief a car trundled slowly past a bit of my strength returned and over my blaring podcast I felt more than heard myself shouting at her

what do you want and there was no reply I slowly backed away from her expecting her to move and she just watched me that same intense look on her face I took another step back and then another and steadily backing away from her until I felt confident enough to turn and carefully walk away as I reached a better lit area I began to move faster all the while keeping my eyes trained on her shadowy form she stood there for some time statuesque then abruptly having spontaneously abandoned whatever plan that she may have had for me

she turned from me and without looking for traffic she crossed the street with long strides and disappeared around the corner of a building something about the Casual air of it Disturbed me greatly I kept my eyes trained behind me on my walk home afraid that she would follow me the bridge was well lit and I saw no signs of her and knowing that this was the only way for her to follow me and keep up on foot I breathed a sigh of relief I saw no more cars headed from the city and no more pedestrians

out walking nothing happened after that I'm not sure why but I didn't call the cops that night I still regret not having called despite my roommates insisting that i' do so I just remember thinking that I wasn't sure what to say to the cops that I hadn't really been attacked that they wouldn't be able to find her anyway and I made up excuses I suppose I must have been in shock and denial it having been nearly ambushed especially by someone smaller than me in my own City so close to my apartment and one of my

roommates called the cops for me and a cop drove through the area but by that Point she was [Music] gone before I get into what happened sorry for the storytelling I've just never been a great riter and that being said last night my friends and I went to the movies in hopes of watching Joker 2 we hadn't bought the tickets online and unfortunately we got there just after the doors closed but because we were already there we decided to see what else was playing within the hour and decided on the terrifier 3 none of us

had heard of the terrifier before but it sounded interesting enough however soon after the movie started I immediately felt my stomach drop about 5 months ago I went on a run at a park my aunt recommended to me she told me how it had a great Trail and because it was finally getting warm I decided to go even though it was out of the way from where I live as I entered the parking lot I began to feel excited because I understood why she raved about it although it wasn't the biggest there was a clearing

with picnic benches gazebos and a cute playground full of kids however it was surrounded by a big Forest which was where the trail was located about 15 minutes or so into my run my headphones battery was getting low so I paused to put them in my pouch as I was taking them off I noticed something out of the corner of my eye and turned to look into the trees peering into the forest I saw a clown standing beside an old beige Toyota beholding a balloon bouquet we made eye contact for what felt like an eternity

and I immediately turned around and ran back toward the parking lot without so much as a second thought the scene always set off alarm Bells as I've always been a huge True Crime nerd and I cannot even begin to describe how terrified I felt in that moment by the time I got in my car my lungs were burning and it felt like my heart was going to LEAP out of my throat but as I turned on the ignition I realized that the big group of kids were celebrating a birthday in the Gazebo and I had

never felt so relieved it was clear that the clown was meant for their party what with his balloons and costume and I laughed to myself even though I was still on edge and silently drove home feeling like an idiot I'd forgotten about the incident up until last night when I saw the clown in the movie's costume I felt sick the man I saw in the forest was wearing that same outfit I don't know for sure whether this character's costume is unique to the movie or not but after trying to look up similar costumes I'm fairly

certain it is everything was the same even down to the stupid little hat and I'm freaking out and don't know what any of it means if I did come across some guy dressed as a fictional clown killer why were they wearing it and why in the empty part of an old park a big part of me hopes that it was just some sort of Twisted prank but if that were the case why wouldn't he go somewhere where he knew people would see him and after watching the movie I wouldn't be surprised if there were sick

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