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many years ago my best friend and I rented our first place together it was completely furnished including dishes sheets and everything else which worked for us since we didn't have any furniture or anything else an older lady showed us the home but she said her son was the owner and he lived a few hours away by the coast it was a three-bedroom but she said one bedroom was used for storage so it stayed locked since we only needed two bedrooms that was fine but it was still a little unsettling wondering what was in that locked room also it was like the previous owners had just picked up and left there was still items in the night stands and there was even a stack of Playboy in Penthouse magazines in my closet the home seemed to be built on a slab but the kitchen had a small step up and it was a wooden floor which was prone to creaking when you walked on it on occasion I thought I'd hear footsteps walking across it when I was the only one home but I just dismissed it because I didn't want to freak out myself or my roommate one night we had a group of friends over when one of them deep started prompting us to hush we all got quiet and you could distinctly hear what sounded like footsteps walking across the kitchen floor and de proclaimed it sounds like footsteps walking across your kitchen and my best friend and I both exclaimed you hear it too we then realized we'd both heard it but didn't want to mention it to the other one so that was eye opening to have it confirmed the next creepy Thing Happened One Night as I was about to go to bed my boyfriend at the time worked a second shift job so he would occasionally drop by on his way home from work I usually knew when he was coming and I wasn't expecting him but I clearly heard the doorbell ring the home was an older home probably built in the late' 40s and it had one of those old really loud buzzer style doorbells you would definitely not mistake this sound for anything else of course I thought it was him so I immediately go to the door but no one was there and there were no car lights leaving the street was straight going in both directions for a ways so I would have definitely seen a car leaving there was no question in my mind that the doorbell had rung so the hair was now standing up on the back of my neck there's nothing worse than feeling alone in that situation so I went to wake up my roommate but no matter what I did how hard I shook her or how loud I called her name she would not wake up she had never been difficult to wake up so this freaked me out even more after trying to wake her for at least 15 minutes I just had to go back to bed pull the covers over my head like a child and try to fall asleep I later talked to my boyfriend and he said he had not dropped by so that was unnerving to say the least the last experience was definitely the strangest though in the hallway there were three heavy objects attached to the wall that were like antique fs/ Outdoor Equipment I can't quite remember what two of them were but they were all really heavy and made of wood and the one I remember was like a rake but completely made of wood again they were heavy one day I was in the shower and I heard a loud noise and the next thing I know my roommate came in and is beyond freaked out she tells me I have to hurry out to see what the noise was so I quickly get out to see that all three of these heavy items had fallen onto the floor at the same time there was honestly no reasonable explanation for it to have happened we were in a lease so we just couldn't move out but shortly thereafter the owner decided he was going to put the home on the market he ended up being a huge pain although we never met him he came to the house and just my roommate was home being young and naive she felt obliged to let him in although he had clearly been drinking it left her very uncomfortable and then he showed up at my work soon after he sued us saying we'd ruined the carpet but we'd only lived there for about 6 months and the carpet was the same as when we moved in we had to hire a lawyer and we won the case the whole thing was so bizarre I didn't mention yet that there was a small addition on the back of the house that was also on a concrete slab right off the stepup kitchen and made me wonder if he had added it and if there was an ulterior reason why the whole situation was creepy including the landlord and it made me wonder if he or something he had done caused the activity at the house here's my creepy pizza delivery story from college when I was in school I got a job delivering pizzas late at night typically I would work until about 2:00 a. m. it was a shitty job and the shop was extremely dirty and unsanitary and it was falling apart but I typically made really good tips so it was worth it I'm female I was 19 at the time and it's summertime in Colorado so even at night it's still fairly Warm An important detail for later this was my second weekend on the job so I was still getting used to it but I'm already a paranoid person so I preferred just dropping off the pizza taking my tip and then leaving right away wait for the next delivery I pretty much never went inside the person's house and if I did I would just step inside real quick but leave the door open it was pretty close to midnight when I got a delivery to a house on the east side of town it was supposed to be my last delivery of the night I pulled up to the house and it looked pretty normal from the outside the street was really dark but I didn't feel uncomfortable I walked up to the door and knocked this big shirtless old guy with a beerbelly answers the door and tells me to come inside I got weird vibes from him off the bat I declined to come in and try to just give him his pizza right there but then he says come inside it's freezing out and we don't want the cold air coming in this didn't make sense to me as it was summer so stupidly I get nervous and I take one step inside his house not going all the way though he then says no come all the way in it's cold out I should have left at this point but I was freaking out not thinking straight so I went in and he closed both the screen door and the main door behind me I'm trying to calm myself down telling myself I'm overreacting he then yelled to his wife that the pizza's here I can see her in the kitchen cooking which seemed weird that she ordered a pizza but was also cooking I don't know I look around their living room and it's filled to the brim with stuffed animals completely covering the couches tables window sills everything it gave me a really weird vibe then his wife comes into the living room holding something outstretched in her hand she walks up to me and I see that it's some kind of bread or cake she says eat this banana bread and don't worry it's not poisonous what the I try to politely decline lying and saying I'm on a diet she just stares at me still with her hand outstretched waiting for me to take the bread I don't take it and then she gets really upset and starts yelling at me to eat the bread I decline again but this time I'm not trying to be polite and I tell the couple that I really ought to be going back to work I'm still holding the pizza too and thinking about just running out the door at this point she gives up on trying to make me eat the bread she walks back into the kitchen then the man says let me find you some change for your tip he starts looking around the living room digging through the couch cushions trying to find change to give me I tell him to forget about it and that I don't need the tip that he can just take the pizza but he insists on finding a tip for me he spends the next several minutes searching his stuffed animal in fested living room for change and I start to think to myself that they're trying to stall me most people have the tip ready when I get to their house but I was so worked up at this point that I just tell the guy I'm leaving and start to open the door he took his pizza and gave me the few quarters that he found I booked it out of there and went back to the shop I told my supervisor what happened and he didn't seem to care he just sent me on another delivery I was pissed I don't know if that couple was actually creepy or just really socially awkward but I never deliver delivered to that house again thanks for listening Monday night I went to sleep with my girlfriend in the house we're currently renting we're in a somewhat rural area so we're not in much of a neighborhood just off of a small road with a few houses around us the closest being about 300 ft away we're both startled awake when we hear a very loud banging coming from our front door very rapid and strong hits at first we both just lie there and listen after 30 seconds or so I check the time and see that it's 4:00 a.

m. okay something's not right here I get up and grab my pistol then I hear a woman start screaming from our porch she yells open the door I'm having a seizure mom open the door while she continues to bang on our door with all the violence of someone trying to knock a door in we're both extremely uncomfortable so instead of answering I call the police I explain the situation and give my address to dispatch who informs me that someone else has also complained and the police are already on route so for the next 10 minutes or so I'm just Frozen between my girlfriend still laying in bed and the window we have on our front porch that the stranger out there could easily access she continues beating our door fently and screaming every few seconds until the police arrive they go talk to her then eventually approach my door and ask if she said anything of any use I tell them what she'd been saying then they go back to talking to her my girlfriend comes out at this point and we step out together to assess any damage to our front door she immediately looks down and spots a pair of channel locks similar to a pair of pliers for those unaware and when we look at the door there are a multitude of dents from where the woman outside had been beating our door with the channel locks I hand the channel locks over to the police and have them come back to our front door to photograph the damage bear in mind that we have a metal front door and she has made significant DS all over the thing the police finish talking to her then they come give us a case number I ask why she was doing that and all they tell me is that if what she says is true she had good reason to be panicked I ask if she lives near and they point at the immediate house next to ours and tell me that she just moved back back in with her parents 5 hours later I hear a knock at my front door I go answer and it's the woman from last night pretty visible drug usage has dwindled her body down to a sickly figure she says I'm sorry if I scared you guys last night there was a lot going on before I can reply she says I can fix your door how much do you think it would cost to paint over it or from door is so dented and banged up that no amount of paint is going to cover this I explain that to her and she says okay well I'll get someone to fix it now it's Wednesday and every time my girlfriend and I have left to get lunch or go to work or go to a shop she's standing halfway out of her front door staring at us I'm waiting on the case report to be finished Monday so that we can hopefully get a protective order against her this has obviously been a stressful situation and my girlfriend and I are having difficulty sleeping ever since for clarity the woman is an adult not a child she seems to be in her 30s or so and her parents are both pretty elderly when I was a freshman in high school Alyssa was my role model Alysa was my senior she was so gorgeous confident smart effortlessly stylish and always owning the room back then I was too shy to talk to her seniors are pretty intimidating to freshmen but Alyssa was Next Level intimidating because she was such a queen I didn't expect anyone to see me the way I saw saw Alysa but I was pleasantly surprised in my senior year in my senior year I started finding cute little notes in my locker I wasn't expecting that at all but I was really flattered the first one said you were beautiful in that dress on Friday the handwriting was neat and simple with a cute little heart at the end more notes kept coming always in fourth period I got a note every week or two I know they came during fourth period because I checked my locker before and after every class they were all really sweet they said things like this your smile lights up the hallway you shine brighter than any Star your homecoming photos are straight out of a magazine cover so stunning there were more notes that I don't remember they weren't romantic or flirty they looked like things I might have said to Alyssa if we'd ever spoken I thought maybe they were from a shy underclassman girl I had my suspicions I didn't tell anyone about the notes I really didn't want my friends turning this into an investigation and embarrassing whoever was leaving them whoever was leaving these messages I thought they meant well then in the second semester my schedule changed my last class of the day was upstairs near my friend's Locker my friend's last class was near my locker we swapped lockers I forgot all about the notes until my 18th birthday that morning my friend handed me a note she found in my old Locker it said happy birthday princess At first she thought the notes were meant for her since any of those compliments could fit her too but when she realized the birthday didn't match up she put two and two together come to think of it I don't think any of the notes ever said my name I admitted that the notes had been happening all year and explained that I didn't want to make a big deal about it then my friends launched their investigation that I'd been worried about all the girls in our friend group became detectives trying to solve this mystery one friend who didn't have a fourth period class stationed herself by the lockers to survey the area that worked the notes weren't from a shy freshman or even from a boy they were from a janitor an older woman none of us knew we all recognized her but I don't think any of us had ever talked to her she'd been leaving these notes for several months watching me closely enough to comment on my outfits field hockey games and even what I posted on Facebook I saw her at the last field hockey game of the season she sat quietly in the stance that was the only time I noticed her watching me but I have no idea about the other places that I didn't notice her watching me none of us brought this up to her she hadn't done anything wrong per se but it felt unsettling in a way that's hard to explain I'm going to summarize this the best I can my boyfriend and I applied to and moved into an apartment a few months back I originally viewed it with my dad who checked it out before I had my boyfriend never viewed just trusted my judgment I didn't mention my significant other to my landlord when we left looked because it didn't cross my mind and I figured my dad probably noted it already after we applied as a couple my landlord stopped into my work and questioned why I hadn't mentioned my significant other he was just questioning it but didn't reject our application that seemed to be crossing a line as he would have only learned my work address from my app and he could have just called I brushed it off thinking it might have been a generational thing he is like 80 months into the lease my significant other had a family tragedy and needed to move back in with his mom I started packing the apartment so I could help advertise it to be rented to someone else landlord offered me half the rent for 6 months to help with the situation mentioning it would be helping us both out while he was away during the winter he lives below us as we have the attic space and no one would be there to watch the house if if we couldn't find a new tenant I met with him to go over the new lease agreement he noted it was important I didn't Retreat the new agreement and I would stay for the duration of the lease the weird part of this was him being extra interested in the small possibility that I may separate from my significant other and be at the apartment by myself he also ended up asking about my political views it came up relatively naturally throughout some small talk although he shouldn't have asked in my opinion I was more than happy to be honest thinking he probably aligned with me we ended up being on opposite ends and that created some tension while he tried to express his frustration on matters we'd obviously disagreed with I backed away carefully out of the debate he was trying to create because I felt it was important to maintain a respectful relationship despite the uncomfortable conversation the deal seemed too good to pass up so I accepted the offer and signed since then he has on multiple occasions come into the apartment for random unimportant reasons without notifying me in advance he left messages asking me to attend a local event mainly circulated on political issues with him he has run out of his side door in his Rob while I'm trying to leave to ask me menial questions as if he's always listening for me to be home he comes into my work to drop off the flyers for the traveling speaker I mentioned where he also sits and stares at me I work in a coffee shop by the way and just today I noticed he installed a motion detecting chime that notifies him when I'm on the landing leading to my door the chime is quiet enough for me to know it's coming from inside the house on his floor the last time he came into my work I I all but had a panic attack and started sobbing in front of all my co-workers it seems reasonable for me to be upset despite what he might think is acceptable contact I feel like he's holding this lease term over my head in a way I'm not sure if this is an enough interaction to constitute as an encounter but it was weird about 4 years ago my family moved from our English local rural Village to a slightly busier local rural town in the village we knew absolutely everybody but the town we knew way less the new place is a townhouse and as if it isn't creepy enough that we live opposite a graveyard next to that graveyard is a huge wallof grounds to the old hospital Asylum it's also worth mentioning that this town is known to be pretty dangerous and was actually known as The Murder Town of the UK for several years that being said apart from a few run-ins in college I never felt particularly vulnerable there we moved in late November and so by Christmas we had only lived there for a few weeks my ex and I came home for the holidays and spent a few nights at my parents and then hers one night my parents were in the living room and my ex and I were arguing but we wanted to talk things out discreetly so we went upstairs to my parents' room it was about 1:00 a. m.

as we were arguing I felt this weird sensation and randomly glanced out the window to the street everything seemed normal at first until I saw somebody dressed in all black stood completely still in the old hospital grounds just staring directly at our window I couldn't make out any features of theirs just that they were White Once my ex realized that I had stopped arguing and was visibly creeped out she looked too and was like what the something instantly felt wrong and I didn't respond I was looking to see if maybe the person had a dog they were walking but after a couple of minutes I realized they hadn't moved a muscle where they were stood the only thing at normal ey level to them would have been the walls surrounding the grounds though they were clearly facing up at our window anyway who walks their dog at 1:00 a. m. in the middle of English winter I told my ex to move away from the window for some reason they stood there for 15 minutes straight staring directly up at the window not moving at all I stared back completely Frozen the whole time just studying everything about the situation trying to make sense of it eventually I moved away from the window and told my dad he double checked everything was locked and told us to just sit with them for a bit about an hour later curiosity got the better of me and I checked the way window again they were gone my partner and I had been arguing for well over 20 minutes before i' noticed had that person been watching us the whole time I'm not a delivery driver anymore in 2019 I was a delivery driver for a place I won't name I've been a delivery driver for a while and I loved the job I'm really extroverted and love chatting with people and it was just fun I also had my fair share of my Oly creepy encounters given that I'm a girl and I once delivering in one of the sketchier areas of my city I never thought much of any of them or saw any real threat One Night in particular has stuck with me though I I worked the night shift so 4:00 p.

m. to 10: p. m.

around 8:00 p. m. this night some guy ordered his food and the delivery was easy enough his house was kind of creepy there were no lights on and when he answered the door there was a foul smell that immediately hit me he didn't say anything I said my usual there's that for you and could I get you to fill this at the tip thing he didn't reply at all or acknowledge me asking him to sign the SLP I didn't think much of it and headed back to the store almost exactly when I arrived back another order popped up to the same house he had ordered the exact same thing I was confused but still not too worried and took the delivery and had the same experience no lights on smelt bad and he didn't say a word I headed back to the store feeling pretty uncomfortable but again I didn't think too much of it I started to get extremely uncomfortable when I arrived back to the store and another identical order was up my manager at the time didn't understand the creepiness of the whole thing and insisted I take it despite my reluctance I took it this time when he opened the door I told him you can order more than one sandwich at a time you know as a sort of attempt at humor he didn't say anything and closed the door door I was thoroughly creeped out and I did sort of Sprint back to my car when I looked back at the house I noticed a light was on and I saw someone standing in the window I couldn't make out any features but I just assumed it was him in the end I still don't know who was standing in the window or why my manager called me from the store before I was even able to start my car to inform me that another identical delivery had popped up and he directed me to leave as quickly as I could because he was starting to see the danger of the situation as the call ended I saw the man running up to my car I couldn't move for a second because I was in shock he was yelling something that I couldn't understand I sped away as fast as possible given that I was shaking like a leaf we blacklisted him that night after he made several attempts to call the store I still have no idea what his endg game was so I hopped on Discord with my friend and before we even started chatting and we had our cameras on I said I'll be right back I need to get get my water bottle from my car I'm so thirsty and I stood up and took my headphones off and walked outside I came back inside and went into the kitchen for a second I hung my keys up and I looked over to my computer and I see my friend looking terrified and freaked out I run to my headphones and sit down I asked him what's wrong and in his POV during all of that he said as I stood up and went outside he started s singing to himself really loud and he heard my voice in the headphones say I'm so hungry and he said it was really clear and no doubt my voice and to the point where he got embarrassed because he didn't think I had my headphones on he said wait do you have your headphones on and he saw me in the kitchen hanging my keys up without my headphones on he then asked if I could hear him and I clearly couldn't I didn't say I'm so hungry I said I was so thirsty and it was before he started singing to himself and before I even took the headphones off my boyfriend was across the house playing video games and I asked him and he said he never said that and didn't leave his room even though the entire thing was only 30 seconds and I doubted it was him in the first place and I know for 100% certain that I didn't speak those words out loud loud I don't talk to myself and if I did I wouldn't forget what could this have been this is really freaking me out especially because it wasn't even the exact thing I said it was hungry switched with thirsty my friend was genuinely scared and would never make this up and is really serious all the time I fully believe him and that's why I'm so freaked out this is when I lived in a shitty trailer park in Coconut Creek with my family I don't exactly recall what age I was but my sister was old enough to babysit me we lived in a really shady trailer park and my mom was pretty close with our female neighbors my mom came driving down our street when she saw two of our neighbors who were also her good friends standing in front of the yard as she drove towards the house they kept staring at scowling at her they looked completely disgusted and my mom had no idea why so she asked them what was wrong when she did ask them they didn't tell her anything one of them had just pointed to a little note that was on our front yard my mom parked the car and she moved over to pick up the note and it read we'll pay well for the girl's piss and there was a phone number under the message and my mother was infuriated and rightfully live it the two neighbors then talked to her about it and explained that the guy that dropped it off was a pizza delivery man he had the uniform and the magnet on his car and he stopped at our house in the middle of the day when no one was home on our street we all tended to watch over each other so my neighbor cross the street watched him and then went to read the note I'm 18 now living in North Georgia and my parents have never ordered pizza to be delivered to our door so the only way that he could have known that my sister and I had lived there was if he drove around and saw us I don't know what sort of sick would pay for my sister and I's aftermath but I hope he found some sort of help let's definitely not me and yes my mother called the police and they couldn't do about it but Mama Bear kept her eyes open one night a few months ago I went door dashing with my boyfriend and my younger sister tagged along as well we delivered some food to this really large home that looked basically abandoned and Pitch Black we left it at the door but we all noted that we thought something felt strange as we're pulling out of the driveway this older woman who's probably in her 60s wearing a robe looks out of the window of the door where we left the food and then comes outside through a different side door and starts walking down the driveway and motioning for me to come back so I pulled back up thinking maybe we had the wrong house or something she walks over to my car and gets really close like she's touching my car and driver side mirror with her body and mind you that the pandemic is really bad in my state I definitely didn't feel comfortable with a stranger being this close to me she has this terrifying look on her face and black eyes that I can't seem to forget she says in a slow kind of creepy voice aren't you going to come inside with us I was trying to be nice and was like no ma'am we left your food on your doorstep for you though she got really insistent about all of us coming inside and asked again with a smile I declined again and thankfully she took a step back from my car and I was able to quickly back up without running her feet over and I got the hell out of there she stood there smiling and staring the whole time that I backed out of that way too long driveway I have no clue what that was all about but I always get really hesitant anytime I have to deliver orders for anyone named Melissa now I worked at Jimmy John's for almost 2 years and had a few weird encounters once I delivered to a little rundown motel that was rented out by the week and was mostly inhabited by low-income families or addicts I had been there on several occasions and it was nothing special just someone getting food and them not tipping as was expected for this place but the last time I went was wild I knocked on the door and the guy opened it to just a crack and looked through at me and asked who I was I told him I was delivering his food and he opened the door and told me to come in not something I liked to do but I figured the sooner I got his money the sooner I could go on another order and actually make some money so I went on the guy is standing there in his tidy whes the place was a wreck and he'd clearly been there a while he proceeded to stand there there and talked to me for about 5 minutes about how the mayor judges and the police were conspiring against him and that he was hiding out at this motel and that there was a very deep Citywide conspiracy happening revolving around him finally he gave me the money and I left he has a YouTube page I wish I could find again that had videos that are all 20 plus minutes long rambling about the conspiracy all while wearing ing his tidy whes sitting in that motel room I haven't worked there in 5 years but I went in there a few weeks ago and I asked if they still had the note on the delivery map saying not to deliver to him or that motel room number they do does anybody else have any weird delivery stories I work at a restaurant and cover many roles my favorite of which is delivering food since it allows me a chance to engage people and use my personality to make tips last summer we had a tough time finding full-time delivery drivers who could pass a drug test so about 80% of my time was spent on the road and quite a few of my deliveries were to a local college campus I took an order for a young man who wanted to buy a meal for his girlfriend he gave me her name and what dorm she resides in and paid for the pizza with his credit card and the phone call was pretty much a standard delivery request things did get weird though when I showed up at the dorm and the girl was nowhere to be found her Ras said she wasn't in her room and eventually one of the other girls in the building told me she was in class I called the guy's phone number to tell him and he just blew me off off no big deal though because he already paid for the food so really all I lost out on was a tip and some time out of my day a few days later this guy calls again and places an order same deal so I ask him if he's sure his girlfriend will be there and he replies that yes he's positive that she is in her dorm so I make the food and drive over to the campus to make the delivery the girl is not waiting in the lobby like she should be so so I have an ra run up to her room to get her the girl makes her way down eventually and tells me she did not order anything I tell her it's no problem because her boyfriend ordered it for her and I read his name off of the credit card receipt the girl then loses her and starts having a panic attack apparently she did not have a boyfriend and the guy in question had been stalking her since high school and it somehow followed her to another state where she wanted to to attend college she had no idea how he found her or figured out where she lived and she was deeply upset that he now knew exactly where she was in her building and when she wasn't I tried to calm her down but an RA saw her freak out and called campus security who I then had to deal with for the next hour the guy who ordered the pizza would not answer any of my calls this time a week goes by with no more word from the creek until we finally get a call from him wanting us to deliver more food and this time if one of us would pick up flowers for her as well I put him on hold and grab our GM who then informs him that we will no longer accept any orders that he places and that the police will be notified if he tries to harass anyone using our store again this was about a year ago and he hasn't called to place an order since the GM scared him away however we would get orders placed through the internet for the girl with creepy messages for her on them for months we deleted the orders every time but that bastard was very persistent for a quick update at work tonight my GM came in to help out during a late night rush and I asked him about it he has no clue if the girl was able to press charges against him for anything but someone who used to work for him at another store knows the creeper and the guy ran out of money and had to move back out of state and into his parents house a few months after the whole incident and I guess the reason we got the orders placed online instead of over the phone was because he was doing it from out of state and did not have a cell phone either way he was a long way from the girl and I assume she was able to finish college in relative peace my boyfriend who I live with works as a teacher in town about 15 minutes away by train he gets home more or less at the same time every day give her take an hour or so I on the other hand work from home in late January of this year we'd gotten into a pretty big fight about something stupid I can't even remember what it was about now now but it was one of those fights where we didn't speak to each other text call or anything the whole next day so this afternoon I was laying in bed getting work done it was a Tuesday and I was pretty sure his first class finished at 1:00 p.

m. on Tuesdays meaning surely he'd be home at 2:30 but around 1:00 p. m.