[Music] I began subletting a rental house cabin for a couple months in 2023 when my dad and I were bucking heads and I needed to move out the actual renter of the apartment was having his own personal issues causing him to leave the apartment and I'll just refer to him as my landlord to make it easier the cabin was an entire unit rental and it was paid month month which was ideal for my temporarily shitty situation it was two floors technically a small kitchen decent sized living space and one bedroom that you had to climb
a little flight of stairs to get to and there was a quirky hatch type door that you'd have to open to get to the upstairs bedroom I had already been there for a month I paid for the second month's rent already by this point so I was fully situated there the cabin sat at the end of a dirt road with a few other similarly sized cabin type houses one was vacant as far as I knew because I never saw cars parked out front or lights on the other houses well I never met the neighbors but
I knew people lived in them I work 12-hour shifts sometimes and when I get home I'm completely exhausted and we'll just go straight to bed and watch TV until I fall asleep this was one of those nights I got home made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a protein shake as my late night dinner then went to bed I always Shut the Door in the Floor every night I find myself to be un comfortable at night having the entrance to your bedroom opens something about it makes me feel exposed or vulnerable though this Door
in the Floor didn't have a lock this cabin was made for one person or a couple I was watching TV in bed when I heard it a voice from down below saying who's up there I instantly felt my heart stop for a second as I shot up to an upright position and sounded like it came from inside the house but it also could have maybe come from outside I grabbed the TV remote to turn off the TV I crawled over to look at the circular window above the bed I didn't see anyone out there but
it was also very dark I said who's there and the deafening silence that followed afterwards led me to getting off the bed and putting my hand on the handle to the door I lifted the door and looked down the staircase I actually said my dad's name thinking maybe he came over there was no response I walked downstairs I was extremely scared I flicked on the first light switch I passed the living room lit up as I expected in the back of my head there wasn't anyone down there I was still chalking this up to someone
from outside I turned on the front outside light and looked out the windows and there wasn't anyone in front by this point I was really confused I turned off the living room light and climbed the stairs back to my bedroom shutting the door in the floor I was pretty awake now so I turned the TV back on and not even 5 minutes later I heard pounds on the bedroom door from below they sounded angry or like they were supposed to scare me if there was any doubt before this confirmed it someone was in the house
I left the TV on this time and just stayed completely motionless because I was genuinely too scared to move an inch the scariest part was whoever was down there could easily open the door as there was no luck I laid silent for about 20 minutes and once I felt comfortable to move I looked for my phone and of course of all times it wasn't on my nightstand I couldn't find it I may have left it downstairs so I opened the door of my bedroom and looked down the stairs with the constantly changing light from the
TV screen I could see just a little bit down the stairs to the living room so I went down the stairs quietly and when at the bottom instead of turning on any lights I ran out the back door Barefoot and ran to the nearest neighbor's house where I knew people lived and I saw their lights were on I knocked on the door a bunch of times and then I noticed someone at the window next to the door looking at me I didn't know how long they had been watching me I yelled through the glass explaining
what happened that I'm his neighbor and that I need a phone to call the police he definitely heard me but he just stared at me it was unsettling and I started to back away from the door as I realized he wasn't even responding to me just creepily watching me I looked around the road and saw no other houses in the distance with their lights on momentarily L I had a thought what if that guy had something to do with it I went back to my rental through the back door which was closed just like I
left it I went inside and locked it and turned on every light in the tiny house I looked not only for an intruder but my phone downstairs and I finally found my phone in my car when I thought to look there I was so tired earlier that I left it in the center console I went back inside the TV was still on up in the bedroom I climbed the stairs and when I got to the top I saw someone sitting on my bed staring at the TV it was a man I screamed and he turned
his head slowly to look at me and before I could see anything else I ran back down the stairs and outside and now with my phone called 911 I sat in my locked car watching the house on the line with 911 and I saw someone walking past the backyard of the house disappearing into the woods I told the operator this when a police car arrived the one officer checked the house and upstairs room after I told him that I saw someone most likely the Intruder walk away into the woods he asked if I had any
other places to stay that night and so I swallowed my pride and went back to my dad's house for the night after packing some of my important stuff I returned to the house the next day and stayed another night then collected the rest of my stuff luckily the landlord agreed to giving me some of my money back he asked me what the man looked like and after that he didn't ask any more questions which to me is pretty sus something was unusual in that situation from that creepy neighbor ignoring me to the landlord's random urgent
need to move out to someone fall on breaking into the house maybe it's all connected or maybe I'm overthinking [Music] it it was a Tuesday night around 11:00 p.m. in 2013 and I was walking down a dimly Street at night on my way home from work my car had been in the shop so I'd been forced to walk 3 miles home every day the walk was barely an hour so I was home before midnight I live in a small town in Southern Indiana so after 10: there's rarely any cars on the road the only Vehicles
you ever see are truckers heading to Indianapolis I was about a mile into the walk when I turned on a dirt road my house was off the beaten path so I had to take all these dirt roads surrounded by Forest to get there as I was turning I heard the sound of a motor in the distance and it was getting closer very slowly I saw about a/4 mile down the stretch of road I just turned off of a van moving very slowly without its lights at first this didn't strike me as out of place due
to the fact that the town I live in there is a pretty cheap car dealership that sells used cars and vans with broken parts like broken headlights so I just assumed this guy was one of their clients I kept walking down the side road with the van still going slowly down the main road about 5 seconds later I jumped when I heard the sound of the van Roar and It sped up really fast except now it had its lights on I was startled but not worried this was until the van got closer to the turn
for the Side Road about 500 ft away from the turn the van turned off its lights again and slowed down now I was officially creeped out I didn't want to seem startled so I just walked faster down the road I kept turning back constantly to see if I was being followed then then my suspicions became reality as I saw the van turn onto the dirt road I was only about 500 ft from the van so I started to walk a lot faster I didn't want to look back but I did just to be safe and
what I saw frightened every bone in my body I saw the van there stopped with both the passenger and driver's doors open at this point I ran for my life down the dirt road I heard what I'm positive was a gunshot not far away and I really thought this was how I was going to die I made a quick turn into one of the surrounding forests and hid behind a big rock I heard what sounded like a middle-aged man not far away say I think she went into the woods and then to my horror what
sounded like three young girls with one of them responding okay sir I'll see if we can find her now I wasn't fearing for my life I was worrying I was going to be forced into whatever sick group this was I was covering my mouth trying not to make any sound when I heard the man say whoever finds her doesn't have to drink the blood to tonight A million thoughts ran through my head is this some sort of satanic cult are these girls kidnapped will I become one of them I spent what felt like an eternity
sitting behind the rock being scared of any sound that I could hear then to my relief I heard cop sir nearby I stayed there just to be safe when I felt the courage to look from behind the rock I saw red and blue lights right outside the forest I ran out screaming for help and the cops came to me and said ma'am do you know about this body I was confused and said what body then I saw in front of the cop car the most gruesome thing I will ever see it was what looked like
a naked young woman gutted blood everywhere there was no van in sight I then explained everything to the cops the car the man the girls who had to drink the blood the cops said they'd look into it and were nice enough to drive me home that night when I couldn't sleep I looked out my window to see the van the same one from before d driving slowly without its lights on down my street this time I was smart and wrote down the license plate I called the cops immediately and told them what I saw and
gave the license plate number as expected when the cops came the van was long gone but what they told me is what will horrify me to this day the cops said we check the license plate number it's a plate registered in South Dakota but the thing is we checked with other precincts around the country and they've gotten reports tonight that there was also a suspicious van with that license plate one in Vermont one in Nevada One in Alaska and one in Texas they said we'll call you if we get any more information the cops left
and I never got a call I don't really believe in the Paranormal so my best guess is that it was some sort of cult that used fake license plates to do their sick things all across the country but I guess I'll never know I moved out of Indiana now I make sure when I see something suspicious I bolt [Music] my wife and I live in a normal suburb we have normal jobs normal lives next to normal neighbors we live the I guess you'd say standard American lifestyle that most of us are taught by our parents
to achieve me sitting down to write this story is already saying something because I'm not a writer the last time I typed something out this long was the last paper I wrote in college but something happened not that long ago that no one can explain and it still scares us to this day my wife Giana and I had a normal day and after work we decided to go out to eat for a change and we got back around 9:00 we don't stay up very late on work nights so by 9:30 we were brushing our teeth
getting ready for bed by 10:00 we were in bed and we usually shut the lights off at 11:00 we either read our books or watch our show tonight we were watching our show then the phone rang GI told me not to answer it anyone calling at this hour can't be good news I agreed with her but for that reason I said I should pick it up in case it's an emergency so I reached over for the phone next to the bed to pick it up but it stopped ringing before I could actually lift the receiver
that old landline was trash the second the call stopped the caller ID would disappear and there wasn't a way to check the call history oh well wrong number but a few minutes later the phone rang again so I grabbed the phone and looked at the screen it said unknown number Giana and I both thought that was unusual especially past 10:00 I feel that there's a generally accepted cut off time for phone calls and that's after 9:00 p.m. I didn't pick up the phone but right after it stopped ringing the phone rang again suddenly it felt
like it was an emergency like God forbid something happened to a relative so I picked up in a hurry on the other end it was the voice of my neighbor Al he asked me if I knew that man standing out in front of my house I said what are you talking about he told me to go outside and hung up I found it insanely bizarre the way he'd just hang up abruptly like that gian's face when I told her what Al just said was a look of fear she said don't go out there I said
I'm just going to look out the window I went downstairs and moved the curtain a bit to look out to the front lawn there was definitely no one standing outside I opened the front door and then the storm door and stepped out to the front stoop I looked around and looked into the bushes right in front of the house nobody so I got a little annoyed at the idea that Al would prank call us this late on a work night and also just felt a little out of character for him to do that I went
back to bed and told Giana that no one was out there and Al was probably messing with us she was just as confused by that as I was it just felt bizarre she told me to call him and so I did but it rang and went straight to voicemail so I left a voicemail saying hey Al what was that call about give me a call back then the phone rang it said unknown caller again I picked up and it was Al again saying before I could even say anything go outside there's someone standing outside your
house he said it in a calm slow voice then he hung up I got up and said out loud all right what the hell is going on I told Giana to wait here I went downstairs and back to the window I looked through the curtain and this time I saw someone standing right at the end of our walkway where it met the sidewalk he had a hood over his head effectively covering his face to just Blackness I was honestly shaken I opened my door and said outside can I help you the man just stood in
place I threatened him with calling the police then the house phone rang again I closed the front door and went to the kitchen phone and this time noticed the caller ID showed my neighbor Al's number I picked up and Al said in a much more normal voice hey I just got your voicemail what was that about I didn't call you I was so confused I swore to him he just called me twice telling me about a man outside my house he sounded even more confused than me then moments later he said he doesn't see anyone
outside my house I went back out to look out the window and that man who was standing outside my house was gone I demanded Al tell me right now if this was a joke and if I found out it wasn't he wouldn't tell me we'd have a problem Al claimed he was telling the truth and he's not some immature prankster kind of guy he's a very low-key respectful person I had to put him on speaker so GI could vouch for me that I wasn't going crazy and that we did in fact get two calls from
someone who sounded just like him he did the same and put his wife on the phone as well to vouch for him in the end what could he really say though except for it sounds like someone was pranking us eventually we got off the phone but I was no less horrified than I was before I had to go back downstairs one more time to hang up the downstairs phone and so I looked outside one more time the man was still no longer there none of us could ever figure out this unexplainable [Music] situation
