[Music] when I was in university I would take six courses every semester because I was doing a dual degree and I wanted to get it all done in four years this meant a lot of semesters I was up to my neck and ears and homework and studying all the time my University had a library that was open until midnight I was also interning the semester so I really had almost no time to do my work I still lived on campus at this point and my sweetmates could be very loud and distracting sometimes this was a
Wednesday night so I had three classes that day and my internship I also had two exams the following day so right after I finished up at my internship I went straight to the library our Campus Library was very big when I got there at 9:00 p.m. there were still a decent amount of people everywhere but from 9: to 10: it quiets down a lot and I was planning on being there until 12:00 studying for my 2 exams the next day around 11:00 most people were gone but there were still some around I was sitting at
one of the tables sandwiched between two bookshelves on either side so it was a little more private and secluded where I was sitting less distractions by 11:00 some guy who looked to be in his upper 20s came into the section and passed one of the multiple empty tables and came to mine where he sat down diagonally across from me at the table I looked up and he looked back at me and smiled as as he was setting his books down I looked back down and just tried to focus on my studying and not Wonder Too
Much why he decided to sit at my table I was going through the slides to study on my laptop when the guy at my table said excuse me then asked me if I by chance was taking a specific economics course I politely told him no sorry hoping that would be the end of it but then he started explaining why he asked that because his quote unquote Professor is a and gives pop quizzes every day I said wow that really sucks then I tried to go back to studying mentally my mind wasn't completely into the material
anymore now now I was distracted by the presence of this man who I had a feeling was going to keep trying to talk to me I looked up from my laptop screen and saw that man looking at me smiling with his lips I looked back down at my laptop contemplating getting up and moving elsewhere or just leaving he then asked my name I made up a name and said chelse he said you have such blue eyes Chelsea this was when I started to wonder if this man was really here to study or creep on women
and the fact that he looked like he was almost 30 didn't help I asked him what the name of his economics professor was he took a second then said Professor Davis I asked if he knew the first name he shook his head no I went straight to rate my professor.com and looked up any professors with the last name Davis at our school and only one came up a a calculus Professor whose last reviews were left years ago I decided to get up and go ask the security worker at the front door for help as I
got up I felt the stare of that man at the table watching me walk over to the security worker and tell him that this man was creeping me out and I don't think he's a student the security worker walked back over with me and asked to see the man's student ID he started looking through his wallet then his pockets and then he said he must have left it at his dorm the security worker then asked what dorm building he's in the guy was clearly lying because he didn't know what to say and eventually just said
I honestly don't remember what it's called the security worker walked him out of the library and he came back and told me to just be careful while walking back to my dorm I thanked him the whole rest of the time at the library my mind was so distracted just thinking about what a creep that guy was I did my best to keep studying and around 12 I knew it was time to wrap it up so I could get some sleep I packed up and left through the sink same way the security guard escorted that man
out he wasn't standing there at that moment I don't know where he went I started walking through the basically deserted campus no one walks around that late on a Monday to Wednesday night that's why eventually when I was nearing my dorm building and I heard at least one loud sound of a shoe hitting the concrete behind me I turned around but I saw no one there I knew for a fact I heard a footstep though I started to run now which may have been a mistake because the second I started to run which was made
more difficult because of my backpack I heard running footsteps behind me I turned and saw that man from the library sprinting towards me I screamed at the top of my lungs but only for a second before I was tackled to the ground and had a hand over my mouth he kept threatening me saying you better shut up or I'll kill you I genuinely thought my life was about to end I was trying to call out for help still but it was muffled by his hand he then got to his feet and started to drag me
by the throat out of sight of the main walkways and I saw he was dragging me in the direction of the woods right by the dorms I managed to remove his hand from my mouth for just long enough to scream again it was enough to get the attention of these two guys who came running over yelling hey stop at my kidnapper the man let go of me and started running off towards the woods the two guys came over to me and I'm sure they were asking me if I was okay and whatnot but I blocked
all noise out for a few moments and I was in total shock I completely let my emotions out and started balling my eyes out the two guys called University Police and I did my best to keep myself together and explain we went to the library to ask the security worker for his description of the man as well it matched my description of the man the police were also able to use the footage from the library cameras to get a clear picture of the man's face the picture was sent out to all students phones and emails
and the school website and that same night there was an anonymous tip that the man was at a late night Dive Bar Bar down the road from the school the police arrived to the bar and arrested him the level of trauma this induced on me was incredible I can't even imagine the trauma for those who weren't as lucky as me in situations like [Music] this we moved to a new town when I was seven any memories before that move I consider to be very early childhood and a lot of those memories are blurry at this
point this is one of those memories this happened at some age before seven I know that if I had to guess I was five maybe six there was the local town library that our mom would always take my brothers and I to it was a few blocks away actually I remember this one day it was my mom and my little brother who was a toddler at this point we started the day at the mall probably spent hours there tagging along with our mom shopping whenever we'd go to this mall she'd always bring us to the
McDonald inside the mall to get us ice cream cones I remember we got ice cream on this particular day because on the way to the library after leaving the mall I still had some of the cone left in my hand we arrived to the library and there was this kids computer section that my mom would let me stay at and play computer games while she went and did whatever she'd do when I got bored of playing whatever old online computer games there were at the time I got up and started walking through the aisles of
books in the kids section of the library looking for the I spy books the kid section was in the far corner of the library and while I was walking from aisle to aisle I heard a p from behind me I turned around and saw nothing I was looking at the back wall of the library which had another shelf of books leaning on it then I saw half of a grown man's face peer around the shelf and said peekaboo I remember laughing and feeling no sense of danger he did it again he went back behind the
Shelf then peered out his head again and said peekaboo again I laughed he asked me what I was looking for and I said the I spy books he said he'll help me find it he came over and took my hand and started leading me through the aisles leading us I guess to the section of books that began with a letter I and there they were at least five I spy books next to each other I grabbed my favorite one the treasure hunt one and he said let's go sit down and play he led me to
a table in the corner by a couple children's computers and we started looking through the pictures this went on for some time and he was asking me questions about myself as we played I Spy the question that still sticks out to me the most is who are you here with and I told him my mom and little brother at some point after this he said something implying that there's a kid's playroom downstairs and I at that age never knew that there was a downstairs to the library he said we could take the book down there
he led me to the door that led to the basement of of the library which for reference is actually where events and meetings for certain clubs and organizations are held and there is actually a little playroom down there I guess for parents who have to bring their kids with them during any of the meetings the man led me to that little playroom there were various toys in there most notably a Lego set and a Lego table and then there were a bunch of chairs he set the ice buy book down on the Lego table this
is where things get really uncomfortable thinking back on as he was trying to forcibly get me to play with the toys I started to get uncomfortable and around this time over the loudspeaker a female librarian said into the intercom will Liam come to the front please your mother is looking for you at this time the man went to turn off the lights in the room and now it was Pitch Black inside he said in the dark we're going to play hide-and seek this was the first moment I was genuinely freaked out and I started to
yell for my mom I remember he kept telling me to be quiet and his voice was getting louder as he was getting closer to me in the dark until he had his hands on me I thankfully managed to run past him and out the door of that room and I ran down the dark hallway back to the stairs and as I was running up the stairs I had that same childhood feeling of running up the basement stairs after turning off the lights only 100 times worse because I genuinely was scared I was going to be
grabbed I made it back to the main floor of the library and ran straight to the front desk calling for my mom she was at the front desk with a group of librarians and I remember the relief on my mom's face when she saw me I told her there was some man who took me downstairs and she literally lost it the next thing I remember from there was a bunch of police in the building searching around but I never saw that man again he must have exited the building through a different way I remember speaking
to some woman who was probably with the police asking me very delicate questions I never really asked my mom about this experience that many times because it's very uncomfortable and I'd rather just not think of [Music] it I used to work at the local public library when I was in my early 20s I'd work the night shifts as my second job at least three times a week after my first job I'd get there at 600 and would work till closing time at 9: I would also be the one to lock up the place after closing
but I wouldn't just leave right after the library would close I'd have to shut off all the computers do some cleaning and organizing stock the shelves with all the returned books and DVDs from the day take out the garbage and only then could I leave it was a Friday night approaching closing time most of the other Library staff was gone already it was just myself and one of the female Librarians left I had made a couple last call announcements to the remaining Library patrons alerting them that the library would be closing soon I was already
cleaning up the the place trying to finish up early so I could leave and just start my weekend the only other employee still there said goodbye to me as soon as the Clock Struck 9:00 I announced on the intercom that the library was closed the two guests that were left got up from their tables and started packing up their things before leaving through the door after that when I saw no one else in the building I locked the front door I proceeded to start fixing all the chairs to be neatly tucked under their tables then
I started emptying all the garbage cans and when it was time to bring them outside to the dumpster on the side I unlocked the front door again and brought them out it was quiet outside the library was kind of tucked away from any main roads when I came back inside I locked the door again now all I had to do was restock all the returned books and DVDs from the day I grabbed the two boxes and started with the DVDs which was easier since the DVD section was smaller took about 5 to 10 minutes during
this time I thought for sure I heard something come from one of the book aisles I started walking through the aisles till I found an open book laying on the floor which had clearly just fallen off the shelf I put it back in its place and for a second I stood there and just wondered how could that have happened I went back to work and after finishing the DVDs I took the box of books and started putting them one by one back on the shelves going in alphabetical order I started with the A's the books
in the Box were sorted in alphabetical order to make it easy as I worked my way down the shelves trying to bang this out and go home I heard another noise nearby two times in less than 20 minutes that was no coincidence I set the box down and started walking through the aisles of books again I found another two books on the ground in another aisle someone was in here I walked out to the open area with all the tables and such and yelled out excuse me the library is closed there was silence until I
heard something from across the library from the children's section I approached the noises and it started to sound like some rabid animal making growling sounds I also heard books being thrown onto the floor it was coming from one aisle as I built up the courage to peek down the aisle I saw some woman wearing a night gown throwing random books off the shelf making these disgusting animal likee sounds I didn't say anything I turned and ran to the office where we had the phone I didn't have a cell phone at this time I locked the
office door and closed the blinds to the window then I called 911 I reported that there was some sickly woman in the library and I think they should send an ambulance they asked if I had approached the woman and I said no she looked like she could be dangerous when the operator asked me if the woman was still in the same spot I opened the blinds and I screamed because that woman was right on the other side of the glass looking in her pupils were so big that she looked demonic I said to the operator
she's right outside the office the woman started to bang on the glass screaming gibberish she tried opening the door and when it didn't open she turned around and sat on a chair facing the office the operator asked me to keep the blind open and watch her the woman was wobbly as she sat down so I noted she was definitely High out of never mind two police cars in an ambulance showed up to the library the woman was put in handcuffs because she tried fighting the police officers but nothing she was saying made any sense she
was put in the back of an ambulance and was taken away I never found out what the hell she was on I don't know how she got inside maybe while I was taking the garbage out or maybe she was inside before I even locked the place up either way it definitely made being in the library alone after closing pretty unsettling from there on out
