1 Hour of CREEPY TRUE Winter Night Horror Stories

I'm originally from a state where it's predominantly hot year round and I'm not a big fan of warm weather so when the winter comes I like to have my windows open and spend as much time outside temperature averag is around the 50s but that's besides the point it was one of those chilly winter nights I was about 10 years old and only people home are my two nannies and me they were at the other side of the house watching TV While I was in my room it was getting late and was likely around 10: p.m.

so I decided to take a shower and hop into bed everything's fine I hop out of the shower and get ready for bed at this point I should quickly go over the layout of my room it's rectangular shaped and has two windows facing the front door entrance to my house from my Windows you can see a walkway to the front door and the path is sort of gated in Brick basically you'd have to enter The driveway turn left and walk down a path that leads to my front door my bed faces one of those windows

and I can see all the way down the path and both windows have a mesh screen this is where things get scary like I mentioned earlier I had the window facing my bed open to let the cold air in my room is well lit so it's hard to see anything through the window however as soon as I turned off the light I saw The figure of a man with his face pressed upon the screen at that moment I felt his piercing gaze he's motionless and smiling he had facial hair that looked as if his whole

face was covered in fur and the hair on his head was the same length I briefly thought I was imagining this and was seeing something that wasn't there because of all the foilage outside my window I had taken a couple of quick steps towards the window to get A good look before I confirmed what I saw was real this all happens in a matter of 10 seconds I bolted out of the room and towards the room my nannies were in the hallways in my house are narrow and long in large Windows face the entrance I

didn't dare look out I reached the room my nannies are in and I tell them what happened they just laughed to be quite honest I was a boy who cried wolf I was always quite a prankster and a bit Imaginative of a brain so it was hard to take me seriously when I was younger and I had to practically beg them to check with me from what I can remember they took it seriously we get back to my room and no one's there my window screen is left untouched and the man is gone I don't

think they were totally convinced if I'm being honest and neither were my parents I couldn't sleep in my room for days because of the incident and nothing was Done about it my house didn't even have an alarm system so there was nothing stopping this person from coming back I'm still very disappointed in how things were handled and I had no power over anything I have no idea how long that guy was out there for and if he was watching me undress and then dress myself after I showered I remember how messed up looking his smile

was it was menacing I'm glad that I was not harmed By this man and that was his only visit at least I hope I stopped opening my windows at night and I missed the cool winter air it was Winter 2012 and I was 18 or 19 at the time I was working in a petrol station in an average sized town in England it was an okay job and good money for somebody who was at College at the time but it was just a shame that it was a weekend job because while my friends were getting

drunk and having Fun I was in a petrol station serving taxi drivers in the occasional drunk anyway back to the story it started off just like any other night serve people clean up do stock and the average night shift work since it was Winter the night was really dark and you could only see faint outlines of people walking back and forth even with street lights the place where I worked was situated across the road from a pub and had an alley running beside it that led Right into a housing estate around 3:00 to 4:00 a.m.

as I finished cleaning a set of shelves I noticed a figure standing in the alley just out of the light but just enough to hide his face you could also make out his clothing I initially brushed it off as somebody waiting for a taxi as it seemed harmless enough I sat down in my chair behind the counter and looked at my phone and played some games for a bit when I looked up it was 5:00 a.m. and he Was still there waiting watching me to make my situation worse after 5: there is hardly any traffic

or passerbys I had that gutural feeling that he had some harmful intent I was safe however as I was locked in till morning I stared back into trance trying to keep an eye on whatever he would do next after a while I really needed to use the bathroom so when I went and came back thinking and hoping that he might have Walked off but he didn't and he was still there I then decided not to do the last of my duties for the night until my cooworker came in to start their shift as my last

job was to take out the garbage in boxes got to about 6:00 a.m. and the figure faded back into the alley and I didn't see him for the rest of my shift when my coworker arrived it was still dark and I usually walked the 10 minutes back home but I got ATT taxi home after that shift since I felt that The guy could be anywhere still watching me I told my co-workers and family members about my experience and they said they personally haven't experienced anything like it they wouldn't like to either I was very nervous

when doing shifts from then on feeling like as soon as I let my guard down he would strike but thankfully nothing else happened after that I quit the following summer to go to university safe to say I don't want to meet the person in the shadows From that night to set this up I live in a dorm on campus at my college I was back a week early during winter break for Greek recruitment basically interviewing with and visiting different sororities all week and the only people on campus were other girls and a few front desk

staff they didn't have the cleaning company dining hall staff or even our raas around at all as a result my roommate Also wasn't back because she was not rushing and my entire floor since it is mostly made up of exchange students from China was empty I was the only one on the floor and one of the few in the entire Tower there are four dorm Towers 12 floors each to get up to the dorm this week you had to check in with the front desk to get your key reactivated and every time you wanted to

go up they would swipe to give you permission to go past the front desk you then had to Swipe to unlock the doors to the hallways containing the elevators and again to be able to press a button and once more to actually get into into the dorm if you didn't have a key coded to a specific Tower or room you couldn't get into it now I was in my room the second night of the week settled back in and sitting on my futon my back against one of the armrests and facing the door the rooms

are long rectangles with the window at one end and the door at the Other my bed was lofted above me and I have a blanket hanging down from there behind my head so you essentially couldn't see me from the doorway I was laying there with my headphones in jumping through YouTube videos when I heard the door open not only is there a distinct sound of the key card going in and out of the door like a hotel door I also still have Christmas ornaments hanging from the ceiling I heard the door open and I knew

It opened all the way because it hit an ornament and it fell off its hook I froze in fear I knew my roommate wasn't back and neither was my ra those were the only two people who would have access to my room after my initial fear my first thought was that whoever it was would realize their mistake and quickly back out kind of like opening an occupied bathroom stall but as I froze barely breathing I heard them take two steps forward and even bumped my Suitcase which was taking up most of my doorway I adjust

slightly moving to reach my phone and my futon squeaked loudly instantly I heard the footsteps Retreat the door Clos and the person move away from the door I was stuck where I was for maybe an hour until I could finally muster up the courage to turn around there on the floor was the broken or minute in my suitcase sitting slightly a jar I texted my roommate in ra practically begging them to tell me That they were back but my roommate was still in London and my ra confirmed my fear Not only was she not back

but she also said she had no idea who would be able to get into my room even if the cleaning people or the maintenance guys were back they don't have permission to go into dorms nor any way to get in she assured me that she would let the front desk know and also suggested it was just a spring admission student who probably got coded the wrong key I accepted that as an answer they were confused heard me move and realized they got the wrong room it wouldn't happen again if that's what it was but I

struggled to sleep that night I even felt terrified to turn around and look at the door when I woke up the next morning but then night returned and I unable to sleep and very scared was once again up late browsing Reddit this time I had my phone close to me and had taped a piece of string over the door since I Didn't have the ornament alarm hanging anymore and I needed to validate I wasn't going crazy like clockwork once again at 3:00 a.m. I heard footsteps outside my door in the distinct use of the key

card in the door open up I stayed frozen and realized I could see their silhouette in the microwave store which sat against the window and facing the door they stayed in the doorway and nearly filled up the whole thing the Light from the hallway streaming around them into my dark room once again I was frozen convinced they met malice and that last night wasn't a mistake but if they wanted me asleep I wasn't going to let them have that I hit play on a video I had queued up and as soon as the ad started

the figure left and the door closed behind them and the footsteps retreated when I finally looked the string was broken I told my ra and roommate about this as well as the front Desk the next morning all of them confirmed not only that no one else had a registered key from my floor in my tower but even those that did weren't back yet whether it was other students or employees I didn't sleep the rest of the week and kept my suitcase and chair in front of the door but it never happened again even now months

later that little 9x2 room is terrifying when I am alone at night since whoever comes through That door is only a few steps away from my bed blocks the only way out this incident happened to me over the Christmas holidays this past year for reference I'm a 24-year-old female my cousin and I decided to go up a few hours North for a nice winter cabin weekend it went great nothing creepy at all on our final day we packed up at 6:00 a.m. and hopped in the car to get an early start on the 5-Hour drive

we had ahead of us it was a very foggy Morning not actively snowing but previous snowfalls had piled up quite a bit making the drive a little risky in the dark early hours of the morning my cousin was driving and we were chatting and listening to podcasts not too aware of our surroundings we were about 20 minutes into the drive when unfortunately the car skitted off the road a little bit black ice and we very slightly grazed a tree we got out to take a look and by Some miracle there was no damage or anything

on the car as my cousin and I started to laugh with relief we were just thanking our luck I shielded my eyes because of some idiot driving with their high beams coming up behind us so obnoxious my cousin laughed starting to open her door to step back in when the blinding headlight light's car honks and continues to keep at it as they approach us my cousin and I looked at each other super confused but quickly Hopped back in the car the car begins to slow down and we're able to see a man in the driver's

seat and he finally takes his hand off of his horn and pulls up right next to my cousin's car he rolls down his window and motions for my cousin to roll down ours figure it's fine because he's still inside the car and we're in ours I know probably still a stupid move hey there lady in a rush this morning he laughs uh not really just trying to get Home can we help you with something my cousin replies totally Stone Cold poker face oh no I just noticed you dropped something about 2 km back it fell

out of your trunk my cousin turned to look at me did you shut the trunk when we left yeah dude obviously I said Annoying the way the car is shaped we would have seen and definitely heard an open trunk no thanks sir I think you might have have us mixed up with someone else my cousin said and Immediately rolled up her window this man just gave off bad vibes he starts blaring his horn again and motioning for us to roll down the window my cousin rolls it down once again and sees him holding up some

women's underwear and smiling see this look familiar I can literally remember the exact tone with which he said that no thank you sir you have a great day now my cousin quickly rolled up her window again and flored Quickly hopping back on the road and thankfully the man was either taking AB or just gave up and we didn't see him for the next hour or so my cousin and I were a little bit shaken up by this but we tried to laugh it off since we were safe now and we hadn't seen his car follow

us or anything a little while later into our trip we got off at an exit to fill up gas and grab some breakfast at a Starbucks my cousin and I mobile ordered And I was going to quickly run in to grab our food and drinks it started snowing at this point and while the sun had had been up for a little bit it was still foggy and gloomy making it hard to see the surroundings I ran in and as I reached for our food someone's arm reached over mine to grab a napkin and I instantly

flinched back when I looked up I truly almost [ __ ] myself it was that same man look at us just like old friends he Smiled at me I immediately looked down grabbed my food and started walking out of the store as I left I heard him talking to the Barista saying see see that beauty queen that's my beauty queen I almost had tears in my eyes because I was so terrified my power walked to the car almost tripping outside because I was so scared not walking like a normal person I hopped in and screamed

we need to get the hell back on the road he's inside the Starbucks my cousin started laughing and thinking I was pranking her but she quickly realized that was not the case when the man walked out of the Starbucks a few seconds later with no drink or food in hand walking straight towards our car waving at us my cousin quickly started to turn the car on when the man reached into his pocket I genuinely thought he might have been pulling out a weapon but instead he was holding up the underwear he had Before thankfully my

cousin took no time in backing out of there and speeding back onto the highway we both were freaking out at this point not sure how he ended up at the same stop as us despite us not seeing him behind us at all could have taken some sort of back roads that we didn't know about but it would have taken them much longer than us to get there there unless he was trailing behind I don't know we quickly tried to Find an alternate route on our Maps app and thankfully there was one that made us go

through some local roads which we hoped might help of course with our luck though as we were going through a smaller town I felt the car getting gradually lower on my side we pulled over at a well-lit gas station and realized that we were losing air in one of the tires we were both too scared to get out but figured if we went out together it Might be less scary so we did and we filled up the tire with some air and it seemed to be okay we got back into the car to warm up

and everything seemed fine until 10 minutes later and this car seemed to appear out of nowhere directly behind us my cousin and I looked at each other having no idea what to do if it was the man our suspicions were confirmed when he blured his stupid horn yet again then quickly swerved off the road to get Right next to us this time he was on my side he had his window rolled down and was screaming at us at this point I gave zero shits and called my brother-in-law who's a cop he told us to drive

directly to the nearest police station and to call them right away so they would be alert literally as he was instructing me the creep got out of his car just stopped on the side of the snowy icy road we were speeding away so it quickly got harder and harder to see him but From what I could make out he was just sitting on the hood my cousin and I did not want to stop or do anything with about an hour left in our journey we decided to just book us straight home and thank thankfully that

was the end of that I know we made a lot of stupid mistakes that could have potentially had horrible consequences but I'm super happy we made it out alive and unharmed I still don't know how he caught up to us seemingly magically and why he just Sat there at the end but I don't even want to find out at this [Music] point so just over 10 years ago I was fresh out of college and had moved back to my parents house for the free R in food for 9 months or so before I was leaving

the state for graduate school now my parents are super chill and they gave me my own space in the house but being a 22-year-old single guy and living at a house in the sticks they Had just recently moved about 40 Mi south of a major Midwest City is certainly not ideal but I didn't have any other options so I started looking for some work to pass the time and to save up some money anyway so summer turned into winter and I still hadn't found anything solid but by then I desperately needed to spend more time

out of my parents house so I took a part-time gig doing some light bookkeeping for a small Business owner guy that my dad knew I didn't really want to do it since it didn't pay much and was short term and wasn't even a real office setup but again since my parents lived in the middle of nowhere Midwest think of acres and Acres of farms I knew I had limited local opportunities to make some cash and this guy was going to pay me under the table as well about that same time a friend of in the

city said if I just paid him $200 a month and helped him Clean up he basically let me crash in his living room until I was ready to move out of state that was all I needed to hear I took the job so my dad's friend's family had a construction type business they helped out with building stuff a little but it was ultimately more focused on renting out a few Bobcats and large augers they owned also other various drills and even generators or other low-level construction farming equipment That someone in that area couldn't afford to

purchase but but needed to use from time to time this was a small mom and pop type thing where everyone knew everyone and the office only opened on days that when someone was coming by and was generally a mutually beneficial situation for the business owners and the locals since I had minored in a business adjacent area and my dad recommended me they trusted me to go in there for about 15 to 20 hours a week and check and file the rental forms make sure nobody missed a payment date and if there was a payment plan

in place maybe answering an email or two and discussing prices and availability Etc was a super easy gig the old building where I worked was about I think 90 years old and at the top of this little Hill and the downstairs used to be an old country bar until the 1970s when this family bought it cheap cleared out the bar and fenced In the property to use its parking lot area to store all their rental equipment and gear I could generally come and go as I pleased and work any hours I wanted to as long

as the work got done so if things were were slow and there weren't any rentals for a couple of days I'd usually go in after 7:00 and stay until around midnight or 1:00 since I knew I'd be alone and could listen to music loud and take my time and all that the office where I worked was on The second floor of the building above the old bar and looked out on the long driveway from my seat I could easily see out the window and once or twice I saw a family of deer or a raccoon

Scamper by and I always glanced out when I saw a movement since it was very noticeable it was incredibly remote very still and quiet so if something unusual occurred or if something fell off I would definitely notice it one night during winter it had snowed a few inches and my Dad told me to stay in case the roads were that bad but I had an old SUV and more than that I just really wanted to get out of the house so I went into work anyways at about 8:00 p.m. and I was going to stay

until just after 1:00 I always left the gate open at the bottom of the hill when I was working since believe me when I said that nobody ever showed up at night since we were literally literally in the middle of nowhere I think the nearest occupied House was about 2 m down the road and to even turn on to our Short Road you had to be only coming to our specific building and probably know it was there beforehand it was a locals only type of thing and very small since the family had inherited a lot

of money we pretty sure at least and kind of did this rental thing on the side basically someone would never just get lost and end up at our building so I'm jamming away to some Fallout Boy and I'm having some coffee and I kept glancing at the snow outside here and there since our one orangish street light reflected onto the ground at the gate was causing the light to shine off the snow in a really cool and pretty way at one point around midnight I went downstairs to the big bathroom to do my bathroom business

then I came back upstairs and got settled back into my work I probably did about 5 more minutes of work when I glanced outside and saw a Huge imprint of something in the fresh snow just below the light it seemed like it must have been a huge dog or substantial animal had just rolled around on the ground there on its back or something since I didn't notice it just 15 minutes before it had to have happened while I was in the bathroom or possibly when my back was turned since I would have seen that type

of movement for sure I shook it off and assumed a big dog or maybe even a farm manal had Gotten loose and maybe was attracted to the light or something who knows at around 2:00 in the morning I was leaving and as always got out of my car to lock the gate up and to be honest I had pretty much forgotten about the imprint in the snow but when I looked down I was shocked to see that it wasn't just some Disturbed snow but it was undeniably the imprint of a human-made snow angel if you

don't know what a snow angel is it's when kids Lie on their back in the snow and push their arms and legs back and forth so when they get up it looks like the outline of an angel I used to do this when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure most of you probably did too so I 100% knew for sure that's what it was it was deliberately made underneath the light post but it wasn't from a kid it was from a a very large person or at the very least a normal-sized adult wearing

tons of layers of big winter Clothing I looked up and saw what I already knew that whoever had made this snow angel could easily look up and have seen me through that window so they must have waited for me to head downstairs to make this angel now I definitely would have seen or heard if someone drove up to our building even if I was in the bathroom so I knew someone had to have walk deep into the freezing cold and snow for a few miles stopped in front of our building and then do a snow

angel in The small amount of time I wasn't sitting in front of my desk window I glanced around for tracks in the snow and saw that there was one set that led to the nearby Woods to the right of the building so it was clear the person didn't use the road but instead came from the opposite side which made me instantly uneasy since that side was just trees and darkness for miles and miles I was definitely freaked out now Once I realized that someone had just been this close to me secretly in the middle of

the woods and I looked around but didn't see anything a miss at all and now I just wanted to get the hell out of there when I got back into my car and drove a few feet I realized that my boss would be there in like 4 hours you might see the snow angel and assume I did it since he probably assumed I kept the gate locked when I was there it wouldn't Have been that big of a deal at all but I was young and felt like I might be made fun of by him

if nothing else they were all manly men if you know what I mean so I opened the gate back up real quick ran over and kicked the snow around so H the angel locked it up again and went back to my car also I should know this is what really happened at this moment but I almost lied here and said something else since it seems fake since I assume the average person Wouldn't get back out of their SUV and not just flee in their car because they'd be embarrassed about a snow angel but at that

time I was pretty insecure and I cared a lot about what others thought so unfortunately this is what I did also I wasn't exactly fully terrified at this point even though it was certainly unsettling I just thought it was really weird and could have been an illegal Hunter even though hunting at night in the cold didn't make much sense Either way the imprint was made 2 hours earlier and I assumed they were along gone but that's when I heard it when I was getting into my SUV there was the loudest high-pitched laughing coming from the

woods it sounded like a fake laugh like the witch in The Wizard of Oz or something like something was doing it fake on purpose to show that they weren't scared of me or to see how I would react once I knew they were laughing at me on our property it was Close enough that I knew they could probably see me but I couldn't see them at all since other than the street light I was under there was no illumination after a few seconds of laughing they stopped then it was just silence everywhere except for my

heart beating through my ears then the Laughing started again though louder this time more like screaming and laughing combined I sort of froze for just like 5 seconds lissing in a Panic now I spent a lot of time in that area and I know what coyotes and foxes sound like like at night with her high-pitch screeches during mating season so I can't completely logistically rule that out but to me it honestly felt like it was an adult man trying to emulate a woman laughing like someone was deliberately trying to make a fake scary shriek laugh

in order to scare someone well it certainly worked after that 5 seconds I immediately Filled with adrenaline got in my car and drove the hell away from there as fast as I could without sliding off the road back at home I was up all night trying to figure it out and I even told my parents the story when they woke up after talking it out we all decided it was one of two things it was either my brain somehow convinced itself that the snow formation was angel-shaped when it was really just caused by some animal

and then the snow tracks in laughing was Just a coyote or red fox though I don't think that's what it was what I truly believe is the second thing which is that some local was out walking around for some reason and decided to mess with me I didn't have any close friends left in that area that would do this and if they would they certainly would have brought it up to make fun of me for speeding away in Terror I found out later that the nearest house was a super old couple so I highly doubt

that it was one of them which means whomever it was went out into the woods at night in the freezing cold just to mess with a stranger I don't have any mental issues or family history of them didn't do drugs sometimes I drank socially at that time but certainly didn't that night I also don't believe in the Paranormal so I never once gave that a thought in my heart I feel like someone was out there I worked there another 6 weeks or so Never had a single issue though I knew where my boss kept his

gun and always made sure it was there when I started my shift but I certainly always locked the gate from then on thinking about this experience that night the part that freaked me out the most was that he had to have waited around for me to leave for at least 2 hours just to do that laugh he didn't know me I could have been crazy and the type of person to get mad and try to find him and attack him Or something yet he didn't seem scared or to care while he tried to mess with

me for some random dude this is probably a story he tells from his point of view to make all of his friends giggle hysterically but for me that dude the one I call Angel and the snow Guy the one with the laugh I'll never forget now I drive for Lift while putting myself through trade school I drive for other similar companies but that's besides the point I have many Horror stories from those as well but I'll tell those another time it was Christmas Eve of 2020 I was out running lift for a few hours before

heading to my mom's with my new baby and wife nothing special going on for the night just the usual I get a ride request it was a pickup from this kind of lower income apartment complex no big deal I arrive and I find my passenger and he has all of his belongings several boxes of stuff now my car is a 2006 Chevy Impala so it's not very big we get all all of his stuff loaded up barely and we are on our way during the ride he's crying saying his girlfriend was cheating on him and

he had walked in on them earlier that night apparently he couldn't stay there because it was her name on the lease so I was taking him to a hotel now in my city we have a street that is well known for having vices hookers drugs ganks weapons and Shady Motels the works we get there and he asks me to wait for him to check in and get his key hey no problem man I said I'll confess I Break The Rules a little bit when it comes to lift I have a gun hidden in a concealed

holster secured to the underside of my driver seat for protection reason being driving lift and other contract apps I've had knives and guns pulled on me as well as people have tried to fight me Rob me and all kinds of crazy other things but like I said Another time this Motel was on the street I mentioned before homeless people were everywhere and there was a dude on the far corner of the complex that still had a needle in his arm passed out against a building I'll be the first to admit I'm a big fan of

True Crime and horror narration so I'm on edge he gets his key and the whole Motel is ground level so to help the guy out I drive to his store as I mentioned before he had a lot Of stuff so I started to help him unload it while on my second trip of getting stuff I saw a guy come out of a room just to the south of my car followed by two ladies they come up to the room I was next to not my passenger one of the ladies pounded on the door then opened

it that's when I saw that guy raise a freaking shotgun up out of his long coat and storm into the room the two ladies followed him slamming the door behind them following this I heard a lot of Yelling and shouting and I was just waiting for the shots to ring out out of nowhere my passenger came up behind me hey I can take this man go ahead and take off have a Merry Christmas and then he gave me an additional cash tip I didn't even notice he took the boxes out of my hands or let

a $5 bill in my pocket at first I was frozen I knew what may have been going on down in that room I had to leave or at least get to where I could get my gun I know the guy and both ladies saw me and I know they knew I saw the gun so I had to get out of there you know no Witnesses I got in my car and sped away quickly I got a block or so away and called the cops and I gave them every detail after I got off the phone

with the police I signed out of lift I hadn't made much money but I was done I got a call later that night and the cops investigated they never found the gunmen or the women they never answered the Door I saw them come out of and the occupants of the room they went into said that nothing happened and that I was full of [ __ ] well I know what I saw this event happened in January of 2013 I was then a 17-year-old guy living in Portland Oregon throughout High School I was always is very

active in cycling I would often find myself cycling in the early morning and late at night either coming back from school or from a friend's House didn't have a driver's license yet so cycling was the only viable option for me if the weather permitted it I lived in a safe area of the city and I had good lighting so I was never afraid of cycling in the dark however one night during my senior year of high school this would all change the distance from my school to my house was around 6 km sticking to main

roads but about 4 km taking a shortcut through a nice wooded park I had Finished a long music rehearsal and I was tired it was already 10:40 p.m. and I was feeling extremely exhausted I decided to take the shortcut home although the park can be very scary due to the lack of lighting I've taken that shortcut before at dark during the summer there's usually some crowds still at the park but this was Winter and the park was a very different feeling being completely dark with no one around at around 1050 or so I took a

Left turned from the lit Road into the wooded park already the scenery went from Serene to frightening I could get through it in around 10 minutes however halfway through the dark area I happened to run in two guys wearing dark colored hoods aside from the fact that they were not wearing reflective clothing they looked threatening and scary could not see their faces very well until I was within 20 M from them As I passed them I heard them quietly talking about something suddenly both guys pull out large knives from their jackets my heart immediately sank

and my adrenaline started to kick in one of the guys starts to yell curse words at me and both charge at me wielding their knives I Was preparing for the worst and thinking that I could end up dead and dumped somewhere fortunately for me I was able to see a path that led to a lit Street and I quickly cycled fast out of There normally my legs would get tired since it was a good 400 m to the busy road as I got into the lit Road I saw some light traffic in immediately felt much

safer about 15 seconds later the two guys walked out and pretended not to see me I let out a sigh of relief as they went the opposite direction that I went as I checked my iPhone for the time another feeling of dread hit me as the time on my phone showed 11:15 p.m. my immediate reaction was what the hell was I really in that park for more than 20 minutes it felt so much shorter than 25 minutes with how panicked I was I quickly cycled home and eventually reached there about 5 minutes later I ended

up not telling my parents about this as I would get in very serious trouble with them after a few days the horrifying thought of almost being murdered in a desolate Park started to vanish from my mind I never went through that park at night again and I didn't Even go through that park for a few months after that period just a week later some very horrific news ended up shocking my neighborhood a very popular Junior from my high school was violently stabbed and killed in a brawl him and his friends were doing some shopping at

a store when three male teenagers started to cause some trouble and stole some items when he confronted the three guys they started getting violent and a large fight broke out between them the Guys ended up stabbing the poor boy multiple times and was rushed to the hospital sadly he succumbed to his injuries he was on the football and basketball teams in my school and was a very kind-hearted person in general his death devastated the entire Community a few days afterwards I come to read the news and I was met with horror and disgust two of

those three teenagers were the exact same guys I encountered at the park late at night despite both Only being 18 years of age they looked like they were at least in their late 20s those three teenagers were quickly identified by many of my schoolmates as they graduated a different High School a year before but were very active on social media I don't know what would have happened if I wasn't athletic and wasn't able to outrun those hooded guys I've been in in fights and beaten up before but I'd never been so scared for my life

before this Incident a few years ago when I still lived in Upstate New York something really freaky happened to me if you've ever been there during the winter you know that it snows a lot I usually just spent snowy nights watching TV I lived about a mile or so from any other house and my roommate was out now I'll be honest being alone made me feel uncomfortable I've always had an overactive imagination and a small noise could really freak me Out like I was saying my roommate was out and it was snowing heavily it was

probably like 9 or 10 at night and I was watching TV like normal all of a sudden I heard a crunch outside like someone stepping on Ice I immediately tensed up and my mind raced to every possibility it wasn't my roommate since I didn't hear a car I listened in horror as I could hear the crunches getting louder I ran into my room and locked the door door I got out my shotgun and I Grabbed my phone ready to call 911 just in case I know I might seem like I was overreacting but remember this

is at night in heavy snow miles away from any other house who could possibly be outside the footsteps just stopped at some point I eventually fell asleep and when I woke up my roommate was back I went outside to see if I could find any evidence of who I was outside and what I found still haunts me I saw footprints In the snow coming out of the woods and circling around my house the footprints were filled in for the most part so it was hard to figure out where they were going scariest part of all

this is that the footprints stopped outside of my bedroom window the other Footprints were filled in but these were fresh as if someone had been standing there all night since the snow stopped early in the morning to this day it still scares me I don't know what kind of person Would be out in those woods fact that I was in my room while they were standing outside my bedroom window still freaks me me out I moved out of that house a few months later we moved to Connecticut the summer before I entered sixth grade so

2001 into a beautiful new house in one of the most beautiful towns a bit more rural than we're used to in New Jersey but it was an adjustment my sister is 2 years younger Than me so was going into fourth grade at the time it's relevant by the way to the story we came from a neighborhood where we were all super close and everyone knew one another block parties every summer kids running back and forth to one another's houses and we were sad to leave it within the first weeks we met some of our neighbors

and everyone was what we soon defined as very Connecticut in particular our neighbors Directly across the street seemed a bit odd the mom would come over to vent to my mom about her sons and husband or ex-husband we couldn't really figure it out at the time and my mom was a sweetheart and was a very welcome coming in warm the holidays came around and the neighbor boy across the street that was in my sister's fourth grade class my sister came back slightly alarmed with what had happened in class that day the students were asked to

make a Thanksgiving turkey out of a trace drawing of their hands on each finger they were to write the things they were thankful for the neighbor wrote things like being a loser hating myself Etc extremely dark things for a fourth grader fast forward to Christmas and my mom hears that they have nowhere to go for the holiday so she politely invites the mother and two sons to our annual Christmas Eve party the boys were really strange they listen to Japanese techno With headphones on and just spoke to nobody they headed straight to our basement to

play video games it was weird the younger one was always much Stranger Than the older one and the mom would always open up to my mom and aunt who works with special needs students about how he would hurt himself and how he needed to be put in Special Needs programs but that he could never quite be diagnosed they thought he was kind of on the Spectrum at first but that quickly proved to not be the case we always assumed she'd been confiding in them because my aunt was experienced with special needs kids and that she

was looking for advice the Christmas Eve stand out to me because they were at our home in a very intimate setting but we saw them on a daily basis my sister and I would come home from school telling my mom about how weird the younger neighbor boy was that something was off I'll Never forget her telling us just be nice to him you don't know what he is capable of that struck me so odd at the time but we just listened I don't know if his mother told my mom something that scared her and made

her say it or she just had a gut instinct recently after that and I can't quite remember if this was middle school or high school I believe it was 9th grade and my sister and younger neighbor were both in seventh so we all rode the Bus together what my mom said stuck out in my mind so today I decided to be friendlier than usual there was snow on the ground and younger neighbor boy was drawing something in it and muttering to himself some sort of gibberish that I had no idea about but anyways I decided

to greet him hey Adam good morning no eye contact from him he just looked at me and said I'll bomb you making no eye contact okay so we let it slide and we came home and told my mom she reiterated Just be nice we don't know what he's capable of keep in mind we were kids we didn't know what to take seriously and what not to I wish we would have done more also keep in mind he wasn't someone who was bullied or made fun of he was just always off in the sense that he

could not hold eye contact or a conversation or even a simple hello kids didn't make fun of him and he was a loner but it seemed to be by choice I didn't know why we were Cautious and Afraid around him other than the fact that he showed zero warmth and zero Humanity we knew he had special needs so so we never really second guessed anything and just tried to be as polite as possible when the bus would drop us off at all of our houses he would run all the way up his driveway on the

hill with his hands by his sides and then turn around and kind of make a hiss noise down at everyone making claws with His hands it was always so odd but again we were kids and there are always a couple of kids in school who were a little strange we just took it as that they were invited to several Christmas evees so my memories kind of blend here one year the neighbor started screaming at my innocent grandmother for being a Yankees fan cuz she was a Red Sox fan it was beyond strange because my grandma

is the cutest little lady of all time was in no way trying to argue over Sports it was as though the woman clearly had a weird switch go off she was always nice to me but I'll be honest we rolled our eyes every time my mom invited them it was always such forced conversations with her as a teenager I wanted nothing to do with being cornered into another chat I think she just must have been lonely the following year and the final year they were invited to Christmas Eve was when she got into it with

my mom about Having guns in the house the boys only attended the first couple of Christmas Eve so it was just the Mama's time around topic of guns came up the neighbor Mom started telling my mom about how she has guns in the house and how she takes her younger boy out to the shooting range all the time my mom said that she didn't agree with having guns in the house but wasn't trying to argue our neighbor suddenly got out of hand about it very defensive and ultimately Getting aggressive about how she grew up in

New Hampshire and that was just the way of life there our neighbor told us how brilliant her younger neighbor boy was and that he had hacked into some of the government's highest levels of security and that the CIA showed up on his doorstep we absolutely have no idea if the story is true or not but this is just what she told us so it became our ongoing joke when anything strange happened at her house like there would Be a few things odd throughout the years maybe our internet had clearly been messed with lights would flicker

in the house and we would just joke that it was the young neighbor boy each time it wasn't until December 14th 2012 that we knew just what he was capable of I was out of college working outside of Philadelphia with my sister still a student in college and my youngest brother a student at the high school the worst day of all of our Lives my dad Heard the gunshots in the morning that killed the neighbor Mom Nancy Lanza he assumed it had been a hunter in the area maybe a little closer than usual until the

police showed up and he had to evacuate the house as snipers lined our driveway my mom was at the mall and we were all frantically calling one another as the news broke slowly throughout the day at first they had his identity wrong and said it was his brother but we knew it had to have been him thank God for my Mom making sure we were as nice as possible although I don't know that it would have stopped him I wish we would have done more at the time I wish we we knew to do more

at the time but we didn't we didn't want to assume the worst out of someone but I wish we would have 20 students six teachers killed that Sandy Hook Elementary School that day the worst act of evil I've ever experienced so directly in my life and I hope I will never experience again I'm Thankful that we survived growing up across the street from him but unfortunately or those who did not get so lucky kids those little kids in a place that should be the safest Haven for them in their youth I hate it so much

when I was about 12 my great uncle John came from Ukraine to visit us in Canada he had a lot of stories but this one was the one that stood out in the late 1960s John was traveling by train From his village to another to visit his family he had to change trains at one point and was dropped off at what have mounted to a platform and a Hut in the middle of nowhere there was no one else in the station and other than a dirt road that led off in the surrounding Woods there was

nothing there he waited for some time but no train came it was Winter and getting colder and darker and just about time he started worrying about a place to stay and some food to Eat an old woman appeared out of the Twilight she asked if he was waiting for such and such train and when he said he was she said it wouldn't be along until the following day she asked if he needed a bed for the night and offered him a meal and room at her house which she said was about an hour's walk from

the station lodging with locals was more or less the standard when traveling in this part of the USSR and great uncle John wasn't looking forward to a hungry night On a cold platform so he was glad to accept her offer he took his suitcase and they set off together down the dirt road into the forest it was more than an hour away more like two and by the time they arrived at the woman's small two-story house John was extremely tired and hungry they went inside and the woman lit some oil lamps and warmed some borch

for them it was the first time John was able to see the woman clearly and he was a Bit startled to realize that the old woman was actually a man not wanting to pry and too tired to care John finished his soup and asked where he would be sleeping she led him up the stairs to a tiny room with a window that contained a single bed and nothing else he thanked her however and said good night and she closed the door then she locked it leaving him in the dark somewhat creeped out by this John

Called to her but she didn't answer and he heard nothing else figuring he would deal with it in the morning and that she probably had done it by mistake John set his suitcase down and lay on the bed deciding to make the best of it and get some sleep before he could fall asleep though he felt the urge to pee and got out of bed hoping to find a chamber pot or something he could pee in he got onto his hands and knees and began to feel Under the bed in the Darkness thinking that's where

the pot would be if there was one instead he found a body nope great uncle John said he went right to the window to see if he could exit the room that way but it was nailed shut he knew that if he remains in the room he was probably a dead man but if he broke the window and tried to get away there was a good chance that the old woman and who knows who else is there would hear him and come into the Room before he could get away so he did the only thing

he could do he pulled the body from under the bed heaved it onto the mattress and covered it with a blanket then got under the bed and waited sure enough about an hour later he heard footsteps coming slowly up the stairs and then toward the room the lock clicked and the knob turned slowly in the Gloom John saw someone move toward the bed then he heard several terrific and sickening thuds the Person had bashed the body off the bed with a large crowbar which they then dropped onto the floor right in front of John there

was silence then the person went out of the room and the door was shut again the footsteps went down the stairs and then was silence again John then moved out from under the bed took the Crowbar and was able to slowly pry the window open he didn't say but I imagine he was [ __ ] bricks the entire time when the window was up he Threw his suitcase out then Dove through not caring what was below him only worried about what was behind thankfully he landed without too much injury and began to run into a

field behind the house toward some lights in the far distance it turned out to be a highway with some military and transport trucks on it and he was able to get a ride to another village where he could catch a train he didn't bother reporting what had happened to the authorities since at That time in the USSR there was a distinct chance he would have been the one who'd got in trouble he just thanked God he escaped and decided that the next time he traveled to visit relatives he would take another way a few years

ago on Christmas Eve my friend Frank and I were driving around I'm pretty sure we were just getting some last minute shopping done at one point we stopped by a CVS to get some cards by this time it was pretty dark Outside on our way out we were stopped by a heavy set woman who was waiting by the entrance she asked if there was any way we could give her a ride down the street now under normal circumstances I would have immediately said no and come up with some excuse about how I needed to be

somewhere else ASAP I just don't let random strangers into my car are this world is too crazy now but given that it was Christmas Eve and it was snowing pretty hard I decided to help She got in the back seat and said she lived just down the street not even 5 minutes away before I headed in that direction I drove across the street to the bank not that I need to inform her but while I was at the ATM drive-thru I was just explaining that I need to get some money out and then we'll head

towards her home that's when [ __ ] got awkward real fast she asked me if I'd be able to let her borrow some money until she gets paid again I glanced over at Frank real quick who looked like he wanted to just start cracking up but held it in we literally picked this lady up 2 minutes ago and she's asking to borrow money as if she's a friend all I could say was excuse me but she just asked again like it was no big deal I followed up by asking her how I knew I would

get my money back with no contact info then she replied saying she'll give me her cell phone number but that it's shut off right now and it'll be on next Week honestly just wanted to laugh so hard did she honestly think I was going to believe this crap so I took another $20 out of the ATM I definitely really wasn't planning on giving it to her but I had it in my wallet and told her I'd give her the money when we got to her house once we were on the main road I asked for

directions but she decided to change her mind she didn't want to go home anymore instead she wants to go to her friend's House this was getting too suspicious and I really just wanted to pull over and tell her to get the hell out of my car but I kept driving and followed her new directions wherever she took us was far out of my way it was about 15 minutes from the original destination and it was mostly side roads that we were taking I wasn't too familiar with the area and I could tell we were pretty

much in the ghetto she finally had me pull over and Said right here is fine I wasn't exactly sure what house belonged to her so-called friend because there were a few on the left side of the street and to the right was a cemetery which was kind of freaky in itself I waited for her to thank me or say something literally anything and finally get the hell out of my car but she just sat in the back seat with an awkward smile on her face I looked back and asked if she was waiting for her

friend To come out she quickly said no I'm just waiting for my money I looked at Frank again and we were both pretty stunned by her answer I wasn't about to let some stranger I just helped talk to me like I owe her something so I told her I'm not giving her the money and if she needs help she can ask her friend she started getting loud to me that had give her the money that I promised her this [ __ ] was just getting crazy and I just wanted to Psycho out of my car

I looked out of my window and by this point there were other people in the street and on the sidewalk I'm not sure if these people just happened to be outside or if they heard her yelling or hell if she had something planned but my mind was racing I couldn't think straight and she wouldn't stop I realized these people outside were getting closer to my car then I heard the front door handle try To open some man was outside my window yelling asking what's going on so I finally just took the $2 out of my

wallet and threw it at her she grabbed it up and instantly left my car then took off running I got out of that neighborhood as fast as I could when we found the main road I felt a little bit better but I was pissed that I just got played by some lady I didn't even care about the $20 because I already knew that I wasn't getting it back but mark My words I'll never give another strange R again the story took place when I was 23 years old close to 10 years ago I was living

in Upstate New York in a very rural area with my ex-boyfriend and his family he and I used to argue quite a bit one morning before he went to work he and I got into a very heated argument but during this particular fight he acted majorly juvenile he jumped out of bed flipped me the bird And yelled if if you don't like it so much then why don't you go back to the effing Bronx that was all the promising I needed I threw all my Uggs in my winter jacket grabbed my cigarettes and flew out

of the house I'm unfortunately an impulsive ass and didn't think to grab my cell phone before I stormed out I didn't drive so my only option was to walk I'll think of the time that I intended to walk back to the Bronx as it Was a 3-hour car ride up state but I just need to go for an angry dramatic walk I realized once I got to this this road at the entrance of the trailer park that I had no idea where anything really was around me as i' only lived there a few months at

that point and I really didn't go out a lot I banked left and just walked and walked to where I knew civilization was I found myself walking alongside a very busy stretch of road with 18 wheelers flying by spraying me Of slushy snow and soaking my shoes I then saw my boyfriend driving by on his way to work and he sped up as he drove past me evidently still angry about our fight I thought for sure he was going to turn around at some point but he never came back I pressed on deciding instead to

try to walk to my best friend's mother's house which I knew to be in the same town it started to snow and I was losing momentum I passed by a VFW where a Non-descript pickup truck was parked in the drive it wasn't until I had passed it that IID even realized the driver was in the front seat he called out to me hey honey do you need help my stomach turned realized guing I would have to accept the stranger's offer I approached his truck slowly and tried to wear out my options he was a cleancut

seemingly normal older white guy with gray hair and greenish blue eyes just average I blurted out are you a good guy or a bad Guy and cringed at myself for asking such a dumbass question he answered ha I'm a good guy I wouldn't tell you if I was a bad guy I ignored the bells going off my head and I got in the front seat with him as we drove I realized I had no clue where my friend's mom actually lived I only knew the name of the road she lived on but it spaned a

good distance so it wasn't very helpful in terms of finding it I asked to borrow his cell phone so I Could try calling my best friend to ask her where the heck I was going I called her three times and she didn't answer because she didn't recognize the number I started to feel inexplicably hopeless after a few minutes he asked me where I was from and why I was out in the middle of nowhere in the snow wearing pajamas I explained that I was originally from the Bronx and that I had gotten into a fight

with my Boyfriend he paused and said hey you wouldn't be interested in making a little bit of money would you I chuckled nervously and said uh no thanks though he responded well I just figured since you were from the Bronx I was now realizing at that point that I was almost definitely in deep [ __ ] I muttered oh sure sure he then eyed me up and down and laughed to him before sneering sure sure she says I started to panic big time but Knew I couldn't show my fear I scoured the scenery for a

pillowy snowbank that I could land in if I leapt out of the truck but to no avail the houses were so few and far in between I became certain this would be how I met my demise I'll never know why but it was at this point that he decided to ask me who I was going to see I quickly blurted out my best friend's mom name and her husband's full name he instantly perked up and explained that He knew the husband and how they used to snowmobile together 20 years ago I felt the greatest wave

of relief when he explained that he knew exactly where his old buddy lived when we finally pulled up to that big yellow house it was like arriving to the promised land I asked for his name Steve he said then asked for mine I actually gave him a fake name and spat out a [ __ ] thank you and then I ran as fast as I could from his truck to the Porch I cracked R through the front door without knocking and I locked it behind me I immediately started crying and running through the house trying

to find my friend's mom I had awoken her from a sound sleep but she didn't say a word about it upon seeing how shaken up I was once I knew I was safe with her I explained everything the weird guy and his sexual proposition and she listened horrified and curious at the same time she made me promise to never do anything So reckless again in that if I ever needed help to call her she told me she would ask her husband about him when he got home about this Steve guy and find out more about

him I returned to my boyfriend Slater that same day and I got really stoned to try to forget about the events of that morning the following day my friend's mom called me to tell me that Steve was a dangerous person who her husband had to cut off communication with years ago The last he had heard about Steve was that he had been arrested for some sort of sexual assault she then went on to point out how incredibly easy it would have been for him to hurt me and leave me just about anywhere on some lonely

stretch of road and no one would ever know where to look for me not to mention I might not have even been found until the snow thought [Music] Out I work at a popular retail store in a mall close to my oncampus apartment I was home for Christmas break and decided to work Christmas Eve since I was promised time on a half and I could use the money to buy some extra Christmas presents my childhood home is not very far from my apartment apartment but it's about an hour drive from my work our holiday hours

were extended this year and I was given a closing shift for Christmas Eve the store closed At 10: p.m. and the closing shift ended at 10:30 meaning that I would be getting home around midnight after swinging through a drive-thru to grab something to eat the closing shift at the store usually had two employees and a manager working but the other employee that was supposed to close with me was out SI so it was just me and the manager while the manager emptied and counted the cash drawers and wrot a daily report I gathered up all

the trash and cardboard And left it all by the back door in the stock room I dusted and vacuumed until the manager was finished with a daily report then he put in the combination to disable the alarm and held open the back door for me to take the trash out and cardboard this was the part that was usually the most helpful to have two employees instead of one because the dumpster was walled off and the manager had to wait by the door to make sure no one walked into the store but the Dumpster wasn't too

far away and I wanted to get get home as soon as possible so I carried all the trash out our store shared the dumpster with only three other stores all of which closed either before us or after us so I wasn't expecting to see anyone at the dumpster I was so startled that I dropped my bags when I saw someone digging through the trash he looked up at me when he heard the bags fall oh hi I dropped my wallet in the Trash could you help me grab it he asked a thousand red flags went

off of my brain and I immediately began to back away uh I don't think I can I need to take out the trash and get back to my store I said trying to walk towards the store slowly which store do you work at he asked I'm not sure why I told him but I told him the store I worked at and he nodded oh nice store you could just leave the bags here I'll toss them when I'm done looking I went back into the store at that point a little creeped out but not suspecting anything

else I told my boss what happened and he laughed a little bit and offered to walk me to my car as I parked in the lot behind the store and he was parked in the parking garage attached to the main mall I declined and I walked to the nearly empty parking lot there were only three cars in the parking lot including mine one car was parked close to the back Entrance of a neighboring restaurant and the other car was parked just a few spots away from mine I couldn't see the person inside but the car

was on and it looked like the person was trying to warm up the car from the inside before scraping off the ice on the windshield I glanced at the car a few times just to mentally jot down the make and model of the car it was a blue Honda Accord before getting into my car and locking the doors I called my parents to Let them know that I was just now leaving and that I would be stopping to grab dinner on the way home I kept my eyes peeled for the different fast food joints on

the side of the highway but the majority of them were closed as it was 11:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve I was getting hungrier and hungrier as I got closer and closer to the exit of my house I had decided to just scr up some leftovers at home as I drove through my Town when I saw a Subway with blinking lights on that said open late I peeled into the parking lot of the subway and saw the red LED sign indicating that it was open I walked into the sandwich shop and took a look around as

it was pretty empty I called out to the empty store and was able to get the attention of the only person working in the store I thought I locked the door we just closed he said oh man please come on I just got off work and I just want To grab something to eat before I go to bed I'll be really quick I promise I begged him I felt bad but he sighed and agreed probably taking pity on how exhausted I looked we talked for a little bit about working the late night shift on christm

Eve as he made my sandwich before a group of teenage boys walked into the store hey we're close guys I'm going to lock the store after I'm done making her sandwich he said but I want a sandwich One of the boys whined fine the subway employee got out from behind the counter and locked the door so no one else would be able to get in and he could ensure that the teenagers would be his last customers of the night he finished making my sandwich and left me to pick out my drink and chips at the

soda fountain and the subway employee disappeared into the back I put the lid to my cup on and was looking for a straw when something Caught my eye the man from the dumpster was waiting in the parking lot next to my car it was that blue Honda Accord I really started to freak out at that point there was no reason for this guy to be in my town an hour away from the mall at the exact place I decided to stop if he wasn't following me and what was he doing on the hood of his

car it was the day before Christmas and it was snowing and well below 30° hey uh can you guys walk me to my Car I asked the group of boys yeah you all right one of the boys asked oh yeah I'm fine I just don't want to slip on any ice I lied obviously I felt a little silly saying that because there was probably a perfectly good reason for the man from the dumpster to be in the parking lot something that didn't have anything to do with me but I was super nervous still the boys

walked me to my car and waited until I drove off the man didn't even look at me as I Got into my car I had about 10 minutes until I got to my house and I tried to shake the weird feeling I got about the man in the dumpster it took me a while to notice but I realized that there was someone following me it was hard to see because the car's lights were off but I noticed the car when I glanced in my rear view mirror as I drove under a street light I started

to get nervous again and I drove past my house and turned back Onto the main road hoping I would lose this guy this guy stayed on my tail and I watched my mirror as we went under a street light again it was that same blue Honda Accord I pulled out my phone and called 911 and explained the situation to the dispatcher the dispatcher had advised me to drive to the nearest police station and told me she would inform the police station of what was going on I stayed on the line with the dispatcher until I

Pulled into the police station the hondaa core drove past the station there was a police car waiting outside the station that drove after the guy but ultimately there was nothing they could do besides give him a ticket for driving with his lights off my description of the man by the dumpster matched the driver of the Accord I don't know what he had planned but I haven't seen him since and told my boss about the incident so I won't have To take the trash out on my own anymore