Nearly 4 Hours of True Scary Stories with Rain Sound Effects - Black Screen Horror Compilation

I'm a 20-something female student at a pretty big university in the midwest I work as a desk clerk in one of the student libraries I basically check books and equipment in and out give directions for the building and area and help the patrons with what they may need I'm also quite talkative and friendly and that makes me a good customer service employee one that people will Stop to chat with I know all the regulars by May and most of the people I see in the library are really great people most one night around 9pm another

Library employee Mark shows up to chat he works in another department that has him walking all around the building so he frequently passes my desk and says hi I had a headache so I really wasn't up for casual conversation and knowing my Pretty well I told him that I wasn't feeling very well and was eager to get off of work soon he wished me well and went off on his way during this exchange a patron had come up behind Mark to wait for my attention which was normal considering I work at the front desk as

Mark leaves the man steps up to take his place in front of my desk and she stares at me for a second with an uneasy Smile on his face and I'd seen him a few times mulling around the library in recent weeks he usually just sat in the cafe area reading a local paper they looked to be about mid-30s and more pretty nice clouds so I didn't think he was homeless or anything like that he said he overheard that I wasn't feeling well it asked if I wanted him to grab me a drink from the

vending machine down the hall as the cafe closed today I politely declined obviously not wanting to take drinks of any kind from strangers he seemed a little mad but didn't mention it he then said he also overheard that I got off suit and asked if I wanted him to walk me to my car becoming wary and alert I again declined and started to consider my options for escape the desk is only staffed by one person at a time on weeknights and considering It's the spring semester there are just not a lot of people around the

library with no co-workers to cover the desk for me I can't leave my boss works up on the second floor in the admin offices but I know my favorite supervisor isn't working today this meant I couldn't get a supervisor Down Here Without a legitimate reason even if I call upstairs I can't very well explain the situation over the phone because it's literally right next To me and this guy would overhear everything who knows what he would have done not really sure what to do next I turn around to hide the confusion and fear on my

face I stood and grabbed the disinfectant wipes and began wiping the counters just to have a job to do rather than sit idly with this creep standing at my desk and I don't even turned away from him for less than a minute when I heard the keyboard clicks at my computer I Whirled around and see that he has my Facebook page open he must have done some keyboard camera to switch tabs because my Facebook was open and locked in but in a different tap when I left the computer now this is obviously very bad because

now this guy has my first and last name [ __ ] at this point I'm scared but honestly in the moment I was just pissed off I asked him what he was doing as he Turned the monitor at an angle so we could see the screen and was analyzing my profile he then said oh so your name is Abigail Watson nice to meet you obviously I couldn't lie and say it was someone else I mean my profile picture is my face for Christ's sake this [ __ ] really got to me I told him how

rude that was and how it was an invasion of privacy he responded by saying it was on a public computer so It was public property yeah [ __ ] right he made a move toward me and leaned over the desk a bit and tried to grab my arm I was about to start getting heated when Mark came down the stairs saying he'd heard me from the stairwell I must have been talking pretty loud at this point I was visibly passed as Mark could say as I explained that he tried to buy me a drink and

walked me to my car and went As far as basically stealing my personal information from my Facebook page now also pissed at this point Mark stepped right up into the guy's face marks a pretty big barley guy he told him to forget my name my face and get the hell out of there the creeper guy put his hands up and smirked as he took a few steps back with the old hey man it's cool I'm just trying to make some friends out here I told him I'd be calling building security if I saw him at

my desk again he told me to [ __ ] off you called me ugly before storming off and leaving Mark asked if I was okay I asked him to cover the desk for a few minutes while I went up and explained what happened to my boss he was also pretty pissed at this guy and told me he'd get security to look at the camera footage so maybe ID this creep and that he'd be banned if he Showed up again turns out he was a student here a while back and had a history of stalking female

students [ __ ] gross and you haven't seen him since I called campus police but never really hurt back Mark now makes rounds to my dad's when I work nights me my sister and my mom have been trying to make sense of this for the past Couple of hours and the facts get less comforting The More We compare our experiences of that night so last Friday night I was home alone while my family stayed in their cabin a few kilometers away I'm used to staying home alone has this exact scenario is very common in the

summertime especially while I'm working and can't travel from the cabinet back I'm not usually jumpy or afraid while Home alone anymore I'm used to the odd creaks and settling noises of our house I was especially comforted by the fact that my sister's dog was also in the house with me that night and most noises could be attributed to him if anything were to happen you would act as a guard dog of sorts and alert me to anything odd at the same time however he is the type of dog to bark at any noise or person

walking past the doors or windows so I'm Used to hearing him bore or growl at night even so this past Friday the sound of his box at nearly 12 a.m were disconcerting to save the least despite my comfort with staying home alone I am still terrified of the premise of a breaker or some other Uninvited human interaction at midnight I let him bark for a few seconds telling myself it was just someone walking past our glass door in the adjacent Alleyway And he would quiet down once they passed needless to say that's not what happened

he kept barking and growling for a few moments too long I finally got out of bed and walked upstairs to check it out as I'd suspected he was standing alert at the glass door I was comforted for a moment until I walked over ready to close the curtains and go back to sleep I saw the door open about two or three Inches I froze I'd let our dog boss go out earlier that night but I know I closed the door I've never left this door open I'm a paranoid person with bad anxiety and especially concerning

break-ins and the like I would never home alone forget to close the door I am 100 certain but at the time I didn't let myself think about these facts or even acknowledge that I could Not have left the door open because I knew it would send me into a spiral possibly even an anxiety or panic attack if I didn't explain it this way I closed and locked the door double checking that it was certainly locked using the flashlight on my phone I looked around the entire second floor of my three-floor house including closets and other

reasonable hiding spots just to put my mind at ease and upon finding nothing I went back Downstairs to my room as I was down there trying to push away the fear I could hear Bosco walking around the floor that doubles as my bedroom's room I thought I was overthinking it when it started to sound like human footsteps accompanied by Bosco's footsteps he walks around for about 10 minutes before I put in my earphones and talk myself down until I can fall asleep at 2 am the same night my sister comes Home from work I woke

up a few times before this Tabasco in the basement whining in my bedroom door when I got up to let him out my sister walked in we let him out the front door rather than the glass patio door letting him in the same way we talked for a while before I went back downstairs and my sister went to the bathroom and I forgot about the door busy with Work for the next few days I forgot to mention it to anyone until tonight my sister and my mom were home with me for a movie night while

my dad and brother stayed at the cabin I remember the door situation when we were picking out horror movies to watch I was sharing it as a creepy almost funny story before my sister spoke up saying that the same night an hour or so after they got home the door was open Again the same door that was locked from the inside and it not opened since earlier that night my stomach dropped and I started shaking the second this was revealed we first started trying to explain it away maybe she let Bosco out and forgot to

close it until we both recalled that we'd use the front door then we were trying to justify a reason someone would break in to not steal anything and proceed to stay for two Hours before leaving ultimately I realized that I quite possibly locked someone in the house with me then forced them to hide upstairs while I searched the second level of our house then this hypothetical person would be trapped up there now knowing that this house was not empty and there was a dog who had bought if they showed themselves again alluding me to their

presence that when I was in the basement and my sister In the bathroom they ran out of the glass door which is timed perfectly to when they found the door open once more much wider than when I had found it as though they were only in a hurry on the way out perhaps they left it open the first time for a quick Escape or to stop the loud sound of it meeting the door Fray either way either way it ties too perfectly for me to reasonably brush it off I know it's unlikely especially with Nothing

missing but in this small town there have been many reports or break-ins with nothing missing vandalizing or just breaking and entering many many times so it's not as unlikely as it may be in a bigger city I can't make sense of this I'm shaking up thinking of the possibility of someone being in my house while I was asleep alone in the basement there is a part of me that doesn't Believe it but I can't shake the too many coincidences that all tied together to make this as concerning as it is okay so this happened about

a year ago I'm in a long-distance relationship and I often fly to visit I didn't have a right arrange to come pick me up so I usually use Lyft or Uber to get to and from the airport this particular ride started off fine the guy was from Haiti I believe he said so he had a very thick accent that was Often hard to understand the beginning of the ride was him just making small talk like most drivers do where are you flying from are you in college do you have family here and so on we

get on the freeway and there's lots of traffic I had a layover flight and of course all the outlets were in use so I couldn't charge my phone I'm hoping this traffic lightens up because I really need to keep in contact with the people I'm going to be staying With of course with my luck the app crashes and says you have arrived while we were literally in the middle of the freeway with no houses near us at all and I get kind of annoyed and the driver says he'll pull over at this Walmart nearby to

figure out what's wrong apparently he had a very old phone and it wasn't giving proper directions so I said we could use mine but I needed to charge it He asked me to sit up front so it was easier and I thought nothing of it so I did go up front he tells me he will take me the rest of the way for free without using the lifter I put the addresser and we're back on our way as we're pulling out of the Walmart parking lot he asks me how old I am I told him

I just turned 18 and that's when things got kind of weird He seemed to lighten up at how young I was which was a bit off but whatever he then asks me a series of questions like why don't you live here in this state you should move here you could go to college here so why don't you I'm a doctor and lent is just a side job so I have money this man was at least in his mid-40s I told him I had no money to just randomly move States and start college seeing as I

had just become an illegal adult He then told me I can take care of you I'll buy you a little apartment and a nice call and take you out and pay for your college I thought he was joking so I kind of just awkwardly laughed and said that it's okay he didn't need to do that but he kept insisting and I was getting kind of creeped out I really didn't want to jump to conclusions I thought maybe he's just not sure how To hold a proper conversation being as he's not from the country or something

about 20 minutes later we're about five minutes from my destination my phone kept doing that annoying charging not charging that phone still when the charger wires are loads I had this phone a while so I did this at times and apparently hadn't been charging much and it died since we were so close to the destination though I told him I knew the rest of the way but I tell him to turn right and he'd say okay and purposely turn left or keep going straight anything but what I told him to do now we're lost because

he's ignoring everything I'm saying and playing it off as an accident I'm not super familiar with the entire area I only know a small portion of the streets he tells me he lives nearby and I start getting really scared because I think he's going to kidnap me or Something I let out a single tear and then I tell myself to keep it together because in the movies whenever they see fear they get mad or something so I'm trying to make it seem like I'm not losing my [ __ ] finally he turns back around and

when we're almost there again he wants more starts going the wrong way at this point I got my phone to about five percent He reaches over while at a red light and grabs my phone he writes himself five stars on the left and Friends me on Facebook he also puts his number in my phone and tells me to call him if I ever need anything and that we should go out sometime I give a little fake smile so he doesn't know I'm about to [ __ ] myself from Fear eventually I get so fed up

I just jump out at another red light and tell me facts but you're really scaring me bye I Call my boyfriend on my five percent battery life and tell them where I am because I'm really scared and I need him to pick me up my Lyft driver is shouting out the window for me to get back into the car but there's no way in hell I was going back in there to be some mad sugar baby and it was also a total stranger at that I go somewhere with lots of people I wait for my

boyfriend this whole ordeal made the ride last About two and a half hours it should have taken 45 minutes even with the traffic later I called left and told them everything he was supposedly fired so that's good I went backpacking alone over the recent long weekend which was 10 out of 10 beautiful the second night I counted a beautiful high elevation mic which could also be accessed by a short one-mile Trail so There were a few other campers and several people who were just day hiking or fishing it was late afternoon and I was sitting

around my Camp reading when a guy in his mid-20s walked by carrying a fishing pole in small cooler I didn't think much of it but five to ten minutes later he doubled back and came to say hi I said hi and went back to reading but then without warning he sat down on a stump next to me I was completely taken aback at this invasion of my space he Started asking me questions that would really just statements but in the creepy amused tone like so you are just reading and a look behind me and noticed

my tent and then sat oh you are staying the night here alone huh it's hard to explain but his Vibe was just really off I was so uncomfortable that I couldn't even really form words or tell him I was trying to be alone to get him to leave or it was honestly paralyzed His eyes were so dead and dark and just drilling into me and I just responded to her where uh-huh and yeah I just tried to pretend I was still reading without warning he pulls out and cracks a beer and lights a cigarette the

enemy starts blowing it at me at this point I'm so uncomfortable and just not responding soon another hiker wanders by and he Strikes a conversation with him I took the opportunity to grab my water filter and bladder and pretend to need to get water I went to the shore and builted some water really slowly and I saw the man walk away and go sit with a new guy which made me feel really related except that he kept looking in my direction I came back eventually and got inside my tent and for about 20 minutes everything

was fine I had the rainfly called back and was watching the sunset and also Loosely organizing my face when he popped out from behind my tank he stood maybe about a foot away from my door looking down at me he didn't say anything but just started laughing really creepily I asked what and his response was this is just really funny I felt sick to my stomach and finally responded with it I'm taking a nap now So have a good night he laughed again but luckily la later I saw him still wandering around the cat with

no real purpose still looking in my direction after I had no service but I wrote down his last name well at least what was written on his caller I'd also overheard him say where he was from to the other hiker so I put that down in my notes app on my phone just in case I slept with my pocket knife clothes I Debated leaving the camps that night but ended up staying and just leaving really early in the morning in case he came back normally while backpacking I think the worst thing that could happen is

I might run into a bear or sprain an ankle and maybe this seems not that bad as you're hearing it but this truly was the most unsettling experience I've ever had in the back country I'm sure I'll be back out soon but hopefully somewhere far away from that Guy this happened many years ago I always ate or so at the time and every day I would walk home from my elementary school my house was a few miles down the road so my mother thought it would be safe enough for me to walk by myself it

was a few months into the school year when it's it started happening I beat up Toyota would slow down enough for a couple of white guys that looked like they were in their mid-20s to follow me And yell insults at me I was chubby back there so they would call me fat and much more hurtful things I'll always remember the driver he looked to be the oldest in the bunch with greasy blonde hair hanging down and partially covering his pimpled scarred face they would follow me until I reached the gas station that was halfway along

my journey home then they would speed off laughing loudly For the first couple of weeks I didn't tell anyone thinking they would get tired of it they didn't a full month passed before I told my mother about it she of course was rightly concerned about me and asked me how long could have been going on for when I told her a mom she grew even more concerned her being a single mom couldn't pick me up from school because she was at work all day so her solution was to send my Older brother to meet me

halfway she thought it would deter them it didn't another four months went by with them continuing to follow me and throw insults at me suddenly it stopped a whole month went by without them driving by and we thought everything was safe again we were wrong suddenly out of the blue I saw the old beat up Toyota heading down the road Towards me only the driver was in the car this time he slowed down flung open the passenger door and proceeded to yell for me to get into the car I was so scared I couldn't even

speak I just shook my head no and tried to walk faster he continued to follow me demanding that I get into his car I'll never forget the look on his face as he yelled at me it was so full of Rage we finally got to the gas station and I made a break for it I ran inside the gas station and off to the gas station attendant I told him what was happening and he let me hide behind the counter the driver pulled into the gas station hopped out of the car and came in he

demanded that the gas station attended tell him where I was claiming I was his daughter and I jumped out of his car the gas station attendant glanced down At me and I shook my head wildly mouthing that I did not know this man the gas station attendant said he didn't know what he was talking about and that he had to leave the store immediately the driver began to yell wildly and start walking around the store looking for me the gas station attendant said he was going to call the police if he did not leave the

man turned to him and said something I'll never forget I'll get that [ __ ] one way or another they drive a storm down to the gas station and laughed I sat there on the floor crying for what felt like hours the gas station attendant called the police and had them come over when the police arrived the attendant told them what had happened a police officer knelt down beside me and asked me my side of the story and I told the officer everything how him and A couple of others had been following me for months

how they would follow me and insult me how they suddenly stopped tally tried to get me into his car I don't remember much afterwards other than them calling my mother and her meeting at our house they took my mother's statement and then laughed after that my mother changed her work hours in order to come get me every day for years I lived in fear that the man With greasy hair and Pebble scarred face would eventually get me so to the man who followed me for months insulting me and eventually trying to get me into his

car I'm not that scared little girl anymore we better never meet so I moved into this place a couple of months ago with my parents we also have a doll a couple of weeks after we moved in I tried to open the attic door there was No ladder just with a broom it almost opened and halfway dropped but it seemed like it was being held up by someone I didn't bother and thought it could have just been stuck two weeks later I go back to look at the attic and the door is in the spot

that it was originally in weird like that a month or so later my dog usually doesn't have problems with me and my family leave their house but now there's something up with my dog She will hide under the table and start to panic at night I usually have footsteps and mountbanks sometimes my parents are deep sleepers and don't wake up during the night so I know it's not there when I wake up I go to check out the loud bags but nothing is full I don't know if I'm going crazy or I'm just nervous I

went around my house tracking any closets and crawl spaces I didn't find anything after that I went to try to Open the attic door but it seems like it's been boarded up like shut from the inside and it could have been the old owners or there is someone in my attic I decided to call the police they sent out some officers to check it out upon inspecting the attic the police found a sleeping bag and a ton of boxes full of stuff but they didn't find anyone I'm thinking it could have been the old Owner's

stuff or at some point there was someone in my attic I'm really shocked but confident that there's nobody currently in my attic my parents and I are gonna board up the attic to make sure nothing like this happens again I moved out of state to a very small town the first day of moving in a neighbor walking his dog greets me and introduces himself to me it gives me a Quick rundown that the neighborhood is filled with Tweakers and other Shady times I took that as a general warning that that may be all I'll deal

with a few months later he invited me over to his place to teach me how to do some woodwork as we're making a show for my cat to sit on he's asking me questions to me they were normal everyday questions without looking back I realized now he was trying to get Information out of me why did you move out here from out of state who lives with you do you have any other family members in the state or area once we were done we went to install the shelf and he met my mom who stays

with me he talks to her for a bit and then we left to walk back to his place he starts telling me that he can see our yard from his place and notices that I barely go outside with my dogs he told me not to worry that if someone Breaks into warplanes that he can see though and shoot them from his room that's what I'm thinking how is that possible because you live over half a block away before I can question her he asks if I want to see more of the town I'm like yeah

let's go he walks out to his car and pulls something out from the middle compartment and then tells me to go in his pickup truck so I do well he's filling the gas tanker With some gasoline once he's done he walks over to the driver's side and opens the door he drops a holster between us he tells me not to worry about it as I look trying to see if there's a gun or not as we're driving I realized he hasn't said a word for five minutes and this guy loves to hear his own voice

another thing I noticed is that we're on a dirt road and I haven't seen a single house trailer or vehicle for a while I Guess I gave off some nervous Vibes because he suddenly says so yeah unless you know where you're going out here you'll get lost and it's best to have a pickup or ATV to drive out to you after about another 10 minutes of Silent driving we get to a little creek luckily there was another truck there all he says is oh look at that someone else is here with us and he grabs

his holster and gets out we both see a lady with a big dog Playing in the water she turns to us as she sees him walking closer to her she gestures to his holster and he tells her not to worry that it's for the snakes she left her shirt above her waist to show her God and she tells him she's not worried one bed they talk for a few minutes and she tells him that her husband is home waiting for her to make dinner she's just out letting the dog have some play time The neighbor

changes his tone and posture from confident to defensive now she called her dog and they went to their truck he's watching and she hasn't started her truck yet a few minutes passed and he tells me it's time to go too when we get to his truck she drives off the drive back I start to get uneasy and creeped out why would he drive me all the way out there and just lay why tell me not to worry about the holstered gun But tell the lady what it's for I finally get out of my head and

just break the silence and give him my life story as to why I moved finally he responds that he can relate to my story and gives me a render of how the town is and what it's about and that some people are more racist than others and I should watch my back for that once we get back to his place I tell him I have stuff to take care of at home and I knocked the hell out of there and I said to myself if I'm ever gonna hang out with him again it won't be

alone I'm an 18 year old kid in culinary school this happened back in 2009 our program has an underground parking lot attached to a lounge of our own located behind the cafeteria couples like going there because it's always empty and partially dark I hated it because it had a back door Leading to the parking lot that was barely lit up barely anyone parked there and so I found it creepy plus being a horror fact I knew that that was a perfect opportunity for things to go wrong long story short I come out of class one

day and this kid I don't know starts walking up to me almost confrontational like I have my knife set with me and pull out a handle ready to defend myself He stops and hands me a paper it reads meet me in the lounge I look at him in confusion and ask who sent him the note was it my boyfriend or someone in the culinary program or maybe a friend from high school he shakes his head and says he doesn't know but I should go I question him on what this person looks like and he refuses

to give me any information I chuckle nervously but the note in my Pocket and walked past this kid to head to class he starts following me asking me if I'm gonna go I try ignoring her heading towards the library to get into a public place he follows he tries telling me I should go that it's my destiny or some [ __ ] along those lines I glare at him and pick up the pace trying to head downstairs to the cafeteria in hopes of finding a Classmate and losing the kid he runs at the same Pace

telling me he doesn't understand why I'm not going I tell them because I don't want to now go away and I hacked into the cafeteria by now he's really creeping me out I grab from my phone to call the police but instead see a classmate and run towards it the kid follows me pointing towards where the lounge is and telling me I'm going the wrong way I instantly Panic Until my classmate what's going on he approaches the kid and tells him to leave me alone that I have a boyfriend and I'm not interested the kid

tells me that they're waiting for me in the lounge and not to take too long his words just gave me chills my classmate walks me to our student restaurant and asks for some others to come with us three of my other colleagues come with us to the lounge there's no one there I get freaked out and decide I need to go home they walk me through the campus to the parking lot or I can call my parents to get a ride one of the other stays with me while the classmate who defended me goes to

report the behavior to our teachers who use the lounge as a secondary office sometimes he then comes back to tell me that they're going to investigate and keep an eye out for suspicious activity or that Kid and a few days later I learned that a girl had been assaulted in that area having parked there during finals and gone in through the lounge the school newspaper had reported it but there were no details as to who did it to her and if they were caught I felt my stomach drop hoping that the girl was okay and

hoping that those people get caught I reported my incident to the newspaper tea but they claimed she never dealt With anything like a note I never found the suspects my mom is glad I listened to my gut and did not go to this day I still get chills thinking about it the girl recovered and escaped with a few minor injuries they never caught the attackers and I never saw that strange kid again all I can think of is why me if they were going for money I was so poor I literally lived off Sesame crackers

Donated by classmates because I had no money I'm just glad the girl is okay and then I listen to my God who knows what would have happened in my God this happened back in the 90s when I was still in primary school I really had no clue how much danger I was there I would have been around 11 years old living in a regional city of Australia For the last year I've been having a lot of trouble at school getting bullied a bit by classmates and felt really singled out by my teacher my mom worked

around the corner from my school so when everything would get too much at school I would literally just walk out of class down the road and onto our walk site it would take me about half an hour to walk there the longer main road a couple of times I noticed a small white car driving past me slowly but I Only noticed this because I would see the same car go up and down the street as I was walking and a while I was sitting outside of my mom's walk side after a while I started seeing

the same car driving up my street at home and parked along the streets that my brother and I would ride our bikes around there I don't remember thinking it was strange because it was a small town and it wasn't unusual to see the same cause or people it was just like oh there goes That car again anyway my family followed a serious routine Monday swimming and tutoring Tuesday's netball training Wednesdays netball game Thursday's basketball training Fridays we would go and see professional basketball or football depending on the season Saturday was my brother's basketball games and

Sundays were our day to go to the river with friends for swimming and A barbecue lunch it never changed unless someone was sick so on Friday night I'm getting dressed and ready to go watch the basketball game but I can't find my shoes I'm pretty sure that they're in the car which is in a garage under our two-story house to get it I would have to walk down the outside steps at the front of the house which has a full view of the road I walk out the front door and at the end Of our

driveway is a small white car now I've never taken that much notice of the white cars up until this point and it wasn't uncommon for cars to be parked in this exact spot for our neighbors but I just got a sinking feeling in my stomach when I looked at it I kept walking down the stairs and as I got close to the bottom the driver's side door opens and the man gets out quickly and I keep walking to the garage and he Starts moving toward our driveway that was the point when something inside me just

told me to scream from my parents and run and lock myself in the car I did exactly that and then this guy turned around ran back to his car and drove off by the time my parents came out there was no evidence that this had happened and they didn't believe me a week later there was a notice in our school newsletter about a man in a white Car attempting to abduct another child from my school on the same night my parents were very shaky and took me seriously after reading that I don't believe he was

ever caught but it definitely taught me to listen to my intuition and to take notice of my surroundings my family and I went on a trip to the Hocking Hills area of Southern Ohio a few weeks ago there was a place that I always wanted to visit the abandoned Ghost Town Moonville rail tunnel I've never been to this area so I didn't know what to expect but I didn't know it was pretty deep in the woods we took a trip from our rented cabin using Google for GPS to the location we start driving and it's

for lack of better words real impoverished where we are driving Hills Have Eyes ask we literally only see a few cars on the way there and they're on the back roads we get to a point where we need to enter into a forest and we're Close to the tunnel there was a sign that said we were entering bubble wood for a bit of additional information I drive a Mercedes that I'm just lucky to have and have my husband in the car I also have my 10 year old non-verbal autistic son and my six-year-old daughter we

drive down this real creepy Stone Road into the forest and there's nothing back there no houses no cars nobody we see signs that were close and pull Into the parking lot we walk over the Footbridge and make our way toward the tunnel which is a lot larger than I expected we hear this sound coming from the other side of the tunnel that goes into the woods away from the parking lot a truck comes driving through the tunnel toward us while we're on foot the man gets out of the truck with a chainsaw it's a white

guy in his 60s he walks with my entire family everywhere we go and Through the tunnel I try to make small talk with them and get some information things like if he worked for the Department of Natural Resources and that kind of thing but he really wasn't touching we turn around to walk out of the tunnel and he starts using the chainsaw behind us the sound is just echoing through this tunnel at this point we have no cell phone service and literally no one knows my family is out there except for us I was already

worried my car we're sending the wrong idea to people like we have money or something which we don't we rushed to the car to get the kids in their booster seats and this man comes driving over the Footbridge in his truck toward us in the parking lot I honestly don't even know how his truck fed on it he stops again gets out of his truck and starts walking the other direction much to one relief about this time I noticed there are Dusty hand prints on my car and he asked my husband if they were his

and we compared his hands in my sons they were not a match I don't know who could have touched the car because we were with the chainsaw man the entire time we were there we get out of there as fast as possible just a few minutes later I look in my rear view mirror there's a bunch of dust kicked up behind us and there he is he had to have driven pretty fast on the Stone Road to catch up to us like that there's nowhere to go in these words the road is basically one lane

and we have no cell service or GPS every time I think we lose it he's there again I'm waiting for my tires to get popped or something or for this guy to Ram me off the road and into the Ravine in the woods finally we get out of the woods and it turns out he's still following us we were following printed directions to get Back and I ended up making a wrong turn in the excitement the guy in the truck was finally gone and I turned around to go past the stone rock that goes to

the forest there's one lone House near this road and there is his truck parked there he had to have seen us drive onto this road into the woods and taken a back way to the tunnel I don't know if he was just trying to protect this site for more graffiti or what but he really creeped us out it was like every scary Movie Trope rolled into one single event this is a story from 2019 but I still remember it like it was yesterday I guess due to trauma I was brought it home alone I faced

time with my best friend and asked him if he would like to join me for a walk in the neighborhood he wasn't there he was on his way back from school which is understandable because it was a Thursday afternoon due to my massive board I put on my Sports clothes a basic t-shirt and some shorts that have no pockets I then was headed with my music vibing to the circuit arriving there it was surprisingly not that empty they were around 8 to 10 people in that 15 kilometer circuit I started walking for a bit then

ran for a couple of kilometers and then laid down in the grass I noticed two guys on a motorcycle going back and forth I didn't care that much Since I was FaceTiming my two best friends it was getting late I think it was around 6 p.m and I was exhausted I walked home but I took another path that's kind of a shortcut I had to walk through an empty big street with buildings and construction I had a feeling that someone was watching me and following me I turned around and noticed the same two guys on

that motorcycle heading toward Me I whispered to my friends on FaceTime that's something where it's going to happen and that they have to cut their mics and focus with me the guys came by and one of them asked me where the nearest barber shop is out of stress I gave them a random location while the rider of the bike asked me about the barbershop my right eye twitched and unfocused but I was still able to see with it I saw in the bike's rear view mirror that the other guy was Trying to look at where

my phone was located I was freaking out time was starting to slow down seconds felt like hours and I couldn't feel my legs anymore they went on but with a slow speed it was like they were planning a backup plan I had three options number one there was a taxi guy fixing his car I could have went to him and explained the situation but my gut said what if they noticed me Came back and maybe do what they planned to do number two stop a random call hop in and then explain the situation my God

said no what if the call was locked plus the guys would have noticed that I knew they were planning to do something and they might have come to me after the random car goes and number three this is what I chose run in the opposite direction into traffic and take the path that I came by I instinctively ran for five straight Minutes I couldn't do it anymore I entered a field and started running again to some slums I looked back and I saw the guys coming after me into the field one of them was shouting

just stop we just want to know where the barbershop is there's one thing about me and it's that I always trust my God and it's sad now run as fast as you can or you will die today And that's what I did I ran between the slums and kept running until I arrived near my best friend's house I told him to come down the stairs right now and I laid down in the parking lot he came to me and was freaked out because he knew that something was happening but he didn't know what since I

didn't give him more information my face turned yellowish and I threw up I couldn't feel my legs or my arms anymore He walked me to my house and I laid down and from that moment I don't remember anything I just remember me waking up the following day with bruises on my leg due to me running in the field full of Pikes for a bit of background information about me I have PD panic disorder for those who don't know what it is it's a mental illness that causes extreme anxiety severe panic attacks and a slow of

other problems I've been suffering From this for over a year now and while it's getting better it's still very difficult to deal with keep this in mind my husband and I have been married a little over a year now the time we were married unfortunately I was undergoing medical issues that no doctors could seem to explain I was having panic attacks all the time and they would be so severe I would have to be taken to the ER where they would Have to literally sedate me to calm me down I was also losing weight had

an exponential and scary rate becoming sicker and sicker as time went on not even a month after we married I lost my job and was homebound while my husband worked second shift which was 4 pm to 3 AM he would arrive home at around 4am leaving me alone most of the time my parents and younger brother lived close by perhaps a 10-minute drive at Mouse but at the moment my mother and father were unable to Watch Over Me they called as frequently as they could but that was all they could do in May I was

told by doctors that I was literally at death's door and unless something happened quick my family was going to lose me and I was given medications to help with the panic attacks they were to get me to eat and stuff like that they wanted to hospitalize me but I refused My parents decided that one day and my younger brother went to Florida the next month they were taking me with them okay keep in mind I am both anxious and extremely sick around this time the real issues began not with me but with our neighbors you

see we've never actually met our neighbors personally my husband lived in the trailer for a month on his own before we married and he always said they were hard but they didn't seem to Be of any concern however once I came into the picture that changed the person who lived in the trailer before us was actually a cousin of mine who ran it from another cousin and his wife who lived states away Nora was a huge druggie and a drug dealer so people got used to getting their fixes and drugs at the trailer we now

live in then a few months before we moved in she Got in trouble with the law and landed in jail for some time I guess our neighbors who according to our landlords were drug addicts and raging alcoholics as well thought that perhaps she was back I'm not quite sure I suppose this is because from where I was so sick and my husband slept when he could from working on hours and taking care of me so they never actually saw us they just knew someone was there They became active at night during the day they were

predominantly quiet every once in a while they would do something outside but for the most part nothing really happened it was always after my husband left for work my car was still there which should have told them at least someone was still home it started off innocently enough driving up and down in front of the house Parking in the road directly in front of it and waiting they'd honk the [ __ ] but I ignored them several times I called my parents asking them what to do they said for the time to just ignore them

because maybe they thought Nora was back and after some time they get the hint it was no people and leave me alone so I did just that for a Time when they started driving up the Driveway and stopping at the porch that's when I first called the cops all I was told was that as long as they didn't encroach on my actual property there was nothing they could do they advised me to turn on the lights to my house signaling I was home and I couldn't sleep despite needing to I had Mono and panic disorders

and depression and I desperately needed sleep my husband had the weekends off and you Can guess it no issues during the weekends it was insane and infuriating everyone believed me when I said I was having problems but there was only so much they could do my father-in-law brought over one of his shotguns a 12 gauge knowing that I was a good shot he told me to use it if need be for a bit more information about that is I shot trap for years when I was 18 I placed second in districts I chose not To

go to state but knowing I was good enough for second was a proud moment for me my father-in-law made me promise I would use it if it came to it so I did one night my husband was at work and I guess my body finally shut off I fell asleep for once only to be woken up at around 1am by the sound of our neighbor's truck tearing out from behind the trailer I jumped up looked outside to see them Driving out of our driveway they started speeding up and down the front of the house and

I called the cops again I called my dad and mom and my dad came over because I was in full panic attack my dad called my husband who came home immediately there were tire marks in the grass behind our trailer but they couldn't necessarily prove it was them despite me describing their truck down to the dance my dad told the cops this has been going On long enough but again there was not enough evidence or proof a week just one more week until I could go with my family to Florida and I somehow managed to

be a bridesmaid in my older brother's wedding despite being so sick I was doped up on medications to keep me calm so I wouldn't have a panic attack and to be honest I don't recall much about that day other than it poured rain My husband naturally was at work and I was sitting at home or two cats asleep rather soundly I was playing on my 3DS with markiplier on the TV for background noise the time was around midnight when my cat suddenly woke up and came unglued they ran to the side door then to the

front door growling and hissing their hair on end they had never behaved that way so I started to get up to see what it was They were freaking out about when I heard it how are we gonna do this I froze I heard them I hurt their footsteps as they walked up and down the front porch I wasn't sure how many that were but I know for a fact there were at least three men outside my curtains were closed and most of the lights were off but the TV was on surely they could hear Markiplier's

eccentric volume In Maybe I'm not here's what I could make out we had gotten quieter I heard their footsteps on the porch again I grabbed my phone shakily swiping until I found my dad's number and I called her I remember breathing hard feeling a panic attack setting in hello they're here they're here I remember Sabe on the porch Daddy they want to get in I'm on my way call the cops I hung up and then I heard them talking amongst themselves on how they want it to break in what they wanted and a few other

things I ran into the bedroom grabbed the 12 gauge open the chamber to see if it was fully loaded and then called the cops and I left the lights off I decided I was going to have them caught this time I wasn't going to run them off the dispatch answered and I told them what was going on or as sick as I was I Managed to hold that shotgun to my shoulder pointed at the door remembering everything my dad taught me about shooting while I was a hunter and when I shot Tria but I was

still scared out my mind somehow I kept my panic attack down but I was still breathing hard calm your breathing hard you said they're outside yes I heard one of them say they heard me then the other one said that it Wouldn't be a problem oh my God they're coming sweetie I promise I'm armed excuse me I'm armed I yelled hoping that they'd hear with what sweetheart the 12 gauge they Wanna Hurt Me I'm not gonna let them she's armed I heard dispatch tell the police who I suppose were on their way I heard armed

from one of the guys outside And then silence man I can't I hurt their footsteps leaving then I saw the lights to my dad's truck my Dad's here I lowered the shotgun and ran outside my dad and younger brother running out of the truck my dad had the judge in his hand which is a pistol that shoots 12 gauge rounds while my younger brother was holding a knife it's my dad and my brother they're on too Okay one of the man I don't see them when the cops get there disarm yourselves okay and I thank

the dispatcher for everything and about this time the cops pulled up I told my dad and younger brother to disarm so they put their weapons in the truck while I took my gun inside and sat it in the kitchen on top of our dinner table my dad told me to get back in the house And from my younger brother to go with me as soon as I stepped inside in a panic attack hit my dad came inside for a moment and hugged me telling me how Brave like that especially for holding it to as long

as I did shaking crying grasping for breath I listened as he went back outside the cops had found Footprints an entire area on the porch where the men had tried to break in at one point but the men had scattered leaving it difficult for the Cops to trace exactly where they came from my dad told them it was the neighbors and my landlords actually called and told the cops it was more than likely our neighbors as well who would apparently been giving my cousin who lives up the road a difficult time as well the cops

noticed some of the footprints went into the neighbor's yard but they weren't home and of course I remember my dad and younger brother Standing outside just as the cops pulled in yelling as loudly as they could that they would drop them if they ever so much saw them around me again enough is enough my dad yelled over and over she's sick she needs rest leave her the hell alone I'll drop your ass I swear to God and I noticed he was crying my dad isn't the type of person to do that my whole life I've

seen my dad cry maybe a handful of times when he talked about his deceased father when my mom's Mom died when the doctors told me I was on death's door when my younger brother was born my dad had been scared that he wouldn't get there in time and maybe just maybe I would hesitate to protect myself but I had made my mind up I wasn't gonna let them get away with it anymore that night my husband came home from work and hugged me so tightly I really thought my lungs would burst my younger brother texted

him what was going on but Reassured him I was okay a week later I went to Florida time went on and I'm still getting better as for my neighbors I've never had problems from them again I'm not sure if it was the cops actually going to their house or if it was my dad and younger brother threatening her or maybe it was me them hearing me saying that I was armed I don't know I don't care they are still there but I know they Won't do anything ever again so for a bit of context for

us the cat likes to go outside every day in the morning he follows us to the door takes the elevator down with us and then goes about his day outside until we bring him back home again in the evening now my cat isn't the most punctual guy so it's pretty common for him to stay much later in the neighborhood or he gets bored and doesn't play for more than two hours and wants to go back Inside the problem is that we're not home so he just has to wait my family and I live in an

apartment on the first floor so my cat's solution is to sit under one of our balconies and meow at the top of his locks to get our attention when we're home it works perfectly fine but when we're not it's a lot less effective so our solution was to gently ask our Neighbors that have the key to our apartment to bring him up so he doesn't have to wait outside all day those that don't have the key sometimes let him inside the building so he's not literally outside our apartment is a bit special because it's bigger

than the others so to get inside there are two ways when you get to the main hall number one take the stairs to the left and open the door that has two locks Number two use the elevator that goes directly inside our apartment the cat is used to the second option but when the neighbors that don't have the key let him inside the building he goes up the stairs and waits since I usually use the elevator from the parking lot and that means I don't see him waiting in the hall and he meows outside the

door to get me to open up for him all around we have our habits with my parents and neighbors and it works Fairly well now you know how everything goes with my little guy anyway here's what happened a while ago my parents like the outdoors very much so I'm usually left alone on the weekends generally it means taking care of the chores and inviting my friends over so we can have the apartment to ourselves that's pretty nice this time I was alone it was late at about 11 pm ish I was just chilling in the

living room before hearing meowing Over the sound of the TV someone like my cat in the building and he's waiting outside the door I took my case and started opening the first lock I don't know about other pet owners but I know my cat's meows by heart it's kind of a rising meow that's very high pitched and very cute and that also has a specific Rhythm because I've been hearing it nearly every day for five years So I start the noise isn't what it usually is it's too deep and just off this isn't my cat

outside my door and he's the only cat around that knows he has to wait by the door and scream to be led inside by that point I stopped halfway through opening the door and waited to hear him again and noticed scratching my cat never scratches that door at that point I'm really weirded out by the situation but the meowing is getting Really loud and I didn't want the neighbors to be walking up so I continued with my key but suddenly I heard another noise that freaked me out on a call for the record I'm not

a very cautious parser and in my whole 21 years of living in this apartment I must have looked in the people a total of maybe five times but a small part of my brain told me to do it that night and thank God it did So I let go of my case and put my eyes against the door and I saw it a man standing there [ __ ] meowing in front of my door to say that I was terrified is really an understatement but my heart stopped I just stood there petrified for it felt

like an hour I don't really know how long it took me to move again but eventually my body just took over I guess or I did what you'd expect ran from my Phone stood in the corner of the living room and called the police by the time they came there was nobody in front of the door they just took my statement before telling me to be cautious and then last to this day I still don't know what that meowing guy wanted I also don't know how he got inside the building since he needed key to

access it and also how he knew that I would open the door if he imitated my cat in front of it At least I will be careful from now on well and in case you're worried my cat eventually came back since then this happened a few years ago to clarify we live in a pretty good neighborhood to show you how safe it is a few days before this happened my dad took me to my drumming lesser we were gone for about an hour and when we came back home we realized we left the key in

the lock outside the whole time No one took it or came in this has happened before now on to the actual story one night at about 11 pm my mom and I were in the sitting room my dad and my sister were in bed my mom was asleep on the couch and I was playing pubg mobile at one point I could hear noises coming from the hallway thinking it was the cats I brushed It Off I started to hear more noise and thought What the [ __ ] are they doing then I saw something roll

on the floor by the dining table and one of the cats walking up to it again thinking it was the cats the object however was placed on top of a vanity we have in the hallway they don't go on top of that but we do have a 9 to 10 month old Curious kitten I then heard a male voice I thought it might be one of my teammates in the game Talking and I Quickly realized it was not I then thought my dad had gotten up which is pretty common for him so I asked my

mom not realizing she was falling asleep if my dad had come down and if it was him she sleepily said yes so I tried to brush it off again suddenly I see this thing flying at me I'm landing on the floor in front of me I thought that can't be the cats I got up and walked over to the hallway I got to this step when I realized that my dad's walking stick and straw hat that was on top of our coat hanger we're on the floor I walked up this step in heard movement in

the office and was dark the office is right next to the front door about two meters from the living room front door I thought it might be my sister looking for something and that this guy gets uh comes out of The room goes to the front door unlocks it and then walks out he was wearing a hoodie and I didn't see his face I was paralyzed with fear and confusion my mind immediately went to do I know him after he left I yelled out to my mom that someone had just walked out she was obviously

confused and concerned we realized he came in from the back door which was unlocked he either Climbed the gate which is about two meters high I think or walked up the neighbor's stairs and then over the wall the only things he took were the back door keys and a Bluetooth player we believe we don't really care about that we made a barricade that would make noise if he came back and we sat with knives and a big two-tooth fork until about 5 am we had another lock so my dad changed it the next day I

slept with a knife under my bed that night looking back I wish I had done something I played rugby for two years I know the basics to tackle but I couldn't move obviously because of fear but my brain was also trying to understand what was happening I probably could have taken him off he was very thin and looked to be between 17 and 20 at most judging by his style and body We think we might know who did it but they didn't break it they only took two things and walked past all of our valuables

he didn't do anything to us it almost looked like he was trying to get my attention as well almost as if it was a bet and he tried to find a reason to get out neither that or he's the worst robber I've heard of I'm just happy my sister wasn't bad he Probably would have been a different story if she'd been there with us a lot of people think they know how they'd react in certain situations I am living prothead I thought I'd scream at least but nothing we now lock our doors every night every

time I hear a noise I get a bit frightened but I'm okay if he wanted to hurt me he would have tried We got lucky first off I'm a 22 year old male I'm a bit Starkey and muscular but not fact I'm not somebody who would try to actively avoid in a dark alley but also not someone you would really want to pick on for being puny I'm a pretty average guy anyway before this starts to sound like your typical dating profile let me begin I was with my girlfriend and it was around 10 pm

it was dark out We left a friend's house to meet some other friends at an Applebee's about 20 minutes away we pulled out of the driveway and started driving about three minutes down the road I noticed a large truck following us very closely it swerved a bit but the driver didn't seem drunk this speed limit was 45 miles per hour and I was going a solid 50. it was a fairly straight road and not many cars were on it the driver started Flashing his lights this is normally a pretty universal sign that either my lights

are off he wants me to pull over or I'm not driving adequately I recently had my car inspected and passed so it wasn't the lights I was driving just over the speed limit and there was no way that I was pulling over plus it was a passing away so we could have passed if he wanted to I kept driving he was literally right Behind me not 15 or 20 feet but right behind me there were no other cars around so I decided to start taking side roads I knew the area pretty well so I was

confident Meanwhile my girlfriend just really wanted Applebee's classic girlfriend so I took some random Side Road and of course he followed right behind me still flashing his lights I kept turning into other roads trying To lose him but he was staying right on my trail finally my girlfriend realized how weird this was and began getting a little nervous I have to admit I was nervous too our area has some high crime rates and some gang initiations involving running people off the road forcing people to pull over and shoot them and other car related mumbo jumbo

so we were both scared that this could Be the case and I kept taking side roads and and he kept staying right behind me finally we arrived at a Walmart this Walmart has a back road where they try the trucks go to unload and I took the tone onto this road without even using my blinker still trying to lose it I ended up driving up to 80 miles per hour on the small back road but this person would not stop The small Road wraps around to the main parking lot I skipped all the stop signs

and ignored all safety rules of the road thanks to the fluorescent Walmart lights I was able to see that the truck was red and beaten down I could see Applebee's in the distance so I decided I would park and just deal with this like a man at this point my girlfriend was actually tearing up this whole ordeal may not sound that scary but trust me it was once we pulled into the Applebee's Parking lot I noticed that the red truck was no longer following us they just disappeared I looked at my girlfriend for four seconds

to comfort her and when I looked up the truck was gone this was honestly terrifying I pulled up to Applebee's to meet my friends inside and they could tell we were visibly shaken up we were so shaken up and we didn't even get any food to eat even though we were really hungry I managed to glance out the window and noticed the same red truck parked three or four rows behind our car just sitting there with the lights on I'd had enough I grabbed the steak knife from the table and went outside to find out

what was going on when I got to the truck nobody was inside the back seat was full of duct tape random tools tall And other everyday items that seem especially creepy at the time and I took pictures of the license plate and waited around for the owner to return but he didn't there's no doubt he saw me waiting by his truck sweatshirt hold up looking like a weirdo I called the police let them know what was happening and left it at that I was told to be very careful as gang Initiations were starting to pick

up speed in our area the truck was the same one that followed me around and yes it could have just been some teens trying to be funny but don't mess with me my girlfriend or Applebee's so Mr truck driver who ruins appetites and may want to kill me let's not mate first a bit of context as to where when and how this occurred I was in rural New Brunswick Canada at my grandparents Hall They both recently passed away and my family was there to help clean up the house it's located near the end of a

dirt road that ends in a little lake so there's rarely any traffic down the road except occasionally during the day when people come to kayak or swim in the lake things like that the house has no running water because the pipes froze during the winter when nobody was there but there is a little Building about 200 to 300 meters by the lake that has public bathrooms and showers it's unlocked 24 7. so we've been using this facility as our place to shower and use the toilet so it's about 12 10 a.m on a Monday morning

and after a week of avoiding the gross bathrooms I was just like [ __ ] it I want to go take a shower and clean up before I go to bed so I grab a towel and a flashlight and Start walking down there now keep in mind without a flashlight it's absolutely pitch black and you cannot see anything which means that anybody who has a light is very visible from basically all sides at this point everything was pretty chill and I was just enjoying the peaceful walk when suddenly toward the end of the road I

hear a car's engine start and lights flick off Immediately I'm like what the [ __ ] why are there people down there at this hour do you rarely see anybody parking down there even during the day I'm already a bit creeped out the car does a three-point turn and starts coming up the road toward me it's an older model Chrysler 300 that looks speed up as far I've also never seen this vehicle out here before which is weird because this is the kind of place that only locals Use so you do get to know the

cars around here it's pitch black and I can't see inside the car it drives past me really slow I breathe the sigh of relief as it starts to leave toward the main road at this point I'm almost at the dark path where the bathrooms are and I can see the light from the building that's when I turn around and the car is doing another three-point turn coming Back toward me I'm freaking out thinking what is going on so I turn off my flashlight and just run toward the bathroom area as the car is making its

way back I duck in behind the storage shed for Heidi the car passes the bathroom but immediately stops and turns around again and then everything goes silent and the lights turn off I was tempted to go into the building and do my bathroom business That they would have seen me walking into the light I felt unsafe coming out of the bathroom if I didn't know who was out there I hear some doors opening and closing on the car and I thought I heard the sound of a voice it was faint I saw the light from

a headlamp or flashlight over by the car and I hear some walking around I was so terrified I thought I was going to get kidnapped Or something because I'm alone in the middle of nowhere with some weirdo in a beat-up call I wanted to run back towards the house but I couldn't because their car was right in front of my hiding spot and I couldn't go that way after about 25 minutes of sitting there I stopped hearing the noises but the car was still there I decided to bushwhack through the forest to cut back to

the house and Avoid the car so I safely made it back to the house and never saw that car again my conclusion is that maybe they were doing something illegal and they saw me coming with my flashlight so they got out of there because they thought I was a cop coming to investigate and they saw it was just some random kid and decided to come back and keep doing whatever illegal thing they were doing it seems like the most likely Explanation but I'm glad I didn't have to find out I'm an average looking female in

my early 20s I've always been the more cautious time especially after moving to a large city from a small town in the Midwest and investing hours into True Crime and missing person cases my friends tell me I'm paranoid but I'd rather be paranoid than dead anyway the building I work out of sort of shares a parking lot with a Staybridge inn hotel The parking lots are separated by a little island of gravel that's probably five foot wide then caddy corner to my office building but not very close is a different hotel Days Inn I should

also mention that these buildings are right off the interstate so they tend to be busy with Travelers and truck drivers the Staybridge Inn just finished renovating and had a [ __ ] ton of random hotel furniture chilling out by the Dumpsters in the Staybridge parking lot which were conveniently right in front of where I had parked with the time change it now gets dark at around five but this night I had to stay behind an hour to talk with a client on the phone before having to head up North for a fundraiser after the phone

call I went out to my car but I noticed two men standing and smoking in the hotel parking lot pretty close to the dumpsters nothing too out of the Ordinary I got in my car and locked the doors of course as I was looking up the address of the fundraiser A lady seems to come out of nowhere and Taps on my window I crack it a bit and she just seemed off she kept looking around and asking me what the building I work in is I told her what it's for she said do you work

here and I said sometimes then she asked me What all the furniture in the parking lot is for and I told her that I think the hotel just renovated and updated their furniture then she asked me if I was going to take any of it and I told her no she was so adamant about me taking some of it asking me multiple times if I wanted anything or if I wanted to help loading a couple of nightstands into my car no a desk no thanks How about that dresser no are you sure you don't want

anything it's all in really good shape no thanks keep in mind I drive a small SUV there was no way a desk or a dresser would fit and I'm sure any sensible person will look at my car and make that connection at this point I had a really bad feeling in the pit of my stomach because she said almost frantically okay well I'm staying over there pointing at the days In if I gave you five dollars could you help me carry some of the furniture over there the Days Inn is not a couple of minutes

walk away it would take at least 10 minutes to walk there let alone carrying heavy furniture red flags were going off everywhere so I just apologized and told her I had somewhere to be I rolled my window up and left it just really seemed like she was Trying to alarm me out of the car and her frantic behavior and persistence made it even weirder maybe she was just a nice lady asking for help but if she wanted it that bad why didn't she drive her car over to load the furniture into it I don't know

like I said I'd rather be paranoid than dead I used to work at a small neighborhood gas station I was working an open shift at 6am with my best friend and a Co-worker we were doing our normal opening stuff and as the sun came up I went to get some ice from the back for reference the gas station building used to have a drive-through so we have that kind of window in the back I glanced at that back window and realized there was a literal bloody handprint on it I look closer and there were smudges

of blood around the window handle that Looked like someone was definitely attempting to slide it over we were really freaked out so we went around to look for other potential entrances into the building I looked at the window in the front and noticed dried blood on the hole where we take money for gas from the outside kind of like someone was trying to stick their hand in to get something inside and I kept looking around and there was also dried blood on the front door Handles and also some splatters on the glass like someone was

pounding on it my friend and I were both freaking out at this point so luckily I had access to the security cameras I checked them for any motion detected during the night at 5am there was a motion capture and we watched as a man with his arms covered in blood walked around the store trying to get in the freakiest thing was that usually the Store opened at 5am but it happened to be a Sunday so we opened at six I really dodged a bullet there were police lights in the distance on the cameras so we

called the sheriff he showed up pretty quick watched the security footage and confirmed it was the guy they picked up just a bit after 5 30. it's the craziest thing to happen to me in my three and a half years of walking at gas stations my now husband and I moved in together Almost four years ago to a rather nice albeit expensive apartment complex in a sort of nice part of town we are on the third floor with a large balcony that overlooks out onto the courtyard in which other apartments in the complex are located

basically you can see the other balconies and living rooms of the other tenants and the open stairwells a year went by without a hedge my husband works at a bar so he comes home late while I usually make it home around Five it is easy to get to any apartment doorway as the complex is large and open with no security doors accept the door to the apartment and it started in August of 2016. I would be home after work chilling and watching TV almost always around 9 30. I could hear someone come up the stairs

things would be all quiet and all of a sudden loud sharp knocks on my door I did not move because it was startling But eventually I went to look through the people through it I saw three people all with black hoodies are all seemingly staring at the people like they could see me and I did not answer the door and after a while they left queue to a few weeks later the same time but this incident there were footsteps and then loud hard bangs on the door that sent my cat flying to hide I said

Frozen but I said to myself Maybe it's the police I made it to the people once again this time staring out at one person it was a man he had on a dark hoodie and he was very very God he had huge black eyes again I did not answer the door and grab the kitchen knife that I kept by my side until my husband came home this continued for weeks and once when my husband was home he proceeded to look out the people saw The man and screamed for him to leave and he did we

called maintenance and the police who both stated that they would do regular patrols but nothing else and they suggested cameras and everything stopped for a while maybe six months during the winter which helped me be at ease because when all of this was happening I was having a very hard time sleeping and stopped going out at night however I assume the same math Started up again except this time the same large bags on the door would happen but when I would look out of the people no one was there and I then became horrified as

I started to notice extinguished cigarette butts by the side of my door it was like someone was standing and waiting again I reported it security stepped up in the area but I still didn't feel safe I was hoping it would just stop as I Felt tortured in my own home but as I realized two weeks ago things could be much worse at night to go to bed I would have to cross our eating area which was right in front of our giant glass sliding door that led out to our balcony it was a late night

the lights off in the apartment as I walk by I glance over and across the courtyard I see the same man standing on the landing of the stairs Across the way from the second to third floor staring right at my balcony he was just standing there unmoved facing in my direction the same man at my door I went in a heart racing chill to the Bone I know he couldn't have seen me because the lights were off and the stairway had likes of its own but I was still scared shitless I called my husband who

rushed over but the man had left and I did more reports to the front office more promised security Patrols this same creepy dead-eyed man in the black hoodie continued to stand at the stairway Landing staring at my apartment and it has now been two weeks and he does this every Friday I am horrified and I've been having awful nightmares about someone breaking in and strangling me in my sleep I live in a very rural area somewhere in Europe and I used to go to the forest pretty often on my bike by walking or in my

car I would commonly go there all alone to collect rocks and take pictures or play around with fire one day in a really warm summer as I was driving through the forest I would park nearby a giant rock and I began walking on this really stretched path as I was walking I would hear what Sounded like a hissing sound coming from my right side pretty close to me I thought it was a fox I turned to my right and I saw a weird figure doing what seemed like abstract movements I couldn't notice the form of

this figure at all because of all the trees and leaves covering my vision so I would slowly move forward and at this point it was starting to take four it was this thing with a creamy like skin As I'm moving I immediately noticed that this figure is actually a completely naked guy doing odd movements with his arms he was on a blue carpet and wearing a brown hat backwards I recall there was a backpack on his side to this day and I still think he was doing yoga and I just didn't know what it actually

was I think he somehow noticed me looking at him even when he was not looking at me because he just Randomly took his stuff and began running to my left I run to my car and went home and I wouldn't be able to sleep that night to this day I still think about it and it was incredibly scary to me today on my morning commute something caught my eye in the brush beside the road I immediately I did it as a deer neither an adolescent or a baby I slowed my car down just in case

it decided to Dart out onto the road As my car slowed I realized something was very wrong the deer was frozen in place cheeks stained with streaks of dried blood from its wide open eyes flies were swarming around and I realized it was dead when I got to work I Googled deer diseases and couldn't find anything that would cause one to die standing up and unless it happened postmortem I have no explanation for the tears of blood The more I think about this the more certain I become that someone found the poor thing dead and

decided to pose it right there on the side of the road why anyone would ever decide to do this is beyond me nothing like a bit of mild life scarring on the way to work I guess when I was around 11 or 12 I would hang out at the park across the street from my house with friends it's not a really popular park or anything more just the neighborhoods flash side streets nearby But it is a proper playground a friend and I were there more towards the evening about 4 or 5 p.m we were sitting

at the top of the playground looking up at the sky we hear someone walking on the path nearby and turned a lock there's this decent height in guy in a hoodie walking our way mind you we're now the only three people in the park we stay there cause we figure the guy must be walking the path through The park as the playground and out to the other end no the guy comes off the path and starts walking across the wood chips over to the playground at that point we get a kind of chuckle and shift

around nervously he starts climbing the stairs dead ass eye contact the entire tie this is where we were really nervous unless being at the top of the playground we go down the slide start walking around the side back To the bottom to see if this guy is actually following us or maybe it's just some dude wanting the playground the guy goes up comes down and walks around the side we took the longest way around weaved a bit this guy does the exact same at this point he seems to be speeding up to catch up to

us my friend and I look at each other and we just book it the [ __ ] out of there the guy starts running after us until he Sees we're running to a house he immediately turns around and beelines it out of the park from where he came this is probably the closest I've ever been to someone potentially trying to kidnap me or someone with me thank God this park is close to houses so first the disclaimer this is not safe for work for a reason it has some language and some events that are a

bit uh well let's just say this isn't a story I would tell in church Also as this involves hitchhiking I realized that someone out there will surely say well hitchhiking is dangerous I am fully aware of this as you will soon find out so now that's out of the way on to the story it was around 2004. I decided I'd had enough of the better cold Rocky Mountain Winters I'd spent most of my time since I was around 16. listening almost exclusively to Jimmy Buffett music except for small breaks to listen to Things like Journey's

greatest hits he was pretty much my entire musical life I would listen to him talk about these far-off places in these great adventures and weird characters that he'd come across I read his books which talked about pretty much the same thing I read interviews where you guessed it he talked about pretty much the same thing so my young 22 year old brain was filled With these ideas that Adventure was out there waiting for me all I had to do was go and find it why was I rotting away in a frozen hell when there was

so much more to see in the more tropical climates and it is this thinking that led me to pack everything I owned and stick my thumb out on the interstate I was headed for Mobile Alabama which is Jimmy's Hometown then I was headed for Florida where most of his songs are Based there were the possibilities seemed endless maybe find some work on a boat in exchange for passage to some place like Jamaica you can go ahead and laugh at me it's been around 17 years so wisdom and life experience has allowed me to see clearly

how stupid I was for all of this I can take the ribbing I've been getting grief over it for the better part of two decades more on that later my journey took me through Texas and Arkansas there are many funny stories along this journey like the time I was picked up in a desert by an old guy named Buddy in a hippie van however these stories are not the focus here because they aren't creepy along the way I also passed through falc Arkansas and learned about the falc monster fascinating little bit of folklore so anyway

my journey took me down to south Louisiana an interstate 10 when you head down the section of Highway between Lafayette and Baton Rouge you have to pass over a chaffalia baser which means crossing over 18 miles of swampland via Bridge according to Wikipedia this bridge is the third longest in the U.S second longest in the United States interstate sister and 14th longest in the world that's a lot of bridge and the shoulder virtually non-existent from what I've been told police are quick enough to NAB anyone foolish Enough to try Crossing this bridge on foot so

I was stuck for hours on the Lafayette side of the bridge attempting to thumb right across eventually I was successful and this is where things take an unsettling time a white van pulled her when the door opened there was no one in the vehicle but an old man he looked to be in his late 60s or early 70s quite obese and worrying nothing but a pair of shorts I climbed there and thanked him for Stopping as we took off When the Sun Goes Down by Kenny Chesney and Uncle Kracker was playing on the radio due

to the events that followed I have forever lost any liking I had for that song we were headed across this massive Bridge with nowhere to start and nowhere for me to go the man started looking at me like a dog might look at a particularly meaty bone it was making me uneasy already Hey boy he said in a thick Cajun accent how big are you packing excuse me I asked I look back at it then out the window of the moving vehicle there was no Escape Route I bet it's pretty big he said smiling at

me I really don't want to discuss this I said nothing but God real on the right and swampland below that jumping out would be deadly he proceeds to question me and ask to save it no I don't think so I replied What I was thinking was you can wish in one hand and [ __ ] in the other and see which one fills up first undeterred the man went on I'd sure like to take you into the swamp oh hell if I once thought that this situation couldn't get any worse I would have been so

so incredibly mistaken no I don't think so I repeat it oh come on boy he insisted it'll only take us about 30 minutes please understand that I'm making his English clearer for those reading but it was thick Cajun as I've said before the way he was saying it made it way creepier at this point the man had asked me to expose myself and expressed his desire to take me into the swamps I couldn't help but wonder if he was going to give me a choice or if he was just going to take me there by

force if he did I would be virtually helpless I wasn't from there I didn't know the area I certainly didn't know the layout Of the swamps I would have been in his mercy and whatever it was that was pleased took a lot of forms in my mind would he take me somewhere do whatever he wanted with me and then feed me to the Gators would he hold me prisoner and torture me before killing me and feeding me to the Gators or would he just kill me immediately and feed me to the Gators for some reason

every scenario involved alligators I don't want to go into the swamp with you no I satisfirmly as my overwhelming fear would allow as I'm here telling this today it goes without saying that I did not end up as gator bait he didn't take me forcefully into the swamps he didn't do anything to me physically psychologically however these terrifying comments were torture as the bridge went on and on and awe for what seemed like forever when we finally reached the other side And he let me out I thanked him for the ride as politely as I

could manage when he pulled away I could have fallen down and kissed the ground I would say I was not dead my journey continued for several days until I ultimately ended up in Bay St Louis Mississippi there was another incident before I got there when I was picked up in Walker Louisiana by a man who wasn't so much creepy as he was potentially dangerous By the time I ran into her I was physically exhausted and dirty and I hadn't had decent rest in days when he and his wife offered to let me stay in their

guest room for the night I was so grateful to not have to sleep in the woods or in a ditch along the side of the road or in the back Booth of some Diner that I took them up on it desperation and exhaustion will Clap the person's thinking as we pulled away he said in a genuinely Friendly town that I was welcome at his home and that he wasn't dangerous I genuinely believed him until he pulled out a gun from between the seats and warned me that I better not be dangerous either oh boy so

why did I still go with her exhaustion and Desperation like I said so I'm in the guest room of his trailer in a comfortable bed for the first time and I'm pretty sure was a couple of Weeks I'm relaxing there when his sister comes over I don't see the being in a bedroom but I hear them in the living room she's suicidal and wanting to die that's all she keeps talking about wanting to die and wanting to hand it all finally I hear the man get fed up and snap you want to die he screams

you want to die and there I hear a gunshot Oh my God there are several seconds there where I'm again terrified of what's about to happen to me this man just shot his sister and I'm here in the house with him a potential Witness I look up at the window wondering if I can fit through my tennis gay I cannot then I hear her speak up you shot a hole in the ceiling so apparently he hadn't shot his sister He was just a trigger-happy lunatic who had shot around into the ceiling to emphasize his frustration

to be fair they were actually very nice people after the commercial I ended up staying overnight anyway his wife took me back to the interstate in the morning we had a nice conversation along the way but I wouldn't stay there again ever it's a one star rating but my hosts were very polite when I got to Bay St Louis I ended up Getting picked up by a lady who lived in Mobile Alabama who ended up taking me in and she's my foster mother to this day I love her to death this horrific trip ended with

me finding a new life and a new family so there is a silver lining to every dark cloud I suppose her husband who is my foster father has never stop giving me grief about any of this in almost 20 years he's never tired of It we especially like to Rick on Jimmy Buffett an artist he despise and he refers to it as Jimmy butt plug did I learn anything from this well if you're asking if I learned not to Hedgehog no I went on several more Journeys over the years before I'd finally decided that I'd

had enough Adventure someone will surely think I'm stupid for this young people tend to be stupid so no argument there if you need any further proof of this watch MTV's Coverage of spring break sometime watch how dumb those young people act as they party on the beach as a word of advice to those who might be considering hitchhiking just don't you can meet a lot of really interesting people you can have a lot of positive experiences but you can also end up getting picked up by a Mania and you might not be as lucky as

I was I was on a hitchhiking Adventure from British Columbia Canada to Antigua Guatemala which started in September 2019. if you've ever hitchhiked before you know how amazing it is and how many cool people you can meet out of the thousands of rides across 40 countries I've only had two bad or dangerous encounters thumbing Act this was my second one I was taking a break from traveling to find wheat trim work in California's Nevada City a beautiful little town with A very interesting crowd but I got stuck a few Towns over for not getting a

ride all day I ended up sleeping at night at the Luxe gas station which I'd done plenty of times before in the morning I was a little more desperate to accept rides because no one was stopping and had already been a whole day I just wanted to get out of there that pickup truck is speeding past me And slams the brakes ahead then slowly backs up inside is a man and a woman in their late 50s and he says in a husky voice will you headed boy Nevada City any distance helps we'll get in we're

going to Yuba they seem normal enough even without most of their teeth and hair so why jump there it all happened in Rapid succession I tossed my bag in the back and jump in I shut the door I noticed a pile of guns And bullets on the floor and before I have time to rethink my decision we speed off so as I'm trying to assess whether or not I'm in danger they start telling me how this guy just got out of jail for aggravated assault Howie beat that [ __ ] so bad he can't think

straight no more and they both laugh she's holding a seat belt over his chest and they both smell like [ __ ] they start Asking how much money I have and I start thinking to myself yeah I'm not safe here after hitchhiking all this way I don't look particularly wealthy I'm filthy I need a shower I look no different than the stereotypical homeless guy so I try to seem more poor than I am and more tough than I am too I'm broke as [ __ ] man that's why I'm going to the city I'm hoping

to make some cash trimming the man looks me in the eye well you'll Find it all right you'll find it good don't be afraid to do no dirty work if people try and they'll try to [ __ ] you you [ __ ] them first you get what I'm saying put your eyes on the damn road Jesus Christ the woman points forward and he swerves back to the right lane he asks me if I smoke and knowing that California has legalized weight I put two and two together he's offering me a joint so I say

yeah I smoke With a wild look in his eyes he exclaims great and we turn off the highway and start down the dirt road I'm more than worried and I look behind us in the back of the truck is my bag a chainsaw pickaxe and a plastic tarp over something that didn't help my anxiety finally we start in front of the clearing the woman takes out not a joint but a math pie it's the first time I've seen a magpie and a lot of things start to make sense While he lights up and exhales into

the car I roll the windows down as fast as possible because I don't want to smoke that [ __ ] the woman takes some as well and they tell me how they were going to collect money that a woman knows them that damn [ __ ] is gonna pay today one way or another damn straight she better have the money I'm gonna grab her and say where's my money [ __ ] oh she'll have it all right she'll have it or else Say son you ever steal something because we could make twenty thousand dollars today

I don't know exactly how to answer this guy and he repeats twenty thousand dollars today here smoke some of this maybe hands me the pie nothing like meh ain't that right I gently reject it and say that Matt's not really my thing which he surprisingly takes well and smokes some more before putting it away and driving Off back towards the highway his driving is terrible swerving Speedy hitting the brakes abruptly and starts trying to convince me to help them steal marijuana plants you'll hold my car and all drill the hole and I'll keep a look

at it yeah baby girl will keep a look now you gotta be careful if you hear the dogs because them sons of [ __ ] are nasty see this bite and he reveals what looks like a terrible scar on his arm I don't really know how to get out of the situation so I sounded as confident as possible and said that I was meeting a friend to look for work together and that they would be expecting me today we near the end of Yuba City when they pulled over the side well it's your funeral you

don't want to eat fine by me but if you ever want the cash you can call me he then hands me his number hell no I think Thanks I will I quickly retrieve my back smiling nervously the woman says with a way take care now God bless and they speed off I'm standing on the side of the road thinking what the hell was that I was just happy to be out of that call at the age of 18 to 90 I used to pick up hitchhikers and go hitchhiking myself the 1990s felt a bit different

to now one day I was traveling from Edinburgh to back home it was about 70 miles I saw a fella hitchhiking awry just outside of Edinburgh city limits with a sign saying no you seem to have loads of stuff most went in the trunk some in the back seat you jumped in the front and off we went he seemed quite awkward and his accent was all over the place German French English it felt forced though Small Talk was difficult he looked Punk or alternative and so we Will have music in common let's talk about music

I thought he was wearing an exploited t-shirt which is a local band I asked if he saw them all in Edinburgh as they played two days before said he hadn't heard of them okay I thought the more we talked the more uneasy I felt and the more he seemed to relax he had a bunch of piercings which he started talking about and said he'd done Them himself they looked at each one was squint and looked brand new he started telling me about how he'd been spending the last year or so which sounded somewhat off-grid in

terms of living we've been traveling around Europe on a motorcycle he built himself fair enough I worked as a mechanic at that point in life so I asked about the setup he got irritated and changed the conversation he then got onto how a monk had found Him half dead in a field and nursed him back to hell he then worked at the monastery to repay his death and it sounded like something out of a movie this bizarre story lasted 30 or so minutes through the monastery story he kept saying there's no need to pull that

face and getting quite aggressive I mentioned it doesn't really make sense as you've jumped around four countries And I'm also driving and trying to listen to a German accent he then freaks out and starts smashing his fists on the dashboard screaming how he wants out fair play we are almost there as soon as I slowed down to a give Wayside he jumps out of the car flings the doors opener grabs his staff and walks off leaving the doors open I get out to close the doors and say sorry to the people behind me who had

to wait and witness this I look over to see where he's going and He was climbing a fence and heading into a farmer's field I was a little freaked out and just wanted to get home the minute I'm through the door my mom knows there's something wrong and I tell her the story she suggests I check the car in case he stole anything and phoned the police yeah he forgot some bags great I phoned the police and left details and I forgot about it for a couple of days or so and then I wake up

to my car Window smashed and the bag's gone it was a hard sinking moment I found the place again and this time they turned up and take a statement I dropped him about 12 miles from where my parents lived so I wrote it off as a coincidence six months later I see a crime watch episode where they have the have you seen this person section guess who it was looking like a suit wanted across Europe for Very Bad Things entered the UK under false documents thought to have changed his appearance and attack people in a

car after they picked him up hitchhiking that was the second heart-sinking moment apparently the punk rock look was a disguise I've never picked up a hitchhiker since myself and my buddy Todd are driving through a town we live there it's in Iowa it was 12 or so at night and we were smoking lots of weed he's only 15 and I'm 19 at this point the reason he was driving is because I'm quadriplegic and I can't drive myself the subwoofer I installed was pounding in fact we were so tuned into the music that we didn't notice

that the street lights were suddenly not working where we're driving my buddy looks back at me and asks for a song I look up to ask what he's saying just in time to see a man lit up like a deer in headlights he wasn't normal he Had on khakis and looked like a presentable older man with blonde hair here's the creepy part his thumb was straight out to his side like he was hitchhiking and he had an ungodly grip that shouldn't be possible we swerved all the way from the right lane across to the Middle

Lane then into the left in a matter of seconds and we somehow managed to not scratch my vehicle we both looked back and I tell Todd to get us gone we never saw anything on the News and I even alerted the police the creepiest thing was it looked like an aged version of a mutual friend between us this was only a few months ago but I swear I still see things sometimes okay so let me take you back to a weird encounter I hacked with this hitchhiker that was mid-winter last year my brother and I

were going to our grandparents house the road we took was pretty Scenic and It isn't a usual Road people take to go where we're going since there's easier and faster ways as we drove past a certain Road there was this guy wearing really busted looking flannel jeans shoes and a cat first we just thought he was gonna get picked up by someone since hitchhikers aren't a big thing from where I'm from anyway my brother looks at me and says you reckon we should help her me being the crime junkie I am shook my Head and

said nah he's probably waiting for someone specific we arrived to my grandparents and have a good time there the time we left was probably around 10 pm and it was pretty dark already my brother took the same way back as we just like the views in longer drives he was trying to be funny and drive really fast as he did we literally zoomed past the same man I told him to go back since it's been like three or Four hours since we last saw it my brother hesitated at first but then did a u-turn when

we got back to the guy we asked if he wanted a ride and he says yeah he told us where he wanted to go and we said sure why not we're gonna go past there anyway when he got into the back seat the first thing we noticed was the smell he reaped then when I offered him a water bottle he took it he didn't look homeless or anything so I didn't suspect that he was But I didn't notice he had a hell of a lot of scratches on his arms I brushed it off and just

kept looking at the Rope the drive was silent when we arrived where he set to go he hopped out of the car my brother decided to wait until he went into the house when we waited the guy looked back and just stood there I got a bit uneasy and told my brother to just drive off He ended up doing so but I feel so guilty that maybe something bad had happened and it was our fault so for the next three weeks I kept checking for any news around that area but nothing popped up I even

asked officers to do a wellness check there but they couldn't as I didn't actually know anyone there personally so yeah that was my little experience with a weird hitchhiker When I was a kid my parents weren't possibly strict I was never given much opportunity to do things with my friends because my mother was confident that I'd end up doing drugs or having sex and whatever else Her Imagination could conjure up the exception were a few Asian friends my mother a Thai woman was inherently trusting of girls who were foliage and was less strict about my

spending time with them and so it happened that one Day Lynn a Chinese girl with two Chinese parents invited me to the mall and my mother actually said yes she even gave me 20 bucks for the box lunch and maybe even a little something nice unfortunately when I got to Lynn's house she sadly announced that some family had showed up unexpectedly and she wouldn't be able to go to describe my disappointment would be impossible I was 14 and this was supposed to be the first Real without my parents outing I've ever embarked on and he

was left telling me it wasn't going to happen as she went back inside I walked away trudging back towards my house but as I walked the idea hit me why not just go myself I had the money I could just get on the bus by myself and go to the mall it started off staggeringly successful I managed to catch the right bars got to them all and wandered around I had my first real burrito experience Played games in the arcade and bought leather goddesses of Phobos I was having the time of my life it was

getting dark so I decided it was time to head back home I got on the bus paid my fare and told the driver where I was headed the driver shook his head and informed me that he didn't go that far what's more I caught the last boss leaving the mall for the day and that by the time he got me to the transfer station to catch The right bus the buses would be done running I put on a brave face and asked him how close he could get me he described a spot about two miles

from my house so I agreed that it was fine he dropped me off where we discussed which happened to be outside to Dunkin Donuts being that it was February and that I was woefully underdressed for any significant amount of time outside I went inside and bought myself a hot cocoa Armed with my cocoa I started the Trek home about a quarter mile into the walk I approached an area that had always given me a little pause it was just beyond the railroad tracks in fact it was the area my mind always conjured up when someone

used the phrase the wrong side of the tracks there was even a strip club on the corner and a few run-down houses I was determined to be brave though and Continued on resolutely just as I crossed the tracks an oncoming red Econoline van slowed to a star and the driver rolled down his window he gave me a friendly smile and said hey sweetheart need a ride now I may have been a dumb 14 year old who hadn't had enough sense to realize that going to them all alone in the first place was a bad idea

but I knew with every fiber of my being that taking a ride from strangers and this Particular stranger especially was a very bad idea I tried to smile casually and wait vaguely at a house nearby nah I said I just live over there they look back at the direction I was indicating looked at me and Shrugged all right he said but it's awfully cold out here I just laughed and waved goodbye he pulled away and drove off moments later though he drove by again having apparently pulled a U-turn somewhere behind me Just seeing this fan

again made my heart skip a beat but he drove past me without slowing or even looking at me he turned the corner hacked and I breathed the sigh of relief as I rounded the corner though my heart dropped he was parked in the strip club's parking lot with his van pulling backwards so that it faced the street his parking lights off I couldn't see through the windshield but I tried to act like I hadn't even Noticed it I tried to act casual I was already rounding the corner but once I saw it I tried to

inconspicuously change roots and try to act like I was headed for the house across the street I calmly walked around the back of the house as if I maybe lived in the back and I just stood there trying to listen for signs of him driving away I was terrified however when I saw headlights lighting up the driveway that you see running alongside the house And sure enough he drove his van slowly into view I was frozen in fear he reached the end of the driveway and turned around slowly heading up I could see him locking

in my direction but I couldn't tell if he'd actually seen me or not as soon as he started up the driveway again I forced my legs into motion ran around the other side of the house and fled onto the porch and here I heard for what seemed like outwards I prayed someone would open the door and Find me but I was too afraid to actually knock on the door and ask for help eventually half Frozen and scared and knowing that it was starting to get laid and my mother was going to start wandering where I

was I peeked over the rambling and scanned for any sign of him I didn't see any so I started running home I still had over a mile and a half to go before I got home and even at 40 and I couldn't sustain a run very long Especially in my half Frozen condition the walk seem to take forever and at every sign of a vehicle larger than a car I went up behind a tree or hide behind a bush the entire time I was mapping Gateway routes if he catches me up to here where would

I go I can honestly say I've never been so terrified in my life less than a mile from home I saw a large vehicle headed towards me that seemed to Have the same headlights as an Econoline van my heart just plummeted and I dove behind a bush that I didn't piss myself when the driver slowed down is a Wonder I heard the window go down and amazingly blissfully I heard my mother's voice say Julie I stood up and there she was in our Ford Bronco appearing at me and confusion and I think I went from

behind the bush to inside the car in a single bound I can say that I caught some serious hell that night for life being stupid and everything but hell never felt so good because the entire time I could only think about what might have happened foreign this happened in my early 20s it still makes my skin crawl to think what might have happened to me around 10 30 on a summer evening I was driving home from my boyfriend's house and stopped to grab Something to eat from a fast food joint I also ordered a hamburger

patty for my dog who was in the back seat of my car the street I need to turn left on to go home is pretty busy and there's no stoplight while waiting I'm eating some of my food with my window half down enjoying the nice weather and I hear someone say something to my left and I see a group of four guys about a block away walking in my Direction down the sidewalk since my radio was on I didn't hear what they said and I stupidly turned it down and said what one of the guys

in front says something but again I miss what he's saying I glance back at the street and see a wall of traffic both ways unable to turn and consider turning right instead so I can just leave the guy speaks again and this time I heard her hey can we get a ride oh no I stammered out this isn't good They're about 10 feet away from my car at this point and I start rolling up my window while glancing between the guys in traffic there's still no openings my window almost up maybe a couple of inches

left and I decided to back up into the parking lot and leave via an exit that led through a neighborhood I put my car into reverse right as the guy who asked for a ride gets to my door he slides up to the door leans heavily against it and asks again if he and his Friends can get a ride the way he was asking wasn't right and his friends walked up pretty close by behind him the next bit happened so fast but felt like minutes went by I took my foot off the break to start

reversing back into the parking lot because my brain was screaming at me to leave immediately rightly so because as I say no and start to roll backwards he tries to open my car door I can still remember the thought sound Of the handle snapping back down suddenly my door who'd previously been enjoying his hamburger and oblivious to what was happening jumped up and started throwing himself on the window and bouncing off of it barking and snarling the guy at my door puts his hands up and said oh I didn't know you had a dog as

he and his friends quickly backed away I flawed it backwards with my heart and my throat I didn't know my way through the neighborhood exit well but I just Kept driving and turning down streets until I figured out where I was once I got home and was safely in my garage with the door shut I realized how much I was shaking I have no idea what those guys wanted to do but I'm very glad I did not find out I'm so thankful my dog lost his [ __ ] and provided enough of a surprise and

distraction for me to get out of there I'm also thankful to my mom for teaching me to always keep my car doors locked This is probably one of the things I look back on and want to bang my head and shouted myself for so about five or six years ago I gave someone a ride it was late like really late perhaps two or three am I just finished my gym workout at that time I really like going to the gym when it was dead so I could use the machines I needed to without waiting I

was walking back to my car when a guy Approached me he looked normal he explained that his car broke down and he was waiting on a tow truck he asked me if I could give him a ride to the gas station and it was about three miles away and I said yes so I unlocked my car in motion amen he directs me where to go I make conversation while I'm driving but get what I think at the time is mildly bizarre response is back he makes a Point to say his name several times admittedly I've

never been good with remembering names even in passing and I gave him my first name in retire after that he starts saying his full name which I just think is weird I brush it off and keep driving as the road we were on was one of the back roads without a lot of lines so I am quite focused he asks me how I'm feeling and the question about how I like the city I discussed my workout in response to That and I tell them what I like about the city when I start telling him I

like viewing the skyline at this time of night he quickly agrees and says it's nice how people aren't really around it this time I agree with that the conversation tapers at that point but I do notice that he's turned and looking at me still he makes a point to say his name again as if he hadn't previously introduced himself Now I pull into the gas station and he kind of deflates he gets out and roughly says thanks that was it looking back though there were several red flags the gym I went to at the time

was in a pretty isolated part but if you were to break down there was a gas station at the bottom of the hill it was on you could see it from the gym and it was 24 hours like the gym surely if you needed to wait somewhere else you'd do so there and not outside a Gym you didn't go to that brings up another thing he'd made a point to say what kind of car he was driving it was an expensive car and if you're waiting on a tow you have the option to wait with

the car and drive with the tow driver and also I really wasn't paying attention at the time but he directed me toward the road without any lights there was another way to get to the gas station he wanted to go to but he Directed me elsewhere then the way he kept saying his name like I should recognize either part of it something about that never sat right with me I can't even remember his name now but that encounter is seared into my prey there when he got out of my car he didn't even head inside

the gas station he just stood outside he made no attempt to use a phone or anything I'm older and not as trusting of people but man I know this was a stupid choice on my part but I just wanted to help at the time thank you it must have been during our Christmas break an old friend of mine was having a party there was going to be alcohol and drugs of course I was going to be there this friend lived in a town a few miles away I was dropped off there with some other folks

and expected to be staying there the whole night but later on I just decided I really wanted to sleep in my Own bed at this point it was getting really late in the night everyone else was already pretty [ __ ] up I know the only way for me to get home would be to walk I knew at the time it would be a long walk about three miles but I was pretty buzzed and pretty motivated to be somewhere comfortable and I had my Zune on me so I decided to go for it it was

also December in central New York so there was a pretty steady snowstorm Bearing down that night one important thing you should know is that when I was in high school I was a big fella about five foot eleven and roughly 330 pounds at the time so obviously pretty hefty I also didn't care too much about staying clean shaver so I had a beard vaguely similar to Fidel Castro and actually dressed like him for Halloween a few years later so I'm being pretty literal here I also always wore basketball shorts no Matter what the weather was

like part of that was just being fat and hating jeans the other part is the fact I've always just seemed to have a really high tolerance for cold weather it just doesn't bother me that much so I get about a mile into my walk and at this point it must be like nearly three in the morning when this woman in her early 30s maybe and driving by herself pulls up alongside me she claims to be concerned which honestly I can Understand I really must have looked kind of crazy and she insists over and over and

over again that I let her give me a ride I don't want to ride I'm fine in the cult and I have my music and I was really kind of enjoying the walk I tell her I'm okay but she absolutely refuses to take note for an answer that's really the first thing that made me uncomfortable in that situation even being young at the time I understood how I looked as a big guy with a big beard and a rough demeanor walking down a County Highway in the middle of the night I honestly would have looked

exactly like this sort of person you are taught to avoid but she would not leave me alone the way she kept insisting I got in her car just felt menacing in a way the problem for me though was that even on this 40 mile per hour speed limit Stretch this woman decided that she would just follow me following just slightly behind me had my walking pace every so often she would pull up next to me and offer again a ride home at one point I got fed up with it and decided I'll just take the

ride but as I'm walking towards the car she tells me that I can't sit in front I need to go in the back seat immediately I determine that's just Bizarre if this woman is so concerned and so willing to pick up a stranger as strange as me in the middle of the night what makes me sitting in the back seat so essential I have visions of child safety locks and being inexplicably kidnapped by a woman I outweigh by probably 200 pounds so I decide I won't be getting in the car after all she doesn't seem

entirely happy with that actually she calls the police Some Cops show up and she tries to convince them that I need a ride home cops determined that I'm old enough to make that call on my own and also probably realize what a strange thing that is for a stranger to be demanding so the cops leave me to it nothing much else interesting happens except for the fact that this woman followed me for almost 40 minutes on my walk home by the time I was close to my house I was so freaked out by her that

I cut through a Few yards and actually went to my friend's place where there was sort of an open door policy to just wait for another hour or so until I was sure she was gone there's just a lot about this experience that doesn't make sense to me why would a woman all alone in the middle of the night decide that she absolutely needed to get me a big crusty boy in her car but only the back seat where was she going at almost three in The morning where she could take a near hour-long detour

to just follow me home why get the cops to try to literally make me accept her offer none of that seems normal to me and in the moment it was truly terrifying foreign at the time and I was hitchhiking for no damn reason other than wanting to do so no I was not traveling alone I was traveling with my friend Randy Randy and I were somewhere outside of San Francisco thumbing our way to Oregon so I could meet up with my really good childhood friend this guy pulled up in a big red truck and we

put our packs in the back of his truck and climbed in the car he asks us where we're going and we just say as far north as you're willing to take us after a bit he starts talking to me about how I look like I couldn't be more than 14. how I was really pretty naturally as a female growing up where I did I was kind of used to creepy Comments like this I never noticed how bad it genuinely was at the time because it just seemed like normal [ __ ] after a slew of

compliments and suggestions of leaving Randy and just going home with him Randy finally had enough he told him to just drop us off he argued with Randy saying he was just joking and making friendly conversation but Randy was so insistent on having him drop us off Randy asked me to grab this stuff out of The bed of the truck and I did I hand him my stuff first naturally I go to hand him his back and the guy just starts driving to take off with me still on the back of his truck I jump out

scared as [ __ ] we ended up losing a guitar because I never got to grab it out of the bed of his truck I look back at it now and while I had a lot of good memories out there hitchhiking I still get so uncomfortable Thinking this one because I was just so close to being taken from my own negligence mostly I'm a 29 year old female and my partner is a 23 year old female we're back in our hometown visiting family for about a week it's a very small isolated town in the middle

of nowhere and basically in the middle of the Woods while we were here she wanted to meet up with an old high school friend who still lives in the Area Kyle so we meet Kyle at the beach and right away he's acting really weird he was making jokes about us having a three-way he kept on making a bunch of unwelcome overly sexual gross comments about us obviously we're unfortunately used to this stuff to a certain extent but coming from someone who was supposed to be her good friend it was extra annoying so me and my

girlfriend are shooting each other panicked looks the whole time Once he's out of earshot for a second she says that she's sorry that he's never been like this before we make an excuse to leave when he comes back we tell him that we want to get dinner at a local bar but he asks to join us we felt awkward so we end up saying yes he says he doesn't know quite how to get there so he follows us we get there order drinks and food and then head out to the patio with the drinks he

makes a Few more gross comments but is generally being way more cool than normal than he was at the beach we're smoking weed on the patio and chilling the food comes quick and we finish it quicker now here's where it gets really messed up so halfway through my first drink I'm feeling really tired which makes sense as we have had a long day I give my girlfriend the signals that I want to go she makes an excuse that we Need to go he keeps trying to get us to come to his house I've got good

weeds and dabs there and you can meet my cats blah blah blah he's being really pushy we keep saying no and making excuses that we need to go check on a grandpa and stuff like that so finally we get in the car and say good night we've parked next to each other we walk up and get into our respective Cars while saying goodbye when we get into the car my girlfriend informs me that she wants to stay at the bar but fake it like we were leaving because she doesn't want to chill with them anymore

understandably so we're sitting in the car waiting for him to leave first when he signals for us to roll down the window we do and he says my GPS is being funny he asks if we can lead him to the main road to be fair we are in the middle of Nowhere so this didn't seem too outlandish so obviously staying behind at the bar was out so in the car we're talking about how pushy he was being and she admitted she feels weird driving right back to her grandpa's house so we should drive into town

until we lose it he's behind us for a long time even way after he should have gotten off on his accent we think it's weird but we weren't sure What to do so finally we get on a two-lane road and equals up next to us and he's waving a foam which is clearly my girlfriend's fault we pull over he gives her the phone back chats for just a few seconds then leaves in a hurry here's the part that makes my skin crawl we know she had her phone along with my phone and her weight a

few minutes before we left the bar as we were preparing to leave She didn't take it back out there is no way she could have left it at the bar more importantly he got it in his car and left the bar at the same time as us meaning he had to have already had the phone when we were leaving it's not like we left the bar first and he saw it left on the table or something he literally had to have been walking to the course with us and calmly saying good night with the phone

already in his Possession now the kicker apparently unbeknownst to me my girlfriend had tasted a very weird bitter taste in her straw at the bar and was already suspicious and especially with how he'd been acting so when he walked up to the car to return her cell phone she very casually and deliberately flashed the knife that she kept for protection in her jacket so that's why he left so quickly Obviously I was annoyed with her for not telling me her suspicions sooner but she just didn't want me to panic I'm really shaky now and a

few things are clear number one he stole my girlfriend's phone and it seems like he did so so that we would be forced to pull over on a dark Road in the middle of nowhere number two he quickly ended the conversation and left when my girlfriend flashed her knives they've been good friends for almost 10 Years if he wasn't planning on doing something malicious and I feel he would have acted confused about the knife or said something like what the [ __ ] why would you flash a knife at me what is this a bad

movie but instead he just booked it which tells me he knew exactly what she was doing reacting to a threat and preparing to protect herself and me and number three he probably spiked out drinks My girlfriend noticed a weird taste in her straw right away and chose not to finish her drink I finished half of my drink and felt very tired a few more things I just don't know how he managed to NAB the phone without us knowing or noticing it doesn't really make any sense but he did me and my girlfriend both remember her

putting it in her fanny pack perfectly we also have no idea how we could have Spiked our drinks unless he was working with the bartender but we were the ones that suggested that bar I don't know exactly how he did it but I think I know why and for that reason my girlfriend's now ex-friend who made creepy sexual comments probably tried to drug us and he also stole her foe in order to get us alone on a dark Road foreign happened to me over 30 years ago but I remember the feeling of fear as if

It were yesterday I was in college I'm a female and I'm taking a course in outdoor survival the course ended with a three day three night Wilderness solo we were allowed to take a backpack empty canteen sleeping bag knife six matches row a sheet of plastic a change of clothes extra socks Amazon tablets small cooking spot and a spoon we were not allowed to bring food or water since part of our training was in identifying Edibles and finding a Water source once I was dropped off I had to hike in to find a spot to

set up camp first I had to place a flag on a tree near my drop-off point so that I could be located three days later for Pica I was loving life just me and nature I had no fears even as night began to fall I enjoyed the sounds of the words all around me and didn't mind not having attacked I built a small fire and had a great feeling of peace and I slept well That night but woke up thirsty my search for a water source began happily I found a muddy string let the water

settle in my pod place the tablets in the water and boiled it for good measure yeah what a shitty taste but at least I was hydrated all went well and I had a great time until my last day it was early afternoon on the last day and time to break Camp I cleaned up my camp area and hiked out to my drop-off spot As I sat leaning against the tree I heard the sound of a vehicle half in the distance I figured that it had to be my pickup as I waited the vehicles that I'd

never seen before pulled up on the dirt path in front of me immediately I realized that I didn't know who the man was he gave me an odd look my gut told me that he was bad news he asked what I was doing out there and if I was alone I said that my friends were behind me Breaking hair he gave me a knowing one got back in his vehicle and rode off I was terrified I knew that I had to hide and fast I ran into the woods and hear it as I ran I

heard the car come back I stayed as quiet as I could and remained hidden I heard it get out of the car I could hear him calling to me and walking through the brush looking for me I was so afraid eventually he gave up And I heard the car door's laugh the engine starts and the car pulled away going back to my drop-off point was not an option so I began hiking through the woods hoping I would find base camp after walking for what felt like ours I saw a forest ranger I told him who

I was and what had happened to me he told me that I'd done the right thing since a young woman had been assaulted the night before the police and Forest Service had been Searching the area happily he drove me to the base camp where I learned that another girl in my class had a creepy encounter with a man the night before she had scared him away by blowing a brass whistle until help arrived if there's anything to be learned from this it's being sure to always trust your gut feelings and never Camp below this happened

in May 2007 and for reference I'm a female I was 20 at the time and weighed about 115 pounds so overpowering me would have been extremely easy I live in the city in Northern Ireland and at the time I was best friends with my ex-boyfriend my ex-boyfriend's cousin span decided to play a small gig way out in the countryside so we had to drive for about an hour or more to get to the location we arrived and it was literally a field amongst Fields smacked back in the back ass of nowhere Apparently one of the

members of the band knew the owner of this field and apparently we had permission to be there I never checked so I don't know but whatever there were several cars already there when we arrived we packed a car full of tents sleeping bags and a ton of alcohol the plan was to watch the band then blast some toads have a bit of a party and spend the night in the field in our tents The way the field was laid out was kind of an outshay all the tents were set up around the corner and the

band had set up a generator across the field on the other side then besides where the tents were there was a hole in a bush to the other field we went through here to go to the toilet so we had some privacy from everyone there was roughly 30 to 40 people in the field and the band started playing we started drinking and generally having a Good time anytime I needed to pay I went with my ex's sister or a friend as it was a good few minutes walk to the next field and none of us

wanted to go alone even though we were in the middle of nowhere I was sharing my tent with my ex for the night and at about 3 am I decided I'd had enough and wanted to go back to the tent to sleep I told him I was going and made my journey across the field to the tents As I got into the tent and pulled the zipper down I felt someone talking at it and assumed it was my ex until I heard an unfamiliar voice say let me in quite aggressively I called out who are

you and he said I know you're alone in there you can't hold that zebra down forever let me in over the next minute or so I was gripping on the zipper of the tent and holding both sides of the fabric together to prevent this guy from Getting into my tent the couple of times he managed to get the zipper up a bit but I always managed to get it back down for the life of me I have no idea how I managed to do this the whole time we were struggling against each other over the

zebra he kept saying things like I'm gonna get in eventually [ __ ] it's gonna be worse if you don't [ __ ] let me in I was absolutely petrified then I heard my ex-boyfriend's booming Voice shout what the [ __ ] are you doing at that tent then I heard a smack and a thug and my ex-called to ask me if I was okay my ex it saw what was happening punched the guy and he fell he had watched me walk to the tents and watch this guy follow behind assuming he was going to

the bathroom but he kept watching it to make sure when he saw and turned towards the tents he came over to make sure I was okay thank God he did anyway a huge fight Broke out and then one of the creepy guy's friends ended up heading in two it turns out he was known for this kind of creepy behavior and he'd been in trouble with the law for sexually harassing women in the past my ex's Carson had said that he was staying at her house with her brother one night and she woke up to find

him standing in a room watching her sleep I really don't know what his intentions were had he managed to fight his way Into the tent that night no one would have heard anything as the music was loud but thank God my ex still cared enough about me to keep an eye on me as I made my way back to the tent that night my ex actually bumped into the guy a few weeks later and told me that his lip was still pretty busted up and looked like he was going to have a permanent Scar from

the two punches for a time I worked at a royal Hospital In Mississippi I would often Drive between my home state of Texas and Mississippi in the afternoon or evening I've seen lots of weird and wacky things but the creepiness of the Bayou backgrounds is unmatched life had naked or at least shirtless men and ragged old pickups waiting on the side of the road at night try to follow me as I passed and other assorted stereotypical rural [ __ ] but the weirdest one wasn't Stereotypical at all while I was traveling I-10 one afternoon I

noticed the prayers pacing me in my blind spot and blocking me in my Lane I have them a moment to pass and when they didn't I began slowing down they matched my speed this continues for several miles and my go-ahead way has been ignored so I'm finally tired of going well under the speed limit so I slowed down and then punch it taking advantage of my better acceleration to Make a path ahead of the and I shoot off about 95 miles per hour they're speeding up now too they stay with inside of me for the

next 25 miles or so matching my speed from 55 behind this flow truck to almost a hundred they won't pass they won't go away knife and angle traffic such that I exit the freeway without them being able to follow I pull off to get some gas I do my thing and rejoin the freeway only to pass them sitting on the shoulder a Short ways up as there they were waiting for me well now I'm properly spooked so I made sure I took note of their license plate and I continue my journey I didn't see them

again for a few miles but here they come again tailgating me they stay with inside of me for the next 45 minutes or so matching my speed and line selection at this point I've had enough so I again finagle traffic and force them beside me the middle-aged couple inside the car Are staring at me with the most intense look of hatred I've ever seen I'm not ashamed to admit that my blood ran cold when I saw the look of pure rage in their faces I give her what did I do sort of shrug gesture and

the male passenger gives the sarcastic slightly crazed looking smile and he does that you better think gesture had his hand followed by the universal signal for cutting a throat the female driver is all over the road As she stares over at me forcing me over partially onto the shoulder incensed and obviously nervous I give him the finger and pin the throttle I take off it go directly to jail speeds I didn't stop until that car had faded into the distance and then I took an alternate route through some more curvy Country Roads and made sure

I disappear I'm reasonably certain that I didn't cut them off prior to this incident and I didn't recognize them at all I have no Idea what their problem was with me but I'm kind of glad I didn't give them a chance to tell me thank you I work at a lab at the University of South Florida late as I like to do my work with no one else around my partner is just a short ways off campus about a 10 minute drive can be 40 or so minute walk depending on what I took while I

do live in Tampa and it's far And away from the cities there's no three-story buildings inside a few neighborhoods ample amounts of trees and ponds at the Stones Throw from a rather sizeable State Park of 240 acres which in turn is adjacent to a substantially larger Wilderness Area what that means is a lot of Wildlife I regularly see deer grazing on a golf course nearby growing alligators roam the ponds in small lakes Turtles about plenty of vultures storks and smaller Birds and much much more on my nightly walks or drives I often hurt or even

seen foxes Bobcats coyotes or even a black bear Awards so you can imagine when I found out several cats and small dogs had gone missing I naturally thought that if a predator was responsible they'd be one of the larger coyotes Bobcats or maybe even a bear or Gator people especially in gated communities leave their pets out to roam about in the day or at night Still that did leave a question of how a predator could or worked get over several fences and Gates some of which would be quite the hassle to climb and there was

no sign of being tunneled under why go for a pet inside a box that would be hard to get out of when fat dogs were extremely abundant well I got my answer in a way I never expected I was driving back from the lab late around 11 pm when I stopped as I could see an animal in the road the figure was Very tall but also very thin so I initially thought the pale color I saw to be from viewing a deer from behind however I soon noticed the animal was actually pale all over its

main body and had extremely thin dark legs when it raised itself up somewhat I realized I was looking at a great white Heron from behind great white herons are a regional color morph of great blue herons being nearly all white in color ratio including the Trademark tassels coming off the browse of the birds stay for the top yarn feet which are both dark blue or black the white form usually only appears in various Hills in Florida but occasionally one will show up further north they also tend to be on the larger end of the species

thighs I make no jest when I note how big this avian was standing up straight some of the bigger great herons can look a grown man in the eye behind a nearly foot lock Rapier-shaped beak the Heron was throwing its head up and down and was clearly doing something but I couldn't be sure of what it was standing in the road about 200 yards ahead of my car and only reacted when I got closer it swung its head around and don't never forget the sight right as I stopped 10 yards away the Herring was standing

still unflinching as its eyes brightly reflected in the headlines the white feathers across the chest and The part of the wing was stained to Towery red from coagulating blood as it had half of a cat hanging out of its mouth herons can cope down surprisingly large prey such as big fish muskrats Bullfrogs and even young alligators but it's one thing to see them swallow a wild creature whole in still frame or in pixels on a video it's a whole different ordeal to see one doing it in the flesh after having killed its prey by impaling

Them on the beak when I compare their bait to a Rapier earlier I mean it they can impale that thing through the armored scales of the garfish parents have been known to kill Eagles by ramming their beaks through the latter's chest the poor cat never stood a chance the Heron didn't at all seem phased by my arrival instead they had flicked the dead cat back and forth saw to position it in its mouth before tilting its head Off you know that shot from Jurassic Park with the Tyrannosaurus swallowing the goat same sort of visual at

first only with another disgusting detail when the Herod started swallowing its thin neck bulged outwards to accommodate the food it kept its eyes pointed straight at me as the big wad of slain feline slowly walked down its throat to the Cross sometimes a lamp visibly impressing outwards from the stretched scare all the while the Heron let out Raspy breaths while standing still still spotted in Gore from packing the poor cat to death and after it finally swallows its prey the Heron paced closer and to the side of the road he'd actually got next to the

car at one point he was close enough I could confirm its height to be about five feet or more because the top of its head was level with my side mirror it was at that point I realized I had the windows partially rolled down and I was smelling The sanguine musk of death the damn bird was level with my window looking right at me and leaning closer needless to say that snapped me out of my stupor I blurred the horn to make it back off on the menu or not I didn't at all like how

it was looking at me driving down the road and making the turn I could still see it looking towards the core as it paced down the dark and sidewalks like it was the most casual thing ever for a four to five Foot tall predator half covered in blood to be there obviously I was in no direct danger myself being in the car undecidedly not on the menu but I didn't like it all the way it looked at me this avian Predator clearly didn't at all fear people even if it's the unconscious of cars and my

presence and given this happened at a gated community I'd never seen any mammalian Predators bigger than a possum there I think I now know what was eating the pets we often can hear nowadays that birds are living dinosaurs but I don't think some quite register that as their feather heads they're familiar with are fat City pigeons or delicious fell and I think seeing this would help get the message across and at night every so often that I still can hear the D throaty shrieks that species gives off flying over from the forests and swamps And

in to the neighborhoods don't leave your pants outside this incident happened in 2018 my then boyfriend and I were on a road trip during the winter of 2018. we took a day to visit the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona for anyone who hasn't been there you drive down a long road that winds through the landscape and exited various stops along the way to view different points of interest We were only at maybe our second or third stop when we encountered the cree this particular stop has a white parking lot with a handful of large

educational signs at either end and a path that leads up to a historic site and various Vantage points as we made our way up the path to the main site a man was coming down toward the parking lot he looked pretty much exactly like Mr Clean but in a red t-shirt and jeans he was tall upwards of six foot two As we passed each other he muttered Something art under his breath though it was clearly intended to get our attention my boyfriend turned around and asked him what he said and the man looked at us

almost stunned for a moment before he seemed to decide to come up with something else to say he pointed into the distant and asked what's that over there all there was over there was some kind of utility box that rode through the Park and desert we brushed him off said we didn't know and turned to continue up the power when he called out see you later pretty girl there's hardly a woman alive who hasn't had something like this said to her ten thousand times before but this felt unusually Sinister and it set my nerves on

edge we both decided to just ignore him and headed up to the rest of the site after 15 to 20 minutes of looking around I Finally had to admit to my boyfriend that I felt like we were being watched he nodded and said that guy hasn't laughed he's been watching us the entire time from where we were standing up on a hill we could see the parking lot I noticed our creeps standing near an educational sign that was off on its own at the far edge of the parking lot but he was clearly this issue

to see up the hill at us we were both bugged by it but We resolved to not let it ruin our time or get too bent out of shape about it we took our time at the stop shook off the nerves and by the time we went back to the parking lot he'd gone we drove another mile or two to the next vantage point which included a number of petroglyphs on a cliff wall that you could see using binoculars you have to take a narrow road to enter the parking lot which creates a bit of

a bottleneck as we're about to enter a Blue RAV4 pulls in front of us and blocks us from coming in it was the same Creek after a few moments of intense eye contact with my boyfriend the guy slowly pulled away and let us enter the loft he laughed so we told ourselves we were overthinking it but decided to spend a good long time where we were to let him get well ahead of us so we could stop running into each other our next stop a mile Loop hike was if I Remember about three and a

half miles away we figured we'd spent enough time at the petroglyphs and even if the guy was at our next destination he'd either be close to being done with the hike or leaving by now unfortunately he waited for us about two miles up the road we spotted the blue RAV4 pulled over on the side of the road the man was standing next to the car sort of looking vaguely into the distance The landscape is beautiful in the park even though there was nothing especially spectacular about this spot maybe he was just taking it all in

away from crowds as we drove by I looked behind us we turned to watch us and stared at our car driving away until we rounded a corner who couldn't see him anymore when we got to the parking lot and got out to take the hike we were both feeling rattled my boyfriend who normally tolerated creepiness in others To a fault was so shaken by the Vikes this guy gave off and he actually stashed the little window breaking hammer out of his car safety kit in his hoodie pocket just in case we needed something for self-defense

I guess that sounds nuts now but it's just one of those things we all do to feel a little safer when we get creeped out the hike itself is down at the bottom of this kind of Valley you walk down this Steep winding path to the bottom where the path splits and forms a circuit around this area that includes all these cool little Helix of painted rock dotted with petrified work we made it all the way down to the beginning of the low when we noticed the guy at the top of the cliff off the

parking lot looking down our way we were about half of the way around the loop when we saw this guy at the base of the Hill about to start we were relieved because we knew we'd Been out there beforehand this time and we felt like we could finally Shake him and stop feeling weirded out for most of the love you can see the whole path and the whole hell up to the parking lot but for the middle section of the Walk you're shielded from view behind this little Helix and different topography when we emerge near

at the end of the loan we were still feeling good but we did take a quick look to place our crate Before heading back up we didn't see him anywhere maybe he decided not to do the walk maybe he was behind one of those little Hills as we made our way back up to Steve path we noticed him up at the top just waiting by the informational sign switch back after Switchback he stayed parked apparently intently reading this eye the closer we got we noticed he was now holding something As we got to the top

of the path where we knew we'd have to pass within inches of him we tightened her locked arms and prepared to March right past as quickly as we could even though lots of people were walking by coming and going he waited for us to cross his path it turns out that what he now had in his hands was a window washing squeegee and a spray bottle with something in it as we tried to walk past it he turned to Us and said hey can you help me I'm running out of time and he started to

hold up the spray bottle and squeegee my boyfriend was in no mood instead no leave us alone in a pretty harsh town as we kept walking the guy smiling replied well [ __ ] you too nice ass though both of you and started determinately following us he was gaining on us by the time we got to the car and I barely made it in and Locked the door before he was right next to my window staring in at me even though I was freaked the hell out and my instinct was to just keep my head

down I didn't want to give him the upper hand and let him make me cower so I looked up and stared right into his eyes just thinking about it makes my stomach turn he was right up next to my window staring in and blinking with his hand up In a frozen wave and smiling when I looked into his eyes the first thought I had was that he wanted to skin me alive it sounds completely insane to say but I think anyone who's had an encounter with someone like this will relate when someone means you all

there's something that kicks in and you feel it in this deep strange way my boyfriend had the presence of mine to start snapping pictures of the guy who then moved around our car to try and Keep us from driving away my boyfriend started revving the engine trying to get him to move and it didn't work he just kept blocking us so we started edging the car forward he still didn't move we tapped her he stumbled back a bit but kept standing there then we noticed there was a family a couple of cars over staring at

us over their lunch then the creep notice too smiled that nasty smile and gave us just enough room For us to get out of the parking spot and we sped away as we passed the family the man in the front seat gave us an encouraging nod it was sort of like we saw that we're watching it we've got your back I immediately called the park office and told them about what was going on they sent a ranger out to check on the guy we headed to Winslow Arizona and stopped at a bar to have a

drink and tried to chill out we were so freaked out that we Actually checked the car for a tracking device which also sounds crazy but it was one of those situations where the vibe the guy was giving off turned the emotion of the events way way up past what seems normal later that night we got a call from the ranger who told us that they ended up having to arrest the guy for disorderly conduct they asked us to provide a statement of our experience I tried to find out more about it or What happened after

we left but I haven't been successful I'm so curious if this guy sounds familiar to anyone else especially the weird window washing ploy we in all our adrenaline had all kinds of wacky theories that maybe there was poison in the bottle or the squeegee had a knife hidden in it or something I'm sure we were overblowing it but I've never been able to stop feeling like we blanched a bullet with that guy Back in December of 2020 I went to Cancun for a vacation it was one of our dreams to visit this beautiful country and

enjoy their food their culture and their history there was one incident that turned out to be really scary and terrible to remember our first day we decided to go visit the pyramids in Chichen Itza we had rented a car so it would be a nice long trip to the place since it's pretty retired from the hotel Zone we followed Google Maps Which took us through a really lonely road it was really early in the morning so we never thought it was something weird at the middle of the road we were stopped by a group of

federal policemen which had the Yucatan Insignia on their uniforms we're going to the Chichen Itza you have to cross to another state in Mexico I assume this was kind of the borderline between Quintana Roo State and Chichen Itza the first thing they Said was that everyone inside the vehicle should be using a seat belt they said they would make us a fine which we would have to pay within the conversation became really weird they asked us where we came from we of course said Colombia they then took my dad out of the car and took

him away from us over to a place we couldn't see it they told us all Colombians were rats that they are the ones committing more crimes in Yucatan we got really scared At that moment a small group of cars passed by but they weren't stopped I got nervous as [ __ ] it was in the middle of nowhere and they were heavily armed in holding their guns at that moment I freaked out after some minutes my dad came back of course they let him go after he bribed her he then told us that they were

asking who he was what his job was and who knew he was on a trip to Mexico in the end we all had the same thought In that car those guys could have killed us on that road and no one would have known we could say this was a classic police corruption case but their attitude toward us was really suspicious we felt threatened it's a bit of memory from that trip luckily that happened the first day but the rest of our journey throughout Mexico was beautiful to start out this story sort of takes place on

and off again throughout most Of my life it starts out as typical my parents got a divorced when I was young situation but it unfolded in this so much more in fact I'm still picking up the pieces of everything that happened as it stands now my father is dead it was ruled as a suicide but I think that was only half of what happened I'll talk about everything that led up to this but more importantly I believe That Mary definitely had a hand in what happened my mother and father divorced when I was around four

almost everyone I know has gone through some sort of similar situation I have two brothers one older and one younger we saw my father about every other week act he paid child support you get the jest one weekend visit my father introduces us to a woman he said she's named Mary her eyes and hair are dark and her skin Is pale she had an obsession with the color red something was immediately off to me but I didn't really start to know what she was capable of until later I didn't know it at the time but

Mary is one of the main reasons my parents got divorced my father cheated on my mother with her he met her while he was working as a waiter at Red Lobster when he moved over to his career at a casino as his slot machine repairman she followed Mary would follow my dad everywhere They got married pretty quickly after my mother and father divorced I never even knew there was a wedding until later my mother hated her but she never bad-mouthed my father or Mary and one of my brothers and I she felt that it was

important for us to make judgments for ourselves even if this woman was a part of the reason her marriage was broken up we continued to visit what was now dad in Mary's house on our scheduled time With Dad I always Associated their house with red their house was always decorated with strawberries Mary liked red sheets she had red sweaters and pants and was weird Mary was just unnecessary drama for a while things like buying Us toys that we could only keep in my dad's in Mary's house or saying that she and my father wanted cussed

the others instead of my mom and I feel like these things were harmless in a way every divorcing couple probably Has some sort of variation things carried on like this for a couple of years we would have a special variation of Christmas or Easter or whatever aside from what we celebrated with my mom I was about seven or eight when I remembered the first incident that confirmed that I knew this wasn't right my brother was a super curious child and he was about four he had scooted a dining table chair to the fridge to get

To a cereal box on top and when he reached up he pulled down a handgun instead of a cereal box I panicked and got my dad who acted really funny about it my memory is fuzzy but I remember going home early that weekend my dad didn't know the gun was there because it was Mary's it was at this point that my mom started to have trouble with us going over there my father got worse about being able to Come pick us up he was unreliable for the most part to begin with but I know that

he was ten times worse when he was around Mary my mom told me later when I was much older and Mary called our house around the time of the gun incident and said I want your life my mother is a really tough lady she grew up in East L.A in California this scared her she was gonna get a restraining order soon I guess what Mary met was that she wanted my mom's stability even as a single mom with three kids she was doing very well for herself and even dated but even so how long had

she been obsessed with my mom before she and my father ever got divorced what did that even mean not long after the phone call my mom heard her car being smashed into one night someone had taken a break and smashed the driver window nothing was taken I know it was Mary we had no way To prove it but I just know my dad and Mary had a baby her name is Madison I only remember holding and playing with her for so long I can't imagine all the [ __ ] she's been through my mom met

and married my stepdad pretty soon after that and they decided that it would be best to move to Florida we had other family there and there weren't many jobs where we were living in Tennessee I don't remember any Problems at all when we were so far from my dad and Mary we stayed for about a year and then we moved back to Tennessee my stepdad was able to get a better job again and we were closer to my mom's parents this is when the phone call stopped as soon as we moved back we would get

phone calls where someone would just listen for a few minutes and they would hang up the numbers were always blocked I'm sure it was her she Always knew where we lived because we started seeing my dad again the calls continued for years it became like an inside joke we all knew who it was but there wasn't anything we could do my father denied it anytime I asked him about it he took her side we fell into this thing where my mom was the bad guy and anytime I questioned my dad in Mary's Behavior they were

sure my mom was putting me up to it things escalated one night when my dad Came to pick us up for a visit my mom and Mary ended up getting into a fist fight where Mary song first and my mom punched her so hard she fell backwards my brothers and I watched from the apartment we were living in at the time my mom went immediately to the place but my dad and Mary never even called my mom didn't press any charges and the whole incident sort of faded away we ended up moving into a bigger

house a while after that where we still are Today my dad and Mary started to have problems and split up I thought maybe she would be gone for good or at least gone for the most part never really went away my dad started to become a person we could somewhat rely on again when she was gone I got to know my little sister more and things were okay Mary started coming around again though whenever she was with my dad in front of us she would whisper in his ear my dad would drink more he became

Physically ill-looking and would start to gain weight we could always tell when Mary was around because the difference was so drastic even officially divorced her at one point but it was obvious that they still got together on and off my brothers and I went on with our lives and we became too old for visiting the way we were whole weekend visits became just going to see my dad for an evening The whole time however their phone calls never stopped they weren't as frequent but they were there in the background it was like a reminder that

she was always there lurky when I got into High School visits from my dad just about stopped altogether we usually talked on the phone here and there and I saw him when I had events like a marching band competition a formal dance Milestones like graduating high school It was pretty common to go a while without hearing from him sometimes Mary was only a thought I hadn't seen her in years I never saw her anywhere at all the phone calls had stopped but only because we'd gotten rid of the house phone I was a freshman in

college and I remember it being right around Halloween of 2009 I was shopping with my aunt for some cheap decorations at the Walmart by My house I saw a woman walking slowly behind us and my aunt and I both did a double take it was Mary she was totally following us around the store she looked like she was maybe 50 years older and when I last saw her and her clothes were disheveled my aunt kept elbowing me to go talk to her because we weren't exactly sure if this really was her it could have been

someone who just looked really similar I walked up the nose and went up to her Is your name Mary I asked yes it is hi Samantha how are you using my name like that really caught me off guard she knew who I was and wasn't bothering to talk to me she didn't even act like she was being caught I asked her if she talked to my dad lately because it had been a while since I heard from him she swore up and down and she hadn't spoken to her for months which I later found out

was a lie this was the Beginning of my dad going missing after I saw her something happened and it's hard to pin down what but he completely disappeared his cell phone was shut off and when I called his work at the casino where he'd been walking for over 15 years they said that he was no longer working there and they couldn't tell me why my mom and brothers and I called the police to file a missing person's report we didn't have to wait because it had Already been several weeks since we'd heard from him they

helped us make a flyer and we looked and asked all over everything LED back to Mary most likely being the last one to see him alive by the time we started talking to her and it was mid-november my mom and I called Mary and she would tell us that she had in fact seen my dad on the night after Halloween Mary told us that he was making a news and this would be the last time anyway Ever saw him we honestly didn't know what to believe my dad was an alcoholic it wasn't uncommon for him

to say a dramatic star we never considered suicide when we told the detectives what Marriott told us they had her come in for questioning she told the detectives a completely different story and her dates kept changing there wasn't any evidence of anything though so there wasn't much they could do The detectives did however tell us that we shouldn't talk to her anymore to quote them we don't know what she's capable of things went on like this until they found it on January 4 2010 my dad was found dead in the storage unit he had pulled

his car shut the unit door and let it run until he died he'd been there for 63 days there were several suicide notes all Dated for November 2nd one for my mom one for each of his children but that wasn't especially long note for Mary where he darted on her and talked about what a wonderful woman she was the suicide note even said for her to take any insurance money and to use it on herself the date on the notes was so close to the date where Mary said she'd seen it there are a million

things that could have happened but I know She had something to do with it even if my father did kill himself I know that she helped push him over the edge I'm not one to just blame someone I know my father was a troubled man he was an alcoholic and he was depressed most of the time that there's something frustrating and horrendous about this woman and there's zero evidence for me to prove anything against her She wasn't allowed to come to the funeral my mom and parts of his family put everything together there wasn't anyone

he knew that hadn't heard of her and everyone felt that she was a bad woman I found a Facebook profile of hers months after they found my dad there were only five or six photos of her and some guy obviously happy they were all dated for January 4 2010. the next year on on January 4th 2011. She showed up at my family's house we didn't let her in the house and she kept saying something about having some of my dad's stuff in the car we told her to Lee or else we would call the police

that night someone put red tissue paper in and around our mailbox even the next year 2012. she called my mom and asked her to meet her in a Sonic burger parking lot said she had a box of my dad's stuff Together my mom made my stepdad go instead of her but she never showed I feel like she wanted to do something bad to my mom the next year we didn't hear from her I did some research and it turns out she was put in jail for making mad it made a lot of sense for some

of the things but I still have so many questions and issues that are unanswered supposedly she was let out sometime in the summer of 2014. the correctional facility she was at has a website and it says she was let out for good behavior and Rehab I found a different Facebook that showed her with some other family God helped them if she's pulling the same [ __ ] as she did with my now my little brother works at a video game store it was around 8pm one night and Madison Mary's daughter came in to buy a

video game my little brother was shocked and he didn't recognize her She introduced herself and my little brother couldn't do much she asked for his phone number but my brother didn't end up giving it to her because he had a weird feeling in his stomach she took what she bought and left and my little brother thought that was the end of it but maybe five to ten minutes later in walks Madison again with Mary by her side my little brother immediately recognized her and started To panic Mary and Madison stood at the back of the

store whispering to each other he said that they were both smiling the whole time and a couple of times they giggled at each other Mary then looked at him right in the eyes and started to head towards the counter my brother was behind he said that he felt so angry and his heart started to raise instead of trying to confront her he Walked into the back of the store and let his co-worker ask if he could help her maybe 10 minutes later she was gone his co-worker told her that she left without asking for anything

my brother thinks that she was just making her presence now and that she could catch her with it like they were friends or something I just don't want this in my life anymore I don't want her harassing my Family members and I want to move as far away as possible we documented this incident with the police department and they said if it happens three times and we can file for a restraining order I don't really know what else to do as much as I thought it finally might be over she pops right back up again

it's not enough for her that my dad is dead I guess she wants to have the last word She always wanted to have the upper hand I thought I would tell you my story about a creepy encounter I had eight years ago to allow the creepy reality of the situation to sink in I feel I need to describe myself I'm a woman five foot exactly and about 50 kilograms so I'm not particularly skinny but I suppose I had a bit of fat and muscle on me the one seemingly Universal thing that people notice about me

when they find out my age is how Young they think I look it may be due to my height or to my small round baby face I don't know to be honest all I know is I'm 25 now but many people assume I'm under 18. so when I was 17 it was common for many people to assume I was about 12 to 13 to start off my story I'll give you some background information my parents love traveling so they're always going off somewhere their next trip was to Tasmania for two weeks to do The Cradle

Mountain walking group as well as visit other various sites Highway 17 at the time and it was the school holidays but I wasn't particularly interested in going with them my parents decided it'd probably be better for me to stay with my nan up in Sydney because I was going through a really rough time with my mental health issues and they didn't trust me on my own I like the idea of staying with my now Because her house is only a five-minute walked at the train station and it's only a two minute train ride to Miranda

Fair she has foxtel cable TV and lived close to the park and shops it was good for me to get out of my small town and away from all the [ __ ] I had to put up with on one particular day I asked my nan if I could go to Miranda fair I told her I'd be okay on my own and I'd have my phone with me if anything happened she seemed concerned but she eventually Let me go I got to the station paid for my ticket and found there weren't many people waiting I

got to a seat and sat down and started listening to my MP3 whilst waiting for the train to arrive I looked up to my left and barely noticed the guy who looked in his mid-30s sitting on a seat a few meters away from me it was a smallish and skinny looking guy short messy dark hair unshaven and wearing a brown jacket and jeans he Looked at me but I didn't take any notice a group of old ladies walked near me And I asked if they'd like to take my seat which they politely declined I noticed

that the same guy had turned his head in my direction but I continued to ignore it thinking he was staring in the distance the train eventually pulled up and everyone got up to pile off I walked for the door closest to me and I figured that since it was only a two minute ride I wouldn't bother sitting down the train started moving and within seconds the same manner with a brown jacket was standing next to me I ignored him but he continued to stand very close to me when I eventually looked up at him he

was already staring at me hi there he said smiling I said politely but not smiling back I continued to ignore him I thought it was weird that a man his age was trying to engage with me there was no one else in The compartment apart from us and for a split second I felt trepidation come down the bottom and sit with me he said smiling and gesturing to the compartment below I looked around me to find no one standing by a feeling in my gut made me feel slightly sick it was just me and him

he was staring at me instantly and I felt myself follow him I didn't want to appear like I was rude on me all he wanted to do was sit We sat down and I sat in the seat opposite him staring out the window do you live around here he asked still smiling that creepy smile no I replied are you visiting yeah that's cool who are you visiting he was leaning closer in his seat he seemed way too enthusiastic with such simple small talk family I said at this point that feeling in my gut is so

much worse who the hell was this guy and why was he So interested in me we sat in silence and I stare out the window and he chances a few lingering stares at me the hairs on my neck start prickling and I can't stop fidgeting with my hands I decided to get up and walk back to the top compartment as I was nearing my station I remember the silent Mantra in my head playing over and over again please don't follow me please don't follow me please don't follow me that was futile however Because I heard

his footsteps behind me and a sudden touch on my arm I froze you heading to Miranda too same here smiled and all I remembered is my gut dropping I'm not sure how he could have noticed the look on my face and I wasn't smiling I wasn't happy I wanted him to [ __ ] off the doors opened and I quickly got out at my stop a strange man followed me I Tried to walk fast but he kept up with me by this point I was scared I didn't know what he was capable of who he

was or what his intentions were he was chatting to me casually I don't even remember what he said he didn't seem to care that I was taking zero notice of him nor responding to anything he said that's where nearing the mall he sticks his hand out for a handshake and introduces himself as Steve I felt obligated to shake it and tell Him my name my handshakes are usually fur but this time it was like a limp fish so are you hungry I'll buy you lunch no do you want a milkshake or something uh no by

this point it's thinks then that this creep wasn't just really bad at picking up on social cues in my mind he was a predator plain and simple I knew I had to shake him off but I didn't know how as we got closer to JB Hi-Fi I turned to face him and say well thanks for the chat I'm gonna head off now and look around nice to have met you bye by this point he should have gotten the hint that I was on to her yet instead he smiles and says casually I will walk with

you right now I'm on the verge of the panic attack believe me I would have loved to Have told him to [ __ ] off and leave me alone but I was too scared I didn't know how he'd react would he lash out or what I quickly walk into the nearest shop and start browsing whilst feeling like I was in a trance-like state Steve was still on my tail browsing with me at one point Steve walked to the other aisle briefly and I remember seeing a man with his family I walk over to him slowly

and imagine Myself asking him to save me from this man however as if he was reading my mind Steve appeared before I could say anything I was almost in tears now I felt helpless I walked to the middle of the store where there was a table stacked with a bunch of DVDs that were half price my left hand was gripping the top of the table I wasn't even looking at them And like magic Steve appeared beside me not much here to look at is there he says in an almost mischievous way suddenly I felt something

against my left hand something hard yet soft when I looked it discretely pushed the crotch of his genes against my hand and I'm pretty sure you can guess what I felt I quickly pulled my hand away and felt myself feel like I was going to faint my vision was blurry and my mind was Scrambling I wanted to puke and to sink through the floor all at the same time I couldn't scream or fight back I truly felt so vulnerable I spotted the store's back Checker at the entrance of the store and I stare at him

pleadingly he ignores me everyone seemed oblivious to what was happening Steve eventually walked back to the CD section of the shop yet he could still keep an eye on me if he had to by this Point he'd been following me for almost an hour probably more I needed to do something I took a leap of faith and subtly approached the same back checker please help me that man won't stop following me I'm not security he replies unhelpfully I could have lost my [ __ ] right there to be honest I was frustrated angry scared anxious

can't you do anything he won't stop by this point tears were coming out I'd had Enough he looks over to where he was and then says in the most nonchalant of toes he's looking at the CDs just walk out of here at that point I didn't care I bolted I ran out of this door as fast as I could and I ran into the ground floor parking lot and I didn't stop running I ran up three or four parking levels meanwhile dodging cars and not looking back until I saw an elevator I ran inside it

and pushed it to the Very top level once I got out I ran into the nearest restroom and locked myself in this door where I stopped for half an hour I was too scared to come out I didn't know if he tried to follow me or maybe he didn't realize I was gone until it was too late or if the bag Checkers fed something to him I eventually came out of the restroom after what seemed like forever it took me three quarters of an hour for me to Feel remotely safe again I wouldn't walk out

of a shop unless I scanned the area beforehand I ended up making it back to my Nan's okay the next day as I walked to the local shops with my grandma I started to feel like myself again I casually watched a white youth go by as I chatted with my nan and my heart stopped it was Steve staring at me I never saw him again after that I don't Know what he was thinking or what he wanted with me but I'm glad I didn't stick around to find out I never told anyone about what happened

always felt too is Jay and it was somehow my fault that it happened I often replay all the things I could have done or said to protect myself better but I didn't and I always felt weak for that so Steve let's not meet again I'm a 35 year old female and my story Takes place when I was 15 but it feels like yesterday it was the day that would change my innocent youth forever I'm from a little village in Ireland with a population of a few hundred the nearest town is about 10 miles away growing

up in rural Ireland was very idealistic Summers were spent playing football with the neighbors we're going to the lake swimming till the sun went down I was lucky that even though the Population was small and the houses are far apart my best friend's house was only down the road so during those summer months Mary and I were inseparable my friend and I grew up with lots of brothers and sisters in a safe Village we were given a lot of freighter and sometimes we were gone all day and only came back before dark as it was

the mid 90s we had no mobile phones but our moms knew we would be okay and look out for Each other one thing we like to do during these Summers besides going to the lake and hanging out at each other's houses was go to town and look around the shops the easiest way to get to town was to hitchhike as there were no buses here in Ireland we call it thumbing hardly anyone hitches now because most households have two cars and parents are a lot more protective but back in the 80s and 90s it was

very common Our parents were okay with it but there were certain rules we had to follow I'm not entirely sure who came up with the rules but I assume our parents did rule number one never hit your low you must thumb with at least one or two friends number two never take a lift if there are two or more men in the car but two or more women is fine number three never take a lift from someone in a van there could be more Guys hiding in the back or Worse Rose blindfolds and that kind

of thing number four this was the most important rule when a car stops to pick you up always ask the driver where they're going first if you tell them where you're going first they could pretend they're going to the same place to lure you in we were aniska but had common sense so we followed the rules down to a day well at least we tried to my friend Mary and I Used to Hitch once a week during the summer we would go to town with a population of a few thousand and look around the shops

eat ice cream and hang out when we got a ride we had to make small talk with the driver and his too shy 15 year olds this bit sucked the most to make it fair we took Town sitting in the front and did most of the talking one day we spent a few hours in town it was pretty uneventful so we decided to Thumb back at around 3pm we went to the usual spot to hedge for just on the outskirts of the town we were only waiting about five minutes when a white car pulled up

before we could ask where he was going he asked us first my friend told her and he said he was passing through our village on the way to another one rule number four broker but he seemed nice enough and we just wanted to go home It was my turn to sit in the front the driver introduced himself as John a farmer and he was really friendly he was dressed in A Worn T-shirt with horse in it he had tattered pants and smelled like cow [ __ ] the car was full of bits of straw and

was old and battered like the driver he was about 60 and he had no wedding ring on don't ask me why but I always noticed these things about halfway between town and our home Village he asked if we heard a noise no We replied there it is again it sounds like a banging noise he said I didn't hear anything so I just sat there quietly I think it might be the exhaust pipe he said I'll have to pull in and have a look he pulled up on a busy road and went out to take a

look I didn't hear anything Mary said to me he seems like a weirdo I said call it intuition but even though he was really friendly and chatty I a bad feeling from him next thing he comes Back to the driver's side and tells us that the exhaust is hanging down and was hitting the road he needs us to help him tie it up it was then I noticed he had destroying holding up his pants instead of a belt and I thought this was odd anyway he got some more strength and we both got out of

the car I got a bad vibe from him I didn't feel scared at this stage we were on a busy road and it was about 3 30 p.m so we both got out of the car he showed us the exhaust pipe hanging down and used a rag to hold it up because it was hard my friend Mary took over holding it up while he secured it with string they were both kneeling while I just stood back and watched it was then I noticed his fly was open and I could see his privates he was clearly

not wearing any underwear he didn't even have a belter so I guess I wasn't surprised in my head I thought oh [ __ ] what's going on oh [ __ ] but I said nothing I just stood there in shock Mary hadn't noticed at this stage and just continued to hold the pie when Jon was standing up he noticed his fly was open and act all shocked oh girls I'm so sorry and embarrassed I only have a safety pin holding the fly together and it must have come off please forgive me and get back in

the Car it's done because she got a close-up of his privates which left me to do the talking I told him it was okay and that it was an accident so we got back in the car he fastened the safety pit even though I didn't see him look for it all was hidden again back in the car the atmosphere was very different we both felt mortified and he kept apologizing over and over I looked out the passenger window and repeated it's okay it's okay then he said something that turned my stomach Wow Girls you're taking

it very well therefore I didn't know any better I'd swear you liked it then he nudged me in the arm with his arm like what he would do with a friend I looked at him through the corner of my eye my face still facing the window when I noticed his fly was undone again and he was exposed once more He must have noticed me looking because he said oh sorry the safety pin keeps opening just don't look fine by me I thought but I said okay and continued to look out the window he kept nudging

me and saying don't be lucky whilst giggling at the same time he was doing this in a playful way like this was a joke Mary started to giggle too because when she's nervous she laughs I knew it Wasn't her fault but I was getting angry at this stage he wouldn't stop telling me to stop looking and then he said your friend is laughing she must be enjoying the view this made her life even harder now remember we are both polite 15 year olds that always respect our elders we're a little shy and I would never

speak up to an adult the nudging of my arm and my friend laughing was all getting too much He'd asked if it was the first time I'd ever seen one he once again told me to stop looking I was tired facing the passenger window so much that I had my back to her there was no way I could be looking I lost my temper I shouted at the top of my lungs I'm not [ __ ] looking Mary shut up [ __ ] laughing silence followed he said he was sorry that he was only joking

and I didn't need to be so Serious and I said nothing and sat there read with temper I should have told him to let us out I should have told him to cover himself off the dirty old pervert I was in shock Too part of me wanted to believe it was all an innocent mistake we finally arrived in our tiny safe Village we got out and he said again that he was sorry about the whole thing my friend got a voice back and assured Him it was okay I said it was all okay and not

to worry about it I said thanks for the left what he said back second me he looked me up and down with this creepy smile and said girlies thanks for everything and he drove off we were left speechless we sat down on a nearby bench to process all of this before going home we made a deal we would not to tell our parents or They'd never let us hitchhike again my friend got a voice back and repeated pervert sicko smelly bastard he had this plan the whole time over and over about five minutes after sitting

down on the bench who drives past going the direction we just came from only pervert Farmer John waving and smiling while we sat starred weird beep to catch our attention so much for passing through our village A few months later and the ordeal went to the back of my mind and occasionally we would talk about Farmer John but we made jokes about it and we told some of our friends about what happened one day I told a friend of mine named bread the cousin of hers had told her a very similar story the cousin lived

in another Village about 20 miles the other direction from town she was a few years older than us While hitchhiking home one day the same thing happened to her and her friend the exhaust the safety pin the undone fly it was no accident and my worst fears were confirmed Farmer John really was pervert John so this is the weirdest job interview I've ever had this happens sometime after February 2018. my brother's Community College was having a job fair and I went thinking hey this is legit I'm gonna go take some Resumes and see what happens

so we're at the fair a couple of cool booths people looking for photographers that kind of thing and then we come across this table I asked them what they do we work in contracts with entertainment they said I hand the guy my resume he looks at me and puts it down he doesn't even look at my resume you want to schedule an interview with me so I agree I have to wait at the time I wasn't Doing well mentally I was in the middle of what I now know wasn't emotional and mental breakdown I wasn't

eating or anything you can kind of gather what I looked like but nonetheless I stick here at the interview do my internet research and find this company doesn't really have a digital footprint besides their really Bare Bones website nothing on Facebook LinkedIn Instagram indeed nothing anywhere The job interview was in a random building right off of a freeway so I show up and there's no parking near the building I park in the neighborhood close by go to the building and there is this guy I'd say he was in his mid-40s really friendly and helps me

figure out how to get to the floor I'm supposed to be on he says he's on his way out and I thanked him I then proceed at all when I get to the floor I realized I forgot my Resume I leave the building and walk back to my car when I make my way back to the building I see the same guy just standing by the window of the building he was just standing there and staring into nothing he seems surprised that I was behind him and not upstairs I then go to the job interview

and the front desk lady is a blonde girl she's basically in a spaghetti strap shirt in Black pants interviews me and the strangest thing is this woman was like a tweaker she was really skinny she was just so thin it didn't seem normal now when I first met the guys at the job fair they were in suits dressed sharply and they said they walked with DirecTV during the interview they basically say they're handing out Obama phones on the street the whole office was decorated in basic Target decorations I saw the same ones later at Target

Then the next week they scheduled me in for an interview there is the same older guy who helped me out the previous week but this time he's interviewing he has the same weird Panic looked like the last time at the front desk this day is another young woman better dressed but just as tweaker skinny and much more in the this job is so amazing I love my job mode and my interviewer this time was some young guy in his early 20s wearing a suit two Sizes too big comically so the guy gave me an interview

that was basically the same interview as before and they were gonna start my onboarding something felt weird and told me just to say no so I ended up bailing but damn does this interview still stand out in my head I emailed the Community College about it later and basically what they told me was we can't fix that the people at our job fairs lie to us about their jobs Which having worked at the college Department that did Fair jobs really concerned me how do they not verify the people who show up I know at my

old department they would painstakingly verify the people there to this day I'm still worried about this how many other college students have met these people what was their exact goal why were all the female staff so thin why did they have no real social media Footprint for a entertainment centered company how many people actually fell for this and what exactly did I almost get myself into I walk to most places because being severely visually impaired obviously I can't drive I walk at night during the summer which lasts anywhere from April to October if we're lucky

this is probably not the safest idea but I'm from Texas so temperatures of 100 degrees aren't Unusual one of my usual destinations was a convenience store a few blocks from my previous house I set out one night to get myself some Pepsi and a candy stash Our Town isn't very big and most people drive everywhere it's very unusual to come across anyone else on my route to the store but that night a man appeared out of nowhere and started talking like he knew Me he asked me where I was going and I told her it

wasn't unusual for people to keep watch on me because I'm a hard of hearing blind girl with four on crutches this guy had no reason to be there and was walking way too close beside me he asked me where I was going and I told him just in case I was overreacting I sped up as much as I could since this part of the route is very dark with only a Subway that it closed for the night He definitely wasn't there for a five dollar foot long I tried to appear call though the alarm Bells

were ringing and I was shaking to the point I was afraid I'd drop a crutch which was probably the worst thing that could happen right there especially after he started asking what I liked in the bedroom and he could easily have his way with me in the ditch and no one would know I felt sick but continued my walk The store was only about 20 yards away I knew the guy that was on the graveyard shaft I got safely inside and my friend handed me a bag to carry my stuff there until I was ready

to check out and when I got up to the register he began speaking loudly enough that my ears hurt and I had to turn my hearing aids down because it hurt my ears hey sweets did you ever find my 3DS I played along and he opened the half Door thing and I sat on the stool like it was normal the creepy guy came over and slammed his Bud Light down followed by putting a tan on the counter after being handed his change he went outside he's still out there by the ice machine my friend said

after about 20 minutes he still hadn't left my friend called his manager and after explaining the situation she told him to lock up and run me home He did and even walked me to my door I put the key in my door and we stepped inside Catherine said to give you this he handed over a keychain and showed me how to lock and unlock the pepper spray call us before you come from now on he's coming after you for the last four weeks my friend laughed and I made sure every door and window was locked

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