When my cousin Cody and I were in our early 20s we went on a handful of camping trips around Colorado this happened I believe when I was 22 and he was 23 and it happened in urpo Forest it was my first time camping there not Cody's though it was in the middle of the week our jobs allowed us to have off days in the middle of the week and we'd often go in our campouts then to avoid traffic and Crowds I always let Cody take charge on these trips he's the eagle scout not me we
parked by a picnic area and we set foot into the woods from there after about 15 minutes of hiking deeper into the woods we found a good spot to set up camp a good spot meaning a big enough clearing to fit two tents the portable stove and a campfire the first thing we did was unpack our stuff and set up our tents Cody has always been a lot quicker than Me in pitching a 10 he does it in only a few minutes it always takes me over 20 minutes or rather it always took me over
20 minutes as I haven't been camping out in the wilderness since this the next thing we did was create a ring of stones for a fire then gathered some sticks and wood he did bring some fire starter and a lighter so I guess we kind of cheated but oh well it was at the point in the day when the sun was going down we had a fire fire going and Now Cody was growing up some steak and burgers one thing about Cody is he always went all out with the food on these trips and he's
a really good cook so I always trusted him with feeding us of course we had our bear spray in case the smell of the food would attract a black bear which Cody always said was very unlikely he always says the real thing you got to worry about in the middle of the woods is other people as we ate our steak and burgers we cracked Open some beers and had some classic rock playing on the speaker if you you've never been camping you don't understand how good of a Vibe moments like this are in the wilderness
with a friend or family member and some beers reminiscing about good times and vibing to music as it got dark we started playing card games on this little folding platform table we brought specifically for cards after playing more traditional card games we started Playing Uno and this was when we heard something out in the woods I paused the song on my phone so that the speaker would go silent it was clear now we heard heard a person humming and footsteps from Beyond the trees in the pitch Blackness of the forest Cody urged me to find
the flashlight I tried but by the time I found it the sounds had faded away I asked Cody if that was something to be concerned about and he said it definitely was unusual for someone else To be this deep in the woods let alone creepily walking by a campsite with an act of campfire humming loudly I was a bit shaken and I saw Cody was too we went back to playing cards with the music much lower now when we least expected it a big stick Landing in the middle of our campsite made us both jump
out of our skin it didn't fall from a tree this thing was thrown at us by someone Cody started yelling something along the Lines of whoever's out there messing with us get a life and off and then footsteps could be heard once again in the distance they were walking away from us I said we should pack up camp and move somewhere else he said absolutely not in the dark we both had bear spray and he advised to just keep it next to me in my tent when we go to sleep it was the closest thing
to range self-defense weapons we had we kept hearing sounds like tree branches cracking in the Distance sounds that you would never expect an animal to be making someone was out there maybe multiple people that much was clear we had to go to sleep eventually so we agreed that maybe we should take turns staying up to keep watch to make sure that no one comes to our campsite and steals anything or Worse Cody agreed to take First Watch he said he'd stay up and read his book so I crawled into my tent and then my Sleeping
bag and went to sleep waking up in the middle of the night while camping is normal you're in a cold outdoor environment in an uncomfortable sleeping bag any number of things could wake you up I didn't yet know what woke me up I was still in a fog my brain didn't feel fully woken up yet I looked up and saw a head peering into my tent it looked like Cody I rubbed my eyes but really it was the darkness that was preventing me from Seeing anything of his face I said Cody thinking he was waking
me up to take my turn of keeping watch I said groggy is it my turn I stared at the head peering at me in my sleeping bag slowly growing more awake every second then I heard the zipper to the tent quickly zip up and his head disappeared I laid back down in my sleeping bag but only for a second I suddenly had some weird Moment of clarity where I shot to an upright Position and listened as the footsteps walked away Cody I said he didn't answer I unzipped my tent to peek out to the campsite
the fire was dead Cody wasn't out there I went over to Cody's tent which was zipped up I unzipped it and looked inside to see Cody fast asleep in his sleeping bag I got chills Goosebumps whatever you want to call it I almost [ __ ] myself at the realization I started shaking him awake and when he finally awoke I told him Someone's here at the campsite it took him a minute to come back to reality just like I did but when he did he grabbed his bear spray he said he must have dozed off
while reading he said I should sleep in the tent with him tonight but to do that I'd need my sleeping bag he came outside of the tent with me and stood watch as I ran to my tent to grab my my sleeping bag in my tent grabbing my sleeping bag I heard that godamn humming again from Outside I grabbed it and Cody whispered at me to hurry up I said you hear that too he said yes we both got back in his tent and zipped it up with our cans of bear spray by our sides
I tell you in those moments I wanted nothing more than for a bear to come and save the day the hours dragged on as I stayed up while Cody slept after three long long horrible hours I woke him up and we switched when Cody woke me up it was almost Dawn there was light outside so We packed everything up and by the time we were done there was plenty of light to hike back to the car while we could have driven somewhere else and had another night of camping elsewhere neither of us were feeling it
anymore this was a haunting experience and I think we both just wanted to be in the safety of our houses it's been 6 years since this happened and he's hit me up a few times since then about camping but I haven't really had interest since This experience people are just too scary why was someone out there stalking our campsite and the sight of that person's head in the dark just looking into my tent it was straight up from a nightmare I may never go camping again [Music] honestly whenever I was scared as a kid my
dad had always told me in life that you should not be scared of go ghosts fear the living because they can actually hurt you in my late teenage Years I came into some money after my father committed Sude and I received an inheritance from him at the time of my Dad's passing he and my mom owned a cabin up in Oregon by Mount Bachelor the cabin had been put up for sale since my mom could no longer afford the payments and renting it out was not covering the payments either the cabin was set to go
on the market for sale in less than a month and was in the process of finalizing all the paperwork with the Realtor and lawyer so for that month's time the cabin was not going to be rented out any longer and was just going to be vacant I saw this as a chance to get away for a while and clear my head in light of all the things going on I quit work packed up my snowboarding gear grabbed my dog midnight and headed up in my dad's car to the cabin my first two days at the
cabin were normal and nothing out of the ordinary happened I spent my days Playing with midnight in the snow and snowboarding and the evenings playing PlayStation or listening to music drinking and smoking out on the balcony I had already stocked up on food cigarettes and liquor so I was pretty much a Shu in aside from the occasional out to hit the slopes with my dog's company and DVDs PlayStations as entertainment I was quite content and started to feel relaxed after all the drama that had preceded my outing the Cabin itself was two stories the bottom
story had the living room and a side guest bedroom along with a small kitchen upstairs had another two rooms along with a walk out balcony attached to the master bedroom most of my time was spent either in the living room kitchen or master bedroom I never ventured into the other rooms and always kept the doors leading into them shut the third day came around and I was going through my usual routine of playing with my dog Playing games and watching DVDs that day it was a pretty heavy snowfall so instead of hitting the slopes I
stayed in that's when things started getting a bit weird in our area there were only two other cabins adjacent to ours maybe a block away from each other all other C cabins aside from these two were around a mile away from ours surrounding us was mostly forest and very tall pine trees both these cabins were empty and from the past Couple of days I knew that no one was currently staying there around midday while outside with my dog I noticed what looked like footprints in the snow around the area surrounding our cabin it was still
snowing so the footprints looked semi fresh like someone had just been there in the last 20 to 30 minutes before me I thought that maybe someone was staying in the cabin near me that I may not have noticed maybe they were shuin like me All right whatever the footprints LED away from my cabin and they disappeared in the snow towards the denser part of the trees I disregarded the footprints and went back inside nighttime came around and I decided to head to bed my dog midnight was laying on the bed with me when I noticed
his ears perk up to a listening position this was followed by him quickly jumping off the bed and running downstairs to the living room I lay in The bed and stayed silence I was honestly freaked out and I could hear him moving around downstairs back and forth after around 5 minutes he ran back upstairs to me and started to do his doggy dance for the sign that he had to pee or that he wanted to go outside [ __ ] well fine I can't say no to him so we both went downstairs to the outside
driveway for him to do his thing only he didn't want to pee as soon as we were outside he started to pull his leash Trying to drag me to where he wanted to go he kept looking into the dense part part of the trees where the prince had been earlier but he also kept sniffing the side of the house and looking up towards the roof after he figured out that I was not going to go where he wanted he sat himself down and just stared into the darkness a bit unusual for him but all right
maybe there's some forest animals out there that he wants to chase down but [ __ ] this I didn't Want to chase anything so I pulled him back inside and we both headed back upstairs around half an hour later I was lying in my bed when I heard what sounded like Hooves walking on my roof Ro it was only a series of around six steps and I rationalized that it could be a pine cone falling from a tree onto the roof or maybe a kindhearted Forest Animal running around but here's the thing the steps seemed
to be spaced apart like a man length stride so it was Really freaking me out midnight also heard the noise and was quick to run to the balcony screen door expecting for me to let him out all right you know what I'm a tough guy and at the time I considered myself to be fairly well built and strong enough to handle myself so I grabbed my coat and shoes along with my cigarettes and flashlight and went out onto the balcony as soon as I went outside I lit up my cigarette and started canvasing The roof
with my light nothing there and the snow on top was undisturbed weird was it all in my head what about midnight hearing the noise maybe he was feeding off my paranoia I started to calm down and relax again my eyes started to adjust to the darkness and I kept smoking and just staring staring at the stars and trees next to our cabin that's when I saw it in a tree that was a little taller than our cabin and around 20 ft from the Balcony I saw what looked like a man crouched in a squatting position
in between two branches it looked really tall like eight or nine ft and it was really [ __ ] skinny it was squatted on one branch and its freakishly long white arms were extended above its head holding on to the branch above it while its mouth was wide open with no expression what the [ __ ] is that I wasn't sure if I was really seeing this thing and stood just staring and sat There motionless I notice midnight stand up and start pacing behind me and lightly barking at the same time the thing still did
not move I put my cigarette out and was debating on Shining the light in the thing's Direction but something in my head kept screaming not to so I walked backwards to the inside of the room and pulled midnight with me once inside I locked the door and Shine the Light in the thing Direct Direction but there was Nothing there I shut the curtains to the screen door and retreated back to bed but later on in the night I heard some light tapping at the screen door like someone was tapping on the glass with their fingers
it was consistent and did not stop for nearly an hour midnight seemed to stare at the door but he wouldn't go near it anymore the weirdest part was that I had a feeling like someone was inviting me to open that door but at the same time I kept hearing My dad's voice in my head telling me to stay in bed and don't do it I listened to my dad's voice and just stayed where I was I passed out eventually and woke up in the morning it didn't take me long to pack everything and get the
hell out of [Music] there I was searching Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace for a new phone this was a long time ago so it had to be like an iPhone 7even or something phone Still had the home buttons back then I found this listing for a phone it was some generic looking post iPhone whatever for sale New around 300 bucks it was a really really good deal for the time that I remember he told me all the small details I needed to know that it was factory unlocked never opened and stuff like that he sent me
a video of the box too still sealed the guy whose name was Melvin seemed nice and easy to talk to over text I got his number and We discussed a pickup Point his location on the Facebook ad was much closer to me but over text he was telling me he was only there this morning and now he went about an hour north I wasn't happy about this but this was a really good deal and I didn't want to pass it up I started asking a bunch of friends if they'd want to come on an adventure
with me really just a way of making the chore of accompanying me for an hour drive seem fun my friend Martina actually agreed to Come with on the promise that I buy her food for coming so this Melvin guy sent me the address of a police precinct about an hour away saying he only does deals in police precinct parking lots to avoid scams I obviously had no problem with this in fact it made me feel a little more confident in this whole thing I picked up Martina on the way around 8:30 at night and off
we went she being in the car and having someone to talk to made the trip more fun it was Also a Friday night so afterwards we could go out and do whatever we wanted when I got off the highway we were about 10 minutes away and we found ourselves in a very secluded quiet area it seemed like a lot of different wooded areas occasional buildings and houses and then more Woods we got to the police precinct and there was no one visibly parked in the parking lot besides empty police cars of course we drove around
the whole building a couple times and didn't see This Melvin guy who said he was in a black Ultima so I decided to call him he picked up and said he's having issues with his car on the side of the road and asked if I could come to him he sent his location and I checked it he was on the side of some random road with nothing on either side and by nothing I mean Woods that's the kind of area we were in he asked me to come help him jump his car he had jumper
cables I said uh yeah I guess I can do that I mean we Drove the hour to get there I didn't want to just drive another hour for nothing Martino was shaking her head the whole time I was on the phone the guy said see you soon and hung up Martina then B basically screamed no way this is sketchy we're going home I told her we'll just drive past the location he sent and see what's up I did agree with her though this seemed incredibly sketchy I just was very upset if we drove 2 hours
for Nothing we did drive to the location and when we got to it we saw the reflection of a car's front lights coming up on the pitch black road we found ourselves on as we got closer I slowed down and it was in fact a black car but we couldn't see anyone inside or outside of it mind you it was very dark but I feel like we would have seen someone's head on the inside or something Martina said to just keep driving and I said I know it was about the sketchiest thing I'd ever seen
A pitch black Road between two patches of woods no street lights no other cars in sight a pretty convenient place to break down and have someone who's coming with a wad of cash to buy something from you come and meet I drove right past it immediately Melvin starts calling me over and over I I ignored every single call then he texted me saying I saw you just pass me why didn't you stop turn around ignored Martina is a very positive person so she laughed about This whole situation and then said okay you owe me food
so I looked up the nearest diner and we stopped there for some food it was a quiet small Diner we were just about the only people in there even on a Friday night the waitress just took our coffee order when a lone guy with his hood up steps into the diner and sits in one of the bar stools he was wearing a navy blue dirty looking hoodie he glanced over to Martina and I then looked Straight Ahead talking to the Lady working behind the counter apparently ordering a coffee the man kept glancing at our table
like every minute so I whispered to Martina don't look now but that guy at the counter might be the Melvin guy the waitress came with our coffees asked if we were ready to order I said a few minutes please when the lady behind the counter handed that man his coffee he said loud and clear thank you darling it was that guy from the phone's voice Melvin or Whatever his real name was I told Martina that's him we need to pay the check and leave I waved the server over and whispered to her if we can
just get the check she asked if something's wrong and I noticed the guy look over as I said this I said yes we just needed some coffee for the road so she got the check I paid we downed our coffees and left the building we got in my car and Martina said oh my God he's getting up I looked into the diner and saw that guy Leaving towards the door as quickly as possible I drove us out of that parking lot and sped down the road and yes we noticed a black car in the parking
lot that could have been the one that we saw on the side of the road I was driving too fast for him to have caught up we got back on the highway and I was flying for a while until I got a low tire pressure light come on I knew instantly he slashed my tire the PSI was going down fast So to avoid damage I pulled to The side of the highway and parked it I went out to confirm that my tire was slashed I had to replace the tire with the spare which took about
15 minutes the whole thing was a disaster and if you're wondering yes I still got Martina dinner that night now Martina and I look at it as a crazy story that we can look back on and tell people it's absolutely horrifying though how close we were to walking into a trap [Music] I was seeing this girl for a few weeks we'd been on two dates her name was fee we matched on a dating app and eventually met a few days later she was 4 years older than me our first date was drinks and our second
date we went out with my friends on a weekend my friends had neutral opinions about her they thought she was quote nice and kind of quiet they'd later reveal their actual thoughts on her but I'll get to that later Phoebe invited me to an upcoming High School reunion party she told me she didn't want to go alone and honestly after she came to hang out with my friends and I I felt like I owed her this reunion party was falling on a random Saturday in the fall it wasn't organized by her school though she told
me that it was organized by this rich guy from her class and it was being hosted at his house I haven't had my high school reunion yet but as far as I know these things are usually held at Bars or catering halls we got to this guy's house and it was admittedly a fancy looking house it had a gated driveway but no fancy cars parked anywhere in sight I thought was Maybe the owner parked his car in the garage during the party the second we stepped into the house I felt like everyone was staring at
us more specifically me a few people came up to Phoebe and hugged her hello then shifted their attention to me I felt almost like I was being Interrogated with some of the questions these people were asking me like my whole life story what I do for a living who I live with finally Phoebe pulled us away only need to go talk to more people who I also felt like were asking really personal and weird questions there was also something about all the people in here they seem to be older looking than 28 which was the
age Phoebe told me she was some of these people looked well into their 30s I made a comment on that To Phoebe and she said yeah some of these people aren't aging too well I asked if she remembers all these people and she said yes I then asked who the party host was was I was curious to meet the owner of this big house she said she hadn't seen him yet throughout the entirety of me being there I felt like everybody was shooting me daggers they wouldn't look away either I whispered that to Phoebe and
she said back it's probably because they're wondering who I Am at the time that was the only logical explanation I could think of too it's hard to explain the growing awkwardness at this party but I can assure you this was not what a normal high school reunion would be like there was no music and everyone was dressed weirdly not like normal 28-year olds but that's the other thing none of these people looked like they were in their 20s I was getting uncomfortable with some of the stairs I was getting in the Room we were in
so I told Phoebe I'm going to run to the bathroom realistically I just wanted to get out of that room and explore the house a little bit I didn't have a drink in my hand or anything to make me feel at ease I was just walking around this giant house empty-handed and anyone I passed stared at me to say I felt out a place would be the understatement of the century I found the bathroom I stepped inside even though I didn't have to go I Locked myself inside just to sit and reather myself take a
break from the awkwardness outside I texted all my friends about how weird this reunion was and wondering how I could convince Phoebe to leave early we'd already been there about 30 to 45 minutes and this unnamed mystery party host was nowhere to be seen Phoebe texted me where are you I replied in the bathroom give me a minute then I followed that up with this party is really weird I'm down to leave Soon she said why I said everyone's being weird then someone knocked on the bathroom door so I couldn't sit in there anymore I
washed my hands quick and left the bathroom and the guy waiting outside who looked like one of the younger ones here said in a very low voice to me you should leave that girl isn't who she says she is I froze for a second then said Phoebe he said whatever she told you her name Is he then asked what she told me this party was and I said that she told me it was a high school reunion the guy then smirked and said do these people look like they're going to a high school reunion he
left it off with and I quote trust me leave sooner than later and then he walked into the bathroom and shut the door I almost knocked on the door to get him to come out and further explain but I thought for a second I was already suspicious and uncomfortable in This house that guy just confirmed something weird is going on here I walked straight to the front door without drawing attention to myself I still felt people staring at me as I walked to the door I walked straight from my car in the street and drove
home Phoebe texted me asking where I went I didn't answer when I got home I looked up her number on White Pages that number was not associated with the name Phoebe the name that came up was Claire Foster The address that I picked her up at both times is also different than the address that came up on White Pages which made me realize I never saw her leave the house she was already waiting on the sidewalk both times I replied to her text I had to leave I'm sorry and blocked her number my friends all
made jokes and they told me she thought she was weird and off from the start but they didn't want to tell me that and make me feel bad my one friend joked That it sounded like I was in the movie get out my friends and family all have had little theories as to what was going on some people would even think I exaggerated the whole thing until I told them about the fake name the girl gave me me the guy telling me to leave sooner than [Music] later this happened when I was a young child
maybe like 8 years old my parents had me late my two older siblings are Both at least 10 years older than me I was woken up in the middle of the night to a commotion from downstairs one night it was my parents I cracked my door open and heard my parents freaking out about something I wasn't sure what it was I went to the stairway and stood at the top calling down Mom Dad my mom came to the bottom of the stairs and said to me go back to bed I listened without asking any questions
I could tell they were stressed about something though I was Trying to go back to sleep when I heard the front door downstairs slam shut and then it was dead silence I presumed they left the house but I wasn't sure why either way I listened to my mom and went back back to sleep I woke up again to sounds downstairs once more it was the sound of the front door closing and then footsteps but no talking naturally I assumed they were back home and just being quiet so that they wouldn't wake me up I heard
Occasional steps and thuds from downstairs I heard drawers and cabinets being opened and closed and I thought for sure I heard the fridge opening too I thought it was my older brother Chris who's 10 years older than me and at the time he was already driving so he was going out and coming home late so him getting home at like 2: a.m. and rumaging the fridge wasn't abnormal at all these are all things I was telling myself logical explanations as to what I Was hearing eventually I heard footsteps coming up the stairs getting louder and
closer until they reached the top and then made their way first thing to my door my door quietly and slowly opened I didn't sit up or move I just had my eyes open facing the door as I was still laying down there weren't any lights on outside of my room whoever was walking around was doing so in the dark so all I saw was this black mess at my doorway resembling the shape of someone's head I Said every name starting from Chris to Mom to Dad then I just said who's there they didn't reply they
just closed the door and I was left there confused but mildly creeped out I heard footsteps going downstairs I was convinced it was my dad now just coming to check on me after getting home though I wasn't sure why he was ignoring me I didn't hear anything from downstairs for a while now I allowed curiosity to get the better of me and I went downstairs in the dark I Kept all the lights off as I was approaching the kitchen and I froze at the doorway noticing a tall figure standing right in the middle of the
kitchen I said Dad assuming it was him just based off the size of this person a deep voice said go back upstairs I ran back up the stairs to my room and closed the door and jumped on under the covers all I was thinking was why did my dad's voice sound like that the reality of a stranger being in the house didn't dawn On my innocent little mind not until a little later when I heard the front door opening and a commotion from downstairs again the voices of my parents I went to the top of
the stairway again and they were shocked to see I was still awake I asked what happened they told me that Chris had a little accident but that he was going to be fine I found out months later that he had gotten into a car accident driving in a condition that he shouldn't have been driving in my Parents got a call from the hospital and so they rushed to see him first thing leaving me to sleep I asked my dad if he had come in my room before and that was when I learned that they had
been gone for hours my mom started freaking out yelling at my dad because he had neglected to lock the door when they rushed out of the house me telling my parents about the person at my bedroom door and in the kitchen caused my dad to search the house with his gun and my mom To call the police the last thing I really remember was being asked by a police officer to give my story my parents tell me that they felt like morons having to explain to the cops that they left me alone and left the
door unlocked I don't think anything of value was stolen even though whoever broke into the house clearly didn't have intentions of harming me having a complete stranger in your house is already a terrifying ordeal now imagine Going through that at 8 years old [Music] I once worked as a direct care aid for a 65-year-old woman with a developmental disability her daughter who was in her 40s worked overnights and she needed a caretaker with medical experience to watch her overnight when I say once worked for them I mean I literally worked once just this night and
you're about to hear why I never went back the 65-year-old woman's name was Martha her Daughter's name who contacted me was named Colleen it's possible Colleen didn't have any other family to watch her and didn't want to or couldn't afford to put Martha in a nursing home or it was possible that she felt more comfortable hiring somebody with some form of experience to watch over her at the time I was already a direct care worker for two other women who suffered some forms of Developmental Disabilities so I had experience but nothing prepared Me for that
night Colleen left for work earlier that day I worked my first job so I was really pushing my body to exhaustion trying trying to make as much money as possible Colleen had introduced Martha and I Martha had given me a smile before Colleen brought her upstairs to her bedroom for the night it was around 9900 p.m. Colleen told me that Martha would sometimes walk around the house at night acting confused and I'd need to calm her down and bring her back to her Room she specifically addressed this not to be a form of sleepwalking when
I asked she said it's one of the symptoms of her mother's dementia I told her to rest assured that I'd know how to handle it I spent my time initially in the living room catching up on my show these jobs aren't super glamorous and for the most part it is a lot of sitting around I heard footsteps from upstairs I Went to the stairway and looked up the stairs then called Martha's name asking if she needed anything she didn't answer I heard her footsteps go back to her room and then the door closed maybe she
went to the bathroom I went back to the living room room and watch some more TV it was maybe an hour later that I got up to grab my sandwich that I brought from the fridge as I left the kitchen with a plate and my sandwich to go back To the couch I nearly had a heart attack and dropped the plate when I saw Martha standing at the doorway glass shattered everywhere I apologized to her and asked if she was okay she started yelling at me who are you I reminded her who I am I'm
her direct care worker here to make sure she's okay everything she said at this point was in a loud scream why are you here I don't know you things of that nature I reminded her that we had just met and that her mother Colleen hired me To watch her and the house this seemed to work for long enough for me to get her to come back upstairs with me and to her room I brought her up a glass of water and some melatonin and Kazaam I made sure she took both before going back downstairs after
a few hours I was absolutely exhausted I had to get a couple hours of shuty there was a spare bedroom upstairs with a twin-sized bed where Colleen said I could rest if Needed I felt like at this point Martha was asleep for the night from the Melatonin I fell asleep within minutes but I was asleep for only maybe an hour I woke up to a sound from [Music] downstairs it was this repeated slamming every 1 to 2 seconds something from downstairs was being slammed I jumped out of the bed I had left the bedroom door
open so that I'd hear anything if Martha got up case in point right here When I got to the stairs I realized the slamming was coming from the kitchen I walked down the stairs in as quick of a speed as I could while still remaining quiet getting to the bottom I peered around the opening to the kitchen and what I saw was like a scene from a scary movie I'd seen before I saw Martha in the darkness standing in front of the oven repeatedly opening it and slamming it shut it was horrifying when I say
I saw Martha I Really only saw her silhouette it was that dark in the kitchen I said Martha really loudly and she stopped turned to her left at me Shut the oven door one final time and started walking towards me towards the stairs I said in a now softer kind of scared sounding voice are you okay she got close enough to me where I could now see her facial features and she looked at me with this blank expression then walked right past me and started walking up the stairs I Followed her upstairs but as soon
as she got to her room she slammed her door shut I knocked on the door saying Martha are you all right she didn't respond I quietly opened the door just to peek inside and I saw Martha at the side of her bed just standing facing the wall I've seen a lot but this was some pretty unsettling behavior that I feel like is the exact kind of stuff you'd see in some scary movies like I mentioned before I walked over to her and gently Eased her into the bed when she was laying down I covered her
and for what I was hoping would be the final time I said good night Martha and shut her door I went across the upstairs to the spare room and went back to bed I purposely tried not to fall asleep for at least half an hour just in case she'd wake up again but I don't even know if I made it that long all I know is I fell asleep pretty freaking quickly I woke up once again however much later the room was Still pitch black and the 1 hour alarm I set had not yet gone
off I looked around the room wondering what woke me up I didn't see what it was until I heard a sound from inside the closet I then noticed the cracked open closet door and the black shadow of a head peeking out of the closet again I almost had a heart attack I said Martha she didn't answer I kept saying Martha a bunch of times until she pushed the door open and I saw her Approaching the bed slowly she started saying what she was saying hours ago again who are you I don't know you as she
got closer I tried calming her down reminding her who I am I reached for the lamp next to the bed and fumbled with it until it turned on Martha was holding a huge kitchen knife in her hand at this moment everything changed Martha was now a threat to my life and I had to worry about myself not her I screamed at this point Martha Put The Knife down I guess My scream stressed her out because she got closer and started screaming back at me still repeating I don't know you I wasn't going to attempt to
calm down a knife welding dementia patient that was not in any job description I mapped out a way to run around her in the bedroom and I went for it I jumped off the bed on the side further from her and she screamed again who are you she swung the knife at the air as I ran past her it was a slow and weak swipe from what I Saw but nonetheless showed that she had intentions of actually using it I got downstairs and grabbed my shoes and went outside instead of calling 911 I called Colleen
as she requested I do if there's an issue I was courteous in doing this because getting law enforcement involved is never doing anyone any favors Colleen was yelling into the phone at me not to leave her and honestly I yelled back that she attempted to kill me and that I Didn't call the police she had to leave work of course I stayed outside of the house making sure Martha didn't go anywhere until Colleen returned when Colleen went inside Martha was back in her bed sleep Colleen went as far as accusing me of exaggerating the whole
thing until she found the knife next to Martha's bed to not give her any more fuel to blame me for any of this I left out the fact that I ever went to sleep but that doesn't mean that I felt in any Way I did anything wrong Colleen even offered me that room to sleep I never worked in that house again Martha was a scarier patient than I'd ever dealt with in any of my jobs in my 9 years of being a direct care Aid [Music] when I was 23 I had to move out of
state for work I still work with the company but I've been able to move back to my hometown and work at the local office here but at the time I needed somewhere To live that wouldn't be Bank breaking I made a posting on basically all the websites for a roommate Facebook Craigslist Twitter and even on my neighborhood subreddit I had a guy named Rob reach out to me on Facebook stating he has a room available in his place I looked at his pictures to see if he looked like a somewhat normal guy and he did
I was open to the idea of having a male roommate as long as they seemed normal even though my parents were very Against it Rob and I facetimed during which he gave me a virtual tour of the place apparently he owned the place outright it was a modest house in the middle of town only a 10-minute drive from where my office would be he also seemed pretty nice I didn't get any bad vibes at all his price was fair and his rule were pretty fair too he said it was available to move in right away
which was perfect so it was settled a week later I had all my things packed and Drove down I met Rob right out front of the house where he greeted me and handed me a key the first thing I noticed about him was he was really short he was eye Lev with me he helped me bring some of the bigger and heavier bags inside he showed me my room which was furnished already he said one of his friends had been living there and recently moved out I replaced all the pillows and bed sheets with my
own of course the rest of that day was me settling in Rob I could See was trying to get to know me and presumably make me feel at home I didn't get any overly friendly Vibes yet the next day was Sunday Rob offered to drive me around town to show me around I wasn't eager to but I said sure just to get off on a good start with him he drove us around town showing me where the good shopping centers are good restaurants and stuff like that but then he offered to get us lunch I
really wasn't hungry and he was suggesting a Sit down lunch almost like a date I didn't want him to get any kind of wrong idea I just needed a room I said I'm not hungry and then he right away suggested we go grab drinks somewhere instead I politely shot it down too saying I don't drink on work nights he was being a bit pushy saying come on just a couple drinks I still maintained my politeness and said another time he gave up and he went really quiet all of a sudden like he was upset I'll
admit I was slightly Uncomfortable but nothing I couldn't handle yet that week was my first week at work and so my attention was focused mostly on adjusting to the work week it wasn't until a few days into the week that I got home and did my laundry and noticed my hamper full of clothes seemed moved like the clothes weren't how I remembered they were left and it wasn't until I was loading the washing machine that I noticed a pair of my underwear was missing I checked my room top to Bottom like five times it was
gone I had had a disturbing thought what if Rob no I refus to believe that just yet and there was no chance in hell I would confront him and ask him that still I was now starting to wish there was a lock on the bedroom door that weekend I bought a lockable doorknob from Ace Hardware and while Rob wasn't home I swapped out the current doorknob with the new one now I could leave the place in peace I figured I'd tell Rob the next Time I saw him he didn't come home that night though he
must have been working his schedule seemed pretty random that night I awoke to banging on my bedroom door it was Rob he was saying my name and he didn't sound happy I checked the time and it was like 1:30 in the morning I decided I would pretend I'm asleep I was honestly kind of scared to open the door I had a feeling it had to do with the doorknob and I was right the next morning I woke up to a bunch of Texts from Rob saying we need to talk be home after work I simply
responded is this about the doorknob and he responded Ed back yes I apologized to him and said I was planning on telling him he replied back it comes off today I was getting incredibly nasty and weird vibes from his tone my next response I thought out a little longer and basically said How I hope he can sympathize and understand that I'm a girl and I just feel safer being able to have privacy in my room he Responded a little nicer this time but he still basically said no to my request and that the old doorknob
needs to go back on I was confused I was upset but I had to respect his rules I did also install it without telling him so I felt like he had a right to be kind of mad but how did he know I changed it it's not like I had the old doorknobs sitting out in the open the idea that he tried coming into my room that night kind of scared me I changed the door knob back The next day and returned to Ace this is where things went really downhill though there was a knock
at the door one day when Rob wasn't home it was a girl around my age she asked me if I was living here with Rob and and I said yes she warned me to get out of there immediately that Rob has multiple restraining orders against him from different girls and he's known to be a very dangerous creepy stalker I was at a loss for words I asked her how she knew I was here she said she knew that he was trying to rent his room and that it's not surprising he opted to have a girl
move in she said she saw me moving in and wanted to wait till he wasn't home to come warn me I thanked her so much I truly was terrified now I had already paid Rob for the entire month I didn't know what to do she said she would help me in any way she could I took her number and she left I started packing my things and looking for other places I Could move to I found something across town a studio apartment sublet for a little more money I contacted the poster of the ad and
she told me I could move in as soon as possible perfect now I just needed to tell Rob and get my money back I started packing some of my stuff into my car and I texted him that I'd have to be moving out tomorrow as something with my family came up and I needed to go home he didn't answer he got back to the house about an hour Later and asked me about my text I came up with my best fake story possible and he said yeah he'll give me the money back tomorrow after he
goes to the bank I was super relieved about an hour later he knocked on my door and then said did by some Chance some girl say something to you I simply said no what do you mean and he said never mind it just seems like you're running away out of here for another reason I insisted that it was purely because of The family reasons he said okay and left sadly the story didn't end there I woke up that night and screamed at the top of my lungs when I saw a black figure sitting on the
end of the bed it was Rob he turned and put his hand on my mouth and went sh I said please don't hurt me and he responded why would I hurt you I knew someone said something to you don't believe what these girls say I said you're scaring me and this part is still just as insane to Me as it was in that moment he started to caress my leg and he said I don't mean to scare you right after I said he's scaring me I got out of the bed and ran for the door
and he screamed at me to stop I ran outside with my phone in hand and called the police I hid in the bush until they showed up and I explained the entire situation to them they made Rob come outside and give his side of the story basically I told them I just want to get all my stuff out of The room and I'm leaving so the cops stayed there as I collected the remainder of my stuff and brought it all to my car I also insisted on Rob thenen mowing me the money back while the
police were there and he did so actually the whole time the police were there he tried his best to act like some normal dude I could tell one of the officers then pulled me to the side to tell me that this guy had been arrested before for other incidents with women but Rob Denied ever coming in my room or touching me or anything so it was all he said she said I left the house and went straight straight to a hotel for the night the next day I moved into the studio apartment luckily the girl
who posted it was able to facilitate my quick move in I have never and will never live with another man who's not my boyfriend or husband ever again or just anyone I don't know for that [Music] Matter I was Home Alone one night for a reason I don't remember all I remember is my entire family was gone I was 15 or 16 years old I was a big gamer at the time I was obsessed with Starcraft and admittedly I'd sometimes spend a weekend night or two playing Starcraft or some other PC game this was right
before Co lockdown started I was playing Starcraft on my computer in my bedroom on the first floor that's when the doorbell rang Twice I hurried to the door not wanting to be away from the game for too long in fear of losing I got to the front door and said who is it as I always would if I was alone a soft and weak voice on the other side said something that I couldn't hear it sounded like a woman I opened the door with the storm door still separating me and this older woman standing on
the other side with a big smile on her face she had her hands behind her back I said through the door Can I help you she said she needed to use a phone and asked if she could come inside ever since I was a little kid I was always taught not to let a stranger into the house ever that included women I felt so awkward though I didn't know how to turn her away I redirected her to the library a few blocks down because they'd surely have a phone deep down I knew the library was
closed at this point but I was just trying to get this stranger who was trying to get into my House to leave she was still smiling but what she said next did not match her smile she said that's very rude to turn away an old lady asking for help I replied the only way I could think to and that was that my parents don't allow strangers into the house it's a house rule I slowly started closing the door as I was saying sorry and she just stood there not moving but still smiling at me and
though her smile never changed it suddenly felt much more Menacing I was walking back to my room when the doorbell rang again there was no way in hell I was opening the door again that woman radiated weird vibes from the start maybe something was wrong with her maybe she wasn't all there these were things I had no way of knowing and maybe that was selfish of me to send her on her way but I just wasn't opening the door for anyone when I was home alone I went back to my game not too long after
I sat back down I heard Something tapping on the window it was a clinking type sound from something metal the window was directly in front of my desk I had the blind pulled down so I couldn't see what was making the noise but I already had an idea my room was the only room with the light on in the house the horrible thought that it was the old woman from just before and that she walked over to my window terrified me I turned off the sound on my computer at this point I Didn't care about
my game anymore the clinking sound on the window persisted I basically said this and up and left to a different room in the house I sat in the darkness of the living room for a bit when the doorbell rang again this woman was harassing me now I tried to convince myself she wasn't a threat just some crazy old woman who's probably Clueless as to where she is when she rang the doorbell a second and third time I decided to go Open the door and ask her if there's someone I could call for her but when
I opened the door there was now a man on the other side he looked to be about 10 years younger than her he said through the storm door have you seen my mother I replied saying yes she came to my door just before he then apologized to me and said she has demena and got out of the house I suddenly felt bad but he asked me if he could come in for a minute and again I felt awkward why did he need to Come inside I said the same thing that I told to the woman
who we claimed to be his mother I said we could just talk through this door I then said that I think she went into my backyard because I heard something out my window I told him he could go around back and check he thanked me and walked down the walkway and I thought he went into the backyard but when I went to the back and looked out the back window expecting to see him searching around I saw nobody not him or His mom this was all too weird for me I went to bed on the
earlier side that night just falling asleep with the TV on in the background until I heard the clinking sound on the window again something metal was tapping on the glass I remembered the concerned man and I decided to try and help I went to the window lifted the blind up with my hand and I saw that woman outside my window with that same creepy smile she was tapping a kitchen knife on my window I Closed the Blind and crawled back into my bed this didn't feel like it was actually happening a suspiciously short amount of
time later the doorbell rang like four times the clinking on the window stopped by this point this was all too suspicious it felt like some kind of robbery attempt I ignored the doorbell I stayed in my bed I was going to wait this out I didn't have a cell phone at this time I wasn't the most social guy growing up I also didn't want To call the police for some reason I waited this all out until it finally stopped the next morning I told my dad what happened when I called him he told me I
was smart not to open the door everyone agreed that everything about it sounded like an attempted robbery is there a chance that maybe that woman really did have dementia and that the man was really her concerned son maybe but it all seemed too coordinated why did he want to come into the house too How did he even know she came to my house specifically why didn't he ever go into the backyard to look for her when I gave him permission to do so too many unanswered questions that lead me to believe I have avoided something
terrible happening if I open that door this was something that happened so long ago that a lot of details are a little blurry it's not like it happened yesterday I'll try my best to fill in smaller details that I don't fully Remember with how I best remember things played out it was the last day of school I was in the fourth grade fourth grade was the last year in our elementary school where kids had to be picked up by their parents fifth graders were allowed to walk home on their own my mom would always be
the one to pick me up on the last day of school my friend Dennis and I had a play date plan to celebrate the last day of school Dennis wasn't in my Class this year but we had been friends since kindergarten he was in a different dismissal hallway from me after school was over we single file lined up and walked to the exit door at the end of the hall where we waited outside by our teacher Miss blue I waited for Dennis's dad to appear from the crowd of parents shuffling in and out of the
parking lot next to the doors then I heard my name Tommy Tommy I look over and see a man waving at me as he approached he Introduced himself as Dennis's uncle and said he was picking me up I went over to miss blue and said I'm being picked up she asked where is he sweetie and I pointed to Dennis's Uncle who waved at Miss blue Miss blue dismissed me and I went with the man he led us through the crowd and was a very quick and jittery talker like he spoke fast and had a bit
of a stutter he was walking incredibly fast it was almost hard to keep up with him with my backpack on he explained to Me that his brother or Dennis's dad was working later than expected so he was driving me back we got to his car which was a dark red hatchback type car from what I remember and it took me this long to acknowledge the giant elephant in the room where was Dennis why weren't we picking him up too the man turned to look at me in the back seat and said that Dennis was already
at his house I was shy around people I didn't know especially adults and I wasn't one to Openly speak my mind if I was confused but I was very confused this was making less and less sense the whole Drive the man kept yapping telling stories of his days in elementary asking me questions like what sports I played what we're learning in class if I had to guess we were in the car for like 10 minutes which honestly for our town where houses were right on top of each other that was a while my house was
a 5-minute walk away from the school we were definitely In an area I wasn't familiar with when he parked the car in front of his house his house looked pretty normal to me from what I remember he led us inside and shut the door and locked it behind us it was really really dark inside the place and I realized why all the curtains were shut it almost felt like it was night time in there especially because the only source of light was a dim lamp in the corner of the room he then looked at me
and smiled I said Where there's Dennis and he started acting really jittery and nervous seeming he said something like oh I think he's downstairs playing video games give me a second wait here he then disappeared into a nearby room and I heard a door open and then footsteps descending into a basement I know my heart was already racing I knew I was in danger I went to the door to quietly try to open it but I couldn't it had some kind of lock that must have needed a key For I really started to panic now
yet I still probably held out a little bit of hope that Dennis would be coming up those stairs but I knew the chances of that were slim I regretted entering that house I did the only thing I could think to do I went to the kitchen and found a phone hung on the wall I picked it off the receiver and dialed 911 the first thing I said when they answered was in a whisper please come to this house I've been kidnapped they heard me they Acknowledged me but I didn't say another word I hid the
phone under a towel in the corner of the room with 911 still on the line I hurried back to where the man left me as I already heard his footsteps coming back upstairs then he called my name saying come down Dennis is down here then there was a pause he repeated my name and when I didn't answer he came up the stairs fley to look at me he asked me if I was okay I felt so sick and I was so scared I hated myself for Walking into the situation and not being wiser I asked
in a very scared voice if I could leave and I remember the change in his face his f friendly smile disappeared as he realized that I was no longer falling for this he walked closer to me in a gentle manner until he was close enough to grab my wrist aggressively and he started pulling me towards the basement I screamed and cried and he screamed at me I'll let you go if you stop and behave So I listened I went down the stairs and halfway down the door slam shut behind me and I heard it lock
I walked fully down the stairs to this empty unfinished basement with a concrete floor and One Singular support beam in the middle of the room there was a depressing yellow glow in the room from one exposed light bulb hanging on the ceiling if there was a place you'd imagine kidnapped children to go this would be it I heard his heavy footsteps upstairs you could hear everything in This house I don't know what he was doing but I heard him walking around for a while then he came to the basement door opened it and he called
down asking if I'm hungry I replied no I didn't want him going into the kitchen seeing the missing phone he shut the the door and locked it again I sat down there waiting with my heart in my throat and then I heard it the doorbell ringing three times from upstairs followed by banging sounds Which were definitely the sounds of police banging on the door I would refrain from screaming until I heard the front door open but I never heard the man's footsteps approach the door the doorbell kept ringing and I kept hearing the bangs this
went on for some time until I heard a really loud bang sound and then multiple heavy footsteps and multiple screaming voices I started screaming for help as loud as I could at the top of the stairs banging on the Door the door was unlocked and a police officer on the other side grabbed hold of me and hurried me outside there were at least three cop cars outside I had to tell everything to two of the cops outside as we waited for my parents to show up the man from inside was brought outside and into a
cop car and handcuffs and that was the last time I ever saw him when my parents arrived on the scene my mom was balling her eyes out there had already been a whole scene at the School as cops were called and Dennis's dad realized what happened this man was a work associate of Dennis's father when he somehow learned that Dennis's dad would be picking up Dennis and I from school on the last day he seized the opportunity to do what he did a complete sick [ __ ] I don't know how he found out what
I looked like as I got older I never really asked for more details because I try not to think about it my mom went to counseling with me for Months after this incident let let's just say my parents didn't have kind words for Miss blue not verifying if I actually knew the person picking me up if I didn't think to call the police before he basically threw me in that basement I know for a fact I'd be dead right now this was like 17 years ago that man might be out of prison for all I
[Music] know it was New Year's Eve of 2020 and All of us were ready for this horrible year to be over my friend Logan was throwing a house party I arrived early to help set things up I secured a spot to sleep in his parents room meaning I could drive to the party and drink without having to worry about driving home his parents obviously weren't home for the night most of our close friends in our friend group came plus a bunch of Logan's friends who I didn't know the party was fun at midnight everyone Screams
happy New Year and cheers their drinks after that people slowly started circul ating out and the party started to quiet down as people went to either other parties bars or home the later the night got the more it became just the closer friend staying behind until it just turned into a chill drinking session in the living room this went on late into the night it was likely 3:00 a.m. when the last of everyone who wasn't sleeping at Logan's house was Gone as it quieted down we started hearing this occasional sound at first we didn't know
what it was but it soon started to sound like a creaking sound it was dismissed as a sound from the fridge or something at first which I know sounds stupid but house appliances often make weird noises it was just Logan me and Cody Cody was falling asleep on the couch already it was reaching that time where we were just going to go to sleep However eventually we got so bothered by the noise that we had to search we went to the kitchen and it wasn't coming from in there we realized when we were close to
the basement door that it was coming from downstairs Logan opened the door and we heard this creaking sound go check what it is I said he kept saying no way then he called down into the basement yo Who's down there the creaking stopped and we never heard it Again after a solid minute of waiting at the top of the stairs we agreed to go down together we both grabbed knives drunkenly thinking that was a good idea when in reality we were so drunk we'd probably only H ourselves with them we got to the bottom of
the stairs and looked through the entire basement it's not huge it just has a couch TV a bar a table in the corner and various old pieces of junk it was pretty messy at the time the first thing we did was Search any possible crevice for someone who could be hiding then we tried to figure out what could have been making that sound I noticed a rocking chair and so I went up to it sat in it and then started rocking in it and it made the exact same creaking sound we had been hearing Logan
and I looked at each other I stood up and so did every hair on my body I don't think we ever ran faster than we did when we ran up those stairs and slammed the door Shut we tried to come up with any logical explanation but there was none he kept the basement door locked for days until his parents came back there was no living Soul down there but something was moving that rocking chair that rocking chair used to belong to his grandma who passed away forever ago and it's just something his mom held on
to for sentimental reasons I can't say I've ever experienced anything resembling the Paranormal before this nor since then it Still sends chills down my spine
