it was Autumn of 2015 I was 23 years old and I'm 31 now during that time I lived in Lancaster as I was studying at Lancaster University and for those who may not be familiar Lancaster is a small and rather quaint town in the north of England and as a student you could either live at the University camp campus or in private accommodation in the town I had decided to live in a newly built renovated apartment in a nice side of town and yes it was very expensive sadly I had already been studying for 2
years and had reached my third year by this time I had grown accustomed to the layout of the town and felt comfortable and safe living there semi-independently with two other friends who were also studying at the University since my first year I had decided to improve my fitness by taking nightly runs around either the campus or the town as we were living in the Town Center by my third year I would run either with my housemate or alone the important thing to note about Lancaster and this will be important later is that it has quite
a large residential area that is hilly and far removed from the bustling Center which at that time was a hub for the students or the local Northern folk probably drinking in pubs or eating pies occasionally I would run with my housemate however I preferred to run alone and listen to some kind of heavy metal I'm a big fan of De tones during that period of time on this particular day as I said a chilly automnal evening I decided to run alone it was about 8:00 p.m. and I had my earphones in I had started to
run up to the more isolated District that led to a very pretty residential area in a large green called Williamson park it had a butterfly museum on the top of a hill and next to the park was a very large graveyard the kind that is mild wide and had different areas large U trees crumbling Graves and a crypt in the center overrun with leaves and Ivy what was especially creepy about this particular Cemetery was that it had the ruin of an old mental Asylum or hospital at the other side you could actually sneak in if
you walked across the width of the cemetery and crawled through a small hole in the fence that led to the Asylum grounds this was not advised though as guard dogs roam the Derick building it was not a place that you wanted to be during the night so I had made my way past Williamson Park and up to the entrance of the graveyard immediately my eyes were drawn to something small standing at the imposing Gates of the graveyard they were kind of tall black iron gates that were at the bottom of a little winding path I
felt a little apprehensive but it wasn't unusual to see people walking their dogs Etc out of the graveyard and so I started to slow my Pace to a walk in the direction of the shape and as I drew nearer I realized that that shape was a child around 9 to 10 years old and they were running towards me frantically they looked panicked and scared and I think that they were crying I vividly remember that the girl was not wearing a coat only a thin dress that would not be suitable for the harsh lancastrian Autumn she
asked me if I could help her she was desperate and seemed to be frightened of something and she kept looking back into the graveyard which at this point was totally pitch black beyond the gates I mean there was absolutely no light beyond the path as the graveyard was quite large it was chilling to see the depth of the Blackness and the vulnerable child standing at the mouth of the gate helpless I don't recall what the girl said exactly but then I offered to call the local police I had typed 999 into my phone and had
it on loudspeaker the girl immediately changed she was not happy about the fact that I was calling the police that was clear she stopped crying and seemed angry almost demanding and insisted that she did not need the police to help I reassured her that it was best to inform them even offered to walk her to the station which was about 20 minutes back down the hill and this is where the story gets weird and a little terrifying the girl turned and ran back into the graveyard she ran directly through the gates into the Eerie Blackness
she didn't turn back just ran as quickly as possible until she had completely disappeared it was then totally silent I was spooked beyond belief now standing in a darkened Street completely alone I had so many questions who was the girl why was she alone why was she scared of the police and why wasn't she afraid of the dark and who might be she running to or from I turned and ran all the way back down the hill not stopping until I reached a well-lit builtup area and safe to say I didn't run on my own
again at [Music] night I wasn't exactly the most popular kid in high school I was just this average girl not cool enough to hang with a popular crowd but not quirky enough to get bullied either honestly if you ask most of my classmates today they probably wouldn't even remember me I grew up in a big city I won't say where but think of places like Detroit Chicago or Philadelphia I grew up in a place like that and my neighborhood was this mix of faded brick buildings and concrete jungles there was always noise honking horns sirens
and stuff like that it had its own kind of charm but sometimes it felt a little heavy and yeah there was definitely a fair amount of crime like I said I wasn't super popular my claim to fame was that my dad owned a junkyard with an iron Shredder and it might sound a bit odd but honestly it was kind of fascinating a few people wanted to come by just to watch that machine shred old washing machines and Rusty bikes into tiny bits the first time I saw it an action I was about 10 and the
noise was like thunder I remember feeling scared watching how the metal twisted and crumpled it was oddly beautiful in this sort of destructive way all the girls in school were crushing on this guy named Marco and of course I was too he was a basketball star who worked out all the time plus he always seemed super smart like he had stocks figured out or something and everyone knew he had some family problems but he still radiated confidence one night during a football game he came over to talk to me and my heart literally raced I
half expected someone to pinch me to wake up from this dream he didn't say much though he just said that he wanted to talk to me and asked me where he could find me at half time I said that we could meet at the front entrance at halftime we Slipped Away to his car and he said he wanted to go to McDonald's and that felt so random but I wasn't going to complain this was my first chance to hang out with Marco and it was starting to feel almost like a date now while we were
driving he suddenly pulled over and asked if he could show me something he takes out a gun and my heart dropped into my stomach I was not ready to see that and he says I need you to get rid of this and everything around me went blurry when someone holds a gun in front of you all rational thoughts vanish and I was terrified I didn't want to be in that situation and I couldn't really say no because he was holding a gun my mind raced with all the things that could go wrong and it felt
like the weight of the world rested on my shoulders I didn't ask questions I just nodded hoping to make things better he told me to text him later saying it was nice seeing you at the game today after I got rid of it we went through the McDonald's drive-thru but I didn't have any appetite that was seriously weird and I almost felt like I was being kidnapped and in a way I kind of was he didn't force me to get in the car with him but I couldn't really tell him to let me go either
and in a way it felt like I was being intimidated into being in his car now anyways he gave me the gun and dropped me off at my car in the school parking lot and we said our goodbyes from there I went to school and grabbed the keys to the junkyard praying that my parents wouldn't catch me thankfully they were upstairs and the keys were in the fridge and I felt like I was living in some kind of bad movie I drove to the junkyard but then Panic said in hard what if opening the gate
was too loud and someone heard me wouldn't if alarm went off what if someone showed up while I was there what if the gun got stuck in the shredder I had never operated that thing alone what if I accidentally hurt myself what if I couldn't didn't figure out how to operate the shredder in time what have this whole plan backfired and made everything worse I just knew that this wasn't going to work out and so instead I went back to McDonald's ordered a large meal because fries make everything better and carefully slipped the gun into
a bag with fries and a burger I looked on Google Maps found a park about 30 minutes away and then drove there trying to stay calm when I got to the park I felt strangely detached from everything around me I tossed the McDonald's bag into a trash can and then I sat on the bench with my heart racing while trying to think of what to say if someone asked what I was doing if anyone had approached me that night and asked if I was okay I would have just asked them to call an ambulance for
me I felt so guilty that I literally felt sick I have no idea how long I spent trying to calm down but eventually I was ready to go home now later on I found out Marco's sister had gotten mixed up in something truly rfic that night she was involved in a violent robbery where she had used a gun to threaten A store owner the store owner had not cooperated with her and she had beaten the man's head with the gun leaving him bloodied and dazed on the floor thankfully no one was killed but the brutality
of it all felt terrifying and sad that victim was an old man I was caught up in something way darker than I'd ever imagined when Marco's sister was arrested and eventually charged I was Terri terrified someone would find out what I'd done and Link it back to me I felt like I was carrying around this heavy secret and I was suffocating the thought of being questioned by the police or worse and becoming a suspect haunted me and I never brought up the incident I saw Marco around school and made sure to not even make eye
contact and thankfully I never heard anything more about it the rumors faded and life went on when girls talked about Marco I said just enough to pretend like everything was normal I still visit home occasionally and have seen Marco around he's always surrounded by friends laughing and carefree but we never talk it's terrifying how easily I was intimidated into participating in something so horrific and each time I see him it leaves me with a chill [Music] when I was around 13 or 14 I went to Applebee Festival in England with my family my family comes
from the gypsies but all now live in houses and they no longer participate in Gypsy culture and I was not brought up as a gypsy but they decided that we'd all go to this Festival now as young teens my cousin and I who were the same age decided to wander off and do our own thing we met a group of guys the same age as us and decided to hang around with them we reached the outskirts of the of the festival when suddenly one of the guys picks me up and tries to drag me into
the bushes I have always been pretty strong for a petite female who's only about 5 foot nothing and fought for my life I elbowed him in the face and kicked him multiple times as hard as I could everyone including my cousin was in shock and was just staring at this going on and didn't do anything and I finally managed to get away and ran as fast as I could I have no idea what would have happened if I couldn't fight that way I don't know if he was going to sa me or grab me and
turn me into his wife which I guess is pretty well known within Gypsy culture and 10 years later this still scares me and I've never been to a festival like that [Music] again okay so I'm not sure if this belongs here or somewhere else but I want people to learn from my mistakes for context when this happened I was 17 I'm now 18 and this was right before I turned 18 I was on a lot of apps to help me make friends as I'm autistic and struggle making friends IRL I'm fem but trans F to
m still am and also asexual so because of the nature of these apps I stated that I was asexual in my bio I also stated other things like my interests and then I met this one guy who lived maybe an hour away and I was looking for a friend to smoke with and he said he would I know I know I was very naive and nonetheless we planned a time and I waited outside for him he brought me a wine cooler and we took turns hitting his cart we had deep meaningful conversations and immediately clicked
which I thought was amazing at least until a bit later when I was very high I tend to be impulsive and I don't know my limits well and it was getting very cold so I told him that I should get back inside he agreed and started walking me toward my window I was stumbling unable to see straight and once we were in my driveway he asked for a hug before leaving now thinking it was kind of cute I gave him that hug but the next thing I knew he was behind me with a knife to
my neck at first I tried to fight back but I quickly realized it was getting me nowhere and only causing me more harm in that terrifying moment I thought that I was going to become just another True Crime murder victim and so I stopped fighting and started listening to him hoping that he'd spare my life at the same time I tried to leave as much evidence as possible in case listening didn't save me but then I noticed scars on his thighs somehow I managed to appeal to some part of his humanity and my exact words
were I see your scars you're just like me you're hurting but this isn't going to stop the hurt it will only Soo it temporarily I don't know how I was able to think so logically in such a panicked state but it ended up saving my life he let me go but only after I agreed to meet him again I agreed just to get out of the situation and then went inside and tended to my cut thumb and after that I blocked him on everything but kept his messages on my phone in case I ever found
the courage to go to the police of course I never met up with him again and never will and what scares me the most is how much we had in common our mentality and personality I know Predators like him often say things they don't mean but our deep conversations had felt so [Music] real this happened shortly before weed was legalized in Germany in Berlin regulations were already fairly relaxed and as long as you didn't explicitly bother anyone you usually wouldn't get arrested for smoking in public I've been smoking daily for years I know it's not
great but that's besides the point so I can function pretty well while stoned however I almost never smoked in public partly to avoid trouble but mostly because I prefer the comfort of my own home one late night around 3:00 a.m. I was chilling on online with friends ready to call it a day I wanted to unwind with a joint and one of my favorite shows but I had no snacks left determined to end the night properly I decided to head to a nearby shetti a small convenience store similar to a 7-Eleven at that hour only
the sketchiest ones were still open often operating illegally I grabbed my coat and keys but hesitated before leaving why not make this cold walk a little bit more enjoyable I thought rolling a small joint I lit it as I stepped outside braving the freezing breeeze the area I live in is pretty rough mostly foreign residents many from Arabic countries poor integration has led to high crime and violence but I was in good spirits as I strolled through the flickering neon sign of theti just one more intersection AC cross a group of men stood at the
corner they looked Middle Eastern a bit older than me and watched as I walked by it felt normal nothing unusual and I cross the street already a little high without giving them much thought then I heard a voice behind me routine ID check please show me your identification my heart sank of course this had to happen the one time I smoke in public I thought turning to face the police but they weren't police it was the group from the intersection now slowly approaching me routine ID check please show me your ID we're undercover cops one
of them said with a very smug grin I froze it was clear they weren't cops none of them showed identification and their demeanor gave them away you know smoking weed is illegal don't you the man continued his pupils enormous and it was obvious that they had no Authority whatsoever and they began circling me show us what's in your pockets the leader demanded so it's a robbery I thought if I don't resist maybe I'll only lose my phone in the few bills that I'd brought for snacks then a wave of dread hit me my weekly tips
about 300 in cash were also in my pocket I forgotten to deposit it earlier and losing that money would wreck my budget for the month what now as I slowly reached into my pocket the leader pressed me what's taking so long I pulled out an old pack of gum and some broken headon phones hoping to satisfy them where's your wallet I need your ID he insisted now still fumbling too stubborn and stupid to hand over my tips I inadvertently noticed something that shocked me the glint of a Glock tucked in his belt knives and metal
rods are typical weapons around here but a gun that was insane even by local standards German gun laws are incredibly strict and my adrenaline spiked slowly I pulled out the 5 Euro bill that I planned to use for snacks trying to keep my expression neutral you got no wallet he growled his face darkening my brain screamed at me to do something anything before this escalated further then a desperate thought flashed through my mind the Arabs in this area were known to fear Russians due to frequent clashes between the two groups and maybe just maybe I
could use this to my advantage in a very heavy Russian accent I stammered my friends have my wallet they're coming soon we'll meet here and to my surprise their poor english comprehension worked in my favor they exchanged glances muttered in German and decided to wait and I forced myself to look confused keeping up the bluff it worked though their effort to figure me out seemed too much trouble and leader finally pointed at the 5y- old Bill all right right then you get us something to drink reluctantly I followed them into theti they grabbed a six-pack
of coke and I paid my heart was pounding and I was sure that this wasn't over that they'd search me or retaliate when my nonexistent friends didn't show up but then just like that they left no violence no further questions nothing I stood there in shock unable to process what had just happened now looking back I can't believe I Bluff my weight out of such a dangerous situation it could have been my last day on Earth all for 300 I've learned my lesson and these days I avoid walking around late at night when the streets
are [Music] empty my name is Jules and this story took place place in 2022 at the time I was a business school student but my English skills needed Improvement and to address this I decided to take a gap year and move to Toronto Canada for intensive language courses since the costs were high I found a share Department with other students the apartment had three bedrooms one of which was still vacant waiting for a new tenant my roommate Sandro was Swiss German tall almost 2 m and weighing 120 kilos but incredibly friendly and we quickly became
friends a few weeks later Sandro mentioned that he was going on a week-long road trip through Canada's national parks we planned to leave early on a Saturday morning while I had been informed that the new student would arrive that same day at around 3 p.m. Sandro left the apartment at 10:00 a.m. leaving me alone to await the newcomer hours passed 3:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 10 p.m. still no one I grabbed something to eat watched a show on Netflix and eventually decided to just call it the night around midnight I was startled awake by
knocks on my apartment door I heard someone entering that must be the new student I thought groggy as an unfamiliar voice explained the apartment's layout too tired to investigate I stayed in bed and drifted back to sleep a few minutes later there were knocks on my bedroom door once then again about 10 minutes later thinking there might be a problem I reluctantly got up standing in the doorway was a young Japanese woman around 25 years old I quickly explained a few details about the apartment and we exchanged Instagram handles and then retreated to our respective
rooms for the night over the following days she frequently asked me to accompany her on bus or Subway rides I happily helped showing her stops and landmarks before returning to my usual routine of classes and gym sessions but gradually her behavior became unsettling every evening when I came home she would either message me or find reasons to talk to me in the apartment and the atmosphere grew increasingly Tense one evening while lying on my bed I noticed her standing on the shared balcony outside my window she was leaning against the railing staring at me with
a very piercing gaze when she realized that I had noticed she quickly turned away and went back into her room uneasy I tried to brush it off as a coincidence later that night just as I was falling asleep I glanced out the window again she was still there watching me and her eyes met briefly before she vanished this pattern continued for several nights each evening I would catch her on the balcony staring intently at me and each time she disappeared as soon as she realized that I'd seen her then the night before my departure things
escalated I had had to wake up early for an appointment and left my room at 5:30 a.m. the apartment was silent and dark except for the faint glow from under the bathroom door as I brushed my teeth I heard soft footsteps behind me she emerged from her room moving silently across the wooden floor instead of turning back she opened the bathroom door and stepped inside sitting on the closed toilet she stared at me motionless and her expression blank the moment stretched and to an oppressive silence and finally I mustered the courage to leave the bathroom
closing the door behind me I returned to my room slowly unsettled and unsure of her intentions and that night as I was having dinner in my room I saw her through the window again staring inside I looked away hoping that she would leave and later at 3:00 a.m. I woke abruptly from a nightmare and turning my head I saw her still on the balcony her wide eyes eyes fixed on me and this time she didn't vanish she remained motionless like a statue before suddenly turning and running inside my heart raced as I rushed to lock
my door and moments later I heard her trying the handle gently at first and then more forcefully holding my breath I stayed silent until everything went still and by morning I was ready to leave for France she was gone and I never saw her again to this day I'm not sure what her intentions were perhaps she was just fascinated by me my build is far from typical for a Japanese [Music] person I'm not proud of any of this I have a big family and we're super close and when I was in high school my aunt
was dating this guy who seemed really wealthy but no one really knew what he did I think really anyone could have guessed though I asked my aunt to introduce me to her boyfriend and we talked about how I could work for him without going into too much detail he agreed to let me work for him and I sold to some people I knew I went to high school in an area where drugs were pretty common I knew a few boys who claimed that they were already using this stuff so I offered to sell it to
them and surprisingly they placed really big orders I didn't didn't ask any questions I just sort of went along with it I was making about three grand a month from this not enough to retire or anything but definitely more than most 17-year-olds made I never made a point to flaunt my money or anything like that I thought that I kept it well hidden at least I hoped I did what bothers me is that there's no way of knowing really and one Saturday morning I walked over to my friend's house for a birthday party it wasn't
a wild one or anything just a cute little breakfast on my way home a guy I'd never seen before pulled over and got out of his car he was well-dressed and a bit older when he got out I thought he was a cop and he was kind of acting like one and I was ready to surrender because I didn't think that I could actually make an escape but then he pulled out a switchblade and told me to give him my purse he said something like don't act dumb girl I know you have money it's okay
we can make this easy if you just give me your purse I can't really explain why but that felt like such a cp-like thing to say I don't know if you've been in a situation like that before I hope you haven't but you kind of just freeze when someone surprises you like that it's not exactly fear your body just doesn't know how to react I almost think my body didn't let me get too scared because if it did I might have had a heart attack and it was like my body was saying wait until it's
safe and then Panic first I felt felt relieved that he wasn't actually a cop so thank goodness for that second when he said it was okay that we could make it easy and actually did Cal me down a bit and so I managed to say okay can I just give you my cash my purse has my phone and pictures and other stuff and he said okay to that I opened my purse and took out all the cash which was about $200 and he watched me closely as I did it he took the money and said
something like if you tell anyone I will find out and then he left and I felt surprisingly calm the rest of the walk home the next morning it hit me that I had been mugged and that's when the Panic set in and I started shaking and crying even as I'm writing the story now it gives me chills I'd never seen that guy before and when he said I know you have money I don't know if he meant that he knew about my dealing or if he was just trying to scare me honestly I'm really glad
this happened because it made me get out of that business at that right time and things were only going to get more dangerous from there it's still scary thinking about it but that guy saved me without even realizing it I told my aunt's boyfriend what had happened and that I was too scared to keep doing this he told me to send all my customers to him instead and I did and that was the end of it for me it's been almost 10 years now and I haven't looked back since [Music] I figured that since I
have binged and completed all of your podcasts then what better time to submit something myself in the meantime I have two different stories both true and I can link news articles to confirm these events but for now I want to tell everyone the encounter my dad had a few years back I want to clarify for this event that I was not there since I haven't lived in my hometown for over a day decade now but my dad 67 around the time of this encounter in 2021 lives in Fredericksburg Virginia not a huge city or town
but it does lie just south of Washington DC so hearing this honestly shocked me tremendously my dad is known in our neighborhood as a very kind man while myself and my older sister no longer live in the state and he still proceeded to take his dog scooter for walks every morning this consisted of walking down to my old bus stop which means that all the kids and parents eventually grew to know my dad and scooter pretty well he told me that there for a short period of time he would see this blond-haired teenager walking down
the street with his backpack I honestly can't recall if he said this kid was actually a student or not so I can't confirm if this kid was a regular at this bus stop or not but my dad had apparently seen him often enough that nothing spiked any red flags it was the same encounter every time they crossed paths they would exchange hellos scooter would get a few minutes of pets and they would go their separate ways after a few minutes of small talk hearing this I didn't really think anything about it I mean our neighborhood
was relatively safe the entire time that I lived there and nothing really big ever happened but when he told me this next part I was speechless he told me that it took him a few weeks for him to realize he hadn't seen that teenager and he soon found out why during one of his regular walks with scooter the neighbor had stopped him to talk to him my dad mentioned in passing that he hadn't seen that kid in a few weeks my neighbor then informed him that's because the kid had been arrested with two other people
the reason murder and dismemberment of a 20-year-old who was discovered in the Woods by the time my dad had finished the story I couldn't say anything my small Hometown which had always felt and looked so safe to me during my childhood was now something that danger had intruded upon I've been meaning to visit my dad who still lives in the same house that I spent most of my childhood in but I think this whole event is still sitting in my subconscious almost stopping me from returning link below is the news article that I looked up
after getting off the phone with my dad and the mug shot is just as creepy that's the time that my dad encountered a Killer without knowing the Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office found the remains of 20-year-old Dylan Dakota Wetzel in the woods on February 1st now three suspects have been indicted for over 20 charges each including Murder By mob and physically defiling a dead human body according to a release from the Sheriff's Office Dominic M Samuels Brennan E Thomas and bronwin C Meeks have all been charged in connection to wetzel's death they are currently being held
at the Rapa hanic Regional Jail special prosecutor David Sans is handling the case in court wetzel's body was found in a wooded area near pom Mon and Finny Road in the western part of Spotsylvania [Music] County I wanted to write out what happened to my dad and I tonight to help others who happen to be driving on Interstate 19 for background we recently moved to Arizona a week ago but have had to sleep at the rest area until we find an apartment it's just been my dad and I for close to 10 years now and
never before have we felt in danger as we did tonight 7:00 rolled by signaling to us it was time to head to the rest area to unwind before sleep just like previous night however this night would turn out to be more than anything we could have ever imagined as we were on our way there we had to get off the freeway exit to turn on to the other side of the freeway as we were about to get back on I saw a truck weighed off in the distance with its lights on I didn't think anything
of it until I realized the truck started to follow us and I thought to myself that's strange after about 30 seconds my dad had realized the driver was indeed following us as the headlights were right on us my Dad pulled over on the left side of the freeway and put his emergency lights on unsure of what this driver's intentions were the driver of the truck pulled over on the right side of the freeway causing the oncoming cars to pull to a complete stop the driver opened up the door and immediately a trucker began to honk
wildly in that moment my dad sensing something bad might actually happen floored it picking up speed very fast the driver followed suit and was hot on our tail this person did not seem to have any good intentions and this is when I got on the phone with 911 but because of the connection it took over a minute to connect when it did I told the operator that we were being chased by a driver with very bright headlights and what looked to be a dark colored pickup truck mind you while I was on the phone with
911 my dad was driving down the side roads in excess of 100 miles per hour desperately wanting to escape this driver my dad turned off all the lights on the car while going at top speed the truck's headlights began to fade gradually and feeling that we were about to lose this truck my dad swerved around two corners and put the pedal to the floor for another minute we realized then that we had lost the driver and to be doubly sure my dad drove another 5 miles and pulled off an exit we drove to the nearest
Walmart and stayed there for an hour as per the operator's instructions I know some may say that the driver could have been trying to maybe tell something but when you're in a pretty sketchy situation especially at night it's always better to be safe than sorry I met Leo an 18-year-old male at the time during my 17-year-old female at the time junior year of high school Leo was an immigrant from Guatemala and new to my high school we had many classes together but we both enjoyed choir a lot one day we were coming back from a
choir trip and I mustered up the courage to sit with him on the bus and begin a conversation he Charmed me immediately and we talked for about 3 hours and enjoyed the time so much and he gave me a cute origami boat with his number and Snapchat on it and I felt like I had fallen pretty hard we spent the next 10 days messaging and snapping every single day we sat next to each other in every class and started eating lunch in the library together I began to notice a few red flags that I chose
to ignore because I thought I was kind of being crazy the first was that anytime I invited him to an activity or hangout outside of school he would blatantly refuse there was never any excuse or Reason the answer was just a sort of Simply nope I invited him to several things even some with my family and he would never even consider it the next red flag started when he would ask me question questions but never allow me to actually answer them he'd ask a question and right as I begin to respond he would interrupt with
a much more personal question for example what are you doing today oh I'm going to and then you'd go right to how many boyfriends have you had it was all very strange on day 10 I was walking my dog and I got a strange message from him I had a dream and I want to tell you about it at first I was actually pretty thrilled and kind of curious but then when he started sending a bunch of messages through I got really sick the dreams he had were a bunch of very descriptive weird fantasies about
me all of them were sickening and objectified my body in ways that no one would be comfortable with he started telling me of the types of photos he wanted to take of me and things he wanted to be doing to myself in them it wasn't arousing at all it was honestly very scary then he told me how he wanted to meet up in secret several times a week that nobody would know and that's when I responded no just please lose my number and never talk to me again and I blocked him on everything I called
my friend who had him on Snap as well and she frantically told me that he was adding photos to a story all of them were explicit photos of girls that looked a lot like me they had the same body type hair color skin tone Etc and he did this for 2 months until he graduated and announced the class that he would be moving to California throughout those two months he would constantly try to talk to me at school the way he first did when we were harmlessly flirting but I shut it down and told him
to go away I thought I was in the clear but that was not the case all summer I would get messages from random numbers you look pretty in that pink shirt what did you order I ordered the burger it's a nice day for the fair right anytime I went out with friends he was there and I would never see him but he would message me something that I would know that he was there all of the numbers were burner phones and at the same time he was posting photos on his Instagram of being in California
his new life there and how he was getting a new job house Etc and none of the pictures had his face in them though I just deleted all of my socials changed my number and eventually after I graduated my family moved to a new town and I followed he clearly no longer knew where I was but I would still get messages and emails with fake profiles of him trying to stalk my friends and family and it continued for three more years until one day he just kind of stopped I never heard from him again eventually
I got my socials back but made everything private I'm now married and actually doing great at my job but I'll never forget how awful of an experience that was every few years it resurfaces and plays through my mind on repeat for months at a time [Music] I was about 13 when this happened and I lived right on the beach if you walked about 1.5 km down the beach from my house you would get to a place where some ocean would be left behind to form a sort of Lake where me and a lot of my
friends like to hang out and next to it were two dirt roads now anyways I had a German shepherd and my mother used to kick me out of my house every weekend for a few hours to go play with the dog which I did not mind there was a cliff above the beach which you could take a walk to the lake which was overlooking the beach but covered in forest and on that day it was particularly hot so I chose to spare me and my dog a hot walk and walked up into the forest now
I've done this many times before and wasn't afraid at all as I was walking I heard muffled footsteps behind me my dog was far ahead of me off leash and I quickly realized that something had to be sneaking up behind me because it was nearly impossible to walk silently on the dry foliage here I quickly made a run for it toward the exit of the forest seemingly hearing the footsteps become more audible behind me no worries though I was out at the lake now and it was plain open and I could already spot A girlfriend
of mine there my dog was already in the water as I went to greet my friend when we noticed a large man approaching us he must have been close to 2 m tall and very slim he started talking us both very kindly and without knowing any better we were polite back to him at the time I didn't associate the footsteps with this man but later grew to understand he asked us a lot of questions where we were from if anyone was there with us and so on slowly my friend and I started to get creeped
out we said our goodbyes claiming we had to meet other friends and move further down the lake we sat down for a bit and started talking when my dog began growling she never growled so this took me by surprise I looked to see what she was growling at and lo and behold the man was standing about 50 m behind us my friend and I caught on quickly and moved again the same thing happened but this time he was closer by now we were freaked out we were being followed and we were all alone my friend
called her mother to come pick us up but she was at least an hour away that meant that we were stuck with this creep for an hour then the more we moved the closer cler he came I leash my dog by then as she was going completely rabid towards the sky and every time we looked at him he seemed to smile back as if though we were close friends he tailed us for a while until we saw my friend's mother's car arrive on the dirt road and the road was about 200 M from us and
to get there we had to cross where the man was standing we were terrified her mother saw the situation and started running over which caught the man's attention giving us a chance to dash I don't think ever run that far and that fast in my life my dog was now running with us as I let her leash go and when we got to the car we hly jumped in just as the man started to run towards us we stayed in the car while my friend's mother called 112 and waited inside that's 911 around here the
man threw rocks at the car and wailed at us before eventually running off as the police did arrive and when the police got there they questioned everyone and searched for this guy but we're never able to find him I'm still terrified of the forest around that area terrified that he might be waiting for us I didn't know my friend would be there that day and I don't know what would have happened if she hadn't been there I didn't have a phone or any form of contact and I'm pretty sure if he had gotten to me
he would have overpowered me and my [Music] dog August in 2020 I had moved in with my aunt and uncle to an insanely small rural town in California when I first moved there a friend of mine had made it a point to show me that someone could drive across the whole town within 5 minutes and at the time I didn't realize how important that fact would become to the safety of me and my loved ones my best friend Haley and I her 17 and me being 18 years old at the time were hanging out at
a park that was about a 5 to 10 minute walk from where I lived and I say park because there were a few tables and benches and it was technically known as a town park but in reality it was more a small grass clearing surrounded by woods and a dirt trail near the bank of a river I had started to frequent this place after moving walking down to the benches and trail to smoke or sit by the water I never really noticed any suspicious characters before this even though I had plenty warned about a couple
creepers that were in the area known for bothering Young girls Haley and I had been smoking for a bit unbothered in the clearing when we decided to finish our little trip with exploring the trail a little bit and just taking in all the scenery we had been walking and talking for about 5 minutes when I started to get this tension in my shoulders like that feeling you get when you know someone is looking at you I look behind us and there was a man on the trail with us granted this path is pressed right against
the sidewall of a gated community so seeing people going on walks and jogging was fairly common I told my friend of the man's presence but she had just written it off as me being anxious but she had a good point that I tend to be a bit hyperaware at times but something about the man felt wrong in my gut we kept walking and I would periodically look back and keep tabs on the darkhaired middle-aged man walking about 50 ft behind us after not too long at all the man started picking up pace behind us calm
casual walking became more of a speed walk and I turned around completely and started walking backwards to try and communicate to this man that I was completely aware of his presence he had moved toward the side of the trail looking like he was about to walk through the brush down to the river I felt a bit stupid for being so worried turning back around I resumed walking forward but glanced back one more time to be sure that he was gone as I looked behind us for the last time I saw the man in a full
Sprint charging back onto the trail straight toward me and Haley I grabbed her sleeve with one hand and pulled out my pocket knife with the other I can't remember what I said to her but we started sprinting down the trail as fast as we could I had never gone far down this path and had no idea where it led the man chasing us was blocking our way back to the clearing in the road his footsteps on the dirt grew louder getting closer I let go of Haley's sleeve to pulled out my phone and called my
Uncle while still running I told him we were being followed on the trail at the park but I couldn't give him an exact location I had never gone much further than the entrance and didn't know where the trail led to my uncle told me to stay on the phone and make as much noises possible so he could find us I let out the loudest shrillest scream I could muster as we kept running and finally we reached the end of the path where an old metal fence surrounded some trees in what looked like an abandoned house
shed nearby we saw the back corner of the outer wall for the gated community and in that Split Second it seemed like our best option I yanked us off the dirt path and into the trees lining the cement wall I yelled at Haley to climb as fast as she could booing her from the bottom so she could use a tree in the ledge to get over the top I threw my pocket knife and phone over the wall and somehow scrambled up and over myself as fast as I could I landed face first onto a neatly
trim patch of grass inside the Gated Community startling a man who had been calmly walking his dog I became acutely aware of how strange we must have looked two panicked teenagers yelling and holding a knife but the man seemed to realize that we were in trouble he rushed over to ask if we needed help and while Haley explained the situation I got back to my phone with my uncle and told him that we had made it into the gated community and not even a minute later we heard my uncle shouting from the trail he yelled
threats at the man who had chased us making it clear that he had a firearm and wasn't afraid to use it the man with the dog led us to a small access gate along the wall and unlocked it so we could meet my uncle in the trail my uncle told us that he had driven his car through the park and up to the trail entrance as fast as possible before running to find us he hadn't seen anyone on his way in after checking to make sure that we were okay I retold what had happened in
Greater detail now that the Panic was wearing off my uncle escorted us back to his car his firearm in plain sight ready in case the man showed himself again we didn't see him on the way back and I haven't returned to that place since but for a long time after I was constantly paranoid that I was being followed whenever I left the house we were never able to figure out who that man was and I haven't seen him since that day hey friends thanks for listening click that notification Bell to be alerted of all future
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