back when I was in high school during my freshman and sophomore years I would ride the bus it picked me up at the corner of my street early in the morning and would drop me off afterwards I went to an average sized High School about 10 minutes away from where I lived at least the place seemed average to me there was probably about 7 or 800 kids combined in all four grades this is something that happened during my sophomore year it was a school day just like any other to that point one class had just
ended and I was going to my final class for the day as I stood in the hallway near my locker I talked with some of my friends I had a decent friend group of several other guys the locker comments were always really crowded in between classes and I remember that the first warning bell rang that meant that you had 2 minutes to make it to class kids started leaving the comments but me and a couple of friends stayed my classroom wasn't really that far off I remember that one of the guys there was a great
ahead of us and his name was Jake his brother was Tommy and Tommy was in my friend group so I think that's why he was there as I was about to head to class I heard another sound come over the school speakers at first I was thinking how could the bell ring again so soon but it wasn't really the same bell sound for when class starts it was followed by an announcement over to the intercom we were told that the school was going into a lockdown all of us should go to our next hour classes
immediately and the teachers should lock the doors and turn off the lights there was still kind of a lot of kids around including the four of my friends I heard one of them say they were going to just leave nobody wanted to sit in the classroom for who knows how long during a lockdown one of the school exit doors was not that far away there were already some kids leaving I saw about 10 kids running for the doors and going outside and more followed there was only one class period left for the day so I
decided that I wanted to leave as well but I didn't drive there that's when Jake asked me if I wanted to leave he said that he would give a ride home to anybody that wanted to because he was leaving as he said this he started to walk away half of my friend group was leaving and the other half were actually going to their classes other kids were also leaving and it became chaos we had to leave fast if we were going to I saw one of the teachers enter the hallway and start to tell kids
to get to their classes there were less and less kids around by the second I decided to leave but by that point Jake and my other friends had already left I remember the teacher yelling at the kids to stop leaving there were probably like 50 that ended up making it out of the school I was one of them and when I got outside my friends and I did not do a good job sticking together kids were literally running away to leave they were going to the parking lots where students parked mostly and some ran off
through the grass towards a nearby neighborhood the school was in an area that was mostly residential but there were a few businesses down the road there was a woods and all of the sports Fields behind the school the student parking lots were on the side and then one was behind the tennis courts when I got outside I couldn't even see Jake or my friends anymore it was basically chaos kids were running everywhere a teacher took a step out of the school and told us all to come back inside but nobody listened to him I figured
that Jake and my friends would be in the parking lot so I ran in that direction I had to kind of go around the school to get there though I wasn't sure which parking lot Jake parked in so I went to the main one first when I got there he was nowhere in sight I realized that it must be the other one and I hoped that I wasn't too late by now most kids had made it to their cars if they were leaving I sprinted for the other parking lot but it was a ways away
when I got there there was nobody a lot of cars were still there but I I didn't see any students at all I walked around hoping that maybe my friends were in their car but hadn't left yet unfortunately though I didn't see them I realized that they must have left without me now I didn't know what to do I couldn't go back to the school because it was probably locked and I wasn't supposed to leave in the first place but I also couldn't go home because it was too far to walk and I didn't have
a car I started walking back up closer to the school not really knowing exactly what I was going to do I got to a back door of the school and tried going inside but it was locked just like I figured it would be after this I was going to go back around to the parking lot and then walked down the sidewalk but when I turned I saw some guy coming out of the school I just knew that this guy had to be the reason for the lockdown he was looking over his shoulder was way too
old to be a student and definitely not a teacher I was a long ways away from him and I quickly ran behind a tree that was nearby I was just hoping that the guy didn't see me for for a few seconds I didn't bother to look and see where the guy was I was expecting him to walk in another Direction but as I was still behind the tree I heard the guy walking closer I ran from behind the tree to the woods which was maybe 20 ft away there was no question that the guy saw
me running into the woods I was hoping that he wouldn't follow me I got inside went about 20 ft deep in it and then ducked down and hid I had no clue why the school had been locked down up until that point I had been more concerned about leaving with my friends after seeing a suspicious guy leave the school though I realized that I might be in actual danger for a few seconds I didn't hear anything until I heard Footsteps in the grass right outside of the woods that I was in I couldn't take it
any longer and I got up and started running I ran through the woods and then to the left I didn't hear the guy enter the woods or anything but I just wanted to get out of there after like 2 or 3 minutes of running I reached the edge of the woods kind of near the street Street I walked through the grass to the sidewalk and then ran down it I kept going until I eventually reached a gas station when I got there I asked the employee working if I could borrow his cell phone to call
my mom I told him how my school had been locked down and everything he let me and I was able to wait there until my mom came and picked me up luckily she worked not too far away from the school and our house I was able to leave work without a problem I didn't get in trouble for leaving school early either the lockdown ended up lasting for the entire class period in fact students were kept there almost 10 minutes after the regularly scheduled time that school got out so I didn't miss any class or anything
the man that I saw had entered the school trying to pick up his daughter it was a situation where he was divorced and hadn't seen his daughter in a long time and didn't have custody of her he was also drunk and threatened a custodian when asked to leave I'm not sure why he came over to me when I was in the woods though it was a really scary situation for for me this story takes place years ago when I was in high school it happened after lunch period the way my school worked is that we
would have class then lunch then study hall class was an hour long and lunch and study hall were about 25 minutes each your study hall classroom would be the same classroom that you had directly before lunch but for me I had gym class that period it was 10th grade PE the class was very easy and enjoyable for me when we would have study hall though we would have to use a different teacher's classroom who had prep hour at that time but a couple of times we were unable to get the classroom and then had to
spend study hall in the gym which was kind of weird if that happened we would sit in the bleachers or on the gym floor and do homework usually the teacher would let us know know before we went to lunch where it would be and most of the time we had a certain classroom so on this school day after lunch I started heading back to the classroom it was a decent ways away from the lunchroom on the other side of the school I talked with some of my friends that I sat with at lunch for a
while my gym teacher was not very strict at all especially with study hall he didn't mind students coming back a minute or two late the lunchroom cleared out and I began walking back to class the Bell R when I was still like a minute away by then the hallways were empty besides me walking them soon I got to the classroom the door was closed which was odd and when I tried opening it I couldn't the door was locked I also noticed that inside the window the lights appeared to be off I turned and walked away
realizing that we must be meeting in the gym today I hadn't known though I remember thinking to myself I don't remember being told that we were meeting in the gym how did everybody else know besides me I headed back towards the gym and then I heard an announcement come over the school speakers it said this is a lockdown and this is not a drill please remain in your classrooms and no students are to be out in the halls I was about halfway back to the gym at that point it still hadn't registered to me that
the classroom had been locked down I hurried up and made my way to the gym when I got there the doors were closed and locked it was in that moment that I realized they were meeting in the classroom I know I was a little slow on that but I headed back to the classroom now walking as fast as I could without running I hadn't heard or seen anybody else in the hallways at all it was completely quiet until suddenly I heard the sound of something hitting a locker around the corner it was like somebody punched
a locker or threw something up against it The Sound was very loud especially to break the Dead Silence I stopped in my tracks and no longer wanted to keep going to my classroom I started walking in the other direction in that moment I heard footsteps coming from where I had heard the loud noise my heart started racing I kept walking and heard the footsteps continue they were about to come around the corner now I saw a staircase on the left and darted over and quickly went down the stairs after getting down I ran about 30
ft down the hallway to the first classroom that I saw when I was there I desperately started banging on the door I didn't know what class this was but I was hoping that they would let me in after knocking a couple of times I tried the door but of course it was locked the teacher was not answering I hoped that there was actually a class going on in there currently as I waited I heard whoever had been behind me now walking down the stairs rather quickly I looked back and saw their legs appearing but couldn't
tell who it was yet I didn't want to know I turned back and kept banging on the door door then I heard the person behind me reach the bottom of the stairs and start walking towards me all of a sudden the classroom door finally opened the teacher let me in and quickly shut the door once I was in the classroom all of the lights were off but I saw the students in the class were in the back of the room and on the floor the teacher quickly locked the door and then somebody actually tried opening
it just a few seconds later it must have been whoever had been following me then they banged on the door a couple of times the teacher looked out the little window and then turned back and walked away some students started talking quietly one of them asked me where I had come from the teacher stopped everyone and said for us to all be quiet I remember things got really silent for a while then she went back over to the door and looked out again I think by then the guy was gone we remained locked down though
for what felt like a really long time I think it was almost an hour finally the lockdown was lifted I remember that I got called called to the principal's office and had to answer some questions about what happened they didn't really tell me much about the situation though that was definitely the scariest moment of my time in high school I don't know what would have happened if that person caught up with me I don't want to know either back in high school my junior year I used to get to school about 15 minutes before it
started that's what time the bus would drop us off and after getting inside I would head upstairs to my locker first then there was this spot upstairs near the stairs that had a large window at the end of the hall it wasn't that far from my locker either and you could sit on the ledge in front of the window my friends and I would sit around there just about every day and talk it was kind of a routine or a before school hangout spot for us it overlooked part of the parking lot and also the
softball field next to the school to the east we could also see the sun rising and it lit up the inside really well one day I arrived at school went upstairs to my locker and then over to my friends by the window there were about five of us or so there and we chatted until the warning Bell sounded when we did we all started to disperse to our classes the hallways had been really crowded but things were quickly becoming more quiet I looked out the window and saw a few kids hurrying in at the last
minute to make it to class then I saw this one guy hurry into the school he was too old to be a student and I didn't recognize him as a teacher I thought maybe he was a substitute at first but he was not dressed for the part he just wore an old baggy looking sweatshirt and sweatpants he entered the school on the floor below and then I headed to my class I walked through the hallways down towards the other end my classroom really wasn't that far away and it was also on the second floor as
I got there I noticed down at the end of the hallway the same guy who I had seen entering the school was now coming up to the top of the stairs I went into my classroom at that point class went on as usual as did my next few classes after that then came lunch period I remember that as I was sitting with a couple of my friends at a table I saw the guy again he walked briefly into the lunchroom and then out another way I was surprised to see him again and I also thought
that it was weird that I even noticed the school that I went to was pretty large with a lot of students and it would be easy to blend in with a crowd later in the day in my last hour we were in class and about halfway through the phone in the classroom then rang our teacher picked it up at the desk afterwards he told us that the school was being locked down we had to get up and move to the back end of the classroom then he locked the doors and turned out the lights to
the classroom we were all really confused I didn't even think about the guy that I I kept seeing around the school earlier I was as clueless as everybody else all of us in the class were talking to each other wondering what was going on nobody knew though the teacher wouldn't tell us either he just said for us to keep calm and to be quiet about an hour went by and finally the lockdown was lifted we still didn't know what was going on school was let out and we all went home I rode the bus and
when I got home my mom was there and asked me about the lockdown I gu she had heard more about it than I did I found out that a man the same one who I had seen multiple times in the school was the cause of it during the last class period of the day he was seen suspiciously walking down a hallway the school was then locked down police were called but unfortunately the man was able to escape through an open window nobody knew who he was I told my mom that I had seen the guy
enter the school and had seen him again later multiple times it blew my mind that the guy guy was able to fly under the radar for so long he had been there since the start of the school day but it wasn't until the last hour that anybody seemingly noticed him I'm just glad that the guy didn't cause any harm I don't know who he was or what he was doing this story is from 2017 when I was a freshman in high school and bored in class one day I was in my third period I was
happy that I would be getting out of class later I had an orthodontics appointment to get my braces adjusted and my mom would be coming to the school to pick me up the class that I was in was math and it was quite boring to me to be honest I was just not a math guy in high school usually I would just sit and look out the window and not pay attention very good I sat in the back corner of the classroom which was on the second floor of the school that's what I was doing
doing on this day just looking out the window the teacher was talking about math and I was getting distracted by looking out the window into the front parking lot below I was hoping that the past would get there soon then I could leave and my mom would be there to pick me up as I was looking out the window I noticed several police cars driving down the street they ended up turning into the front school parking lot I thought that was a little bit strange me looking at this was interrupted though when the classroom door
opened up it was a student with a pass and I knew that it was for me the teacher paused then took the pass and then called my name I got up from my desk packed my things and then headed for the front of the class I took the pass and my teacher gave me the homework assignment for the day which I then stuffed into my backpack then I left the classroom and headed down the hallway as I started walking I got a text from my mom and saw that she was there at the side door
that's where you would get picked up from it happened to be at at the opposite end of the school though as I walked the empty hallways suddenly I heard a sound come over the school intercom I wondered what it could be immediately I kind of had a bad feeling because this was out of the ordinary What followed was a message saying that we were going to be locked down I was still a ways away from the side doors but I really wanted to get there before I would have to stay in the school I did
not want to have to wait in a locked down classroom and miss my orthodontics appointment it wasn't really the appointment that I cared about but if I went my mom would let me take the rest of the day off of school plus I was a little bit worried about why we were going under a lockdown if I was in any kind of danger being in the school I wanted to get out of there fast I sped up my walking pace as I kept going down the halls I hadn't seen anybody since I left my classroom
and I was hoping that I wouldn't see anybody either if a teacher saw me they would likely make me go into their classroom when I was about halfway to the side doors but still upstairs I heard the sound of somebody walking down an upcoming hallway I didn't have to go down that hallway but it was going to intersect with the one that I would not knowing who it was I chose to try and avoid them I stopped still a aways back from the corner and kind of hid behind some lockers the footsteps got closer and
closer I decided to just turn and walk in the other direction when I started walking it was like the footsteps suddenly started going along lot faster I almost ran to the nearest corner and went around it I didn't think that whoever it was would follow me but they did I heard them still coming closer I literally ran for the stairs and went down them now I was thinking that there was no way the person behind me would go downstairs as well but they did I knew whoever it was was following me probably a teacher but
I wasn't sure I was in too deep now it was clear to them that I was trying to run away I turned at the first possible place that I could and went down another hallway that one was very long and straight it was complete silence other than my footsteps and the ones behind me I started running to get to the end of the hallway I heard the person behind me get to the bottom of the stairs and then start going down the hallway in my direction when I finally got to the end of that Hall
the only thing that I had to do was go around the corner and then make one more turn to the side exit I looked back before going around the corner I saw a man with long stringy black hair wearing a black leather jacket I had no idea who he even was when I saw him I was really creeped out I thought that it would have been a teacher but this wasn't I turned and sprinted away I ran all the way to the side doors as fast as I could when I got there I burst out
the doors and ran for my mom's car I was able to make it there and get inside I told my mom that we were in a lockdown and some guy was following me around the school she called the school and reported it when we left we saw several police cars out front then I remembered seeing them enter the school grounds it had to be connected we went to my orthodontics appointment after that but by the end of the day I learned more details the guy inside the school was fleeing from police they tried to pull
him over earlier and he led cops on a bit of a chase after his car got stuck in a ditch he got out and fled on foot he ran for a while and was able to momentarily get away from police until he was spotted on the school campus nobody thought that he actually got inside of the school and the cops were mainly searching behind it but they did send one officer inside eventually he was located in a hallway of the school by the officer inside nobody was harmed I don't think anybody knew about him following
me around though I'm so glad that I got away from the guy I'm not sure why he was following me I don't know if he was dangerous or or not but that's my scariest experience from high school I'm currently a high school history teacher this is something that happened a few years ago it was a normal school day I had just finished teaching a class and it was going into the third period for the day during this hour I did not have a class each teacher in the the department would get an hour where they
didn't have a class it was different for most teachers though usually I would use this hour to grade assignments and prepare lessons so on this day when class ended and the next period started I left my classroom I was going to the Teachers Lounge to make some coffee and then I would go back to my classroom each department had a teacher Lounge the history department at the school had five of us so when I got to the room it was empty it was just a little way ways down the hall and was between one hallway
and another it was sort of a weird room because it had two windows in it that looked out to the hallways we had curtains inside though that were always closed so nobody could see in I'm not really sure why there were windows in the room in the first place but nevertheless inside the lounge was a few couches a table some chairs a fridge and a TV it was basically a break room the floors were also carpeted and it was comfortable in there I took my my time making coffee because I didn't really have that much
work to do as I was in there though I heard over the school speakers that there was a lockdown I was really surprised at first in all of my time as being a teacher to that point I had never seen a real lockdown we had several drills but never a real one I was wondering what the reason was to that point it had seemed like a very normal school day I decided to go to the doorway and open it up if there were any students in the hallway I would make sure that they got to
a classroom when I looked out into the hallway I saw no one it was very quiet then I went back into the lounge got my coffee and was going to head back to my classroom but when I got to the doorway to leave I looked out into the hallway and actually saw someone it wasn't a student though or another teacher it was a man who was younger looking but way too old to be a high school student probably mid to late 20s he was walking in my direction I decided to go back inside the teacher's
lounge my instincts were telling me that he wasn't supposed to be in here after I got inside I locked the door to the lounge seconds later somebody tried opening it obviously it was the guy who I had seen I was really surprised that he tried going inside this room why would he want to go in the teacher's lounge the guy then knocked on the door I wasn't sure whether to answer it or Not For a Moment I was going to then I heard him say on the other side let me in the way he said
it was demanding it made me not want to let him in I didn't answer and instead got my phone out to call the principal I wanted to ask why we were in a lockdown and I wanted to know who this guy was the guy knew that I was in here so I called out asking him who he was he didn't answer me and just asked to be let in again when I called the principal he didn't pick up the phone he was probably busy I waited for a minute or so and then called again me
meanwhile the guy who had tried to go in the lounge hadn't knocked or said anything in a while so I thought that maybe he had left at least that's what I was hoping I tried to call the principal again but as I was dialing suddenly I heard the sound of shattering glass I looked over and saw that one of the windows to the break room was being broken some type of blunt object was crashing up against it the curtains were still closed so I couldn't see to the other side very well soon the entire window
was smash smashed I stood there kind of in shock then I saw the man who had been in the hallway he suddenly started to climb through the window and enter the room as he was doing that I sprinted for the door when I got to it I ran out and kept running until I had made it back to my classroom when I got there I unlocked the door and went inside then locked the door behind me all without looking back luckily for me I didn't see the guy I finally felt safe now that I was
in my class room but the guy was still inside of the school I called the police then on my phone and I was told that they were aware of a lockdown situation at the school some officers were already on the way after that I didn't hear or see anything else I waited inside of my classroom the lockdown finally ended about 15 or 20 minutes later the guy was caught by police when they found him still inside of the teacher's lounge he had snuck into the school somehow and was on drugs aside from that that I
don't know much other details I'm not sure what his actual intentions were I'm really glad that I got away from him [Music] though
