my girlfriend and I have been living together for years and about 2 years ago we decided to move to a new runel house the house is in a nice quiet suburb on a deadend street with a huge property at least 200 Acres a Farmland at the end of the street we had met almost all of the locals and gotten along with them about 3 months after moving in my girlfriend decided it's time to make a long-term commitment and huge decision without consulting my partner type of thing and adopted us a 9-month-old dog this dog was completely untrained luckily we had a big backyard and most of the neighbors had dogs too so they understood that the training process examples like barking constantly was a tough one aside from a few of my girlfriend's underwear going missing which we assumed was the dog because she likes jumping up and taking clothes from the line things were great anyway back to the story I work early mornings 3:30 to 4:30 a. m. start sometimes I come home from work one day a week after adopting her to find our new untrained dog had escaped our yard and gone walked about I call my girlfriend I tell her what happened she just says that she'll be home soon meanwhile I decided to continue walking around and ask the locals if they had seen her which to my pleasure they have unfortunately for us though the last they saw of her she was heading towards the huge Farmland at the end of the street I head down to the end of the road to see if I can find her but there's a giant fence in the way and a trespassers will be shot sign out front so but naturally I fear the worst and I decide not to enter this is when my girlfriend gets home and meets me at the end of the road she found out who owns that property and managed to get his number from another neighbor she calls him and he tells us to meet him out front of his house which is right next to the property this place looks completely unkempt the fence is really rusty and broken down and the bushes are overgrown and taking over before we can reach the door I look in the window and see something really weird mannequins and mannequins everywhere all wearing lingerie and covered in some red [ __ ] I assume paint but you never know so what the heck we share a glance at each other and then he shows up out of nowhere this middle-aged sunburnt fullon Aussie shouts at us that he's seen the dog and to follow him and he'll show us where it is I really didn't want to follow him but based on the story some neighbors had told us he's completely willing and has on more than one occasion shot and nearly killed other people's dogs so we fought follow it's at this stage she started small talk with my girlfriend asking how old she was and how long we had been at the house all questions about her though the questions started to get quite personal when luckily our dog shows up so we grab her and say thanks and then pretty much Gap it out of there after that we decided to fix up our fences and forget about it but a few days later I get up at 2:30 a.
m. for work I proceed to get ready for work hop in my car and pull out the carport then I notice a white car idling on the road outside of our house that wouldn't usually be an issue for me but this is a quiet Road and I know after 4 months here no one is up at this time I turn on my high beams only to find out that it's the same farmer from the property as soon as he notices me he drives off I call my work and I tell them I won't be coming in today because I'm not going to leave my girlfriend home alone after that I park my car out front and I stay up all night to make sure he doesn't come back same thing happens the next two mornings same car same time same [ __ ] but he always drives off as soon as I hop in my car and turn the lights on after that for a couple of days nothing happens until Monday morning I get up for work and he's back at this stage I've truly had enough of his [ __ ] I lock up the house hop in my car and high beam the [ __ ] out of him he drives off like usual but I dial the police and I follow him just long enough to get his license plate number before he loses me doing 80 km down our long bumpy road I pass all of his details on to the police license plate car description and address they tell me to go home and that they will send someone over immediately I go inside and wake up my girlfriend to tell her what happened and that some officers will be here soon 10 minutes later four squad cars show up at our house two go down the road and park outside his house one officer comes in to question us further to make sure we're okay and they both stay until the sun comes up one leaves and the other stays parked out front later that day we get told that they caught the guy going 120 down the highway and searched his car and even found two knives One pistol and one rifle in the cabin along with photos of my girlfriend and a pair of her underwear needless to say we were freaked out and we filed the restraining order for when he does get out of jail in hindsight I wasn't very smart in the situation I know I should have called the cops a lot earlier on but [ __ ] like this has never really happened to us before so I kind of didn't think either of our lives were at risk big mistake I've definitely learned my lesson I just learned of this story over the weekend when my uncle was in town he has always been a jokester and growing up he'd always be pulling pranks and laughing I don't think I really ever seen him serious before this moment he's a huge car fan and he asked to see my new Infiniti G37 sedan so I took him out on my grandpa's driveway to show him the car with my Dad we did the usual pop the hood and rev the engine type of stuff and we all pretend that we knew what we were looking at as we stared into the hood of the car but my uncle said he wanted to tell us something that happened to him in college that he felt would serve as a good lesson to me this is the first time I'd ever heard him talk very seriously with a tone of fear in his voice he trembled as he first started telling the story and said that he hadn't ever told anyone about this but seeing me with my new car and the fact that I'm a young guy made him want to bestow knowledge upon me my uncle went to a rural College the campus was in the middle of a town of about 10,000 people most were college students or worked at the college but there were some locals he moved off of Campus his junior year and lived about 3 Mi outside town in the bar districts after having quite a few beers with his friends he decided he better walk home since he had an exam that morning as he was walking down the country road with cornfields on both sides a man in a truck pulled up who appeared to be a Friendly Farmer he offered to give my uncle a live to save him the walk my uncle though being drunk and not thinking straight took him up on his offer he got in the front seat and they took off he gave the man directions to the house that he lived in with his college buddies and then about 5 minutes into the drive he noticed that the man had gone past the turn that they needed to take he informed the man that his house was behind them and he needed to turn around but the older farmer man said that he lived in this town for 50 years that he knew a shortcut he could teach him that's when my uncle began to get suspicious he started asking questions and surveying his situation the farmer obviously had a final destination as he continued down the road then eventually pulled into an old driveway with a very old barn that was falling apart my uncle said that the roof is halfway caved in my uncle's plan was to bolt the second that the man slowed down so when the farmer slowed down and parked he pushed the unlock latch and gave the door a shove but the lock had been sawed off and only part of it popped up at this point he knew he was in for it the driveway was made of gravel and there was a very old playground set in front of the yard that was completely rusted and falling apart there was also a shed in the back of the property behind the barn that he said had lights on but the rest of the property was dark and only illuminated by the headlights of the truck in the moon my uncle ended the story then very abruptly with then I fought him off and sprinted home and then he said let's go back inside my dad stared at him the rest of the night and he kept to himself I don't think he wanted to admit it but something obviously happened at that farm never accept rise from anyone I got married when I was 19 and my husband and I had no clue what to do with our new life together we dropped out of college and our studio apartment was too expensive we thought it was the ideal time to travel and have Adventures before settling down we came across a post on the internet from a man who was looking for workers on his horse ranch we would provide all meals and lodging in exchange for labor around the ranch it looked like just a solution for us he claimed to be very knowledgeable in trades and would teach us how to build Machinery Woodworking and Welding we actually did learn to weld which is pretty cool the pictures were beautiful The Log Cabin he built was huge and he would have a nice big bedroom for us there were lots of other people in the photos and in our correspondence with him he always mentioned other people and referred himself to as we he advertises on multiple platforms and everything looks really legit we booked our flight there was nobody else there he was in his 60s but mentally and physically very fit one of the first things he said to us was I never judge people based on their past do you believe people can change I sure do seemed harmless enough he took us grocery shopping and told us to pick whatever we wanted but we kind of immediately got to five that his kindness was forced and that he was being over generous I'm going to get right into listing the weird stuff that we noticed he built a house himself and his bedroom had a door to the only upstairs bathroom which didn't lock from the inside he would invite us into his room and on his table was an old video camera with about 30 little tapes strown about he would always talk about how much he loved the Japanese how he specifically marketed toward them and had a few Japanese ladies stay in the past he often brought up people who had stayed with him before and all of them had left suddenly and maybe unexpectedly but one day he told us to get in the truck because we were going to the city we were way out in the country so it was a long ride but he was really excited about going he asked us to walk around and to ask young people to come with us and work on the ranch but this made us super uncomfortable we are introverts and I just felt very odd to approach people and ask them to get in the truck however he got upset by our disapproval so we got out and pretended to look for people to talk to he went to talk to people on his own as well as the days went on his welcoming nature began to give way to a very temperamental and aggressive one I didn't really find him creepy but intolerable I didn't like him at all he seemed extremely socially inept and said inappropriate things it was also extremely apparent that he did not be women as equal or anywhere near equal to men he had military training and was a big strong man cunning always thinking now our parents never wanted us to go they realized it to be a potentially dangerous situation but we thought we had done our due diligence however we never even thought to Google this guy's name I get an email from my mom one day freaking out and telling me to do a Google search then get on the next plane home a quick search showed me his arrest record strangling and sexually assaulting a young woman followed by headlines reading do not go to this Ranch this man is dangerous at this point we were thoroughly creeped out and we booked a flight home we were then presented with a dilemma of how to tell a potentially dangerous man that we wanted to leave I forgot to mention that he would tell us daily about how we could live there permanently and start a family he would fantasize about Christmases with our future children and racing them on the ranch but we thought it was established that this was a very temporary thing and we had families back home who missed us this was the weirdest part for me I made up a lie about an emergency back home and when I told him it was like he could see right through me I'm convinced that not only he knew I was lying but he knew I was going to lie about needing to leave before I even opened my mouth this look came over him that I have never seen on a person before he was angry but trying to hide it he was hiding so many thoughts in emotions that I couldn't tell if I should be frightened or relieved before I finished my sentence he said when do you need to go to the airport all monotone I told him right now and he actually took us and put on his friendliest personality and told us that if we ever wanted to come back he would buy our tickets we said we would be in touch just recently I Googled his name again and discovered a page and a forum for people had gone to his Ranch mostly couples like us with eerily similar experiences they spoke about how he says not to judge people on their past the grocery store the bathroom and how they heard him listening behind his door during their midnight bathroom trips and the videotapes and how they watched them and saw young Japanese girls flexing their arms looking through his search history and seeing nothing but Japanese pornography they spoke about being driven to the city and asked to jump out when thin young ladies walked by and tell them to come back to the ranch I could go on and on he is still operational this forum I found was aimed at Gathering stories and preventing future visitors to the ranch the police do not have enough evidence to convict him of anything I know I left a lot of creepy details out I didn't want this to be too long and I'm not really a great Storyteller I'm unsure whether it would be appropriate to name the man or the ranch but the blog where all the others have written about their encounters is probably much creepier than my story we got away with much less weirdness because I don't believe I was his type so to say and he may have feared my husband if anyone is interested I may be able to give a few few hints so it can be found I was 17 when this story happened 3 years ago now I was working at an old peaches shop right on the edge of my town for context the town I was in was an affluent Suburban Town surrounded by a bypass which loops around the town around my town is some farmland and some main roads where all the blue collar workers moved to after the town was established Maybe 10 to 15 years back this pizza shop was around for 20 years and was very catered to these same blue collar workers it's around 9:00 p. m.
and a call comes in for two pizzas and a 2 L of soda I'm the only driver in so I have to take the delivery out it's about a 10-minute drive to get to the location and there I have to drive up a long gravel driveway that took me at least 5 minutes to get up my car couldn't really handle the gravel and how rough it was arriving at the place I see a nice house and two barns plotted across to land with wheat maybe 5 to 6 ft tall surrounding the whole property I've always been really anxious around Farms because of how creepy I think they are being at this place when I felt truly all alone started to make my anxiety flare I decided to call the number on the order because I have no idea where this guy wants me to go and drop off his food finally after about 5 minutes of absolute silence the man picks up he had a very deep and raspy voice like he's been a career smoker which didn't do anything to help me feel better I was told to meet him at his truck at the far barn on his property I am now properly [ __ ] myself as my mind races of all the worst possible things that could happen to me I pull myself together and muster further into this guy's property I see the man's truck as I round one of those cylinder storage units where I see his F-150 and him inside instead of getting out I call him and I ask him how we should do the transaction in that same deep voice he instructs me to get out of my car and put all the food onto his truck bed see since he paid with his credit card already I thought this would have been over in 10 seconds I do what he tells me to do and walk over to the passenger window so that he can sign his receipt the man looks to be around his mid-40s heavy set with a scraggly black beard and a trucker hat I'm a pretty skinny guy so with my mind already racing on being kidnapped or murdered I really don't feel safe around this guy I ask him if he has a pen on him because I forgot to bring one I was pretty bad at my job and he did not have any cash on him he stares at me with these cold eyes and points into the back of his truck saying to me if you ask me for a tip I'm going to be sticking this tip down your throat or he has a double barrel shotgun just in the back of his car I'm frozen in fear as I'm registering that this man had just threatened to kill me not only that but this is the second time that this has happened this shift yeah I kid you not the first time was because I messed up the address for a house and a man in his 60s wearing a cowboy hat and a WWE belt comes outside say says that he has a right to shoot trespassers but I was just trying to see if I was at the right house the only thing I can muster out is okay and I get back into my car and I get the hell out of that farm I was going so fast on that road that I screwed up my car from bouncing around on that gravel path I go 80 all the way back to the pizza parlor where I tell my co-workers what happened none of my co-workers took me very seriously though and just thought I was playing this up for a joke I go home and I forget about it pretty quickly but a year later I'm working the lunch shift and the same man calls in and orders a pizza now at this point I'm refusing to take his order but this was during Co and the place was on its last legs already so management forced me into going anyways it was only 1: to 2: p. m. on a Sunday so at least my fear of the dark would be covered I get there and the man is waiting for me at his actual house he recognized me and out of all the things he started apologizing to me for what he said last time he was excusing it and saying that he just started going through a divorce and was struggling with his emotions I just wanted the whole thing to be over with and he gave me $60 for what happened but still to the man on the farm I hope we never meet again I lived with my wife at her family's farm that was until I discovered a dark Family secret hello I need you to listen to what I have to say I met my wife 5 years ago and we dated for a few years and as I didn't have much of a family her folks took me in and we married 3 years after they had a large farm and acres of land in North Iowa her family even let us live in a small property close to the main Farmhouse there was however part of the farm that was heavily restricted and whenever I brought this up to my wife she just said it was only where they ran their meat distribution business the only family members allowed up there were her father and three uncles this was apparently down to safety reasons but I still didn't see why that would result in it being out of bounds I would see a lot of vehicles going to and from this part of the farm throughout the week even some vehicles that didn't come back down the track the area was at least a mile away from the main farmyard around 3 weeks ago I decided I would drive up there and make an excuse to get access this was the turning point where everything I had been told before just didn't add up as I neared the gate a large roughl looking bearded man stepped out of a shed next to the opening with a 12 gauge shotgun in hand I had never seen him before but he knew me he said I shouldn't be here and that I need to go back to the farm I stated that I needed to speak to my father-in-law urgently about a cultivator issue he then abruptly said I will let him know and I was to leave now I got back into the car and I looked past the barrier as I turned around there must have been 20 to 30 people doing different jobs running around busy working I noticed there was also a track that led away from the farm on the other side it also never been mentioned or I had never seen it before later that that night my wife said that her father was angry that I had come up to that part of the farm and I should never go back up there Uninvited again I questioned what the big deal was I worked around dangerous and heavy machinery every day she just looked at me and said just drop it at that point I knew she knew exactly the reason why I shouldn't go up there me being me though I just couldn't drop it it was all I could think about day and night my first thought was they're an organized crime family but surely I would have noticed this unfortunately the truth was worse than I could have ever imagined 3 days ago I made a decision to find out what was happening I woke up at 2:30 a.
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