this took place back when the first insidious movie came out my friend charlie and i went to see the 10 pm screening of it at one of our local movie theaters the theater we went to went out of business years ago likely due to the fact that it didn't get enough business i say that because every time we went there the theater was completely dead aside from maybe three or four other people at most this night was no exception besides charlie and i there were two other people in the theater one somewhat larger woman and
one scrawny man about five seven during the previews before the movie the man kept getting up and switching seats it immediately struck us as bizarre every time he'd get up he'd look around the room and even look at charlie and i for a few seconds every time eventually he walked over to the woman a few seats down from him and started speaking to her in a whisper she said something back to him that we couldn't hear then he said sorry and walked away from her to sit at the last seat in the aisle he was
just two aisles down from us eventually the movie started and the opening scene to the movie was a bit scary it was followed by this loud scary violin sound we noticed the guy two aisles down shaking his head and he muttered something then he turned around at us and climbed up to our aisle and sat down two seats for me he asked if it's okay he sat there and i nodded he said thank you really loud and i noticed the woman in front of us turned around to look charlie and i looked at each other
nervously as the movie went on he was quiet after the opening scene until the next time a scary scene came up he moved to the seat directly next to me and once again asked if it's okay i don't know why but i nodded again i guess because i recognized he may have had a disability or something he went quiet again when the scary scene ended but at the next jump scare he grabbed a hold of my arm and pressed his head into my shoulder i shook my arm to get him off and said dude get
off me he apologized and said he's just really scared i looked at him and he just scared me he seemed off way off he told me he would stop and he apologized again but when another scary scene came up he grabbed my arm again this time he started rubbing my arm a little i told him to stop again then charlie and i got up and walked to a different aisle the woman in the theater got up and left i'm guessing because she was uncomfortable as we were in our new seats he turned to look at
us for a while we tried our best to ignore it but it was too much we got up and started walking out of the theater he got up as well asking where we're going and then he asked if he could take us out for dinner charlie said nah man we're good thanks and we walked out we walked through the empty movie theater hall and heard the door to the room we were just in click open we turned around and there was the guy peeking his head out from the door when he realized we saw him
he went back into the room charlie and i walked faster now to the lobby and told the girl at the front desk about the creepy man making everyone uncomfortable she gave us a refund because the woman before us also complained about him we then left and started walking to charlie's house hitting his vape pen and just talking about how weird and creepy that was we were somehow able to laugh about it even though we were all so pissed that we just left the movie halfway through on our walk home we both stopped when we heard
a rustle in a bush about 10 feet from us and a muffled little laugh sound charlie pointed to a bush in front of the house and we could see that man from the theater creepily poking his head out from a bush he asked where you guys going he said it with his tone that said everything to us that we needed to run we sprinted all the way down the street till i felt like i was gonna throw up luckily at that point charlie's house was right there we weren't being followed anymore he looked weak and
probably not fast anyway but we weren't risking getting shot or stabbed something was very off about that man maybe he was drugged out or maybe he belonged in a mental hospital i'm glad we decided to run i don't care if anyone judges me but i like to go to the movie theaters alone my work schedule is all over the place i often don't work weeknights so on a stormy wednesday night a night not many other people would be thinking to go drive to a movie theater i did just that i always like avoiding crowds in
anything i do that's just how i am it was 2017 i went to see some low-key movie that probably wasn't at the top of most people's must-see movie lists i was the only one in the theater just like i expected i sat myself right in the center seat of one of the higher up rows and put my feet up on the seat in front of me about 20 minutes into the movie i'd say i noticed someone a few miles down i didn't notice them coming in the theater was dark because the scene in the movie
at the time was in a dark room they weren't sitting in a seat like a normal person though all i saw of them was the top half of their head peering over one of the seats to be looking in a direction that definitely was not the screen it was still too dark to be able to tell if they were looking directly at me or not but when the scene changed to a brighter background the whole theater got brighter bright enough to see they were looking basically at me but their face was so pale and lifeless
looking and their hair messy and wiry looking i couldn't even tell if it was a man or a woman i'm an introvert or just an awkward person so i didn't really want to ask if there was something wrong i viewed that as confrontation the screen went darker again and at the same time the person lowered down behind the chair completely until i couldn't see them anymore they were completely hidden from my view i couldn't concentrate on the movie now though i was actually very uncomfortable actually quite terrified i didn't get up though i stayed put
in my seat many scenes in the movie passed i almost forgot about what happened almost just when i was getting back into the movie the person's head appeared from behind a seat again this time much closer only like three rows of seats away from me i actually let out a holy [ __ ] and a loud yell because it genuinely made me jump now i was able to see more detail or features in their face they actually looked lifeless their eyes motionless hung open but still i somehow couldn't tell if they were looking directly at
me or not now i could better see it was a man with long unkept hair i noped the f out of my seat and down the road to the exit i had to pass the row in which the person was in to get to the exit door as i passed the row i looked down it and while i expected to see the rest of the person's body sitting hunched behind the seats instead what i saw was something you'd see in a nightmare there was some guy basically laying on the floor holding up a severed head
perched on a stick i didn't stick around to see if it was some sick joke or if the head was real or not i ran for it through the exit door i ran out of the back exit of the building to the parking lot i drove home in a panic heart racing that head looks so real i got home and did some research about possible recent murders or missing people in the area and i found something after browsing a list of missing people in the area i found the picture of a 17 year old boy
named donald watkins who had gone missing a month prior and based on the picture i found his face could have matched the head i saw in that theater of course that could be my brain trying to connect any similarities but the hair the nose the eyes they looked like they could actually be a match the next day i simply made a call to the theater and told them the story and suggested they check their cameras and see if anything strange came up i gave them my number to reach me if they needed to but i
never heard from them i chose to not spend any more of my time on it i worked at a movie theater in cobb county georgia called the regal at estelle it was a very relaxed atmosphere because it's a quiet town and a quiet movie theater usually some weekends it would be busy especially for big blockbuster movies this happened on a slow night i was working the graveyard shift the theater was doing a midnight screening for some underground scary movie that no one really cared about a few people actually paid to go see it obviously this
meant i'd have to stay till the movie was over so i could clean and close up past midnight the theater was always basically dead the phone at the front ticket desk was ringing so i went from the concession counter to the front desk to answer it after saying hello twice some creepy distant sounding voice he asked me what time were open till by distant i mean i actually felt like he was whispering into the phone or like his face was two feet away from the phone when i told him the midnight screening ended around 2
am he said i'll see you soon i opened my mouth and when i i'd that i didn't actually know what to say he hung up i didn't like the sound of that i'll see you soon i went back to the concession counter to just scroll on instagram and other time waster apps on my phone then the phone rang again i didn't want to answer it because i somehow knew it would be that guy again no one calls a movie theater that late still i went to answer it like the first time i didn't get a
response till the second hello and it was the same guy he said into the phone i'm on my way i replied sir the movie already started there's no point in coming now i won't even be able to give you a ticket this late he hung up this had to be a joke possibly one of my friends the voice just didn't sound familiar at all as the movie was nearing its end i started vacuuming the lobby and halls then went to cleaning the bathroom as i was cleaning the bathroom someone came in and went to one
of the stalls that meant the movie was likely over so i stopped cleaning to go back to the counter people were on their way out so yes the movie was over i waited till everyone was gone then locked the door all i had left to do was clean the theater which wasn't a big job because there were so few people in there i brought the broom in there and scanned the aisles for trash there was a little popcorn here and there and some wrappers it would have been a quick cleanup but i didn't finish it
i heard this freakish giggle sound i had jerked to the left to look down the aisles of seats is someone there i asked i hurried out of the theater with a broom and scooper ready to use the broom as a weapon if needed and as i was back in the lobby the phone rang again it was like perfect timing i ran to answer it and without saying anything this time the voice said why'd you leave the theater i hung it up and called the police asking them to just get here fast i waited in my
car until they arrived then told them about the calls and the laugh in the theater room the police asked me to calm down and check the number from which he was calling and see if i recognized it so i went to the call history on the phone got the number and put it into my phone and it was the number for one of my close friends joe peterson that explained it he was just messing with me the cops laughed about it and after i assured them i was all right they left i didn't want joe
to get in trouble i went back in the theater room calling for him i called for him throughout the whole building but he didn't answer it seemed he left i texted him and tried calling him all ignored i went home after locking the place up the next day i went to his house just to talk to him because it seemed he was ignoring me but he told me he lost his phone that he thinks it was stolen by someone at the bar he didn't have find my iphone enabled so he couldn't even track it or
disable it i couldn't sleep for nights worrying that i was followed home by whoever had his phone being one of joe's female friends whoever stole his phone must have went through our conversations and gotten enough info to know where i worked that horrifies me i requested to my boss to stop doing the late night shifts for that reason i didn't work there much longer though if anything else ever happens i'd update but it's already been more than a year [Music] you
