[Music] [Music] when I was a kid before we lived in Texas we lived in a home that had this huge backyard in Georgia that made me feel like the most popular kid in class anytime playing outdoor games or Sports was ever an idea my backyard would be the spot to go since we had a two acre backyard the backyard was surrounded by Woods on three sides it also had many trees throughout the yard a trampoline in one corner a hot tub a big detached three-car garage and an above ground pool for a middle class area
we really had everything you could want in the backyard there was enough open grass to play any sports soccer baseball football anything we even played hide-and-seek tag or Manhunt as we would call it one Friday when we were in like sixth grade my friends and I wanted to have a camp out sleepover in my backyard it was Mike other Mike who I'll call Michael and Jason we all had to get our parents permissions of course but we were like 11 or 12 and it was a Friday none of our parents had any reason to say
no plus my family has lots of camping equipment including two tents that could easily fit two of us in each one after all of us got permission from our parents we made arrangements for them to get to my house around 5:00 so we could play sports in the backyard we had too many soccer nets in the yard that we used to play soccer two on two we did that for like half an hour then we played baseball for another maybe half hour and after just sitting around for a few minutes regaining our energy my parents
ordered pizza for us so we ate around 6:30 or 7 if I had to guess the sun was starting to go down a little bit now so now came the time to set up the tents before it was too dark I was pretty good with setting up tents because I Was A Boy Scout and we just recently learned how to set up tents my friends kind of helped but I did most of the work by the time they were done it was decently dark out the backyard lights were on giving a nice glow it was
now dark enough for us to play our favorite game Manhunt there were a million spots to hide in the backyard we played in pairs it was Mike and I hiding first and Michael and Jason would be hunting Mike and I split up our goal was to get back to the home base point which was the back door to the house no camping by the door was allowed the trampoline was in a far corner of the yard before the woods I crawled under that to hide when the hunters would start looking they had to blow a
whistle to let the hiders know they were starting once I heard the whistle I stayed under the trampoline waiting it out watching the two of them in the distance looking around I was waiting for a good moment to creep closer to the back door I had my sights on the hot tub which was right next to the house if I could make it over to hide behind the hot tub I could straight line beine it to the back door so when both Michael and Jason had their backs to me looking in different areas of the
backyard I sprinted towards the hotb and just as I got right behind it and duck down I heard one of the trash bins on the side of the house almost top pull over and then I noticed the motion detecting light on the side turn on the hot tub was by that corner of the house but it wouldn't have triggered that light I went to peer around the corner to the sidey yard and I saw a tall person dressed in dark clothes speed walking away in the direction of the woods before entering the woods it wasn't
my dad I ran to my friends and called the game off then went to tell my dad about it we came out and looked around the woods for a few minutes and then checked the street for any unusual cars nothing and nothing he said we should sleep inside tonight which obviously bummed us out we went inside and just played a game on my PlayStation I again described to my friends what I saw just some tall guy walking into the woods on the side of the house after apparently almost knocking over one of our trash bins
we talked about just going back outside and sleeping in the tents since they were already set up anyway and plus what were the odds whoever that was was still out there hours later after we finished playing our game we went back outside quietly to not wake my dad up it's not like we were hiding the fact that we were going back out there but we didn't want to advertise it either we each had a sleeping bag Mike and I shared a tent while Michael and Jason shared the other after a while of joking around and
yelling things between tents we started to quiet down and try to go to sleep I wasn't asleep yet but it seemed like Mike was I started hearing walking sounds in the grass nearby approaching the tent and then the zipper to the tent was unzipped and I looked up and saw saw my dad looking inside the tent he said what are you guys doing out here I replied to him something like they wanted to sleep out here so we came back out then I took a closer look at the face peering into the tent I realized
it wasn't my dad but some complete stranger who looked to be my dad's age it looked like he was about to come in when I screamed bloody murder like a little girl everyone woke up and Mike started to scream as well the man grabbed our ankles and said to be quiet but he gave up when he realized he was was about to be exposed he left the tent and disappeared I told my friends to run inside the house and as we were running to the house my dad was already coming out the back door in
response to our screams I told him I don't know which way he went but that the man from before was back my Dad ran around the yard screaming and taunting the creep to come back if he has any balls we heard it from inside the living room my mom called the police of course and all that really happened when the police officer showed up was he took my recount of what happened and I'm sure he made a police report then left it was good to have a police report at least so that the cops would
be aware of a creep going around I'm not sure if that man ever came back to our property or not or if he ever got in trouble for something similar either way it was pretty traumatizing and it could have gone much [Music] worse this was back a few years sometime in 2019 I was is at a friend's house I'll call her M for the sake of the story I was pretty excited for this sleepover I couldn't wait to talk about all the Middle School drama now something you might want to know is M's house was
deep in the woods I mean deep anywhere you looked there was woods and their nearest neighbor was about a half mile away but on the back side of her house was a cliff that led down to the ocean the night at M's house started off pretty good our friend Sam was there too we played truth or dare hide and seek and other teenage games it was getting pretty late but we decided to go on a walk down the gravel road that led to the other houses along the way we asked her mom and she said
yes so we started walking after another 10 to 15 minutes we saw a man who was walking on the other side of the street towards us at first we weren't thinking much maybe this dude was just taking an evening walk as well but something that didn't seem right was that this man was wearing pretty thick clothing I'm talking it almost looked like snow here and not to mention it was pretty warm out at that moment it was like 60° outside we all looked at each other as we passed the guy and that's when it hit
us the stench the disgusting smell coming off that guy it was absolutely horrible words could not describe how disgusting that smell was it was so bad that after we finally got a few feet away my friend took a deep breath almost like she had been holding it one of my friends ran into the woods and almost threw up at this point we felt it was best to head back our friend who almost threw up was begging to go back anyway we all agreed that it would be the best idea to head back on our way
back we passed him again this time we held our breath before we passed him but when we looked back we realized he was no longer walking in the opposite direction but instead he was following us this was really annoying that disgusting smelling man was now bringing his stench even closer we had no choice but to speed up our Pace we started speed walking we still had about a mile to make it back to M's house as we began to speed up so did the random disgusting smelling dude we all looked at each other scared and
annoyed we picked up our Pace even more almost to the point where we were jogging but of course the man sped up even more now at this point we were running and my friend Sam looked back and then we heard it Sam let out a blood curdling scream as she looked back which caused em and I to look back as well and what we saw still to this day absolutely horrifies me this man was fullon sprinting at us he had what looked like a knife or something sharpen his grasp M Sam and I started screaming
as we were sprinting down the road our screams caused him to stop chasing us and he eventually just stopped but he didn't move he just stood still watching as we left we didn't stay around to see what his intentions were we just ran straight back to M's house once we got back we slammed the door and and decided on not telling her parents as they were already asleep we all went to the living room to finish setting up our sleeping areas a few hours passed it was about 2:00 a.m. at this point we were watching
something I can't remember what but I know it was some horror movie now I mentioned her house was on a cliff for a reason because of this her house has a lot of Windows on the backside overlooking the view I was sitting on one of the couches that was set up right at the window it was Pitch Black outside all you could hear was the waves and occasional wind all of a sudden I heard footsteps outside they sounded like they were right by the window I told my friends and mem said it was probably the
deer that always comes by for 2 years now em had been feeding this deer who always came up to this very window I got pretty excited as this meant this deer would come right up to my hand I decided to look out the window and I didn't see anything it was too dark I said that we should go outside to pet the deer but em and Sam said no they reminded me about what happened earlier and I agreed so we went back to watching the movie another hour passed and we were all feeling tired we
turned off the TV and headed under our blankets it was about 45 minutes later M and Sam were fast asleep but I felt like I couldn't rest something was up I had this gut feeling that told me not to go to sleep so I decided to look outside the moon was just bright enough that you could see the ocean so so I spent a few minutes just staring outside as I was staring outside my eye caught something moving in the woods over to the left I turned my head that way but I saw nothing I
knew I saw something moving so I grabbed a flashlight that was on the bookshelf and I pointed it into the direction of where I saw the movement now this was probably the worst idea I could have ever had because when I did so I saw that man again but this time he didn't have any snow gear on instead he was completely shirtless and I wasn't about to find out what else he didn't have on so I tried to wake up M and Sam and tell them what I saw Sam woke up but em was a
deep sleeper I told Sam to look outside but when we looked he was gone Sam looked at me with a pretty angry expression like I was just messing with her I told her I wasn't but she didn't believe me she went back to bed and I was left laying there it was now about 4:30 in the morning it was still dark outside I didn't sleep at all but felt myself drifting off to sleep when I heard a knock on the door I almost jumped off the couch when I heard it I knew I shouldn't open
it but my curiosity got the best of me I walked over to the door and looked out of the peephole and again I saw nothing my head had to be playing with me I again went back to the couch and threw my blanket over my head I eventually fell asleep but woke up at around 5:00 a.m. in a cold sweat something wasn't right again my body wouldn't stop shaking and then it hit me that familiar stench that disgusting smell I almost threw up right there but as fast as I sat up I heard footsteps coming
towards me and I screamed I flicked on the flashlight and as I did I saw him the man from earlier standing in the corner of the room my scream woke up em and Sam and they screamed too and as we did this the man bolted out of the house M's mom and dad came running down the stairs and after a few minutes we told them everything that happened M's mom called the cops while M's dad walked down the road with a shotgun seeing if he could find the man after that once the police arrived and
got all of our stories I went home my parents didn't tell me much when I got home they hugged me for what felt like hours and from that moment I wasn't allowed at sleepovers anymore only now years later did I finally realize just how bad everything was the police eventually found the guy and inside that old shed we were daring each other to go into were five dead bodies and that stench that was on that man's body was the smell of decaying flesh and if things didn't go the way they went in the end my
friends and I would have ended up in that [Music] shed I work in risk management for a big Bank in Manhattan I've met a lot of cool people through this job I go out to happy hour all the time with my co-workers in 2019 a new guy named Sebastian was transferred to our office I met him on his first day in the office he seemed very sociable and talkative and he'd always be laughing and smiling he went out to happy hour with us that Friday and he truly was the life of the party always talking
about all his experiences all the places he's been and things he's done there was not a dull moment with him eventually Sebastian and I became friendly and we went out together once in a while on weekends I came to realize that more I got to know him that a lot of what he said may have been Fabrications his stories about all these beautiful women he allegedly got with all these stories of hanging with celebrities I started to just take everything that he said with a grain of salt but I kept hanging with him because he
was just easy to hang out with and kind of funny Sebastian one day invited me to go with him and his sister to their condo in St Pete Beach Florida his mom is very wealthy owning a place in Beverly Hills Colorado and St Pete she would be at the condo this particular weekend so Sebastian said it would be fun I invited my little brother to come along too we all took the same flight I met Sebastian's sister at the airport she seemed pretty interesting hard to explain but she was a bit quirky the condo was
actually decently nice it had three bedrooms I'd never been in a condo with three bedrooms before Sebastian and his sister took a room each so my brother Tyler and I shared a room I told him if we meet any girls he sleeping on the couch though since we landed late it was past Beach hour we went out to some beach bars which were pretty cool it was a bit of an older crowd Sebastian was getting really drunk really fast though for some reason it was a chill Vibe I wasn't sure why he was Downing shots
I had to tell him to slow down when he started getting aggressive with people this was the first time I'd seen him like this he was also going up to every last girl he saw and drunkenly hitting on them and nine times out of 10 the girl seemed uncomfortable Tyler and I laughed until it wasn't funny anymore and it was more so embarrassing being seen with him at one point a bigger guy got in his face for talking to his girl and I had to pull Sebastian away and apologize to the guy to deescalate things
as we walked away Sebastian pushed me and called me a piece of [ __ ] for not having his back Tyler and I told him to just calm down even his sister was telling him to relax Sebastian stormed off I'm assuming back to the condo sister didn't say anything and just followed this was an extremely bizarre start to the weekend Tyler and I stayed and finished our drinks these girls even came up to us and asked how we knew him making a joke of it we actually got their numbers they were visiting too they said
they're going downtown later if we wanted to meet up and we said we were down so after that I texted Sebastian asking where they went and he texted back immediately that they went back to the condo Tyler and I walked back to the condo and let ourselves in we expected Sebastian to be angry but instead the second we walked in he jumped off the couch all excited like with a big smile on his face saying are we going out tonight or what he was still definitely really drunk I told him yeah we should chill out
here for a bit first though then I told him about the girl's numbers we got Sebastian asked how many girls and I said two his smile disappeared then Tyler for some reason told him that the girls came up to us after he left asking how we knew you I think he was saying it as a joke kind of trying to playfully rip on him a bit which was a mistake Sebastian stormed away into his room and literally slammed the door shut I was realizing he must be extremely bipolar or something I was getting off Vibes
now from both of them I whispered to his sister is he always like this and she replied like what in a very standoffish way never mind I said this was extremely uncomfortable I was hoping maybe Sebastian would sober up and tomorrow would be better Tyler and I chilled in our room for a little while Sebastian never came out I went over and knocked on the door and asked if he wanted to come out with us he didn't answer so we eventually ubered without them to meet those two girls at some big Clubby bar as I
was getting drunker Sebastian started blowing up my phone with things like where are you how could you just leave me here your stuff is going in the street don't come back I don't know why I invited you here I showed Tyler and the girls and everyone was concerned something was wrong with Sebastian and he was showing it now as much fun as we were having with the girls we had to Uber back to the condo before Sebastian really did something stupid when we got back Sebastian was just sitting on the couch alone looking at the
wall I asked if he was okay he looked at me then looked away and said yeah hope you had fun then he got up and went to his room and shut the door whatever we went to bed Tyler and I just stayed up talking to each other for like half an hour about Sebastian and about life in general then suddenly we heard footsteps on the wood floor outside we stopped talking the footsteps came over to the door then stopped we both heard it I spoke up to Tyler on the top bunk Whispering that Sebastian is
right outside the door he whispered back I know he must have had his ear up to the door or something listening to us we didn't say a word a literal 5 minutes go by before we heard his footsteps walk away from the door then we heard him talking outside he was laughing and saying stuff but we didn't hear his sister saying anything I wanted to see who he was talking to so I crept over to the door and opened it I looked into the living room which was dark but I saw Sebastian in the corner
leaning on the wall with one hand and his head down he was laughing and talking to himself I heard him say Joe is always such a stupid [ __ ] and then he laughed again my name is Joe I closed the door quietly and went back to the bottom bunk I whispered to Tyler what I just saw and his response was simply what the [ __ ] I told him we should leave tomorrow morning and get a hotel and he agreed we tried to go to sleep but the talking and laughing outside went on for
another 10 to 15 minutes when it finally stopped we heard the footsteps come outside the door again stop for a minute then go to his room and then we heard his door shut finally we felt comfortable going to sleep by now I was shot I fell asleep pretty quickly but I woke up probably only 20 minutes later I sat up knowing something woke me up I looked at the door and in front of it was Sebastian standing there I jumped and said yo what are you doing he then lunged at the bed screaming trying to
apparently strangle me yelling you're a piece of [ __ ] Tyler had to grab him off of me and throw him into the corner of the room Sebastian yelled that you suck Joe I invited you here just for you to [ __ ] on my life and talk [ __ ] about me to my sister I of course tried to calm him down and rationalize but there was no rationalizing with crazy we packed our [ __ ] and called an Uber to a hotel where we stayed until Sunday then flew home I saw Sebastian in
the office the following few weeks but he always avoided talking to me or looking at me and he eventually transferred to a different office probably because of me Sebastian seemed cool and normal at first but he was an example of a very sick damaged person deep down and that night we spent in his condo absolutely terrified me thank you to sbird for sponsoring this video check the links below
