good evening everyone I'm the Storyteller and I'm here to help you fall asleep with these horror stories from social media so before we start make sure you subscribe to the channel and like the video I'd love to know where you're from and what time you're watching this so leave me a comment when you're ready make yourself comfortable and relax back in 2018 Snapchat had become super popular with young people it was a great way to share what you needed with your friends send each other selfies and have fun with filters the truth is that I
used it a lot when I was in high school and in college it helped me meet more people however at that stage a terrifying event forced me to stop using SnapChat forever when the new semester began it wasn't unusual for me to receive a lot of friend requests some of these were acquaintances others were not and honestly there were always a few Bots trying to add me there were those who wrote me messages of inappropriate content but I blocked and reported them immediately life became complicated when I lost my job and with tuition being so
expensive I couldn't continue studying in desperation I tried to look for work again but there were few jobs that paid enough one day after leaving an interview at a fast food restaurant I checked my phone and saw a new request on Snapchat it was a guy called Tyler and I thought his bitmoji was funny when I saw his photo I thought he was quite attractive so I accepted soon soon after he sent me a message saying hi and soon I was sending him selfies with a what's up and that's how we started chatting I'm Tyler
and you he asked hi my name is Jessica but everyone calls me Jess I currently live in Atlanta do you too I replied yes I study there actually and you are you going to University or something he asked so I told him that I had had to leave because of my financial situation and he was understanding that's a shame but don't worry I have a lot of money he said as if that were any consolation and that made me feel a little embarrassed but we still kept in touch Tyler and I would spend hours chatting
and I was starting to feel attracted to him because he was funny and attractive after a while he made me an offer that got me thinking I was at a low point in my life and one day when the job at the fast food restaurant didn't work out he said to me how about you work for me I really wasn't expecting that offer but to be honest it didn't sound so bad what kind of job I asked intrigued and he just smiled I want you to make content for me just for me I was silent
for a moment but then I asked him to be more clear so he explained that he wanted me to make videos and photos based on what he liked you know like an only F but particular and with the promise of $3,500 a week of course it caught my interest this sounds weird I thought but my situation was so desperate that in the end I accepted that afternoon I sent him my PayPal details and to my surprise he sent me the money straight away for the amount he was paying me I braced myself for some crazy
requests you know nakedness and stuff like that but no I just want pictures of your feet he said and that kind of took me by surprise Tyler asked me for everything from covering them in honey to things like cake and chili although it was strange I decided to play the game and honestly it was much easier than I thought after all it was just my feet however as the trust grew things became a little more intense the content started to get a little more daring after a while I managed to catch up with my bills
and even went back to University it was great to be attending classes again and I used the weekends to create the content Tyler asked me for but there was one week when I didn't get paid after I sent him what he had asked for and that made me nervous one afternoon as I was walking around the campus I saw a guy whose face looked familiar and I soon realized it was Tyler so I ran up to him and shouted Tyler is that you but the guy looked at me with confusion and said hey I don't
know who you are and it was like he punched me in the stomach really I've been sending you content for weeks and you haven't paid me for it I replied but his response was as simple I have no idea what you're talking about girl now if you'll excuse me I have to go and he walked away leaving me there feeling completely exposed and Confused after that I went to my literature class there was a professor there who asked that we call him dandi and I noticed that he was looking at me more than usual but
that wasn't anything new I had already had classes with him in the previous semester and he always looked at me in a curious way after the class I felt relieved when I received a PayPal notification with the money I was owed and I kept in touch with Tyler despite how strange it was I even wondered if he was doing that to avoid me but honestly I also knew that I didn't care after all it was clear that there was something disturbing about what we were doing so I decided to let it go and just get
on with the business I really didn't want to know anymore after receiving the money from Tyler I sent him the photos and videos he requested my routine at University continued but every other day I had class with dandi and in one of those classes I met a great guy who I really liked his name was kennet and we sat together almost every day we soon started going out for lunch and getting to know each other better but I was a bit worried that kennet had had no idea what he was doing with Tyler on Snapchat
and I really hoped he would never find out one day after class Ken kissed me goodbye and that made me feel good but just when I thought everything was going smoothly dandi called me and asked me to stay for a moment I assumed it was about my grades as my studies had been affected by the time I spent with kennet and my clandestine work however when I sat down dandi began to say Jess you know I care about the well-being of my students don't don't you yes of course I replied feeling somewhat uncomfortable I want
to talk to you about Friday's exam you failed it he said and my stomach turned I knew my grades were low but I wasn't expecting that the good news is that I can help you he said lowering his hand to my thigh and rubbing his thumb against my knee at that moment my blood ran cold get your hand off me I said pushing his arm away I don't think so he replied and I felt Panic starting to set in I'm going to report you for harassment I threatened nervously but D's arrogant laugh sent shivers down
my spine oh really and why is that oh I know because I'm Tyler at that moment he took out his phone and there they were all the photos I had sent to Tyler displayed on the screen like a nightmarish catalog at that moment I felt my temperature drop to zero his laughter turned manic as he wandered through the images and I couldn't believe what I was seeing what are you the one who's been using me as a damn toy I said feeling increasingly violated by his attitude you're the one who sent that in looking for
money I paid for your education and if you don't do exactly what I tell you I'll make it public I swear to you that at that moment I felt like I was going to pass out that's not true you can't do that if that gets out you'll end up on the sex offenders list I said feeling more and more desperate and why after all is it that you who has been sending me these images you could well be the stalker in that instant anger boiled in my blood and I slapped him in the face making
him take a step back all right if this is what it takes to free me from our deal do it I muttered as I picked up my books and ran out with tears in my eyes I spent the rest of the day feeling paranoid looking around as if I were being followed afterwards the dean of the university called me to his office I knew it couldn't be a good sign when I entered I was petrified to see kennet there and he had the recording of my conversation with dandi why was he here and why did
he have that recording what was going on my head was full of questions at that moment however everything made sense when I heard that dandi had been arrested he had gotten himself into a lot of trouble trying to use Snapchat to catch girls at the University who were having financial problems whom he deceived with Promises of friendship using photos of other guys it turned out that I wasn't the only girl he had used and then blackmailed into being with him in fact his motus operandi was that after he had a good amount of compromizing material
he would blackmail the girls into having sex with him and sending him more material under the threat of publishing the previous material Kenneth was actually an undercover agent who was on the trail of this predator and managed to record our entire conversation as he was right outside the door it broke my heart a little but I was so grateful that he managed to put this sicko behind bars I learned something crucial from this whole experience next time you make friends with someone on Snapchat make sure you're critical don't let a guy who seems nice fool
you you may have heard of the word Karen which is on everyone's lips right now for those of you who don't know it's a term used to refer to certain middleclass white women who tend to be annoying bossy and generally quite intolerant before I was one of those people who sat down to criticize videos on the internet where a Karen appeared leaving hateful comments like where do these nefarious beings come from but everything changed when I found myself at the center of a hate storm on Tik Tok let me tell you a little bit about
my life I'm 26 years old and I'm a single mother of a little boy named Lee who is 3 years old things with his dad went to hell during my last year at University when I told him I was going to be a dad I decided not to force him to take on a role he wasn't ready to accept so I was left alone with the pregnancy and that meant my plans to become a lawyer went out the window instead I found a job as an accountant thanks to a friend which is very different to
being a lawyer but well I couldn't take the exam because I was a mother it's not that I've given up on my dreams I'm just waiting for lie to grow up a bit he's my top priority and I'd do anything for him even if people don't think it's best my boss who was also a single dad was under understanding and let me bring my son to work he had adorable twin girls and loved children in fact he even built a nursery in the office to help other single parents like me save a little money by
not having to pay for child care as it was included as a benefit of the job the truth is that everything was going great until one day I came back from the office and found a van blocking my driveway I got out of my car and knocked on the window and saw that there were a couple of teenagers inside recording a Tik Tok can you move your van it's blocking my driveway I said hoping they would understand the situation but instead they just looked at each other and said they couldn't could you wait until we
finish this video said one of them you could tell they were in their own world completely ignoring the fact that I was in a hurry and you can't move out of the way for a minute I just want to get into my house I've had a long day and I'm quite tired and you can perfectly well carry on recording just move over a bit I said losing patience a little I'd already heard the term Karen and now these kids were using it against me for simply wanting to enter my house it made me very angry
that they treated me like that I wasn't even being rude and they were the ones acting badly I was already stressed Enough by my responsibilities without these kids coming to bust my balls and even calling me Karen watch what you say kid I'm in a hurry and you're blocking my driveway and I don't have 30 minutes to wait while you make your video I find what you're doing tremendously abusive and disrespectful I got really angry R so I did say the last part louder than I wanted to but they were already trying my patience meanwhile
Lea was crying in the car and these kids were still blocking my driveway preventing us from entering our house now they were filming me and using me as content for their stupid video calling me Karen and making everyone believe that I was the rude one just for trying to reclaim my space listen to me Daddy's and Mommy's little boys I understand that you want to become famous with this nonsense I said angrily but that doesn't mean you can go around ruining other people's lives for your own pleasure what they are doing is not right they
have no right to obstruct others and even less to film me without my consent however they didn't seem to be listening to a word I was saying instead they continued filming calling me Karen and talking badly about me to their followers or whoever saw them on Tik Tok I spent another 10 minutes trying to reason with them but it was clear they wouldn't give in in the end frustrated and unable to get into the house I decided to give up and went back back to my car after dealing with the guys in the van I
picked up lie to calm him down however I immediately sensed something unpleasant his diaper urgently needed changing and I didn't have any spare diapers in the car so now I had to wait for those two brainless pubescence to get out of the way so I could attend to my son Li is not the kind of child who stays quiet he would cry until he was changed so I decided to approach them again please can you move your van my son needs to be changed I said to them with all the patience I had left but
they replied we won't move until we finish our video I felt infinitely frustrated and suddenly found myself once again in front of their cameras but before I could say anything else one of the boys opened a bottle of water and threw it over me that was the last straw I had had enough who the hell did these brats think they were they had definitely crossed the line so I returned to my car Furious and dialed 911 explaining what had happened and asking for the police to be sent within minutes an officer arrived and after talking
to those two idiots they finally managed to move their truck so I ran back to the house as soon as I could with li still crying and very upset I quickly took my son to the bathroom cleaned his diaper and changed his clothes I had wasted too much time on that absurd altercation with those rude kids and now I had a lot of things to do wash the dirty clothes organize the house and hopefully I would have time for a nap before starting to prepare dinner but at least I was calmer a week after that
infuriating incident my friend Emily sent me a video and when I opened it I was frozen it was me in a clip with over a million views entitled Karen got what she deserved the Montage made me look like the complete villain my words were edited to make me look like a bossy and intolerant woman and at the end you could see water being thrown in my face but the worst part was the comments section there people went straight to hate suggesting that I deserved worse things like a punch in the face can you believe it
I felt devastated but above all I felt very indignant it was so unfair to make matters worse I discovered that on my Tik Tok account where I used to share photos of my baby and things from my daily life people were now also using the term Karen to refer to me and I had a lot of hate messages and even threats it was completely crazy I thought it would all blow over soon you know viral videos on social media are momentary and things are usually forgotten as soon as a new controversy comes along so it's
only a matter of a couple of days and that's it but in this case it wasn't like that I was at Target one afternoon shopping with Lee about 3 weeks later when a teenager recognized me and without my permission again he started recording me and shouted look it's the Karen from Tik Tock I couldn't take it anymore I left the place as quickly as I could and decided to look for the security camera footage from that day to disprove what had happened when I finally got them I uploaded that video to Li Tik Tok account
well it was mine but I only uploaded things about him anyway the point is that in that video I explained the truth about what happened and luckily the recording also had audio so you could hear how rude these teenagers had been to me and also the arrival of the police although this video didn't go viral like the other one the response was quite positive I could see that many stopped criticizing me and some even apologized for being so harsh in their judgments of me others said that maybe I should have waited for them to finish
but at this point I no long longer knew if it was out of hatred or empathy it just seemed like a horrible experience four years have passed since that episode and finally I feel a sense of relief as if people had forgotten about me I never want to go through something like that again but I also learned an important lesson you can't believe everything you see on social media and it's not right to hate someone just because you don't like them or think they're doing something wrong if you have nothing positive to say just keep
your opinion to yourself or at least express it respectfully I'll tell you that a while ago I lost my cell phone in a park and to be honest it was a pretty scary experience It All Happened One Night while I was exercising I used to run a lot and that particular Park was my favorite place it's about a 10-minute drive from my house and has lots of paths that are great for jogging and getting some fresh air and sometimes there weren't even other people around so I felt a bit lonely but I didn't mind like
most people I also used to run listening to music on my headphones and that afternoon was no exception it's just that my head was so full of thoughts that I didn't even realize that the music had stopped at some point I always used to carry my cell phone in the left pocket of my pants so I assumed it must have fallen out at that moment but I didn't realize that until sometime later when I got home that night I realized that I didn't have my phone with me suddenly I thought about all the way I
had traveled and realized that it could be anywhere since I had traveled a good stretch of Trail and as I said I didn't realize when the music stopped playing so I didn't even have any idea where to start looking first I looked in my car but it wasn't there just in case I was wrong and I'd lost it there but it wasn't anywhere so I decided to go back to the park I spent at least an hour looking for my cell phone but there was no sign of it at that point I was completely lost
and I really needed my phone so the next day I went and bought a cheap one just until I could find the original or in the worst case I would have to buy new one the next day I decided to go back to the park after work but the place was deserted once again I almost assumed that someone had found my phone and kept it which was terrible you know how much information our cell phone keeps about us that same night I was browsing Facebook on my laptop and saw a post that caught my attention
it had a lot of shares and someone mentioned that they had found an iPhone and were trying to find the owner seeing that the phone matched mine I clicked on the post and realized that the guy who found it said he had found it in a park and was begging for someone to help locate the owner because the phone was locked without thinking twice I contacted the author of the post a guy called Lewis I told him I was sure it was my phone and asked if I could see it to get it back he
agreed without problems but he shocked me when he suggested we meet in the same park at midnight at first I couldn't believe it it was too late and it was a bit scary I immediately asked him why it was so late and he said that he worked in rotating shifts and sometimes he left work at that time which was the only time he could go although I found it all a bit strange I ended up accepting first because it was Friday and I didn't have to get up early the next day and second because I
really needed to get my phone back but the truth is that I didn't trust Lewis very much I kept an eye on the matter throughout the day and when the time came I drove straight to the park when I arrived the parking lot was empty and the place looked very quiet almost ominous so I parked my car in a corner and waited until midnight I sent Lewis a message to tell him I was there but he didn't reply straight away so the weight seemed Eternal and I was feeling increasingly uncomfortable finally I got a message
from him telling me to go out onto the path because he was close by which left me somewhat confused but as I said I really wanted to get my cell phone back so I decided to follow his instructions without question I got out of the car and looked around everything was eerily quiet you could only hear the leaves rustling in the wind but as I started walking along the path I suddenly saw two big guys appear from the Woods walking straight towards me at that moment my heart stopped I was about 50 m from my
car and when I saw them I didn't think twice I started running back to my car with my heart racing I didn't even dare to look back to see what those guys were up to I just jumped in the car and left the park as if the devil was chasing me once I got home I went on Facebook to send Lewis a message but then I saw that his previous message had disappeared I kept thinking about how strange the whole encounter had been what had really happened with my phone who were those guys and what
were they looking for the uncertainty kept me awake all night but after that I decided it was best to block Lewis immediately I didn't want to hear from that guy again a few days later a friend called me to say that one of the guys she used to work out with in the park had found my cell phone and luckily she had brought it to my house herself I was really grateful to her for her kindness but the whole thing taught me that you should never trust a stranger and if some something gives you a
bad feeling it's probably because it's not right hi I'm a guy in my 30s fairly ordinary with a not very glamorous job and a decent family I never imagined that one day I could be the target of a stalker so I want to share my story as a warning you don't need to be an attractive young man to attract these types of people they are on the prowl and they don't discriminate when it comes to choosing their victims this might sound strange but I'm a regular Facebook user although I'm not very active I don't post
much but I check the newsfeed from time to time it was a Saturday night and just before going to bed I did a quick round of Facebook to see what was new suddenly I received a friend request and without thinking much about it I accepted it at the time I used to accept almost all requests because I don't share anything too personal and I have a fairly relaxed approach to social media I took a look at the profile of the person who had added me and to be honest it was clearly a fake account but
I was too lazy to worry about it so I just turned off my computer and fell asleep the next day I was at a friend's house for lunch and I completely forgot about the request but suddenly my phone vibrated it was a message from Maya a coworker although at work we usually talk and share some friendships our communication has never gone beyond work so when I checked the message I assumed it would be something work-related but what I read surprised me it turns out that the fake account I accepted had also befriended Maya and bombarded
her with insults accusing her of being some kind of very ugly words to describe her the situation became even more complicated when she sent a message to her husband accusing her of cheating on him with another colleague and Maya was calling me because she wanted to know if I knew who was behind that account of course I told her I had no idea and confirmed that I was just an innocent bystander in this story then she told me that she had her suspicions and that she thought it was Carrie another coworker now this is where
the story gets more interesting a few weeks earlier she had received a friend request from Carrie it seemed strange to me because even though we worked in the same place we had never met we hadn't even met in the office but even so I passed by her Department every day because I needed to go through it to get to mine so I knew her name only because I saw her photo on Facebook when she accepted my request I really didn't know how she meant managed to find my profile or my name but that's the least
of it not long after I realized that Carrie had also become friends with my wife's account and she started liking and commenting on her photos suddenly she was interacting with our posts as if she were someone close but she was far from it although all this told me that it was weird I didn't pay much attention to it some people are just trusting returning to the story The Mysterious account continued to harass Maya until finally she lost patience and told it that she knew who it was and that she was going to call the police
I thought that would be the end of it however I was very wrong for several weeks afterwards I noticed that I started to receive more friend requests from girls that were clearly fake accounts I decided to ignore most of them but just at that moment I started to receive alerts from Google and Facebook about suspicious activity on my account one notification that I remember very clearly said that my account had been logged in from an unknown location and they asked me if it was me as silly as it may seem I didn't give it much
thought because I felt a bit invincible and thought I have nothing to hide without understanding the importance of that warning a few months passed and one day my wife received a message from Carrie that made me sit up and take notice Carrie said she had bought a professional video camera and wanted to start making an amateur movie so she thought it would be great to record a day in our house that's when I remembered what Maya had said earlier and I wasn't fooled so easily but I was still a little curious so we decided to
give it a try however I was a little bit shocked by the idea we agreed to schedule a date but I must admit that we weren't very enthusiastic and as time went by we forgot to schedule the recording until suddenly Carrie sent me a message reminding us that she had to record us but then when I told her I wasn't interested I felt like things started to get weird it was like the situation was getting out of control every time I thought it would end it just got deeper it got complicated when he started sending
me a bunch of gifts of stick figures making these weird sexually suggestive movements I didn't know how to react but I tried to play along so I replied something like yeah that's funny but then he started sending me messages that made me feel really uncomfortable it was way too inappropriate especially knowing that he was married because he was clearly coming on to me I texted my wife and asked her to log onto my Facebook and see what was going on I didn't want to be rude but this was all weird and I needed her to
be on top of it Terry kept sending me messages and it got weirder when she started bringing up old photos from my long-forgotten MySpace account I don't know how she found them but it was creepy it was like she was exploring my life through a Time Tunnel then the conversation became more intense she talked about her appearance and complained that she wasn't attractive hinting that she wanted me to compliment her sending photographs so that I could tell her how attractive I thought she was the truth is that she wasn't ugly but she wasn't a model
either however I decided not to fall into her trap but then the strangest thing happened without any modesty and without me giving her that kind of confidence she started asking me about my member calling it a certain way and suggesting that it was probably big and I don't know what at that moment I decided that enough was enough and of course my wife was reading all this and texting me about how bizarre the situation was while at work I tried to go about my normal life but avoiding Carrie was a challenge especially when she sent
me one last message asking me for a favor Maya the cooworker who had been harassed by her in the first place had blocked Carrie from all her social networks but now Carrie wanted me to check Maya's profile to see if she had been talking badly about her I made it clear to her that I wasn't going to get involved and that what Maya said was none of my business however I did the check and saw that Maya didn't give Carrie the slightest bit of importance around that time my wife received a strange message from an
unknown number the person knew her name but seemed to want a flirt from anonymity so we thought we could play a joke and all flirt with this person together as a group of friends but as careless as it may seem I never thought that all this could be connected so we took it all as a joke and after a while we simply forgot about it eventually Carrie left the job and I never saw her again so I thought it was all over but after a while I kept receiving suspicious friend requests which for some reason
I decided to ignore I tried to forget about everything that had happened but a year later I was busy running through the city when my my wife dropped a bombshell on me a mutual friend had warned her that I was sending her very inappropriate messages on Facebook that note left me in shock because I hadn't been paying attention to my Facebook so I decided to take a look but when I finally tried to log in I realized that my password had been changed and that all my messages had disappeared I had no idea the magnitude
of what had happened until I started hearing rumors that I was being very rude and suggestive with several women I knew but the worst thing was that they weren't random women on my friends list they were people close to me friends my wife's sister my friends wives and even women I had dated in the past by my count all those messages were full of graphic details about things I would never do or say I felt completely invaded and humiliated and I couldn't imagine how those women would feel when they received those messages from my account
my wife and I had always been close to our families and friends every 2 weeks we would organize barbecues watch movies or just hang out it had been a good atmosphere but from that point on on everything changed although my friends said they knew this wasn't my style I could sense that something was wrong maybe there was doubt that it really was me who was harassing and flirting shamelessly with these women it was really horrible for me and over time more and more friends stopped coming over and my house felt empty one day I decided
to open up to my wife about what I was feeling I was afraid that they really thought I was to blame but she insisted that I was just being paranoid and that I should stop worrying however deep down I knew that this situation was affecting our social life much more than my wife dared to admit probably so as not to make me feel worse and I was terrified to think of the damage I had caused without having any idea how it had all happened nobody should have to go through this and I just wanted to
get back to normal but the nightmare wasn't over yet despite everything that was happening my wife tried to calm me down and stood by me at all times something for which I am infinitely grateful she said that our friends were simply busy with their lives and that they would eventually come back to join us for a good time as always but everything changed when I found out that someone had created a fake Facebook account using my name and one of my photos this person kept bothering the same women and one of them even posted a
screenshot of her conversation with this impostor commenting that he really looked like me because he had used some of the words I usually say my heart sank when I read that I stopped going on Facebook for a while I felt so miserable that I was starting to slip into a kind of mild depression this wasn't supposed to affect me this much but I just couldn't help it so I told my wife I wanted to leave delete everything and start over looking back I realized how irrational I was being but at the time I felt like
the situation was crushing me fortunately my wife stood firm and reminded me that I couldn't let a stranger make me feel this way she was right but I felt I had to defend my honor so I started Gathering aliis about where I had been and with whom but in the midst of all this my wife blurted out something brutal she told me she couldn't believe I was weak enough to let some idiot make me feel that way and even though she was right that hurt even more I've always been someone with a strong mentality looking
for the best in the worst situations but this time something was wrong I felt immense shame and guilt for something I hadn't even done but my wife couldn't understand it at that moment I felt devastated and without my wife's support I don't know what state I would be in I decided to take matters into my own hands and I opened a new Facebook account from which I wrote to my friends and sent them a voice note so they would know it was me and not an impostor through this account my wife and I asked our
friends to ignore this weird person and delete those fake accounts and Luckily everything calmed down over time although from time to time I still received the odd friend request I no longer bothered to accept them as time went by life returned to normal but I was no longer the same my friends started to come back but I felt there was a disconnect between us so I told my wife and we both agreed that Carrie enjoyed causing pain to others after tormenting Maya she decided to have fun ruining my marriage and alienating me from my friends
believe it or not there are people in the world who have such empty lives that they simply do this kind of thing for the pleasure of putting other people's lives in Jeopardy I have no proof but I'm sure sure he didn't stop with us he just moved on to find his next victim still every time I hear a message or a notification a chill runs through my body and I wonder if this could all start again the nightmare never seems to end hello everyone my name is Kaa and I have to tell you about something
strange that happened to me a while ago so to start with I ask you have you ever felt that deep anxiety as if someone were stalking you I'm talking about real paranoia not the triviality of thinking that you are being harassed for leaving a lot of likes on Instagram or writing you dozens of messages in private no I'm talking about that freezing feeling on your back as if a stranger were about to jump out of the Shadows well that's what I experienced and here's my story it all started when I decided to open an Instagram
account I was never very fond of technology in fact I didn't care much for all that Social Media stuff but my friends and my boyfriend Chris insisted that I join the world of social media since they all had Facebook and Instagram accounts except me so after much hesitation I finally listened to them and to be honest I realized how much I was missing out on in a matter of seconds I could see what everyone I knew was doing and I found it fascinating I felt a bit silly for not having joined in sooner but the
Peace of Mind was short-lived everything seemed to be going well until suddenly my message tray started filling up with notifications I was receiving messages from a lot of strange people who insisted on being friends or followers but this wasn't the weird part the weird part came when obscure messages from someone called Shadow started appearing it was a profile with no photo and no description so I had no idea who it was the threats were mild at first things like I'll be your Shadow I'll follow you wherever you go but they became more aggressive over time
even threatening to hurt me physically and that's when I started to worry my friends told me it was nothing that they were just trolls or people who didn't know what to do with their lives but I felt that this was different maybe it was because I was new to all this but I really felt that this transcended the digital world and when I went out on the street I felt people staring at me as if someone were stalking me and that feeling was very intense several times I turned around while walking and thought I saw
someone following me over time those messages became more personal and some had terrifying information about me they talked about my family mentioned my parents even shared photos of them it was as if this Shadow was planning to hurt me and that scared me a lot at one point I felt so scared that I decided to go and live temporarily with Chris my boyfriend at first that sounded great but I was only there for a few weeks before I decided I didn't want to risk my parents safety so I went back to their house Chris offered
to protect me and promised me that everything was going to be okay but every day I became more and more afraid surprisingly the threats began to decrease during that period he didn't talk about my family as much anymore and even stranger he didn't seem interested in Chris at all so I thought it was time to go home even though it made Chris feel a little sad but he accepted one Friday morning while he was at work I started to pack my things but just as I was doing so I heard a strange noise at the
door as if someone was trying to open it I thought it was him having forgotten his keys but no it was something more disturbing I immediately started to get nervous so I went over to the door and looked through the peephole and suddenly my heart stopped there was someone there the figure was looking through the hole as if it were waiting for me to approach I was paralyzed for a second unable to move or say a word until the adrenaline thawed me out and I ran to get my phone to call the police but to
my horror the light was gone and I didn't even have a signal when I returned to the door the shadow was already trying to open it so I ran back to my room and grabbed the first thing I could find that might serve to protect me in this case a pair of scissors so I held them in my hand and prepared for anything it felt as if time had stopped and I just hoped I wouldn't have to use them suddenly a loud bang echoed through the ground floor and I hid under the bed trembling as
I listened to the guy rumaging around the house he wasn't stealing or so I assumed I couldn't get the threatening messages I had received out of my head and I felt that this person was the one who had sent them of course I wasn't sure about that but that's what my intuition was telling me I knew he was the shadow guy and that he was looking for me suddenly I heard footsteps approaching my room and I knew it wouldn't be long before he came in although I had locked the door it was an ordinary lock
that could be broken with a kick and indeed it was the Intruder didn't even touch the handle he just kicked the door once and came in as if he knew what to do before beforehand as I watched his feet moving around my room I couldn't help but cry a little which made him quickly locate me then the guy looked under the bed and gave me a chilling smile I found you he said holding out a hand to me this was an older man about 50 years old or so and I had never seen him before
you are Shadow I asked him with a trembling voice but before he could answer there was a sound behind him someone had broken into the room it was Chris he ran towards the stranger and in a second he threw him to the ground and started hitting him while the guy tried to defend himself and shouted insults at him Chris and the Intruder started fighting and I was so nervous and scared that I just stood there paralyzed watching everything without moving a muscle it was then that I realized I had to do something so I picked
up Chris's phone which had fallen in the middle of the fight and called 911 but while I was talking to the operator I noticed that the guy in the middle of the fight had put his hand in the back of his pants and pulled out a knife I felt time come to a standstill in that moment and what happened next I remember almost in slow motion in the blink of an eye the man lunged at Chris and without giving him time to react stabbed him three times in the abdomen with the knife then ran off
down the corridor and disappeared the shock and panic were so great that I dropped the phone with the call in progress and threw myself on Chris trying to help him while he bled profusely I tried to stop the bleeding by applying pressure with my hands and a sweatshirt of his that I had taken from the drawer begging him to stay conscious a few minutes later the ambulance arrived accompanied by a couple of patrol cars and Chris was taken to hospital immediately fortunately after several surgeries he managed to recover but the stalker was never found despite
the fact that I provided a detailed description of him however that was the last time I saw him and he never wrote to me on my social networks again in fact I decided not to close them precisely waiting for him to write to me again trying to help the police find his whereabouts but that didn't happen to this day I live in fear of thinking that this mad man could be lurking around somewhere and that any day when I least expected he could launch an attack again I just pray that they can catch him before
that happens a few months ago I had a terrifying experience that really affected me it all started on a quiet night while I was checking my Facebook like any other day suddenly I received a notification of a new message and when I opened it I saw that it was from a guy called Paul Paul was a cooworker with whom I had had some chats but that was over a year ago so I didn't even know if he was still at the company he greeted me in the chat and although it seemed a bit strange I
replied with a simple hello we spent a few minutes chatting but soon the conversation took a strange turn Paul started sending me messages that were completely inappropriate at that moment decided it was time to cut off communication I removed him from my friends thinking that I would never hear from him again but as often happens not many days and one night went by and while I was relaxing in my apartment I heard some tapping on the door it was around 10: at night and I wasn't expecting anyone so I got up and went to the
door to see who it was thinking it might be a neighbor but when I opened it I was frozen to the spot when I saw Paul there standing at my door what the hell was he doing there how did he know where I lived I had never told him I tried not to answer so I figured I could ignore him and he would go away however the guy kept knocking on the door I thought that maybe he would give up after a while so I moved away a little and waited but after about 10 minutes
I looked again into my horror Paul was still there as motionless as ever and when I saw him it seemed to me that he had heard my footsteps because instantly he tried to open the door but luckily it was locked it didn't end there I saw him take something out of out of his pocket and in an instant he started trying to pick the lock that was the end my heart was pounding and I immediately grabbed my phone and called the police I told them about the situation and they said they would send a patrol
car as soon as possible at that moment adrenaline was coursing through my veins and I was so scared and nervous that I didn't know what to do it was then that I decided to go to my room and lock the door hoping that the police would manage to arrive before the man opened the front door but if he did at least I would have a few few more minutes before he could force the door to my room as well I was completely terrified as from my room I could hear the struggle at the front door
he was trying to open the door at all costs and he was using a lot of force suddenly my heart stopped when I heard the sound of the front door being opened with a bang and I began to hear footsteps approaching down the hall but when I Was preparing for the worst I started to hear sirens and the red and blue lights were reflected in the window in the midst of the terror that sound was like music and I immediately began to hear Paul's heavy footsteps quickly moving away towards the front door the police arrived
at my apartment quickly so Paul didn't have time to run away I was so scared that I didn't come out right away until I heard the officers give the command to Halt as they entered it was at that moment that I finally gathered up the courage to leave my room and a few seconds later I saw them take him away in handcuffs the guy had an expression of frustration on his face and I couldn't help feeling a chill wondering why he would do something like like that I never knew what made him act that way
or why he had come looking for me best of all it was at that very moment that I reaffirmed my decision not to have contact with people I wasn't 100% sure about I never saw Paul again after that and if I'm lucky I don't plan to cross his path again what remained of that night was a strange feeling a mixture of relief and fear the truth is that this situation has taught me a lesson to think very carefully about who I let into my life and above all who I give access to my social networks
