I'll never forget this night the pizza place I worked at was about to close and I was getting ready to go home when the phone rang I was working the counter alone that night so I was taking calls I picked up the phone there was complete silence so I hung up about a minute later the phone rings again so I pick up again still silence I was about to hang up again when I heard the very weak and cold voice of an old woman on the other end she said she wanted a regular pie delivered
I remained polite on the phone but on the inside I was screaming I just wanted to get home and end my shift I called out to my boss that somebody is requesting a delivery he told me I had to go I was upset at first but I realized it's another tip and the old ones usually tipped the most so I decided it was okay I took down the address and told her it would be there soon but she had already hung up I thought that was rude but I ignored it and yelled to the chef
that I needed one regular my boss told me to just go home after the delivery as the place would be closed so a little before 10 o'clock I got in my car and put the address into my GPS the house was seven miles away the GPS took me to the quiet side of town I arrived to the house it was a small 1 floor house and a very quiet and empty block I took the pizza and walked up to the door and rang the doorbell there were no lights on in the house I hoped that
she hadn't given me the wrong address I ring the doorbell again there was still no answer I was about to give up when I turned my head and saw somebody standing at the window I got a little freaked out and backed up at first but I eventually got closer to the window to see the person it was an old woman probably in her late 70s she was just staring at me with a blank expression I yelled to her through the glist that I had her pizza she didn't react to what I said so I screamed
it louder a big smile ran across her face not a pleasant genuine smile there was a smile that sent chills down my spine I still remember that exact face she made through the window I decided that I was freaked out enough and got back to my car and set the pizza in the passenger seat I had to text my boss about this I shot him a quick text and started my car ready to get the hell away I looked to my right to get one more look to see the woman standing right outside my passenger
side window giving me the same stare she had given me before I put my car and drive in Florida down the street not looking back my boss never made me do a late-night delivery again this happened four years ago when I was still in high school I was told to do my last delivery of my shift I got in my car which was a 1999 Camry perfect for delivering pizzas a GPS the address of my phone I live upstate in the country so all pizza deliveries were long drives I remember the Sun was starting to
set so it was probably around seven o'clock I'd say after a good 15 minutes of driving through the forest E dirt roads my GPS said I had arrived it was an old little cottage lake house made almost entirely of wood it was sitting all by itself in the middle of absolutely nothing but forests the lawn was completely unkept as the grass was almost at knee height I was used to this kind of thing so I didn't think much of it I took the pizza to the front door there was no door though so I knocked
loudly on the door within 10 seconds I heard the son of footsteps hitting wood on the inside of the house the footsteps made it to the door and stopped I started to feel uneasy I got the feeling that I was being watched and that's when I noticed those a peephole on the door it's the pizza guy I called out I heard a low harsh sounding voice on the other side of the door telling me to bring the pizza out back I didn't like the idea of going back there if something didn't seem right are you
sure sir I called out he didn't answer my question the sound of footsteps didn't move away from the door so I had the feeling he was still watching me I almost found myself walking back to my car but I decided I didn't want any trouble with my boss the last time I brought a pizza back he gave me attitude so I reluctantly walked through the uncut Grist and around the small house to the back I remember there was a shed and a little patio back there in the patio there was a table with four chairs
surrounding it in one of the chairs facing away from me I saw the head of somebody sitting in the seat I began walking over and said excuse me but the person didn't even move an inch excuse me I said again louder then from behind me I heard over here I turned around to see a man poking his head out from the corner of the house looking at me with a crazed smile come over here I want to show you something I freaked out turned around and ran around the house in the opposite direction back to
my car for some reason still holding the pizza I got in my car started it and got away from there on my way back to the pizzeria I pulled over to the side of the road and called the police eventually I was informed that there was no sign of anybody having been in that house for a long time I quit my delivery job a few days after that I have no idea what would have happened to me had I gone up to that man but to this day I still wish I just turned my head
to see who or what we're sitting in that patio chair I was doing late night deliveries during this particular shift when I worked this job I lived in the Poconos it was very rural up there I often found myself driving down road surrounded by nothing but trees just like this night only it was dark and foggy this time driving down a shortcut to town that I had taken many times before I slam on the brakes when I see somebody jump out from the bushes onto the road the sickening bump and thump from the front of
the car confirmed that I had hit the person I put my hand to my forehead cursing to myself I couldn't believe what just happened I just hit a person I got out of my car and checked to see if they were all right it was a man wearing a black hoodie with the hood up he lay motionless by my car tire I had no idea what to do at this point I was panicking why the hell was this guy in the middle of nowhere why did he jump in front of my car and then things
got weirder I can hear a scream a scream for help coming from the woods to the left of me somebody was in trouble I looked at the man I hit with my car he was still on the ground motionless I'd only be gone for a minute I figured for whatever stupid reason I thought it was okay to leave the man behind to go into the woods I moved in the direction I heard the scream originally hoping to hear another but it was just total silence except for the night creatures making their sounds where are you
I yelled out it was at that moment I heard the sound of a foot crushing the leaves on the ground I turned in the direction of the sound and even in the dark and foggy weather I could still make out the figure of somebody hiding behind a tree opposite me I ran as fast as I could back to my car looking back constantly to make sure I wasn't being followed when I got back to my car the man I had hit was gone I didn't stick around to wonder where he went I just got back
in my car and proceeded down the road my heart was racing the whole Drive through but I still ended up delivering the pizza I got to the house and when I rang the bell a middle-aged woman answered after paying I noticed that her eyes focused on something behind me and then she asked me they let you guys have delivery partners now I was confused and asked her what she meant and she told me you got someone with you in your car I felt a pain in my stomach as I turned and saw somebody sitting in
the backseat of my car I called the cops using the woman's phone and they arrived shortly after but the person in the back seat of my car was already gone the scariest thing about this whole story the police found a blood-stained knife on the floor of my car where the man was hiding this memory still haunts me every day and I can genuinely tell you it's painfully scary just to imagine how things could have turned out if I hadn't made the delivery [Music] you
