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my mom used to work the night shift at a gas station in the early 90s this is one of those mom-and-pod gas stations so typically there was only about one person working the station at a time during the night of the story my mom's schedule had overlapped with one of her co-workers for two hours because there had apparently been an armed robbery in the same area the night before so the owner was a bit concerned about being the next target of the robbers after about two hours my mom's co-worker leaves about a half hour later
there was a goth girl that comes into the station and buys a pack of cigarettes the girl is fidgety but polite my mom tells the girl to have a good night then begins to clean the hot dog case as my mom starts cleaning she notices that the girl doesn't leave the station the girl then starts walking around for about five minutes just looking at random items in the shelves my mom finally stops what she is doing and she then asks the girl if she needs anything the girl goes up to the counter and tells my
mom that her car ran out of gas just up the street so she needs to get some gas the girl doesn't have a gas can so my mom grabs one of the gas cans from behind the counter and then tells the girl the price of the can the girl then says that she doesn't have enough money for the can mind you she literally just bought a pack of cigarettes my mom kind of wears her heart on her sleeve more than she wants to sometimes so she tells the girl that she'll buy the gas can for
her the girl then smiles and thanks my mom my mom lets the girl know that she doesn't have enough money to buy gas for herself let alone for somebody else the girl seems to accept this and then thanks my mom profusely gothgirl says she has someone she can call who will stop by the station and give her some gas money my mom then asks if she has enough change for the pay phone and the girl says yes she thanked my mom yet again for the gas can then leaves my mom is really good at reading
people and while the goth girl seemed polite there's something about the whole situation that was really giving my mom bad vibes my mom looks at the surveillance footage that gives an outside view of the station instead of walking to the pay phone which is just left of the front door the girl starts walking to a van that's parked really close to the station's exit the girl then walks up to the passenger side of the van and she starts talking to someone who's inside the van she points a few times at the station while my mom
is secretly praying she's not about to be robbed the conversation between gothgirl and whoever was in the van only lasts about a minute or two and my mom just watches as the goth girl starts walking right back to the station the goth girl comes back to the station and she tells my mom that she had got some gas money from her uncle but then when she tried pumping gas she had some trouble with the handle of the gas pump mind you the gas pumps at the station are literally your basic no thrills pumps the girl
then asked my mom if she could come outside and help her my mom pretends to be calm but she then starts to panic on the inside she then tells the girl that she can't leave the station so she asked the girl to try another pump the girl says she tried them all but she just can't figure out how they work she asks again if my mom would come outside and just show her how one of the station's pumps work my mom apologizes and she then explains that she's not able to leave the station unattended or
she'll be fired she tells the girl that there's a gas station just a block up the street and that they always have multiple employees on staff so she should be able to get someone to help her over there the girl starts to whine and she starts to let out this really eerie sort of snarl she then gives the fakest big smile she can muster and tells my mom that she'll only be gone for a minute and that she really needs my mom's help now when she said that she really needed her help her teeth were
quenched and she started stomping up and down like a pouting toddler goth girl then starts breathing excitedly like she's a rabid animal or something at this point my mom then drops all pretenses of being nice gives the girl what she calls her cold smile and then says so by the way i saw you talking with your friends outside and i already called the cops and gave them your friend's license plate number they should be here in just a minute they're so fast in this town my mom was of course bluffing and luckily for her the
girl seems to believe her goth girl quickly leaves the store gets inside the van and right before she can fully shut the side door the van is then peeling right out of the parking lot my mom did wind up calling the police later on and then gave a general description of the van and girl it didn't take too long for the police to find the van it had apparently been abandoned on the side of the road near a wooded area the girl and her friends had used hammers and box cutters to destroy the van's interior
the police didn't know what the girl and her friends had planned to do to my mom but they said whatever it was it probably wasn't even robbery my mom wound up turning in her two-week notice shortly after this happened my mom's advice to anyone listening to this story is to always always trust your gut instincts they just might save your life one day [Music] i'm a 24 year old male and this happened to me a few years ago when i was around 21. i remember because it was shortly after my birthday in december it was
really cold outside and there was snow on the ground as we had just had a snow storm passed through our area i lived with my parents at the time and my mom is not really a fan of driving in the snow so she asked me if i could drive her to the gas station for her to pick up some cigarettes for her and my dad as well as a few other items they might have needed i said sure as i wasn't really doing anything at the time and i grabbed my keys then following her to
the car i remember the cold air hitting your face pretty hard that night so it had to be at least around the teens which made the snow and whatever else was on the roads really slippery this is important to know for later on in the story the nearest gas station was about five minutes away from us but given the conditions of the roads it took us about 10 to get there once i was able to park the car my mom got into the car then made her way inside the store from where i was parked
i could see her inside the store standing in the line that was leading up to the register i kept the car running as it was really cold and i just didn't want to be sitting in the car without any heat i was browsing on my phone while waiting for my mom to get done and right around that time i'd seen her finally approach the register there was a blank truck that pulled up into the parking spot right next to my car i found this a bit unusual given that the parking lot was empty so i
mean there was really no reason for them to park right next to the spot where i was but i kind of just chalked it up to them wanting to be as close to the entrance as they could given how cold it was that night no one got out of the car at first but i didn't even notice this until i looked up to see my mom walking out of the entrance back to the car i glanced over to the truck's passenger side window and i could just make out a figure sitting in the passenger seat
and they were facing in my direction my mom opened the door then got inside before then asking me what i was looking at i told her about the truck pulling up well over a few minutes ago around the same time that she approached the register but that nobody had gotten out she first chalked it up to maybe they were just waiting for someone inside the store to come out but when i mentioned seeing a figure in the passenger side of the car looking towards our direction she then began to sense why i was so spooked
out by it she told me to just back out and get out of there and that we didn't need to worry about them once we drove off as soon as i put the car into reverse and then began to back up the passenger door swung open and hit the side of my car a tall very built man stepped out from the car as soon as the door made contact with my car i hit the brakes as soon as i felt the contact and the man stood there before throwing his hands up in me and then
staring in my direction i didn't really know what to do as i'd never really been in any sort of accident before and my mom was sitting right there next to me and could see as well as i had that the door had not been opened until we had already started moving the man slowly walked up to my window and just stood there i cracked it very slowly and i told the man that i was sorry but that i didn't see the door open as i was backing out for a brief moment he didn't really say
anything that is before he simply asked roll down your window a little bit more i can barely hear you i knew this couldn't be true as it was really quiet in that area and i wasn't even speaking in a low tone i told him that i'd prefer to keep it cracked as i really didn't want to let cold air get into the car this really angered the man and he immediately spoke in a more angered tone now he was telling me to roll down my window yet again i again told him no and this is
when things then took a turn for the absolute worse without any warning whatsoever the man smacked my window really hard with his hand startled i immediately jumped back and rolled the window up my mom was right beside me just absolutely yelling for me to just back out and leave but i was really afraid of hitting the man in the process as he was still right next to my car the man kept smacking my window really hard a few more times before he then tried punching it it was right at this point where i realized that
if i didn't get my mom and i out of there fast this guy was definitely gonna hurt us i could see the cashier inside the gas station heard what was going on and he looked to be on the phone with what i could only assume was the police but there was absolutely no way i could wait for them as the man was now both punching at my window and now kicking my door it was like some switch had been flipped on in this man's head and he had just totally lost it i told my mom
to hold on as i put the car into reverse again and backed out of there as fast as i could just barely missing the guy by a few inches i pulled fully out of the parking spot before the man ran out in front of our car and slammed his hands right on the hood i sat there frozen not knowing what to do as the man looked right back at me i turned the car wheeled and sped around him trying to avoid him the best that i could before booking it the hell out of there after
that i honestly thought that was the end of it but as we made our way down the road to a stoplight i was able to see headlights that was fast approaching from behind our car and once it was close enough behind us i could then see that it was the same truck the man was in there appeared to be two people inside of it i assumed the man i encountered must have been the passenger and i guess the driver was someone i hadn't noticed before i told my mom that it was them behind us and
she started to freak out and call my dad then letting him know what was going on we were still probably about 10 minutes away from our house given the road conditions but i knew that there was no way that i could get us back to our house in that amount of time before these guys tried to ram us off the road or whatever else they had planned for us my dad told my mom for us to attempt to head back towards our house and that he would try and meet us halfway in his truck she
told me this and i agreed that this had to be our best option given that i couldn't turn around and head back to the gas station still not knowing if the police had even been called or not so once the light turned green i punched on the gas and sped off i'm gonna be completely honest i really wasn't being that cautious of the road at this point as there really weren't any other cars at this point of the night there were a few times where the car slid from the ice on the road and i
knew that it would only take one turn of the wheel to lose control but i wasn't gonna slow down and let these guys catch up to us after about a few minutes of driving we were able to see headlights right in front of us on the other side of the road i was thinking that it had to be my father and as we got a little closer we were able to make out a struck beyond the lights very surprisingly the truck was still behind us still keeping pace with me given the road conditions i could
see my father cut across a midsection of the roads and then stopped shortly off the side of the road i started to slow down right as we approached and then pulled off to the side of the road the truck still following me as i came to a stop the same man from before that was in the passenger seat hopped out of the car then started making his way to our car the driver opened his door but before he could step out both of the men stopped dead in their tracks at the sound of my father's
voice i suggest that both of you hop back in that car and drive right on out of here before i put a bullet in the both of you i could see my dad walking out into the light radiating from both his and my headlights he had his nine millimeter pistol pulled and named right at the man's head as he stood right next to my car i pretty much just watched as both of the men just stood there for a brief moment as my dad slowly inched his way towards them the man then very soilway backed
away towards his truck before then speaking to what i assumed was my father you're really lucky you got here when you did the man laughed and jumped back into his truck before it quickly backed out and drove off in the other direction my dad walked in my window and he asked me and my mom if we were okay i remember telling him that other than being scared shitless i think we were fine shortly afterwards my dad followed us back home just to make sure no one else followed us i really have no idea what those
men's intentions were or why the man acted the way he did all i know is that if i hadn't reacted how i did to get my mom and i out of there i just really hate to think what those men would have done to us [Music] for some context i'm a 22 year old female and at the time i was 18 years old i had moved to the nearest city from my hometown about two hours away to go to community college i was going to get a degree in fine arts i lived in a relatively
really big dorm with three other roommates who were also female the dorms happened to be located in the back of the college near downtown situated behind a steakhouse nightclub and a gas station the area was sort of in a seedy part of the city so i tended to be a little cautious whenever i went especially at night one of those nights i had been craving some junk foods and i wanted to grab some snacks to eat while i was watching a movie so i decided to head out to the nearby gas station i grabbed my
keys my wallet and then my phone then told my roommates where i was going i was really close by so i was able to walk to it whenever i wanted to though i would typically avoid it at night since it really sent off some really creepy vibes when i finally arrived there i opened the door then went inside it was pretty quiet save for one guy who was hanging out near the liquor in the back the girl at the counter seemed to be scrolling through her phone seeing as she didn't really have much to do
so i went ahead and started looking at things i wanted to buy though i gotta say the closer i got to the back the more that i could hear this sort of muttering the guy who i had seen entering the store seemed to just be muttering absolute nonsense to himself it wasn't that quiet so i wasn't able to make out what he was saying i didn't really think too much of it and i just went back to what i was doing a few minutes had passed and as i was still shopping the dude who i
had seen in the back suddenly started yelling now just absolutely shouting random incomprehensible things every single second that went by he seemed to get angrier the man was pacing and he was waving his arms around i was pretty much just standing there glued to the spot absolutely terrified of this man i didn't know what to do and i wasn't sure if this guy was drunk high or just crazy the girl at the cash register seemed to have been alerted to his presence as well we had made eye contact and she looked just as terrified as
i did we both just watched as this man then ranted raved and began to pace around the store i was unsure if i should call the police or not i was trying to be quiet as to not alert him of my presence as i just really didn't know what he was capable of another few minutes went by and this guy then started yelling and screaming until he then walked up to the front kicked over a few things then left the store i watched the guy then disappear right into the night my heart now hammering in
my chest i had genuinely thought that i was going to get attacked by this crazy man thankfully he left though without causing too much damage i walked up to the poor frightened cashier and paid for my stuff i also ended up giving her some extra cash because i felt really bad i mean i know she wasn't getting paid enough to deal with people like that crazy ass man so i just wanted to help her out that's pretty much the end of my story though i don't know what happened with the man and i don't know
if he ever returned to the gas station but i'm just really hoping that i don't encounter him again i remember an incident that occurred to me when i was 18 years old i'm 27 now i was home alone and i decided i wanted a coffee from quick trip it was really late at night at about 11 p.m the quick trip i drove to was about a seven minute drive from my house this wasn't an out of ordinary thing that i did i would pretty regularly go out late to buy whatever i was craving so i
get in my car and i drive over there i go inside and i go to fill up a coffee cup i walk up to the glass case where they have the bakery items right as i am browsing an odd looking man then approaches me the man was balding on the top of his head and he had this brown scraggly hair he wasn't very tall he looked about five foot six and he looked like he was in his late 40s to early 50s he started up a conversation with me and i wasn't really paying him any
mind that was until he then asked me if i had ever had a little people soup i told him no and he then proceeded to tell me exactly what it was the man then said my mom used to make it all the time for me you put carrots and potatoes in the stew then you grab your little people then clip their toenails and shave their heads and throw them into your soup no i would have normally brushed something like this off but for whatever reason i felt my blood run cold and immense fear took over
me fight or flight then kicked in and i just knew i had to leave an employee walks by me and i let him know that i'm totally freaking out and he asked me why i began to reiterate what the man had told me and he just gave me a really confused look he must have seen the fear right in my face because he told me not to worry about paying and to just get home safely ever since that day i have always feared that i'll run into that creepy old man yet again but i just
really hope that never happens this story happened to me over 10 years ago when i was 17 and living in las vegas it might not be that scary to most but it was incredibly strange for me i had pulled into a gas station that was near my home with one of my friends it was a pretty well populated suburb so it wasn't like we were alone or in any immediate danger or anything as we were getting out my friend aaron spots another one of our friends then walking up we're under the pumps and it was
really well lit as everyone is chatting this obviously homeless man then walks up with a dolly with about 50 cases of eggs keep in mind it's mid-summer in las vegas so it's like hot as balls outside the homeless guy comes up and he starts asking us if we want to buy some eggs from him now if this happened to me right now i'd probably give the guy some money because obviously he's having a hard time but i was really an teenager back then plus i also didn't have any cash on me and i didn't think
to get any cash back pretty much immediately i'm telling him eggs are perishable and that i'm not really interested in buying some old hot eggs then we start questioning him where did you get all these eggs why do you have these i'm asking more out of curiosity than anything he just kind of sidesteps it and saying that he needs to buy his mom a prescription and then once again asking if we want some eggs from him my friend is now kind of laughing and generally just really confused and also still questioning him about why he
thinks she's on the market for some eggs from a guy at a gas station the man's getting a little frustrated now that no one wants to buy them and then starts to explain that he's just trying to buy his mom a birthday card at this point my friend who was 21 is then just standing there and asking him wait i thought you were buying your mom a prescription which is it now i'm still on the other side of the car kinda just dumbfounded that she thought that any of the reasons this guy had for selling
hot old obviously stolen eggs at a gas station were in any way not related to drugs the guy's still standing there trying to explain to her some crap about it being his mom's birthday and that she's also sick i finally cut him off and i politely tell him no thank you and that we're just really not interested in buying his eggs then begin to walk away and go pay for gas as this happens she begins to talk to the other person that we knew who had walked up and the guy with the eggs then begins
to follow me towards the gas station the guy starts telling me you're really pretty you have beautiful eyes but i'm a little old for you though and then begins telling me how he's in his 50s i still wasn't even remotely uncomfortable or scared i just kind of laughed it off like yeah a little i'm 17. i definitely didn't look it but usually that puts weird dudes off a little even though in nevada you can have a relationship with someone over 16 no matter how old you are the dude kind of laughs and he then says
i might be too old for you but i'd give you a gumming like no man has ever before this really took me aback we were a considerable distance from my friends and not yet to the gas station i kind of just stopped like did anyone else just hear this then looking around for an escape from this conversation and just hoping my friends at least saw this happen i've never before in my life heard some weird like this i can't even remember how i got out of it and walked away but at that moment i was
really just stunned by the strangeness i believe the whole conversation lasted a total of about 10 minutes as i got back to my car the man was gone i just really couldn't begin to fathom how any of that was even real i don't know but it's definitely one of the creepiest experiences that i've ever had hopefully nothing like this happens again [Music] my you
