" That ’s when I saw the apparition of a somebody tolerate in the doorway into my room . I have never felt my torso immobilise like that before .
Recently, wewrote aboutterrifying encounters people had with strangers, and members of theBuzzFeed Communitysubmitted their own examples. Here are some of their hair-rising stories — along with some from theoriginal Reddit thread.
banker’s bill : There are mentions of ferocity , murder , sexual assault , and animal scathe ( but no animate being death ) .
1.“A normal-looking guy and his girlfriend fell over into me and my girlfriend on the dance floor of a club, spilling both our drinks just after we bought them. They bought us new drinks to say sorry — but they spiked them with Rohypnol. Our flatmate, who was hanging with a different group, noticed us looking really fucked-up and being led away by strangers way earlier than we’d usually leave, and rescued us to make sure we got back home with her safe and sound. We don’t remember shit all after getting our fresh drinks. That was our second drink of the night; we would usually have six and stay till 2 a.m. It was still 10 p.m. when we were being led out.”
— u/-Hi - Reddit
2.While on our honeymoon in Mexico, our hotel phone started ringing in the middle of the night. My wife answered and heard breathing on the phone. A deep, creepy voice just said, ‘Are you alone?’ The room number was the same as the phone number. … So now this creep knew the room my wife was in. I told my wife to stay in the room and not to open the door for anyone other than me, no matter what they said. I went out and patrolled the hotel floors and corridors in the dark to try to find the creep if he was around. I couldn’t find anyone but reported it to the night porter, who was completely uninterested in my complaint. Chances are that he was the creep — either way, it was quite terrifying."
" I went back to our room and lay in bed , wide awake , and to make matters worse , I researched execution reports and miss somebody reports for the area . Turns out there had been loads of ' inadvertent deaths ' and suicide reports from people jumping from balconies , sometimes honeymooner … and citizenry evaporate when on holiday . Not the unspoilt Nox ’s sleep I ever had … "
— u / No - Independence-3467
3.“Because of my work hours, I tend to get home late from work. I often use the one-hour drive from work to home as a way to catch up with people. My friend and I had gotten into a conversation that was pretty interesting (I can no longer remember what it was). As a result, when I pulled into my driveway, I did not go immediately inside. Instead, I stayed in my car to finish the conversation. I saw a man standing at the beginning of my driveway, staring straight ahead. There was something off about his face, but I couldn’t make out what it was.”
" He then began walking into my driveway . I have congeneric who live on the same block as me , so I remember trying to figure out if it was one of them . Then , I see a glimpse of his face . It looked like he had a clown mask on . I forthwith just set off honk my horn like wilderness . It threw him off because he did not realize someone was in the car . He tend away .
It turn out my next - door neighbour ’s wife was have an affair and that her devotee was attempt to kill him . I guess she told her lover we leave our backyard gate unlocked . He planned to enter our K , jump over the fence separate our yard from hers , enter their house through a broken in window facing their yard , and kill him .
He was n’t successful that night but did make another attempt on the married man ’s living afterwards that week . I remember that night , too . I came home from work and saw the hubby staring directly down the street with a upset expression on his face . He did n’t even point out me saying hello until the third clock time I said it , and he told me everything was all right when I demand . An hr by and by , I find out gunshots . "
— u / HeartShapedBox7
4.“I was walking home from the mall on Christmas Eve in 2010. I was staying with my mom as I had moved out of town and didn’t have my car. I had called to ask for a ride, but my mom was preparing for company. It was about -20 degrees Celsius in Winnipeg, so I was wearing a big winter coat, and it was around 3 p.m. I was taking a shortcut across a footbridge over the river when a tall man (well over six feet) wearing a winter coat and hood up passed toward me. The next thing I knew, his arms were around me from the back, and I just started flailing and screaming. At the other end of the bridge was a man and his young child, and the guy who had his arms around me let go and ran off (I’m assuming he saw the other man).”
" I was flustered and just kept walking . The serviceman with his child did n’t ask if I was okay , though I am not trusted if he realized what was happening . I am so lucky he was on the footbridge at the same time ; otherwise , I know what would have happen . I have n’t tell my mom about this to this day . "
— u / FalconCommon7772
5.“About ten years ago, I opened the thrift shop where I worked to take the trash to the curb for pickup. I was alone as the other worker wouldn’t be there for another hour. I opened the door to take out more trash and saw two weird young men digging through the garbage. They’d gotten there so quickly I knew they’d hidden somewhere close. I felt a flash of danger. They were agitated and oddly dressed: one in fake tiger fur pants, the other all in black with a black cowboy hat. Their eyes looked dead. My spidey sense screamed, ‘GET OUT OF THE SHOP!!!’ I did, backing away from them. Every hair on my body stood up.”
" The guy in black run into the workshop saying he postulate to look for his recede iPhone . After a minute , they left . I hunt into the shop and locked the door , stimulate with veneration . The next day , they were in the news for kill a young woman in San Francisco the day before and then a mankind on a hiking track the day after I ’d seen them . I was opine to be their next victim ! "
— angelicwitch235
6.“Eight years ago, I was hiking through a forest with my ex in PA. We were both around 24 at the time. We passed these two teenage dudes who were just…off. We said ‘hi’ as we passed, but they didn’t respond. They just stared at us. It’s hard to explain. Something about them felt wrong — sinister and non-feeling. It made my hair stand on end a little bit when I looked at them. They had this ‘we are in our own world observing you’ energy, and that world looked fucking dark.”
" Later , I saw them carving something into a tree diagram . We went and seem , and they had carve ' DEATH IS ABOUND ' into the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . I still remember it exactly . Maybe it was airheaded ; maybe they were just trying to be creepy-crawly or plenty with hoi polloi . But at that clip , being alone in the Sir Henry Wood , reading that on a tree diagram , and lie with the someone who had carved it was nearby … well , that creeped me the fuck out .
We left , and I never heard anything . But there was something about those teenagers that always quell with me , like I get forth from something that maybe someone else did n’t . "
— uracil / killabeesattack
7.“I (25F at the time) was on a swing set in my hometown. This guy (mid-early twenties) came and sat on a swing beside me. We chatted a bit, and after a while, he started talking about how he was obsessed with serial killers, specifically the famous kind that targets women. He spoke a lot about how the victims deserved it. I acted nice and eventually made an excuse that I had somewhere to be. As soon as I was out of sight, I sprinted and went to my mom’s work a few blocks away. Less than a year later, I saw a news article that he had stabbed a few women.”
— u / ceera_rayhne
8.“I snuck into a sketchy bar just outside of town when I was 19, but thankfully, I ended up not drinking much. While I was in there, an older man came up to me and started talking about the river that isn’t too far away from there and how it would be a good place to hide a body. The guy gave me the creeps, but I know plenty of older men around here who just like to say things to try to freak you out, so I just ignored him and went about my evening. However, later in the night, he came back up to me and started chatting, then asked me if I wanted to go on a walk. I asked him, ‘where to?’ His answer was, ‘To the creek, it’s a great place to walk.'”
" Everything inside me was hollo to get away from this cat , so I did n’t go , but he did keep following me around after that , include when I went out of doors , and I ’m fairly certain he would have tried to do something to me had I not gotten my friends and made them leave after that . "
— adrienoelle2258
9.“When I lived in Chicago, I was getting formula out of the trunk of my car. It was dark out. I heard the sound of someone running towards me. I thought I’d turn around to see a kid running away from their parent, but I saw a fully grown man. (For reference, I’m 110lbs and 5’ 5”.) My husband happened to have his tools in the trunk, so I grabbed his electric saw and put it between me and the man. He froze in place, and we just sat there for a second, staring at each other through his ski mask. He changed paths and began walking in another direction. I ran and locked myself in the front seat of the car with the saw and cried for a minute before working up the courage to run back inside."
— uranium / Kweenkiller
10.“I (solo female) went to a grocery store late after my swing shift. It was probably like 11 p.m. As I was getting back in my car, this man approached me and asked me how I was doing. Then asked me for a ride. I said, ‘No, man, I can’t do that.’ For obvious reasons. His voice turned chillingly cold, and he said, ‘You made the right choice.'”
— uracil / snowthathappened
11.My family and I lived in a very remote house on a lake. Before we moved to Hawaii from Michigan, my stepfather had already left to get settled. So, it was just my mom, my brother, and I. One night, I decided to sleep in my mom’s bed for the heck of it. She had a huge bed and a gorgeous view of the lake. I got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. I noticed the blinds in the bathroom were open. I thought it was strange, but I wasn’t concerned, telling myself that way out there, no one could see me anyway. For some reason, I glanced outside and saw two very white eyes staring back at me. The man was huge and menacing. I went back to my mom’s room immediately and laid down under the covers. A few minutes later, I sat up to make sure he was gone. Nope. He was standing, just staring at me. I laid back down totally under the blankets, wide awake for the entire night, and refused to get up until the sun was out."
— bestunicorn88
12.“About 15-odd years ago, I was doing the evening shift at my Internet café; I was 30 minutes away from closing, and a youngish lad walked in straight away. I noticed that it wasn’t going to be a last-minute student wanting something printed; he just oozed danger. He came up to the counter and started rambling on about how he bought a stab vest and tried it out earlier by stabbing himself. At this point, I would like to say that being an ex-serviceman at the ripe old age of 42, I wasn’t going to play dumb games and lose my life with a foolish act of bravado; I wanted to get home to my girlfriend in one piece.”
" After what feel like an eternity , he left . I call the police , and it took them 30 minutes to find him and arrest him . They contacted me and distinguish me that he had been unloosen from prison a few days before and could n’t handle life outside . He wanted to go back after stamp out someone . That someone would ’ve been me . I was in the USA for 12 year , and that was the only time I felt I had no control over what was go on . "
— u / BaumFrosch
13.“Me and two buddies were leaving a university-area bar around 2:15 a.m. We got to the car, and there was a guy sleeping in it. One of my buddies knocked on the driver’s door and opened it. The guy was all disoriented. We told him to get out, and he claimed it was his car. He was clearly still disoriented from sleeping and, potentially, something else. Eventually, he got out, and we got in. The driver immediately felt something on the seat that he was sitting on. He had sat on the guy’s gun. We dodged a bullet that night.”
— u / akablacktherapper
14.“I remember going skiing in Switzerland when I was maybe 23 or something, laying in bed with my girlfriend and being woken up by a loud banging on the wall behind us. I looked out into the hallway, and there was a naked man’s ass bent over in the bathroom, doing something strange, like cleaning up and moving around and groaning. I shouted thinking it was my cousin, who was a similar build. The guy stood up, fully naked, and looked at me, and it was someone I’d never seen before in my life. I’ve never shit myself so much. I bolt past him into the living room to wake up my sleeping dad and cousin. They rush the guy, who turns out to be drunk as hell and had stumbled into our (stupidly unlocked) apartment thinking it was his.”
" It was more funny than creepy , but at the prison term , I absolutely completely and utterly shit myself . Things are a lot more scarey when it ’s the middle of the Nox and a strange guy is naked inside your flat . Oh , and the guy was attempt to clean up all the vomit he had projected into the bathroom . It was a tragedy . "
— u / Sea_Corgi_7284
15.“I was leaving a club with my friend and happened to walk out at the same time as two very, very drunk young women. They were so drunk that one of them kept saying, ‘Where is my phone? I’ve lost my phone,’ until she realized it was half wedged into her top. They started talking to us, and I decided to make sure they got home safely. They didn’t want to pay for an Uber and wanted to walk home despite not being able to walk and not being able to operate their phones. I insisted that they order it and did it for them. I also decided to wait to order mine because they were extremely vulnerable and unwise, probably recently 18. While this was happening, a very sketchy-looking dude with a weird look in his eye came up to us. He asked us if we wanted to go to an after-party and mentioned that his Uber was on the way. I politely refused for all of us, and he kinda hung around looking at the girls and toward the club entrance.”
" His ' Uber ' ( van - manner people mailman with a slip door ) draw up . He give the room access and pronounce nothing to the number one wood , advise we come to the party again . He wait for an uncomfortable amount of time and realized we were not exit to come . He closed the ' Uber ' door without saying anything to the driver , and the ' Uber ' drove off . He then made his way back up to the club . He was in the society that Nox and probably follow the women out , but unfortunately for him , they got let the cat out of the bag to me . "
— u / EL - Chapo_Jr
16.“A girlfriend and I were on a work trip. We stayed at the same hotel in different rooms. We had dinner one night at the restaurant on the ground floor. … We ate at the bar because it was busy, and the bartender was waaaay too interested in her. And he kept giving her free drinks. She didn’t drink much to begin with, so she was getting toasty. I got a really bad feeling and closed out and paid the check. I don’t think he drugged her, but to be safe, I took her back to her room. After I put her to bed, I laid down on a towel in front of the door. Guess who knocked on the door 20 minutes later? Fuck that dude.”
— atomic number 92 / f4ttyKathy
17.“I had been working late and had about half an hour before my train would arrive. When I got to the platform, there was an older drunk man sitting on the ground. He seemed like he might be homeless, and he had blood all over his face. He told me that he had been beaten up by cops and thrown off the train, and he didn’t know how to get home. This was in the middle of a very cold winter, and there was no one else around to help, so I took pity on him.”
" I got him to tell me where he was head , and I helped him up , holding him steady as we walked down the steep stairs that were underwrite in ice and then up the stairs to the second platform . I figured he in all probability would ’ve fall and hurt himself if he had tried to pilot them on his own in the state he was in .
Once we got to the other platform , I stay and kept him company for a little while , but I kept trying to find polite points to snub the conversation poor and get back to my platform so that I would n’t overlook my train . I could barely understand what he was saying , but I smile and nodded when it seemed appropriate . At one point in his news report , he took me by the hand and jestingly trip the light fantastic toe around a small moment . I was kind of uncomfortable at this point , and then he ask for a hug . I think my thought process was that if I give him a hug , he would be satisfied , and I could leave , but instead , he took the opportunity to sour me around and twist my arm up on my back .
Suddenly , he did n’t seem so inebriated . He whispered in my ear , ' We ’re become to make love life , ' and I stay put still for a split second until I feel him being off - balance , and I bust myself free and ran down the step as tight as I could .
As I got up the steps to my political program , I yelled something at him ; I do n’t remember what ; I was just so scared and furious . He was still standing on the paired chopine , but when he see me and saw me again , he at once jumped down onto the tracks and sample to rise over the fencing in the midsection to get to me .
Luckily for me , at that point , some other citizenry had arrived on my platform , and he turned back around when they get going yelling at him . I try out to report it , but the police told me that trying to discover this valet would be pointless . I be intimate that there ’s CCTV at the station and on the trains , so I reckon he would ’ve been trackable . "
— wardenfelix
18.“When my oldest daughter was about a year old, I took her to Walmart one day. While we were shopping, I noticed an older woman watching us. She looked to be in her mid-fifties to early sixties, and she was dressed nicely and very clean and neat. When she saw me look at her, she came over with tears in her eyes and said, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry for staring! I know this sounds unbelievable, but your daughter looks just like my little girl did before she died!’ She gave me this wildly sad story about how she’d had a little girl who died of leukemia years earlier and that my daughter looked exactly like her deceased daughter. I felt bad for her and told her how sorry I was — and then she reached for my daughter.”
" As she was reaching toward my cart , she asked , ' I experience this is kinda weird , but can I please make her ? ' I immediately jerk my handcart back and put my arm between her and my girl . I said , ' No , ma’am , you may not . Do n’t touch my daughter . ' She jerked her branch back and look SO pained , but I did n’t care . I instantly sense the urge to run out of the store . She mumble a half - assed apologia and walk off , but I was so creeped out I straightaway grabbed my daughter and lead everything in the go-cart right where it was and left . It was 20 years ago , and it still consecrate me chill to think about . I really think she was about to attempt to abduct my daughter right in front of my facial expression . "
— u / burnmeup82
19.“Years ago, my then-boyfriend and I decided to walk to a convenience store for some snacks. It was about a 30-minute walk out in the suburbs. It was not super late (around 10 or 11 at night), but it was summer, so it was not really dark. It was also Sunday — not a big party night. On the way back, nearing my street, these two carfuls of guys drove by, and they beeped their horns and called out offensive things. Whatever, right? Except then, both cars braked hard. I remember so clearly the bright taillights and the doors all open, and suddenly, there were about seven or eight guys running at us.”
" We at once turned and run . Nothing nearby was open ( suburb ) , so we end up in the big parking area at the end of my street . It was hard afforest and went to the banking concern of the river . There was nowhere to be given in clip . We had a bit of a pencil lead , but we were both out of breath . as luck would have it , I used to play in this common all the time , so I really knew this park , and we hid in some thick President Bush that I knew would conceal us . Those guys thrashed around in the Wood for a secure thirty minutes front for us while two of the guys go to move the cars nigher . Thank god they gave up and go away . "
— drigs
20.“My young daughter was at soccer practice. A middle-aged man with a dog was on the other side of the fence, just staring at them in a creepy way. I finally said, ‘Are you worried about bringing your dog in here with the kids playing soccer or something?’ He didn’t acknowledge me but crossed the street and continued to watch them. After a while, I couldn’t take it anymore and yelled at him, ‘Are you looking for someone or something?’ He said something under his breath and walked away. My mom instincts were going off like mad. When we got home I looked up that neighborhood on the Megan’s Law website, and sure enough, he was a registered sex offender who did 20 years in prison for some truly disgusting things. Trust your instincts, people!”
— uracil / chiwawaacorn
21.“One time, I was at a gas station in the middle of the night during a road trip, and I … went into the store to buy some food and use the bathroom. While I was in the candy aisle, an old lady was staring at me. … I smiled at her, and she just walked away. I went to go get a slushy. She approached me and asked about my ethnicity, and I said that I was a first-generation Mexican-American. She later started to talk about how her father used to shoot Mexicans in her old town. I was starting to get more and more uncomfortable, and then she said that she had friends that were here that would kill me and that she didn’t like people like me — and randomly walked away. I was scared, so I just quickly grabbed my things and went to my car. Later that night. I realized that the gas station I went to was inside of a sundown town, and I considered myself lucky.”
— u / Adventurous - Act4413
22.“I worked at a late-night sub sandwich joint in college, and since I was a student during the day, I always had night shifts. The front door had a bell on it. One day a man came in and I swear I didn’t hear that bell go off. I had my back to the door, and I was leaning against the register counter talking to a coworker or on my phone or something. I turned around, expecting absolutely nobody to be there, but instead, I saw this customer. He had to be the scariest person I have ever seen — an older guy, disheveled, with one white eye. I swear to god. He was so soft-spoken when he finally did talk, and he asked for a cup of hot water. I think it was September in South Carolina, so not a cold time of year by any means. I said sure, of course, and went to the back to get him some hot water. Upon giving it to him, he kept his eyes locked on me before saying, ‘I make you nervous.'”
" ' No , you do n’t make me nervous , ' I lie down . He proceeded to sit around at the mesa closest to the register ( perchance two feet aside ) and sip his hot water while ' read ' a Quran upside down and laughing . He stayed there for hours . Freakiest guy ever . I still cogitate about him sometimes and get the heebie jeebies . "
— u / Difficult - Buy5353
23.“I lived alone in my first apartment and had been living there for almost a year. I had recently gotten a new neighbor who seemed kind of sketchy, but he minded his own business, so I minded mine. One evening, all the lights were out because I had no ceiling lights (for some reason), and I was just on my bed, kind of looking at the ceiling, not doing anything. … I started hearing some kind of commotion, but my neighbor often had male visitors over for pretty loud sex, so I thought he maybe just had a visitor. All of a sudden, I heard footsteps that seemed to come from inside my apartment, but since it was dark, I couldn’t see.”
" The step came closer , and it became very ostensible that they were in MY apartment . Someone was kind of stumble around , essay to figure out where to take the air in the night . I started pick up the mortal tinge the wall , click calorie-free switches to wrench on the light , and that ’s when I interpret the shadow of a mortal standing in the room access into my room . I have never felt my body immobilize like that before . Some stranger was in my flat in the darkness , walk around . I immediately thought he was go bad to get me and maybe hurt me , and so I set off consider with myself if letting him bonk someone was plate was just gon na get me hurt or peradventure affright him off . Out of nowhere , I just let out this pretty tacky ' Hey ! ' and he froze . I maintain on locomote with , ' What are you doing ? Can you go out again ? ' I spoke in a low registry , which I did n’t know I could naturally speak in . He quickly begin rationalize , tried to reverse around and find his way of life out in the darkness , and said , ' Oh , I ’m sorry . I ’m sorry . Did n’t know anyone lived here , ' and he go forward to fumble out , to which I fucking replied , ' Oh , that ’s okay . It ’s okay , ' in some weird endeavour to still be favorable .
When he got out , I caught my breath , freaked out on the interior , and ran to the front door to recover out it was n’t lock up . I ran back into my elbow room and saw these two shadows on my paries and heard humankind laughing . … I could n’t completely make out what they said , but it sound like the dude who was in my apartment was kind of neural and confused , saying , ' I did n’t mean anyone would be in there . You said no one was in there , ' to which my neighbour laughed , and they walked into his apartment . I started exclaim my eye out because I had been so disposed to get injure , then shout out my dad and freak out out ( and he freaked out on my behalf ) .
The next day , I contacted my lodging ship’s company . I told them what happened , that yes , my door was unlocked but that it fathom like my neighbor had sent his supporter into my apartment , know I populate there . They replied and said pitiful for the situation , but they were very confused that I had a neighbor since there was not suppose to be anyone living in that apartment at that second . Then I gross out out about who the fuck this dude and all his friends were , and my housing fellowship acted just as fuddle but settle not to count on out who he was or why he was there and kind of just permit him stay on there . I have never felt so unsafe in an flat before or since . "
— u / DoubtfullButOkay
24.“I finished a night class at my MMA gym … at about 10 p.m. as usual. … As I was walking out of the place, there was a lady on her own, in her late 50s … [with] a prosthetic leg who used a wheelchair. She asked me, ‘Sir, can you take me across the street to the bus stop?’ … I started pushing her to the stop light so we could cross the street, and I asked her basic questions like how her day was, blah blah blah, but she kept asking me weird questions like if I had my phone or wallet on me to help pay for her bus trip.”
" As soon as I said I did n’t have my phone or billfold on me , she told me to terminate abruptly and thank me . As shortly as she say this , I pick up a gimcrack avant-garde turn on behind me parked in the red , and I take care two dudes hop out and start approaching me . At this point , I realize this whole thing was a bunker . I started running . I ran across the street in dealings and down the side street to my automobile , dump them , got in my railroad car , and pelt along off , not even looking back .
The wild part is that night on my Citizen app ( I survive about five minutes away , so I get updates on this place ) , I saw that someone was kidnapped at this stop 25 hour after I had leave . "
— u / TimeCat101
25.“This was about 25+ years ago. Picture it: So Cal, in the middle of summer, hot as hell. I (F, 30-ish) stopped by a small market I had frequented a time or two before to get a pack of smokes. The owner (I assume) was working. No one else was there, just him and I. I greeted him with a friendly ‘hello’ and commented on the heat wave and how hot it was. Polite chit-chat, as one does. This is where it got weird/creepy…He began telling me how nice and cold the walk-in fridge was (where all the drinks and such are kept).”
" I said something along the lines of ' I bet it is … ' He tried to get me to go into the take the air - in fridge . He keep telling me how nice it would feel , how coolheaded it was , how I require to see for myself , etc . I kept politely declining . Then he stepped forward a bit and got a minuscule more insistent about me comply him into it to see how ' cool ' it was . I had a jiffy of me being pushed over a case of Coors Light and ravish . I back up a step or two and told him I had a kid in the car ( I did not ) and just needed to get my smokes and go .
The spirit I get and his utter determination to get me into that cold room … nope . Never went back . That ’s not how I die . "
— u / Pillsbury1982
26.“It was a sunny Sunday. We slept until about 8 a.m., opened the front door, and let the dogs out to sniff around the garden and pee. I cooked coffee in the kitchen, still in my pajamas, and chatted with my husband. Right when I was pouring the hot water over the coffee powder in the French Press, we heard our eldest dog bark like wild. Then we heard the garden gate (it’s made of metal, so it is quite loud if closed with force), and the barking got even louder. I still remember how both my husband and I froze, looking at each other before we both rushed out of the front door. I was first and ran into a guy who was about to walk further into the garden and stopped when I came out, turning to me. I connected the dots and realized he had planned to go after our dog, who was nowhere to be seen and who obviously had fled into the garden.”
" The guy … had a sledgehammer in one hand and a knife in the other manus . As presently as my centre come down on the knife , my brain fit empty , and all I could cogitate of was to get this swell off our place . So I did the only thing I could think of — I protrude verbalize . And I basically manage to talk this bozo out of our home . I can no longer remember what I say or what I cerebrate , but it mold . He told me he had personal military issue and that his life was in shambles ; there was some sad story about his aunt . As before long as he was out of the garden gate and went his mode , my husband called the cops . He stress to take flight , but one of their dogs take in him . We learned later that he was full of drug .
Later , we discovered that he had already hit our dog at least once with the sledgehammer . That ’s why our scented , protective baby fled into the garden . The veterinary surgeon said that if the guy had hit one of our small dogs that daytime , they ’d have been deadened . But our eldest dog had like 80 pounds and was golden that he was ' only ' hit between the costa cage and hip ( so a heavy area ) .
My married man afterwards told me that he had been terrified of me getting killed . Because I was so close , he see no safe way to interfere and get me out of the way without the dude losing it completely .
Throughout that day , I was in a unusual incredulity as if I had narrated a story . The next day , I snap . I suddenly realized how freaking dangerous the whole incident had been and could n’t stop crying . Also , it hold me old age to feel dependable at home again , and to this daytime , I have a strange intuitive feeling when launch the front room access for the dogs . "
— uracil / Kaethe_HE
27.“I like to walk/run in the forest trails, and one day, I decided to go alone (I always go with someone). As soon as I was about to enter the trail, a man who was just arriving at the parking area in his car honked his horn and waved at me. At first, I thought, ‘Oh, maybe it’s someone I know,’ so I waved back, but then I started walking towards the car and noticed I didn’t know him, so I started to walk back into the forest. He drove off, and I thought that was the end of it. I thought maybe he was just a friendly stranger, so I kept walking, but within two-ish minutes, he was behind me, and then he started to walk next to me and talk to me; he was thin, with long, unkempt hair, and overall, he just scared me. He had a big tote bag hung from one shoulder and his opposite arm inside the bag. He said, ‘Yeah, I just came to walk with my cat; she’s inside my bag. She loves coming here.'”
" At this dot , I had barricade walk , and we were just standing on the track look each other . The whole clip he let the cat out of the bag to me , he kept come closer and closer to me . I did n’t realize just how much we had travel until I noticed I was n’t on the cement trail anymore ; I was on the actual forest grass really penny-pinching to the trees . He continue ask if he could walk with me or if I wanted to go with him . That , coupled with him continuing to get closer to me and his arm inside the travelling bag like he was going to extract something out , really began to freak me out . I began to get really anxious and anxious , and I knew he could tell , but that did n’t stop him . Any normal person would ’ve sensed the discomfort and entrust me alone . I told him I had to go and started to take steps backward to the entrance of the trail ( where I had just follow from ) . I settle I would n’t keep exit and would just go back to my car . He kept walking towards me as I was walk away , yelling , ' Oh , why , do you have a husband ? ' or ' What else do you have to do ? ' I ’m not sure what his intentions were , but I ’m positive that if it were n’t for the fact that there were so many bicyclists passing by that day , he would ’ve done something to me . "
— uranium / BeginningMore5059
28.“I was walking home from the grocery store when I was approached by a young man. I stopped when he got close, and he asked about the location of a hostel. I said I had no idea where the hostels were located, but thought most were downtown, indicated the direction he needed to go, apologized, and started walking. Within a few steps, I realized he was walking behind me as I could hear the snow squeaking.”
" I increased my walking pep pill ( as much as I could manage in 30 - ish cm . of fresh snow with a bag of groceries ) . He remain to follow . I started to become both concerned and slightly alarmed when I heard a loud , gruff voice hollo from behind my follower , ' What the fucking are you doing ? Why are you follow her ? ' I glanced around to see my neighbor coming towards me and the bozo . My neighbour looked wild , and my follower seemed startled . I kept lead as I was almost home . My neighbour get up to me , and we exchanged prowler particular — I thanked him for his assistant , and he waited until I was in and my room access was shut away . I recall my follower was kinda creepy , but I was n’t bear on anymore … Until I was watching the local news show a few hour later . His mugshot show off up on the TV screen . He had an outstanding sanction for AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ASSAULT and was considered ARMED and DANGEROUS.I call the police to account my brush immediately . They intimate , as he could well eff where I lived , I should stay elsewhere for a few days . … I found out later that creepy-crawly guy wire had outrage and beaten char he did n’t know , beating them so poorly that one almost died and all were left with multiple knife wound . "
— u / Frozenassnorth
29.“When I was a teen, I worked at a doctor’s office. We had a patient, ‘Charlie’ come in. He was a workman’s comp case, so he hadn’t been a patient before. He was handsome and about 6'5” of pure muscle, but there was something just ‘off’ about him. At first, I thought it was me, but when he left after his first appointment, ALL the office staff (all female) felt something wasn’t right about Charlie. We were all so uncomfortable that we talked to the doctor (male) about it and asked if he could be the one to treat Charlie from start to finish. The doctor also got a bad vibe from him too, so he agreed and told the receptionist to schedule him only during busy times so there were a lot of people around."
" Charlie came in for his treatments over the course of three month and , other than him just being kind of a unknown guy , nothing really happened .
He stop his treatment , his lawyer sent some requests for paperwork for WC when he was done , and we all think that was that . About TWO YEARS later on , I was read the paper , and Charlie was nab for violently rape a woman ( and nearly kill her in the process).I KNOW it was him because he had an super unusual last name , and the years matched up . He was finally convicted and go to jailhouse ( though I do n’t know for how long ) . That was my avouchment that , as a woman , I should always hope my intestine . "
— u / Madeline73
30.“I almost got kidnapped. I was 7 or 8, and we went to Disneyland. We got off the small world ride, and I grabbed what I thought was my mom’s hand. I had a snack. I was at Disney, so I didn’t pay much attention. We got a bit away, and I heard my name being called by my mom’s distinct voice. I turned and saw my family looking around, then looked up, and I didn’t recognize the person. I broke my grip and ran back to my mom. As I was running, I looked back, and the woman was still casually walking in the direction she was taking me. It took a few years to realize what happened. I was about ten when it dawned on me, ‘Wait, if she thought I was her kid, why didn’t she turn around to find hers?’ She just kept walking. It was scary as hell to come to that realization.”
— u / Hot - Tone-7495
31.“In fifth grade, in the late ’60s, my friend and I rode our bikes and played in a field, climbing trees not far from our homes. A guy in a gold station wagon stopped not too far away and wanted us to come to his car; he lost his puppy and wanted help finding it. My friend and I looked at each other and took off running as fast as we could back to our homes, leaving our bikes there. We went back hours later to get them. I’ll never know what could have happened, but it just sent chills down our spines. 1966, there was the murder of a little girl in our town, Susan Brady, and that was always in the back of my mind.”
— uranium / Shrimp1991
32.“I was 19. I was still living at home. I went out with my boyfriend and came back home around 3 a.m. We had a wooden fence, so I would have to get out of my car to open the fence so that I could pull my car into the driveway. For some reason, that particular night, something told me to wait. So I just sat in the car with it running for a few minutes in front of the gate. There was a car parked across the street with no lights on that seemed to be off. After a few minutes, I noticed movement in the car. There was a man staring across the street at me. I panicked (this was before cell phones, so I couldn’t call anyone). I continued to sit, trying to decide if I should drive off or not. After a few more minutes, he slowly pulled his car over to mine and stopped right next to me, staring at me. I just knew I was dead.”
" But then he slowly displume off and go down the street . I waited until I conceive he was far enough aside , jump out out of my car , get to the logic gate , and pulled into the private road . I swear I moved so fast get into the house . It was an utterly terrific experience . "
— ladyebugg
33.“I was heavily pregnant with my first child and arranged for a plasterer to come over to the house, plaster a wall inside the house, and fix up a patch of outside rendering. He was aggressive, moody, and rude all morning, so much so that I rang my husband at work and said this guy scared me and asked when he was coming home. My husband worked 50 miles away as a teacher and couldn’t just leave, though. I decided to offer the plasterer a drink and snack. I hoped that would make him chill out a bit, but when I did, he sort of rounded on me in the hall and was in my space, getting agitated and saying that he’d had a terrible time and been ill. All his family abandoned him because his adult daughter accused him of raping her as a child, and the wife had then left him. He seemed very angry at women in general.”
" I felt genuinely scared as he was rant all this very personal and intimidating stuff at me , but then he just stopped and look through me to a photo from my marriage on the rampart behind me . It was of me and my dad , who had died the year before . He start cry out and allege quite hysterically , pointing at my dad , ' How do you know that man ? That man saved my life . ' It turn out that my dad ( who was a Dr. ) had pushed for tests for him that helped name his cancer and had been very caring toward him during that hard time in his life . He packed up his tools in a rush and told me someone else could complete the outside rampart as he was no longer free to , and then he just leave . I had never felt more relieved that my dad was take in over me that day . "
— u / BelleFleur10
34.“I have a very common name, and finding myself on any public website is difficult unless you know very specific things about me (middle initial and where I grew up), simply due to the thousands of people with my name. I was working for the government, and a citizen reached out to file a complaint about a situation in my program area. This was a significant issue and involved multi-million dollar lawsuits. I provided the citizen with the information I had. He called up several weeks later looking for additional information, and when I said I wasn’t able to help him, he responded with, ‘As a professional who has worked with (former employer) and (another former employer), how would you feel if your wife (wife’s name) and two children were in this situation?’ I immediately deleted my Facebook account (that didn’t have much information on it anyway) and locked down my LinkedIn profile (where I only connected with people I knew).”
— u / SafetyMan35
35.“When I was about eight months pregnant, my best friend at the time was performing poetry. I would go and support her. This one particular night, she signed up at a place on the east side, which is a really rough area in my town. I talked with my husband, and we agreed that I could go since it was a populated area. I actually had a great time at the show until I had to pee. When I came out of the bathroom, there was a scrawny, greasy guy in a white tank top waiting for me. When he saw me, he immediately started hitting on me. I was clearly pregnant and had a ring on my finger, but that didn’t stop him. I hurried back to my friends and told them I was extremely uncomfortable and wanted to go home. They had been taking shots and told me okay, they’d call me tomorrow. I asked if one of them could walk me out, and they pouted and said they just ordered a round of shots, and I can make it on my own.”
" stiff , I just turned around and hurried to the door and paused . I did n’t see him . I took off to the car , and within 20 second , the cat was on my ass . He compute out what car I was in , ran to it , and depart yanking the handle . At this head , I was midway between my railroad car and the venue . I turned around and booked it as fast as I could to the security measures safety equipment and was call . The guy cable start out chasing me , act like we were together , and grabbing my weapon . The guard knew the guy wire , escorted me to my railway car , insure my door were mesh , and determine me safely drive away . I was terrified .
— u / AmarilloHooker__93
36.And finally…“Not me, but my partner was campaigning for Obama in some rural town, and an older gentleman on a bicycle rode by, stopped to look at him and said, ‘Satan, what are you doing inside that little boy?’ and then rode off. Still haunts him to this day.”
— u / ladykiller1020
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