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This strange bug follows me all the time while making baby noises and saying really weird things like I love you over and over again, I just walked. to the store and this guy literally stands right in front of the store. I get very angry at that moment and tell the cashier what is happening. Then he looks at the guy for a minute and then tells him to leave. He says he wants to buy. something but the guy just tells him to go away, well he doesn't go away and he's still standing there so I tell him why are you following me and then he says I'm not following you and I said yeah sure.

It doesn't and I just line up, grab my stuff and then walk out the door. The boy has the audacity to continue following me while he makes kissing sounds and then repeatedly says: I love you, I die for you. He was so angry at this. point that I step back and say look, disgusting, leave me alone with a very angry tone this doesn't even have an effect on this boy and he just keeps repeating the same thing I then tell him look I know where you live and I will tell this to your mother because in I've actually seen him come out of the apartments that are close to the store anyway, he doesn't even care what I'm saying and he's making eye contact with me the whole time.

I just walk to my house and finally get there, but just before I go in and slam the door. Then I tell him that if you ever follow me again you will regret it. He responds by laughing and then saying, "Oh yeah, what the hell are you going to do?" and he proceeds to blow me a kiss. Then I walk in feeling very numb, I finally get home and start sobbing. My sister asked me what was happening and I told her everything. She is extremely overprotective of me and she got very angry after I told her.

She tells me that she's going to walk me to work and that if we see him, she's going to kill the guy. Obviously, I know that's not

true

, but she really made me feel better. All this happened last week and today, in a couple of

hours

, I have to go back to babysitting. I know it doesn't seem like much, but I'm still very afraid of what will happen to me in the future. I really don't even know what to do right now. If any of you listening have any advice, please tell me what to do. I appreciate you taking the time to listen and if anything else happens I will definitely give you an update.

Be careful when I was around 16 years old. I was babysitting for a family friend. I took little girl Maddie outside to plan the backyard swing and it was turning out pretty. Dark around 8 or 8 30. I started to get a really strange feeling like we were being watched. I looked around and didn't see anyone, but I was still a little scared, so I took her inside since I had to go to bed. I went to bed early anyway, put her to sleep around nine and started watching TV on the living room about 10 minutes later, then I heard a rustling outside the house, I very stupidly went to check it, but I don't see anything so I just assume. it was an animal and then I went back inside, about 20 minutes later I heard footsteps from Maddie's room so I decide to go upstairs to put her to bed, I open the door and see that she is still fast asleep in her bed, now it's really The room is dark but also I can see some things thanks to the light from the window.

Then I look towards the corner and see the dark silhouette kneeling in the corner. I immediately turn on the light and see a real man there and then he tries to run. I walk out the door but kick him in the balls. I call the police and it turns out that the men had been living in the basement for about six months, going in and out through a hole inside the house and had apparently been watching the family. while they were outside and also while they were sleeping, yeah I haven't babysat since this happened when I was in elementary school.

My brother and mother had immigrated to Canada a few years before this incident. We moved into a rental apartment that consisted mainly of One day, while we were waiting for the elevator, a woman and her disabled daughter came up and waited with us. They spoke Farsi, but a dialect that was spoken in Afghanistan, not in Iran, where we were from now, caught my mother's attention quite a bit. Quickly, and I was truly elated to discover that a fellow Farsi speaker lived just a couple apartments away from us, they started talking and it was quite evident that her daughter was unable to speak or communicate through sign language due to her severe disabilities.

She and Mom ran into each other frequently in the building and in the neighborhood. Well, it turned out there was a man she believed was targeting and harassing her daughter. He was a single father to a girl who was only a couple of years older than me. She knew them. both of us pretty well and I even babysat his dog a couple of times, his daughter and she told us that her parents had gotten divorced and her dad apparently got custody of her one night my mom and I had just gotten home and were hanging out We then ran into the lady, she came up to us and said it was her daughter's birthday and she insisted we join them for cake.

I always felt very strange with her and I didn't really want to join them, but my mom said. that she was feeling bad and that we wouldn't have to stay long we followed her to the apartment and immediately the hairs on the back of my neck stood up, her daughter was sitting in the dark with only a small night light illuminating her The unfurnished house in the middle of The room had a picnic-style cloth spread out, it consisted of some plates, forks and homemade cake, then we sat down and started to get comfortable when my mom's phone started ringing.

All this startled us. My mom took the phone, the lady hurried to the living room and then told my mom to put her phone on silent. She said you should be as quiet as possible so he wouldn't know we were home. He immediately gives me chills. Damn, was he talking about my mom? She then apologized and asked what she meant. That's when she started telling us that the man in the unit below her is tormenting them. She went on and on about how she hits the ceiling with a broom all the time. of the night to let them know that he knew they were home and that apparently one time he lured her daughter to her balcony and was coaxing her to jump off, she said she would knock on her door in the middle of the night. and then he whispered the devil's prophecies through her door, my mom then asked him why he never reported this and the lady said she was afraid he would find out and then kill them, she said they don't turn on the lights, they don't own them of a television and she never makes a single noise only whispers she went home we ate the cake we thanked her for inviting us and she got up to leave, she tiptoed towards her door and made a gesture with her hand for her to stand in front of the sight of the door, which we did, she opened slowly Then the door peeked out, looking left to right, turned towards us and said we were good to go as soon as we got home.

I told my mom there was no way what she was saying was

true

because she knew the people who lived there. unit, my mom just said it's best not to get involved and forget about it. Weeks go by and we don't see her or her daughter. One morning, as she was leaving her building to go to school, I noticed that there were letters taped to the walls. in the lobby they were a little scattered but I was a kid and I thought they were letters put there by the building administration. I opened the lobby doors and that's when I saw the letter taped to the building's intercom.

The letter was written by the lady. explaining how terrified she was for her life and that of her daughter and how no one had done anything to help her with the situation despite numerous attempts, then she continued exactly the same thing she had told us, the last paragraph It gave me chills. She claimed that she was raped and impregnated by a demon while she was sleeping and now he found her and her daughter and she is apparently possessed by this man. She then said that if anything happens to any of them, we should be held responsible.

I ended up asking the girl. and her father what was that all about and her father claimed to have only seen her twice and both times she hadn't even made eye contact with her because apparently she was talking to herself and he was really scared, he said she was slipping notes under her door with what he later discovered was Arabic writing, he said he had shown them to one of his Arab friends, who confirmed that there were verses from the Koran that Muslims use to protect themselves from evil, he said he had no idea it was her who was doing this until the letter started being plastered all over the building on every floor, apparently they were asked to move out of her apartment and she had threatened to lie to herself and her daughter on fire, management had to contact the police for being a threat to herself and others after a while we all forgot about it and moved on with our lives, we moved to a different part of town not long after but this event always stuck with me in 2015.

I returned to the old complex because I reconnected with a childhood friend who still lived there. I ran into the building manager and he and I started talking and I asked him about the incident and if he ever really found out what happened, apparently the lady. she was schizophrenic, she was a victim of forced marriage at a very young age and her daughter's disabilities were the result of extreme abuse suffered during pregnancy. It turns out that she was extremely mentally ill and simply believed wholeheartedly the claims she had made, apparently her daughter was indeed able to speak, but her mother did everything in her power to isolate her from outside contact in the society.

My mother and I thought she was between 14 and 16 years old, but it turns out that she is a 30-year-old woman, she was very malnourished and lacked personal hygiene. She was obviously not cared for properly by her daughter, she had never been to a hospital or even to school. Really sad things. I am now a 32 year old woman and at the time the story took place, when I was 13 years old, I was staying one night. at my friend's house, who for the sake of this story we'll call sunken, she lived in a really seedy neighborhood that was just a few miles from her high school, her mom was a single parent and worked late, so we had the whole place to ourselves, his mom had left the house full of junk food and was letting us watch movies on demand as much as we wanted, since it was still light out, we decided to go for a walk around the pond and the park area. a couple blocks from her house as we were heading back to our house, a house or two away a car came up behind us, no I didn't recognize this person but my friend Kate said it was her following.

The next door neighbor, Andy Andy, if I can remember, looked much older, maybe he was in his early 50s. I remember he had a kind of grayish beard and was wearing a baseball cap. He slowed down his car and asked what we were doing that night. Okay, I told him that her and his friend were having a sleepover and we're probably going to play a prank, call some kids from our school, and also play around watching

horror

movies. Andy just chuckled and smiled at us both, but even when he was 13 years old. one year old girl, I didn't really like the way he smiled at us.

I don't know this stranger and I was very surprised that my friend had given so much information, but maybe she knew him much better. Andy then told us in a very quiet voice, well, okay, Nessie, your mom's car isn't in the driveway, so I guess she's working late again, huh? Kate had said in her usual friendly but completely unrelated tone, yes, she's on the night shift again, so we're keeping the house. Tonight, all to ourselves, Andy gave us the same creepy smile and then said, "Okay girls, have fun, it's your little sleepover and don't get into too much trouble tonight," and then with that, He drove slowly past us and then stopped his car in the driveway.

We walked down his driveway we saw Andy enter his house still looking at us once we entered Kate's house. He had started asking her about her neighbor. I told him that he kind of gave me the creeps. Kay said she agreed. He is kind. Creepy, but she didn't really think he was any kind of danger or threat. Now Kay was always more of the confident, carefree type, while I always seemed to be the paranoid, more cautious, well, well, so we made a pizza and had one. lots of snacks and we started watching some movies and also had fun chatting with some friends afterwards, around midnight or even 1am Kate's mom was still not home and we were starting to fall asleep in our sleeping bags In the living room. the tv was still on and was playing some sort of

horror

movie in the background, suddenly Kate had clicked on the tv to mute it and then she lowered her voice and then she said to me, I think I saw the motion detection light go off and on in your backyard.

Then I got upsilently to look out the window that overlooked his backyard. Very slowly I tiptoed towards her and asked her if she saw anything of her. She didn't see anything, but not long after we saw the target light up. We really tried our best, but he couldn't really see anything outside. He decided to go to the basement and see if he could see better through the window down there. We held on to the basement stairs being very careful not to trip in the dark, either. We wanted to turn on the lights in case whatever was out there saw us.

I don't know why Kate was suddenly taking this so seriously, since she was normally her more relaxed friend, but maybe we were both super paranoid from all the fear. movies we were watching, I don't know, there was a very large window next to a door on the other side of the basement, the motion detection light came on once again and came through the window so we could see a little bit in the small basement. Suddenly we heard the door leading to the basement backyard start to rattle, we both jumped and screamed. The door window was covered by a set of blinds, so we couldn't see who was on the other side, but we knew.

Someone was definitely trying to open the door, luckily for us, it was locked, but we were still scared shitless. Kay grabbed a baseball bat that was on top of a couch and started moving toward the door. I whispered for him to get away from her and that. We have to get out of here and maybe call her mom or the police, but Kane was always the bravest and so, very carefully, he lifted a corner of the door window blinds. Whoever was on the other side was still trying to open the door. open kay raised the blinds and lo and behold it was his neighbor andy kate and i screamed and he just threw his hands up in the air and then yelled whoa, it's okay girls, I'm not going to hurt you.

I just wanted to see if you're okay, it's too late and I thought I saw someone running in your yard, Kat, and we both looked at each other and then at Andy there was something so sick and menacing in his eyes and we both knew it. he was definitely lying and he was the one trying to break into Kate's house. Kay yelled at her that she better get out of here or she would call the police and she just blinked at us and repeated that she just wanted to. She checked on us because she knew we were home alone and grabbed the door handle again and asked us to open the lock. .

I pulled his arm and told him to call 911 immediately. I yelled that we were calling the police right now and that he better call 911. Get out of here and he just stared at us and then walked away from the door. He quickly looked to the right, then turned and ran towards his backyard. Kate and I ran upstairs and her mom was coming into the house and she asked us what we were doing in the basement and we both frantically tried to tell her what had happened with Andy. His mother was very surprised, but she didn't think he would do anything to call the police since he technically didn't break in and hurt Kate and me.

We were both really scared and wanted her mom to call the police and report it, but she kept insisting that there was probably nothing they could do. Fortunately, I had no further encounters with Andy the few times I went. to Kate's house and not long after she and her mother moved in, I don't know what Andy was trying to do or what her intentions were that night, but I'm so glad we didn't find out. Hey everyone, I want to take a little break from the

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Now I'm 25. Woman of a few years, but when I first moved into my apartment I was only 21 or 22 at the time. The apartment complex I lived in was very quiet, for the most part a lot of young families and older people lived there. It was also in a community with a golf course. In my hometown, which was a small town with a very moderate crime rate, when I moved in I didn't know the neighbors to my left, but about two years into my lease there was a middle-aged couple who moved in and I never got their names, but somehow the husband knew mine, which actually wasn't too strange because the older people there are very talkative and I'm sure they learn my name along the way.

I'm a very intuitive person and can usually pick up on the nuances when someone is not very good people, on my first few occasions with my husband I immediately got very strange vibes from him in hindsight and at first he didn't do anything out of the ordinary, it was just a feeling he had every time he was with his wife. and I was trying to talk to him, the husband was interrupting his wife and trying to speak for her, it seemed very strange, but well, after about a year of my boyfriend moving in with me, he fell out of a golf cart on Christmas Eve and suffered.

Due to a traumatic brain injury, he was not allowed to drive for six months, so I was responsible for driving him to and from work during those six months. He is a workaholic and works very well most of the time so I was home alone until 10-11 most nights, somehow or another this creepy neighbor finds out my boyfriend had a trauma craniocerebral and not driving. Now this guy knew I was alone most nights and he decided to do things with me on purpose. A case that gave me chills and still lingers in my memory and makes me absolutely grateful that we moved from that apartment to a house in the country 20 miles away, so one night I come home from the store or go out with a friend and as always I sat in the car in the parking lot playing with my phone the door is locked of course because I'm paranoid and after about 10 minutes when I'm about to turn off the car and then get in I look my far right and see my next door neighbor standing in the hallway of the building right across from Mars, maybe it's 9 p.m. m., so I assume he's walking his dog or taking out the trash or something and I continue playing on my phone. and I decide to look up one more time, he hasn't moved, he's standing in the hallway with the light behind him, so I can see a silhouette, but I know for a fact it's him.

I was always taught to stare at the person he is with. making you feel uncomfortable so they break eye contact or talk about what they're looking at because I stare back and he just backs away further into the hallway out of my sight. Now I'm a little scared. At this point, but I decided right then and there that he wasn't going to get out of the car and go inside until my boyfriend called me to come pick him up from work. I lowered the brightness on my phone to hopefully give him a less clear view. They see me sitting in the car in the dark, not even five minutes later, he is walking from the other side of the complex, completely opposite our building.

I see he's not walking his dog. He doesn't have a trash can, so I can assume he didn't do it. He doesn't take the trash to the dumpster, he walks down the sidewalk right in front of my car, he stops and stares into my soul while he points his index and middle finger at me like a peace sign, but in a pointing motion. he finally continues his walk and then walks towards his work truck parked three places to my left, there are no cars between mine and his, he grabbed some empty grocery bags from his truck, it takes him a surprisingly long time to grab them and proceeds to walk back. in the direction he came from, he then stops in front of the car once again he stares at me for a second and then continues.

There is a sidewalk perpendicular to the one he is on and at the end of that sidewalk there is another one that is parallel to the one he is currently on. From the aerial view it has the shape of the letter h. our building is on the left. The one I was standing on before when I first saw it was on the right. He stopped maybe five more times between my car at our apartment building and turned to face me. Every time he stops, this smell gives me chills and I immediately texted my boyfriend to let him know that the strange neighbor was being a creep and that he felt like he was trying to scare me on purpose.

I'm going to look for my boyfriend and we'll go back. At home totally on the verge of this creep, my boyfriend leaves something in the car, so when I walk up to the front door to open it, he runs back to the car and lo and behold, my creepy neighbors come up and say hi, also wearing my name again, I've never introduced myself by name, I guess another neighbor had said it in passing, but it still scared the hell out of me after this interaction while sitting in the car, there are half a dozen other things this guy has made.

Before and after this night he gave me the chills, my boyfriend walked me to the dumpster to the hotel laundry room because he was too scared. He's much more naive than me by default, but he's not too naïve to dismiss this as innocent. I ran into the neighbor as I write this, I feel like I can't even imagine how creepy it really was. I mean, maybe I really was exaggerating, but my gut at the time was telling me something was wrong and I listened, so I'm a 23 year old male living in California for the past year.

I decided to use Tinder for the first time. I had previously used Hot or Not and a lot of fish, but it mostly just had bots and scammers, so I was at it. I'm not really into online dating, however, I felt really bored on Friday afternoon, so I decided to install Tinder and see what happened. After creating an account I started stealing people and it actually wasn't more than half an hour after me. I exited the app and was matched with someone for some context. I am what you could call bisexual. I really hate labels, but I guess that's what I fall into anyway.

I met a 25 year old guy named Aiden. Aiden was what I would call attractive and he had the same similar interests in gaming and coding as I did. I decided to go and send him a message, but before he could type a single letter, he sent me a message saying "Hey, I saw who you are." New to Tinder and thought I'd reach out and say hello. I said hi and we both started talking about our love of video game movies and coding. He told me that he is a full-time programmer and that he apparently earns a salary by only working four

hours

a day.

He asked me if he could come relax with them. Then I offered him to come to my house because he was alone and apparently he still lived with his parents. He seemed very excited. suddenly and he said he would love to come, we agreed for him to come in an hour so I could tidy up my room and also get my computer ready to play after about an hour of sending him. my address and he said he was already on his way. Normally he wouldn't have invited someone he'd never met to my house, but this guy seemed really harmless and was very attractive, so he wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt.

I heard a knock on my door and I looked around and saw it was Aiden, he had a bottle of red wine in his hand and a smile on his face. We hadn't talked about drinking red wine together, but I actually did. I enjoy red wine and the brand I had with it turned out to be my favorite brand. I openedAfter dinner we had decided to walk through a nearby shopping center now I was really stupid and didn't want to waste my gas and since they were only a few minutes away from the road, we decided to go with him and started walking towards his car only to find out that he was I had parked in a completely different spot than the restaurant, which was also strange to me.

Now this is where he started to get

scary

once again. I have no problems with weapons. but just as we were walking I can see a gun stuffed in his pants, no holster, no clip, nothing, just hit it enough that it wouldn't be visible until he raises his arms. I tried my best to calmly ask him about it, oh so. Do you carry, I asked him, yes, he responded smugly and pulled out his concealed carry card. I decided to ask him how old he was again and he said he was 20, so I met him in Hawaii when his profile said he was 23, but I did. excuses because sometimes dating profiles use a person's facebook information which can be inaccurate when we got to the car there was a family in a van next to us and they were loading groceries in the back, Barry got in the car and he took out his gun.

He grabbed his jeans and started waving them to show me. I looked at him very nervous and told him that he might want to put them away so as not to scare the kids who were literally in the car next to us. He looked reluctantly. I laughed and then put it away when we got to the mall, he parked the car and we both got out, he said he had to get his jacket out of the trunk so I waited, he got my attention and motioned for me to get in the back of the car. He said he wanted to show me something now, I literally can't make this up in his trunk.

He had two large shotguns lying there in the open. My eyes had bigger saucers and I looked at him confused, like what the hell man, why are you? Are you doing this? What are you thinking? He gave me a police smile and simply shrugged. This guy was a total psychopath. We walked to the mall and he actually had the audacity to ask me if he could hold my hand, to which I responded with uh, come on. walk a bit more needless to say things weren't that bad after that until we went to a department store so he could get a pair of shoes after walking with him for almost an hour he finally found a pair he wanted and went to At the checkout, the lady asked him if he wanted to save an extra amount by signing up for a credit card and he said yes.

Now, for those of you who aren't familiar, every time you apply for a credit card, they ask for a ton of personal information. like your full name your address and things like that when the cashier asks me his name I was surprised to find out that the name he told me wasn't even his first name it was his middle name I was surprised but I waited until we walked away to ask the regard. Oh yeah, Barry is my middle name, but I really hate my name, so I won't respond if someone calls me that. Honestly, at that moment I was terrified after all these little lies were actually real. starting to make me feel really uncomfortable and betrayed since I had told them the truth about my name and age after we left that store we passed by a candy store I have a very sweet tooth and I'm a bit of a child at heart despite being a grown woman I looked excited and thought about going into the store when he looked me up and down and then said sometimes it's better not to give in to temptation because I know this guy didn't just tell me that considering he wasn't even skinny himself, he I rolled my eyes and walked away from any other stores I wanted to see, he just frowned and shrugged and I kept walking, so basically the night was about what he wanted to do after walking for about two hours he said.

I wanted to see a movie. There was a really good movie theater nearby and a really cool movie that sounded really interesting, so I thought, why not? When I came in I told him he was going to run to the bathroom and I finished. I did my business and walked out only to discover that he had bought tickets to a completely different movie. I was really angry but again I brushed it off, we sat down and I told him that he was going to get snacks even though he made a comment that we should wait a little longer.

I ignored him and went to pay for my own candy, which by the way was well deserved after putting up with this jerk all night, the movie was really good and didn't even attempt any funny business. partly because I think he realized I was mad at him and knew I'd probably push him away if I did. When the movie ended, he didn't say a word, didn't comment on the movie or anything, he was just upset at the time because Las Things had gone wrong very quickly. I also checked my phone and saw five missed calls from my mom and also some texts from my close friend who was worried because I told her the day wasn't going so well.

I let them know I was fine. and we got in the car and he took me back to my car at the restaurant when we pulled up to my car he sat there and looked like he was almost expecting a kiss or something but I couldn't do anything but stick my butt in . my car and went straight home. I remember when his profile said he was looking for a long-term relationship. Yes, that was the conversation. So I'm going to be honest with you. I'm not really looking for anything serious right now. I was so upset at this point that I actually just smiled fakely at him and then said, "you know what I don't either, I don't have time for a relationship." This wasn't entirely a lie since I work and go to school full time.

I told her have a good night I thanked her for dinner at the movie I got in my car and then I left you, you better believe I called my best friend and told her everything that happened that night I guess looking back I guess I didn't realize I could have been in a potentially dangerous situation, needless to say, unless I've been talking to someone for several weeks and feel 100% comfortable. I will never let another guy pressure me into dating. This experience definitely didn't help my perspective. Guys, I don't think all guys just want to hook up, but maybe all the nice guys are already busy or just busy working on themselves.

I haven't given up on love, but I'm definitely focusing on myself before I've ever put myself in a situation like that again. This is a cliché, but I've never been someone who really believes in ghosts or the supernatural. I think it's important to note because I want you to know how real this event was to me. The only event I haven't been able to blame on the winds or my eyes playing tricks on me or being so tired I just heard things was none of those things. When I was 12 I had a sleepover planned at my best friend's house. for a friday night let's call her kelly i will explain the layout of the room we are in because it will be important later kelly lived in a pretty big house but we always slept in the downstairs room so we wouldn't wake up her parents on the floor upstairs, since we usually stayed up quite late.

This living room was huge, on one side there were two large sofas, a television and a pool table. On the other side, about 20 feet away, was a bookshelf with these big glass cabinets. There really wasn't much there, it had what looked like really old files of his father's work. She had seen some interesting books a few weeks ago, but Kelly told me that the shelves are always locked because her father says there is important paperwork there. Anyway, after watching some movies and talking, it's around midnight and I go to the upstairs bathroom to brush my teeth while Kelly puts some blankets on the couches while I brush them, I look in the mirror and see the big glass shower. .

Through the reflection I saw a shadow and was startled because it was much darker than a shadow that anything else in the room could have made. More specifically, I could clearly see the outline of a small child, there were no features, it was just transparent, but somehow still unmistakable despite this I didn't feel threatening although in fact I felt somehow safe but I was still scared then I turned my head and of course there's nothing there I shook it and then I looked at the mirror nothing I took out My contacts and I look up again and there it is again exactly the same place as before but it's still clear despite my not so good vision.

I'm officially as terrified as a 12 year old can be and decide to leave my stuff in the bathroom and just get busy. With that in the morning I ran downstairs and told Kelly what I saw. I won't lie. Then I started crying when I told her that she was trying so hard not to make a big deal about a little shadow, but it seems so real. I must have made a big fuss because Cali's mom came downstairs to see what was going on she says she saw a shadow in the bathroom Kelly says to her mom without missing a beat Kelly's mom looks at me with a distant look in her eyes. shower she says I nod uh it looked like a child we both say in unison my face is white and her mom then says I've seen it before too there's nothing to worry about and she just goes up the stairs, she doesn't Try to comfort me, she just goes up the stairs as quickly as he came down.

Well, needless to say, I really couldn't sleep that night. I must have fallen asleep around 2am. m. because at 3 a.m. m. I woke up to a loud noise. He came right next to me. I didn't have the courage to investigate, so I crawled completely under my blanket and then went back to bed. I woke up the next morning before Kelly and looked to my side, almost completely forgetting what had happened. Last night now on the floor next to my head there was a really huge photo album open there. I look over at the bookshelf and the cabinets are now fully open.

I guess they weren't always locked like Kelly said. The album opened to a page with a single photo of a little boy looking very happy and sitting on a swing set that hadn't yet clicked for me at breakfast, I told Kelly's mom and she said she was sure that there was no way that album could They have fallen 20 feet on me in the middle of the night, she looks at the photo and her face turns white, but who is it? I ask Kelly's mom and then she softly says that he is my brother, he died when she was six.

Now I'm 15, but when? The story happened was on my eighth birthday, my mom invited her friend to the party and a friend brought our children, let's call them Sally Billy and Lily. Fast forward after the party, it ended when me, my siblings Sally Billy and Lily, were having a sleepover. We were all watching a horror movie, I think it was A Nightmare on Elm Street, but I can't remember for sure when I said I wanted to play hide and seek with them, apparently everyone else was as bored with the movie as I was. because everyone loved the idea and we played rock, paper, scissors to see who would be the finder.

My older brother, Charlie, ended up being the seeker and went down the hall to the bathroom to fully understand this story. explains how the house was built when you enter the house through the front door you immediately see the first staircase on your left once you go up the stairs on your right, to your left is the room where we were watching the movie my friend was in Brother Justin's room and my sister Charlene's room were simple. Turn left at the stairs and you will see my room on the right side. If you turn left you will see my mom's room.

Continue down the hallway and turn right. You will see three doors and another staircase, if you continue straight you will reach the closet and the staircase is on the left. Go back and turn left. You will see two doors, one on the left and one in front, the one on the left was Charlie's room and the door in front was the bathroom he was counting on. Now going to the main door, passing the stairs, you can go straight or left. If you go straight, you will be in the living room and if you go. To the left you will see two doors, one in front of you and then another to your left, the one on your left was a random room that was under the stairs and the one in front of you led to the second living room that didn't really we saw.

If you continue, you have something inside. There is a door to your left that leads to the dining room. Once you are in the dining room, there is a door to your left, which is the side door leading out and the one to your right leads to the kitchen. If you enter the kitchen, you will see four doors, one on your left, as soon as you enter, which leads to a patio type, turn right and walk to the far wall and you will reach the second bathroom from the second bathroom. Go directly to the third floor which leads to the basement, then turn right and there is a second staircase that leads to the upper floor.

We also had an attic, but to go there you have to go through the upstairs bathroom anyway, Charlie went to count in the bathroom while the rest of us went tohide I ran downstairs and decided to hide behind the couch I was a dumb eight year old kid now at that time one of my uncle's friends named Scott was staying with us and he was on the couch drunker than ever, not really It wasn't bothering any of us, so it didn't really matter. I remember seeing Lily coming down the stairs looking for a hiding place and she came to hide with me for some reason and she came to hide with me.

For some reason, I didn't think much of it, as I thought this hideout was a really cool place to hide. Charlie finished counting and came to get everyone. I also forgot to mention that we were playing hide and seek. in the dark, so I guess that makes the story scarier anyway, Charlie quickly started finding everyone and I was still crouching behind the couch with Lily when suddenly Scott started laughing hysterically at some reason and then pointed to the ceiling and then started to say. something out loud, I can't really remember exactly what he said, but it was something like oh look, they're coming to get you, everyone's coming to get you, I was confused and a little scared at the same time. time because of this and I guess Lily noticed her because she put her hand on my shoulder and then she sang: you'll be okay Sierra, everything will be okay.

I got even more scared when I heard her speak because her voice sounded distorted, I don't know. I know I went to look at her and asked what was wrong with her voice, but then I saw her hand. Her hand seemed very bony and was a pale color. This really worried me because Lily at the time was a plus size black girl. to which I thought it was her, but then I saw something really horrible, I saw some kind of gremlin with really big facial features, its black eyes, ears and mouth were gigantic and didn't look like they fit properly on the thing's face, I screamed.

I screamed so loud and then instantly jumped on the couch trying to get away from whatever that thing was, obviously Charlie heard me and they came into the room watching as I ran up the stairs away from that thing, the thing literally chased me until I came back in a hurry. Justin's room slammed shut. They all came back to the room and asked me what happened and I told them what I had seen. According to Lily, he hadn't even come to the room for that round. He was with Charlene hiding in it. dining room under the table and according to Charlie she didn't see anything chasing me up the stairs and suddenly she started freaking out and Charlie asked her what was wrong.

Something told everyone to look at my back. I tried to look at my back. and I had seen a lot of red on my salmon-colored shirt wondering what it was. Charlie lifted my shirt and saw four huge scratch marks running from my right shoulder to the left side of my back. It was strange because at first I didn't do it. I even felt the scratches of the bladder on my back, but then it started to itch really badly and I started crying. Charlene then asked me if she still wanted to play hide and seek, but of course I didn't.

I was too scared so I told them to just go ahead without me and that I would stay in the room we were in Justin offered to stay there with me so I wouldn't get scared again and everyone else went to play another round Justin was about from taking me to the bathroom to clean the cuts until he stopped in front of the bedroom door, by which time everyone had already found a hiding place, so when he told me that someone was poking their head out of Charlie's bedroom, it was a little strange , I walked into the hallway and looked and I saw the head coming back into the room, the head was just pure white, it looked like it was glowing, also the hallway light was on outside the bathroom for some reason and that's why we could see it from what my brother saw, he said.

He had no facial features and a very narrow neck, it couldn't be any of us because no one in the house was tall and thin like that thing. As soon as I saw the thing, I screamed again and left. Back in the room once again, everyone ran back to ask what had happened. This time, Justin told them and asked Charlie if it could have been him, but he said he hadn't even entered his room. Everyone agreed that we would simply stay in a room for the night and continue watching movies until we fell asleep. Except when my sister took me to the bathroom to clean the blood from my back and then make me change the now blood covered shirt I was wearing, it was difficult.

I slept that night because of how much the scratches hurt, but I finally did it in the morning , my sister took me back to the bathroom to see if my cuts were bleeding more and no, but only because they are no longer there as if they had totally disappeared from me as if they were never there to begin with. In conclusion, I am so happy to no longer live in that house. I moved when I was entering fifth grade and I'm glad the house is there. Now abandoned, I never found out what the hell that thing was and I don't know if I want to know, but it's definitely one of the craziest and scariest things that's ever happened to me.

He was 16 years old at the time of this story. I had recently. I got my license and was really enjoying the freedom of being able to drive wherever I wanted. I'm older than most of my friends so I was the only one in our group who had my license during this time, because of this I often spent my weekends driving around town with my friends Brook and Mackenzie before spending the weekend. night in one of their houses. This particular Saturday was no different. I made some plans to pick up Brooke and Mackenzie sometime in the afternoon to drive and go shopping and we ate at fast food places and then planned to spend the night at Brooke's house since her parents were out of town so So when the time finally came I picked up my friends and we had a great time shopping in stores and eating really good junk food.

Then we finally went to Brooks for the night. We spent a couple of hours hanging out in Brook's basement, eating more junk food and drinking soda while listening to music. After a while, my stomach started to hurt, so I got up to use the bathroom. Now Brooke's basement. I didn't have a bathroom, so I had to go upstairs. The moment I sat down to relieve myself, I immediately felt uncomfortable from the window next to me, even though I was looking up at the dark night sky. I planned to finish and get back downstairs as soon as possible to be back with the others and then a few seconds later my worst nightmare came true.

I heard a light knock on the window from outside. I was paralyzed with fear. I didn't want to scream to give myself away. I really wanted to get up and run back to the basement, but unfortunately I was still in the process of doing my things, all the junk food came back to haunt me. I was shaking with fear trying to finish as soon as possible. I also realized that I had left my cell phone in the basement so I couldn't even text others. I heard the tapping again on the window right behind me. I couldn't see anything because of how dark it was outside.

I finally got some luck when I heard Brook knock on the bathroom door and then say something like hey, hurry up, I have to go real bad. I tried to shush her from the other side of the door without being too loud at the time. Then it happened a third time. I was basically crying at this point out of fear, out of some miracle. I think Brooke realized a little bit of what was really going on because of my quiet silence followed by the tapping on the window. I finally finished and then jumped. I went into the bathroom and out the door, being very careful not to make any noise.

I decided to leave the light on so as not to reveal my position to whoever was there when I left the bathroom. I grabbed Brook and shushed her and then practically threw her down. to the basement closing the door behind me we went back to the basement where I explained to brook and mackenzie what had happened, they both looked really scared but luckily they both believed me. I should also mention that Brooke is an only child, so the taps couldn't have been siblings and her parents were out of town on vacation, so we knew it wasn't them either.

We were still scared, but we decided to forget about it and continue with our night and eventually fell asleep somewhere crazy. After the hour of the night, we were all woken up again by some knocking from somewhere above. I was able to keep yelling because I didn't give myself away, but the other two didn't. They both started screaming and crying hysterically, which lost any hope of hiding our In some places, the beating stopped and we finally calmed down a bit. We decided to go upstairs and then look outside to see if anyone was there. We reached the top of the stairs and walked together to the kitchen window and then looked outside at first.

I didn't see anything until we saw the dark figure of a man jump face to face with us with only the glass window separating us, it was too dark to get a description of the man but we were 100 sure we all saw him and we all screamed . and then we booked him downstairs walking out the door behind us we had no idea who the man was or where he went after that we called Brooke's parents in the morning who returned home prematurely from their vacation we stayed in the basement both As long as we could until we had to go upstairs to get food and use the bathroom, we have no idea what exactly happened that night but it still scares us all to even think about thank God we were smart enough to lock everyone. the doors of the house. night or who really knows what could have happened last weekend I went to sleep at my best friend's house he had an older brother and a younger brother his parents were home for some reason his parents had a security system, obviously it was.

She was good. I also put a knife in my backpack. I'm a very paranoid person, so it made me feel better to have a gun. I woke up around 2:30 am. m. to go to the bathroom and then went back to bed for about 30 minutes. Later I woke up to my friend's mom and then I screamed, my friend and I shot at the exact same time, I grabbed my backpack and looked for the knife. I shushed my friend and then got up to close the door. I stood at the door. knife I told my friend to take his phone and call 9-1-1.

My friend's room was right across from his younger brother's room. Then we heard his little brother start screaming when I came out of his room. I saw his father and his eldest. brother hitting this man with a baseball bat, then I ran into the room and started helping them, the man had also brought a knife not long after the police arrived and arrested the guy, they also brought his little brother in an ambulance . In fact, I was stabbed several times. It was crazy. My friend called me yesterday and told me that his little brother is out of the hospital and that he is much better.

His parents also thank me very much for my help since this happened. I have always done it. I'm sure my doors and windows are securely closed. They already gave the man a sentence. He was charged with criminal trespass. An attempted murder. They gave him 20 years. Honestly, I'm really worried that when I get out I'm going to hit my friend. house or my house again, but I really hope that doesn't happen. This is a personal story of mine that I would like to share with you. All of the events in this story occurred during the summer of 2019, when I was around 13 years old. man I would like to keep my resort country anonymous for privacy reasons, for some this may not even be

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but it was a chilling experience for me please stay safe and use history as a learning opportunity to use in real life. situations in life that you may encounter because you never know what could happen now if we already start with the story my father and I went on a trip together to a resort in a neighboring country that resided next to our house, it was very close to my father at the time and he always kept me aside wherever we went, my father and I were surfing the internet looking for interesting places to spend our summer vacation for a few days, we finally decided to book a room in a five star hotel. resort we found, I remember being so excited to travel and go to a huge water resort that was waiting for me.

He and I traveled from our country's airport and arrived at the resort now to describe the resort design that the place was known for. Being a well-rated plaza that resonated with the area, it was not only a resort but also had multiple restaurant chains within it, it also had two huge water parks and swimming pools. The total size of the resort was around the length of three six flags for those who don't know what six flags is, it's basically a huge amusement park in the US with a ton of different attractions so you can imagine how big was the design of the area, it had tall and colorful slides spread throughout the resort, I knew some of the attractions there were, like the tornado slide that makes you spin in circles or thoseslides with trap doors that drop you from at least seven to twenty-five meters and leave you far from the adrenaline you felt seconds before.

I remember being so happy to be there like the daredevil that I was. I tried every water slide I could get my hands on. It was a really amazing trip overall and yet I had a really great childhood experience. One incident caught my attention while I was there and will forever be marked in my memory. The time of this incident was around 6 p.m. m. The water rides were about to close for the night and I wanted to have my last chance to swim in the water before us. We went to our room, of course, I was the only person in the pool at the time and my father was watching me from a distance.

He was swimming in one of the big pools, just doing things that a normal 13 year old would do swimming, holding his breath, practicing. laps around the pool and so on, I also want to point out that I went swimming with fins, an important detail to then give a brief description of the pool, it was a large pool that was divided by a mini bridge into two sections, most of the pool was for adults and a smaller, shallow side for children. I was minding my business swimming in the adult side of the pool practicing laps when I thought I heard someone call my name and now thinking it was my dad, I looked up and then scanned the area as my eyes adjusted to the brightness above the pool. water.

I started to see the silhouette of a person and then he approached me a few meters away. I was stunned to see the lifeguard approaching me with a smile on his face. He was a short, tanned guy. who looked to be in his mid thirties, the guy was bald and had a muscular physique and to top it all off he had sunglasses on, he was wearing a white t-shirt with navy blue shorts and he had his whistle around his neck so yeah you're generic. lifeguard as I wiped the chlorine filled water from my eyes, I concentrated on the lifeguard as he kept me afloat in the water, I was very afraid of being in trouble for swimming in the adult side of the pool, very surprisingly, he actually He didn't seem fazed at all. that he was swimming on the wrong side of the pool, he flashed me a toothy smile and started chatting with both of us introducing us now I know what you might be thinking when he was a kid, he was very naive and sheltered.

My parents didn't even teach me about stranger danger, but I always trusted my instinct when I didn't feel comfortable. I don't remember word for word what we were talking about, but I remember he was commenting on how he saw me swimming and that he. He teaches night swimming lessons for little kids like me. I remember him being very pushy about the whole night swimming lesson gig and offering me an invitation to go there with him. At some point I very politely rejected that idea and found it a little strange that his class was taking place. During the night we talked about some other swimming related topics such as cool swimming tricks and also useful tips to use while swimming, everything was going well until the lifeguard proposed that he would like to show me how to swim properly in the water and also help me.

With my swimming stance showing me another creepy smile, I stayed silent as the alarm started ringing in my head knowing that something was definitely not right with his idea, I suddenly saw him take off his shirt and then jump up and dive into the smallest . division of the pool since we were sitting near the bridge that divides the entire pool, I was about two meters away from this man in the water, meaning I had to swim out of there with only a few seconds to spare before he could reach me. For me with all my strength I carried it to the other side of the pool by rapidly moving my fins up and down in the water.

I imagined the worst possible case, either that I would run out of air to continue swimming or that he would simply grab my legs and push me further into the water with that creepy, unnatural smile of his, I desperately moved my arms and legs forward. and back in a wave of panic, not daring to look back and see how close he was to me, my father on the other side of the pool noticed something was wrong in my body language and facial expression once I reached the end of the pool I dove over the edge and then quickly took off my fins while standing while taking off my fins.

He had seen the lifeguard. A few feet away from me in the water and swimming closer and closer to the edge of the pool, I immediately collided with my dad from behind and I didn't have to explain myself as he immediately realized something was wrong, my dad stopped. . in front of me, putting space between me and the creepy lifeguard in my mind, I thought my father would have yelled at him or maybe even hit him, but he only made small talk with the man at that moment, I couldn't process why he was speaking. with this guy like he didn't see what he just did, but now that I'm older I realized that I just wasn't trying to irritate the guy because we're alone, which I still think deserved a good Verbal Hit I guess my dad he had played Mr.

Knife guy with the lifeguard and just pretended to be okay with them while they both exchanged numbers from what I could see when we finally got out of the pool we both booked our hotel room around 10. Minutes later as I was walking loudly, my father's phone rang non-stop, surprisingly, the name of the lifeguard lit up on the screen of my father's phone, my heart sank to my stomach when I read the name on the screen, I turned to myself father and asked him why. A guy was calling him, what my dad told me made my heart skip a beat.

My dad went on to tell me that the lifeguard wanted to go out with him. We met up later that night and that he was going to bring his friends over so we could all meet up together. I stopped walking hard and stared at my dad in total disbelief. He pulled my arm firmly and held me next to him as he looked back. Ignoring the calls he told me that we had to leave and that we would not go out with that stranger. No, I wish the story had ended there. I never saw that creepy guy again, but that wasn't the case the next day.

It was scorching hot and an absolutely perfect day to soak in the cool water of the pools and slides. I decided to grab those yellow shaped rafts that are always used for every huge water slide. I was waiting in line on 10-story flights of stairs. which was connected to the huge water slides, the foot traffic was very slow during that time of day, I was bored to death waiting for the wine to move, naturally I looked around and saw kids screaming down the slides, all the different types of people chatting and Overall, I was really admiring the scenery of the colorful atmosphere.

I started looking through the narrow ring of people and lo and behold, then I see, you guessed it, the really creepy lifeguard monitoring all the people as they travel down the slides. I cursed under my breath and then more sweat rolled down my face, I couldn't really tell if it was from seeing the boy again or just from the scorching sun, but I didn't care, I just wanted to go somewhere else but close to that man. I started to use the raft to block my view, but it was of no use because he had already seen me in the crowd, he shouted my name with joy and then took a step towards me asking me why my father and I met him last night and that we could.

I've had a bit of fun right now, I really didn't know if this guy was overwhelmingly friendly to strangers or if he had other hidden agendas that night. I went with my instincts and vigorously shook my head no and walked up the stairs as there were fewer people in line now, thankfully, he left me alone and gave me the hint that he didn't want to talk as I prepared to lunge for the dark and winding slide that awaited me. I took one last look at the boy and Yes, he was still looking at me with that oily, creepy smile.

I turned both poles on either side of the slide and launched myself down the slide as if my life depended on it when the slide came to an end with a huge splash. I jumped out of the pool I landed in and never returned to the city where I saw him again during that entire trip. It's been about three years since that incident and I'm currently writing all of this in my small room as an avid listener of scary

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. and hearing other people's stories I felt compelled to write this, I had kept it in the back of my mind for years and although it may not be much, it feels really good to talk about it after so long coming from one person who internalizes situations like these thanks for listening to me and my friend Sam we were women by the way we decided to take a vacation in Philadelphia to visit the Liberty Bell and the museums in the area just to get away and it was only a five hour drive we were supposed to Staying there three nights in four days, however, we never made it past the third night, most of our vacation was really great, except that third day, while we were walking through the city center, it was almost 90 degrees outside.

So, as you can imagine, we're looking for some shade to hide in as we walk back to our hotel. We finally came across a very long arch that you can walk through, so we decided to use it to protect ourselves from the sun. Walking through the arch, we pass this man who is sitting on some stairs and appears to be homeless, well I didn't really think much about it, considering Philly is really full of homeless people in broad daylight, we continue walking just as we passed by him. We had it. I felt like something was wrong, it just felt wrong.

I turned around very quickly before my friend could realize what he was doing and saw the man standing right behind me staring at me. Sam finally turns around with me and instantly he sees my full face. In fear, this man was just looking me straight in the eyes, mumbling random words, possibly from another language, finally, after just staring for 30 seconds, I finally got the courage to ask, what are you doing? There was no response from the man, he just murmured more, but louder. This time I finally start to circle back with Sam while this man is still on top of me following my every move.

The scariest part is that he never took his eyes off mine even once. At this point Sam and I were totally freaking out and tears started filling my eyes with the thought that I was about to get mugged or even worse, I started backing away from the archway where there were other people walking and he continues to keep approaching me. Finally I heard a man's voice and then I shouted from a distance, hey stay away from them and we quickly turned around, the man started walking towards us but the homeless man didn't move and finally he was so close to my face that I could smell his horrible breath as he continued to mutter these random words, the men who had called us ran and pulled him away from us.

I immediately burst into tears thanking the man as he stood between us and the homeless man until we walked. Looking back on the story, I'm not really sure why I didn't walk away in the first place and freeze like I did, but I was filled with so much fear of what this man was thinking of doing to me that I just couldn't think straight trying forgetting what had just happened, we decided to walk back to the hotel and go to dinner. While we were eating in the hotel restaurant on the outside patio which is located on a boardwalk, we noticed someone staring at us from the other side of the boardwalk. and as you can imagine it was that same homeless man, we did everything we could to avoid him and just continued eating dinner even though we were terrified when we finished, we will look back one more time before returning. to our room and all you see is the man pointing directly at me with a very serious and really expressionless face.

Now he wanted to create a problem. We came back inside later that night we were smoking in my car that was in the parking lot. that's where we felt like they wouldn't catch us right, about 30 minutes sitting in the car when she fired two shots that to us sounded like she was right next to us, we immediately freaked out not knowing if the shooter was inside the garage with us . I decided to go out and go see what happened and looked outside from the barred windows they had in the garage. What I saw was absolutely disturbing, it appeared to be a drive-by shooting and for two little girls from a really small town, this was definitely not something we were used to as I watched the accident.

I see a man hiding behind a tree near the scene. He was looking at me and pointing at me. He was the same homeless man again. I have no idea how he did it. He knew we were there or how he knew where our hotel was, but he was totally obsessed with me since he never took his eyes off me even once,exactly like before, we ended up leaving the hotel right after and probably won't go. Back in the day, I don't know what that homeless guy who seemed obsessed with me had planned for me, but I'm so glad we got out of there when we did.

I am originally from a town near the Appalachian Mountains in Maryland. I lived there for basically the first decade of my life and I really loved it there. I made many friends, played baseball, and spent many long afternoons drinking Coca Cola in a nearby cornfield watching the beautiful sunset over the mountains. It was a really great place where I was able to live a carefree childhood since my neighborhood was in a rural area of ​​a nearby city and then was well known for gang activity when I was 10 years old, the real estate company my mother went bankrupt because the economy took a really bad turn for her.

The worst thing is the bright side, although her friend helped her get a new job in Chicago working for a healthcare company, but this eventually forced us to move. Unfortunately, my father was unable to join us because he was still attached to a law firm in DC. and he couldn't move yet because of this, whenever my brothers and I had time off from school, we always went back to Maryland for vacation for the most part. It was really nice to go back there on vacation, the most exciting thing about it. It was that every time we returned there were always new developments in the city and sometimes there were even developments in the rural area where I lived, sometimes the changes were a little more subtle like some wooded areas being torn down and other times we would return Seeing an apartment complex brand new near our old neighborhood, it was quite evident that the population was growing rapidly, apparently due to many people moving away from Washington DC, when I was about 14, it was summer, and we were in Maryland.

Since we would always be on vacation, one of the new developments in the area turned out to be a nature trail that stretched for about two miles, it was a five minute walk from my house and the trail went through a small but long wooded area there. There was even a small stream that ran along the first quarter mile of the trail. My friends and I were hanging out one day and decided to go see it. Our walk was pleasant. We saw a surprising amount of drawings and profane messages written on beer bottles with chalk and used condoms along the trail, there really isn't much to do where I'm from, about a mile down the trail we noticed a small opening in the brush just before the trail took a sharp bend, the opening then led to a small area right next to the stream, this area was the best part of the trail if you continued forward, all you would see were trees, tall brush, a apartment complex and an underpass under the bridge into our neighborhood a few nights later.

I was in my room playing Fallout 3 late at night and wouldn't stop playing until 2am. I lay down in bed very tired but I couldn't fall asleep, so, like any rational teenager, I spontaneously decided to go for a walk on the new trail. The lighting was really perfect for that night. The moon rose very well along the trail since there was no There were enough trees on the pavement to block the moonlight as I walked down the trail I noticed two people walking quite a ways ahead of me, the trail was also fairly new so I didn't think much about it as I continued I noticed the two People stopped at the mouth of the underpass that was located at the end of the trail.

I started to get a bad feeling about what was happening. So I backed away slowly when I got about 50 meters away from them. The next thing I noticed was that one of them was starting to yell in my direction. I couldn't really understand what he was saying, but I could tell from this guy's expression. The tone that was definitely not friendly gave me all the reasons I needed to realize that this was not a good situation for me, so I decided to try and pause as I turned to flee, I heard. a series of what sounded like loud noises, four in total as I started running I heard something small hit one of the nearby trees to my left and that's when it clicked.

They were shooting at me. I ran back the way I came faster than me. I had never run before, trying to dodge the bullets made me very tired, I kept trying to keep moving even though I was so scared I swear, I thought I was going to faint, I heard another shot behind me, but fortunately they missed. Again I couldn't understand why these people were chasing me and trying to kill me. I just witnessed something in the underpass. Were these people looking for the police? My mind was running as fast as my legs. In the end I told myself that I needed to get off this trail ASAP because with the amount of trees along the road, the trail was basically a two mile choke point with some occasional switchbacks.

I was feeling ready to give up when I noticed a very familiar bend accompanied by the sound of water gently pushing downstream this was exactly the opportunity I needed to get away from these people immediately after clearing the turn I entered the brush I walked about 10 meters downstream and then I lay face down silently in the stream with my head tilted to the side so that I could still hear and breathe. I took a few very deep breaths to slow my heart rate and then forced myself to control my breathing so as not to give away my position.

Finally I heard two pairs of quick footsteps on the road. It was difficult. to hear what they were saying, but all I could remember was what happened? We kill him? I stayed as still as I could and breathed as softly as possible. Even with that they still found the opening of the creek, one of them checked the shoreline. He then checked the brush and was finally standing five feet from me. Luckily for me, although the tree surrounding the stream created a canopy of darkness that was able to protect me from the moonlight, it eventually gave up and left without having checked the stream.

Although I couldn't hear his footsteps anymore, I still made sure to wait a bit before returning home. Once I got to my actual neighborhood, I heard a car speeding out of the area. I assumed it was them, but I still made sure to cut. back yards and stay very low in case they were still around I finally got home soaked and still getting the adrenaline of my life I used the bag door to sneak into my house I changed my clothes and stayed awake in my bed until In the morning, well, a few weeks go by when I listen to my mom talk about how a lot of the DC thugs are apparently taking the train and moving to my town along with all the regular people, maybe the two people I found were gangbangers or something like that.

I really have no idea, but I'm so grateful I listened to my instincts last night because if I wasn't, I definitely wouldn't be here almost a decade later, this happened during my freshman year of high school. Winter just ended, so the night air felt really cool, but not too cold, my former best friend, who will call Veronica. She had texted me asking what I was doing and she said she was hungry to which I responded too so I could understand the story better. She had to explain the layout and distances of each place. She was at my cousin's house, which is about eight blocks away. veronica's and mcdonald's was probably about a half mile away from our houses, across the straight from our mcdonald's there was a target and several other fast food chains and maybe about a mile and a half away there was a Burger King, I do not know exactly.

I remember whose brilliant idea it was to sneak out at 11pm to satisfy our hunger, but we still did it, even though I had never done it before, sneaking out was relatively easy for me, as for Veronica, well, let's just say no. I was. new to this because I was late I was in my pajamas which consisted of shorts and an oversized football shirt in hindsight probably not the best outfit idea for 11pm. while sneaking into a not so safe city, but I digress, we met halfway and did it. our way to McDonald's catching up on the kids' problems, an idiotic math teacher we had at the time, the streets weren't desolate, but they weren't necessarily full of cars either.

I remember worrying that my mom would see me walking at 11 p.m. if she passed by. We decided to go through the huge Target parking lot to save some distance and time. Now the McDonald's and Target were a little uphill, but only if you walk from west to east, we came from south to north, so it wasn't really a problem for us. Which would have been either way, but it's better to explain it as we were walking across the street from Target to McDonald's, we saw a guy who was probably around five foot seven, so he was pretty short.

He was wearing a blue hoodie and I think some shorts, Veronica maybe around five foot two at the time I was about five three or five four because this all happened years ago some of the details are a little fuzzy . I didn't really think much of the guy because Veronica and I were laughing and talking. about anything, but I made a mental note of it, so being the geniuses that we were, neither of us actually checked to see if the McDonald's would be open. Well, to be correct, it was open, but just the road, yeah, we couldn't do it.

A simple but very important need, no problem for us geniuses, although why do you ask? Because Burger King wasn't that far away and we really needed to satisfy our hunger, so why don't we start heading west, downhill? I was ranting while Veronica kept looking over her shoulder, she has a habit of doing this every time we walk anywhere, no matter what time of day, so you should put your arm around mine and then she gently told me that that guy told us. is following. I looked back without making it obvious but just to see if she was joking with me, yeah we had a messy sense of humor so it wouldn't have been that hard, unfortunately she was telling the truth, she started walking faster now, to which I tightened my grip.

I put my arm around her and told her not to walk so fast or he would know we were behind him, as I mentioned before our city wasn't really one of the safest, so I grew up and was taught to always be aware of what was happening to me. surrounded I'm as street smart as my brothers, as I was more book smart than anything else, but I wasn't an idiot either. Then I told Veronica that we should cross the street and enter the target as we crossed the street. I looked back and realized that he was also crossing at that moment, Veronica was very worried and I, as you might ask, was laughing for some reason.

I found this funny because what are the odds that the first time I sneak out will end up being followed by a McDonald's, suffice to say, although I did end up sneaking out again after that, what can I say? I wanted to have the whole high school experience as we made our way through the large objective parking lot. I FaceTimed with my cousin to share what was currently happening. Since she knew, I snuck away while laughing and explaining that Veronica was in full panic mode. I finally hung up abruptly when Veronica and decided to run through the rest of the parking lot and into the target doors, the guy still following me.

When we got to the target we decided to walk around in case he followed us inside but luckily he didn't, we headed back to the glass windows where the entrance was located and then sat down to really take in the whole situation Veronica said she saw the guy passing the target in the same direction we had originally come from behind the target is a park I always wanted to pass through to get home. I decided to call my older brother and asked him what to do. He told me. call my cousin and then tell her to walk and then meet us at the target.

I texted him and told him to bring her giant boyfriend who was spending the night. She said she would meet us at the front. Veronica was. Really relieved, but I still didn't care at all. A few minutes pass and a guy walks towards the target and approaches Veronica and me. I don't remember exactly, but I think he was Caucasian and maybe around five feet. seven, she explained that she was in the McDonald's drive-thru when she noticed us walking away and the guy following us said that she saw us crossing toward the target, as well as the guy, and that she wanted to make sure we were safe .

He told us our side of the story and then assured him that we were actually fine, he told us that we shouldn't be out so late and that we should really call our family to pick us up,since high school and we knew each other pretty well. We both have the same stocky build and each stand around five foot eight plus or minus an inch. We are also not the type to back down if a fight is necessary. Whenever it comes up, we're both pretty tough when it comes to fishing and we both even have a tattoo to prove it.

There were times when we left from 4 p.m. m. at 4 a.m. m. On this fishing trip we decided to take Hay's dog named Colt. The first time he went with us to our favorite spot which was located in a wildlife area about an hour from where we lived, Cole was a huge black gray Dane with a white spot on his chest. When he stood next to me, his shoulders barely reached me. Below my waist the colt was the sweetest dog if he recognized you as part of his family. He had been with Kane when she picked him up from the breeder she bought him from and he sat on my lap during the five-hour drive to his new home. so they definitely considered me family so on the fishing trip the trip was going great and Kay and I were fishing left and right and Colt was having a blast playing in the water and sniffing everything he saw as well as marking his territory when it eventually started to get dark we took out our headlamps and flashlights we were always prepared to fish at night we had been to this place hundreds of times before and never had any problems except for a hungry raccoon that stole our baking we prepared to do some fishing with cat and called him, we lay down on a blanket just outside the ring of light that our flashlights were emitting.

It was around 2 a.m. when we heard voices coming from the only trail available to get back to K's SUV. In the dimly lit parking lot we were on high alert because, although we had made friends with some of the people fishing in the same place as us, none of them stayed outside until after dark, the only thing we had for self-defense was our little pocket knives and pepper spray, the voices got closer and we hoped it was just a couple of park rangers, I mean, since We had run-ins with them before while leaving late, but we weren't so lucky leaving the dark forest. six men, none of them had flashlights or anything, they weren't even using their cell phones for illumination, how they managed to get down the completely uneven path full of thorny bushes without falling to pieces or breaking a leg, was beyond my comprehension, Can I just come in? solid for a split second, all the men were laughing and giving off a really creepy vibe.

The group spokesperson shushed everyone else and asked us if that was our SUV that left the trailhead parking lot in my head. I was ready to leave all my equipment and run if necessary and I knew that he was thinking the same thing. He answered yes, it was his SUV and she asked why they wanted to know, the spokesperson said that his car had died and that they needed One jump and I asked if we had jumper cables, Kay, and I responded in unison that no, we didn't have jumper cables on the SUV and that we were sorry, but we couldn't help them.

At that moment I had my hand on my knife. and I was ready to fight, I wasn't going to make it easy for them to kill me or worse, the men's attitude visibly changed when we said we couldn't help them, the other five men who had been lagging behind began to step forward. with the spokesperson they started saying things like are you sure you don't have any jumper cables and why don't we go take a look? Can I tense up and are we ready for a fight? But just then the culture had been silently watching from the shadows decided it didn't like where this was going and finished watching, materialized from the shadows like a beast from hell and then snarled with teeth bared.

I'm not kidding, I've never seen Colt look so scary. and intimidating before in my life, Colt stood in front of Kay and I continued to growl and glare at the men. Then I heard one of them say, "That's a big dog", all the men stopped walking towards us, the spokesperson then muttered something along the lines of well, thank you for your time and they all turned and walked out. running down the path. Can I let out the breath we've been holding? We decided we would pack up all our gear and get out of there. About five minutes and we got back to K's truck, we figured if the men were still in the truck we could throw everything in the truck and get out of there.

Cole led the way on high alert and when we got to the parking lot there was not a single soul there, we got in the truck and drove out of there onto the one lane dirt road that led to our fishing spot. We didn't see a single car anywhere on the road and where we were there. It was nothing but flat farmland, we had no idea where those guys had gone but we weren't going to stick around to find out we made it back safely to K's house and Colt got plenty of dog treats but this didn't stop us .

After fishing late into the night, he made us more aware of the forests around us. Nothing like this ever happened to us again, nor did the strange men who were supposedly having car trouble. We will never meet again because now I have my CCW and I always carry my gun when I catch you