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Getting in touch with someone has never been this easy. We can text our friends, talk to people we're playing a video game with, or have a video conference with our coworkers. You get the picture. However, this also means that we're easy to reach too. And not everyone is interested in having a nice conversation.
There's an interesting post on r/AskReddit by u/AStutler4907 where they asked other users: "What's the creepiest message you've received from someone?" Turns out, there are quite a few disturbing individuals who either have some sort of ulterior motive or just want to spread fear and chaos.
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#1
Might not be “serial killer” creepy but a man once messaged me “$200.00” when I asked him what he meant he said that him and his friends were betting on how easily he could lay me and that he’d get $200.00 for getting me into bed (I’m a lesbian) He was as old if not older than my own father and I told him in the calmest way possible how gross it was, how ashamed he should be and told him I would be forwarding the screenshots to his daughter and family (I did)
#2
Last year I broke up with a guy I briefly dated. I got really bad stalker vibes from him so I cut him off completely - blocked him on my phone and every messenger I have and deleted my FB profile. A couple of weeks later I learned that he moved to my city which really freaked me out.
On my birthday in November I found a birthday card from him in my mailbox - no stamp so I know he's been to my house. It was really creepy but I didn't hear from him ever again after that. Until now.
Fast forward to this year November. Again, he threw a birthday card and a gift card into my mailbox - no stamp. I've moved TWICE since last year and yet he was able to locate me on my birthday, so I know he's still monitoring where I live. I am now absolutely convinced that he's nuts. In what world can he believe that I find this intrusive behaviour considerate or romantic?
#3
‘Hey you look like my sister and I’m into inbreeding’.
Gross.
I messaged back ‘that’s good to hear cause my brother is also my father’.
Nailed it. He didn’t reply back.
#4
Was playing some CS:GO. Teammate started out really nice at the start of the game. We started losing and he got really really toxic. I told him to calm down or something like that and he said “I will fucking kill you in real life.” After the game he sent me a friend request. I accepted expecting him to do some trash talking and call me shit. Instead he sent me my Address, My dad’s full name and my phone number. Being 16, I was terrified.
#5
This happened when I was around 16 or 17. I was on a bus and in my school’s sport uniform. Then I got a text from an unsaved number asking “are you not cold in those thin clothes?” (It was a chill morning)
So looked around inside the bus immediately and got another text: “stop looking you’re not going to find me.”
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
Would be blocking the number, changing mine and taking a different bus route.
#6
I once had a 55 year old stalker. He came into my job everyday for a year before he introduced himself to me. Never said a word to me in person. But he wrote me a 5 page introduction letter. He wrote about how special I am and how my boyfriend doesn't deserve me, that I need a special kind of love. He wrote about how perfect he could be for me and he has what it takes to please me. He wrote about how our interests are similar and about how he can take care of me. He mentioned many things I have talked about with other customers while he must have been present in the store. He also left me presents. Two antique glass heart ornaments. He left the letter and presents on my car where I parked in the lot out back. It was creepy as hell because I was closing that night by myself and locked up and left by myself. And I didn't find this out until later, but he lived in the house that bordered the back lot. So he was probably watching me through the blinds (later realized he was watching me through his blinds for some time and he wouldn't stop) as I was reading the letter. I honestly thought it was some kind of joke! I thought it was from these boys in town just making fun of me. Anyway, the messages kept coming so eventually I had to contact the police. And it turns out it really was this 55 year old man with an unusual obsession against me so I did have to get a restraining order and he was no longer allowed to step foot in my job. Nor was I allowed to leave work alone. I was also 20 at the time. So creepy.
Helen Haley 3 years ago
What is it with some older men thinking they need/deserve some barely adult? There is no way you have much in common. It is creepy.
#7
I had posted some innocuous comment about a female comedian (whom I wasn't even particularly fond of!), to which some random man took massive offence. Continued to barrage me with the most vile comments (all women who are fat and want to be raped etc.) , I disengage and put my mobile away.
Not even ten minutes later he had gone back through all the pictures of the last five years, commenting and getting increasingly graphic with his threats.
Culminates in him sending me a message how he would prefer to "rape" my toddler daughter because her "cunt" would be "peachier".
Real kicker is that before I blocked him I took a look at his account - no sock puppet/troll, but a man with his smiling kids in his profile pic, employer and scenes of family life. He had no fear sending sexual threats to someone under his own name after one public comment.
#8
I was selling a bed on Facebook. Before you start thinking of what could have been sent to me let me to tell you, you’re wrong and it’s worse.
It began with the automated: “Are you still selling this?”
I replied “Yes.”
7 MONTHS later I get a message “Did your kid sleep in it? Did he wet the bed at all?”
I replied “No I slept on it, it’s perfectly clean” (thought to myself well that’s fine I would want to know if a kid had peed on the bed I’m gonna buy, also yes I still hadn’t sold it yet)
He replied “Too bad.”
Then I realized he was only interested in it if a kid had slept in it and peed. Sent chills down my spine that I was possibly talking to a pedophile.
#9
I was very active in a subreddit devoted to supporting people dealing with a specific mental illness a while back. I was talking about some personal shit. Specifically, I was talking about how I was a victim of a violent crime in high school and about how it messed me up for so long but I think I was starting to get better. That there was hope for this person I was interacting with.
Someone later messaged me saying I deserved what happened to me and they’d gladly do the same to me based on my post history.
I deleted that account and got into therapy. That shit messed me up.
#10
One of my neighbors messaged me asking if I had recently been on the elevator. Because he could smell it. Said I was clearly ovulating, very fertile, and that triggered his male senses.
There's like 60 apartments in my building. But he was right. Creeped me out.
#11
At about 11pm, a family friend texts me this: ( as accurately as I remember)
"Look, I thought I could do it. I can't. It's been six months since it happened and nobody even cares anymore. He's just a kid. I do not want to be any further involved, ask someone else."
About 30 seconds later,
"Oh, sorry, that was just a mistake. I meant to send that to my brother, we're just messing around."
I don't know man.
#12
A picture that was of me drunk walking home from an unknown number
theswallowii 3 years ago
Again...How is it possible to text someone without knowing their number?? Oo
#13
A random number send me a long SMS in which he argue that I shouldn't be f***ing truck drivers for cheap money while I can hook up with him and his rich friends for much more money. I replied that I am a guy and he probably has the wrong number, to which he replied that he knew who am I and gave me my university dorm address. I blocked him instantly but it creeped me so much then. It may be a prank but it didn't sound like one, and I was an international student there so I didn't really have friends who would prank me like this.
#14
A man ten years older than me sent me a long message declaring his undying love for me, said he was going to leave his wife and kids for me how he couldn't stop thinking of me and he wanted to be with me forever and how he'd divorce her so we could be together...I was 18 and barely said a few words to him
#15
A guy was writing me on Grindr. I wasn't interested, so I said I wasn't interested. He keeps persisting that we should meet tonight. I was like w/e, stopped responding. Then he said he would take his car to come find me. When i refreshed the app I saw the distance drop from 3000m to 200m. He was like "I'm close now". Then I blocked him, turned off all lights in my apartment (I live on the 1st floor). Now I'm careful to have distance showing on dating apps...
#16
It wasn’t the message that was creepy it was the details.
I got a friend request and a message on FB from some dude with a car as his profile pic. The message was just something like, “Hey, remember me?” I didn’t and had to be like who are you.
It turned out it was this dude from a Chinese restaurant near my house. He remembered my name from my debit card and searched me out.
#17
I got a text from a wrong number and all it said was “he won’t be bothering you anymore, I took care of it”
#18
“Turn around, I’m at the end of the street”
A text from a guy who was interested in me. I was walking home from work and he’d asked if I was home yet. I said no so he drove my walk home and then text me when he saw me. I was so creeped out.
I refused a lift to his surprise
Rage of Aquarius 3 years ago
Unless you're Christian Slater with a baboon heart, that is creepy af.
#19
This happened in 2012-2013 when we were living in an apartment in the city. My wife and I were out shopping one day when I noticed I had a missed call. Checked to see who from and it was from our land-line.. We didn't live with anyone else and my phone was brand new so no one even had my new number yet either. I had a voicemail so we checked that. It was just the phone hanging up. Quiet and then the dead tone. Very weird and creepy.
#20
I run a gift card business that is specifically destined to be in my small country. I make the card, we plan on a meetup, I give them the card, I get paid, we go our separate ways.
I got a message from a guy, wanting a card for a friend's birthday. All fine, I made the card, and we met up. I got my money, and we left. A week later, I got a text from him. Thinking it might be a thank you, or a review, as I often get those, I checked it, but it just said: "I like your shirt."
This got me a little suspicious, as I was wearing my favourite shirt that had a transformers logo on it, so I just replied with a "Thanks", and moved on. Then I got a message almost immediately after I put it down, saying, "I like transformers too."
I immediately got paranoid and moved away from where I was sitting. I then replied with a warning that I will call the police on him, and that I had his number, and that I still remembered what he looked like. He backed off after that.
My business is still running, but I'm much more careful now.
Kate Wooding 3 years ago
at least you still remembered how he looked etc. in case you needed it
#21
When I was around thirteen, I got a text message saying something like "I'm the tooth fairy, make a wish." I asked the person who they were, they kept trying to get me to tell them what I wanted. My mom and I promptly called the police.
Still creeped out by it...
BlackestDawn 3 years ago
If you have the presence of mind then perhaps go with something like "that you'll never contact me again in any way, shape, or form". Though some people take any answer as a positive one so maybe the best option is to just block, report, and then ignore.
#22
About a year after graduating high school, I was playing hockey with my buddy when both of our phones beep. It was our former HS band teacher. We had his number from a cross country field trip the band went on. The message:
Hey guys it’s [former band teacher]. Group gang bang tonight. Let me know if your in.
#24
My mother died in 2016 and a couple weeks later I got a text message from her number that nearly stopped my heart it read "KO" which I found weirdly fitting.
#25
I accidentally got talking to a crazy Christian chick who was engaged to get married in a few months. Her husband is a ginger and I am also - turns out she has a major fetish for them.
One day she was talking to me online while playing a modded version of the Sims video game. She popped up and said "hey, look what I built". She sends me a few screenshots of the game: turns out she'd made myself and her husband in a gay relationship on the game. The details were scarily accurate with the face / body creation. The first screenshot I got was me, in game, naked (the mod has full nude Sims with penises and all) with my legs spread on a kitchen bench with her husband fucking me in the ass.
Yes, I still have the pictures. I slowly stopped talking to her after that.
#26
Someone said “You looked really good in your blue dress today” fake fb profile, didn’t have any pictures and I was wearing a blue dress.
#27
I received a recycled number and the previous owner had used it everywhere from his bank to shopping websites so I used to get a lot of spam. I even tried to explain to the bank when they called regarding the account. One day someone added me on Snapchat through my phone number and upon seeing my Snapchat story, a 35 year old woman replied to my story of watching Star wars by saying "I attended your funeral."
#28
Hoping it was just someone fucking with me. Note dropped in my locker in 10th grade with a pretty simple, quite creepy poem.
It read:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
If you ever feel alone,
I'm always watching you :)
Might've been a prank because there was never any followup.
#29
Got a message from someone on Reddit asking me how no one had killed me yet.
#30
Somebody went through my post history and found a photo I took where the ends of my shoes are visible. Dude then proceeded to demand feet pics and sent me very creepy pms
What do you think ?
Sinkvenice 3 years ago
I saw a video ages ago about a woman who had been pulled over by the police for some sort of driving violation. The cop said he drove past her and thought she looked really cute, so he turned his car around and was now right behind her. He then said he ran her plates to see if there was any reason at all to pull her over, so he could use it as an excuse to ask her out. Turns out she had an unpaid speeding ticket, which was great news for him as it gave him that excuse. The police obviously arrested him, he was charged and kicked out of the police as a result. Crazy narcissist.
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago
These are not just creepy but scary too. I hope majority if not all of these people were reported, stopped or caught and charged.
Lord Mysticlaw 3 years ago
Not nearly as creepy as most of these. But once I got a Facebook message from someone saying something like "I understand what he saw in you now and why he couldn't forget you" or something weird like that. I had been out with friends the night before at a club type place and I don't know if that had anything to do with it or if it was random. But anyway, I replied with something like "who are you and what are you taking about" and this person proceeded to tell me that they moved into a house and found whole lot of letters that someone had written to me but never sent to me but left in the house hidden in a wall or something stupid. I asked who were these supposed letters from and they replied "from X" (my horrible, awful, abusive, psychopathic ex boyfriend I had escape from 8 years earlier). I immediately blocked the person and then deleted all of my social media profiles. I'm pretty sure it was X himself.
WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
A lot of these posts should be enough to delete or change your personal information on social media. It still baffles me how much info people post on social media that makes it easy for a psychopath to track them without any effort. Cross reference Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, check Tiktok and you know more about a person than their family does. Don't they know that they are making themselves sitting ducks for any psychopath out there? And this also goes for idiotic parents who post videos on youtube about their kids and their "perfect family life".
Jo Choto 3 years ago
If you ever experience anything like this, keep a record of when/what and always contact the police. Even if they can't do anything, you can have the record of it. At some point, you may need them to respond to something worse, or you may need a restraining order, and having the record of your actions and their actions will help.
Indigojinn 3 years ago
'I'm in your house with your wife' Cable installation guy in Malaysia, translated from Mandarin. Everything was good. But still.
Seabeast 3 years ago
I got pressured into getting on FaceBook by relatives about 15 or 16 years ago and learned the value of privacy settings just two days in. Some guy sent me a flirty message telling me he loved my photograph and thought I was beautiful, and could we get together, blah blah blah. I was a grey haired middle aged woman at the time. The privacy settings were implemented that day.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
My cell number when I still had one 20 years ago belonged to a charmer who got regular calls from a state prison. Since I wasn't taking the calls, I got some interesting messages, then tossed the phone, told the company about the issue with the number, and havent had a cell since.
Seabeast 3 years ago
My partner got issued a number like that. The previous owner of it had clearly led an "interesting" life and had a lot of people very angry at him. My partner asked for a different number about a week later.
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Lovin' Life 3 years ago
Some very creepy s**t here. These people need to seek help from the police. This type of behavior is dangerous and can escalate
Janine B. 3 years ago (edited)
And when I was 19 I once walked my granny's dog. And when walking a dog, people obviously find it easier to talk to you. Anyway, it was summer, I wore a dress and suddenly this man, maybe in his 40s and very attractive and well-dressed, stud next to me and started doing some small talk. I must add, this is not very common in Germany and I live Berlin were almost everyone is a stranger to you. So I was a little confused and wanted to get away from him. He started to follow me, making lots of compliments, asking if we could have a coffee together. I said no and that I had a boyfriend (which wasn't true) and he said the boyfriend was very lucky and that he didn't need to know. I tried to stay polite but I was scared as hell as there was no other person around. I was so relieved when he gave up but man, I don't want to know how often he succeeded as he was really good-looking. Still gives me the creeps and I'm really glad I was never good at trusting a complete stranger or being flattered by compliments or friendliness.
Janine B. 3 years ago (edited)
Probably a harmless story, but when I was about 17 or 18 (back in the 90's) I went to the library very often. I looked maybe like 14 or 15 at that time. We still had those paper cards with our names and addresses on it. One day I opened our mailbox and found a letter in it (no stamp) from a 35 year old man. He said he saw me at the library and thought I was cute so he decided it was a good idea to stand behind me to check my address and write to me. Gladly he didn't write any creepy stuff just what his hobbies were and so on. Even included a picture and his address. Still I was shocked and annoyed but my mom just had a good laugh about it. But seriously if I had a daughter that would get such a letter nowadays this guy would better move out of town.
Seabeast 3 years ago (edited)
A 35 year old creeping on a girl who looks 14 or 15 is definitely not harmless. I always looked younger than my real age up to about my late 20s, and would get attention from men age 30 or older until they found out I was in my 20s, not my early teens (got braces on my teeth as an adult). The fact that they lost interest when they found out that I wasn't underage is chilling.
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David Dwyer 3 years ago
The really sad thing is that at least 95% of these people seem to be women
Sinkvenice 3 years ago
I saw a video ages ago about a woman who had been pulled over by the police for some sort of driving violation. The cop said he drove past her and thought she looked really cute, so he turned his car around and was now right behind her. He then said he ran her plates to see if there was any reason at all to pull her over, so he could use it as an excuse to ask her out. Turns out she had an unpaid speeding ticket, which was great news for him as it gave him that excuse. The police obviously arrested him, he was charged and kicked out of the police as a result. Crazy narcissist.
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago
These are not just creepy but scary too. I hope majority if not all of these people were reported, stopped or caught and charged.
Lord Mysticlaw 3 years ago
Not nearly as creepy as most of these. But once I got a Facebook message from someone saying something like "I understand what he saw in you now and why he couldn't forget you" or something weird like that. I had been out with friends the night before at a club type place and I don't know if that had anything to do with it or if it was random. But anyway, I replied with something like "who are you and what are you taking about" and this person proceeded to tell me that they moved into a house and found whole lot of letters that someone had written to me but never sent to me but left in the house hidden in a wall or something stupid. I asked who were these supposed letters from and they replied "from X" (my horrible, awful, abusive, psychopathic ex boyfriend I had escape from 8 years earlier). I immediately blocked the person and then deleted all of my social media profiles. I'm pretty sure it was X himself.
WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
A lot of these posts should be enough to delete or change your personal information on social media. It still baffles me how much info people post on social media that makes it easy for a psychopath to track them without any effort. Cross reference Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, check Tiktok and you know more about a person than their family does. Don't they know that they are making themselves sitting ducks for any psychopath out there? And this also goes for idiotic parents who post videos on youtube about their kids and their "perfect family life".
Jo Choto 3 years ago
If you ever experience anything like this, keep a record of when/what and always contact the police. Even if they can't do anything, you can have the record of it. At some point, you may need them to respond to something worse, or you may need a restraining order, and having the record of your actions and their actions will help.
Indigojinn 3 years ago
'I'm in your house with your wife' Cable installation guy in Malaysia, translated from Mandarin. Everything was good. But still.
Seabeast 3 years ago
I got pressured into getting on FaceBook by relatives about 15 or 16 years ago and learned the value of privacy settings just two days in. Some guy sent me a flirty message telling me he loved my photograph and thought I was beautiful, and could we get together, blah blah blah. I was a grey haired middle aged woman at the time. The privacy settings were implemented that day.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
My cell number when I still had one 20 years ago belonged to a charmer who got regular calls from a state prison. Since I wasn't taking the calls, I got some interesting messages, then tossed the phone, told the company about the issue with the number, and havent had a cell since.
Seabeast 3 years ago
My partner got issued a number like that. The previous owner of it had clearly led an "interesting" life and had a lot of people very angry at him. My partner asked for a different number about a week later.
Load More Replies... Lovin' Life 3 years ago
Some very creepy s**t here. These people need to seek help from the police. This type of behavior is dangerous and can escalate
Janine B. 3 years ago (edited)
And when I was 19 I once walked my granny's dog. And when walking a dog, people obviously find it easier to talk to you. Anyway, it was summer, I wore a dress and suddenly this man, maybe in his 40s and very attractive and well-dressed, stud next to me and started doing some small talk. I must add, this is not very common in Germany and I live Berlin were almost everyone is a stranger to you. So I was a little confused and wanted to get away from him. He started to follow me, making lots of compliments, asking if we could have a coffee together. I said no and that I had a boyfriend (which wasn't true) and he said the boyfriend was very lucky and that he didn't need to know. I tried to stay polite but I was scared as hell as there was no other person around. I was so relieved when he gave up but man, I don't want to know how often he succeeded as he was really good-looking. Still gives me the creeps and I'm really glad I was never good at trusting a complete stranger or being flattered by compliments or friendliness.
Janine B. 3 years ago (edited)
Probably a harmless story, but when I was about 17 or 18 (back in the 90's) I went to the library very often. I looked maybe like 14 or 15 at that time. We still had those paper cards with our names and addresses on it. One day I opened our mailbox and found a letter in it (no stamp) from a 35 year old man. He said he saw me at the library and thought I was cute so he decided it was a good idea to stand behind me to check my address and write to me. Gladly he didn't write any creepy stuff just what his hobbies were and so on. Even included a picture and his address. Still I was shocked and annoyed but my mom just had a good laugh about it. But seriously if I had a daughter that would get such a letter nowadays this guy would better move out of town.
Seabeast 3 years ago (edited)
A 35 year old creeping on a girl who looks 14 or 15 is definitely not harmless. I always looked younger than my real age up to about my late 20s, and would get attention from men age 30 or older until they found out I was in my 20s, not my early teens (got braces on my teeth as an adult). The fact that they lost interest when they found out that I wasn't underage is chilling.
Load More Replies... David Dwyer 3 years ago
The really sad thing is that at least 95% of these people seem to be women
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