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“My 70-Year-Old Father Married A 20-Year-Old”: 35 Creepy Things Folks Online Have Witnessed
Why watch horror movies if life can provide you with ample amounts of it?
Being disconnected from the pathos and ethos and all of the other -thoses of fiction takes away the main thing that makes horror... well, horror. And that is the sense of impending doom.
Nothing really gets the blood flowing and the adrenaline pumping quite like understanding just how thin the line between life and anything that is even remotely the opposite of it in a horror scenario really is.
Folks on Reddit have been sharing stories of true horror, one where their own or someone else's livelihood depended on it. Keep scrolling to experience true horror.
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#1
I had a scene straight outta horror movie play out for me a couple years ago. I was sitting out back with my friend when I see my neighbor in his house, we meet eyes, I wave, he waves, only one problem - that wasn't my neighbor - I tell my friend we gotta go inside, NOW. We turn the lights off and lock the doors, then I shoot my neighbor a text asking if he has any guests, he says no, so I call the cops, my neighbor calls as well.
Guy was still there when the cops arrived. Apparently he was dumb enough to think I didn't recognize he wasn't my neighbor.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
hmmm... I mean if it was during the day and the neighbour wasn't home and this was just an intruder, presumably he was a burglar, so hardly a horror movie. IF however it was night time and the neighbour was sleeping... that's not so great.
Arahnea 2 years ago
They mention turning off all the lights so we can assume it was at least somewhat dark..
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#2
One random night in middle school I woke up and had the odd feeling that something or someone was present in the house and coming towards my room. I was scared so I closed my eyes to pretend to be asleep. I could faintly hear something come in my room and it felt like someone was standing over me, looking to make sure I was asleep. I laid on my back, eyes shut, until the feeling passed, and ended up falling asleep.
I woke up in the morning to find out that our house was robbed.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Lucky. In my country they wake you up, herd you to the nearest chair/s, and cabletie you to the chairs with ducttape over your mouth. If you resist you die. That's if you're lucky. Sometimes they torture you to death. Africa is a rough place.
Lana Lana Banana 2 years ago (edited)
Judging by all your other posts hating on Trump I could have sworn you were a sensible American.... Where in Africa are you from??
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Marleina Hershberg 2 years ago
How could you fall asleep with that feeling, knowing someone was there????
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
That's what I was wondering. I have sort of had this happen, but it was just sleep paralysis and no one was there, and it took literal hours, after finally being able to move, to fall asleep!
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BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 2 years ago
does everyone not get that feeling that someone is near them? When I had a hospital stay the janitors would come clean every morning and it would wake me up. I could tell when they were by my bed even with my eyes closed. Same things happens when I'm in a game of Heads up Sevens up. Like not everyone can tell? It makes my anxiety go up a little bit even if I know they're there and supposed to be there
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#3
My boyfriend in college sat bolt upright in his sleep and said “don’t look, if you make eye contact with it, it will [end] us both.” Then he fell back down, still asleep. Damn near peed myself.
Luke Branwen 2 years ago
Creepiest thing I've seen today: Tiktok-esque censorship of perfectly neutral words.
Astrius 2 years ago (edited)
Meanwhile it can’t recognize swear words together, what a dumbfuckshitass.
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Joshua David 2 years ago
In 1998, my boyfriend told me that while napping, I did the same but was yelling at something in tongues.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
My last girlfriend used to have episodes like that. She'd wake up, middle of the night, and she lost the ability to speak English. She would try talking to me in French and Russian.
BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 2 years ago
... I hope she was fluent in French and Russian
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2 years ago
Same thing happened last night with my sister(10), she sat up, wide awake and starting smiling at me in the most creepiest way possible. Turns out she was having a nightmare, just not asleep. Lets just say, I have never opened and ran that fast before, and I don't ever plan to. I scared her on accident because she didn't realize what she was doing and now I have a therapy lesson this saturday.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Wait... did you have something to do with this?!
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Dawnieangel76 2 years ago
My niece used to sit upright in bed & have a conversation with something, and then flop back down & continue to sleep. She had interesting sleepwalking & talking situations too. Grew out of them in her mid-teens, but gods almighty it could be eerie at times.
ShadowStalker36 2 years ago
sounds like what my siter went through with college roommate (who had night terrors) went through
#4
Used to have a job inspecting bank owned foreclosed homes. I had a house in East Cleveland, OH to inspect that was a huge old mansion but completely abandoned for years and utterly trashed. I had to inspect and photograph every room, looking for any damage. Basically the entire house was damaged, holes punched in walls, trash everywhere, mold, used needles, feces etc.
So I get to the basement which was mostly unfinished, and there is one door all the way at the other end. I swear I hear music playing. I open the door and there’s a perfectly preserved office with high end stained wood judges paneling on the walls, a plaster ceiling, and fancy old carpeting all in perfect condition. In the center of the room is a huge old bankers style desk with a huge leather office chair behind it. On the desk is an old fashioned radio from probably the 1950s or so and it is playing some AM radio station with big band music on. There’s the radio playing and a lamp turned on in the room, and as far as I knew the house was supposed to not have power turned on.
I got this overwhelming sense that I shouldn’t be there, was sufficiently creeped out and left. To this day that whole situation just weirds me out.
Robert T 2 years ago
Fortunately "The Boss" wasn't home, otherwise you may have ended up leaving there minus your kneecaps!
Hendo 2 years ago
I'm invested now.....did you ever find out what was going on? Was anyone still living there or a squatter or something??
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
If it's right at the end of the basement it's entirely possible it's just a forgotten room. Lights and radio were left on the last time someone was in it and just never been turned off. If someone was squatting it'd likely have evidence of that - sleeping bags, discarded food containers and so on.
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alwaysMispelled 2 years ago
Wow. East Cleveland is an incredibly dilapidated and also very dangerous. It's technically a suburb of Cleveland.
madbakes 2 years ago
Yeah, when I read that I immediately got nervous for OP
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Stephanie 2 years ago
I've lived in and around Cleveland my whole life, East Cleveland is someplace you don't voluntarily go to. It is a shame about the houses there, they were beautiful.
the quickening 2 years ago
Did something specific happen in the area, or... why did it become deserted, if it used to be nice?
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#5
When I was serving my time as an engineer in the merchant navy we used to have to clean out what are called "sea chests"; they're basically big filters for sea water that we would pump in to use as coolant and if the pumps were on when we were dock side we'd find all sorts of things like bottles, fish, crabs etc.
One day we opened up the chest, pulled out the filter and immediately saw this gold shiny thing which turned out to be a rolex watch. Usually we'd just dump out the filter but with the mitigating circumstances we went through it thoroughly and found a piece of a shirt with cufflink still attached and last but not least a nicely rotted finger.
The police ended up closing off the dock and dredging it but never found anything on the end.
A P 2 years ago (edited)
Welp, someone went to sleep with the fishes, apparently. Also, and I may be wrong, but doesn't Rolex put unique serials on all their watches and can often ID the owner?
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
strange you'd think they'd have kept the watch.
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BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 2 years ago
this doesn't happen often while reading but omg my jaw dropped
Daniel Nilssen 2 years ago
Well that was dumb. They could have figured it out by traicing the Rolex
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 2 years ago
I believe that Rolex watches have serial numbers that are recorded against the owner of the watch. Police would have been able to find out who it was, but wouldn't have told you.
Bored Panda reached out to horror movie expert and blogger Palvi Sharma to talk about what makes things straight up creepy and downright scary.
According to Sharma, good horror stories need several key elements to make them scary: a creepy setting and believable threats as well as good pacing and proper structure in the story.
“But the most important factor would be creating three-dimensional characters. They are the ones who take the story forward, and they are the ones the audience needs to sympathize and care enough about to want to root for them to survive whatever threat they encounter,” elaborated Sharma.
“At the same time, creating a terrifying antagonist is just as important. The antagonist is the one who is going to make a horror story scary because of what it does and how it behaves. Characterization definitely plays a key role in making a horror story effective.”
#6
I once saw an old guy follow a young girl on the street and clearly staring at her butt, so as anyone would, I clear my throat real hard, the girl looked behind her and the guy noticed he'd been seen and went away
Trish Panda 2 years ago
God I wish that happened to ANY of the creepy men that followed me from my youth
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Mickie Shea 2 years ago
That was so mean. It gives an old guy some pleasure, does not hurt the woman. You are just nasty.
#7
When my daughter was 5 years old. She woke up crying and as I was carrying her out of her room she said mammy dont touch the lady she at the door but can you give her some bread she is very hungry. Found out later the house were built on ground that used as mass grave to bury people that died in the Irish famine.
digitalin 2 years ago
So the whole "mass grave" thing is spooky and all, but then I saw the Paris Catacombs and realized basically all of Paris is over a mass grave, so it doesn't creep me out as much anymore.
Pippin Nepenthe 2 years ago
Yeah. I would probably believe in ghosts more if I didn't live in a "very haunted" town. Never seen anything supernatural in that sense, and these types of stories are generally more sad than creepy to me.
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Fly_Agaric_Frog 🇺🇦 2 years ago (edited)
Spooky. I love it! (Ok maybe not now as I reread it again. [Irish Famine])
Christof Irran 2 years ago (edited)
I live on Fox Island near Seattle, and this place served as a concentration camp during the Puget Sound War in 1955-56 between the US Military and the Native tribes of the Nisqually, Muckleshoot, Puyallup, and Klickitat. A Wikipedia article sanitized history a little bit by stating: "In response to the attack at White River, the Americans captured around 4,000 noncombatant Native Americans and held them on Fox Island. Many of them died due to insufficient food, water, and shelter" The truth is that about 800 native died when the US Military blockaded the island and starved the prisoners after rumors surfaced that the natives were sheltering the fugitive Nisqually Chief Leschi on Fox Island. So this place is a vast Indian cemetery, and the restless spirits seem to have turned some of my neighbors from cops into mean spirited, corrupt liars and cheaters, two of which set their own houses on fire to collect insurance money after these home have been on the market, unsold, forever.
Christof Irran 2 years ago
And maybe it was the same restless spirits who caused a nuclear submarine, the USS Sam Houston (SSBN-609), to run aground on Fox Island in April of 1988 :-)
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zak 2 years ago
Why doesn't anyone ever "see" a ghost dinosaur, or ghost Neanderthal or something?
Miki 2 years ago (edited)
I know it isn't what you mean, but it reminds me there is his British tv show "Ghosts" (and very bad american version of it) and there is a neanderthal ghost in it ;D
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I grew up somewhere very rural - no streetlights and far away from any town with them. At night it was DARK. My bedroom door also never closed properly - you could latch it but it would pop open if you pushed the door lightly.
One night I woke up suddenly, without knowing why. As my mind tried to make sense of things I looked to my left, towards the bedroom door - I could see the outline of a figure. In the tiny amount of predawn light I could just see a white shape, long dark hair hanging down and sunken eyes. I could also hear it breathing.
After a few seconds of absolute mind bending horror, where I literally felt every hair stand on end it took a step into my room, out of the dark hallway. The hallway had no windows, so my room was slightly lighter. The change of the light also changed the face slightly - I could see it more clearly.
I saw that it was in fact my mother's face and she was sleep walking. She very occasionally did - and also had a lot of other sleep problems, including very vivid nightmares.
She quickly left and went back to bed - fortunately for my own sanity I never saw her sleepwalk again.
Mila Preradović 2 years ago
I used to sleepwalk when I was a kid/pre-teen. My mother also used to sleepwalk. Sometimes we would sleepwalk at the same time. My poor father had some interesting stories to tell in the morning.🫣
Con O Cuinn 2 years ago
I was found trying to measure up ducting in our hot press in the middle of the night. Stress of work getting to me
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Chexmy Licks🇯🇵 2 years ago
my mom told me that my older cousin used to sleep walk before i was born. it was bad that she went out and tried to jump off the bridge, she was sleep walking. the neighbor saw her who was a security guard at night
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
That's so scary! My grandad said there was a girl growing up the next property over from him when he was a kid. She would sleep walk all over the place and the family were terrified she would walk into the dam and drown! They had to put a new lock on the door and hide the key from her.
Load More Replies... LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago
I tend to sleepwalk, gratefully not as often as I did when I was a kid. I work on a boat and I've been waiting for night crew to say something to me.
Duane Johnston 2 years ago
I've always had a problem with sleep walking. When I was 8 my parents found me walking down the sidewalk. I'm 63, my wife says I go to the garage, the kitchen, open the glass door. I never remember any of except when I woke up in the guest bedroom with my brother asking why I was opening the dresser.
#9
Delivering parcels to a Scientology building in the UK.
Usual receptionist wasn't there so wandered a bit to find someone to sign for it.
Found a room full of people robotically typing into computers, all identically clothed with identical hairstyles. Not one of them even made eye-contact, let alone react to me opening the door...
Was horror-film levels of creepy.
Pineapple (he/him) 2 years ago
aww snap it would be awesome if it was raining too
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Paul Werner 2 years ago
I used to live by the big church in Clearwater FL, they all wore the same clothes and weren't allowed to look or speak to anyone outside of the church. I'd see them taking walks and tried to be polite and say hi and nothing, like you said robotic
#10
When I was probably 15 I went kayaking with some friends. We came across what looked like a log in the water. There were some people on shore that were waving us over saying someone was probably trapped under the canoe.
They used one of our kayaks to go out and look. There was a kid only a few years older then us that had gotten wrapped up in some rope when the canoe turned over. He didn’t make it. They found his dad a few days later. Also didn’t make it.
That image I will never get out of my mind.
Maura 2 years ago
Had similar situation with kayak turned over, and me tangled inside of it. Fortunately my brother was next to me, and helped me to get out. If it wasn't the calm river, we were in, and if my bro wasn't so close, I'd probably end up similarly. Still have nightmares abt it, and it was almost 20 years ago...
Nadine Debard 2 years ago
Well, I'm pretty sure I'd choose drawning over burning alive, but it still is an awful way to go, that's so sad.
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But that’s fiction. What about real life horror scenarios? Is horror in fiction and real life similar, and could there be a parallel drawn between how people would experience the same horror situation watching a movie and living it out in real life?
“There used to be a joke about horror movies and how characters don’t run the other way when they hear creepy sounds at night,” elaborated Sharma. “I think that we are all curious by nature and when we do hear an unusual sound, our first instinct is going to be to investigate it rather than just run the other way. Especially if that sound is coming from our house. We would want to know if our house is safe.”
“Knowing is better than not knowing, and so chances are, we will go around the house looking for the source if only to allay our fears.”
#11
When i was about 12 I was sleeping on my trampoline with a friend and we heard the bushes move behind us and flashed our flashlight to the bushes and a mountain lion was laying there stalking us, I have never ran so fast in my life.
Vic 2 years ago
Just lucky it was a mountain lion, not a trampoline lion..
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Cosmologist wannabe 2 years ago
running is actually the worst decision. it can cause a chase-prey instinct. Instead, just act big, if you have a jacket, open it up, open out your arms and move them around, and make a lot of noise. If you are in a group, just act together and act big. just don't run.
Trish Panda 2 years ago
I knew someone was going to say this. Sometimes it's hard to be logical when every muscle in your body is screaming RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
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Tuna Beach 2 years ago
RUNNING from a mountain lion? Lucky he wasn't interested in eating or playing.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 2 years ago
Running from a mountain lion is the worst thing you could do. It triggers their predator reflexes, and they run after you. Mountain lions are much, much faster than you.
A P 2 years ago
Very true. I wonder if them hitting it with the flashlights right before they ran either screwed up it's vision or just made it freeze because it didn't know if it was a threat or not. Might have saved them.
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There is this stretch of private land near Bonnie Lake, WA where I used to go mountain biking (with the express permission of the owner in exchange for the promise of buying a Christmas tree from him). I called this area the dead lands, because I never saw any animals there. One snowy December morning I was again riding there, and I lay the first track in the snow. Later, when I crossed my own tracks I finally figured out why this area was devoid of animal life: a large cougar had demonstratively over-laid my tracks with his own, humongous footprints. And his footprints where pressed deeper into the snow and ground than those of my tires. I haven't been back there since...
Sweet Taurus 2 years ago
Mountain lions FREAK ME OUT! They are at the top of my nope list. I love hunting but the idea that I possibly could be the prey without ever knowing scared the hell out of me.
Christina Pritchard 2 years ago
Funny, they probably feel the same about you.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Presumably, it was a very short run from trampoline to safety, since a puma can and will jump 5-7 meters (or around 20 feet for my fellow but non-metric US citizens) from a standstill.
#12
Was working in a restaurant. Nice place.
That night we held a charity dinner for a "youth in need" type of house.
The guy representing the house, a worker there, was such a nice and kind man. Every teen there was only saying nice thing of him. A good soul, that was giving every thing he could for these teens.
At one point they gave a big cheque for the charity. I must guess an ammount they rarely received.
Well under the excitement, that poor man had a cardiac arrest. Dropped there on the stage, cheque in hand.
He could'nt be brought back. He died.
Seeing this was already bad enough, but the kids every where in the restaurant screaming and crying for hours after.... haunting.
Joshua David 2 years ago
Doesn't involve kids but last week my boyfriend was at work and the man down the way had a full on heart attack and fell out of his chair. He watched him struggle to breathe and while calling 911, died right in front of him. He's not doing OK after this.
Yayheterogeneity 2 years ago
Life is fragile. Sorry he had to experience that so harshly.
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Marie Dahme 2 years ago
i had something similar happen. June 29, 2021. ir was a tuesday. my fiancé and i had been planning on our wedding the night before for aug 28 2021. he was walking out of the bedroom and started to say… “ you know what we should really do for our wedding?”. he stopped. he looked at me strange…and collapsed face down. Dave was a big man at 6’3 and about 420 lbs. i called 911. they said roll him over ! i couldn’t i’m in a wheelchair i said. he laid face down for 8 minutes while i screamed at him. my caregiver came at the same time as the EMT’s. they worked on for over an hour. they kept saying… his pulse is faint but we are calling the dr for more advise. almost an hour later they pronounced him. i screamed and i was angry ! but vanessa my caregiver was there for me. as they wheeled him away in a body bag, i asked if i could touch him. but i shouldn’t have, he was ice cold. his youtube playlist was streaming on tv. tuesdays gone by lynrd skynrd was playing. wtf.
Marie Dahme 2 years ago
i can never listen to tuesdays gone without crying. but watching someone you love dying in front of you while you’re sitting there helpless is a gut punch. and why did that song play on a tuesday … the day he died as i was touching his face. a song about a man leaving a woman he loves. but i will always wonder what he really was gonna say….”you know what i think we should really do for our wedding?” what was he going to tell me? i will forever wonder….
Load More Replies... jmdirks 2 years ago
About twenty years ago or so I was at a restaurant where an elderly woman passed away at one of the tables. She was on the outside seat of a booth seat and just stopped living, still sitting there. The woman sitting in the inside seat of the booth could not move out until the E.M.T. got there and did their stuff.
L hill 2 years ago
Airport worker here, saw a man running for his plane. Died at the door instantly. What a way to go.
Marie Dahme 2 years ago
This guy really was late to his own funeral. wow. just wow man.
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The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Always bugged me that after a movie like "Jurassic Park," the kids haven't been eaten, so the movie's like, "See? Happy ending!" Those kids are NOT going to be normal. (And that game expert who says, "clever girl" is also the best person in the movie -- Ian Malcom is in comparison just a creep who happens to be smart enough to be right -- , so let's not forget he's dead.)
Alis Padasian 2 years ago
I saw my late grandpa vomited and passed out one time. I was 11 and there was no other adult at home. I couldnt feel my legs as I sprinted to a neighbor's house to ask for help. Nothing bad happened but it was one of the scariest moment in my life.
#13
I was hiking a little outside of Vancouver in a densely wooded area known to have many cougars (mountain lions). I had my dog with me, who was a huge, tall thing, part Irish wolfhound and fiercely loyal. We had been hiking for about an hour and were far enough back by then that we hadn't seen anyone else in quite some time. I stopped at a log to take a short break. We'd been sitting there for about 5 minutes when my dog goes stiff, hackles up, and starts growling while staring into the dense brush. I stare into the woods, but can't see anything at all. It's gone quite though, that kind of eerie silence the forest takes on sometimes. The dog is still growling, looking at a spot about 6 feet off the ground. I decide it's time to get out of there and take up a quick pace back the way we came. The dog lets me get a bit ahead, then stops growling and follows me. He's anxious though and keeps stopping to check behind us. We get about 15 minutes down the path when the dog stops again, facing the woods along the path, and barks a sharp 3 or 4 times, then resumes growling intensely. I keep moving and he sort of stiff legged walks a few steps, stops and growls, catches up to me, walks a few more steps growling, etc. He occasionally barks. I can not for the life of me see anything in the woods. No movement, no animals, nothing.
The whole hike back goes like that. I never see a thing. Once we reached a bridge, and more people, my dog finally relaxes and stops growling/barking, but he's still keen to get out of there.
I've always assumed it was a cougar stalking us, we never went back there.
cecilia kilian 2 years ago
Mountain lions/cougars/pumas are silent stalkers, and very good at melting into the landscape. Thankfully, dogs have a keen sense of smell ( and incredibly cute noses) as well as fine-tuned hearing, so they can detect threats.
Aisling Raye 2 years ago
"It's gone quite though, that kind of eerie silence the forest takes on sometimes." Yeah - that means everything else knows there's danger. When the birds suddenly stop chirping, and there is no rustling of little bugs in the leaves, and the whole of the forest goes quiet, it means you should be on edge and listening too.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
The interesting thing is sometimes the scary thing making the animals silent is actually you. Not saying it's not a danger sign though. Because it might also be another human causing them to go quiet and if you can't hear that other human, then it's possible they're up to no good.
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Iridian 2 years ago (edited)
On my mom's first date with the man who would become my stepdad- the first date where the children actually came along- the adults took us to play for the day at their favourite wooded creek. My stepdad had a very wary German Shephard with him that had never been around children. We all had a good day, but on the way back, we were stopped in the thicket by men who looked like they wanted to rob and possibly do more to us. That dog got right in front of me- I was a tiny four year old- and about sat right on top of me and growled at the men. That dog didn't know me from anything but sure was going to defend me with his life. The men had initially attacked us, because they didn't know we had a dog with us (he was looking for rabbits in the trees nearby), but once he placed himself atop me and growled, they decided against hurting us. Awesome doggo and I still miss him.
#14
Before cell phones, I accidentally dialed the wrong number, but got the person I was trying to call at that wrong number. She was at her uncles house, he picked up the phone, I asked for her and he sounded confused as he handed her the phone.
Karl 2 years ago
I’ve had a few instances where I’ve called a friend and they pick up the phone with no ring tone. It seems we both decided to call each other at exactly the same time. However, I wonder which of us was charged for the call? (This was a landline btw)
Edison Lima 2 years ago
My mother and my oldest aunt used to do that. My mother would look at the phone as she entered and say "Call me, Neuza" and pick up the phone to my aunt calling, before it rang. And, according to my cousins, aunt Neuza did the same for mom.
Load More Replies... Joshua David 2 years ago
I remember when I was young and lived in a small remote town in Central Illinois, we used to be able to dial 4 numbers to reach the person. 368.3204 is as just 3024 and it called them.
Jacob B. 2 years ago
When I was a kid (probably around five years old), I would watch my mom dial my grandmothers number to talk to her. I memorized the pattern and one day called her and asked for a bunch of toys. Next week, she showed up with all the toys. My mom was confused, but I think my grandmother figured it out and decided if I was smart enough to do that, I deserved everything I asked. Decades later I relay the story and my mom says "That's what happened?".
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I love that your grandma didn't tell your mum!
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#15
Well dressed 50 something business dude on a quiet Chicago L train reading a Wall Street Journal. Pretty woman with long curly hair dozing in the seat in front of him, her hair dangling behind the seat. The guy is rubbing and playing with her hair while reading his paper so I figure she's his wife or girlfriend who just wanted some space to nap. He is now intently rubbing and fondling her hair and not reading anymore. Suddenly she snaps awake and pulls in her hair like a bug was in it or something. She gets off at the next stop, he continues reading. They didn't know each other at all.
Rick Schwarzman 2 years ago
Well she got off the train away from the creep, didn't she!
Load More Replies... Blue Chambers 2 years ago
Don't hang your hair over the seat in someone's space. And don't touch someone's hair! Gross dude
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
Happened to me when I was in university. I was on the train and napping a little bit and the stranger next to me laid his hand on my thigh. I was too stunned to say anything when I woke up and noticed and he just quickly pulled his hand away -not saying a word.
Toni Ahlgren 2 years ago
Not letting your hair dangle behind your seat is highly recommended for the comfort of everyone.
Trish Panda 2 years ago
She fell asleep, it may not have been intentional in this scenario
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BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 2 years ago
oh god. In a recent murder mystery book I just finished reading, the murderer collected locks of the girl's hair he murdered. Creepy as fúck. The book is called Body In The Woods, it was really good.
Vera Diblikova 2 years ago
The some thing happens to me when I was young, it was some ugly homeless mann. I had my hair cut immediately.
Sharma continued: “The only thing I don’t find believable in horror movies is when characters willingly give up their phones at the start of most slashers. Considering that cell phones act as lifelines in today’s world, the last thing I would expect is for teenagers to give up their phones.”
“But of course that is also the one thing horror writers need to get rid of immediately. It is the one piece of technology that could lead to potential plot holes. I suppose it is challenging to write a horror story with working phones.”
#16
I was in a restaurant years ago on lunch break. At the time I was a very thin 25 year old woman. There was this big creepy guy sitting there who would NOT stop staring at me from the moment I walked in the door. I mean just open face staring without blinking for the entire 15 minutes I was eating several seats away. I asked for a box and left early to get away from him. As I walked out he said, "You shouldn't be out alone. Someone's going to grab you and steal you away." 100% convinced creepazoid had someone locked up in his basement.
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
I'd have called a taxi or a friend and asked if I could wait inside. Better to be inside being stared at but knowing he's unlikely to make a move in such a public space, than to be outside alone with the chance of him following. D:
#17
I set a mousetrap in a cupboard in my house and caught a mouse. Next to the mouse was a tiny mouse-sized pair of elastic-waisted trousers. The trousers were not there when I set the trap.
The only person who could have put the trousers there was my wife, but I am convinced she didn't. Not only was she unaware that I'd set a trap there, but she was genuinely upset and disturbed when I told her about the trousers.
The best explanation I have is that they're doll's trousers that had become lodged in pipework in the cupboard decades earlier and, became dislodged when the trap sprang and happened to fall right next to it. It's not very believable, but it's the best I've got.
Robert T 2 years ago
Nah, I don't believe mice wear trousers. Now if it'd been clogs, that would have been another matter. Especially if you lived in a windmill and the trap was on the stairs. ;-)
Griffy 2 years ago
One explanation may be that the mouse had found them and was carrying them to the nest to use as nesting material, saw the bait, and dropped them to eat the bait.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
That's pretty believable actually. My old stove died and when I replaced it we discovered mice or rats had decided to nest in the bottom of it. It was stuffed full of shredded paper and cloth. Fortunately they chewed through the power to the oven part very early on so it didn't heat up. Otherwise huge fire hazard. The weirdest part for me was that I couldn't smell them in there.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 2 years ago
I'm trying to imagine why the mouse took off his trousers when he got trapped...
Roman Hans 2 years ago
I thought, "Why did you 'tell' your wife about the trousers instead of showing them to her?"
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#18
I had a friend in college whose mother had a lot of mental health problems. She periodically did things like try to crash the car when they were all inside. One night I was sleeping over at my friend's house and she told me to lock the bedroom door so her mom couldn't come in because sometimes she did that. Well, I forgot to lock the door and woke up in the middle of the night to see her mom standing there in the doorway with a knife. It was a total Michael Myers-esque moment. She stood there staring at me, didn't say a word, didn't move. The knife was just in her hand, which was hanging down by her side. I stared back at her, waiting to see if she was going to do anything. She didn't. I got bored and eventually went back to sleep. The next morning, I was like "hey so your mom was lurking in my doorway last night with a knife for a while" and she was like "omg wtf you should have called for me."
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
And this friends family never thought to have the mother admitted to a psych ward because...? wtf o.O I suffer with mental health problems and I know if I was acting like that I'd want to be admitted rather than pose any risk to my family/friends.
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
Depends on when this happened. Back in the 80s/90s, people didn’t really think well of mental health services. Psych wards were viewed more like lunatic asylums. Mental illness had a bad stigma to it. Sometimes families were very insular, and didn’t want to let others know that one family member had problems.
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Telepathetic 2 years ago
I don't believe you went "back to sleep" with her still standing there
Bronze Republic 2 years ago
I don't understand, how could OP have fallen back to sleep?!?! I would have run out screaming and never come back.
Non Bi-nary Panda ️ 2 years ago (edited)
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#19
My 70 year old father married a 20 year old
Der Kommissar 2 years ago
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#20
You know how your parents always warned about guys asking for directions, and you never thought it would happen to you so you of course said "Yeah, i'll never get in," and just don't think about it?
Well, it happened to me once. I was 15 and taking a walk through my (relatively safe) neighborhood when a guy in an old truck pulls up and asks for directions. I pointed him to the next street over, and he asked me to get in the car with him. Luckily I was right by my backyard, so I cut through the bushes and beelined it inside. Called my dad to make sure he was coming home and I wouldn't be alone for long.
Never saw the man again, but it was incredibly creepy, and it was a while before I took walks alone after that.
Yayheterogeneity 2 years ago
Always have a safe word in the family that a stranger has to say if you really send a stranger to get you.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
This is why, even though many people seem surprised about it, we ask to see ID before letting our students are picked up by someone we haven't met before, and this is matched, in writing, with what the parent has said. When they are out our care, I really hope they take similar precautions, including a safe word as needed. With more and more kids having their own phone, at least they might be able to check with their parent first.
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Thegoodboi 2 years ago
Had this happen to me when I was little. Guy said my father wanted me to come home and he would take me there. I was sitting in my front yard so I was confused. Luckily my neighbor was out front and overheard. My neighbor saved my life.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Honestly, how stupid were they that they targeted someone in a front yard, which is most likely to be their own! If I didn't know you were safe I wouldn't laugh about it so much though.
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StrangeOne 2 years ago
I was walking back home from dropping off my daughter at school. A car pulls up to stop at the intersection with the driver's window rolled down. He asks point blank "Where do you live, little girl?" I felt like a creeped out kid all over again. Even though I wasn't far from home I decided to take a longer way home and ran. Not sure how old this dude thought I was. I heard from someone in the area they got approached by a man in a car, she was with her daughter, and he was demanding they both get in his car. Definitely some sickos out there.
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago (edited)
I had a similar one at 13, I lived on the main highway and a friend from schools dad was picking me up so we could go shopping as groups of girls do, I should point out I hadn’t met her dad at this point either. So a car pulls up exactly like my friends dads and this man was like open the door and I stupidly almost just jumped in the car, then i saw the gross man was only wearing a pair of royal blue underwear and my friend wasn’t in the car and I slammed that door and ran
BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 2 years ago
that's absolutely terrifying. Also I like your name lol
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Lyoness 2 years ago
When I was 8 something similar happened near a convenience store in my neighborhood. I was in the parking lot and a car with a man and woman in it pulled up in front of me, blocking my path to the store. The man opened the car door and leaned way out. He beckoned me over, asking for directions. I backed away, said I didn't know and ran around the car into the store. The clerk knew all the kids in the neighborhood (this was the 80s) and let me behind the counter and went to the door to look, but by then the car was gone. Looking back it makes me shudder.
Karl 2 years ago
This happened to my wife when she was about 8 years old and walking home from school with her friend. Something similar happened to me and my brother when we were kids. Ultimately we all knew not to get into a car with strangers so all those public information films in the 1970s made a big impression on us all.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I can't imagine doing that on my own. I haven't even taken a taxi on my own before (I'm in my 30s) but my sister takes Uber etc all the time, because she only just got her learner's. I always just took public transport before I got my licence, or rides from friends.
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Gina Babe 2 years ago
I was in a very bad place in life and had an inner man in rolls Royce pull up and ask me if I was ok. He asked if I needed a ride. I had nowhere to be out go but got in. We drove around for 10 out so minutes talking about nothing much and then I asked to get out, he let me and we parted. Such a strange moment.
Now, horror is a bit of a difficult genre for some to get into. Most watch movies as a form of leisure and winding down for the night, or there is enough horror in one’s own life to justify not tuning in to watch Jason be choppy for the 12th time. But, for others, it’s all about horror.
“We all have something that we fear and most people find it better to deal with the things they are afraid of when it is on screen and they are in the safety of their homes,” Sharma explains the appeal of the genre.
“Horror movies pull the audience into a scary setting and make them experience everything that can go wrong. But minutes later, the movie is over and so is the threat. I believe some people enjoy watching horror movies because they enjoy the thrill and rush they get when they see and then come out of a frightening scene. Others may see the demons and other monsters being defeated at the end of the movie as a way to deal with the problems they face in their personal lives. If the scariest monsters can be defeated, then the problems they face can’t be as difficult to overcome, can they?”
But, hey, when you really think about it, if you’re a huge fan of horror, you’ll be more than prepared for whatever creepy real life situations fate might throw your way, right?
#21
At dinner one night. And there was this grey haired old man, and an obviously much younger girl, id say 19. Holding hands and being all new couple? Usually i dont care, people will people. And then my server came by and saw what I was looking at. “I went to school with her, hes our old gym teacher. When we graduated last year he seemed overly friendly, I mean hes like 60. But whatever. Apparently he left his wife for her. I know, weird right?” I dont care much about age gaps but that was creepy af to me.
Karl 2 years ago
The headmaster of my primary school (4-11yrs) resigned after leaving his wife for one of his former pupils. She was 18 and he was in his 50s. He was a sadistic child abusing old bastard who beat kids by wetting his hand before he hit them so it would leave a bigger bruise. I hope he’s dead now as he should never have been anywhere near kids.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
I often have dinner with my former high school students. But I don't hold their hands. Particularly when they are reaching for the check.
ILoveMySon 2 years ago
I still keep in touch with many of my educators. Your last sentence made me lol.
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Mario Strada 2 years ago
I am 60. You wouldn't catch me dead dating a 19yo. No disrespect, but we'd have little in common and conversation would be uninteresting for both of us.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
In reply to Sawce, if that was what you were interested in then one night stand or get a hooker (if legal). Dating implies at least a somewhat long term relationship not just a quickie.
Load More Replies... Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago (edited)
I mean, I don't care that much about age gaps (if people are happy let them get on with it) but this one is a bit extreme o.O
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
It's not even the age gap that's concerning. It's the fact he knew her from school. He was a person with authority over her so it raises questions of grooming and potentially abuse while she was still at school.
Load More Replies... Mac 2 years ago
Something similar happened at my school. We had a creepy old teacher, who on the first day of 10th grade had us sit in a circle and tell everyone a unique fact about ourselves. Well, he went last and told us he "owned every issue of Playboy ever published." To a bunch of 14 year olds. He gave me the creepiest vibe every class I had with him from there on out - he was ALWAYS leering at me. About 2 years after I graduate, he leaves his wife for a student that had just turned 18. And somehow managed to STILL keep his job. Disgusting.
C Lawson 2 years ago
My junior year a new music teacher started working & rumors flew that he was at our school because of backlash at the last place he taught- where he apparently had an inappropriate relationship with a student. Not only that, but the student had transferred in to our school also, as an INCOMING FRESHMAN. We wondered why the he[[ her parents would do that, but they didn't. They did something worse. They signed for her to marry him when she was between 8th and 9th grade, so 14-15 at the oldest. So this music teacher essentially raped an 8th grader, got no jail time somehow, got the parents to let him marry the girl, then brought her with him to be a student at his new job site (where I'm guessing it was easier for him to keep an eye on her all the time). As for the lack of jail, best we could guess was he knew people were finding out so lined up a new job, talked her parents into it and then moved. Probably a family friend, smh.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Is there no mandatory reporting where you live, or was it a long time ago? Where I live that is not an 'inappropriate relationship' it's child abuse and the teacher would have their teaching registration cancelled and (hopefully) be jailed. Plus, it could be considered grooming for him to have built a relationship with the parents that led to them giving permission to marry. In the last few years, the parents and other school staff could also be charged for knowing what was happening and not reporting it.
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Sassawrasse 2 years ago
Yeah, it's really never ok in that situation. If they were closer in age and many years had passed, maybe? But not fresh out of your authority figure relationship.
Cat Palmer 2 years ago
Similar thing happened at the school I went to. My mum worked there so I know the rest of the staff despised him and spoke to him as little as possible.
#22
We had a neighbor who moved out and came back a year later for a visit. He brought with him his two kids and Asian woman he claimed was his wife. He claimed it was the same wife he used to have & and that she just lost weight & had a makeover. But we remember the wife as a really tiny woman 5'1 or so with wavy bob hair, this new one was about 5'6 with long straight black hair, looked younger too. Even she took off her sandals and I saw even without sandals she was about 5'6. While on vacation he told the neighbor of his vacation home that his wife died of a brain tumor. I began to wonder where his wife really was. I think he really just sent her back to her Asian home country. But it was creepy to see him trying to pass off the new one as his wife.
#23
This guy followed me home. Said he saw me there often and named a few local spots I go to sometimes as places he sees me.
Deborah B 2 years ago
PSA to any socially awkward guys out there: This s**t is creepy, not romantic, don't ever follow women.
BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 2 years ago
don't follow anyone, period, but like yea it's definitely not romantic. I feel like that's something one of my exes would do, just follow women around to "get to know what they like"
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#24
Was traveling with my Sister one night and we had to stop at a red light.
Some guy staggered onto the pedestrian crossing and when he walked into our headlights he just froze and turned his head like a zombie.
Then actually started to stagger towards the car.
My Sister freaked out and put the car in reverse to steer around the dude but he actually kind lurched/lunged at the car again to get in the way again.
We ended up reversing half a block to duck into a side street, going the long way around.
The guy was probably stoned to the gills or drunk. Maybe both. But it was still creepy as f**k.
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago
I don’t think any stoner would lunge at anything except munchies or more weed. Sounds like meth or alcohol
over it already 2 years ago
Agreed. Sounds like tranq (that new drug,) or alcohol.
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The Other Other White Meat 2 years ago
Isn't there a drug out there that makes you like a zombie? Bath salts or something? Don't downvote, please, I just haven't done anything other than smoke weed hah.
BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 2 years ago
yup tranq. Literally causes skin lesions and rots your flesh, commonly resulting in amputations. More detail in my other comment as another reply above
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cb !!! 2 years ago
This happened to me yesterday! I was driving through a sketchier area and someone walks out into the street and towards my car just like that... after I stopped panicking I realized it was a very old man who was trying to reach a bunch of other old people on the other side. Still scared me though.
#25
I went snorkeling in Jamaica. The thing is, I can’t see well without glasses or contacts. I brought one pair of contacts with me, so I didn’t want to wear them with my goggles, and I definitely didn’t want to wear my glasses in case I lost them at sea. So there I was snorkeling with blurry vision. I start to see these little clear blobs sporadically , but thought it was my eyes playing tricks on me. As I’m swimming I see more and more of these clear blobs. I get this panic feeling and gently start pushing the water away from me to swim back to the boat. I’m halfway to the boat and there are hundreds if not thousands of these clear blobs around me. I get to the boat, and as I get in, everyone who’s left in the water starts getting stung by jellyfish. I then realize, I JUST SWAM THROUGH A SCHOOL OF JELLYFISH!
Thegoodboi 2 years ago
And this is one of the many reasons you will not see me doggy paddling around in the ocean..
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
I'm more and more losing my will to learn to swim. Land seems much safer.
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Huddo's sister 2 years ago
That's what I was wondering! I can't wear contacts, so I wouldn't even try. I have given up actually swimming in the ocean (as opposed to paddling which I now do with glasses on) because I kept getting caught in rips I couldn't see.
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Lord of the laserprinter. 2 years ago
That would be a smack of jellyfish. You were lucky you didn’t see them, I did.
SarahBee 2 years ago
Thank you! That's a fun phrase to add to my collection!
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Valientcupcake 2 years ago (edited)
I held a tiny cute little jellyfish and my brother got a real crab claw
ILoveMySon 2 years ago
Only the tentacles sting. It's kind of fun to pick them up providing you are careful. 🙂
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Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
I love living by the sea, but you will not find me swimming in it tyvm. (well, paddling on a summer day, at best)
Delilah Wallace 2 years ago
I got stung by a jellyfish once. I also cant swim very well so it was hard to get out of the water and as I was getting out of the water I could see more and more. My friend thought I had just gotten poked by a seashell until my arm broke out in hives. I still have a scar.
So, if horror movies have taught us anything, it’s that having a phone at our disposal is key to managing a horror situation. Sharma seconds this, adding that the best thing to do is to hide the phone in your clothes, and try to not give it up no matter what.
And if you happen to be with someone, for the love of god, never split up. “No, it will not be harder for the attacker to catch you. Just stay in the group, collect anything you can use as a weapon, and work as a team to beat up the villain.”
Lastly, a bit of an interesting, but a statistically legit one: wear a tank top. Sharma points out that people with tank tops always make it out alive. “The final girl always wears a tank top, defeats the antagonist, and gets to walk back home.”
You can check out more from Sharma by visiting her blog Dark Horror Tales, where it’s not just about movies, but also about books and the horror industry in general. And once you’re done with that, be sure to leave a comment of some of your real life horror stories below!
#26
I work in an old hospital late at night, and noticed the elevator doors open behind me. I then heard the clip clop of hard soled shoes take a few steps out my way. When I turned around, no one was there. A linen cart sat across the hallway, so I thought this person was hiding behind it. I knelt down and looked underneath it only to see two shiny, old fashioned pointy nurses shoes pointed my way. I eased my way around the cart to scare the person who was trying to scare me, but no one was there. I looked down and could no longer see what I thought were shoes.
#27
About 25 years ago, a few days after my cousin's wedding, a large group of us decided to go out drinking one night in Portland, ME. We decided to walk from my aunt's house to the bar and back so no one would be driving. On the way back from the bar, we cut down a dark residential street, and there was a large guy just standing there holding a hammer. It's like 2am, and there is this large guy just standing in the street holding a hammer. A few of us asked what he was doing as we walked by, but he just stood there watching us as we walked down the street. The guy never said a word. Luckily, there were 12 of us in the group because who knows what this guy was up to. He gave off some creepy Jason Voorhees vibes that's for sure.
Lea Panthera 2 years ago
Thor, go back to bed or we're calling your mother. Oh wait, we can't. /Jkjk I swear I'm joking
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Edison Lima 2 years ago
Why would he have had to said anything to you guys? Did he owe any explanation to a group of 12 drunk randos?
Edison Lima 2 years ago
So my bud was going to need my hammer for a job stupid early in the morning. He called me, and still sleepy I went to the side walk to wait for my friend. A group of weirdos fresh of some party, CLEARLY drunk, kept starring at me as they passed by. One of them screamed "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE???" as they passed by. I avoided eye contact. Rich people, man...
#28
I used to work with a lady that was involved in a rehab program, which allows her to go out for a certain time. She couldn’t drive or have her own cell phone, so she has a designated driver that would pick up/drop off at specific time. Apparently her driver is a weirdo/groomer, bc he wouldn’t stop bothering her and has offered her money for sex. (I didn’t know this until drama happened and she vented to me)
One day when I was at work, this old guy came inside desperately wanting to see her, she goes hiding and tells me to tell the guy to leave. Which I did, then he tries to brute force his way but fails miserably, then he leaves a message on a napkin for her and left. I did read the message and I clearly remember it “I need an answer now, I’m offering you $1500 to run away with me”. I gave it to her, she didn’t read it. A few days later, the girl quits without notice.
Oh the creepy part, he would show up around 10am at the restaurant looking for her and I keep warning the guy to leave. He eventually stopped after a few weeks.
Edit: I honestly didn’t believe this would blow up, and I mentioned the guy being the groomer, I wanna add she’s not the only victim. Apparently there was one more girl who is a minor and she was facing the same issue as the girl(the girl venting to me or co worker). I don’t know anything about this minor and I wanted to clarify on why I called him a groomer.
Edison Lima 2 years ago
$1.500 to abandon your life and run away with someone? Jeez, that guy was cheap, besides being a weirdo.
Edison Lima 2 years ago
I would say that knowing he wasn't able to find the girl again is NOT th creepy part, though.
#29
I visited Aokigahara, the notorious “[self-harm] forest” in Japan. I didn’t see any bodies or anything, but I did come across quite a few traces that people had left behind: Articles of old, rotting clothing hanging from trees, a wallet full of cards, empty bottles of medication, razor blades, a small campfire and thermos. It was apparent that all of it had been there for quite a long time, too.
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
The forest itself is beautiful, and there's some really awesome caves there too!
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Samantha Kalitzki 1 year ago
Das ist bereits bekannt und jeder der den Wald besucht wird auch davor gewarnt
#30
some guy said he’s gonna carve my name on his thigh, in the middle of school, in front of the whole class.
i had never met this man in my life either.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Well, if you had never met him before, it's no wonder that he needed to write your name down.
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
Tell him your name is: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/woman-worlds-longest-name-1019-23531401
BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 2 years ago
he said he wanted to carve her name into his thigh. Like use a knife to cut himself so he would have scars of her name. That's even more creepy
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Bored Trash Panda 2 years ago
I had an ex that actually did that, then gave me a vile of his blood.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
This reminds me: Most creepy thing I've witnessed in the last few years? Sia's music videos.
#31
I was 13 and an avid skater. Always exploring different areas for a spot. I skated about 25 minutes to this massive Catholic school called Saint Mary's. Easily 100+ acres if not more with on-campus housing. I find a little tucked away corner with a curb and start messing around to see if I could get it to grind. I look up and see a nun with a pale grey face. Unmoving in a completely pitch black room, at first, I thought she would say something or make a motion to tell me to get lost. Nope, I just stood there. Motionless, it was a warm day, but I got a chill, and it seemed like time froze. I know it sounds cliche, spooked by a nun. But this school has existed since 1859. Who knows what has occurred in that building.
Joshua David 2 years ago
Right. There were massive cover-ups happening for a long time. I'm catholic but non practicing and I was lucky because our church was small and the priest really seemed to like us.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
There was this poor nun just waiting to see the kid doing some wicked grinds and sick tricks and he just did nothing. Poor bored nun :(
Deeelite 2 years ago
This sounds suspiciously like the movie The Nun from the Conjuring franchisev
#32
Was working by myself on a huge mine site and my machine ran out of fuel. No other machine or person working within at least 5 kms. Anyways, after about four hours of twiddling my thumbs waiting i jumped out to stretch my legs. It was mid summer so I was hoping for a breeze, but anyways all of a sudden it got cold and I got a whiff of cigarette as if someone took a lungful of full strength and blew it right in my face, to the point that I coughed.
Didn't leave the machine again until the fuel truck turned up.
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
It's possible that dry dusty dirt with certain minerals and deposits that smell and taste like cigarettes blew into his face
#33
I was in High School, about 15 and I was hanging out with my best friend. We decided to go for a walk around the neighborhood, doing nothing in particular but walking and shooting the breeze about whatever was on our minds.
I grew up down the street from a cemetery, and until I was nearing High School age that place creeped me out. It didn’t help that someone, and this must have taken considerable effort, attached a bull’s skull to the front of an old tree and it always seemed to stare down at everything that went past like a morbid gatekeeper.
As we were walking past, we saw someone on the far side of the cemetery near the tree line of the woods walking in the same direction carrying a bag. To this day I have no idea what he was doing, and I’m glad we didn’t stick around to find out.
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The second one, at the moment it happened, had me absolutely terrified to the point where I couldn’t move.
I was on a camping trip with my brother, his wife, my nephews, and one of my cousins. We had a blast as always. I’d brought along my boombox radio/cassette player and a few of my best tapes. My cousin brought along one of his and introduced me to Ozzy.
Day turned to night, and it was finally time to go to sleep. Me, my cousin, and the older of my nephews were in one tent. My brother, his wife, and my toddler nephew in the other one close by.
It was the middle of the night, near pitch black with only moonlight for anyone to see anything. My nephew heard a noise and sat upright with a “what was that?”
I opened my eyes, but didn’t feel like getting up and was about to just roll over and go back to sleep. Then I saw a sight that had me frozen with fear.
My cousin’s blanket shifted and I *swear* I saw him sit upright, without a head. I wanted to scream, but couldn’t even move my mouth. My heart was racing in my chest, and I thought I was going to have to fight for my life against this headless thing that sat there talking to my nephew.
My nephew of course, talked right back to it, I could see his outline perfectly. He was younger than me, why wasn’t he freaking out?
Then I saw the outline shift again, and it flattened. My rational mind took over and told me “Hey stupid, you were just terrified of your cousin’s knee bent under the blanket. You can’t see anything remember? Now stop imagining things and go to sleep.”
I wanted to smack myself for being an idiot, but I went back to sleep and never told anyone.
C Lawson 2 years ago
Second one reminded me of a night that I stayed over at my best friend's house. We were up late (of course, 13 yr olds) and her parents were sleeping so the house was very dark. We decided to sneak out of her room to go downstairs and out the front door and go for a walk in the cul-de-sac. Just outside her room was a recess in the hall with shelves on it, just like a linen closet but without a door. We saw someone sitting in that recess under the lowest shelf (about 3½ft off the floor) so we backed our way back into her room, grabbed the crutches she'd recently needed and proceeded to whack the evil out of that hamper of linens! Both of us looked so confused and so did her mom when she flipped on the light and groggy eyed asked us what the he[[ we were doing. When we realized.....we laughed for ages.
#34
When I was in my early twenties I was walking my dog then he suddenly got unnerved. When I looked ahead there was another dog, but I've never seen anything like this. It was about the same size as a German shepherd, but I've never seen a dog like this the thing looked weird it's hair was a sort of steel grey. Also normally even if the dog is huge my old dog used to always try be friendly but this thing just gave him a bad vibe. I immediately backed out and called the sspca but they found nothing and no one apart from one or two friends believed me
Tsdey 2 years ago
almost like the pure black cat (as in only black, not even the eyes are a different color) I rarely see... but I know it is real as once a friend of mine (who lives nearly 2 miles away) saw it with me once... have not seen it for a few months but I still do not know what it is... also it can seemingly teleport (once I stopped looking at it for a split second and it vanished, nowhere it could have gone).
Linds 2 years ago
When I was about 12-13, I remember seeing this VERY large thing down our narrow hallway. If I had to give it a size or animal comparison I'd say a tiger or a very large feline. It was like 3am and it just started stalking towards me and all I could see was a vague outline and red eyes. Every damn hair on my body was on end, body frozen and eyes started watering. Then my weird kid brain said "growl at it" (wtf?) So I managed to do that and it disappeared. Proceeded to turn on every light in the living room area and watched TV til 9am lol
Load More Replies... Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
Could it have been a wolf? They're much bigger than ever big dogs and sometimes a lone wolf ventures into human settlements
#35
I was hitchhiking in California on my way to black bear hippie commune and somewhere before forks of salmon in dense wooded area I was camped up for the night and heard noises from the woods near me and about 15-20 yards from me I saw what looked like a child sized owl wearing boots or high top shoes on watching me from next to a big tree. I stared at it for a few minutes with my light, stuck like a deer in the head lights but I was terrified and quickly got in my tent, grabbed my pistol and tried to sleep but noises in the forrest kept me awake for most of the night. Got maybe 2 hours of sleep then when daylight came I got out of there as fast as I could walk until I got picked up again. I'll never forget the feeling of dread and like I was going to be attacked at any moment that whole night.
Pineapple (he/him) 2 years ago
ya see guys i warn people dont come to cali it crazy but you come and this what happens also who leaves a pistol in a tent
What do you think ?
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Allow me to add: We had to hire home help recently b/c both Hubby and I had major surgeries, a week apart, no, we couldn't "plan it better"! Anyway, the home help person is standing around, not coming inside, and I go out to see what they're doing, and they're taking down the license plates of our neighbors' vehicles. Yes, I called the cops. It's legal to take down license plates, btw, so I took down the home helper's and gave it to the cops. No news yet, as this was around mid-afternoon Tuesday May 16, 2023, and it's now 0630 17 May. ... Hope he had a lovely /s/ day. TLDR: If someone gives off a creepy vibe? Believe your "read" on them and lock the doors.
Pyla 2 years ago
That is creepy. Years ago we had an Obama sign in our yard and a guy in a red van loaded with conservative bumper stickers (who I’d seen around our small town) parked in front snd started taking photos. Never had trouble, but what a creep
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Ya know, it's threads like this that are why huge, deformed, middle-aged, mute men can't make friends at the amusement park.
talliloo 2 years ago
i was an officer for the district attorney. the window in my office faced the parking lot and across the way was the building that housed probation/parole. it was also used as a meeting place for mediation between people who had active cases in civil court such as property disputes, divorces. so, one day i am taking a mental break and looking out the window. (keep in mind my building was a secured building so the windows don't open.) i see this guy in a suit come out of the building and light up a cigarette (no smoking in government buildings.) a few moments later a woman comes out and lights up as well. after a few moments they start to talk to each other and then it becomes what looks like a full blown screaming match. then the man takes a gun out of his jacket and shoots the woman in the head. i was stunned! obviously, the officers in the building came out. he surrendered without incident.
Pineapple (he/him) 2 years ago
just this one tree in the backyard of my old house always being in darkness and when my old friends sister went under it she started screaming sooo sacramento has ghosts
Rosie 2 years ago
So one afternoon I'm driving to my friend's house in the suburbs, when an animal runs across the road, then for a bit in front of my car before it jumped into the bushes & disappeared. I'm thinking, "That was a big dog." when my mind finally registers the long, skinny tail & realized it had been a mountain lion (puma). This is FL, so not that unusual, but it was the middle of the day.
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Allow me to add: We had to hire home help recently b/c both Hubby and I had major surgeries, a week apart, no, we couldn't "plan it better"! Anyway, the home help person is standing around, not coming inside, and I go out to see what they're doing, and they're taking down the license plates of our neighbors' vehicles. Yes, I called the cops. It's legal to take down license plates, btw, so I took down the home helper's and gave it to the cops. No news yet, as this was around mid-afternoon Tuesday May 16, 2023, and it's now 0630 17 May. ... Hope he had a lovely /s/ day. TLDR: If someone gives off a creepy vibe? Believe your "read" on them and lock the doors.
Pyla 2 years ago
That is creepy. Years ago we had an Obama sign in our yard and a guy in a red van loaded with conservative bumper stickers (who I’d seen around our small town) parked in front snd started taking photos. Never had trouble, but what a creep
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Ya know, it's threads like this that are why huge, deformed, middle-aged, mute men can't make friends at the amusement park.
talliloo 2 years ago
i was an officer for the district attorney. the window in my office faced the parking lot and across the way was the building that housed probation/parole. it was also used as a meeting place for mediation between people who had active cases in civil court such as property disputes, divorces. so, one day i am taking a mental break and looking out the window. (keep in mind my building was a secured building so the windows don't open.) i see this guy in a suit come out of the building and light up a cigarette (no smoking in government buildings.) a few moments later a woman comes out and lights up as well. after a few moments they start to talk to each other and then it becomes what looks like a full blown screaming match. then the man takes a gun out of his jacket and shoots the woman in the head. i was stunned! obviously, the officers in the building came out. he surrendered without incident.
Pineapple (he/him) 2 years ago
just this one tree in the backyard of my old house always being in darkness and when my old friends sister went under it she started screaming sooo sacramento has ghosts
Rosie 2 years ago
So one afternoon I'm driving to my friend's house in the suburbs, when an animal runs across the road, then for a bit in front of my car before it jumped into the bushes & disappeared. I'm thinking, "That was a big dog." when my mind finally registers the long, skinny tail & realized it had been a mountain lion (puma). This is FL, so not that unusual, but it was the middle of the day.
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