“He walked away with scratches…
I probably would have been dead if I had gone with him.”
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These storieswere so compelling that many members of theBuzzFeed Communityfelt compelled to share their own.
Here are the most chilling:
1.
I lived in a well-off part of town and thought nothing of it.
On the other side of the road, a man was walking in the opposite direction and said hello.
I waved and continued walking, but something 10 seconds later told me to turn around."
My grandma didnt like their vibe, but the friend continued to hang out with them.
Eventually my grandma went back to Minnesota because she wasnt having fun.
The hippie friends my grandmas friend was hanging out with?
The Manson family."
michelangelofangirl
3.
“Many years ago I stopped at a drug store on my way home from work.
I needed to buy cough medicine for my 13-year-old daughter and some shampoo.
“My parents have a camper at a campground in the Berkshire mountains.
Its very rural and densely forested.
One night, my sister and I drove their golf cart to a clearing to look at the stars.
“Back in the mid-’90s I was a DJ and played all kinds of clubs.
I met up with a friend while I was playing a popular goth-themed nightclub in L.A.
He met a smoking hot woman and spent most of the night talking and drinking.
They exchanged numbers and she left.”
She chased him out of her apartment.
End of the date, but not the story.
A couple of days later, he called me up, totally weirded out.”
“I lived in San Francisco in the early ’70s.
My roommate and I had gone out to dinner and taken the bus.
On the ride home there was a guy sitting behind us who gave us both a creepy feeling.
We rushed off the bus, and he followed us.”
“A friends dad was working at the Pentagon on 9/11.
He went to a bathroom to splash his face with water.
Thats when the plane hit.
He was spared while everyone in that conference room perished.”
It was a guy at the back of the bus and he didnt look away when I caught him.
As a young girl, I got instant alarm bells.”
“I was walking to my car, about to go to the bank on lunch.
A guy was walking toward me and our eyes met as he passed.
Something in my brain said, ‘Hope he doesn’t make a run at rob me.'”
I gave him my purse and he grabbed my car keys.
He told me to get on the ground, and I watched him drive away in my car.
Luckily he only got my checkbook, not actual money.
I was pretty fucked up about it for a long time.
But I guess I knew when he looked at me."
luckyangel30
10.
“I was set to go on a date.
It was already fully dark as I parked on the road behind the library.”
“Not me but my mom.
She had gone to high school with these four guys and had been friendly with them.
After graduating she ran into one of them and they decided to hang out.”
“I was around 19.
I used to go out to the bars to hang with friends.
Occasionally, I would pick someone up to have a quickie.
One night l met a cute young man.
We got into his truck and started to make out.”
“It was a hot August day at a remote Cape Cod beach.
My sister and I went for a hike down a path through the dunes, chatting away.
Suddenly, we both fell silent and began to slow our pace.”
“At about 13 years old, my group of friends religiously went to a local mall every Saturday.
“My parents were friends with an older man in the neighborhood.
One Saturday morning, they left me home as I was still in bed.
I must have been about 13.
I had just gotten up when I saw him walking up the road to our house.”
“My work colleagues and I used to go to this bar after work.
I was waiting for some friends and this guy approached me.
“I was a bartender in my 20s and would get off work very late.
I lived out in the country so you noticed things like that.
About half a mile up, there was a girl running from a house, so I slowed down.
She looked terrified and almost ran into me.”
“In 1989, I was 13.
I was not allowed to sleep over because my family was going to a boat show the next day.
Like many millennial-Gen Z cutoffs, we were flat broke.
“I was 19 and in college.
After a few weeks, I started getting this weird feeling every time she sat down.
It wasn’t coming from her, but I just couldn’t shake it.
Occasionally I would get a really bad feeling on a specific trail and turn around and go home.
Strange, but no explanation.”
After considering various ideas, we decided to go to the ball drop in Times Square.”
Note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
