“That’s when I saw the shadow of a person standing in the doorway into my room.
I have never felt my body freeze like that before.
Here are some of their hair-rising stories along with some from theoriginal Reddit thread.
They bought us new drinks to say sorry but they spiked them with Rohypnol.
We don’t remember shit all after getting our fresh drinks.
That was our second drink of the night; we would usually have six and stay till 2 a.m.
It was still 10 p.m. when we were being led out.”
My wife answered and heard breathing on the phone.
A deep, creepy voice just said, ‘Are you alone?’
The room number was the same as the phone number.
So now this creep knew the room my wife was in.
Chances are that he was the creep either way, it was quite terrifying."
Not the best night’s sleep I ever had…"
u/No-Independence-3467
3.
“Because of my work hours, I tend to get home late from work.
I often use the one-hour drive from work to home as a way to catch up with people.
As a result, when I pulled into my driveway, I did not go immediately inside.
Instead, I stayed in my car to finish the conversation.
I saw a man standing at the beginning of my driveway, staring straight ahead.
There was something off about his face, but I couldn’t make out what it was.”
“He then began walking into my driveway.
Then, I caught a glimpse of his face.
It looked like he had a clown mask on.
I immediately just started honking my horn like wild.
It threw him off because he did not realize someone was in the car.
I guess she told her lover we leave our backyard gate unlocked.
He wasn’t successful that night but did make another attempt on the husband’s life later that week.
I remember that night, too.
An hour later, I heard gunshots.”
u/HeartShapedBox7
4.
“I was walking home from the mall on Christmas Eve in 2010.
I was staying with my mom as I had moved out of town and didn’t have my car.
I had called to ask for a ride, but my mom was preparing for company.
“I was flustered and just kept walking.
I haven’t told my mom about this to this day.”
u/FalconCommon7772
5.
I was alone as the other worker wouldn’t be there for another hour.
I opened the door to take out more trash and saw two weird young men digging through the garbage.
They’d gotten there so quickly I knew they’d hidden somewhere close.
I felt a flash of danger.
Their eyes looked dead.
My spidey sense screamed, ‘GET OUT OF THE SHOP!!!’
I did, backing away from them.
Every hair on my body stood up.”
“The guy in black ran into the shop saying he needed to look for his lost iPhone.
After a minute, they left.
I ran into the shop and locked the door, shaking with fear.
I was supposed to be their next victim!”
angelicwitch235
6.
We passed these two teenage dudes who were just…off.
We said ‘hi’ as we passed, but they didn’t respond.
They just stared at us.
It’s hard to explain.
Something about them felt wrong sinister and non-feeling.
It made my hair stand on end a little bit when I looked at them.
“Later, I saw them carving something into a tree.
We went and looked, and they had carved ‘DEATH IS ABOUND’ into the tree.
I still remember it exactly.
Maybe it was silly; maybe they were just trying to be creepy or mess with people.
We left, and I never heard anything.
u/killabeesattack
7.
“I (25F at the time) was on a swing set in my hometown.
This guy (mid-early twenties) came and sat on a swing beside me.
He spoke a lot about how the victims deserved it.
I acted nice and eventually made an excuse that I had somewhere to be.
Less than a year later, I saw a news article that he had stabbed a few women.”
u/ceera_rayhne
8.
I asked him, ‘where to?’
His answer was, ‘To the creek, it’s a great place to walk.'”
adrienoelle2258
9.
“When I lived in Chicago, I was getting formula out of the trunk of my car.
It was dark out.
I heard the sound of someone running towards me.
(For reference, I’m 110lbs and 5’ 5”.)
He changed paths and began walking in another direction.
u/Kweenkiller
10.
“I (solo female) went to a grocery store late after my swing shift.
Then asked me for a ride.
I said, ‘No, man, I cant do that.’
His voice turned chillingly cold, and he said, ‘You made the right choice.'”
u/snowthathappened
11.My family and I lived in a very remote house on a lake.
Before we moved to Hawaii from Michigan, my stepfather had already left to get settled.
So, it was just my mom, my brother, and I.
One night, I decided to sleep in my mom’s bed for the heck of it.
She had a huge bed and a gorgeous view of the lake.
I got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
I noticed the blinds in the bathroom were open.
For some reason, I glanced outside and saw two very white eyes staring back at me.
The man was huge and menacing.
I went back to my mom’s room immediately and laid down under the covers.
A few minutes later, I sat up to verify he was gone.
He was standing, just staring at me.
bestunicorn88
12.
“After what felt like an eternity, he left.
I called the police, and it took them 30 minutes to find him and arrest him.
He wanted to go back after killing someone.
That someone would’ve been me.
u/BaumFrosch
13.
One of my buddies knocked on the driver’s door and opened it.
The guy was all disoriented.
We told him to get out, and he claimed it was his car.
He was clearly still disoriented from sleeping and, potentially, something else.
Eventually, he got out, and we got in.
The driver immediately felt something on the seat that he was sitting on.
He had sat on the guy’s gun.
We dodged a bullet that night.”
u/akablacktherapper
14.
I shouted thinking it was my cousin, who was a similar build.
I’ve never shit myself so much.
I bolt past him into the living room to wake up my sleeping dad and cousin.
Oh, and the guy was trying to clean up all the vomit he had projected into the bathroom.
It was a disaster."
u/Sea_Corgi_7284
15.
They were so drunk that one of them kept saying, ‘Where is my phone?
I’ve lost my phone,’ until she realized it was half wedged into her top.
They started talking to us, and I decided to check that they got home safely.
I insisted that they order it and did it for them.
I also decided to wait to order mine because they were extremely vulnerable and unwise, probably recently 18.
“His ‘Uber’ (van-style people carrier with a sliding door) pulled up.
He opened the door and said nothing to the driver, suggesting we come to the party again.
He waited for an uncomfortable amount of time and realized we were not going to come.
He closed the ‘Uber’ door without saying anything to the driver, and the ‘Uber’ drove off.
He then made his way back up to the club.
u/EL-Chapo_Jr
16.
“A girlfriend and I were on a work trip.
We stayed at the same hotel in different rooms.
We had dinner one night at the restaurant on the ground floor.
And he kept giving her free drinks.
She didn’t drink much to begin with, so she was getting toasty.
I got a really bad feeling and closed out and paid the check.
After I put her to bed, I laid down on a towel in front of the door.
Guess who knocked on the door 20 minutes later?
Fuck that dude.”
u/f4ttyKathy
17.
“I had been working late and had about half an hour before my train would arrive.
When I got to the platform, there was an older drunk man sitting on the ground.
He seemed like he might be homeless, and he had blood all over his face.
I could barely understand what he was saying, but I smiled and nodded when it seemed appropriate.
I was kind of uncomfortable at this point, and then he asked for a hug.
Suddenly, he didn’t seem so drunk.
wardenfelix
18.
“When my oldest daughter was about a year old, I took her to Walmart one day.
While we were shopping, I noticed an older woman watching us.
I immediately jerked my cart back and put my arm between her and my daughter.
I said, ‘No, ma’am, you cannot.
Don’t touch my daughter.’
She jerked her arm back and looked SO offended, but I didn’t care.
I immediately felt the urge to run out of the store.
It was 20 years ago, and it still gives me chills to think about.
I really think she was about to attempt to abduct my daughter right in front of my face.”
u/burnmeup82
19.
“Years ago, my then-boyfriend and I decided to walk to a convenience store for some snacks.
It was about a 30-minute walk out in the suburbs.
It was also Sunday not a big party night.
Except then, both cars braked hard.
“We immediately turned and ran.
It was heavily forested and went to the bank of the river.
There was nowhere to run in time.
We had a bit of a lead, but we were both out of breath.
Thank god they gave up and left.”
drigs
20.
“My young daughter was at soccer practice.
He didnt acknowledge me but crossed the street and continued to watch them.
He said something under his breath and walked away.
My mom instincts were going off like mad.
Trust your instincts, people!”
u/chiwawaacorn
21.
While I was in the candy aisle, an old lady was staring at me.
I smiled at her, and she just walked away.
I went to go get a slushy.
She approached me and asked about my ethnicity, and I said that I was a first-generation Mexican-American.
She later started to talk about how her father used to shoot Mexicans in her old town.
I was scared, so I just quickly grabbed my things and went to my car.
u/Adventurous-Act4413
22.
The front door had a bell on it.
One day a man came in and I swear I didn’t hear that bell go off.
I turned around, expecting absolutely nobody to be there, but instead, I saw this customer.
I swear to god.
He was so soft-spoken when he finally did talk, and he asked for a cup of hot water.
I think it was September in South Carolina, so not a cold time of year by any means.
I said sure, of course, and went to the back to get him some hot water.
“‘No, you don’t make me nervous,’ I lied.
He stayed there for hours.
I still think about him sometimes and get the heebie jeebies.”
u/Difficult-Buy5353
23.
“I lived alone in my first apartment and had been living there for almost a year.
“The footsteps came closer, and it became very apparent that they were in MY apartment.
Someone was kind of stumbling around, trying to figure out where to walk in the dark.
I have never felt my body freeze like that before.
Some stranger was in my apartment in the dark, walking around.
Out of nowhere, I just let out this pretty loud ‘Hey!’
I kept on going with, ‘What are you doing?
Can you go out again?’
I spoke in a lower register, which I didn’t know I could naturally speak in.
It’s okay,’ in some weird attempt to still be friendly.
I ran back into my room and saw these two shadows on my wall and heard men laughing.
The next day, I contacted my housing company.
I have never felt so unsafe in an apartment before or since.”
u/DoubtfullButOkay
24.
“I finished a night class at my MMA gym … at about 10 p.m. as usual.
She asked me, ‘Sir, can you take me across the street to the bus stop?’
At this point, I realized this whole thing was a trap.
u/TimeCat101
25.
“This was about 25+ years ago.
Picture it: So Cal, in the middle of summer, hot as hell.
The owner (I assume) was working.
Polite chit-chat, as one does.
I kept politely declining.
I had a flash of me being pushed over a case of Coors Light and assaulted.
The feeling I got and his utter determination to get me into that cold room…nope.
That’s not how I die.”
u/Pillsbury1982
26.
“It was a sunny Sunday.
I cooked coffee in the kitchen, still in my pajamas, and chatted with my husband.
“The guy … had a sledgehammer in one hand and a knife in the other hand.
So I did the only thing I could think of I started talking.
And I basically managed to talk this guy out of our home.
I can no longer remember what I said or what I thought, but it worked.
He tried to flee, but one of their dogs caught him.
We learned later that he was full of drugs.
Later, we discovered that he had already hit our dog at least once with the sledgehammer.
That’s why our sweet, protective baby fled into the garden.
My husband later told me that he had been terrified of me getting killed.
Throughout that day, I was in a strange disbelief as if I had narrated a story.
The next day, I snapped.
I suddenly realized how freaking dangerous the whole incident had been and couldn’t stop crying.
u/Kaethe_HE
27.
He drove off, and I thought that was the end of it.
He had a big tote bag hung from one shoulder and his opposite arm inside the bag.
He said, ‘Yeah, I just came to walk with my cat; she’s inside my bag.
She loves coming here.'”
Any normal person would’ve sensed the discomfort and left me alone.
I decided I wouldn’t keep going and would just go back to my car.
or ‘What else do you have to do?’
u/BeginningMore5059
28.
“I was walking home from the grocery store when I was approached by a young man.
I stopped when he got close, and he asked about the location of a hostel.
“I increased my walking speed (as much as I could manage in 30-ish cm.
of fresh snow with a bag of groceries).
He continued to follow.
Why are you following her?’
I glanced around to see my neighbor coming towards me and the guy.
My neighbor looked angry, and my follower seemed startled.
I kept going as I was almost home.
His mugshot flashed up on the TV screen.
u/Frozenassnorth
29.
“When I was a teen, I worked at a doctor’s office.
We had a patient, ‘Charlie’ come in.
He was a workman’s comp case, so he hadn’t been a patient before.
He was eventually convicted and went to jail (though I don’t know for how long).
That was my affirmation that, as a woman, I should always trust my gut.”
u/Madeline73
30.
“I almost got kidnapped.
I was 7 or 8, and we went to Disneyland.
We got off the small world ride, and I grabbed what I thought was my mom’s hand.
I had a snack.
I was at Disney, so I didn’t pay much attention.
We got a bit away, and I heard my name being called by my mom’s distinct voice.
I broke my grip and ran back to my mom.
It took a few years to realize what happened.
She just kept walking.
It was scary as hell to come to that realization.”
u/Hot-Tone-7495
31.
We went back hours later to get them.
I’ll never know what could have happened, but it just sent chills down our spines.
u/Shrimp1991
32.
“I was 19.
I was still living at home.
For some reason, that particular night, something told me to wait.
So I just sat in the car with it running for a few minutes in front of the gate.
There was a car parked across the street with no lights on that seemed to be off.
After a few minutes, I noticed movement in the car.
There was a man staring across the street at me.
I panicked (this was before cell phones, so I couldn’t call anyone).
I continued to sit, trying to decide if I should drive off or not.
I just knew I was dead.”
“But then he slowly pulled off and went down the street.
I swear I moved so fast getting into the house.
It was an absolutely terrifying experience.”
ladyebugg
33.
My husband worked 50 miles away as a teacher and couldn’t just leave, though.
I decided to offer the plasterer a drink and snack.
He seemed very angry at women in general.”
It was of me and my dad, who had died the year before.
He started crying and said quite hysterically, pointing at my dad, ‘How do you know that man?
That man saved my life.’
I had never felt more relieved that my dad was watching over me that day.”
u/BelleFleur10
34.
This was a significant issue and involved multi-million dollar lawsuits.
I provided the citizen with the information I had.
u/SafetyMan35
35.
“When I was about eight months pregnant, my best friend at the time was performing poetry.
I would go and support her.
I talked with my husband, and we agreed that I could go since it was a populated area.
I actually had a great time at the show until I had to pee.
When he saw me, he immediately started hitting on me.
I was clearly pregnant and had a ring on my finger, but that didn’t stop him.
I hurried back to my friends and told them I was extremely uncomfortable and wanted to go home.
They had been taking shots and told me okay, they’d call me tomorrow.
“Pissed, I just turned around and hurried to the door and paused.
I didn’t see him.
I turned around and booked it as fast as I could to the security guard and was screaming.
The guy started chasing me, acting like we were together, and grabbing my arm.
and then rode off.
Still haunts him to this day.”
u/ladykiller1020
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