Here are their stories, along with some from theBuzzFeed Community.
She was found buried in a shallow grave in a train yard behind our building.
Just his presence would make us feel unsettled, no matter how distant you were.
He would frequently take a stab at ask female tenants for dinner dates and bring them flowers.
He was deemed ‘Ottawa’s first serial killer.’
I moved soon after."
jodil4b30ba9f3
2.
“My neighbor used to babysit me and took me to her doctor’s appointments sometimes.
Her doctor was Harold Shipman, one of the most notorious UK serial killers.
He was incredibly aloof when you talked to him.”
u/cheesywotsits
3.
“My sister used to work as a security guard at a mall in Colorado.
She pointed over to a public phone and told him he could use that one.
“So she did what he asked.
I dont know what I would do without my big sister.
Shes the light of my life as well as her two beautiful children.”
s476835d36
4.
“I went to school with a guy who ended up murdering a kindergarten teacher with his girlfriend.
It was apparently a ‘fantasy’ of theirs.”
rachelpont13
5. zwood320
6.
This patient was always the last patient of the day.
He was always talking about the case.
bragging about all the weapons he had, and he even resembled the sketch of him.
Dad was a first lieutenant, infantry, tail end of WW2 and did not scare.
This patient though gave my dad the creeps.
Finally, my dad gave the cops a sample of this patients handwriting.
Shortly after this, he stopped being seen by my dad.”
Michael Hand.Youll see exactly how creepy he still looks."
identicalsnowflakes
8.
“I was in Denver with my ex a few years back.
All I had was a $5.
“Time stopped for a second, and then he asked me if I wanted my change.
He stood still as a statue watching us walk away until we turned a corner.
Someone was stabbed to death near the train tracks at around 10:00 PM.
We got off the train at around 11:00 PM.
u/imploding_beachball
9.
Throughout the conversation he refused to look directly up at her and didn’t want to leave.
She reported it to the police.”
u/kopfkinos_
10.
“My grandparents bought their house in Tacoma, Wash., from Ted Bundys great-uncle.
jnell
11.
“A family friend claims that Ted Bundy may have kidnapped and murdered his cousin.
To this day, no one knows what truly happened to her as she is still missing.”
thebookdragonishere
12.
Twoh7
13.
“I had a run-in not to long ago.
My initial reaction was trying to help him, but someting was holding me back.
Eventually I went my way and felt horrible.
But a week later this man randomly killed three woman and injured nine including a child.”
“He just snapped and stabbed them out of nothing, they also say he had a misogynistic motive.
may_nay76
14.
“I accidentally met Jeffery Dahmer in Milwaukee the summer before he was caught.
It was late at night, and I was drunk and lost.
My friends were going to school in Milwaukee, and I came up to visit.
I jumped in, and started having a super-creepy vibe from him.
I got to his apartment and he offered a beer before the phone.
It just all felt as creepy as could be.
I literally ran out the door, and down the street as soon as fast as I could.
He chased me for about half a block, but he couldn’t keep up.”
u/Obiriron
15.
My cousins girlfriend goes over and answers it and its her uncle asking to talk to her parents.
He sounds super freaked out, so shes asking him whats wrong.
He tells her the police had just left his house.
She starts worrying, and pushes a little further.
izzy22todd
16.
“I used to be a Jehovahs Witness as a kid.
We knocked on the door; everything very normal.
Except this time I got hit by something I couldnt see.
My ears started ringing and buzzing like crazy it felt like a helmet had been put on.
My body was screaming at me to leave.
“All those things got so much stronger.
The air felt like it got dense to keep me from moving.
My mom looked at me and she said I looked off.
She told him that I seemed to be ill and that we should just leave.
As soon as we stepped onto the ground in view of the car, I was completely fine.
My mom decided to take me home anyway.
We lived two blocks away, luckily.
I think one of them was as young as 16.
I was 12 at the time.
u/IDontEvenCareBear
17.
One friend didnt speak much, just a pretty nondescript 20 year old guy.
They found his body two weeks later in a forest where he had killed himself.
Still in his costume.”
kestrelh
18.
“My grandpa once bought shoes from John Wayne Gacy.”
haleyjkuntz
19.
“I had lunch with Gacy on death row.
No window or guard.
Sat with him for about an hour.
He also painted a picture of my cat.”
“My partner and I at the time started writing letters to him in prison.
We bought and sold some of Gacy’s art.
He called us a few times on the phone, too!
We took a road trip, and he invited us to visit.
He talked about sex, masturbation, and that he was ‘innocent.’
But in my opinion, from seeing his eyes?
That man was GUILTY of murder for sure.
That was long ago in the 1990s.”
Blessed.Be.Bop
20.
She said the guy looked really creepy.
We got back to Eugene and got a call from the state police asking if we saw anything strange.
We gave an update about the guy camping above the beach and asked why they were calling.
Turned out to be a serial killer who’d been killing people while traveling across the country.”
“They caught him in southern California a few weeks later.”
u/mppickett13579
21.
“My mom went on a blind date and got a weird vibe so she ghosted.
gillianscheekbones
22.
“My great-grandfather knew the shopowner Ed Gein killed and met Ed a few times.”
“This was a few years ago now, maybe 2019?
Really nice guy we had immediate chemistry.
He asks if I felt like going for a few drinks.
He wasnt a complete stranger and the other staff knew him, so I agreed.
“Anyway, all’s going good.
Were getting along fine and having a good night.
but the more he drank, things began to change.
He was telling me horrific stories about things hed seen while serving.
Through the night, the look in his eyes began to change.
I suppose it sounds cliche, but theres no other way to describe it.
He had a bit of madness in them which he previously didnt have.
He was giving me loads of drinks and started offering to buy me drugs (I declined).
i started to feel uneasy and texted my best friend saying I didnt feel right.
He lived around the corner and said if I needed to leave hed meet me.
Im timing when Im going to leave.
It’s, like, 5 a.m. at this point.
Then hed take her out for drinks and back to his for more, and get her really drunk.
At this point, he looked completely different.
Like, his face had changed completely.
He looked so sinister.
he cussed me out as I did and slammed the door so hard it shook.
My friend held me while I sobbed.
I got in at about 6:30, and blocked him on everything.”
u/smallcuppabrew
24.
“I was installing a camera in a customer’s home with another guy at work.
Gotta let them suffer before cutting the heads off.'”
“He locked the outside garage door, turns around and just starts murmuring about cutting off heads again.
He must have brought up murder five to eight times in a 10 minute stretch.
‘They call me Sergeant (something, I forget).’
I reply: ‘Thank you for your service!
I really admire veterans!’
He looked at me with those dead eyes: ‘I was never in the military.’
Long stretch of silence.
His wife called him on his iWatch: ‘Everything ok down there?
Anybody up to something?’
Long stretch before he replies.
We’re just in the garage.
Everybody is here and we’re fine.
I’ll call you if I need you.'
It was like they were talking about something they didn’t want us to hear.
We were bracing for him to take a stab at get us.
I said it was a safety hazard and needed to go out the big garage door.
Both of us split out of there and didn’t look back.
Told the company, locked the account, and wondered if we should have called the cops.
I have no idea what would have happened to my coworker had he showed up alone there.
He was supposed to be alone, I randomly picked that day to audit him.
Creepiest thing I’ve ever been around.”
u/Leadfoot-Lei
25.
“I got into an Uber in Florida driven by a really old really big burly guy.
Chat starts off normal but then he quickly starts talking about his time in the military.
Fine, just classic veteran talk right?
I started to get this real fear that he genuinely was a serial killer in his younger days.
Florida has quite a few cold cases dating back to the ’80s.
u/friendswithseneca
26.
“I was a docent at a train museum in 2018.
On a stormy November day, …
I wasn’t expecting many people to come to the museum.
Our museum was small, out of the way, and pretty niche.
“But I was used to its normal level of creepiness.
This dude, however, creeped me out.
His clothes were dirty and had holes, and his hair was disheveled.
I started by asking his name and where he was from, and he completely evaded the question.
I asked again if he was more interested in the trains or the Civil War history.
He didn’t really answer.
But I started the tour.
We were the only two people in the building.
Every room I entered, he stood between me and the door, uncomfortably close.
And I suddenly realized I hadn’t taken my cellphone with me.
So I started making sure that there was no way he could get between me and the door.
I also kept track of any large objects he could hit me with and got between him and those.
He started to get more visibly agitated.
So I sped through the tour and got back outside.
We changed our policy to not give tours to solo visitors soon after that.
OMGitsaClaire
27.Last one…“Found a piece of furniture on Craigslist that I wanted to buy.
Agreed to meet the guy outside of his house to inspect/pickup.
When I arrived, he wasn’t outside.
Rung the doorbell, he answers and invites me in.
Tells me the furniture is in his basement.
I notice the basement door has a lock and deadbolt.
My internal subconscious alarm bells immediately being screaming at me to leave.
I thanked him for his time and promptly left (fled).”
u/Allfunandgaymes
Submissions have been edited for length/clarity.
