“If my sister hadn’t seen me Im positive I would have never been seen again.”

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PsstBuzzFeed did not verify these stories.

They’re all alleged.

The photo shows the shadow of a truck cast on a dirt and rock terrain during daytime, with no visible persons

They would send us down to fly helicopter simulators once a year in Pennsylvania to maintain our instrument ratings.

We would carpool in one vehicle."

“I had an employee that worked for me doing minor maintenance repairs on construction equipment.

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One day it just took him way too long on a job and I was pissed.

I pulled the GPS info and he was nowhere near where he was supposed to be.

My admin and I both called him repeatedly with no response.

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Find out it has happened repeatedly.”

“My grandmother swears she metDavid Parker Ray,AKA the Toybox killer.

“My parents told me about the time my father metTed Bundy.

Ted Bundy is escorted by police officers while wearing a prison uniform in a black and white photograph

He was walking into my mom’s workplace as Bundy was walking out.

They exchanged pleasantries and Bundy shook my father’s hand.

Bundy said he was working for a farmer in a town about 20 miles away.

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It was an interesting story.”

Just after leaving, a van pulled over to him and the driver tried talking him into the vehicle.

When that didn’t work, the man got out and tried to force him into the van.

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My cousin kicked and screamed and refused in every way possible to get away.

A passing car saw what was happening and stopped, which probably spooked the van driver.

The guy got back into his van and drove away immediately.

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He managed to catch up to the van and arrested the guy for attempted kidnapping.”

“I grew up in a small town in North Wales (UK).

“Not me, but my uncle.

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“Whilst I was at university, I worked at a cafe in a local shopping centre.

One of our regular customers was a mum and son who would come have breakfast most mornings.

The mum was delightful, however, the son always seemed a bit off.

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Nothing major, just youd say ‘have a great day’ and hed reply with ‘yes.'”

“My mum once told us about a suspected run-in she had withClifford Olson.

He asked her where the post office was located and said he needed some help mailing a present.”

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“I worked a retail job that sold phones at a high-end mall.

A guy came in carrying an expensive bag and wearing designer clothes and asked to buy a phone.

While I waited for our back-of-house team to bring the phone, I made casual conversation with him.

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I asked what he did for work, and he said he was an actor.

I asked if he had been in anything I might have seen, and he saidThe Hunger Games.

I said, ‘Cool, who did you play?’

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He mumbled something about being one of the tributes.”

My mother is… not great.

During one of these adventures, my mum decided she wanted us to stay with stepdad in the truck.

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My sister was 11, I was nine.”

I suddenly felt sick.

Something about the guy scared me.

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I just knew there was going to be a problem.

“Not a serial killer, but he killed more than half of an entire family.

He convinced me to save the tree and just remove a few dangerous limbs.

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He just seemed like a regular bloke.”

A few months later Toronto police arrested the Santa.

He had murdered several men.

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And also working as a mall Santa.”

I alerted a staff member and they had security walk me to the car.

The gift of fear is real and trust it!"

“I coached his kid’s soccer team for a few years.

His kids were fun-loving goofballs that had two left feet.

He worried that people would pick on them.

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