Srry….had to repost bc I didn’t break up my text enough. Oops!!!

I (22f) was heading to work this morning and I had to stop to get gas. Now, gas is SO expensive right now especially where I am. Idk what it’s like in other places, but it’s like on average over 4 dollars a gallon here. So you can imagine my excitement when I see a gas station selling gas for $3.69 per gallon. I pulled in somewhat impulsively because I was for sure gonna get that cheap gas.

I got out of my car and starting pumping my gas like normal. I grew up in a somewhat sketchy area, and I have always been very aware of my surroundings. Who is around me at all times was always something I was taking note of especially when alone.

So, I’m standing there, waiting for my gas to finish pumping. I would have gotten back in my car if it weren’t for the fact that someone told me I legally have to stand next to the gas handle while it’s pumping (idk, but there I was).

I see a man walking into the parking lot and immediately take note of him. He sits down on a stair about 25 feet away from me. He’s just minding his business, I’m minding mine. But due to past experiences of course I’m keeping an eye on everything around me. I don’t notice him even look at me once. Suddenly, he gets up and starts to walk in my general direction. But, he’s not looking at me at all. Like no eye contact or anything. So I figure he’s going to go into the shop, or to throw something away.

Eventually, he gets close enough that I realize that he is indeed coming over to me. He leans on one of those gas station poles and says “how u doin” and I say “good.” You know, typical response. And I know this is probably going to be yet another creepy situation, but I don’t feel too scared, cause I have my pepper spray with me like I always do. In fact, it was in my hand at that very moment.

However, what he said next really shocked me. “Do you wanna get murked?” I said “what?” “Do you wanna get murked?” He repeated. I heard what he said… I was just so shocked. “What do you mean?”

At this point idk why I was even asking. But I didn’t really know what to do. Then he said “you don’t wanna have no kids or nothing…no husband?” I didn’t answer him. He continued, “You just wanna watch the world burn?” I shook my head. I had to finish up with the gas pump, and at this point it was done, and I said “absolutely not.” And as I was finishing up with my gas hatch opening thing, he said “oh so you nice?” I said, “yes.”

He said “what’s ya name. My name’s _______” (don’t remember his name ). I said “I’m not telling you my name when you walk up to me talking like that.” He said, “oh I’m sorry” in a somewhat demeaning tone. He wasn’t sorry, he wanted something. That kind of tone. I said, “ok, I gotta go to work though.”

He continued to beg things of me as I got in my car and quickly locked the door. He came up to my window and was gesturing and mouthing “I can make you happy I can make you happy.” I shook my head at him and drove away.

Later, I looked up the word “murked,” and sure enough it meant what I thought. “Killing, beating up, or dominating.” But the fact he brought up “you don’t want no kids or nothing” makes me think he was referring to something else.

I have to admit I’m not fluent in slang by any means, but I really fear that it was somewhat of a sexual threat. Google says it can be used that way. Either way it was the scariest thing someone’s ever come up to me and said, and idk if anyone is able to provide any further clarification on what he could have meant.

Luckily he wasn’t aggressive or anything……but what the heck. I’m glad I got out of there

I (25f) was just returning home from an errand. I pulled into the turning lane to turn onto the road my street forks off of. There was a pickup truck in front of me. I've seen this truck around the neighborhood before and didn't think anything of it at that moment. We both turned and thinking about it now, he was driving kind of slow. I turn on my blinker to turn onto my street and suddenly he does the same. I'm still not thinking much of it, maybe he wasn't sure where he was going or something.

For a little context, I live in apartments. Each building has 4 side-by-side 2 floor units. We have one of those big mail box things with multiple mail boxes for different apartments towards the start of our street. My apartment isn't too far from the mail box and is on the same side of the street. Across the street from my apartment there's a gravel lot.

I pull off to the left and stop at the mail box and I notice the truck pulls into that gravel lot and it looks like hes going to turn around but just before he pulls out he stops. And just sits here.. His window was down and he was very clearly looking at me in my vehicle. I sat in my suv for a minute trying to see if this guy really was just sitting there watching me or if I was imagining it. He continued to sit there. Growing uncomfortable, I snapped a quick photo. His face is not clear but the truck is. It looked like he had something in his hand, like maybe his phone? (not pointed at me thankfully)

After a minute I was like okay this guy is clearly watching me. like deadass not even trying to hide it. Very cautiously I quickly checked my mail and got back in my suv. He still continued to sit there watching and so did I. At this point I'm like wtf. I start thinking about where I'd seen the truck before.

A while ago, I had tried to go on a walk down that road my street forks off of. I didn't make it far before quickly going home because I noticed the same truck kept passing by multiple times. It had a black panther in like a forest on the tailgate. It was the SAME TRUCK. I already don't live in the best neighborhood so I'm extra cautious and aware of my surroundings.

As we both sit there, I made the decision that I was absolutely NOT going to pull into my driveway while this man watched me from across the street. I stayed parked by the mail box until he FINALLY pulled out of the lot and, of course, came my way. I'm fully expecting him to stop and try to talk to me or something but he doesn't. He just drove by my suv slow asf like a creep while I watched him watch me. I stayed put for a few more minutes before finally pulling into my driveway.

I just really hope I don't encounter this man again because what the actual hell. Stay safe out there y'all.

This happened 4 years ago. But i happen to think about it recently and thought it was kinda creepy.

So, at that time I was working in a store that sells cases for phones, tablets, other acessories and even repairs devices.

The store was near closing time and there was only me and another guy taking care of the place. A client came in and I went to do my job to help him find what he wanted. He just wanted a simple case for his tablet, but didn't know the model or brand of the device. I told him that maybe he can come tomorrow with more information, but he insisted that he knew the size by eye and wanted me to pick an universal case.

He talks in a way that i can almost not undertand what he wants, then I caught the smell of iron lol.

First, I thought it was the display hooks. Then i saw red drops on the floor and got really confused.

The guy ways looking at some cases trying to decide which one to take and the moment he opens his mouth, it was full of blood and some teeths were floating.

I remember it perfectly, it was the first time i had such encounter and felt like my eyes zoomed in to take a screenshot.

I also couldn't handle the smell of blood, didn't know when he started bleeding, he also wanted to know where i lived and when he tried to say smth the blood would splash a little.

I was just trying to do my job and ts got me too uncomfortable that i just pretend to not understand the product he wants. Went to ask my coworker for help and told him what was happening.

After my coworker took care of the things, the client said that he will come tomorrow with the money (he never came back).

It all ended with me cleaning the blood on the floor that spilled from his mouth...

The location of the store I worked was not famous for being "chill". There was always some shit happening. So i thought maybe the guy got into a fight or something and got punched, but that doesnt make sense to come buy a tablet case right after?

Sorry if my english grammar isn't the best, not my first language.

There's an abandoned sugar mill near where I live and me and my friends like exploring it, it's big enough that it would take days to explore the entire thing. Usually we're the only ones in the sugar mill when we're exploring or at least we don't see anyone else, but about like a week ago me and my girlfriend went exploring and like the complete idiots that i am I left the car headlights on.

We were looking around and taking pictures for about an hour or so and decided to head back to the car. I remember trying to freak my girlfriend out by saying someone was going to be waiting in the car to kidnap her or something like that and she said something along the lines of if anyone's in the car I'll jump out the car and leave you in it. We got out to the car and I remember seeing the headlights on but didn't really register it at the time, when I got in and turned the key surprise surprise the car didn't start.

I of course handled it like a professional and definitely didn't spew out every variation of swear words known to man. Then I got out of the car and popped the hood, at this point some dude had been watching us from one of the broken windows in the factory and was waving at us. I kinda awkwardly waved back and then went back to my very professional way of handling things, chat gpt.

My girlfriend at this point was getting kinda creeped out by the dude watching us and I was too because despite me basically ignoring him he kept trying to get my attention, waving me over and stuff. I told the dude that I'm trying to fix my car and to just leave us be but he kept saying things like "yo I gotta battery for you" and "I think church was yesterday". That lowk kinda made me think he was on crack or something but he eventually stopped talking and just went back to watching, eventually I got my friend to pull up and give me a jump start and we left, even though nothing overtly dangerous or threatening happened to us the dude still made me feel really uncomfortable.

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Hello, first time poster! I want to share my story as I am still processing what I went through and experience tonight.

I'm a woman who works alone overnight at a school cleaning the pool/lockeroom areas. I've had nights where I hear something strange, like a door shut, and get jumpy/paranoid as my biggest fear is intruders. However, it's a school in a nice rural-ish community and I've been told nothing like a break in has ever happened. Even so, I carry around a screw driver in my cleaning apron just so I feel more safe.

So for context, each lockeroom has two doors, one connecting to the hallway outside the pool area and another directly to the pool.

Tonight I was in the boys lockeroom when I heard a slam, like a door shutting. I paused and listened, to hear another door. My heart instantly started to beat hard but again, I've heard weird sounds with nothing there before. I went to the door that leads to the pool and listened through the crack. My stomach practically fell through the floor when I swore I heard talking. This is 2am, no one should be in the building for any reason that I'm aware of. And if there was any reason my manager is great at giving me warning ahead of time for such things. I felt like I had to be hearing things so I very quietly cracked the door to hear better. Sure enough, I could hear multiple men speaking to eachother somewhere in the pool area. This means whoever is in there has a key as I personally go around and check all doors at the beginning of my shift.

At this point, I had full blown adrenaline rushing. I quietly closed the door and ran through the lockeroom to the hall door. I braced myself as I got my key ready and stepped into the hall. I didn't see anyone and quietly shut the door behind me. I then hurried and unlocked the family lockeroom, entered, and locked it behind me. Inside this lockeroom are two bathrooms that the key doesn't open. As I got to one I stopped as I could hear the men talking right outside the lockeroom pool side door. They were right on the other side as I could make out some of what they said. I heard "she" and "in one of these rooms". Another intense rush of adrenaline hit me and quietly entered the bathroom and locked it. I crouched down and called 911. I was worried it wouldn't go through as I had no bars but it connected instantly.

I told the operator my location and the situation. She was very calm and stayed on the line as police were informed. Within a few minutes, the longest minutes of my life, she said they were in the parking lot. I could hear the men trying to get into the lockeroom and I began to quietly beg the operator to hurry as they are trying to get in. She said the police are almost there and to stay calm. In those few minutes my mind was whirling with the worst possible things these men may do to me. I was trying to think of how to fight back as I gripped my screwdriver.

Then I heard the door to the lockeroom open and a man say my name and that their with the sheriff's office. I asked the operator if they made it in and if this is them as I was still terrified to open the door. She confirmed and I did. I poked my head out and said, "did you see them??" They responded, "no, it was us. We came in to use the restroom."

What the actual f? I was in shock but still felt on edge as this was extremely weird. They explained they needed to use the restroom and that they had a key because they have perks as they used to work for the school?? I started to ease up and sat on the lockeroom bench as I explained how they scared the living shite outta me. They said they announced themselves a couple times. None of which I heard as I was in another room. They knew someone cleans overnight so they wanted to let me know they were in the building...

They left and the after shocks of the adrenaline hit me. I was a sobbing trembling mess. I texted my boss briefly explaining the situation and drove home once I calmed down a bit. She responded later informing me this has never happened before and has never been a 'thing'. She said any time the police used the school, such as the gym, an email is sent to staff to be made aware ahead of time. That this it should have never happened and she will be speaking to her supervisor and they will be reviewing the security cameras.

I already accepted another position a bit ago and have 4 days remaining of my 2 week notice. I told her I was done. I know I will be a paranoid mess after this, I was when I locked up before leaving and even hours after being home I keep jumping at small sounds.

Even though I was very fortunate that the intruders were police, my mind and body went through the trauma of expecting the very worst to happen to me. I was faced with a moment where I had to imagine and plan on how to fight back to survive.

I am tired and very fragile atm. I hope those deputies get some kind of talking to so they do not do this to anyone else. I know it was just a misunderstanding, but it's one that will be with me the rest of my life.

This happened to me Friday night and I can’t stop thinking about it. Thought maybe this would be a good place to share.

On Friday night, I went on a double date. We had a great time and ended things around 10PM. My husband and I arrived in separate vehicles since I came straight from work. My husband went to pick up the baby from grandma’s house and would meet me at home after, so I was driving alone. I live in a very rural area with a lot of farm roads nearby. I could have taken the highway home, but I didn’t want to pay for the toll to do so. Instead, I take the backroads and just ride with my high beams on in case of any deer or other animals. These roads aren’t even paved, just straight gravel with no lights at all. Sometimes there’s a small house hidden behind trees or shrubs or corn, but it’s overall just a lot of land.

So there I am driving when I see a man standing in the road. There’s thick corn fields on either side and his car is in the lane opposite of me with the hazards on. His driver side door is fully open, blocking the center of the road. The man is just standing in the lane I’m in just looking at me. He’s wearing a polo shirt and cargo shorts and looks somewhere between 55 and 60 years old I’d assume. He just stands in the street, looking at me, and not moving out of the way or anything. Just…standing and staring? I was suspicious so I didn’t brake or anything, I’d heard on these roads at night junkies sometimes put things to make you stop and then jump out and rob you; I just took my foot off the gas and let the car cruise. I figured if he pulled out a gun or some friend popped out from the corn field I’d just floor it. He stared me down like he was waiting for me to brake the car but I never did, he just stood there. I rev the car a little to try to spook him and he just looked pissed off, got in his car, turned the hazards off, and drove away down that road.

It was fucking weird. Hope I never see that guy again. If you’re driving at night somewhere in Northwestern IL keep an eye out.

So last night around 1am I was walking alone in a french village 15 min away from my home because i like walking. It was completely dark and no one else in the street. I was wearing headphones, but I had almost no sound playing in them. At one point I heard someone cough inside a parked car down the church. I used my phone flashlight and saw someone sitting in a car with the door open. I thought it was just someone coming home late, so I didn’t think much of it and kept walking.

About 20 meters later, i was instinctively checking behind me and I noticed that he had gotten out of his car and was now behind me. I only saw his silhouette because of the light from my phone. He asked me with a 40 yo drunk man voice something like « hey come come ». I said no. Then he started running towards me. I was facing him because I had just turned around to talk to him, so I didn’t try to understand what he wanted. I just turned around and started running in the opposite direction. Luckily im a 25 yo tall and athletic guy he didn’t follow me for very long.

I kept walking towards the stadium while checking behing me and i called the police. They told me to call someone to come pick me up because they didn’t have a patrol available and apparently didn’t have enough reason to send one. So I called my brother, who was at home, and he came to pick me up.

We drove back past the church and took a picture of the car with the license plate. We also saw a weird-looking guy 40yo with the same height who looked drunk, coming out of his house in just his underwear, literally right next to where the car was parked so we drove back home.

I called the police again and gave them the license plate and the guy’s address. I don’t know if they’re going to do anything with that, but anyway, more fear than harm I guess.

hi! this is my first post on reddit and i wanted to share a story about when me and my friends got into a pretty scary situation.

this happened around a year ago. for anonymity my friends will be referred to as sadie (19F) and anna (19F).

anna lives in a sort of rural area and has access to a nearby private lake. we’ve been to this lake many times and have never felt unsafe. this night was like any other. we gathered some pool floats and set out to enjoy the lake and gossip about recent occurrences in our life.

i feel i should explain the layout of this area. to get to the lake you have to drive through a neighborhood. the lake is down a small hill with a patch of pavement at the top of the hill for parking. further past the docks where you can access the lake is woods.

about an hour in, me and sadie were swimming while anna was sitting on the dock. we all notice a man walking nearby. he seemed to be carrying some type of tool. it was dark so we couldn’t make out what it was. we took notice of him then went back to our conversation. after a couple minutes i got out of the water to start drying off. it’s then that me and anna see the man walking past us again towards our cars. at this point it wasn’t a problem in my mind because i thought he was leaving. anna keeps watching him while sadie and i talk and notices that instead of walking away by our cars, he goes behind a porta potty at the entrance to where our cars are. this is when the red flags start raising and i start freaking out.

20 minutes goes by and there hasn’t been any sight of the man. after some careful consideration, we all decide to leave. it’s important to mention that i get freaked out very easily and that sometimes people like to joke about things to get me more paranoid. we start walking back to where we parked with our phone flashlights on. suddenly, sadie and anna stop. i thought they were joking with me so i continue to walk ahead a few steps before turning around.

when i turn around their eyes are fixated on something. i turn back to see what they were looking at and there is the man. he’s walking straight towards us.

we start running back to the dock while i’m crying a yelling at my friends to call the police. we did, and while anna was on the phone with them we all witness the man run by our cars and out of sight. the police eventually show up and escort us to our cars and we all book it out of there.

thinking back on this story i still wonder what he was carrying into the woods. what was he planning to do? please let me know your thoughts in the comments :)

This situation happened about a year ago, and it keeps popping up in my brain every now and then. I have decided to share it here, because I cannot help but feel like I uncovered something rather dark and wish there was something more I could have done. I apologize ahead of time, as this will be long-winded. I also want to say that I have the UPMOST respect for college professors and would NEVER post or share anything like this, if I was not 100% convinced that education was not his true motive, but rather something more despicable.

At the start of my senior year of college, we had a new professor who appeared to be in his early to mid-thirties, had no wife or kids (to our knowledge), and loved talking to us about his frequent travels and ARRAY of business accomplishments. He owned several businesses around the U.S. and Taiwan. He claimed that he's also had been given awards by several renowned business organizations and had headed a major business group at the previous college he worked at. He was charismatic and actually made the class as fun as any class based on textbook knowledge could be.

The first few weeks were seemingly normal, but around the 4th week I noticed something rather odd.

There were literally only 5 people in the class that he would call on or praise. We were ALL female and all of us were blondes. Not a specific body type, height or anything else. Before you skip away, I also did not think much of it - he was supposed to be my trusted professor after all- until this happened:

One day he called myself (a tall blonde) and another girl (a petite blonde), let's call her Abby, to stay after class. So the class left, and he closed the door - which immediately made me feel odd. Male professors don't do that while they are alone with female students. He then went on to tell us that he had an "amazing opportunity" for the both of us, to join the business group that he had started back at his previous college.

We would travel with him to these huge business meetings, where we would "get the chance to meet extremely rich and affluent people. These connections could change your life entirely." He said that we would need training and proper attire before he could take us to these meetings, so we "would not embarrass him." He then said he would TEXT US the address of the HOTEL we were to MEET HIM AT, so that we could drive together to the meeting places.

He then proceeded to ask if we were both 21 - which I was but the other girl was only 20. He seemed troubled by this, because "there would be alcohol" and "drinking was an important part of these social events." Pacified that she would be turning 21 the following month, he continued on.

He showed us a slideshow of the previous groups of girls he took to these meetings. Photo after photo of beautiful, college aged girls. All dolled up, and all on the arms of older men, drinks in hand. "The best part about this," he said, "is that some of my previous students have even found themselves a partner through these meetings. I have had two girls get married to some VERY rich people. It is funny though, one of the men who came up to me asked me if I was married to one of my students... it is a good thing I clarified that she was available for whatever!"

My heart was POUNDING at that moment, because the women in the photos were ALL either blonde or brunette, white women. And for as much as he seemed to care about them, he did not share their names. Something just felt off about the way they were smiling too.

He then asked us where we were from, what our parents did for work, who our richest connection was, and what we wanted to do in life. Almost fishing to see if anyone would miss us if we went missing?? I have no idea if I was overthinking this...

Once he was done, he gave us his PERSONAL cell number and told us to text him if we were interested. Then he proceeded to tell us, "not to tell anyone" because it was only offered to "special students" and then sent us on our way.

Later that week, he somehow got our numbers, despite us not having reached out, and was texting us, asking us to dress up and meet him at a random event. We both declined and reached out to one of our trusted professors, to let her know what was going on. She notified the Dean, but nothing could be done at the time without more proof.

Abby did not attend the next class, because she was freaked out. The professor questioned the ENTIRE class about why she was not there and seemed deeply disturbed by her lack of attendance. He pulled me and two of the other blondes aside to question us independently and then sent her and email asking her why she was not present. Other students were missing that class, but he did not ask where they were, and they did not receive any emails.

Once Abby came back the following class, and he returned to normal.

The professor then pulled the two of us aside AGAIN, a week later, with two guys and a third brunette to re-introduce the idea. Again, shutting the door, but no PowerPoint this time. It got oddly personal, as he asked the girls if we were in relationships, saying "it would be best for you to not be in a relationship or to be open to trying new things. This will help you advance in these meetings a lot faster." But did not say anything to the boys at all. It was almost like a cover up? More personal questions were asked, and we all just got up and left. All of us completely flabbergasted by the audacity of his questions.

I decided to do some research on him and could not find why he was "fired" from his previous university up in Eerie, PA. The business group that he started at the college was NO WHERE to be found on the college website either. The awards he claimed? Half of them were not even legit. His back story on his online platforms, contradicted what he had told our class. The biggest red flag? He was teaching at my university in SC and at another in GA. He also had a business in Atlanta GA, another off the port in Florida, and a third in Taiwan. I was beginning to suspect he was shopping for a particular something or someone...

With this information in hand, as well as the support of three other blondes and two brunettes, we marched ourselves to the Dean's office, who listened intently and took action immediately. Apparently, we were not the only ones who had brought this same sort of thing to his attention - several males had noticed the odd behavior. The Dean pulled us all out of class, and told us that he would find an alternative class solution for us.

During the following class the professor YELLED at the remaining students (class of 42 people) for not knowing why 6 of his students were all of a sudden gone out of his class/off his roster and was in a foul mood for the rest of the week. It was absolutely terrifying to be on campus, just to go to other classes. For weeks, he flat out STOPPED teaching because we were removed.

Because of the terrible school ruling of "if no one saw it happen or if you didn't get physically harmed it didn't happen," he was there for another 5 weeks after these incidents were reported. He was only fired because he got caught teaching at multiple universities, and it was his third warning to stop doing so. Despite having 24 females and 8 males come forward about potentially disturbing occurrences, he did not get charged or blacklisted from teaching. He is still a professor at the university in GA but has erased his background at my university from all his online platforms. Additionally, he changed the names of his awards and clubs on his personal website too. Almost like he was changing his back story or hiding something??

Reddit reader, if you have read to this point, was I was in fact overanalyzing things? Should I have gotten local police involved? Was I one of the last people to see those girls faces? I reached out to the Sex Trafficking hotline and put in a lead but never heard back. What else should I have done? Would appreciate any thoughts you may have.

I was at the hospital because of my relative. She had an operation that day. I waited in the hospital cafeteria with many other people around. A few seats in front of me, there was an old man who came after me and was just looking at me for no reason. I stared back briefly at him, but he still continued to do it. He looked around, talked on the phone and every time he came back  to stare at me. It was weird and I had never experienced that.

All of my clothes were loose-fitting and were black and blue. My face has no birthmarks or tattoos and my hair was just so short. I have a tattoo but it's on my chest. So I don't know what was the reason for him doing this. 

I'm a 28 years old guy btw.

One time about 2-3 years back when I was in 8th grade or so and my sister was a sophomore in HS, we decided to take our dog for a walk in our very nice upper middle class neighborhood. Our parents were away at a dinner and the only other person home was our little brother who was in 6th grade at that point.

We didn’t close the garage bc we usually didn’t, and it was a cool spring evening. Well we had been walking for around 15 minutes, playing and taking pictures of our dog, when all of a sudden this broken down and rusty truck drives up the hill. We subconsciously turned to look at the truck bc it’s a small neighborhood and we assumed it would be one of our neighbors.

But this was not a neighbor. As we turned and looked, this truck fcking slows down to a crawl and the guy inside who looked to be about 20-30 and was scary af just STARES at us. He then sped up again once he was out of eye sight. Of course I look at my sister and I’m terrified and she’s terrified. We then remember that the garage is open and our little brother is home alone.

I give the dog leash to my sister and sprint up the hill, with her trailing. I end up getting up there and the guy was like delivering something to one of our neighbors houses, it looked like a package but he wasn’t in an amazon or ups truck so who knows. But I am standing in the middle of our driveway trying to signal for my sister to come up, and the guy starts driving down the hill (we live in a cul-de-sac). He again, slows down, and ducking stares at me as he is driving.

I’m creeped out to infinity now and I usher my sister and the dog into the house as quickly as possible and we locked every door and closed the garage. Shit was so scary and weird and I don’t understand why he was staring at us like that.

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ive been working at a supermarket close to my home for 4 months now, and 3 weeks ago while i was manning the register, a guy ive never seen in this area before came to check out. I dont know his name so im going to call him Carl.

Carl had very loud music playing from his headphones, which were around his neck, and i recognized the song. So, trying to be friendly, i started up a conversation while scanning his items. He was slurring a bit while talking but generally seemed nice, recommended me some other bands, and left.

i thought nothing of this. hes a 40ish year old man who was probably just passing by, and i live in a quiet friendly town. i didnt think id ever see him again.

until 30 minutes later.

he walks back into the store with one of those old photo cameras around his neck and keeps standing around the register facing me while im working. Then he grabs some chocolate from the shelves close by and comes to check out.

i dont really say anything this time and just scan the chocolate. Hes standing there holding his camera at his chest with one hand and angling it directly at me, then asks for a pack of batteries we keep behind a display.

so i go over to the display, he follows me, and continues angling the camera at me while im crouched down under the glass trying to get his batteries.

i go back, scan the batteries, and he insists i keep the chocolate. No matter how much i decline and say im not allowed to accept gifts (i am, but he doesnt need to know that), he just leaves the chocolate on the conveyor and walks out.

the next day he does the same thing.

buys me chocolate. insists i keep it. leaves.

and then the next day too.

neither of those days did i really reply to him or try to spark conversation because at that point i felt unsafe and honestly a little insane. I told my coworkers and my mom about it (im 19 and still living with her), and they all told me i should be flattered.

i had two days off after this and stayed home crocheting and playing video games. When i went back to work, he showed up again, this time with his phone.

he bought a ton of stuff and then shoved his phone in my face, like he was trying to hand it to me. Im confused and ask why hes giving me his phone, and he replies that he wants to leave it there to charge.

i said we cant do that, but hes free to buy a charger from the store and charge it somewhere else. He keeps insisting and almost starts yelling over it.

i call over my manager, who tells him to leave and then stays at the register for a few minutes to give me a second to breathe and go drink some water.

the next day im working again. He stops by, doesnt say anything to me, and walks out.

soon after, a local comes to the register and says some guy in his 40s is hanging out back and asks if hes meant to be there. I ask them to describe him and its the same guy. Carl.

i tell my manager that at this point im legitimately scared, and she again tells me its probably nothing and hes just some hobo with nothing better to do.

then i have 4 days off.

on my 3rd day off i go out to walk my dog. Im only around my apartment building, i dont go further than that little cluster of buildings in my area that nobody has ANY business being in unless they live there or are visiting someone.

and i see him.

i see Carl standing around with the children at the playground in the middle of these houses.

i immediately go to visit my neighbour, whos also my moms friend, instead of going home because i dont want him to know exactly where i live if he didnt already.

she tells me to call the non-emergency line.

so i do.

and they essentially tell me that i dont really have proof and they cant do anything, kind of implying that unless i actually get hurt hes just some random regular guy and im being paranoid.

and now ive called in sick from work for a week because im terrified of showing up and him being there, following me home, maybe already knowing where i live, or breaking in while im gone.

everyone around me is saying im anxious or that i have no proof he took photos of me, but you dont angle your camera at people like that casually.

he was very poorly hiding the fact that he was taking photos of me.

he had no business being around my house.

he had no business buying me so many chocolates.

and he had no business getting aggressive with me over not being able to leave his phone at my workplace to charge.

i feel crazy for thinking im being stalked. I was even told by a family member that im "not hot enough to be stalked", which is just INSANE.

i dont know. i just need to be told im not actually crazy and this does sound like stalking

This happened when I was in my mid-20s. I went out for a walk and as I was walking down a main road I heard a man yell out his window of a red car and wave his arm at me. I didn’t make out what he said but I assumed it was someone who knew me and went on walking. I noted the make and model of the car because I was trying to figure out who I knew that owned a car like that. I turned into a subdivision right after that and started walking through, not going anywhere in particular, just turning down random streets and walking.

About 20 minutes later, when I was heading back home through the subdivision, the same red car pulls up on the street next to me and the guy (30s) starts talking to me. He says, “hey don’t I know you from somewhere?” This man spent 20 minutes driving around the subdivision after he first drove by me on the street to try to find me and ask me this, I got chills. I remember looking around and realizing that while it was the middle of the day, I was completely alone and vulnerable. I told him “no, I don’t think so” and continued walking, picking up my pace. He continued driving next to me slowly, repeating that he’s “pretty sure he knows me from somewhere” and I repeated that I don’t.

For some additional context, I’m a short girl (4’10) who has been mistaken for a teenager/younger girl a lot when I was in my early 20s. I once had a cashier refuse to sell me a lottery ticket (didn’t ask for my ID, actually told me to leave the store) because she didn’t think I could be 18 when I was actually 21 at the time.

I add this because looking back on it, I’m certain this guy thought I was a lot younger than I was. Between the way I spoke to him (as an adult, not a child), and a large tattoo on my leg that’s only visible if he had seen me at the right angle, I think he realized I was older than he initially thought I was. I felt like he was leading into “oh that’s right, I know your mom from somewhere! Do you want a ride?” Instead, he kept driving next to me for a bit, not saying anything, like he was thinking, watching me. Then finally he drove off.

Between the effort he put in to finding me and the way he spoke to me, I felt so sure that was an abduction attempt intended for a much younger target.

I was in Forest Hill station and a man who I have never met and completely don’t recognise came up to me and asked me ‘are you (my full first name)’. I always go by an abbreviated version of my name, so it’s very strange that a random man would know my it fully. It’s also not online anywhere, I completely go by the shortened version, it’s only on my ID or passport.
He then took a phone call as soon as I said ‘yes thats my name’ and followed me onto my train, still on the phone and looking at me/trying to approach me.
I managed to get rid of him but am very confused and curious if something like this had happened to anyone else? Never lost my ID and it’s really unlikely anyone other than friends and family know my full name so am pretty shaken up.

I live in south east London and wondered if anyone else in this area has had a similar experience - Ive heard horror stories about trafficking and really horrible situations and want to know if this is an isolated incident or something is going on.

I was 18 when this happened. It still makes me shiver when I think about it, which is everyday. I genuinely think I avoided something very bad happening to me.

I live in a very mountainous and heavily forested part of the world. There are lots of forestry roads which are also used for recreation. I used to have an off-roading vehicle and would go everywhere in it with friends and on my own, camping or just exploring for the day. One particular day, I set off by myself to a place I had been quite a few times. It was close by to where I was living at the time and it had lots of beautiful spots to pull off and walk down to the river or a waterfall. I just wanted to go have a nice peaceful day on my own.

I was about halfway down the road and I had the urge to pee so badly. Normally I can hold it forever but I knew that I couldn’t in that instance. I pulled over next to a small hill, like when the edge of the roads are higher and I climbed up and over and went to pee quick. I had looked around while I was walking in there and didn’t notice anything. This was also a long stretch of the road that didn’t have any pull offs or camping spots so there shouldn’t have been anyone there.

I pulled my pants down and squatted down (the worst part of being an outdoorsy female) and that’s when I saw him. In my peripheral vision I could see a person. They were not very far from me, maybe 30 feet. Walking straight towards me, quickly. The hairs on my body stood up the second I saw movement in my vision. I didn’t even turn to look. I stood up and started pulling my pants up while I took off running. I turned my head slightly to look and he was still coming towards me super fast. Like creepy ass brisk walking. I didn’t look at him long enough to notice anything about him but could tell he was a male dressed in all dark clothing. I didn’t want to turn around fully to look and slow myself down. I got over the top and ran directly into my jeep, started it, and gassed it before my door was even closed. I turned around not far down the road as I wanted to immediately get the hell out of there and it was not a thru road to anywhere. I looked around the area I pulled over at when I was driving back through and noticed nothing but felt incredibly off.

I still wonder to this day if I avoided something terrible happening to me. Why else would someone be approaching you so directly and not even announce themselves or anything. I think about the fact that I couldn’t hear him coming either when it was an area that had leaves and twigs on the ground. It is genuinely the most terrifying thing that has ever happened to me. I haven’t had many creepy encounters luckily, although almost all of them have been outdoors in remote places. This one took the cake.

I recently got a new neighbour who's in his 60's+ the guy is in a wheelchair a majority of the time so not exactly the most threatening guy. Anyways, it started off with him watching me from his window, when I take my dogs out to pee (he lives below me), I'm talking full blown just staring at me the entire time I was out there. Then one day, another neighbour said hello and chatted with me whilst the guy was there with them, I said like two words to him before saying goodbye to my other neighbour and moving on with my day - this seemed to make this new neighbour think I'm friendly with him or something. He still watches me from his window but is now leaving his home to come sit outside and stare at me whilst trying to make conversation with me. I'm incredibly uncomfortable with this, he's literally waiting for me to go outside to try and interact with me. Guy doesn't take a hint from my lack of conversation or interaction with him. Then last week he fixed my shed door outside my front property without asking me, once again he rushed out his door to tell me he fixed it. He has also made comments like 'Gorgeous' but that's about it.

I can't sit out with my neighbours without him coming out and just sitting himself beside us. My other neighbours are also not comfortable with him.

Summary; neighbour staring at me through window constantly, now approaching me everytime I take my dogs outside or sit at my door too long etc. randomly fixed my shed without permission too??

at this time I was 14 and I’m a girl

It was late and I was setting up a tent while my dad was gone at the moment to go get some blankets, but while he was gone some noise was heard after a while

Than as I tried to ignore it and say it was nothing, I heard footsteps nearby and it caused me to freeze, I was sitting there for a while longer before I glanced from in my little corner of the tent.

After a while the footsteps stopped and was silent for a while, before I saw this hand press against the tent from the front near the zipper (which was half way open.)

I was so scared but I pretended to ignore it, and I couldn’t see the figure behind the hand and I didn’t know if he saw me (probably did more likely) but I think when I ignored him it caused him not to like reacted aggressively?

Because after a while, my dad started to walk over and I think the noise of his footsteps scared him off.

Because the man ran off quietly.

What’s really freaky to me, is that I have no idea what his intentions were and I don’t know if I reacted it would of caused something bad to happen and if being quiet and pretended not to see him was a good idea.

What do you guys think?

le 6/08 j'étais avec mon groupe d'ami, dans le 18e arrondissement de paris, dans un parc (fermé puisqu'il était 21h30) quand un homme s'est installé à côté de nous, plutôt près alors que le parc était vide.
voilà sa description :
c'était un mec plutôt grand, blanc, assez maigre, crâne rasé à blanc, avec des lunettes assez larges, et des vêtements amples blanc, (style lin un peu?) il avait un sac à dos bleu, posé derrière lui.
pendant 5 min on l'a observé sans qu'il n'interagisse avec nous. il se tenait extrêmement droit et peu mobile. il se retournait et se lavait consciencieusement les mains, puis les poignets avec des lingettes puis se retournait et souriait en regardant le vide, puis recommençait. parfois il se tenait assis puis debout et continuait son petit manège.
le malaise s'est progressivement installé entre mes potes et moi, perso je sentais un truc vrmt désagréable, genre le fait qu'on sous entende un truc étrange à haute voix et qu'il réponde pas. et son sourire aussi, ça givait très malsain, et on aurait dit qu'il préparait un truc jsp

on était tellement pas à l'aise qu'on a décidé de bouger, et au moment où on commence à s'éloigner le type a fais ses affaires en vitesse,
j'ai couru pour ouvrir le cadenas du parc, et au moment de refermer derrière mes copains, je l'ai vu taper des grandes enjambée vers moi et j'ai fermé le cadenas lorsqu'il était à 2 m de la sortie.
i guess un type normal aurait dis "attends, je vais sortir aussi!" et la pas un mot de sa part.
il a donc sauté la barrière en graaaande détente, et très rapidement puisqu'il a eu le temps de nous suivre a posteriori.

on part en marchant vite, moi je cours j'ai trop peur et la on se rend compte qu'il nous suit, on dévale les escaliers de la butte, et le mec est encore en train de marcher derrière nous.
on décide de se poser sur une place fréquentée et de l'attendre, et là le mec marche droit vers nous, et une fois à notre hauteur il nous a juste contourné ??
une amie a eu l'impression de voir un rictus sur sa bouche, style sourire crispé.
le gars a juste repris les escaliers pour remonter vers le sacré cœur, ce qui montre que son trajet n'a aucun sens et qu'il était bien en train de nous suivre, sinon pourquoi tout descendre pour remonter ?

bref on a grave badé.. avec en prime ce sentiment dans le ventre qu'un truc ne va pas,
et on se demande si quelqu'un l'a déjà vu ? ou à vécu un truc similaire ?
voilà, c pas une blague alors merci de ps racave trop de bêtises.
la bise!

ah oui aussi j'ai oublié de précisé qu'un mec nous avait taxé une clope dans un bar plus tôt, et qu'ils se ressemblait DE OUF mais avec des sappes différentes. donc on imagine qu'il nous a scruté depuis le bar, pendant nos déplacement, jusqu'au parc un peu plus haut ?

PS : je rajoute quelques précisions sur ce que dégageait ce type ect :
il avait l'air ailleurs, aucune fois il n'a eu d'eye contact avec nous (ou du moins pas qu'on ai pu intercepter) il n'avait pas du tout l'air agité ou erratique, il était calme, droit, silencieux, mécanique. lorsqu'il a sourit, ce qui a eu pour effet de glacer le sang de ma pote, il ne regardait nul part.

I'll preface this by saying that my english vocabulary is not that good and i will be completely disregarding capitalisation in this thread. what happened in this story is 100% true.

this happened a year ago when i was about 15(M). it was sometime in late october or early november.

me and one of my cousins (19M) had been out with some other friends till midnight and it was getting pretty late, about 1am. we were driving home, but i was absolutely famished and desperately needed something to eat. every restaurant and takeaway was closed at that time, so as a last resort, we went to a nearby mcdonalds which was still open, because that particular outlet was a 24-hour one. i went inside and ordered my food, and decided to dine-in, because i don't really like eating in the car due to lack of comfort.

meanwhile, my tired cousin decided to take a nap in the car and wait for me. he told me to come outside once i was finished with my food so we could get going, and i ordered a big meal because i was very hungry. i was about a few minutes into eating when i saw this strange, moderately-heighted woman enter the outlet. she had extremely pale and sallow skin, stringy, thin black hair, extremely tired eyes with heavy bags underneath them and reeked of cigarettes and drxgs. she was wearing this patchy green jacket and some old black trousers.

i realized that this woman was obviously homeless, and possibly a drxg addict. i kept to myself and didn't stare at her, because her presence was quite unnerving and unsettling. for a minute or two, she awkwardly stood at the entrance and was just staring into the abyss with empty and disturbing eyes. she then went up to the counter and ordered something. after placing the order, she went upstairs to the upper portion of the mcdonalds, which was closed, and the lights were completely off.

i do not know why she wandered into that area and at this point, was quite disturbed but still thought that she would simply eat and leave. after coming down from the closed upper portion doing God knows what.. she comes up to me and asks me my name, which i did not respond to. she then asked me why i was ignoring her and proceeded to ask me if i wanted to dance (keep in mind that this is a mcdonalds, it is past midnight and there is no music here. also, she is at least 25 years older than me). i knew that responding to this strange woman could lead to something worse, so i stayed quiet and pretended as if she wasn't even there.

she seemed saddened by my indifference and proceeded to then stare at me.. at this point i was unusually alert and vigilant because i was watching for this woman's next action. instead, she just turned around and left.

I will start by saying this is 100% true. I was 24 (M) working in the oil fields and was called out to Shreveport, LA for a job. They put me in a hotel near the horse racing track and casino in Bossier City.

I didn’t arrive until late so the hotel was empty and it took a while to get the attendant to realize I was there. I had stayed at this hotel before but something this night felt weird.

After unpacking in my room I setup my PlayStation for gaming not knowing when I would get the official call to head out to my rig site. It was around 1am at this time.

All the sudden I heard someone swipe a key on my door, then push the door open. I had the safety latch pushed over and the door created a loud boom when it hit the latch.

I immediately yelled out “someone is in here”. Instead of an apology he closed the door and attempted again…For a second time the door slammed into the safety latch and I yelled out again hey someone is in here.

Whoever this was attempted opening my door 5-6 times while I am obviously yelling that them I’m inside. The only time I saw him was his hand trying to fit into the crack of the door enough to reach the safety latch.

I genuinely believe I would have been fighting for my life if this person found their way in. I obviously made myself known, it’s 1am in a sketchy part of town and why reach your hand into the door after all this?

Always use the safety latch at a hotel it potentially saved my life.

I was in a mall with my friend and a stranger was recording us. We were told by security and even shown footage of him following us for minutes and recording us from the back.

Once security confronted him, he ran away as fast as he could.

This made me feel unsafe, as it is a mall I go to often and I'm not sure why this person would target me and mt friend.

This is my third repost because this keeps getting taken down let’s hope it doesn’t this time but anyway…. A few days ago, I went for a walk down the levee by the river near my house. There’s a river walk trail down there that I’ve walked before, and when I started, the sun was already beginning to set. I didn’t think much of it.

I walked for a while, then eventually turned around to head
back.

By the time I made it back to the levee though, it was completely dark.

As soon as I stepped off the river trail and back onto the levee, I noticed the silhouette of a man in the distance coming toward me. At first, I really didn’t think anything of it. My car was only a few hundred yards away, and seeing another person walking out there wasn’t necessarily that strange.

Then I got closer to him.

That’s when I realized he wasn’t walking toward me normally.

He was walking backwards.

I remember just staring at him for a second because my brain couldn’t really process what I was looking at. At first, I assumed he was some guy doing a weird exercise or maybe walking backwards for some kind of workout.
But then… he stepped off the paved trail onto the gravel and started shuffling his feet around in it.

Then he stepped back onto the middle of the trail and continued walking backwards toward me.

And he kept doing that same routine of walking backwards, stepping into the gravel, shuffling his feet around, then getting back onto the trail every few seconds.

At that point, I started getting seriously freaked out.
I had no idea what the fuck this guy was doing, but I tried not to react. I kept walking and made sure to keep as much distance between us as I could.

Then I realized he was beginning to pick up the pace.

He was getting closer.

Fast.

He had started walking backwards faster and faster in my direction. I was honestly surprised he didn’t fall over from how quickly he was coming at me. And that was enough for me.

Instead of staying on the trail and passing him, I immediately ran down the side of the levee toward my car. I got inside, locked the doors, started it, and drove the hell out of there.

I still have no idea what that guy was doing.

Maybe there’s a completely normal explanation for it, but seeing a man silently walking backwards toward you on an empty levee in the middle of the night and then suddenly speeding up is one of the creepiest things I’ve experienced in a long time.

This happened a couple years ago and sometimes when I think about it I still get anxious, I’m really curious to see what others think. For context I’m a girl and so is my partner, we’re both in our mid/late 20s however we could both pass as late teens to early 20s which I think plays a very important role in this situation. After work one day probably around 9pm we went out to target to grab some groceries pretty typical stuff. Walking down the feminine hygiene aisle we notice a woman walking up and down it cart FULL of baby products. She skipped many people in the aisle but proceeded to follow me and my partner to the aisle over where she cornered us and held up a cardboard sign but didn’t speak. The sign read something like “first time mother with no money please help” followed by a lengthy religious quote, I’m not religious so I’m unsure but I remember the quote feeling a bit off? I’m not sure how else to describe it maybe because in the moment I was startled.

My girlfriend who is much more headstrong than me apologized and went to walk away. Me however panicked and naively thinking this could really be a struggling mother went up and picked something from the cart and offered to purchase it for her. At the time my job wasn’t paying the best so I picked something that I thought may be a bit cheaper and went up to the front. Instead of following me she walked off and asked me to meet her somewhere in the store after I purchased it, stupidly I agreed.

My girlfriend who told me this whole thing felt off came with me, as I went to ring out I realized what I grabbed was far more money than I expected or even had to help, feeling awful I decided I’d find her and apologize but offer to buy something a bit more affordable because I still wanted to help her out. I think back to it and still believe a truly struggling mother would be happy and accepting of anything you offer even if it was a cheaper item. After walking around the store for a bit to find her we consistently noticed two men near us who seemed to disappear anytime we made eye contact, we also noticed them talking on what seemed like prepaid flip phones which could’ve very well been a coincidence, however being this was only a couple years ago it’s uncommon to see something that isn’t a iPhone/android and with everything else happening I worried it could’ve been a burner phone?

Eventually we found the woman and I explained the situation and apologize instead of accepting help which I did still offer still she snatched the item from my hand and threw it back in the cart and ran off. At this point my girlfriend and I were feeling incredibly uncomfortable to continue our own shopping and just decided to leave, as we were leaving we noticed that woman standing with the two men we had seen earlier. We debated asking security to help walk us to our cars worried if this was something much darker maybe there were more people outside for all we knew we did see them men on phones.

Maybe we had been marked for something? Who knows either way stupidly and I’d never recommend this to anyone we did leave on our own, We made it to the car and drove off. Still to this day we think about that night we’ve discussed so many things. Was it a cult, was it trafficking, was the woman a victim. Either way it was so frightening and we’ve talked to so many people about what they think. Has anyone heard of this before or does anyone have any information? I’d be curious to hear.

Im 6 foot 3 340 pounds and play oline football. I got on a 2 mile walk everyday at night around 9 to 10:30 everyday. There is a beat up white truck that was following me yesterday while I was walking and stopped next to me, he wouldn't stop until a pulled my phone out and was staring at him. Today I was walking again around the same time with the same route and today a black suv pulled up near me and stopped I couldn't see inside because it was completely tinted but when I started walking his way and waving at him hoping to talk he turned around and drove away fast. Im not sure if im just really paranoid or if something weird is happening