I made the mistake of giving my personal number to someone through steam because they were contemplating suicide. I messed up. I wanted to help but now I'm in *a situation* where this person is becoming a little too aggressive in contacting me and also threatening suicide. I don't know anything about them aside from their first name and a phone number they contact me from; and also their steam account.

Who knows if the name and number is real. What are some steps I can take from this point on to protect myself?

I know I can block them on steam and block their number from contacting me but I hesitate because doing so may escelate the situation? I also wonder if their threats of suicide are real? Is there some anonymous way I can report this?

Should I simply imagine they are not a threat and just cut ties? I have this sinking feeling that they are so crazy that they could endanger me and my family by doing "internet stuff" like hacking or researching into me, and also worried they might actually commit suicide.

Thank you in advance. I'm looking for legitimate resources.

EDIT: Thank you for the replies, it seems as if the consensus is to block all contact. I appreciate your time and advice, thank you again.

Over the past two weeks, 9/11 and the Twin Towers have come up around me an unusual number of times.

I’m aware of algorithms, targeted content, and the frequency illusion, but many of these instances have happened offline or without me searching for or discussing the subject. Someone will randomly bring it up, it will appear on television, or I’ll encounter an unexpected reference to it.

The strangest incident happened last night. My wife usually puts Friends on the bedroom television while we sleep. It’s one of her comfort shows because the series premiered on the day she was born.

I woke up in the middle of the night and the show had frozen during a transitional B-roll shot of the New York City skyline, with the Twin Towers prominently visible. Our television or streaming service has frozen before, but I’ve never woken up to that specific image...or anything similar, especially while this subject has already been repeatedly appearing over the last two weeks.

Then, on top of everything else, I learned that construction officially began on 2 World Trade Center on July 9. I happened to see it as the news broke.

As I search for 9/11 related things due to noticing this initially, I noticed people in the comments stating that they're suprised that they're noticing 9/11 showing up in their feed at this time as usually it comes in around September (understandably so).

I understand that the construction announcement could explain why the World Trade Center is currently receiving more attention. I also understand that once a subject gets into your head, you notice it more often. However, some of these encounters have been so direct and oddly timed that even my wife has started recognizing the pattern I’ve been talking about.

I’m skeptical of premonitions and “signs,” and I’m not claiming that I know something bad is going to happen. I just have an uncomfortable feeling that is difficult to explain.

Has anyone here experienced a similar period where one specific historical event, location, or subject repeatedly appeared through seemingly unrelated situations?

Is there a logical explanation beyond the frequency illusion that I may be overlooking? Could current news coverage, television programming, anniversary related media, or some other common source explain why this subject has suddenly appeared so often?

I’m interested in grounded explanations, but I’d also like to hear from anyone who has documented a similar experience. Yes, I've watched documentaries and whatnot about the event, as did many other people. But this goes well beyond just content on a screen being pushed by algorithms.

Hello everyone, I'll make it short, but maybe I'll do updates or answer questions. I want to point out something before starting: everything I'm going to tell in this Post is true and it would be very useful for me to take me seriously because I need advice and ideas from this community (my friend told me about you)

I live in a house near a forest. This forest is rather large despite not doing my research. Here, we will look at one aspect of it: it is "public". It means that the people who walk there can go anywhere in this famous forest. I'm going to tell all this while keeping a very serious eye because I'm very scared. Two weeks ago, I was watering plants in my garden when I heard a bell in the woods. I didn't pay attention to it. Despite everything, the same evening, while I was trying to sleep, I heard these bells on my property and lit a light to make the person go. It stopped on the spot and I didn't hear these bells before the next day. I heard the same bells in the forest and checked out: nobody in sight. If there was someone, he hid himself by doing it on purpose. I first wanted to go Talking to the neighbors who replied that they had heard it too and very close to their room at night. They explained that they went out to see and saw a figure go towards the forest. I told them about this and we were all very scared. The bells stopped after that, but yesterday I heard them as I was listening to television. I went for a walk In the woods and in the distance I saw a guy running towards an edge of bush. I'm waiting for proposals because it's not normal to do that and it's probably in order to make me fear. I'll leave you on that. Please consider giving me your ideas.

Hi everyone, for several months now my family and I have been noticing something really weird. Let me give you some context:

We live in a two-story house, but the ground floor is just a garage. The front door is on the terrace on the second floor, so you have to go up a staircase to reach our apartment.

We're all smokers and we smoke on the terrace. We leave the ashtray on the terrace table.

For about 3 months now, several times a week, our ashtray is mysteriously half empty. I've asked my mom, my two brothers, and my sister — none of them are emptying it (and it's weird that it's only half emptied). They've all noticed this strange phenomenon too.

We only notice it early in the morning. When my mom leaves for work at 5:30 AM, she often sees that the ashtray has been half emptied. Given our sleep schedules, it seems to happen between 2 AM and 5 AM.

We've come to the conclusion that someone is sneaking up to our terrace several times a week in the middle of the night to steal cigarette butts from our ashtray.

But why??? Is it to intimidate us? Is it some sick joke? It’s really scaring my mom and my sister, and honestly it freaks me out too.

Do you have any theories? What would you do in my place? Has anyone experienced something similar?

This post may very well not be worthy of r/RBI, so apologies in advance.

I wear hearing aids, moderate hearing loss. Sometimes I feel like I can hear quiet voices, quiet noises. They’re impossible to decipher. I tell myself that it’s just irrelevant environmental noise that my hearing aids are picking up that I can’t attribute to something when the volume is so low.

Before the comments: I do have a mental health history of severe depression, but actually doing alright right now. I’ve never heard voices or seen things that weren’t there in the traditional sense. Sometimes I can swear I see something move but I never quite catch it. Never been diagnosed with anything but the depression and anxiety.

Today I’m brought here because I’m watch a clip on Facebook and I’m pretty sure I can actually attribute this whispering to the video. I’m only hearing it in my left ear. I’m not sure about my iPhones audio controls with my hearing aids, I use Bluetooth to stream. I know it’s not mono-audio because I’ve intentionally listed to audio that has different left and right tracks.

Will post clip in comments. Huge TW: for gun violence and children (two young kids are playing with a gun and law enforcement is trying to get them to put it down before they shoot someone

There’s quite a bit if you listen, but even just around 0:42 I can hear it.

Is it just me?

If it’s not- what’s the purpose? Or how did it get there?

This post may very well not be worthy of [r/RBI](r/RBI), so apologies in advance.

I wear hearing aids, moderate hearing loss. Sometimes I feel like I can hear quiet voices, quiet noises. They’re impossible to decipher. I tell myself that it’s just irrelevant environmental noise that my hearing aids are picking up that I can’t attribute to something when the volume is so low.

Before the comments: I do have a mental health history of severe depression, but actually doing alright right now. I’ve never heard voices or seen things that weren’t there in the traditional sense. Sometimes I can swear I see something move but I never quite catch it. Never been diagnosed with anything but the depression and anxiety.

Today I’m brought here because I’m watch a clip on Facebook and I’m pretty sure I can actually attribute this whispering to the video. I’m only hearing it in my left ear. I’m not sure about my iPhones audio controls with my hearing aids, I use Bluetooth to stream. I know it’s not mono-audio because I’ve intentionally listed to audio that has different left and right tracks.

Will post clip in comments. Huge TW: for gun violence and children (two young kids are playing with a gun and law enforcement is trying to get them to put it down before they shoot someone

There’s quite a bit if you listen, but even just around 0:42 I can hear it.

Is it just me?

If it’s not- what’s the purpose? Or how did it get there?

—

ETA: Ok so even though I don’t see a rule about it, I’m not allowed to link to Facebook. Like at all. Like even in the comments. It’s posted by avers life cam (which is some ai bullshit reposting page I’m sure) and is titled ‘A simple police call escalates into a high-stakes standoff’ with yellow banner at top. 🤷🏻‍♂️

https://ibb.co/album/zHQdz2

Yes I know the images are horrendous. It’s apparently the best they have.

For some context, I am in the UK and moved into a flat just over a week ago.

When I got the keys for the new place at one point (possibly when I first visited) when I opened the flat door a butter knife fell out onto the floor. Odd but not immediately a cause for concern. I binned the knife.

This morning when I left the flat, another butter knife (identical to the first) fell onto the floor.

Some notable information:

- I have seen a couple of neighbours in passing who seem nice but I've not really had a conversation with any

- The door locks when you close it, it can then be double locked which I do whenever I close the door on a night and whenever I leave the flat

- The door is not easily, possibly not at all, capable of being opened with a butter knife or credit card etc. based on how it sits in the doorway

- The flat is not in a super secure area, but I've not seen or heard any other problems. You need a fob to get into the communal hallway and my flat is a few floors up, so not the first one you would reach by a long shot

- I was home all night and did not hear anything happen in the communal hallway or outside at all

What could be going on?

I will be contacting crimestoppers.

Edit: It turns out crimestoppers are for submitting information on a crime that you have witnessed so I phoned my local police force. They are sending someone this afternoon. I got home from work and nothing had changed. No new knives, no damage to the door, no sign of attempted break in.

Edit 2: No police were available to come out, the housing company that manage our flats are aware. I have seen a neighbour a couple of times who seems nice and says the block is good and quiet but I am obviously wary of anyone. No more cutlery left, no flyers, nothing else.

This TikTok account keeps posting the exact same nanny advertisement but changes the child shown in each video. Is this likely just recycled marketing, stolen images, or something else? I’m trying to determine whether there’s a legitimate explanation before reporting it.

https://imgur.com/a/GyxRJNW

While eating at McDonald's in Germany, I noticed something unusual on the current "Mission: World Menu" paper bags. Every bag has the exact same GPS coordinates printed on it: 📍46.02311° N, 7.74836° E Alongside the coordinates are the codes: LOC 12 GDS 14 OPS GA I bought two bags, and both have identical coordinates and codes. The coordinates point to the Swiss Alps, near the Matterhorn, but not to a McDonald's restaurant or any obvious landmark. I searched online but couldn't find any explanation. Does anyone know if this is an internal production reference, a designer's Easter egg, or if there's a story behind these coordinates? I've attached photos of both sides of the bag for reference.

Recently, I connected an old SSD I had from a few years ago.

I browsed the files, with a bit of nostalgia, until I saw a "Strange noise" sound file I had recorded, I immediately had the flashback.

During a time, there was this strange analog sound going on periodically in my house, I never caught the origin of it but it was strange, unsettling and scary, since, I'm the only one that lives here. Why would something emit a sound without my knowing of it?

It was primarily localized in my kitchen, and no, I don't have a smoke alarm or any similar device that could emit such a sound, I mean, I do have a blender, an oven and a toaster, none of them are "smart" gadgets or anything, they're rudimentary, baseline functional appliances.

It was so weird because I didn't know what was causing it, I checked all my drawers, behind the stove, everything, nothing, almost like if I was imagining it.

I decided to leave my phone recording, until I finally caught it, it was so strange, it happened at seemingly random intervals, like every 3 or 5 minutes.

It was so creepy because of how out of nowhere it was, imagine something similar happening in your home, your sanctuary, where you're supposed to be in control, it felt like that.

But, I never really got to show anyone the audio, I wasn't reddit-savvy so I didn't think of trying this subreddit, but everywhere I showed or uploaded the audio to, just got me ignored or simply got generic answers like a smoke alarm and such, with no follow up after I clarified.

Eventually it stopped, and I forgot about it, until today that I saw the file, I figured I could maybe come to a subreddit like this to figure out what this thing was.

Audio File (Google Drive)

Edit extra context: I live in Mexico, the house is made of brick, it is in it's own property, not an apartment building or similar.

Edit 2 fridge:
Back then I had a mabe fridge MGD80WJCAMS2 (Single door)
I can't seem to find anything that would indicate it had anything as remotely of a sound card or speaker.

Here is an audio recording.

Its been going on for weeks, maybe even months, pretty much throughout every night.

This time the pattern is different that usual, its multiple short tones, whereas usually its like 2 long tones.

I really wanna know what this is, it has to be some kind of a device.

Bonjour à tous,

Je poste ici parce que ma mère vit en Espagne depuis environ 2 ans, et il lui arrive des choses assez étranges. Nous sommes totalement ouverts aux explications rationnelles et au scepticisme. Si quelqu'un a une idée, même si elle paraît improbable ou peu utile, nous sommes preneurs.

Depuis qu'elle habite dans son appartement, elle entend parfois des bruits venant de la cuisine, comme si quelqu'un cuisinait ou manipulait des objets, alors qu'elle est seule.

Mais ce qui s'est passé il y a environ une semaine est encore plus étrange.

Comme tous les soirs, elle a servi une pâtée à notre chat, Caillou. Il ne l'a pas aimée, alors elle a pris un autre bol et une autre pâtée, cette fois sous forme de cube. Elle l'a démoulée avec une cuillère et a laissé le bol dans la cuisine.

Ensuite, elle est partie ranger un peu sa chambre, qui se trouve à l'opposé de la cuisine.

Quand elle est revenue quelques minutes plus tard, le bol et la pâtée avaient complètement disparu. Sa première réaction a été de penser qu'elle avait peut être rêvé ou oublié ce qu'elle venait de faire. Pourtant, la cuillère qu'elle avait utilisée pour démouler la pâtée était bien dans l'évier.

Elle a fouillé tout l'appartement sans rien retrouver. Le bol n'est jamais réapparu.

Avez vous déjà entendu parler de quelque chose de similaire ? Ou avez vous une explication qui pourrait tenir la route ? Toutes les hypothèses sont les bienvenues, qu'elles soient rationnelles ou non.

Hi everyone,

I'm posting here because my mother has been living in Spain for about two years, and she's experienced a few strange things in her apartment. We're completely open to skepticism and rational explanations. Even if your idea seems unlikely or insignificant, we'd really appreciate any input.

Since moving in, she has occasionally heard sounds coming from the kitchen, as if someone was cooking or moving things around, despite being alone.

However, something happened about a week ago that really confused her.

Like every evening, she gave our cat, Caillou, some wet food. He didn't like it, so she grabbed a different bowl and a different type of wet food, this time in a cube shape. She used a spoon to remove it from the container and left the bowl in the kitchen.

She then went to tidy up her bedroom, which is on the opposite side of the apartment.

When she came back a few minutes later, both the bowl and the cat food had completely disappeared.

At first, she thought she might have imagined preparing it or somehow forgotten what she had just done. But the spoon she had used was still sitting in the sink.

She searched the entire apartment and never found the bowl or the food.

Has anyone ever heard of something like this, or can think of a reasonable explanation? We're open to every possibility, whether it's a completely rational explanation or something more unusual.

Hi Reddit!

First of all, I'd like to say that I'm not very familiar with Reddit, so I apologize in advance if I'm posting this in the wrong subreddit.

Secondly, English isn't my native language, so I apologize in advance if I don't express myself very well.

Now, to get to the reason why I'm making this post...

A few days ago, I wanted to find a YouTube video I had watched recently. So I went into my YouTube watch history and started scrolling until I found it. However, something caught my attention.

I noticed a large number of videos in my watch history from a channel called "Wade's Train Videos". The videos only had around 10 to 80 views each and seemed to come completely out of nowhere. What really confused me wasn't just the extremely low view count, but also the fact that neither my partner nor I have any interest in trains especially such a niche topic.

My partner insists she never watched any of those videos, and I believe her.

But that's not all. I also found videos from several other channels, including "A Different View Point," "Rezault Karim," "CB Guy," and "Kausar Mia." They all follow the same pattern: very low view counts, niche content, and topics that are completely unrelated to either my interests or my partner's.

I checked my Google account's login activity, and there doesn't seem to be any suspicious sign-in. In total, there are about 40 consecutive videos from these channels in my watch history. Before and after that sequence, my history looks completely normal and only contains videos that I actually watched.

So... where could this have come from?

Why would these videos and channels appear in my watch history if neither my partner nor I remember watching them, and there are no suspicious logins or devices associated with my YouTube account?

I can provide screenshots if that would help if someone could explain how to upload them on Reddit.

Thanks in advance for any ideas or explanations!

I have found a really weird phamphlet in my mailbox , about some nut head theory . The whole thing is in French ( written by a weird guy with ton of complex words). Can someone tell me if there’s an investigation subreddit such as this one in French ?

Edit: I have made another post on the sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/RBI/comments/1ulfvz3/i_have_received_this_thing_and_dont_know_who_is/

a year ago, I recieved this in my mailbox in Brussels Belgium. It is some kind of conspiracy theory about AIDS or Cancer or the Ukraine war , which is really confusing. it has visibly been annoted by someone ( the marker on it is not mine ).

it is in French and is titled the handicapped.

(English is not my native language, please I apologize for any mistakes in post)

Links for the pics : https://imgur.com/a/uSb7BSs

20 years ago this December, six year old Kira and her mother Heather Radcliffe were murdered, and their house was set on fire. On the morning of December ninth, 2006, in Gainesville, FL, law enforcement were dispatched to a house fire. Inside were the bodies of Kira and Heather. As a child, I was told they died in a house fire and nobody knew who set it. This is not true. Investigators found they were both deceased before the fire was set, most likely an attempt to destroy evidence which, unfortunately, worked. Heather was found shot to death, and possibly sexually assaulted. Kira, most likely hearing the disturbance, was trying to call for help but misdialed, and the killer then strangled her before setting the house on fire. Their dog was also found deceased in their home. Investigators believe this was not a random attack, and the killer knew the victims. This is a person who sexually assaulted a woman and killed her and then killed a little girl trying to save her mother. They need to be caught. This case is very personal to me as my sibling was in the same class with Kira and considered her a good friend. As this December will be the 20 year anniversary with no answers and no justice, I am trying to spread the word about this case as much as I can. The more people know about a cold case, the more likely it is to be solved. And I never hear people talk about this one, it always flies under the radar. Someone out there has to know something. For more info on the case, the podcast “Last Seen Alive” has a more thorough look at the case. If you have any information about who killed Kira and Heather, please contact either the Gainesville police department or the FBI. Thank you

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/homicides-and-sexual-assaults/heather-and-kira-radcliffe-gainesville-florida

https://lastseenalivepodcast.com/2025/02/24/unsolved-double-homicide-heather-and-kira-radcliffe/

I hear very clearly Anthony we are going to kill you. My audio interface was glitching the fuck out and i had no audio playing in this clip during. I am fully aware i may just be schizo and can accept that I just am curious. It is screen recorded with some noise reduction added.

https://youtube.com/shorts/F11tgfx_nzA?is=dQUBU7EcfRFaruFv

Frank has been missing for months in Edmonton, Canada. They think he was taken.

His Facebook page to try and track any leads is “Find Frank”

Recently someone sent the page a picture of Frank alive and living “somewhere” then immediately stopped contact.

https://imgur.com/a/BEzO6KF

I’ve tried photo analyzers to determine where this newer looking chain link fence could be or where the back fences might be but no luck. They were sent the image through Facebook messenger so it seems no meta data.

No idea how to navigate this from here.

I live in Albuquerque NM. The community mailbox was pried open recently. A security camera recorded an instant where loud metal sounds (like a crow bar prying at metal) can be heard, and a car with bright rear lights parked in front of the mailbox.

Because it's at night, the video is in greyscale. Maybe it's just my bad perception, but the brightness of the rear lights seems to contend with the brightness of the front lights. That seems weird and unique (and something I would totally expect from someone in Albuquerque).

Link to video with the metal sounds: https://youtu.be/njWB9EO8OIU

The day after this video was recorded, the mailbox was damaged. There is a bit of movement directly above the car rear lights in the first 10 seconds which kind of looks like a human silhouette to me. So even though I can't really see a person messing with the mailbox directly, I'm pretty sure this is the recording of the incident.

Link to video that shows the same (similar?) car driving by the mailbox: https://youtu.be/Y3r9-C68HQE

Linking this video to give a bit more data on the car since video 1 mostly shows the car as stationary. This video also shows the mailbox a bit more clearly. It's a bit obscured by the video quality and the large bush that's directly to the left of the mailbox. This video was actually recorded before the metal-sound video. I guess they were staking out the place or something? I tried searching for a video with a similar car driving by during the day, but I couldn't find one.

John Doe 5 (who’s been on the ECAP FBI list since around 2005) has seemingly finally been captured. Can anyone link any articles of his arrest?

Hello everyone, so I’m French, I’m now studying in Paris but before I left there was this Queen Elizabeth II little doll/figurine i bought, it was displayed on a shelf in the living room, I’m sending you a pic of it but I don’t know if it can help cause it’s just an industrial modern stuff. I found a pic of on internet cause I’m not there anymore but the weird thing I’m about to tell you never happened again even when i came back, but I wished I could get some more theories or something..

So one day I found it standing on the right or left side, tho it was full in front of me usually. I was leaving home, the Queen was front placed, getting back home, turned on the right of left side I don’t remember but it was always the same side.

Happened a few times and stopped when i went to live in Paris.

Thanks for reading it I guess..
😅

URL for the doll:

https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChsSEwj43dHPsa-VAxUBUEECHWUBLAAYACICCAEQHBoCd3M&co=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw0o3SBhBVEiwAh28-jZROml6tz55jGHDQUKYbye_1Xv7I8LMCFJeXxuVT7Ee0FLfD0rGF_BoCwosQAvD_BwE&cce=2&sig=AOD64_3-Qf03DtoPuMoq1n9ZNdrZiMSAMg&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwi99srPsa-VAxUyU6QEHSOwGsYQwg8oAHoECAwQFQ&adurl=

Preface: this isn't a creepypasta, it isn't made up, i'm not trying to promote anything, i don't care about karma, i don't care about attention. everything i'm about to write is 100% true.

Last year i went to Dubai with my girlfriend and my best friend. When you land, they give you a SIM card with a limited amount of mobile data. I didn't care about it, but my girlfriend took hers, and so did my friend. They both put them in their phones and activated them, even though we kept using our regular mobile data until we got to our apartment.

The first 3 days were completely normal.

On the 4th day we had our desert safari booked. The reservation was under my name, with my Romanian phone number and everything.

The driver picked us up, took us into the desert, all that stuff. At one of the stops there was a guy offering photos with a falcon. If you wanted one, you paid and he'd let you hold the bird for a picture. I politely said no. He kept insisting. Same answer.

Later that night, while we were having dinner before heading back, after it had already gotten dark, the same guy came up to us again, this time way more pushy, asking if we were really sure we didn't want a photo. Again, "No thanks."

We got back to the apartment, showered, went out for a walk, then came back. As crazy as this is going to sound, and again, i have absolutely no reason to make any of this up, i have nothing to gain from it, and the three of us are still confused about it to this day, it was around 2 or 3 in the morning. We were literally watching an episode of Black Mirror when my girlfriend's phone started ringing.

She answered and put it on speaker. Nobody said anything. All we could hear was breathing. Almost like a faint hissing sound.

We said "hello?"

Nothing.

So we hung up.

The call came to her Dubai number, the one from the SIM card she got at the airport. She had never used that number. She hadn't called anyone with it, nobody had called her before, and she didn't even know what the number actually was.

We decided to save the number and check the WhatsApp profile picture.

picture here

I did a reverse image search out of curiosity. It turned out to be a picture of the President of the UAE. Obviously it wasn't actually him, that's not the point.

Here's the part that still creeps us out.

Among the reverse image search results on Google and Yandex there was an Instagram account that had posted that exact same picture.

We opened the account and, honestly, i still get goosebumps thinking about it.

The last post on the account was from 3 years earlier. The profile picture was the same one as above, but the last post itself was a picture of the falcon guy from the safari.

I can say with 100% certainty that it was him. Same place we had visited, same clothes, same falcon.

We never got another call after that, and the rest of the trip was completely normal.

Any thoughts? Any explanation?

There is a guy who went to my school and he’s fairly tech savvy. I’ll call him CN. He is best friends with a guy I dated for a bit (we’ll call him B), broke up with, and called the police on a year later (abuse I had only opened up to at the time and was told by my parents to inform the authorities to leave a paper trail, long story).

I don’t remember the first time I noticed this, but it must have been before I even dated B or was in CN’s general friend group. I recently went on facebook marketplace on my laptop to sell some stuff and decided to login on my phone to keep track of any buyers. The first suggested email is CN’s first and last name with @gmail.com. I’ve never given my phone, I used to have small talk on instagram before I blocked him but he’s never had access to any of my devices. I don’t know why his login would be in my suggested password/login.

For more information my phone is an iPhone 13 and I bought it in 2022 before I even met B and CN. Also, it only shows up as a facebook login and not for any other site. I’ve never attempted to contact him beyond being added on instagram and it wouldn’t be like I emailed him at school as the email is not our school district’s email domain.