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false | My father has started to say things he shouldn't be saying. | I don't know what language he's speaking in, and Google translate won't even register it as a language. | https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/17eyp6v/my_father_has_started_to_say_things_he_shouldnt/ | TwoSentenceHorror | ChocoGoodness |
false | I was a little worried when I heard a whisper a few days after I used that ouiji board alone. | After talking with Rob and Amy, we decided to throw a small party in our mind for our new headmate. | https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/17f46db/i_was_a_little_worried_when_i_heard_a_whisper_a/ | TwoSentenceHorror | IDoRandomStuffs |
false | The dog that followed me home from the park seemed super friendly, so I took him inside and gave him a bowl of water. | But as soon as I was inside with him, I heard a muffled, desperate voice begging “Please get me out of this dog suit!” | https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/17eq1f6/the_dog_that_followed_me_home_from_the_park/ | TwoSentenceHorror | drrkorby |
false | My reflection in the mirror mimicked my movements almost perfectly... | But it wouldn't stop smiling. | https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/17eub2a/my_reflection_in_the_mirror_mimicked_my_movements/ | TwoSentenceHorror | youreadthisshit |
false | “Hold still,” She muttered, digging the tweezers into her husband’s scalp for that stubborn ingrown hair. | With a quick pull and a gasp, the twisted strand peeled toward the base of his neck, pulsing faintly with his heartbeat. | https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/17ewncb/hold_still_she_muttered_digging_the_tweezers_into/ | TwoSentenceHorror | Placename07 |
false | My face went pale to the knock on my door and familiar voices shouting "trick or treat". |
It's been 6 months since I buried my wife and three daughters and fled to the boonies, 50 miles from any form of civilisation. | https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/17ezkzq/my_face_went_pale_to_the_knock_on_my_door_and/ | TwoSentenceHorror | Mr_Papa_Kappa |
false | He was slowly crossing names off of his list, taking out people that had hurt the environment by killing them the same way they hurt it. | Drowning in oil or burning alive were easy to recreate but for the man that killed off the last of a species, there was really only one way to replicate that. | https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/17ev69l/he_was_slowly_crossing_names_off_of_his_list/ | TwoSentenceHorror | Historical_Ad3828 |
true | Horror movie in real life | To put a context to my story, I was having a sleepover at my bestfriend's house in summer 2019 like we always did. We we're 15 at the time. She lives in a small village where everybody knows everyone. There was no wierd people there and it was a super safe place, everyone was kind and friendly.
It was about 10 pm and it was really dark outside. We were hungry and wanted to bake cookies but they didn't have all the ingredients to do it so we decided to go to the nearest convenience store. It was about a 5 minutes walk in the dark because there was no street light.
We started walking towards the store talking and laughing about litteraly anything. On one side of the road there was a huge church built at the end of the 1800's. It was abandonned, but they couldn't destroy it because it was historical. There's also a huge parking lot right in front that had small orange lights. On the other side of the road, the store we had to go into.
When we passed on the sidewalk in front of the church we heard a wierd classical music playing. It was like a whisper. We turned our eyes to the parking lot and there he was.
I have goosebumps just thinking about it. There was no cars on the road, nobody was outside, it was dark and cold. We saw a man, really tall and disgusting. His clothes were ripped and he looked like he hadn't showered in months. He was dancing in the church parking lot, doing ballet figures to a classical song at 10 pm on a random summer night. When we saw him, immediately we changed sidewalks to be far from him. Our hearts were racing as we entered the store. We got our thing and went to the cashier. She made us pay and we were panicked so we told her about the man dancing in the parking lot. She was confused and went to the window to look but there was no one.
We were even more scared when we got outside. Neither of us had cellphones, so we couldn't call her dad to pick us up. We took a deep breath and decided to pass by the neighborhood that was behind the convenience store instead of the main road in front so our chances of seeing the man again would be lower. We started walking in the dark, on the small roads with our bags. We were always looking around us. Once we reached the main street, we almost made an heart attack. The man was there, dancing on the sidewalk right in front of her house. We were panicking, I started crying quietly as we walked back into the neighborhood. My friend told me that she knew some people of our school were living nearby and that we should go to their house. So we did.
He didn't belived us at first and didn't wanted to walk us to her house. It was almost 11 and he looked tired. But I think he changed his mind because he saw us crying. So he putted on his shoes and we started making our way back into the main street. We told him what happened as we arrived to the sidewalk and there was nobody. The man was nowhere to be found. He walked us to her front door as we thanked him before entering the house and locked the door. We told her parents everything and they just laughed at us saying how we were being over dramatic that it was one of the safest village and that we probably saw the wrong thing
We're both 19 now and we still have no idea what happened that night. But we stopped going out when it's dark. We talks about it sometimes and neither of us can explain who he was and what he was doing there | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/15epli4/horror_movie_in_real_life/ | LetsNotMeet | Ok_Reality_7927 |
true | Beauty and the Life Coach Who Can't Handle Rejection | This is the condensed version of posts I made to r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk.
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Our story begins on a crisp September evening. Since our hotel's restaurants was closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, I was the only employee in the building past 5:30pm. Us at the front desk had a habit of sitting in the office, and stepping out when we heard a guest approach. This particular evening, my chest was very sore, so I was not in the best mood.
While in the office, I hear the lobby door open, so I walk out to the desk. "Hi, how are you today?"
The only description I can give for this man is that he ~~just barely~~ looks like one of the acctors who has portrayed Spiderman, so that is how I will be referring to him. "Hi, I just came from \[Military Base\], is it okay if I use the restroom and charge my phone for a little bit?"
A little background on the hotel-- We were located within a state park, and had 6 different buildings spread out. The main building where operations was located was a high traffic area, so random people coming in was not unusual.
"Yeah, go ahead." I go back into the office.
Spiderman takes care of his business, and stops back at the desk. He begins striking up a conversation with me about different things. We sold beer at the desk, and he had asked me for a reccommendation, to which I told him that I was not of age (I was 19 at the time). All that I told him about myself was that I was in school for hospitality management, and that I wanted to open my own hotel one day. Spiderman then begins to go on and on about his line of work (he's a life coach), how he's written two books, and just about how he LOVES customer service.
In response to him unnecessarily talking AT me (not with me) for like 45 minutes, I'm giving him a lot of "Mhmmm... yeah" & "Oh, really? Wow." As mentioned before, I had chest pain and was not in the mood to converse with guests about things not pertaining to my job or their stay.
As we near the end of our 'conversation,' Spiderman says, "Wow, thekillerbebe, I really enjoyed our conversation and would love to keep in touch."
Of course, my response is: "Oh, I'm sorry, I can't give out my personal information."
"No, not your personal information, your business information!"
At this job, I was a FDA, so I had no 'business information,' which I let him know. Spiderman was being very pushy, so I eventually say: "Oh, I work full time in the evenings, so if you ever come back, you'll probably see me."
Hindsight is 20/20. Obviously, looking back, I would not have relayed this to him, but to everyone else who works in the front office, telling people the general time you're in is not inherently weird. Usually, when I check someone in, I tell them that I'm there until X time if they need anything.
I guess that satisfied him, so he left for the night.
Fast forward a week or so, and it is BUSY. My property had event spaces in three different buildings, and I believe this night we had weddings in two of them. Since it was a weekend, my coworker and I were split up, so I was doing check-ins at the main building, and she was doing check-ins at the secondary building. The secondary building was on the same road as the cabins we rented out, so we would call all of the guests checking in to any of those buildings and let them know to head over there for check-in instead of the main building.
We were a smaller property, but since we were located in a state park, I had to deal with hotel guests, wedding guests, and parkgoers, not even mentioning the phone. I was SLAMMED, the phone would ring, I would take care of the guest, then someone would come to check-in or buy something, so I couldn't stop to use the restroom. Amid this chaos, in walks Spiderman.
He comes straight to the desk. "Thekillerbebe, how are you??"
Imagine you're me, who had told a random person who was not staying at the hotel the hours you work the week prior, and they come back and remember your name shortly after. Obviously you would belive he came back in to see you.
I'm shocked, but do not have time for his pointless attempt at a conversation with me. I respond coldly, "Hi. Is there anything I can help you with?
"Yeah, just thinking of grabbing a beer from you, and heading up to the bar."
"You should head up there first."
"What?"
"The bar-- it's closing soon. Go there first."
Spiderman was taken aback, but goes up anyway. He comes back down and has the gall to ask me: "Last time I was here you were so nice and talked to me, but now you're being very cold."
I snap at him. "I'm not in the mood to have a conversation right now, I'm extremely busy, the phone keeps on ringing, and I can't even stop to use the restroom."
"Well, I'm sorry to hear that... you can go to the bathroom if you need, I'm fine waiting."
That moment, my coworker calls me and asks me to bring her something to the secondary building. I'm very irritated at this point, but at least it will get me away from Spiderman.
"No, I have to go over to the secondary building. What can I grab for you?"
He begins to look over at our selection, but just says he would come back later and walks away. My coworker calls me back and tells me that she didn't need me to go over there anymore. I tell her briefly about the guy, and go on to finally take a piss.
My coworker calls me and is asking for help. Our cabins had six individually rentable guest rooms, and the lobby area had a communal fireplace. The fireplaces had a tendency to smoke out the building, partially due to guests not knowing how to use a fireplace, them not being cleaned out for the season, and the building's age. Of course, one of the guests used the fireplace, it smoked out the building, and all of the guests were upset. We were sold out and had no management on duty, so there was nothing we could do for them in the moment. She tells me that this guy keeps bugging her about a solution, but she would tell me more when she got back to the main building.
When she gets back, she tells fully about everything going on with the guests while we are sitting in the office. Someone comes to the desk and she goes out to speak to them. I walk out as well, and lo and behold, Spiderman was standing in front of me.
"Did you get that break you needed?"
I say "Yeah." and walk back into the office. When my coworker comes back, she tells me that was the guy who had been bugging her. Turns out, he was a guest and I had no idea. I tell her everything that happened with Spiderman, and she lets me know that he was talking to her about my 'amazing customer service' and just went on and on about me.
Now, I am known to give exceptional service (when I want to), but I never did anything special for him, I wouldn't even say the bare minimum.
The following day, I tell my department manager about Spiderman, and say that if a complaint came thru about me being rude to a guest, it is because I thought he was coming in specifically to see me. My manaher told me it was ok, and that the guy was weird. Spiderman spoke to my manager earlier in the day when he checked out, and was talking about something with him being on the run and having police involved.
Fast forward to a Saturday in October. We had an event in the main building, so a lot of people were meandering around. My manager (who's hours were always 9am-5pm) came in to 'work' the evening shift with me for whatever reason. By 'working,' he sat down in the office the whole time doing god knows what. There were some guests that needed a ride to the train station and were unable to find one, so my manager (who was a rideshare driver on the side) took two separate groups of people over, so he was gone for 2 hours sporadically. Since my manager was there on and off, I couldn't sit in the back and had to stay out front the whole time.
I would like to say around 8:30pm, I was standing at the desk, when in walks Spiderman. Of course, I recognized him immediately, but decided to pretend I had no idea who he was in hopes he didn't remember me. "Hi, how can I help you today?"
"Thekillerbebe, how ARE you??"
There goes that idea.
He begins to make small talk with me about random things. I politely respond, not getting emotional about anything. Spiderman then looks at me and asks: "So the other day when I came in, I aksed you for a beer reccommendation and you told me you weren't of age. I'm just curious, how old ARE you?"
What the actual fuck...? I stare at him for a good five seconds with a blank expression before responding. "I'm 19."
"Okay, okay, good to know. You know, thekillerbebe, I really enjoy talking to you, I love our conversations. Are you comfortable talking with me, or is it more if I have a question about booking?"
When I'm conversing with guests, I keep my body very close to the front desk. When talking with Spiderman, I backed up all the way so I was leaning on the shelving unit that blocked the guest view of our office. "Umm... well I do feel the second way..."
By the grace of god, he says whatever and walks upstairs to the bar and leaves me alone. My manager was sitting in the office during this whole interaction. I walk back, grab my phone, and make a panicked phone call to my then s/o. I go back to the office and tell my manager that I was gonna stay in the back until I knew he was off property. Spiderman ended up leaving maybe 15 minutes before the end of my shift.
The next day, I was sceduled to work at the secondary building. I've had a lot of issues with my department manager, and he ended up being the reason why I left that job. This day in particular, one of my (AM) coworkers had told me that he was saying things about me to her. something about me always sitting in the back. 1. We ALL collectively sat in the back when it was not busy, and had never received a guest complain about this. 2. Why are you talking to my coworkers about me? While I was at the secondary building, I needed to have the room keys brought over (we couldn't make keys there), so my manager and supervisor came down. Before they left, I bitched him out, to whch he tried saying that he was telling my coworker that I was sitting in the back the day prior because of Spiderman. I started saying something else, but a guest came to check-in, so ths was cut short. This interaction had me on edge the whole day.
Later on during my shift, I called to have my (mid shift) coworker bring me some supplies. She calls me when she gets to her car and tells me that she saw and talked to Spiderman. When she arrives at the secondary building, she tells me about the conversation she had with him. We knew his first name off hand, but I wanted to remember what his last name was. I looked up his first name and first initial of his lat name in our system, and what do I see but a reservation under his name booked for that night in the secondary building that was checked in five minutes prior by the coworker I was with. I turn to her and ask if she checked him in, to which she said no. I call down to the main building and ask my supervisor if she checked him in, to which she did. I inform her that that man was the one who was being weird with me (she hadn't worked on those days he had come in, so she didn't know who he was). Supervisor let me know that she had told Spiderman "Thekillerbebe is up in the secondary building if you need anything." and he had replied with some compliment about my 'amazing' customer service.
The coworker that came over to me had clocked out for her break, but I made her sit at the desk until he arrived. When Spiderman did come, his face fell as he saw my coworker sitting there instead of myself. He talks to her for a little bit, then makes his way to his room (his was one of the closest to the FD). I don't remember exactly what happened after, but I ended up leaving the secondary building a little before 7pm, instead of staying there until 10:30pm, in an attempt to avoid him. Of course, this was no use since he was already aware that I was on property.
Eventually, Spiderman did see me, and kept trying to make conversation with myself, as if I didn't already make it clear I had no desire to speak to him in matters unrelated with his stay. He was a very talkative person, and kept talking to my supervisor. Already on edge because of the issue with my manager, I needed to let off some steam. I go to the restaurant kitchen, and start venting about Spiderman to the cooks. The FOH manager walks into the kitchen and is like, "Oh, are you talking about Spiderman? He's a little weird, but harmless. He talked about you the other day when he came in, I let him know that you have a s/o. You just have to learn when to tell men that you are uninterested!"
Being a young women that works in hospitality, it is not uncommon to have guests hit on you from time to time. Whenever that does occur, I will politely tell them that I am not interested. Spiderman was different, however. He never outwardly said that he was interested in me/wanted to take me out, and I did not want to be one of those girls who assumes everyone is into them (even though I am). FOH manager also let me know that Spiderman was 36.
I go back down and try to sit in the office for the remainder of my shift, keeping myself busy with schoolwork, only going out when my supervisor needed another body. Spiderman was at the desk with my supervisor talking about god knows what. We had temps working in the kitchen who only spoke Spanish. Someone asked for me to go help them, since I spoke Spanish. When I came back, he goes,"Oh, thekillerbebe, you speak Spanish? ¿Cuánto cuesta una botella de agua?"
I reply back in English, "Two dollars." and walk back into the office.
"Oh, I wanted to talk with you in Spanish."
Ignored! I continue doing my schoolwork in the back. My supervisor is up front at the desk taking her 30, still talking to the guy since she didn't want to leave me there with him. I felt bad, even though it was slow, so when a guest came to the desk with a question, I ran out to help them. Aften assisting the guest, Spiderman asks, "Thekillerbebe, may I speak with you please?"
Again, ignored! Continue doing schoolwork. Supervisor has to walk away from the desk to clock back in. While she's gone, Spiderman repeats himself, "Thekillerbebe, may I speak with you please?" I'm not sure if it was intentional, but it sounded very authoritative.
I go out to the desk. "I'm sorry, I was taking an exam that was timed and due at midnight. Is there anything I can help you with?"
"I juts wanted to apologize about asking your age the other day, I didn't mean anything by it, I was just curious."
I thanked him, and he continued, "Like I've said before, I love talking to you, I love our conversations. I've been going through something lately, and I feel as though we've really connected--"
I interrupt him. "May I be honest with you?"
"Sure."
"Sir, there's a certain way I have to interact with everyone I come in contact with while I'm working. We never had a conversation, you were just talking AT me. I dont know if you've noticed, but you make me very uncomfortable and I've been trying to avoid you every time that you've returned."
"Yes, I have noticed, and I'm curious as to why that is?"
Now, Spiderman has never said anything explicit to me, but his vibe is just sooo off. Since I'm on the clock, I can't just tell him to fuck off, so I try explaining myself in the most professional way possible. "Well, you give me a weird vibe... you put me off to be quite frank with you."
"Well, I never did anything innapropriate. Even yesterday when you said that you weren't comfortable talking to me, I just went up to the bar."
"I'm just trying to express that you make me uncomfortable, I'm trying to set a boundary."
"I understand that you're trying to set a boundary, but I NEVER did anything inappropriate!!"
At this point, we're going back and forth. He had actually gotten upset with me becuase I kept calling him 'sir' instead of his first name. My supervisor returns, and stands at the other end of the desk silently, letting me blow up on this guy.
Spiderman is just not getting the hint, you guys. Remember how the FOH manager told me he was 36? I end up telling him: "For a man that is old enough to be my FATHER, you should know well enough not to flirt with a 19 year old."
Y'all... the face this man made! He looks at me, over to my supervisor, and back at me, and goes "Flirting? I was never flirting. And I don't think you know how old I am, but for mr to have been your father, I would have had to have you at..." This fucker literally stands there counting on his fingers. "17 years old"
Is that impossible?? People literally have kids at 14. When I'm upset, my voice will get progressively louder. Spiderman puts his hands up and says "Woah, there is no need for you to yell at me, I'm standing right here."
I snap back with "If you have any issue with the way I am speaking to you, you can contact my GM. His card is right there."
"We don't need to escalate this!"
Eventually, I say to him, "Sir, you make me very uncomfortable. It feels as though you are coming back in specifically to see me, and for that I would prefer if you dont come back" Again, I was a FDA and had no authority to ban anyone, so this wasn't an official thing, more so me expressing my feelings.
"I have EVERY right to come back here!"
"Yes, sir, you do have every right to come back here, just as I have every right to leave this conversation. Have a wonderful night." I stomp back into the office.
Spiderman begins ranting about me to my supervisor, being all "I never did anything wrong!", "Thekillerbebe is overreacting!" Yadda yadda. My supervisor is just giving him the head nod, because she knows everything that happened, and that this was out of character for me in terms of guest relations. Spiderman tries going up to the bar, realizes it closed for the night, and walks out of the building.
My supervisor had to take over all of the end-of-shift duties so I didn't have to be at the desk. Night Audit comes in, and as I try to explain what happened, Spiderman walks back in. Night Audit goes out and greets him.
"What is your position here?" Spiderman gruffly asks.
Night Audit replies in a matter-of-fact tone. "Night Audit."
Spiderman asks for my supervisor (who was unavailable), so he tries waiting a few minutes, but ends up leaving for the night.
I ended up having Night Audit and my supervisor's s/o walk me out to my car that night to make sure he wasn't waiting for me or anything.
I had off the day after I blew up on Spiderman. Following my supervisor's advice, I texted my GM asking if I could call him at some point in the day about what had happened. We agreed to call around 1:00pm, as I was attending classes in the morning.
My (AM) coworker had texted me after I got out of class. Here is our conversation:
AM: He is here complaining about you to \[Manager\] I'm trying to evesdrop
Me: OMFG no bc I went off on him yesterday in front of \[Supervisor\] I'm talking to \[GM\] in an hour or so let me know what happens
AM: I will and ahh I think he heard me warning \[Sales Coordinator\] about it today so it's about me too. But \[Manager\] is taking his side so far so taht's fun
AM: Brooooo this man is telling \[Manager\] you had feelings for him
Me: WHAT HES LITERALLY DELUSIONAL
AM: He is describing to \[Manager\] about how u guys were having banter and said you shouldn't do that if you don't want anything
Me: We never bantered omfg I can't
Given all of this new information, I was abke to provide more evidence to my GM about Spiderman. Surprisingly, my GM actually took the situation seriously. "Yeah, no, thekillerbebe, I'll ban him when I'm back in tomorrow. I know how men can be."
Fuck yeah! That's my first win in a while. After I got off the phone with my GM, I called/texted my other coworkers giving them a full debrief on Spiderman. The AM coworker that had texted me about him let me know that he was hanging around her as well! She comes in for her shift at 7am, and he was hanging around in the lobby (of the main building, so not even the building he was staying in) for a while. AM also told me that our manager was not aware that she had overheard his conversation with Spiderman. "\[Manager\] had a whole conversation with me about he was a safe man and \[Manager\] didn't realize I was there when they were having the conversation and came back and told me completely different things than what I heard them talking about. This part I'm not 100 percent I heard right but I'm pretty sure \[Manager\] told the guy you owed him an apology"
The next day, I came in for my shift at 3pm. AM coworker lets me know that Spiderman was waiting in the lobby for her that day. He was there when she came in and kept trying to talk to her. Night Audit stayed with her until around 8am when our GM came. Spiderman would come over to the desk, realize NA was there, would walk off for a few minutes, rinse repeat. Eventually, he checked out with the both of them. Spiderman handed them his room keys and was like "I'm expecting a written letter of apology from thekillerbebe."
He and my GM actually crossed paths in the parking lot. When GM came in, NA was like "That's the guy. He's fucking WEIRD."
Anyway, GM pulls Manager and Supervisor into his office for a little bit, then grabs me. He basically was like "You need to protect yourself, why would you entertain the conversation with him for that long."
Likeeeee "If I wasn't on the clock I basically would've told him to fuck off... I can't be rude to guests, GM."
"Thekillerbebe, if someone is acting like that, I'm perfrectly fine with you telling them whatever so they can leave you alone."
Oh word??? So my Manager was the one who made the call telling him he wasn't allowed back. What was funny is that whenever my Manager was on the phone, he would always have it on speaker. This time, he held that phone up to his ear and was speaking very low, so I couldn't hear the conversation. He told me that Spiderman was all "But I love staying with you guys :((((" on the phone.
I ended up leaving that property in early December. Luckily, I had accepted a higher paying position as an AFOM at the hotel in the local miitary base. Since Spiderman had mentioned that he had been staying at that hotel, I was very nervous about accepting the position in fear that I would see him again.
My first or second day, I was hanging around the office, when a reservations agent got off of the phone with a difficult guest. Agent and Supervisor who was training me began talking about difficult and weird guests. I had asked them if they knew someone by the name of Spiderman. Supervisor turns to me in disbelief and says, "Yes... we BANNED him."
WHATTTTT????????
She brings me into my DOFO's office and they tell me the whole story. DOFO explains that Spiderman came and stayed with them in early September and was being very odd. He owed some people money, and they were 'after him,' so he was trying to be stealth by staying in our hotel (since we were located in a military base, you needed to show ID before being let in). He kept on pestering the FO employees about knowing if these guys had come in looking for him, and that they should be verifying everyone's IDs as they enter our hotel (quite literally none of us were paid enough to do that, nor give a shit) as if that was anyone's job. He would hang around in the lobby areas for a while, and just kept bothering FO employees. Someone had let me know that he had actually come in with a woman (who appeared to be around his age, if anyone was wondering), and a few days later he came to the desk and said that she had broken up with him, and he didn't understand why. Spiderman had even mailed a copy of both of his books addressed to one of the FO Supervisors to the hotel. I think some of the valet mentioned that he may or may not be racist (which I'm not sure of, as I myself am visibly a POC, and so was my old manager).
Given all of this, DOFO went to the AGM and was like 'something needs to be done about this guy.' AGM went to Spiderman's room, told him he needed to leave and was no longer welcome for the next 3 months. He waited in the door while Spiderman packed his belongings up (which he didn't even have a suitcase, all of his things were in laundry baskets and garbage bags).
I tell them everything that happened at my previous hotel with Spiderman. So according to the timeline, he stayed at the militray base hotel first, got banned, and then stayed at my previous property. Since there were only 3 actual hotels in the area that I worked, two of them being properties I had worked at, and the other one being a chain hotel, I wanted to know if he was banned from the third hotel as well.
Spiderman was to call AGM to before he came back to check and see if he was good to return on property. He did call a few times, but AGM let him know that he was permitted to return.
Luckily, I have not seen him since I blew up on him in October.
A funny tidbit for you all, the employees at the military hotel actually held on to the books he mailed in, and I read one of them during a boring shift. This. Book. Was. Horrible. I could open my ass, take a shit on a page, publish it, and it would be better than what he wrote.
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We've officially reached the end! Thank you to everyone who read this long! | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/15emu88/beauty_and_the_life_coach_who_cant_handle/ | LetsNotMeet | thekillerbebe |
true | Guy friend threatened and made me feel unsafe at 2AM in night | Hey fellow Redditors,
I need some advice on what to do in this rather strange situation. Last night, after a party, a guy who is a friend of a friend offered to drop me home. I was hesitant and wanted to book an Uber, but he insisted on driving me. The problem was, I was feeling quite drunk and out of sorts.
When we got to the parking lot, he sat in the car with me, turned off the lights, and said he'd wait for a few minutes since he was feeling a little high too. I got scared and said I would go out and wait, but he convinced me not to and even discouraged me from booking an Uber.
Things took a weird turn when he started driving in the wrong direction, assuming I was too intoxicated to notice. But I wasn't, and I asked him to take the correct turns. He kept taking detours and turning off the GPS, but I managed to use my phone to navigate and get us back on track.
During the ride, he started praising me excessively, talking about how other girls in his life weren't good but I was different. He seemed to be pushing me into something more, even though I have a long-distance boyfriend. It made me uncomfortable, and I insisted he take me straight home.
After reaching home, I realized he left his ID card in my bag. Now, I want to return it to him, but given the weird behavior during the ride, I'm not sure how to do it safely. I don't want to meet him alone again. The common friend has moved to other state.
Has anyone been in a similar situation or has any advice on how I can safely return his ID card without putting myself in an uncomfortable or risky position? Thanks in advance
Update: Thank you so much, super grateful to all of you commenting here. I understand how some of you said there was no need to agree to him offering to drop me off, the problem is this happened to me the first time and I didn't have to be assertive till now, I hadn't been put in the situation before today so I didn't really know how to deal with this. I just went with it like I am dealing with a simple friend, I know this was not the time to be innocent and I should have known better. But I have taken lesson for life.
About the ID, I did drop it off at a friend's place and asked him to take it from there. He seemed to have realized but wants not to talk about it, he asked me to hang out again I mentioned that he got a little too drunk that night. I told him the location of his ID and blocked him. However, I don't want to be a part of any drama, so I was not super rude as I initially thought I will be. I politely told him that this made me uncomfortable and I don't want to be friends anymore and blocked him.
Thank you all again for the encouraging messages!! | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/15e8kj6/guy_friend_threatened_and_made_me_feel_unsafe_at/ | LetsNotMeet | hash_include99 |
true | There were 2 guys on my balcony with knives | How we doing fans of lets not meet!
I am huge fan of this subreddit even though I never get on it but I think my story is probably worth being on here.
Context:
I was living in Fiji Islands back in 2016 and I was 14 years old. This story happened to my family but mainly my Mum lived it. It was on the 31st of October and I was at my school for a Halloween based party and my Parents and my little sister were gone to a family friends Halloween party. So the house was empty.
My party finished at 9pm and my dad came to pick me up but dropped off my mum and sister at the house because our security alarm was ringing. Because nobody was home my family obviously called the security company over and they sent a van with 3 Security guards. My mum opens the house and lets everyone in they check the whole house and they see no one.
My mother checks all the cupboards and under the bed with my little sister who is only 12 at the time. The security go outside in the garden and in the basement to check if there is anyone and its not an accidental ring. (We do not have any pets).
My mum turns on all the lights from the living room and the balcony. She starts to open the window and the gates that protect all the windows to get on the balcony but when she looks at the keyhole to put it in she notices flip flops on the floor.
She then looks closer and she sees 2 pair of legs hiding really close to each other against the wall under a garden sofa.. (Look at the schema of the balcony to understand where they were).
My Mum yells out of her lungs (they are on the balcony they are the balcony) the two guys got scared and jumped off the balcony into my garden. One of the guards grab the guy but the second intruder jumps on the guard and they run away jumping over the fence and running into the forest. My Mother regrets yelling that if she came down and talked to the security quietly the guys wouldn't have ran and probably been caught.
My Mother is crying holding my sister to her side and telling her everything will be ok. The security then called the police and they did a report described the guys and started a search. The cops were here in a minute since I live 100m from the closest police station. The guys who jumped lost a hat there flip flops and they left socks (to use as gloves) and 2 knives.
(Also one of the thieves legit shit in our garden)
Sadly the guys were never found again but....
2 weeks later my mum pulls out of the driveway looks in the rear mirror of her car and sees 90% sure the 2 guys there opposite our house starring at her. The Short one had the same new hat and the other guy had brand new flip flops. when my mum drove away to the police station the guys were gone and never to be found again.
I got home after with my dad to my mum and my sister crying. My dad was mad that he didn't stay but my mum had drank and could not drive. Luckily my mum saw them before she opened the window otherwise what could have happened.
Now how did the 2 guys get on the balcony. Well it is going to sound stupid but write next to the balcony where they were hiding they are like 2 wooden poles linked with a weird plank it is not to hang any close or whatsoever but just there. My dad asked the land lord to get rid of it but the landlord did not want to. To give more about this pole thingy me at 15, 16 when I was already 6'0 I could jump and climb onto my balcony cause I did it to sneak out of the house to go see my Girlfriend at the time.
I am now 21 and live in Australia and even though I did not live this for myself it really scared me cause I was young and now that I live alone I check the entirety of my house and make sure my house is always locked to the point I lock myself out of my house way to many times. And being a fan of this stories my parents and sister moved on but me. | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/15e7v05/there_were_2_guys_on_my_balcony_with_knives/ | LetsNotMeet | EliBbox |
true | I don’t even know if this is the right sub but I really need some advice. I feel like my friend is stalking me and might be a danger to myself and/or others. | I have this friend, I’ll just use his first letter, R, who I believe has been stalking me for the past 2 weeks if not longer.
I’ll give some background info then get into the problem I’m in.
Thanks in advance for any advice and help .
We met back in 2014 in high school. He was always a quiet but nice and easy going guy. We grew very close and I saw him as a brother. He didn’t have a very smooth childhood, he saw his parents argue a lot, often for years, his mom even cheated on his dad and he saw the effect it had on him and the whole family. But you wouldn’t suspect anything out of the ordinary just meeting him at first.
Around 2016 he started to become a bit paranoid and would seem a bit pessimistic at times. He never had many friends, neither did I for that matter, we had two other friends together that we saw often, and we were the only ones he trusted.
I saw him have this strange panic attack where he ran out of a restaurant we were at and he ran to a nearby park and yelled at people. I called his dad to come get him and he got him in the car and gave him a pill. Apparently this has been the second time this happened recently then.
Fast forward to June 2021. In between that last episode/attack to now R seemed normal as could be, but I noticed he was a bit off and has been since then. He met a girl in college months before that he says he fell madly in love with but she rejected him when he asked her on a date and blocked him on everything right after graduation. It took a massive toll on his emotional and mental state. He had another episode where he ran outside his house and actually provoked someone and they punched him in self defense and then his parents took him to the hospital during that summer and was officially diagnosed with schizophrenia.
So, from late 2021 until now I’ve noticed he’s quieter, still cracks jokes and can have a decent conversation with him and still seems like a nice guy, but there’s some stuff recently that I truly think is alarming and this is why I’m making this post.
So, I’ll cut to the chase. For the last 6 weeks we’ve hung out 3 times. This was actually after a hiatus where we didn’t see each other since February this year because I started working more hours and went to night shift. Each of those 3 hangouts I’ve noticed he looks at me in a really strange way, like he’s horny and imagining me naked or imagining himself hurting me (we’re both male, heterosexual. Saying this to preface for what I’ll mention in a bit). He also mentions how he’s still in love with that girl from school but proceeds to call her a slut, whore, and wants to rape and kill her right after. He has said this numerous times and even mentions going to the elementary school she goes to. He sent me a picture of that school on google maps with arrows pointed at it and firework emojis last week. He also admitted to having parked outside her home and sitting there for hours about 5 times back in 2021.
For the past week he has been insisting on hanging out several times a day and when I was at chilis with my parents on Saturday he sent me a message saying “chilis”. He’s able to see me since I’m on the snap map on Snapchat since I use the app often to talk to other friends. When I went to the mall right after he said “you’re going to the mall again, you were there yesterday”. Which is true, I went to the mall twice once with mom and then with both my parents the day later to get some stuff since one of our favorite stores was closing so we wanted to check out good deals. On the drive home that day he messaged me saying “you didn’t work today, we should have hung out”. I replied “maybe Wednesday” (which was yesterday, and I didn’t see him because I’m genuinely creeped out). So, the day after , on Sunday he again insisted on seeing me but I went to go play soccer instead with other friends and then went to go do laundry afterwards and when I was at the laundromat he sent me a soccer ball emoji and a laundry emoji indicating he saw me on the snap map .
Here’s the thing, he keeps mentioning where I am and it’s always within 10 minutes of me being on my phone. He’s actually done this for the last 2 years but never this frequently , it used to be like twice a month and I brushed it off but now I’m noticing something actually concerning.
He has also been calling me “boyfriend” and sending heart emojis the past week and when I told him I might see him this week (which I won’t but I said so just to not make him mad because I’m actually fearful of him hurting me or others) he said “you think I can wait that long to see my boyfriend? This past Sunday I didn’t reply to him for 4 hours and he kept asking if I’m mad and then said he wants me to reply no longer than a minute after he texts me each time. I have the feeling he’s just constantly on his phone looking for when I’m active on social media and I really don’t know why. He also admitted to me a month ago that he makes fake profiles to be able to gain access to that one girl’s Instagram and look at her pictures and he says he masturbates to them. He even uses the nudity apps to take her clothes off he said.
All of this is concerning. He currently doesn’t have a job and hasn’t had one for the last two years, I’m the only friend he sees and talks to, and I feel he’s developed a compulsion or fixation or dependence or mix of all 3 on me, and as I mentioned he has said he wants to rape and kill the girl that used to be in his class and he knows where she lives and he knows where she works. I have not mentioned my thoughts on this to him again out of fear.
He currently takes Risperidone daily and he said he’s been seeing a new therapist for just a month now but I don’t know if any of those are even working.
I am asking for any advice on how to approach this and what to do . My concern is that if I tell anyone like the police or the girl he will find out and retaliate by hurting me or my family as he knows where I live .
Any help is appreciated.
Also if any of you think it’s best to actually delete this in case he sees it let me know as I know he has had Reddit before but I am using a brand new account. Feel free to message me too .
Edit:
Ok so essentially he kept asking why I’m not on the map anymore and I got a bit ticked off and confronted him , in a nice and civil way, and he pretty much said all that stuff he was were jokes and he doesn’t want to harm anyone . But I don’t buy it. I feel like he’s in denial. Any help? | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/15aui3x/i_dont_even_know_if_this_is_the_right_sub_but_i/ | LetsNotMeet | Undercooked_Biscuits |
true | This Creepy Nightguard Tried To Kidnap Me | This happened about 20 years ago. I was 9 years old at the time, but my parents have also told me their side of the story on a bunch of different occasions, so that should help.
My parents are both biologists. They met at work and from there it’s history. The place where they worked at the time was a government building dedicated to biology research used in government projects turned towards the public, meaning they were the ones studying the environment and making environmental protection laws around their studies. This being a massive, old government building, it always had a security guard present, day and night. During the day, these security guards would mostly just stay at reception and greet people, but at night they would go do their rounds and make sure there were no intruders because of all the science equipment and computers kept in the building. One of these guards is the “lets not meet” guy.
Initially, he seemed like the nicest person. He was really nice to me, and frankly, all the memories I have from him before this were really nice. He would greet me and talk to me in the nicest way every time my parents brought me to work. He would make me paper planes, which he was surprisingly good at, and throw them around with me and he would stay with me at reception in the days my parents had to work into the night. Obviously, for me, that would get really boring, really really fast, so he’d keep me company and entertain me. Mostly we would talk, play with the paper planes and watch TV.
It all seemed nice enough. Nice enough for my parents to trust him with me, which was probably their biggest mistake.
One night, my parents had to work even later than usual. I think it was around 10PM and they were still at it, so this guy, who was on the night shift, decided to take me around the building with him to do his rounds.
We started on the top floor, checking all the rooms and the exterior part on the roof. Every room was so dark that I’d always stay a little behind and wait for him to turn on the lights. Then we stepped down to the second floor, where my parents’ office and labs were. We checked the opposite side of the building, going into labs with massive extractors, microscopes and every kind of science equipment you might think of. We walked down the stairs to the first floor, where most of the administration rooms were. I still remember seeing some maps on the walls and embalmed fish everywhere serving as decorations.
First floor was all clear, so it was time to check the 2 basement levels. I thought it would have made sense to check the labs on the right side first, as the left side had a flight of stairs at the end leading up to where my parents were, but for some reason he decided we’d go check that side first. We checked all the labs, but I noticed his pace was accelerating and he was starting to look and sound happier. Excited even.
Once again, we checked all the labs, all the corners from one end to the other, turning the lights on ahead of us and turning them off behind us when we left. When we got to the last area, he turned all the lights on and we went inside.. There were 3 separate offices on each side of the lab, and on the first one, he hurried towards the printer, opened it up, took out two pieces of paper and made two quick paper planes.. That’s when everything changed.
He picked up one of the planes, went outside of the office, and threw it towards the end of the room. Then he told me the one he just threw was mine and that we could throw them around in there. I ran to the other side of the room to pick my plane up, excited to play with it, and suddenly, the lights went off. When I turned around to check what was happening, I saw him getting out of the lab, turning the lights off and locking the door. I ran to the door, punched it and kicked it while screaming for him to open, panic taking over me because of how scared I was of being in the dark at the time. Through the glass on the door, I could see him scurrying away in the corridors, turning the lights off as he went and disappearing after turning a corner.
I’m pretty sure that everything I felt and every shadow and creepy monster I saw in there while waiting was part of my imagination because of how scared I was. I balled up against a corner and could see shadows moving around me in the dark. I could only cry, lost, without knowing what was happening and why he was doing that.
My parents finished work eventually, and when they did, they packed up their things and made their way to the lobby to pick me up and go home. When they got there, the security guard was at reception, but I was nowhere to be found. They panicked, of course, must have shouted a hundred different cuss words at the guy and I’m not sure how my dad didn’t murder him right then and there, but when they first asked the guy where the hell I was and what he had done with me, he simply said that he had gone to do the rounds with me and I must have gotten lost somewhere.
This is a building that would take you about an hour and half to check from top to bottom, even if you’re rushing, so “must have gotten lost somewhere” is not exactly helpful. They looked for hours without finding me.
It was only when I saw a light far at the end of the corridors leading to the lab I was in, that I got the courage to stand up, rush towards the door and start punching it as hard as I could. They finally found me there and made the guard unlock the door to get me out. I don’t really remember sleeping that night, and if I did, it must have been out of exhaustion, but I know I made my mom stay in the bedroom with me the entire night.
Of course my parents made a complaint against the guard, and when they did and the guy started being investigated, he was fired and arrested. Not because of locking me away where he probably hoped no one would find me, but because he had been partnering up with other criminals to steal computers and equipment from the building to sell in some shady market along with the information in the hard drives and make money off it. By then, he had stolen a lot of old computers without anyone realising, and who knows what his plans were for me that night. I’m not convinced that locking a crying child in the middle of the darkness, hidden away in some room is exactly the most normal behaviour if you’re not trying to hide them and come get them later when everyone has left and sell them as part of your product. Luckily, he never had the chance to do that, and I really hope he never got to do it to any other kid. | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/15ax0di/this_creepy_nightguard_tried_to_kidnap_me/ | LetsNotMeet | FranciscoMP |
true | Almost robbed at the colosseum | Let me share with you a short story that I just remembered again, going through this sub. First off, I am aware that this is a pretty common thing to go down at pretty much any tourist hotspot.
About 4 years ago, my wife and I did a short trip to Italy. We booked through a travel agency, so obviously there were some tourist attractions included in the price. On the designated day, we made our way to the Colosseum and got our tickets. Then, there was a short waiting period, because we got in a little earlier and our tour wasn't supposed to start for another 30 minutes or so. So we decided to take a short walk around to pass the time. We walked past the improvised "souvenir shops" (if you've ever been to Rome, you know them, apparently. Long story short, people will try to sell you small trinkets and knockoff merchandise out of smaller wooden stands or spread out on wool blankets, ready to make a run for it if police comes in sight) and got out of the main crowd around the entrance area.
The second we reached a spot that was a bit more secluded, two guys walk up to us. They act all friendly and touchy from the start. They greet us in passable English, ask where we're from, you know the drill. And while they are talking, they are gifting us all sorts of smaller trinkets. A bracelet, a small chain, a wooden figure (supposedly hand carved). "It's a gift, it's a gift" they overenthusiastically ensure us. My wife is _very_ uncomfortable, and I can tell. So I try to get us out of the situation as quickly as possible. But as the words "we really need to go now, our tour is about to start" leave my mouth, the tone does a sharp 180. They get up really close, blocking our path. My brain immediately goes into fight or flight mode.
Now (obviously part of their scheme), they demand a gift in return. The gifts they gave us? All apparently hand made by their relatives at home (forgot which country it was). Still I tried to keep as calm as I could, to defuse the situation and make sure my wife is safe. I return every single item they gave us and calmly say that it was nice of them to gift them to us, but we wouldn't agree to their trade offer*.
After I've done that, there's a really tense moment. In hindsight, I am pretty sure they contemplated robbing us on the spot instead then, since their scheme fell apart. Then, they just went away as quickly as they came. Had to take a minute to calm my wife who was close to crying at this point. We quickly made our way into a more crowded area and wait there for our tour to start. The rest of the trip, we didn't leave the crowd too far behind anymore as well.
I still can't pinpoint why it's this encounter specifically that stuck with me. I've been in other situations that were tense and/or full of adrenaline, but something deep inside tells me to this day that this one in particular was too close to going south for my personal comfort.
*Side note: I am neither physically imposing nor would I have confidently been able to take on two assailants at once. Either they heard something, assuming it was police, since presence is very high around the Colosseum, or they decided it was not worth the hassle. | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/15b5qbt/almost_robbed_at_the_colosseum/ | LetsNotMeet | Faro1991 |
true | Eerie Hotel Experience | I posted this on a different subreddit, but I think this was more fitting. I made a lot of edits before posting this too, so hopefully it's better quality than my original telling.
Background info: This happened at a travel hockey tournament, i've never had an experience like this before so it was shocking as somebody who has been playing for 13 years.
At the time I was 13F, so basically still a preteen. However, at 13 I gained the 'privilege' of being able to walk around in public without having an adult's eyes on me 24/7. In hindsight, probably not the best decision of my dad.
I was on a coed team this year and all of the kids were 13/14. We were headed down nearby DC for a tournament in December. Our team manager booked a hotel that was in the projects, i’m talking hearing a gunshot and seeing abandoned houses nearby when I pulled into the parking lot of this hotel. This was already a red flag, but I continued to unload my suitcase from my dads truck and grab my backpack too. As we were headed towards the doors of the hotel, I heard a man behind me calling some girls name. I think he was screaming "Annie" or something that sounded like that. I turned around just to see if he was anywhere near us and he was standing next to a large pillar connected to the hotel. This man had bloodshot red eyes and was definitely on some sort of substance. I decided to start walking faster and my dad must have thought the same thing as me, because we started hightailing it to the hotel doors. Less than a minute had passed once we reached the hotel doors, probably about 10 seconds. I decided to look back to see if this man was still there, but he disappeared.
Eventually my teammates all texted the groupchat saying they had arrived and they were hanging down in the lobby. I I rushed to the elevator to go join them. I clicked the star button which leads to the lobby. But when the door opened, it wasn't the lobby. The elevator had taken me to the basement. I was frightened because it kind of looked like the back rooms except tile flooring, with some 60s music playing faintly. I took a peek outside the elevator door and there was absolutely nobody in sight. I tried the star button again, absolutely horrified from that. I didn’t feel myself go up or down. The door opened to the basement again.
I figured maybe the star button was the basement and it was just different from other hotels. Maybe I just had made a mistake and was supposed to press floor 1 to get to the lobby.
I hit the floor 1 button. This time it took me to a hallway. The button lead me to the first floor of hotel rooms, still not taking me to the lobby.
At this point I started to get confused and an eerie feeling overcame me, I decided to head back onto the elevator, go to my floor (the 3rd floor) and walk down the stairs. I knew my entire team was roomed on the 3rd floor, so I felt more comfortable walking down the stairs from there. I went up to floor 3 and got off of the elevator. On my way to the stairs I saw weird crumbs in front of a hotel door and bent down to take a look at what it was. It was weed on the floor. I was kinda taken aback a bit and fell back. The person on the inside must have heard me, because the door opened. The crazy man from the parking lot was the one behind the door. After seeing this, I BOLTED to the stairwell and ran down the stairs. I was running so fast that I was skipping some steps, I even ended up accidentally tripping at one point but I got up as fast as my little legs could carry me.
I made it down to the lobby and my team saw me in a panic. They all asked me what’s wrong and I explained my story. I got a few looks from them and they probably thought I was delusional. But, one of the boys convinced the whole team to follow me onto the elevator so I can show them in person what happened. I clicked the star button, and low and behold, the door reopened without any movement from the elevator. This was the same elevator and same button I had pressed previously. I still have no explanation behind this.
The weekend ended up continuing but being completely normal, until we had to leave for our last game. We all were standing in the lobby, about to leave. We walked out into the parking lot to see that one of the cars had been broken into and it was my teammates. His car had a back window that was pretty big, so you could see what was inside of the trunk. Well, turns out that somebody had broken into the vehicle thinking it was full of something valuable. The only thing left behind in the trunk was both of my teammates sticks, so he definitely wasn't looking for equipment. Jokes on him though, because hockey equipment smells absolutely rancid and he probably had a not-so-nice surprise when opening up the bag.
The hotel workers actually checked the cameras and guess who it showed? The crazy man from the parking lot.
So, crazy man, let's not meet. | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/15ajgyi/eerie_hotel_experience/ | LetsNotMeet | No_Swim1173 |
true | Creepy Teacher | This is going to be a long one.
This is about weird encounters I’ve had with a music teacher when I was a kid. I (20F) took orchestra classes when I was in middle school. Now, it’s important to mention that I was an incredibly quiet and shy kid back then, and had trouble with confrontation.
When I was in 6th grade, our orchestra teacher, Ms. K, left the position, and they rehired our new teacher. Our new teacher, I’ll call him Mr. S, was generally disliked by everyone. He was in his 50s to early 60s, and to an 11 year old, very tall. He was already imposing because of this, but what made it worse was how he treated his female students.
One day in class, we were all struggling to play a song correctly. Mr. S became frustrated, and didn’t think any of us understood the beat of the song. He looked around the class, saying he needed a volunteer. Everyone became silent, including me, but I had the misfortune of locking eyes with him. He then called my name and waved me up to the front of the room.
What happened next was not something anyone was expecting. I picked up my instrument (cello) to take up front with me, and he said, “No, leave your instrument. Just you.” I was very confused, but did as he said. I walked up to his side, and he instructed me to stand in front of him. At this point, the class was beginning to snicker, and I was just very uncomfortable.
“Move closer.” I took a small step towards him, and at this point I was too scared to look at his face. All I could see was his buttoned shirt in front of me. He made me walk closer until I was inches from him. Then, he moved my arm up and put my hand in his. He proceeded to make me slow dance with him, for what felt like forever, as he counted the beat. I let go of his hand at one point and tried walking back to my seat, but he grabbed my arm and pulled me back, saying “Not yet.”
After this was over, and I went on to my other classes, I learned that in each period of the day, he had chosen a female student to dance with him, regardless if the class was struggling to understand the beat.
Unfortunately, this was not the end to what felt like unwanted attention from him. He would somehow find me in the hallways, and would try to have “talks” with me about anything, even though I mostly kept to myself and didn’t cause trouble in class.
It got to a point that my friends understood how I felt, and knew to say something to me when they saw him. And every time, without fail, he always managed to put his hands on my shoulders when he talked to me, even if I was already backed against a wall. He wouldn’t let me leave, and I was too scared to say anything. He could find me in a crowd, easily. He didn’t do anything to my knowledge that was punishable, but to me, something always felt off about him. So to my creepy music teacher, let’s not meet again.
TL;DR : I had a creepy music teacher when I was in middle school, who made me slow dance with him, and would find ways to touch me for no reason. | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/15a8nhy/creepy_teacher/ | LetsNotMeet | squidca |
true | My dog alerted me to something at my window | When I was 17, my bedroom had a window looking out at my backyard. The backyard was fenced in, but on the other side of the fence were some woods and a retention pond. I'd never been scared of this, and kept the blinds open so that when the sun rose in the morning, the natural light would help wake me up.
One night, I was up late on my phone with my dog laying in bed next to me. At around 2 AM, my dog jumped up and started barking at the window. At first, I thought he was just barking at his reflection and told him to stop, but I then realized he was looking at the left side of the window while his reflection was on the right. I couldn't see outside the window because I had left the lamp on my nightstand on. All I could see in the window was the reflection of my bedroom. Not wanting to alert whatever might be out there that I was scared, I faked a yawn, set my phone aside and turned off the lamp. I then laid down facing the window, and I swear I saw a set of human eyes looking back at me from the left side of the window.
I drink a lot of water at night, so I had an empty bottle on my nightstand. I grabbed it and pretended to just realize it was empty. I turned on the lamp and acted like I was going to get water. I went to my parent's room, and my Dad told me not to worry. We had these motion-activated floodlights and they hadn't turned on, so there was no way anything was out there. I went back to my room and told myself I was just seeing things. I closed the blinds and turned off the lamp and got some sleep.
When I woke up in the morning, I went to take my dog out and decided to check out the pine straw bedding underneath my window. It was visibly disturbed. I did my best to ignore that and remember what my Dad said about the floodlights. That worked pretty well, until my Dad tested the floodlights later that day and found that the bulbs had burnt out.
To this day, I keep my blinds closed and my lamp off when I sleep. I don't want to risk anything being able to see me and if anything is somehow peeking through my window, I want to know it's there. If there was someone at my window that night, let's not meet.
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Hey, I just wanted to say thanks to everyone that commented. I typed this out because a project I've been working on caused this memory to resurface. Sometimes, just writing something like this down and chucking it into the void helps me deal with it. I'm 22 now, so I'm far enough removed from it that I can mostly just look at it as a weird experience I had, but there is definitely a degree of paranoia left from this and other things I've dealt with.
To everyone who has had a similar experience, I hope everything turned out okay and that you're doing well! I've interacted with a few of you in the comments and you all seem like strong people. To anyone who does this peeking through windows shit, fuck off. | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/159jzsz/my_dog_alerted_me_to_something_at_my_window/ | LetsNotMeet | YaBoiHorseJesus |
true | creepy hostel man | Hi, I’ll get right into it. I (23F) and my friend (21F) went to our hostel in poland and could not get the door to open even though we had the code. These two men who claimed they were also staying there offered to help us but we could not get in until someone else came out of the building.
At first, these guys were nice and helped us carry our luggage up the stairs to the hostel. Surprisingly, there was no one at the check in desk even though the owner specifically asked that we check in at this time. Because we already knew what room we were supposed to be in, the two guys helped show us to our room and we all made pleasant introductions. They were 32 and 33 if I remember correctly, and we let them know our age. They left us to get settled, but we realized at this point that without being able to check in, we did not have keys to enter the building or even lock our door.
Now here’s where things got weird. We were already feeling a bit sketched out by the situation, as it was clear that that hostel was just a converted apartment but that’s what you get for €10 a night I guess. We then hear a brief knock on the door and without waiting for a reply these two dudes come back into our room to talk (??) i think. The younger one of the two starts talking to us about going out that night and asking more questions about us and at this point my friend and I are exchanging looks. He mentions that he thinks i’m the one in charge because my friend looks young and then proceeded to stroke his hand down her cheek.
But wait it gets better. He then reveals to us that he just did some cocaine and proceeded to offer us some, which we both adamantly declined. At this point i just wanted him out of the room so we could have a chance to think and this man did not want to leave. I finally backed him towards the door but he wouldn’t move his body so I could close it all the way and kept talking to us even though i was trying to gently shove him out. I finally got the door to close and then used my body to hold it shut. At this point my friend had tried to call the owner multiple times to no avail so we decided to book another hostel and leave. We waited until we heard the guys leave and booked it out of there to our new hostel and are in the process of getting a refund since we booked and paid the fee online.
SO, creepy hostel men, let’s please never ever meet again. | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/158fxdk/creepy_hostel_man/ | LetsNotMeet | noturcrackhead |
true | College Stalker | This happend around 2008. I am Male and was 23 at the time this all began. It was the weekend, and an old high school friend reconnected with me online so we decided to go grab a beer at a bar by his town which was the same town I went to college at. It was my turn to get a round so i went up to the bar of this dim dirty dive bar and asked for a bucket of beers. As i was waiting for my beers a girl approached me. Lets call her "Jane." "Hey do you remember me? " She was acting flirtatious. I really did not know or could not remember meeting her so i said something like "Im sorry i talk to a lot of ppl at my job can you refesh my memory?" She stated she took a class with me and worked with me on a group project. I still had no idea who she was however, she knew my name and my class i was in. I wasnt really interested in talking to her so i politley said well nice to see you and went back to my friend at the table. I leave about 1 hr later and head home. I remember i took a shower and was getting ready to go to bed. I checked my phone before i got into bed and an "Unknown Number" called me 2 times and texted and left me a voicemail during the time i was in the shower. The text was from Jane saying it was great seeing me and that I looked cute or something along the lines it was very flirtatious. I again wasnt going to lead a girl on so i responded politely saying it was cool seeing her as well. I was weirded out because i did not exchange phone numbers at the bar. She may have had it on a old list if she was in my class. When i woke up i had over 10 texts sent to me inviting me over to hook up. It was point blank just telling me come over. I laughed it off at first and was kind of flattered, but my thought was man she mustve drank a lot that night. I didnt respond as i felt it would be awkward.
Then the real $**t begins. I worked in an office where i could not have my cell phone out and its a very professional enviorment. On my break i powered my phone on 19 missed calls 20+ texts ,and approx 10vms. I freaked out as i thought there was an emergency, but everything was from Jane. These messages go from hellos to sexual advances, to anger why im not answering,to im sorrys, to sobbing im sorrys , to threats of s*****e if i dont respond. I was beyond freaked out but i texted to see if she was ok or needed help. She texted me as if it was the greatest day of her life hearing from me. I then let her know i felt her messages were inappropriate and that i didnt want to give her any feelings that i wanted to date her. I was young and wanted to experience dating, but not with her. From the begining this just was so odd to me. She began to go thru cycles of anger, seduction, sadness, happiness etc. I began getting 40+ calls and messages. I decided it would be best to just stop responding at this point.
This went on for over 1 week. Day and night calls and messages. Then one message caught my eye. She mentioned where i work. I never told her this. There was a wendys a stones throw away from my job. I got paranoid leaving work thinking she was following me. Id drive around for awhile before going home from work.
I remember sending her one last message stating if she contacts me again i would call the police. At the time i had to pay a monthly fee on my cell phone to have the number blocked,but i never heard from her again after. . | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/157xysl/college_stalker/ | LetsNotMeet | KISSArmy7978 |
true | Hotel harasser and attempted window breaker | I used to read these stories on here a lot when I was a teen (so like 2014-16) and while I'm now 22 and have gone through my fair share of creepy experiences, I had never experienced as many as I did last year living in a hotel and the people who inhabit it or lurk by it. Warning: This will probably be long as I don't know how to condense my words well.
I have the worst luck, and a good bit of traumatic experiences I've dealt with throughout my life. 2022 was no different, and the year started out awful when the heat lamp for my pet frog caught on fire and started a nasty fire in my bedroom. Due to the smoke damage throughout the house, and me having nowhere to sleep, my parents and I were put into a 2 bedroom suite at a Residence Inn in the next town over, a quiet mid-sized town with little to no crime while the house was gutted and renovated. We lived in this hotel from January 5-Late October. It's actually a town known for being a more wealthy, stuck-up type. The hotel was nice, but I am used to living in a pretty woodsy and rural neighborhood where I don't hear too much going on. I'm not used to apartment living, but having access to a pool, hot tub, fire pit, and nice propane outdoor kitchen that people rarely used was very nice. About a month after the fire, I ended up getting a part time job five minutes away from the hotel and started dating my coworker.
The story starts that my boyfriend and I got out of work around 12am, and then hung out with our friend until we decided to all head home at around 12:50. My mom texts me asking where I am, which I didn't reply because I would be there in less than five minutes and was driving, and she would probably see me before I could even enter the hotel through the door near our room because most nights she would stand out there on the phone with a friend, or on Facebook, drinking a Truly and chainsmoking. She mainly did this because she's a night owl, like me, and the walls inside the hotel room were like paper. My dad had to get up every morning at 5am for work and we would both give her shit for talking on the phone late at night with friends or watching videos as no matter what volume she talked at, we could hear her. When I pulled into the parking spot, I walked up to my mom and she starts telling me off for not replying to her quickly enough because something was going on. I asked her what happened, because of course we already had witnessed some weird behavior at the hotel before.
Basically, when she had gotten home, due to most of the parking spaces up against the building being taken, she parked in the overflow lot for the hotel and a car that was sitting there peeled off as soon as she went in park, with their lights off. She went inside, dropped off her purse and other items, and went outside to smoke and noticed the same car was again parked next to hers idling. She told me she had been standing there, drinking her drink, leaning up against the wall, watching tiktoks on her phone when she heard footsteps approach. She looked up and there was a man there who was staring at her, and she stared back. He ended up walking a little bit down the walkway, and then raised his fist up at a first floor window and smacked it, possibly attempting to break it? My mom, who unfortunately is not afraid of anything but spiders, yelled "HEY! What the fuck are you doing?" and he said something about trying to open a beer bottle. He had no bottle in his hand, and alarm bells were going off for my mom so she just yelled "Okay, I'm calling the cops!" and he started SPRINTING down the side of the building away from her and around the corner. My mom started to follow him once he rounded the corner of the building, and when she got to the corner he was gone.
There was an older couple, probably late 50's or early 60's who would frequently sit on the curb by that door that he rounded the corner on drinking, and the woman asks my mom what she thinks is up with that guy, and my mom was like "I have no clue, did you see him doing anything?" and the lady then told my mom that he had sat down with them for like an hour basically being like "Ohhh, I have nowhere to stay tonight, I have nowhere to go, I have no money." and was trying to convince them to let him stay in their hotel room tonight. She basically said he was acting cracked out of his mind. Only like 30 seconds has passed, when my mom hears his car start and he peels out of the overflow lot again, this time lights on. She walks back over to the door closest to our room, and continues smoking. Not even three minutes later, he pulls into the overflow lot again, and starts walking down the walkway, and passes my mom, staring at her. My mom said something like "This is getting fucking ridiculous. I'm going to call the cops on you." and he just said "Okay??" and kept walking past her. This is at the point where I had pulled in to my parking spot and my mom was telling me all of this. I hear footsteps in the parking lot, and I see a tall man in khaki shorts and a hoodie walking into the overflow lot and my mom is telling me "that's him! that's him!!" so I take a video of him in case I need evidence or something. He had apparently been walking around the building again, then got in his car and left again. My mom had called the non-emergency number because we were on the ground floor and she didn't want him trying to come back and break one of our windows for our room. The police department is actually across the street from the hotel and they said they would come by and take a look yet no one has come.
Due to the fire, I have a hard time sleeping and at the time wasn't on medication yet, so I used weed to help me get tired and a bit less anxious for bed (PTSD from the fire, fire started while I was sleeping, it sucks) I decided to go to the door on the other side of the building, which was a bit more sheltered and also because I didn't want my mom to \*see\* me smoking marijuana, even if she knew I was doing it, it felt weird to be doing it in front of her. I sit down on the curb of the walkway and light up, texting my boyfriend about all of this when I hear car door close behind me. I look out into the lot and don't see any headlights or anything, but I'm not too worried because again, it's a hotel, lots of people get dropped off and come by late at night. I start scrolling through twitter and hear a loud roar. From a man. I get up, already shaking, and look around. and I see his Volkswagen Golf parked about 10 feet away from me. The lights in the car are on, and there's a bunch of smoke in the car. He's rooting through shit in his backseat, making sounds like a fucking animal and just talking gibberish. I immediately call my mom and start walking down to the other end of the building where she is, and she's looking at me head on and tells me to run through the phone and don't look back.
Apparently at that point he was walking behind me, quickly. By the time I get to her, I turn around and he's already walking back. I'm so shaken my mom said F this and calls 911 this time, because it's now been around 35 minutes and no officer has come from just dialing the police department. An officer comes ten minutes later, which I recorded on my phone, and tells us that she actually had responded to the first call, and at that point he had gone to an ATM, gotten cash, and bought a room for the night at our hotel. She said she personally talked to him herself. She has a bit of an attitude with my mom, (I'm now listing this completely based off of the recording) who after my mom had said "Do you not see the odd behavior?" and the cop literally went "It's not illegal to have odd behavior, ma'am. He is a guest here." and my mom says "He's acting like he's on drugs!" and the cop said "He may be. It's not illegal to be ON drugs, it's only illegal to possess them. I can't- if he's high, it's only if he's possessing them that I can take criminal action." to which my mom replies, well clearly if he's high he's most likely got drugs in his possession, don't you think? The cop then basically said she understood my moms concerns, and while his behavior is a "little" bizarre, the attempted window smashing is a he said she said, and because he is now a paying guest she cannot go against the matter any further and leaves. My mom and I are inside for the night in our room, and in my bedrom I kept the window cracked because the AC wasn't the best and I heard him walk around the building time and time again until I eventually fell asleep. When I woke up around 7am, he was gone.
I have so many other creepy stories staying at this place, and it really is shocking if you knew what town it was. I would witness drug deals going down at 3am when we first started staying there and I lived on the third floor, people engaging in affairs, etc.. One night I had gone over to my aunt's house, which was about 35 minutes away, and on the way home had a friend on the phone to keep me company. I pulled into a parking spot right at the door, and it was around 9:30pm. I was just sitting there for about 5 minutes when I saw a man's silhouette walking down the walkway slowly, coming closer to my car. I didn't think much of it because people walk their dogs a lot at night, or go out to smoke. But then he slowed wayyyy down as he got to my car and stood directly in front of the hood, staring at me through the windshield. I stared back but I couldn't see anything besides the black silhouette and the end of the cigarette lit and just said to my friend "Uhhhh, there's a guy just standing. like right outside my car staring at me." and she yelled "text your dad! text your dad right now!" I'm assuming he had heard my friend, because he then swiftly walked around the corner and disappeared. My dad came running down the stairs, bless him because at that point we were on the third floor, and by the time he had come running out the man was gone. At that point, my parents wouldn't even let my out at the pool and hot tub area by myself anymore because they noticed that the hotel was being used for human trafficking/sex work with pimps and so on. They wanted me to text them as soon as I arrived to the hotel and not dilly dally in the parking lot, just get inside and keep a close eye on my surroundings. Again, really surprising for that area.
I'm thankful I'm back in my house, where the only sounds I hear at night are bears or raccoons trying to root through my trash, and I hope I never have to live in a hotel ever again.
​ | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/1582o93/hotel_harasser_and_attempted_window_breaker/ | LetsNotMeet | broccolicheddarmac |
true | To the man who tried to get in my car, let's not meet again | I want to start this off by stating that this is my first ever reddit post, but I've always loved listening to the stories of this subreddit on youtube, and I wanted to share my own.
For some background info, I'm female and was 17 at the time of this story. I used to work at a pizza place in my hometown. The job sucked in many ways, but the worst part about it was that my manager had no problem leaving girls alone to close. Granted, the town I grew up in was small and boring, and many people left their doors unlocked, but I still thought it was risky. On this particular night, I was closing the shop alone at around ten. The last thing I had to do (on my way to my car) was take the garbage out, and the dumpster as well as my car were located on the side of the building.
While I was making my way to the dumpster, I immediately noticed a man making his way towards me from across the shop's parking lot. He's wearing jeans and a black sweatshirt, and he had some sports cap on. Right off the bat my heart dropped and I got incredibly nervous. I threw the trash away and began speed walking to my car when this guy says something.
"You got a cigarette?"
My paranoia told me that question was sketchy as hell, and I struggled to respond for a moment. I just said no and got to my car, hastily trying to get in.
And I sh\*t you not as soon as I closed my door he BOOKED it to my car and tried to open it (obviously I locked it immediately). I instantly started bawling and turned my car on. The man clubbed my window with his fists a few times, without a word, before booking it again into the nearby streets. I called my mom and then the police once I got home and they opened up a small investigation but could never find the guy. There were no other cases of something like this happening somewhere else in town, and so I think he probably relocated somewhere else to avoid being caught. I really have no clue what that man wanted to do. Sorry if this was kind of lame or anticlimactic, but it was pretty damn scary to me. So, to the man who tried to get in my car, let's not meet again.
| https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/157cfy4/to_the_man_who_tried_to_get_in_my_car_lets_not/ | LetsNotMeet | homegirl211 |
true | Remember to always trust your gut | Back in 2016, I was a homeless and drug-addicted teen living in one of the worst skid rows in North America.
The majority of my days were spent doing anything I could to get my fix and then using in a park frequented by other vagrants and addicts just trying to get by during the thick of the opioid epidemic. Most of these people were harmless, friendly even, except this one young man. He seemed normal at first, quiet and mild mannered, but every so often I’d catch him glaring and his eyes were dark and almost empty like a shark’s. The hairs on the back of my neck would stand up and I got a weird feeling in my stomach that something was “off”.
One day he got into a fight with another kid in the park and I caught the first glimpse of the monster inside him he so desperately tried to hide. Fights are never pretty and I’ve seen my fair share of them living on the streets, but the rage that exploded from this guy in a mostly verbal brawl was something I’d never witnessed in my entire life. Even in a haze I could sense there was something terribly wrong going on in this man’s head.
A few months pass and by then I had found a place to rest my head indoors and was watching the evening news. Turns out my “gut feeling” about this guy was right. He had gone to a neighbouring city, stolen booze and a large knife, walked into a high school and ended up murdering a young girl and seriously injuring another.
For a while my mind went through a lot of “what if’s” and felt some guilt for not having gone to the authorities with my suspicions. In hindsight there wasn’t really anything I could have told the cops about him besides the off-putting vibe he gave off. And something tells me they wouldn’t have taken a junkie seriously anyways. Scary murderer from the park…If you ever get paroled, let’s not meet. | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/156eiyr/remember_to_always_trust_your_gut/ | LetsNotMeet | Basquiat_Picasso97 |
true | Just tried to get to work | I was 17 when this happened. I had a early morning shift in a restaurant and I used bus to get there. When I got to my bus stop someone was already there. That was strange cause it was so early in the morning.
I started to walk to my workplace just to notice that the man started to following me. Seeing the man following me got me scared and I started to run. There was so much off with the man. Whole time he looked at the ground but also started to run when he saw me running.
I quickly ran to the backdoors and saw him coming to same direction. When I closed the doors he was just couple meters away from me and I saw that he tried to open that locked door after me.
When I was panicing inside the restaurant my co-workers came to me and said that someone is trying all the windows to get in. We called the cops and later they told us that the man was carrying a tiny saw with him.
Sometimes I think what he would have done if I he would have been quicker than me.
Anyways, the saw-man, let’s not meet again | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/1554gwy/just_tried_to_get_to_work/ | LetsNotMeet | Round-Magician-391 |
true | Learning Shakespeare with a Murderer | This all happened a handful of years ago when I (M22) was 16 years old.
Unlike my siblings who my parents spoil with rides to highschool every morning, I (being the oldest child) had to take the bus every morning. The bus stop wasn’t too far from our house so I didn’t mind, but that 10 minute walk often became a 5 minute sprint when I couldn’t force myself to roll out of bed in time those early mornings. The bus stop pulled from our whole neighbourhood really, and there were always new faces coming out to catch the bus for the first time, but a good amount of regulars too. We’d all ride the bus together in that half-asleep state teenagers are in on the way to bloody 8 a.m. math class, but the rides home were always full of happy chatter with everyone just glad that day at school was done and we could go home to watch baseball or play video games or whatever we wanted.
I had a close group of friends in high school, many of whom I am still quite close with today, and we obviously had a group chat called “The Boys” which we’d use to talk anything from basketball to school drama. It was Christmas break 2017 when it happened. On Christmas Day I’m at my grandparents place, opening presents and eating a feast with the whole fam, when my buddy R texts the group “did you guys hear?” Talk about something I didn’t want to do on Christmas, that day is for my fam not for talking about some school drama with the lads. Then he sends an article from our local newspaper. “TEEN SUSPECTED OF MURDER, POLICE COMMENCING MANHUNT” sprawls across the top of the page. I’m thinking, ‘who the heck could this be, and why the hell is R sending us this on Christmas Day?’
That’s when I see his face. I almost don’t recognize the kid because the look he’s giving in the photo is him without glasses, which I was used to seeing him with. Then it hit me. I ride the bus with this kid damn near every day… he’s sat next to me before, heck, he’s in my English class and we’re CURRENTLY learning Shakespeare together. The police found him hiding in a Walmart parking lot just outside of town. Apparently he’d stabbed his own mother over 40 times in the back and let her body rot upstairs for a week before he told a friend who immediately called the police. The whole school was pretty shook up by the whole thing and I remember the teachers all having a nervous look for the few weeks back from the break.
So, the kid who rode the bus with me, learned English with me, and killed his own mom, let’s not meet again! | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/154wjc5/learning_shakespeare_with_a_murderer/ | LetsNotMeet | GroovyFishman |
true | I Either Helped Somebody Out... or got a Felony | I work at a rest / truck stop in MA in the USA. There is a 24 hour bathroom and gas station in this truck stop. One day after work, where my restaurant closed at 12:00AM, I decided to go and sit with my friend who works at the gas station \[Jake for this story, \~30 years old\], as I usually did from about 12:00 to 2-3AM. It was an average night at the beginning as there were not many customers. I sat there and drank my beer and relaxed while he faired with the customers buying gas and scratchers.
At about 1:30AM there were some more customers coming in. I saw 2 cars park around the same time; one at a gas pump, one in front of the store. Obviously this is normal as we always looked toward the front door when somebody drove up. Especially because we'd either be smoking pot or doing something else. I remember hearing the vehicles pull up and looking upwards toward the customers a few seconds later. I saw a lady walking from the pumps with what looked like a young girl- likely related to her, and another car park in front of where the clerk's window is.
I saw the woman walk up to the door with her daughter, and another gentleman was walking behind them into the store. As the older woman opened the door after walking over from a pump, her daughter took a left turn, seemingly headed to the bathroom as a lot of customers on our rest stop were travelers- and a 24/7 restroom is pretty rare in my state. I saw a man get out of his vehicle which was parked right in front of the cashier's window (Jake's window). The mother walked in and we greeted her as usual- whereas right after was watched the man walk up and open our front door.
The man pulled on the gas station / store's front door, and then looked to his left. I was watching both customers with both eyes- and it was indeed strange when I watched his eyes veer to the left... and suddenly let go of the front doors as he quickly decided to speed around the corner. Like I said already, I saw this woman's daughter go in that direction- which is the only way to any other section of the truck stop at this point, the bathroom, and so I looked at my friend who I was keeping company during his 10pm-6am shift. I said quietly but also decently loud "Does that look weird?" he looked at me with eyes that said more than words with the swift saying "It does to me".
Keep in mind, alot of MA state trooper pull up to this location as there are very little rest stops within 20 miles as we are in a more urban area. No trooper pulled up this time however. I didn't know much of what to do so I turned around as the mother bought items, and I opened the doors that led into the dining room of the rest stop. (Since I worked at the fast food restaurant here for 4, I knew about almost everything.) I just walked slightly around the corner and peeked past the ATM where both of the bathrooms were. When you first walked into the 24 hour restrooms, the immediate left is the men's restroom. If you continue to walk about 8 feet farther past the wall and look to your left, you'll see the women's room.
So I slightly hid myself and looked through the glass door which we had locked about 3 hours and 30 minutes before. I didn't really see the woman's daughter pass.... but when I looked up I could see the same man- clearly passing right by the first hallway where the men's restroom was into the hallway where there was no room, except the women's room. I waited until I really knew he had certainly entered the restroom. I really did not want to take any chances. I unlocked the door and I pushed myself through, and the women's restroom door was already closed. On CCTV footage all you can see is me push the door open with an arm 'cocked' back- slightly moving- then the door closes. I ended up punching a man in his face- then I kicked him in the side of his head. He fell backwards and hit the back of his head on the sink. I got completely terrified and called 911 our emergency service. I told them I had assault a man in the women's restroom of our local truck stop, but thought it was for a good reason.
State troopers have arrived after not even 3 minutes. I already had my hands up in the gas station and air section. They asked me what had happened and I told them everything. After the state troopers witnessed the CCTV footage recorded by the gas station into the rest stop bathroom- they made a decision. The state troopers came up to me and said "Any driver who is stopped by a law enforcement officer for a traffic violation, and is not wearing a safety belt can be fined $25." and charged me a 25 dollar fine... I will not name any officers that were involved in this situation.
I do not know what happened to the possible creep, and frankly; I really will never care, for the rest of my life. I don't think I really saved anybody, and I'm no hero. But I hope that day I made somebody really rethink their decision in doing what they wanted to...
I'm not sure if I hope we do, or do not... meet again. | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/154izs0/i_either_helped_somebody_out_or_got_a_felony/ | LetsNotMeet | unstrict |
true | My 11th Grade English Teacher was creepy | TW: Self harm, depression
I had a strange English teacher, let’s call him Mr C, when I was 16, 3 years ago. I recently realized how weird he was.
Mr C shared a couple of stories of when he used to teach at another school. One was of a girl who was self harming and had a bad relationship with her dad. Mr C emphasized her daddy issues and even made a comment about how girls with daddy issues often came to him with their problems. I guess this alone doesn’t mean anything.
In English, we read The Crucible and Atonement. We watched a clip from the movie for The Crucible where a much older man John Proctor is flirting with a teenage Abigail. The weird part is that this is the only part of the movie that my teacher showed to the class. Mr C also made comments like “girls, don’t you think the actor is hot?”, and “How do you flirt?” He kept asking the flirting question and no one answered. We had a student teacher sitting in the back and she was just shaking her head. At the time the students were more embarrassed than creeped out.
The Atonement also includes an immoral age gap “relationship”. Mr C told us to act out the scene where an older man seems to be attracted to a young teen girl and tells her to bite a choco bar. What was weird is this is the ONLY scene from Atonement that we were told to act out. Another weird thing he did was the only part of the movie he showed to us was the library scene where two characters do the deed in the library and a girl catches them. Atonement is more than just these two weird scenes but these are the only ones he picked out and I can’t find a normal reason for it now. Maybe I’m reading too much into these things.
Either way, Mr C, let’s not meet again. | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/1541kna/my_11th_grade_english_teacher_was_creepy/ | LetsNotMeet | lem0n_gras |
true | Playing in the park | I grew up in the 80s and 90s. In my childhood and early teens, in our school holidays we'd spend most of the day roaming: we'd take off on our bikes and we'd be gone for hours.
My friend and I went to a private school so our holidays were different from the state schools'.
One afternoon in early September, we were playing in a park. I guess we'd be about 9 years old. I remember a police officer marching up to us. She said "Girls, I need you to leave this park. A dangerous man has escaped from police custody. Do not under any circumstances approach him, but if you see him you need to call the police immediately. He's wearing..." (I remember her saying a waistcoat) and then she gave a general description.
Of course, we thought this was extremely exciting. I was reading Secret Seven stories at the time, where kids solve crimes etc and in my child's head I couldn't help but compare us to the kids in these books.
So we left the park and carried on meandering for a few more hours. We then headed down a road where children were finishing their school day, which was about half a mile from the park. We were familiar with that school as we attended brownies there. Then i saw him: "look it's the man!" I told my friend. He was standing near to the school gates just staring at the children coming out. He fitted the officer's description perfectly. We dashed to a phone box and excitedly dialled 999. I told the police where we'd seen him, and that he fitted the description, but was not wearing his waistcoat.
The officer thanked us for our call, then me and my friend continued with our day, excited that we may have solved a crime.
It was only decades later, I remembered this memory with a shudder.
The day came back to me very clearly, but with the insight of an adult. Of course now, we can all guess what that man was.
Did the police take our call seriously? Did we prevent a child from being harmed? Did we also have a lucky escape when we played in the park that day? | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/1539au6/playing_in_the_park/ | LetsNotMeet | rogue_rose_ranger |
true | My mother's boyfriend | I honestly don't know how to begin, or deal with this entire situation. To keep it short, I've been touched in my sleep by him for 4 times now and throughout them all, my mother hasn't really done anything about it but yell at him through text. She'd send me a screenshot but that was it. It's a little infuriating since he'd manipulate her into thinking he was just putting a blanket over me (to which I replied, who the hell is he to put one on me? And are you just going to ignore the fact he went in my room?). He also guilt tripped her saying "We can't do much if that's what she thinks, because you know I'm not one to do that. Let her be, just pretend to be mad at me when we come home." (She acted poorly, it was way too obvious)
Mind you, I've gone through past situations with family members (grandfather and cousin). I can't exactly leave the home since I'm honestly not prepared to live alone yet and I'm still saving up. No matter how much I barricade my room, he'd get inside. I had to hide and change my toothbrush because it's always used. I always had to wear a bra even in my sleep. I'm seriously reaching my limit.
I woke up one day to the sound of a kiss close to me. I thought to myself, my mother wasn't home because she was at work by 6AM. I continued to pretend to be sleeping, and I heard him whisper "I love you" close to my face. I've never been so creeped out to the point I trembled. The next day my mother was away again, I bought so many locks and yet he was still able to get in. I woke up, continued to pretend to be sleeping and jolted my eyes open to see him sitting there watching my face up close. He scrambled out of the door. That's when I knew I had to do something and I'm not safe anymore.
I sleep with a weapon on me now every night. I never told my mother about these recent behaviours because I know she won't believe me sadly, or do anything serious about it. So if it ever happens again, I'm going to have to muster up all my courage to stand up for myself and confront him again.
Btw this manchild has no contribution at all to the house, he's an irl leech. I buy groceries and pay bills while my mother pays rent. | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/152hdlw/my_mothers_boyfriend/ | LetsNotMeet | YummyShrimpie |
true | Encounter with a fake cop | This story happened when I was about 13 or 14.
I grew up in a town with a lot of walking/biking trails and forest area about a 10 minute walk from my house, so I spent a lot of time outside. One of my best friends, we’ll call him Anthony, lived in the neighborhood across from mine- I would frequently walk to his house to knock on his door and see whether he wanted to join me in biking aimlessly around town.
On this particular day he decided to join me and we went down to the local lake, an extremely popular spot during the summer (it’s never empty). There’s a trail right next to the local library which leads to the lake- we decided to hang out by the trail entrance as it was right next to a tunnel that run under the street above, providing good shade and amplification for listening to music together off our iPods. This tunnel is probably a good 20-feet long or so, with the only easy path back up to the street above being the paved one on one side. The trail itself is gravel, with trees on both sides- no easy way to get off with a bike unless you use the designated entrances and exits.
Anthony and I were hanging out on the opposite side of the tunnel from the trail entrance, so as not to bother any families getting on the trail with our music. We had our bikes leaned up on the side of the tunnel when I noticed a man coming through the opposite end, right next to the trail entrance. He entered the tunnel and, once he was about 15 feet away, called out “I’m a [city name] Police Officer!”
It didn’t take more than a 2-second glance to tell that he wasn’t. He was wearing cargo shorts, a green tank top, sandals, and a big military-style backpack. Even from about 15-feet away I could tell that his skin looked really greasy, his hair was unkempt.
I immediately knew something bad was about to happen and my adrenaline started to rush. I turned to my friend and just yelled at him “ANTHONY RUN!” to which he got on his bike and began to ride off. The man was standing between us and the trail entrance, so there was no easy way for us to take off without either needing to go directly past him or down the trail in the opposite direction.
Anthony chose to try for the main entrance that the man was blocking. As he rode past the man reached out and grabbed his arm, Anthony sort of stopped but the man was more focused on me and ended up letting go to which Anthony quickly took off.
I knew I wouldn’t be as lucky as Anthony was if I tried to push my way past the man, so I immediately started looking for other ways to run. I noticed that there was actually a small dirt trail on the same end of the tunnel that we had been, I tried to take my bike up it and the man yelled out behind me “didn’t your parents ever teach you not to run from the fucking cops?!” The trail grew too small for me to carry my bike down so I just dropped it on the ground and continued running, hoping that this side trail led back up to the street where he at least wouldn’t be able to hurt me without witnesses.
He chased me about halfway down the trail but eventually turned around. I ended up coming out at the library and quickly ran to the top of the tunnel so that I could see what he was doing. All I saw was him riding off on my bike.
I called the cops and they came to my house to give me a lineup after I walked home. I instantly identified the guy, apparently he and his twin brother were homeless and on meth which would explain his demeanor and motivation. They were known for stealing bikes in the area but never so brazenly, I was just glad that the situation wasn’t worse because based on his substance use he very easily could’ve chosen violence at the drop of a hat.
To the fake cop that stole my bike, let’s not meet. | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/152cozu/encounter_with_a_fake_cop/ | LetsNotMeet | Happycreamcheese |
true | The Bongo Man | Its early June. I'm starting to regret parking a mile away as im leaving my friends jewelry studio. But its a beautiful day, anyways, so here i am, walking down the street. Crossing the bridge, admiring the river, etc etc.
In the distance, the faint sound of bongos echoes off the buildings, and into the street. A bar? A car sound system? Whatever. As i get closer to the omnipresent bongos, i realize the source of the sound is coming from a stationary object. Ive identified the source of the bongos.
If you've ever seen the Tim Burton film "Big Fish" you will know Danny Devito plays a circus carnie, all dressed up, with a curly mustache. a truly grimey vaudevillian display. Now Imagine this, but as a 6' 8" burly pot bellied homeless man with a boombox. My first internal reaction, was "wow he looks like a 6'8" homeless danny devito impersonator"
Upon spotting me, Danny Davito 2.0 turns to me and growls "HEY! COME OVER HERE" and begins approaching me. I say "no thank you sir" and quickly take off for my car.
im speed walking to my car. Im booking it the fuck outta there to my car. between my footsteps, the bongo music continues playing, louder as he approaches. At this point im almost to my car, I unlock the car with my fob and pratically leap into the drivers seat. And fumbling for the lock button.
The side door lock doesn't work. He is reaching for my fucking passenger door, as im turning the key in the ignition, car unlocked. Next thing i know Im driving away, and He is stumbling off the curb, reaching for my door handle, to no avail. | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/152k06x/the_bongo_man/ | LetsNotMeet | AnOrnge |
true | I Probably Avoided Being Mugged and Stabbed | This happened not too long after I moved to England. Back then, and still to this day, my country’s living conditions weren’t great, with everything getting worse every year - low salaries and high cost of living -, so I decided I had enough.
Not too long before that, my best friend had moved to England with her boyfriend and her dog. They lived in a house with a spare room, so we planned it out, and I moved to their house and shared the rent while I tried to find a job and my own place. We didn’t last too long in that house, though, and two weeks after I moved in, we moved into a different house. The house itself was supposed to be better, but the neighbourhood it was in… well, lets just say it had a lot to improve on!
The problem, though, was that my friends had the dog, and most nights they would get into huge fights about who was the most tired from work, who worked the hardest, who did the most at home and other nonsense I didn’t have the patience for, so I would end up offering to take the dog for his walk just so I didn’t have to listen to them anymore!
It would usually go pretty well, I think especially because this was around the pandemic time, so there were a lot less people on the street.
One night, though, was different. When I offered to take the dog and walked out of the house with him, I had this strange feeling going on, like that night I shouldn’t have offered to go and should have just stayed home. Then again, maybe it’s best it was me and not my friend. Back then I was 25 going on 26, well built and broad-shouldered and could easily take a fight, even though I’m not a very tall guy, so would probably present a bigger threat than my friend.
I went down the stairs, walked out of the building with a trash bag in hand, dumped the bag and went on my way to the Close entrance. As always, when I got to the main road, because I liked to keep the walks different and fresh for the dog, I looked both ways to decide which way to go. That’s when, to my left, I noticed this guy jogging in my direction. What troubled me, though, was that he was jogging in completely normal day-to-day clothes. Not dressed to go out for a run at all.
Thinking I didn’t want to be judging people and didn’t want to be feeling uneasy, I decided to just walk the other way and try to ignore the guy running my way. If it was the case, I would cross the road and see what happened. I wasn’t the only one feeling uncomfortable, though, as the dog was refusing to just go about our way. He was an intense dog, with a massive focus when it came to trouble and was a mix between a Bulldog and a Portuguese hunting dog breed, so he was medium sized, muscular and had this habit of staring people down in a way that would make everyone uncomfortable. And that’s just what he did then.
I turned to my right, started walking down the street, having to pull the dog along every 5 seconds because he wouldn’t stop turning around and observing the guy, who was still about 30 seconds jogging away from us. Of course I kept my eye on the guy as well, taking advantage of having to pull the dog along to keep measuring how far the guy was from us, and when he was starting to get too close for comfort, I decided to cross the street. If he was just running past, he would be on his way. If there was something else happening, he would cross the street as well. Of course that’s exactly what happened.
When I started crossing the street, the guy crossed it behind me, and then I decided to actually stop and let the dog stare the guy down to see what would come out of this. It was like I had messed everything up for him. He looked surprised, stopped running and walked past us with both me and the dog eyeing him. He then lifted his hands like he was surrendering and said “Hey bro, all good? All good?”, to which I just replied “All good, you?”
“Yeah, boss, yeah” he said. Then he walked ahead of us and finished crossing the road and I went back to the same side of the road I was on to begin with and thought that would be it. No trouble, just a slight misunderstanding.
That’s when the guy stopped, turned around, saw I was not on his side of the road anymore and did the weirdest shit. He took two steps back up the road and hid behind a tree, like he was hiding from someone else that was ahead on the street. This made me even more uncomfortable and I was now having to control my shaking legs, adrenaline and increasing heartbeat and not let any signals give my discomfort away.
I ignored it, kept walking ahead, walked past the guy on the opposite side of the road, looked him in the eye again to warn him without having to say anything, and kept walking.
Ten more steps was all it took. With this weird guy behind me, I heard something shuffle ahead in the street. Initially I thought this could be a fox, but stopped when I decided the shuffling sounded like it was coming from something way bigger than a fox or a dog. Another person, maybe?
Then I saw it. There was someone else hiding behind one of the upcoming house's trash can, waiting for me to get there. I could see a part of their back showing up from one of the sides. I don’t know if me and the dog could have taken them on or not, but I decided then I wouldn’t risk it for me, let alone risk the dog’s life. I turned around and started walking up the street again. Walked past the first guy, who was still huddled behind the same tree, nodded at him, said good night and left. The surprise in his face confirmed everything to me. They were not expecting me to understand what was going on, were not expecting me to turn around and simply walk away and the first guy was not expecting me to still interact with him, at all!
For the night, I decided to just let the dog do his business in the little grass area behind our building, and that was it.
Considering that this was a very dangerous and high crime neighbourhood which keeps getting worse, and a month later my boss’s son and his friends were mugged at knifepoint with a machete just up the road from where this happened, I think I made the right choice that night. | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/151k787/i_probably_avoided_being_mugged_and_stabbed/ | LetsNotMeet | FranciscoMP |
true | Suspicious Guy delivering my Amazon package | I live in apt building that is safe and live on the third floor. I was in my bed napping around 3 pm when I heard super loud banging on my door that wouldn’t stop so I was sketched out and after looking through the peep hole I cracked open the door with my gun behind my back. This 40-50 year old male claimed that it had been delivered to his apt by mistake and handed it to me already opened (okay little weird but I’ve done it once myself by mistake So I didn’t think much of it) but he also kept the wrapping of the package with my address and name on it. But while I was closing the door he tried hooking his head around to look inside. Already creeped out by the guy, I went to the amazon app and SAW A CLEAR PICTURE OF MY PACKAGE AT MY DOOR WITH MY APT NUMBER INCLUDED. So, my theory is he took the package from my door and used it as a way to see inside my apt to case the place. Open to theories/other explanations. but tbh I have had an attempted breaking and entering once when I lived in a rough area so I’m concerned. But strange man taking my mail and claiming it was delivered to his place, please let’s not meet again.
As stated above PLEASE feel free to give your interpretation of what that encounter was about/ advice. | https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/150wqfc/suspicious_guy_delivering_my_amazon_package/ | LetsNotMeet | michaeloaks13 |
false | Whispering Phone | Last week, I experienced something eerie that I can't seem to shake off. It was in the dead of the night when I was stirred awake by whispers. It sounded like a hushed conversation happening right next to me, and the strangeness of the situation jolted me awake. I opened my eyes to search for the source of the whispers but saw nothing except for a strange, dark red glow illuminating from my phone.
As I reached out to grab my phone, the screen suddenly went black. I hurriedly checked through the apps to see if anything was running that could have caused the whispers or the red screen, but found nothing. The time was 3:41 AM, an odd hour for anything like this to happen. I initially brushed it off, thinking maybe I was dreaming or my sleepy state had conjured up the whispers and the red glow.
But the next day, as I was walking home from work, the same eerie whispering echoed around me. My heart raced as I picked up the pace, but then I saw them - two dark figures, lingering a few paces behind me. They seemed to disappear as quickly as they had appeared, fading into the shadows.
I shared my strange encounters with a friend, and was met with a similar story that happened to them just yesterday. They too were awakened by whispers, saw their phone lit up for a moment, only to go black as they reached out for it.
Now, as I lay awake at night, I can't help but wonder if those whispers will return, or if the dark figures will emerge from the shadows once more. The eeriness of the events has left a lingering fear, a chill that runs down my spine whenever I recall the whispers and the fleeting glimpse of the dark figures in the fading daylight. And the thought that this wasn’t merely my imagination but something my friend experienced too, makes it all the more unsettling. Now I am using the account of a friend to ask, ´has anyone else experienced something like this? Or are we just spiraling down a well of inexplicable fear? | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16wiarb/whispering_phone/ | TrueScaryStories | FriendshipNegative48 |
false | Came across this creepy unsettling site as a kid years ago. | I was looking up scary sites on the web one day and came upon this website, that looked like something from the late 90's to early 2000's.
As I scrolled down there was an image of a blonde woman hanging with an opened mouth and a angry look on her face. Her pupils were tiny. | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16w5bg4/came_across_this_creepy_unsettling_site_as_a_kid/ | TrueScaryStories | SamaraSadako |
false | Imaginary Friend | I figured I'd post another story that just recently came back up in conversation with my friends and I. I might have posted something regarding this thing before in more detail, but I don't remember. If I have, I'll link the post somewhere. If not, I'll have to tell that story another time.
For context, when I was little, my family lived in a two room apartment with two bathrooms (one in the master bedroom and one in the hallway) a kitchen, and a living room. There was also a balcony that had those long, flexible, sliding blinds that hang down vertically from their track.
My bedroom was just across from the guest/hallway bathroom. My parent's room was at the end of the hallway, and on the other end was the kitchen, which was on the right hand side facing toward the master bedroom. On the left side, there was a small space for a table, and behind the table was the sliding balcony door.
The living room occupied the rest of that space.
The layout of this apartment is important to this part of the story, so please, keep it in mind.
I spent the first three years of my life in that apartment, and during that time my parents claimed to have witnessed things moving on their own, things they'd just put down on the center of tables rolling or sliding off of the flat surfaces or the vertical blinds falling off of the track without any kind of influence.
The most chilling thing from that time that my parents have both told me was that I had an imaginary friend who I'd named Elmo.
Elmo was extremely tall, tall enough that his back would be against the wall, and all red. According to my dad, I would often talk to myself. When asked who I was talking to, I would reply stating that I was talking to this imaginary friend.
When things were put in the wrong places, I'd say Elmo did it. If things fell off the table, Elmo did it. If the TV was left on at night, Elmo did it.
Despite these creepy occurrences, nobody really batted an eye until the same year we left that apartment. I remember vivid nightmares (a story for another time) and sleep paralysis episodes I had at a very young age, and a distinct fear of the bathroom across the hall from my room. My little brother also would refuse to use that bathroom alone even in the daytime. Our guess is he saw something in there much like I had in my own room at the same age.
By the end of that year, my parents had decided it was best for us to move. My father even admitted to having the home blessed before we moved out, which is saying a lot since he's normally not superstitious or paranormal believer. He holds the same belief I do, where we don't believe in the paranormal unless it shows itself to us.
The fact that my father felt the need to have the apartment blessed before we moved out really makes me wonder what was there to influence that decision, but I digress.
Now that the major context is out of the way, here's the part that came up recently.
I was babysitting my youngest brother at my grandma's house. My dad's a single parent now, and so he often needs breaks from watching my youngest brother to take important meeting calls so either myself or my grandma will take over that role.
At the time he was either four or five. He's on the autism spectrum, and as a result, especially back then, he had a hard time communicating in full sentences. He still was and is able to get his points across with somewhat fuller sentences, but at the time he would only say one or two words at most.
This particular day, I was entirely home alone watching him until my grandma got there to take over. Normally one of my aunts would be there, but this particular day it was just my brother and I.
At some point, he got very upset and began trying to block off the hallway that my grandma's bathroom was in. Her hallway closet and pantry door both open outward and you can cover the hallway with the doors.
At first, I tried to get him away from the doors and move him to the living room, which was closer to the front door so I could investigate. I got my knife from my bag and had him wait in the living room as I went to see what could have scared him.
I checked every inch of the bathroom, all three bedrooms in that hallway, the closets, the bathroom in the master bedroom, everything- I couldn't figure out what spooked him. Despite not finding anything remotely threatening as I searched, I just felt really uneasy.
That could of course be written off as paranoia due to the situation of me, a teenaged girl, alone in a house with a boy who's getting scared about something in a dim hallway with four rooms and two closets- but the feeling was eerie nonetheless.
When my grandma got home, I of course asked if my brother had done this before while she was watching him, and to my surprise, she said yes.
She told me he'd been getting scared and saying there was a monster in his room at night. Of course, she also brought up how he was the same age my brother and I were when we saw, who I suspect was the "imaginary friend" Elmo, and reminded me that my grandpa (who was a religious leader of sorts in her church) was the one who blessed the apartment before we moved.
Later on, I brought this experience up to my dad, who also agreed the situation was similar to what happened when we lived in that apartment all those years ago. He'd also told me that my mom had seen a tall figure as well throughout her life and my childhood, however we also wrote that off as her being high on something, since she was on substances for the majority of the time I've been alive.
Either way, I find the whole situation just incredibly unnerving regardless of if it's some kind of spirit or just some hallucination my whole family seems to be prone to seeing.
Whatever the case is, I hope nothing like what happened that night happens when I have to watch my brother overnight this upcoming Tuesday. Wish me luck, I'll keep you updated if a ghost comes to visit while I'm home alone then. | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16vw1r1/imaginary_friend/ | TrueScaryStories | AshKetchep |
false | This is Fr and idk what to do | Hey, I'm 14 female, and things lately have been... unexplainable. So I always have been able to see things and hear things. I often tell people about my experiences but everybody shrugs it off. Until last night. Me and my sister were home alone due to my mother having to go to a business meeting out of state. I usually see things while she's gone but this was insane. I'm gonna cut to the case cause who wants lore on a 14 year old girl. Anyways, as I was walking down the stairs I heard shuffling (keep in mind it was dark) I said outloud "Emma your not funny you know I see stuff please stop" then suddenly my feet were swept out from under me and I fell down the stairs. My sister (Emma) ran out of her room and turned the lights on and asked me what happend. I was shocked..i simply told her to go back to bed. But here is we're things get horrific.
I walked into my room and heard a man giggling. I quickly scanned my room and that's when I saw it. I saw a man that was around 40 years of age, his eyes were wide and his face pale. He had no hair and his mouth was slit. I screamed and I haven't been in my room since. please help idk what to do | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16uycp9/this_is_fr_and_idk_what_to_do/ | TrueScaryStories | Plus_Presentation652 |
false | My Jinn Shadow 1.2 | So there are far too many stories in my life to detail. I will switch back and forth to past and present (yes It will never leave me).
Now during my childhood, I became an animal lover. I remember saving an injured bird when I was like 6. I don't know what it was but I think I just felt for other beings in general.
One day at school(4th grade) there was a dehydrated bird outside in the playground. It was a very hot day and it just was standing still . I wish I was able to stop it but a boy called "Eric" (not using the real name) stamped it to death. It was so quick and teachers were too late.
I remember walking home crying and one of my best friends telling me not to worry; the bird was in heaven. I was sad and angry. In my young mind, I just wanted to hurt "Eric."
My friend "R" tried to console me....so we stopped by a store and got some candy. I still just couldn't stop thinking about the bird.
The next day at school , we found out "Eric" had been killed by a car which ran a red light. I looked all over to tell "R" BUT could not find him. I never saw "R" again
R was a jinn
R | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16u8zwm/my_jinn_shadow_12/ | TrueScaryStories | Runner20mph |
false | The Knocking won't stop! A True Tale of the Paranormal.... | Back in the early 70's northern England my Grandmother was abit of a psychic and would often use a crystal ball, tarot cards and the new sensation sweeping the UK the ouija board (it seems odd but the family did it together quite often)...a young relative I never knew or met had taken quite a fall off a church wall and had deteriorated in hospital and well he died...
1 day, weeks into using the ouija board it was he who contacted my Grandmother and he was very useful he'd say things like window, look, now...as my toddler now an adult uncle like almost in his 60's was leaning out the Living room window head first after climbing up from the sofa, acting quickly he was grabbed by his legs and pulled to safety, my Grandad who had no psychic powers but pretended to have was a horse racing man and as you'd expect he would ask things like who will win the 3:45 at Kempton...the number horse was always spot on (unless money was placed and it would for whatever reason fall or finish nowhere ?) the board couldn't be used for financial gain understand and grasp no chance no way...
1 day the boy said...I'm going away now i have to help someone....
Well are you coming back ????
Yes
Well when ?
Don't worry I'll let you know ???
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Many years past without anything unusual, and no contact through the Ouija Board ?
...
Then 1 night...as my Grandma slept next to Grandad, there was an unusually load knock at the table at the foot of the bed...a persistent single loud knock followed by a long pause and then the knock again each time that bit louder as if annoyed...my Grandad froze in absolute terror...my Grandma a deep sleeper didn't even stir...Grandad was paralysed with fear..he tried to speak but all came out was a Whisper...Joan Joan please wake up! He felt paralysed and all he could wiggle was his big toe as he frantically nudged Grandma...
The Knocking then stopped after what seemed like an hour...when Grandad told Grandma about the seriously strange event last night...she went berserk and through the Crystal Ball, the cards and the board on the fire..
Nobody must ever speak of what happened or the relation they contacted..
Grandad was shook up for quite a few months
Was the spirit revealing himself at the foot of the bed ?
And more importantly would you have the balls to sneak a peak ? | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16u6gky/the_knocking_wont_stop_a_true_tale_of_the/ | TrueScaryStories | Immediate_Wolf3802 |
false | Spirits and Entities | English is not my first language so please bare with me.
I (26F) used to stay at my friend's (35F) house in Alabang, here in the Philippines since I am currently working on a different city from my place. The first time I stayed there, I'm always having headaches and it feels like the energy in the house is heavy. I didn't mind it at first but things got more worse than I expected.
I never experienced any of this from any other place, it all started there.
I always sleep on the bed with my friend then it always feels like someone is watching me. I always shrugged off that feeling at first then I keep on seeing a woman with a long hair and white dress watching me sleep. I always wake up at 3am and it scares the sh*t out of me. I ignored it at first but one time I woke up and she was beside the bed, standing and when I checked her face, her head is crooked and she was looking at me. I immediately shook my friend to wake her up and she was not there anymore.
I keep on seeing her and even had a nightmare about it so I got used to it. I asked my friend since I keep on getting headaches whenever I walk the hall beside the stairs and that's when she told me the story of the house.
The last owner of the house hang herself up in the second floor and I got chills after hearing that stories. I even told her to get rid of the doll facing the stairs that leads to that room.
Since I got used to her, I just always try to ignore her when she's there.
Then one time, I was preparing my coffee at 3AM and if I don't walk on the hallway beside the stairs to go to the kitchen, I had to go around the dining area with a big mirror on it. Like the mirror that you have on a dance studio or a ballet studio. I'm done with my coffee so I decided to go back to our room, when I was walking back to our room, I was looking outside and I saw a black figure besides the pool with a yellow glowing eyes. We were staring at each other for like 15 secs because I want to make sure that what I'm seeing was real and I was frozen on what I saw. I walked and acted normally when I went back to the room, I decided to wake up my friend and I was shaking.
This was before I experienced this https://reddit.com/r/Ghoststories/s/biGYGZeLpq at my ex boyfriend's house.
So yeah, that's when it all started. So whenever I'm in a different house or different place I always choose to go home instead of staying on a unfamiliar place. | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16tzyqn/spirits_and_entities/ | TrueScaryStories | LuneriaNight |
false | Driving Through Hellfire | I'm not even sure where to begin...
The women in my family, including myself, have had this sixth sense for as long as I can remember. We've had dreams and visions that have come true, as well as a few personal encounters with what we now believe to be spirits or some kind of evil energy.
Yes, we are all spiritual people, but no matter how many times these things happen, we still can't get a grasp on "why" or "how" these things continue to be so drawn to us.
So, what I'm about to tell you, as crazy as it may seem, is a completely true story. Other than my immediate family, no one else knows. I don't talk about this, ever. I don't enjoy having to relive what happened...but I'm hoping this will help others who share this spiritual gift.
So, here goes...
To set the scene - I live in a very rural place, in a small town that has maybe a few thousand residents, but we're all so spaced out and hidden in the hills, you'd never know that many people live here, unless there was a Fourth of July carnival or some kind of festival.
My town isn't anything fancy. We don't have the most up-to-date stores and all that, but, for the most part, we're all happy and thankful for what we do have.
The neighborhoods were like mini-communities. We all cared and helped one another. Everyone was friends with everyone and we all knew each other's business.
It was the middle of Spring. Lovely weather in the mornings and nights, but as the day went on, you could feel the heat steadily rise. As the heat rose, families came outside to bask in the bright sunlight, while young kids laughed and played.
This Spring day was just like any other day. I got up, got ready for school, and left to go listen to mundane lectures for the next 8 hours. I'll never forget that feeling I had while I sat and daydreamed, wishing time would go faster, just for the school day. That little glimmer of hope would trickle up into my brain when the clock finally read 3:00 PM.
"It's time to go home! Oh, thank God!" I thought to myself as the 3:00 PM bell rattled my ears.
I rush home, as always, even though I know the only thing that I'm rushing towards is a mountain of homework. It's like my mind plays tricks on me, making me think that simply being out of school and at home is a relaxing reward for getting through the day, although there wasn't any actual relaxing; it was just more stress in a comfortable environment.
I hussle through the multiple pages, completing every problem with a bit of skepticism, questioning my intelligence. But nonetheless, I talk myself up and get through it.
Before I know it, the clock reads 8:00 PM. Time to eat and shower and then I can rest for the first time today.
I complete these remaining two tasks and gleefully skip to my bedroom. I slip on whatever large T-shirt I can find and jump into my large pink bed, letting the comfort of my soft pillows and furry covers overtake me as I slowly sink into the mattress.
I'm one of those people that are woken up VERY easily. I'm not kidding, a mouse could fart and it'd wake me up. So when I felt my eyelids trying to shut, I took full advantage. I tuck myself in, get comfortable, and go straight to sleep.
Now, these next events are questionable, to say the least. I still, to this day, have no idea why God showed me what he did... I've even questioned if it was God that showed me this... or if this was the work of the Devil...
The very second my eyelids shut, I'm no longer asleep in my cozy bed...
I'm in the passenger seat of a small black truck, an S10...a truck that I've never even seen in person, let alone been in before...and I'm hot. I'm SO hot!! I instantly feel gobs of sweat pour down my face and chest. My once comfortable T-shirt is already drenched in heavy sweat, clinging to my body. It's like my physical body had been here much longer than my mind was aware of.
The heat instantly sends my mind into a frenzy. Intrusive thoughts race through every crevice of my brain as my breath becomes shallow, as if my lungs were incapable of inhaling the boiling air.
I frantically look around the black interior of the truck, trying to find the door handle to get out, but there isn't one. Thats when I notice that, not only am I in the passenger seat, but the truck is moving!
I glance over to the driver's seat to see a large, black, blurry figure that looks like the outline of a person. It's like these black pixels that are constantly moving, yet making sure to keep the outline visible....and it is driving this truck!
I couldnt focus on anything more than the entity itself, at this point. The dark particles erratically swirled all through this outline of a person, imitating normal human movements as one would do when driving. I could see the black pixels wrap around the steering wheel, as the wheel would move whatever direction the entity willed it to.
Complete dread coats every limb of my body as I try to focus on these particles, but I just couldn't. No matter how hard I tried, this thing remained so blurry, all I could see was the scattered outline of a person that was a little bigger than me.
As I stare at the outline with intense bewilderment, I'm met with sudden feelings of nostalgia and grief, but I no longer feel fear, at least not for the entity.
Before I can even question why I'm experiencing these emotions, they were viciously ripped away in a matter of miliseconds. My mind is yet again forced to focus on the overwhelming heat that was continuing to seep through the black truck.
I can feel the gallons of sweat that have combined with the fabric seat, gushing as I move my burning body.
The heat is so intense, I'm barely able to hold my head up to look out of the scorched windows...
We're in the old hollow that I grew up in as a child. The same little red house my neighbor and I played at daily, the same tire swing my cousin and I spent many evenings on, the same blacktop road that was eaten away with more pot-holes than you can count. It was all there! All the things I grew to love and cherish... BUT EVERYTHING WAS ON FIRE!!
The trees were glowing bright yellow, so bright, it was like you could sense the vibration of the intense flames just by looking at them. The grass was swaying with vibrant colors of yellow and orange, as the fire consumed every inch of this world. The sky was overtaken by huge, dark clouds of black smoke that never seemed to let up. The road was even engulfed in these extraordinary flames, like we were magically driving on molten lava, yet I could still feel every pot-hole the truck drove over.
Tears fill my eyes and just for a moment, I forget that my body feels like it's in the middle of being cremated. But then I hear the screams... Screams that were coming from the fire. These high-pitched screams were cries of agony and despair. You don't ever forget screams like this. Screams that make your blood curdle and your stomach turn. Screams that are so prominent, it's like you can feel their pain.
My body tightens uncontrollably, and I'm met with an immense feeling of sorrow. I can no longer talk or move, I'm frozen in place. I'm forced to witness the best memories of my childhood and the people I love, burn to ash in this world made of fire.
The black figure continues to drive us further into my old hollow that is now immersed in blazing flames and cries of torment, as I'm melted to the seat, unable to move or scream.
This continues for what seems like forever.
"How do I get out?! GET ME OUT!" These were the only thoughts I could muster.
The black figure suddenly turns to me, as if recognizing my presence for the first time, and... I'm jolted awake!
I wake up, drenched in sweat, as if I had just come out of a sauna. Considering the A/C was set to 68° and I had my fan on, per usual, I knew the sweat had to be from the flames of my dream.
I start hysterically crying and run straight to my Mother's bedroom. Now, keep in mind, I'm a teenager. Running to my Mother's bedroom because of a bad dream is something I haven't done since I was a very young child.
I frantically wake her up, and try to relive this nightmare I narrowly escaped, just long enough to explain why I was so utterly terrified. As I open my mouth, my words seemed to melt together, as if I were babbling like a baby, not making any sense.
Without full comprehension of why her daughter was crying uncontrollably, Mom instantly wrapped her loving arms around me and started praying in that same sweet tone she used when I got hurt as a small child. After a few minutes of consoling, I realize that I'm safe now, and that brings just enough comfort so I can force back my tears and random babbling.
Thinking that the unnerving night was nearing its end was a soothing feeling that allowed me to drift back off to sleep in my Mother's arms. However, that relief was short-lived.
Fast forward to two days later...
Again, normal day to me. At least on this day, I have a hair appointment to look forward to. It feels nice to have a tiny bit of excitement for more than just going home after school.
Besides, this is a positive distraction from the nightmare that tormented me just two nights ago. "It was just a bad dream, you're okay now." I tell myself, ignoring the obvious denial I'm in.
I get to the salon, which so happens to be owned by my cousin, Laura (like I said, small town). I happily strut in the salon and sit down, smiling ear to ear, simply happy to have a minuscule change of scenery.
Laura and I start off with the normal, nice formalities, "How are you?", ""How's your day been?", etc..
Silence freshens the air for all of three seconds before she sighs and says "Did you hear about Ben?"
Ben is our cousin, as well. I grew up with him and his sister when I was a child. Back then, our whole neighborhood was very well-connected and close, we all cared for one another and we acted like one big, happy family.
I hadn't seen Ben in many years, though. We moved out of that neighborhood when I was in the 5th grade and Ben and I lost touch.
As soon as Laura said "Ben," my mind was flooded with memories of my childhood. The days that seemed to go by in a flash - climbing hills, swinging on tire swings, wading through the creek - my body felt warm as nostalgia filled my every thought. I did everything I could to push back what I had seen just two nights ago - my childhood in those energetic flames.
But that nostalgia was quickly interrupted when Laura hands me photos of what looked to be a black S10 truck. The truck looked like bent-up chunks of metal scattered across the scuffed-up pavement. As badly as the truck was torn apart, I already knew there was no way possible for anyone to survive that...It was nothing more than scraps, surrounded by broken glass and blood.
But as I continue to stare at the photos with immense disbelief, I can't shake the feeling that I KNOW this truck! I know that black interior, I know the entire inside of this vehicle, yet I know I never actually rode in a black S10...
"THE NIGHTMARE!" I thought as my eyes widen and my breath shortened. THAT is how I know this truck!! This was the truck that black figure trapped me in while we drove through Hellfire!
I had no idea that Ben had a black S10. Again, I hadn't talked to him in years...
Turns out, Ben had been out partying for his 21st birthday. He had also been drinking alcohol. (I mean who wouldn't drink on their 21st birthday?)
The mistake he made was driving home after he was drinking. He wrecked and passed away in the same hollow that black entity drove me through... The same hollow where all of our childhood memories were made... The same hollow that was eaten by flames two nights ago...
The very night I was forced to witness this nightmare... is the same night Ben passed away...
After years of racking my brain, the only plausable explanation I can come up with is that this was some sort of message, although I'm still not sure what that message was. I believe the outline of a person that was driving us was Ben...
The last spot in my childhood hollow that I had seen before I was startled awake...was the place where Ben had died...
It's almost like I was in the truck with him when he was driving that night. I was vigorously flung back to reality once he wrecked and died. Maybe that's why he couldn't sense my presence until the very end.
I just don't understand it...and I'm not sure I ever will.
I still have so many questions... Questions that eat away at my soul, deepening the voids that the mysterious flames coercively tore open.
"Should I have focused harder on my nightmare?... Why was I the one that experienced this?... Why me?... What should I have done differently?..."
And the question that still fills my very soul with peril....
"Could I have saved his life?" | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16tp2f5/driving_through_hellfire/ | TrueScaryStories | ColdSpiritual6943 |
false | Shadow on the bed | This one happened to me when I was quite young. It's the only experience I had in my home I mentioned in my other story. It was a late summer night. I was sleeping in my bed when I was awoken by someone sitting on my bed. I rolled over to see who it was. My family is not the type to just come into each other's room, so I was worried something bad had happened. When I opened my eyes, I was blinded by my lights coming on. I rubbed my eyes and once I could finally see. There, it was a solid black human shape. From everything I've tried to find out about what it was, the only thing I could come up with was a shadow person, but I'm not entirely sure it was one of them. It had a human shape and was solid black. But it was also hairy, like how I imagine Bigfoot would look if he got covered in that world's darkest paint. I slowly backed up against my wall and pulled my covers up to my face. It didn't pay me any attention. It began to mess with my tv. It was a 32-inch one of those old TVs with a fat back. It was new. I bought it myself just a few weeks before. Once my tv turned on, the screen started to go funny, like how it would act if you held a magnet up to the fat back tvs. It was getting angry with the tv not working. It turned it off and swung open my door with such force it made a dent in my wall. I was too scared to turn off my lights or shut my door. Somehow, I managed to fall asleep. I woke up in the morning assuming it was all a dream. My door was open, and my lights were on, but maybe I just fell asleep with my lights on, and the cat pushed open my door. I was still a little freaked out cause my dream had never been that real. I checked my tv, and the screen was messed up with a green tint to it, and the dent in the wall was actually there. Does anyone know what this thing could have been? Or why it was so obsessed with my tv or how it actually caused the magnetic influence on the screen. | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16tgc2t/shadow_on_the_bed/ | TrueScaryStories | Mr_freeze_____ |
false | The lady on the lake | Wrote on mobile sorry.
This happened to me a few years ago. I live near a lake more of a pond, really, but this isn't a post debating the logistics of what makes a lake a lake. Right up the road is a small hill that leads to a hiking trail. I know this trail like the back of my hand. One night, I decided to go on a hike. It has just got done snowing, and there was a full moon, and like that disney princess, the cold never bothered me anyway. It was a little slippery going up the hill. The trail was a little buried under the snow, but it's a full circle impossible to get lost. I get going and finally made it to the part of the trail where it's covered in trees. But being winter time, it more resembles boney hands reaching towards the heavens. This is when I saw it. I saw a silver light shining in the distance. The way it moved, I assumed it was some trash caught in a tree. The closer I got, the more it began to take shape. I got about 500 to 600 feet away when I saw it was a woman. She was in a silver dress, a real fancy looking one. It's definitely not something anyone would wear in this weather. As I got closer, I could see she looked like she was crying. I assume she was lost or in some type of danger. I called out to her but she paid me no attention. I began to walk closer to her as I did she began to walk toward the lake. It's a pretty steep drop off to the lake from where she was. I began to run after her to see if I could help, but by the time I reached where she should have been, there was nothing or no one around. I look all around and even climb down to where she would have fallen. But nothing. Not even prints in the snow except for mine. By the time it dawned on me, there was no trace of her even being here. I heard a scream like nothing I have ever heard before. I looked up to see the woman just walking on the water. It may have snowed, but it definitely wasn't cold enough for the lake to freeze. I stood there frozen in fear as it dawned on me what I was seeing. She let out one more scream before sinking under the lake. I high tailed it back on the trail and back to my home in record time. I'm not even sure what I've just seen was real. I've never gone back at night hiking, and even now, I never go alone in the day. | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16svwln/the_lady_on_the_lake/ | TrueScaryStories | Mr_freeze_____ |
false | My therapist told me to talk to someone, hours before she committed suicide | My therapist told me to talk to someone, hours before she committed suicide...
So I decided to create an account here to tell my story...
Follow along here
/r/bensstory
[BensStory](https://reddit.com/r/bensstory/s/L51LerPnH1) | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16tffon/my_therapist_told_me_to_talk_to_someone_hours/ | TrueScaryStories | bensstory |
false | Just think about it | Imagine how many scary stories that have never been told because every true scary story has a soul survivor or has been found out by detectives but that's not garunteed that's the truth of what happened | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16sb78x/just_think_about_it/ | TrueScaryStories | octaneisfast |
false | The man on the golf course ( on going) | This happened today, Sunday the 24th. I’ve been in the golf business for almost 10 years now and have never seen anything like this. It was a slow rainy day. Only a few golfers out and I was the only employee working at this time. The phone suddenly rings and I’m told a strange man is digging in our sand bunker with… our golf flag? So I do what I always do. Jump into the golf cart and head out to see what’s going in.
The caller didn’t lie. I see a man in is 50s, greasy slicked back hair absolutely going to town digging up sand with our 10th hole flag. My people radar was already going off that something was not right ( obviously). So I just ask him how he’s doing. His eyes shooting up and quickly dropping the flag and taking a few steps towards me. His eyes were wild and nose was either cut up or covered in something. His first words to me are “ I’m not doing well. My friend was murdered recently” between his looks and that sentence I froze. He continued saying that the bunker was the perfect place to bury something. We go back and forth. I mention this is private property and we don’t want anything in the bunker that could mess with golfers. He insists, more aggressively as we continue that it won’t be a problem and that it’ll be deep enough that only rats will be able to get at it. Which again made me freeze up. I’m noticing he keeps changing hats as we talk.. pulling them out of a bag.
I soon leave saying I need to call my boss. Which was true but also because I lost my nerve. I drive away and tell the golfers to stay off hole 10. I call my boss and he says he’ll come in and that I should go back out there ( lucky me) but stay in the cart and call the cops if things get out of hand. When I finally work my nerve back up I drive out and he’s walking away. I drive up about 30 feet behind him and ask if he’s done. He doesn’t say a word, walks into the woods turns around to look at me. We get into a small starting contest for about a minute and he smiles and walks deeper into the woods towards the road. Completely creeped out I see the pile of sand and head back to the pro shop. Not seeing him for the rest of the day
Edit: this is an ongoing situation. The police were not called by me. Waited for my boss to make that call. Believe a cop is going to show up tomorrow when we dig up whatever is there. The man was clearly unstable or in distress. When we talked he’d respond but it was like he just wasn’t fully in reality. The creepy part was the unpredictable manic state he was in. Who digs a hole with flag stick? Obviously this wasn’t planned out. Why was he changing hats? These answers should be added in an update soon.
Hope you guys enjoyed! Not like a ooo super scary but if you put yourself in my shoes I think you’ll feel as unnerved as I do. Nothing scarier than people! | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16rj5gj/the_man_on_the_golf_course_on_going/ | TrueScaryStories | JayHub1000 |
false | Slenderman in our back yard | So me my neighbor and some friends were at his house at night. Our friend Henry randomly went outside, then he cane back sweating and panting. He said he saw something in the woods. This is a 4 acre yard with the woods in the back so we were concerned. We went out with flash lights and went far into the yard so we could see the woods. We saw something in the trees and booked it back to the house. Me and henry grabbed a hammer and a hatchet and we went back out some of our friends had to leave, so me Henry and connor went out to see again. We ended up going back to the house to get our other friend and we went out. Me and Henry in the front them in the back since we had the weapons. The other two went back to the house so it was just me and Henry. We saw i saw something in another part of the tree line and told henry to put the flash light on it, it went back behind the cover of the trees. But he knew it was there. We started to step back then it ran at us so we started running i’m slower then Henry so he slowed down to let me keep up then we started sprinting it was right behind us, the door was about a hundred feet from us. We stepped on it and i almost got caught but i got inside in time. We couldn’t believe it there was two of them. Henry kept going slightly put side and was peeking around corners, he sprinted back in and all he had to say was twelve, there was more now henrys friend called and said there was stuff happening at their house too. We were freaked out he stayed on the call with them for a while. While he went out side again i saw something in the drive way then in the trees and on the roof, they were everywhere. After about 30 minutes of waiting Henry decided be wanted to fight. I didn’t know what was going on in his head but i wasn’t going to let him die alone. We went out with our weapons and saw them all lined up waiting for us its like they sensed our intentions. We started running at them full speed and they just stood there, lifelessly. We stopped confused at what was happening, it was a trap they came up from behind us towering over us we started swinging put weapons hoping for some type of way out. They dodged our swings effortlessly they were on a whole other level of strength then us me and henry had the same thought once the dodge and go behind us, start running to the house. It happened our opening had been made i started running first and henry close after me but then i heard a loud screech, i looked back and saw them all devouring henrys body there was blood and guts everywhere. I started to run faster then i ever have seeing the scene going on behind me. I got in the house safe. I told my friends what happened and they didn’t believe me. I told them to go look around the corner and see what was happening. We went pit and looked at where it happened, there was nothing there no blood no things and no henry. They wondered why they couldn’t find henry and i kept telling them but they never believed me they thought he had went home but he called and he never pick up. This incident was last night, nobody other then me will ever know what happened that night. | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16qye5a/slenderman_in_our_back_yard/ | TrueScaryStories | Justrandomshit836 |
false | The house across the street. | My wife and I spent years searching for a starter home. Finding the right home can be a difficult process in itself, but there were the added factors of being on an extremely tight budget, and only qualifying for a type of loan that allowed 'rural' housing only. That being the case, it was if someone drew a large circle around most of the communities in our area on a map and said "You can't buy there." It was just as well, as I at least preferred the quiet life of country living.
One place in particular caught our interest. It was located in a small village called Wright, in the middle of orchard country. This 'town' consisted of one old church with cemetery, a bar, and a smattering of old houses. It seemed perfect. We looked at the home and thought it would suit our needs nicely. The only catch was that the two current residents were technically squatting there. It's been a long time, so I don't remember the exact details, but I want to say they had been renting from the actual homeowner and had stopped making payments?
Either way, the house would have to go through a 'short sale' and the renters/squatters evicted before we would be taking possession. It was a combination of being weary from looking for so long, having been through the full range of emotions while doing so, and thinking it was a really cool setting, but we decided to go for it.
The current tenants seemed nice, so we thought the odds were on our side that they would leave peacefully and not trash the house. Fortunately we had no issues there because...we didn't make it that far. The listing agent was quite the eccentric, and rarely returned calls placed by our agent. To make a long story a bit shorter, we spent two months trying to get somewhere with the purchase. Our offer was accepted, but nothing else happened. Every time we spoke with our realtor, she told us she couldn't reach the listing agent, or he was being evasive.
Eventually we had enough and backed out of the deal. At the time we were sad it didn't go through. Fast forward roughly a month down the road. We were watching the TV in our duplex one evening when the old house directly across the street from the one we attempted to buy showed up on the screen, on fire! Apparently, the 20 year old kid living there had shot 3 of his family members to death, then burned the house down in an attempt at destroying the evidence. He fled the area and was on the run for a while. We couldn't believe it...shivers ran down my spine when I thought about the fact that we could have been twenty feet from a multiple homicide.
No, the violence didn't spread to 'our' house, but it was definitely close enough! I still get creeped out when I think about that, even 13 years later. | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16pi1wr/the_house_across_the_street/ | TrueScaryStories | Squarebody7987 |
false | I Bought a Haunted House | null | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16pdi7t/i_bought_a_haunted_house/ | TrueScaryStories | carlosk46 |
false | Can somebody help explain these events? | About 3 years ago I lived with my Mom, Dad, Sister, and Grandmother in a 4 bedroom home. One day I had a friend over. He was a very close friend and one of my best friends who I had over very often. We were smoking and probably listening to music in the middle of the day while we were home alone. Dad was at work while my mom sister and grandma were out doing girl stuff.
I remember my friends phone( let's call him Chris) was going off from somebody on Snapchat calling him. When he looked at his phone he laughed and I saw that it said I was calling him off Snapchat. I instantly thought I butt dialed so I start reaching in my pockets trying to get my phone and feeling all over my chair but realized it was no where near me. I then scanned my entire room and my phone was nowhere in sight. 5 minutes go by and he gets another call from my Snapchat account and answers this time. Nobody talking on the other end is just silence.
Time goes by and we start freaking out a bit. 2 hours go by as we are searching my whole house and don't find my phone anywhere. My phone had to be inside considering I knew for a fact I used it many times during our chill sesh. Another hour passes and we give up. Chris gets another phone call from my Snapchat again with nobody on the other line and my phone nowhere to be seen.
We decide to get out of the house and get some food and as we walk to his car my phone is laying on the floor in the front lawn in the grass. There's no way I could've dropped it outside considering that was the first time I went outside that day
Now fast forward to now. I have moved out of that house and now live in an apartment with my dad after my mom and him split up. It's a nice little 2 bedroom apartment on the first floor in a nice part of the city. They advertise "safe living" all over the website for the apartment and anywhere else you may see the name of where I live. My dad works from 6am to 3pm but doesn't come home sometimes till 4 or 5. This means I'm always alone and once he comes home I'll usually work from 6pm - 12am. We are never really at home at the same time except when we sleep or he has days off.
I have had very bad sleeping issues since we moved and am usually up all night and don't sleep till my dad's already left for work. This morning was different. He had already left for work and it was 6am. I had a really weird feeling like not fear but just very uneasy. I usually watch YouTube on my phone so I always use my phone.
I can always recall going to bed except things got really fuzzy and I don't remember going to bed. I just remembered waking up and my phone was gone. I looked everywhere for it and I couldn't find it anywhere in the apartment. Hours passed and I decided to go out on the patio to have a smoke. I walk out onto the patio thinking about what I could've done with my phone and out of the corner of my eye I see my red phone case a few feet from my patio railing (we are on the first floor so imagine an apartment balcony but just on the first floor).
I go back inside and go out the front door to circle around to where my patio is and there my phone is on the floor outside. I instantly think back to the first incident I told at the beginning of this post and start to freak out a little. Does anybody have any idea what's going on here? | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16p0w55/can_somebody_help_explain_these_events/ | TrueScaryStories | i-did-airsoft |
false | My Neighbor | *names changed for privacy*
I (23F) recently moved to FL from PA for a job. All of my family and friends are still in PA so I live by myself here, which can get pretty spooky. My second week here, I met my next door neighbor, Eddie. He seemed like a relatively normal guy in his 70s, very quiet and polite. One day they turned the water off in the whole complex for repairs without notice and I went over to ask if his was off too. He answered the door and proceeded to talk to me for about a half hour. I obliged because I haven't seen him get any visitors and I'd assumed he was lonely. Toward the end of the conversation it started to get creepy. He said that he was on his balcony one day, watching the neighbor girl across through her window as she took bikini pics; he then said "if I had daughters, I'd be constantly scared that they're doing that. You don't scare your dad like that, do you?" It put a bad taste in my mouth, but I just attributed it to his loneliness. A few days later, a looming shadow appeared in front of me, and I saw him briefly looking in my window. To my knowledge, he only has an ex wife. No kids, no partner, and no family to my knowledge.
Fast forward a few weekends, my partner came to visit me, and we were out all day at the flea market. I came back to a note in my door from him saying I'd had a package delivered and he'd picked it up for me. My partner, Scott, went to the bathroom, and I went next door to pick up my package. I knocked and there was no answer.
Later, he came to my door in the shortest robe ever and said he had been in the shower. I said 'oh okay, thanks for picking up my package' and before I could close the door, he'd mentioned that we didn't need to be quiet and to let us know if he was making too much noise.
Fast forward two-ish? weeks, I get home from work. The people from my apartment's office were up on my landing in front of my door, which I'd assumed was for the palmetto bug I reported, but I didn't understand why it took all three of them. I walked up the stairs and they asked me when the last time I'd seen Eddie was. I told them about the encounter two weeks prior. I entered my apartment. A few minutes later, they knocked on my door and asked me if the man on this scan of an ID was my neighbor to which I confirmed.
After that, I went to the 7/11 to pick up some ice and when I'd returned, there were two police cars in the parking lot. I approached the stairs and everyone on the landing was looking at me. When I got up the stairs, the officer asked me when the last time I'd seen Eddie was. I'd reiterated my previous answer. I went back in my apartment and started my nightly cleaning.
Around ten minutes later, a different cop knocked and asked me the same question to which I obliged. I was the last person to report seeing him. While the officer was asking me questions, the apartment office staff were talking to another cop and they said "oh, he's in there and all melty." My neighbor died, apparently it is likely that it was a week or two ago because he'd been so decomposed he leaked into the apartment downstairs.
He must have not had anyone to check on him in that time. That's now one of my worst fears. I also feel bad for not checking on him, because I hadn't seen him in a while, but I'd just attributed it to opposite schedules as I work a Monday thru Friday 8 to 5.
The creepiest part, is I've been hearing sounds from that apartment, knocking, as if someone was living there.
Also found out that this is likely the root of my bedroom palmetto bug problem, since I'm particular about keeping my apartment clean. I've slept on my couch the past week. It's hard living here alone at night now.
They also left the examiner gloves on the landing which I'm pretty sure is a biohazard? | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16otne7/my_neighbor/ | TrueScaryStories | cryptic-keeper |
false | My childhood house was haunted and the ghost physically harmed me | This happened around 9 or 10 years ago. I used to live in a somewhat old house. The house was built in a small neighborhood with other houses looking exactly the same, with 2 floors. On the first floor of my house, there was a pizzeria, and on the second floor was where we used to live; this is important later in the story. There were a lot of weird and unusual things happening in my house that would make us believe it was haunted. For example, stuff would go missing and turn up hours or days later somewhere it should have never been.
There were sounds of someone running in our attic (my dad would always go to check if there were rats or even cats up there, but nothing was ever up there), doors would close on their own, and cold air would appear out of nowhere. I used to wake up with scratches on my wrist and legs in the same place every day. You could say I scratched myself while I was sleeping, but the funny thing is, as soon as we moved out of the house, I never woke up with scratches on my wrist or legs ever again.
After we closed down the pizzeria, we stopped using it almost completely, except for parties or, after a few years, just for storage. I and absolutely everyone else I knew were scared or uncomfortable being in the pizzeria. They would say it was too cold down there, too quiet, and some, including me, would say it felt like someone was constantly watching you. I had two dogs and multiple cats.
I swear every animal was absolutely scared to go down there. Upstairs, some of them would go, but not all. My oldest dog would stay in front of the entrance to the pizzeria and would growl and bark. My cats would just run as fast as possible past it.There are still new scary stories I am only learning about today from my family or even people who came to visit us.
Two stories that personally scared me a lot were on a day when I played hide and seek upstairs in the house with two of my friends, M. and C. There were around three very good hiding places. Two were in the living room, one between the couch and a small sofa chair, and the other behind a different sofa we had. The third one was in my parents' bedroom under a table. It was time for my friend C. to search for us, and so she did. At some point, she decided to look behind the sofa, and there was my other friend M. with her back facing her. My friend C. called out to her, saying that she could see her. That's when my friend M. got out from a different hiding place C., seeing this, got really scared and started crying. They told me to stop the game, and to leave the house , which we did. To be honest, I didn't really believe my friend C., but hearing that my friend M. saw a something too behind the sofa made me question some stuff.
And now, the story that not a lot of people believe. I was home alone, and I had to get ready because a family friend had to pick me up that day. As I was getting ready and getting out of the bathroom, which was at the end of the hallway, and the other end we had a balcony with big windows, and to the right were the stairs. As I was walking to the stairs, I just remember it was quite sunny that day, and out of nowhere, I saw, in the corner of my eye, a tall black shadow passing me really fast. I got so scared. I knew it wasn't my shadow because not only was the light shining in front of me, which would make the shadow be behind me, not next to me, but also because it got really cold. So, I ran out of the house as fast as I could.
Not shortly after, we moved, and absolutely nothing weird happened again. I don't know if this means anything, but my dad heard from our neighbors that before we moved in, someone died in that house. Do you think it was a ghost or maybe an evil spirit? | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16nnrlr/my_childhood_house_was_haunted_and_the_ghost/ | TrueScaryStories | Yukii80 |
false | What she found on her dad's usb | So a few months ago my wife tells me this story of a girl she knows here in our neighbourhood.
She lives with her parents, or used to - the girl, that is; not my wife.
Anyways, one day she needed a usb and, remembering seeing one in her father's toolbox and thinking he must’ve gotten it free with some drill or something, she went and got it.
She slips it into her computer, hoping it works, and is surprised to find files on it. She clicks into one and what she sees next paralyses her to the chair. It’s her dad, and he’s looking into a camera and fiddling with a button trying to get something right, and behind him is her mother (his wife) sleeping on the bed. Sitting on the chair, her hands beginning to shake, she intuitively understands something’s not right about this, and when her dad goes over to the bed and starts taking the quilt off her mother and pulling down her panties, she puts her hand to her mouth.
I’m not going to tell you what happened next; it’s no secret or anything; everyone in this neighbourhood subsequently found out, what with it having been uploaded to some obscure porn site and then making its way to other more known ones. But let’s just say it wasn’t good. I mean, it wasn’t anything that’d get it banned from the main ones, on the face of things, but the fact that it’d all gone on without the women’s knowledge, not to mention her consent. Yes, you heard me. The woman, this girl’s poor mother, hadn’t known a thing. You see, this maniac had drugged her, and when she was comatose, he went about doing what he did.
Now, remember, this is before the girl found out everything else, and so after she’d watched the video, she avoided her dad like the plague in the house and nearly told her mother what’d happened on several occasions. She couldn’t do it though, and so she eventually moves out and stays with a friend until she figures out what to do, her emotions all over the place.
Well, she lasted about a week, I think it was, because she finally told her mother what she’d found and seen. I don’t know how the mother reacted, but I guess it wasn’t good, because they both took off to the cops and filed a complaint. Things moved fast afterwards. The cops went, searched the house, found the usb, along with a few others, arrested him, and kept him locked up for a while, asking him questions and whatnot. This gave the woman and her daughter enough time to pack some things and leave the house. They’d eventually move back into the house, but he came back first and, realising his wife had gone, and the real reason why his daughter had left the week before, went into a mental rage, thrashing the house and breaking the windows and throwing everything out onto the street. They reckon he’d have burnt the place down if it hadn’t been for a local lad here who won a few bodybuilding competitions subduing him.
I mean, what a situation; the whole thing. A tragedy. A sick twisted tragedy. I do see them walking around, the mother and daughter, and the boyo himself, I don’t know where he is.
In the mental, I guess. | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16n21s4/what_she_found_on_her_dads_usb/ | TrueScaryStories | mick1812 |
false | The light at my grandma's trailer | I don't even know where to begin on this one, it just happened so suddenly and it will probably stuck with me for the rest of my life. I'm a male still in highschool and I live with my dad, in 2020 my grandma unfortunately passed away due to smoking and copd. She lived right next to us and her trailer is 30 seconds away from our house so you can imagine hoe you can see what goes on down there. We'll fast forward to now and her trailers been empty for 3 years now and me and I thought it would stay that way, but I was wrong. Enough of the backstory, so I have a dog that I always let out at night and this was just any ordinary night, I was letting my dog out on the porch and watching him use the bathroom. My grandma's trailer is to the right of me and up until now I've never seen what I saw tonight. So I let my dog out and I am watching him go until I look over at my grandma's trailer and I see a light flick on in the kitchen and i see it through the window. The confusion and fear I felt in that moment is unexplainable because as soon as that happened I didn't even know what to think, how the hell did that happen or am I just seeing things. As I'm staring at the window I see a shadow inside and at this point I'm scared shitless and want to scream out loud because the thought in the back of my head that someone was possibly inside came to light. As I see the shadow pass by I quickly get my phone out and take a picture of the window, as I do this however the shadow I seen quickly runs across the window again and the light from inside cuts off. At this point I don't know what to do, I've never been in this situation before and I'm scared to death. My dogs halfway down the yard when this happens and he starts going insane now and barking like crazy, running to the trailer and me not knowing what to do runs after him. I make it down to the trailer where I don't even want to get five feet from right now and as I'm trying to get my dog to calm down and come back up with me to me and my dad's house I hear and see the click of the lock from the front door and the door open up slowly. At this point I see what looks to be a head poke out the door and as soon as I see this I scream, pick up my dog and sprint all the way back to my dad's house. As I'm running I heard the front door slam open and I hear footsteps following behind me but I'm just able to get through the door of my house and close and lock it not a second to soon because as soon as I locked it and set my dog down I hear banging and the door handle jiggle and try to be opened. My dad yells and asks what's going on and I just scream to call 911. As I shout this the banging on the door stops and I hear footsteps leaving the porch. My dad calls the police and we stay in our house with every door and window locked as my dad questions me about what happened. When the police arrive I explain everything the best I can and show them the picture I took. They send out a search team and wouldn't yoy know it find the guy hiding behind some bushes around our property. He was arrested and put in the back of the police car. And come to find out this isn't the first time he was in my grandma's old trailer. He's apparently been living there for a while and I just happened to see the light turn on that day. And I'm guessing once he saw me outside though the window he quickly tried to turn it off hoping I wasn't paying attention.
He was put away and hopefully he stays put away. This was one of if not the most frightening thing that's ever happened to me and I will never forget it. | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16mdqsx/the_light_at_my_grandmas_trailer/ | TrueScaryStories | Zlord_s |
false | Unsolved murder case of Marta Mihis of the year 1957 October Halloween night. | In the annals of unsolved crimes, the murder of [Marta Mihis](http://hamadaxfiles5.gumroad.com/l/GOATHEAD) stands as a chilling testament to the mysteries that can haunt a community.
p.s: if you're interested to know more about the case and the story behind it. You can click on her name. Btw I even included the full article in the story if you're lazy to read it in Medium. | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16kk3nn/unsolved_murder_case_of_marta_mihis_of_the_year/ | TrueScaryStories | Yaboku_1997 |
false | temporary possession? | This is my first ever reddit post! I have thought of sharing this story for so long so here goes - Names changed for privacy - please note this is absolutely real - occurred in 2011
On the run up to an impending family death, my mom and 3 aunts had to go to the hospital to say their goodbyes to their uncle, I was around 15 at the time. As the eldest cousin and very responsible, I (kate) had around 6 of my younger cousins dropped off to babysit for the night/next day until they got back. My best friend came over too to keep me company overnight.
Among my cousins was 'Ashley', probably 8 years old at the time. For context, Ashley is a super respectful, intelligent caring and lovely little girl, She was/is like my little sister, very close since she was born so I know her very well.
Pretty uneventful night, we put all the kids into the same bedroom with snacks and the TV on for the night Me and my best friend 'Ellen' stayed downstairs but joined them around 1am to watch more tv as we had been struggling to get them all to listen to us and go to bed so gave up eventually.
Suddenly as we are watching TV, Ashley on the other side of the room starts making these unhuman growls and cranes her head around in slow-mo and fixates on Ellen. I try to snap her out of it, and say its absolutely not funny as she is scaring all the other kids too - to no avail.
I'm so confused at this point, she is completely still & growling like a devil creature at Ellen - I ask Ellen to come closer to me and her eyes follow her like a tiger stalking prey and the growls grow louder and her eyes are black at this point.
Me and ellen are close to tears and terrified - we usher the kids out of the bedroom, into the bathroom across the hall and Ashley is still in these possessed-like state. we lock the door (don't judge me i was scared AF) and there is silence, no growls nothing.
After about 10 seconds, We hear an eardrum busting scream coming from the bedroom which in my opinion could not have been made by her in typical circumstances.
I come out of the bathroom straight away as although i'm scared she is 8, and she is sitting in the bedroom and asks 'Why are you guys all in the bathroom?' and continues watching TV
nothing else happened that night, uncle passed and she was collected by her mom. Nothing has happened since either.
Any thoughts? | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16ij37a/temporary_possession/ | TrueScaryStories | Amazing-Barnacle-207 |
false | a man tried to force me and my friends into his car and i’m scared that would of been my last night alive | it had just gone past the transition of new years 2022 into the first day of 2023 at about 2-3am. me and my two best friends who we’ll call Lena and Maria had taken a two hour train to a town called barnsley in the UK, i had started dating a boy there and my friends were excited to meet him. We were all 18 and had decided to go clubbing with my boyfriend and his friends, when Lena started to feel tired at 2-3am me, her and Maria had made our way to a bus stop, of course it was too late to get on one but we were talking about calling a taxi. My boyfriend was very intoxicated so i told him he didn’t have to stay with us and left him at the club. Suddenly as were talking, a man dressed in all black came from behind the bus stop, “I heard you need a free ride” he said with a strong accent I couldn’t pin point. Already tired and a bit intoxicated ourselves the idea seemed good at first, believing he had good intentions. He asked us where we’re staying and we stupidly told him, when Maria stepped in and politely said “i’m sorry but in this day and age girls can’t trust to get in strange cars.” The man looked offended, and he showed us his wedding ring which looked very cheap and fake, “See I’m a married man, I promise I won’t murder and rape you like Ted Bundy!” the way he said it in such an excited tone made my heart drop. My friend seemed to feel similar as she immediately rung the taxi company, but the taxi wouldn’t be here for at least ten minutes. The man sat right next to me at the bus stop, asking me if I’m in a relationship and my age, he looked about 40. “My wife works night shifts, and I’m so lonely so I’ve come out tonight looking for a new woman” i comforted him awkwardly, telling him i’ll talk to him while we wait for the taxi. He told us about his suicidal intentions if we didn’t get in the car with him, and he told us he just wants to rant to us all in his car. Before we could decline, he got up and opened the back door of his car, and Maria looked at me anxiously and whispered “what if he pulls out a weapon” anxiety came over me and i took a few steps back in bewilderment and began spam calling my boyfriend and all his friends at the club. None of them picked up, and the man turned his car lights off and was heard locking the doors before yelling us over again. Thankfully the taxi arrived and we all jumped in it and called the police, while telling the man in the taxi to turn back round only to see the same man was sat waiting in his car by the bus stop, now with his headlights back on waiting for the next vulnerable drunk young girls. | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16h4sjw/a_man_tried_to_force_me_and_my_friends_into_his/ | TrueScaryStories | Salt-Clothes-6655 |
false | They’ll get you too | One time when I was about, I’d say 6 me and my stepmom were playing a game, she was chasing me, and I ran into my room, then she turned off the lights and closed the door, I went to go open it, but someone, something, I don’t know, but it touched me, and whispered “you’re it” | https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/16gvju2/theyll_get_you_too/ | TrueScaryStories | Beef_is_a_vegetable |
false | Rules to surviving your posting at the Esper Valley Garrison (Part 2). | **[File 4]: “Wildlife”**
**[Author]: Maj. [*******]**
After reading [File 3](https://reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/s/QQ8LfzR180), you probably understand that the trials we’re going to face here are far outside the margins within which reality as we know it functions.
The situation here at EVG is constantly shifting, with a constant source of new unknowns, this file details the rules for dealing with the local Fauna. It is more than capable of dealing with you, even in full kit, so read carefully.
We know far more about most of them than the Humanoids as they tend to be more predictable and stick to routines. Unlike the humanoids, they become far more aggressive when the cottage is occupied. Keep it in mind.
With that said, we’ll talk about the Manges. They’re large, mostly hairless canines and almost always covered in scabs. Approximate weight ranges 30-50 kilos. Bites are nearly always fatal due to the massive amount of toxins and microbes present in their saliva. Their most dangerous feature is the subject of Rule 7.
**Rule 7:** Don’t look the Manges in the eyes. Previously it was thought this would only trigger an aggressive response (which is bad enough), however prolonged eye-contact has been proven to cause a catatonic state. It is very important to know the effect is magnified by optics, so use your provided canted sight if a confrontation occurs. When alone this is manageable, but in packs we’ve had some close calls even near the base. They aren’t a lot tougher than regular dogs of that size, but they’re rarely alone.
Something else to mention is they’re averse to incendiaries. They’re pretty flammable, even without hair, but on the other hand the smell when they go up is worse than any burn pit and it might draw our next mention in.
That being the Grazers. They’re rare and slow, but are easily one of our most dangerous cohabitants. They look similar to a Swalesdale from a distance. Up close their heads are almost wolflike. Most with distinct yellow and black stripe on their coat. The locals collaborate to mark them, somehow.
**Rule 8:** Remain at least 100 metres from Grazers at all times. We have observed the complete decomposition of living individuals within a 15 metre radius of them in under 30 seconds.
The Grazers are drawn to decay, which means they’re never too far behind the Manges. We don’t believe than can be killed by conventional means. This also leads into our next Rule.
**Rule 9:** The EVG must be cleaned RELIGIOUSLY. You leave anything to rot and half the base could go along with it when a Grazer shows up. Refuse must be discarded at least 1 kilometre from the EVG. There is a specialised ATV on site at all times for this purpose.
But enough on Grazers, back to the others.
**Rule 10:** Stay away from bodies of water
Rule 10 is a fairly easy one to wrap your head around, and adhere to. There is one small river that bisects the valley, and few waterfalls and pools dotted about the hills. The river is safe to cross at bridges only.
Every body of water here is occupied, the nymphs don’t like to share and a swarm of them could strip through a bomb suit in about 6 seconds. You aren’t safe on land once you stir them up either, so don’t fuck this one up.
**Rule 11:** If everything goes quiet, run for the EVG or the River. You’ll be safe in base or on the other side.
We don’t know exactly what is the cause of Rule 11, but we lost 6 men in the span of a minute after they reported total silence in their AO. Only one member of the 8 on patrol was recovered completely catatonic. He had fled across the bridge at the river. We presume the river caused whatever was pursuing Lt. [*********] to lose his scent. Or dissuaded by the “Pixies”
Whatever attacked the Lieutenant’s squad was “inhumanly strong, sadistic, and had tried to devour some of the remains.” According to the on-site coroner’s report.
**Rule 12:** Leave the weird Black Beetles alone.
It’s simple enough, just leave them alone for God’s sake.
**Rule 13:** [*************************************]
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Rule 13 will be declassified when you are briefed on Object-11. Until then, don’t ask.
**Rule 14:** Ignore informal radio chatter and the lights when posted on guard duty.
If you see them amongst the trees, don’t investigate. It’s simple. Squads move in and out of the base on strict schedules. They will not address you by name when they make radio contact. They will give a passphrase and address you by your callsign. They will not request that you abandon your post to aid them. They will ask for a second all clear before approaching the base.
Our patrols are equipped with Gen IV NVGs, they don’t linger in the tree-line with high powered flashlights on.
**Rule 15:** Do NOT antagonise the Pixies.
They may be annoying, even at times downright disturbing but they are an entirely neutral entity. They may attack spontaneously, however this is rare and often in retaliation for a slight against them.
You will be issued an additional file on their customs and behaviours on assignment to one of their controlled regions
These things can quite literally alter our perception of time. We know this as the first time we swatted one out of the air, half the garrison had been driven mad in the 5 minutes it took us to clear the swarm out. The few that we could interview correlated the fact that they had experienced what felt like hours in the span of seconds.
Wildlife is continued in the next file.
**[END OF PART 2]**
Sorry this one took so long, I’ve been working on a few shorts that tie into some of the EVG rules, I intend to release a couple stories regarding Rules 11 and 13.
There is also another separate series in the works unrelated to the Esper Valley.
Until then, please go back and check out Part 1(linked above) and the precursor to the current series: [A guide to enjoying your stay in our isolated Yorkshire Dales Farmhouse](https://reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/s/Xj97E4iucm) | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/171lif5/rules_to_surviving_your_posting_at_the_esper/ | Ruleshorror | ComplexProof593 |
false | Dont say her name. | *My friend I haven't talked to in years invited me over!*
*We haven't spoken since their sister was killed... what was her name? something with an M. I forgot.*
*They told me to read the note.*
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PLEASE READ
read before you do anything. anything at all. don't leave the room before reading. read thoroughly.
1) sorry for my bad writing. my mental state has not been good since my sister passed.
2) dont talk to yourself out loud. she might think you're talking to her.
3) I'm still here.
4) AFTER READING EVERYTHING go down the hall. my room is the 3rd one. dont go in the other rooms. only mine.
5) ignore her antics. she likes to slam doors, move objects, break things. she will leave you alone if you dont acknowledge it.
*Who is "she"?*
6) she torments me. if you hear yelling, dont come help. i dont want help.
7) be quiet. shut off your phone. whisper when talking. avoid walking fast. she likes to be the only source of sound. she has silenced others who couldnt be silent themselves.
8) she is very lonely. dont pay attention to her. dont look in the mirrors that arent shattered. dont go in dark rooms. if you hear someone calling you, dont respond. if you interact with her she takes it as a sign as friendship. none of her friends are alive as of now.
9) if you hear someone whispering a females name you dont recognise, ignore it. forget about it. it was your imagination.
11) My room is the first door in the hallway. Feel free to come in. I'll be waiting for you.
10) dont say her name dont say her name dont say her name dont say her name dont say her name dont say her name dont say her name dont say her name dont say
11) i have done so much to prepare the house for you! please dont touch anything. everyone is here for a reason.
12) dont ask me about my sister. shes not here. the funeral is over. shes not here. she moved on. shes not here. shes in the afterlife. shes not here.
13) I cant loose you. youre my last living friend. follow these rules exactly. stay close to me. im in my room.
14) Madelyn.
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*"Madelyn?"* | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/171212m/dont_say_her_name/ | Ruleshorror | Fazzypop |
false | Subject: Rules for Those Moving to Dark Gulch | Hello, Mr. Greene,
This is Kate Klein from the city clerk's office. I'm writing in response to your email informing us of your move to our town. We're excited to have you, but there are a couple of precautions you should take if you want to live in Dark Gulch with us!
1: Make sure to always be wearing sturdy, comfortable shoes. Boots are recommended! The terrain can be unstable, and we don't want anything happening to the residents. Hiking boots, followed by work boots and combat boots, are your best options, and a steel toe wouldn't hurt. It would be very bad if your shoes suddenly gave out and you couldn't run anymore.
2: Make sure you purchase a weapon of some sort before your first night here. You've no doubt heard about the unfortunate incident that happened to a new resident from a couple months ago. It was in all the papers. While that was something of a special case, we still want to prevent another event like that from occurring, so we mandate that all new residents have a weapon with them when they move in.
3: The gulch itself is filled with natural beauty, and we have numerous hiking trails through the area, but do remember that backpacking and overnight camping are allowed by appointment only, and only on designated paths! Furthermore, new residents must receive a license before they can go down into the gulch for anything other than a group hike. We'll give information about that license at a later date.
4: Please move uptown if you hear the alarm system. If you're in the town square, you can stay where you are, but the gates will close automatically once the alarms are set off. We rarely ever utilize them, but when we do, it's for good reason, such as an earthquake or a dangerous animal on the loose. If you aren't in the town square, then uptown is the safest place to go in times of emergency.
5: The final general rule is to stay in the area that we call "Gulch-West." We would include this with the rules for getting your gulch permit, but there are some residential areas where this is applicable, as well. We don't have permission from the owners of the land to go further than the trail markers along the bottom of the gulch. It's imperative that you don't trespass. Don't reach even a hand beyond those trail markers. If you somehow manage to lose something on the other side of the divide, inform city hall and we'll make sure to get it back for you.
More correspondence will follow this message. As we get more information about your living situation, we'll be developing further lists of rules to ensure your safety while you live here. Please reach out if you have any questions!
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Best regards,
Kate Klein | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/170v21n/subject_rules_for_those_moving_to_dark_gulch/ | Ruleshorror | Thorn11945 |
false | You walk into a deserted mine and find a note book so you decide to read it | Slowly you pick up the note and take a closer look.
Employee name Date
William James Jr 5-17-1935
Hello employee, welcome to the Farencio Mining Family, we hope you enjoy your employment here. but first we have some small rules to follow.
Rule 1
Please stay clear of the compression machinery when the red light in the lower left corner is flashing red, failure to do so will result in, Mutilation, death, and dismemberment. Please note as per your contract, Farencio Mining Family is not held liable for any of the aforementioned dangers when an accident may occurs.
Rule 2
As part of the Farnencio Mining Family guidelines, you must always keep your gas mask and hazmat suit on while in the mines failing to can result in termina…
This is William if I’m correct your Barry the new employee, this company is not what it seems, this company is NOT coal mining company, I’m not sure what they do, but I am sure that it’s not safe.
Rule 3
When see tall individuals running in any of the mines, leave the area immediately, they are simply rabid dogs report it to your direct supervisor and they will handle it.
Rule 4
You must read the new drill manual failing to do so can resu…
DO NOT leave the are when you see the tall "individuals" HIDE I can’t stress enough how much you cannot move, hide anywhere where’s there’s cover, my co worker Matt tried to run and… the company said he was "let go".
He had a family,
I’m rambling but just don’t run please.
Thank you for working at
Farencio Mines Family
This notebook will be thrown away as
William James has been, Let go…
You mumble “weird Book” as you start exploring. A few minutes in you hear stomping and suddenly, you see the “dog” you didn’t have time to hide
Might be bad but I made it so🤷 | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/170aojj/you_walk_into_a_deserted_mine_and_find_a_note/ | Ruleshorror | Previous-Yam8578 |
false | "...If a hand jumps on your face, don't be afraid..." The Tress Family Sleepover Rules | Looks like you came to my sleepover! Welcome! I'll explain the rules.
1. When you arrive, greet Mother with a smile and simply say "Hi," "Hello," or any other calm greeting.
1.5. She will take your equipment to my room.
2. Do not ask about Father. NEVER ask about Father.
2.5. If you do, dam eb lliw rehtoM.
3. Dinner Time, I'd prefer something without meat, like french toast.
3.5. NEVER ask what the meat is. It's taem namuh.
4. After Mother hands you your meal, thank her.
4.5. Eat all of it, and do not ask for more. .t'nod uoy fi dam teg ll'ehS
5. Never make Mother mad. .evil ot tnaw t'nod uoy sselnU
5.5. If rule 5 is broken, refer to rule 13.
6. Now, head to my room, and get you items ready.
6.5. If you have a sleeping bag, light source, pajamas, socks and slippers on, a sharp object (like a knife), and water, you'll have a higher chance of survival.
7. If a hand jumps on your face, don't be afraid, that's just Linda.
8. If I'm not with you in the room, do not look for me, and refer to rule 10.
9. If a human being like Father is in the room, do not interact with him, and refer to rule 10.
10. If a rule says "refer to rule 10," .dellik gnitteg ksir uoY .ekawa t'nera uoY .pu ekaW
10.5. Don't exit the room. Don't interact with anyone. Just pu ekaw. If you're awake not because of rule 10, refer to rule 11. However, if you interact with people or go out of the room, refer to rule 13.
11. This may be the hardest part. Or not. Look out of the window. If the sky is normal, return to sleep.
11.5. If the sky is a dark red, don't go back to sleep. Instead, you must immediately run to the bathroom. Now, check your facial features in the mirror. If they are fine, continues to rule 12. If even 1 or 2 are missing, refer to rule 13.
12. Close your eyes and check the windows again. Repeat until the sky is normal.
12.5. When skys return to normal, go back to sleep.
13. Remember the knife you brought? Grab it and traeh eht ni flesruoy bats. .uoy ot gnimoc s'tahw naht retteb s'tI
14. When the alarm rings, you may wake up peacefully. You have survived the hard part. Congratulations. Now head downstairs.
15. Breakfast will be served. Again, I prefer a meat-free meal, Mother will be mad if you ask what the meat is. Don't tell her I told it was taem namuh.
16. Feed Linda some of your food, and give your dish to Mother. Just like Dinner Time, have no leftovers on your plate, and no asking for more.
17. Wave goodbye and walk out the door. We hope we see you again soon. | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/17090bv/if_a_hand_jumps_on_your_face_dont_be_afraid_the/ | Ruleshorror | The_Dummy_Or_Someth_ |
false | +Be not afraid+ | "Greetings! If you are reading this then i'm sad to say you've died...But it's not all bad! You got into heaven! Isn't that great news? Now I know what you're thinking, "why is there a note?" Well, because of how many duties the angels have and attendees there are in heaven we are very short staffed, whilst you wait for an angel to accompany you through the gates we have written up a list of rules that you should follow when entering and after! Please read these carefully. The list is below!
ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔳𝔢𝔫 𝔦𝔰 𝔣𝔲𝔩𝔩
Rule 1: When greeting the angel that will guide you through the gates, please provide your full name!
Rule 2:Count your angels wings before accompanying them, please make sure there are atleast 6! If they have less than 6 wings, please refuse to accompany them. We have reason to believe something is disguising itself as our angels.
𝔚𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔤𝔲𝔦𝔡𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔱 𝔭𝔞𝔱𝔥
Rule 3:Be sure to ask the angel their name too! Although if they reply with a name such as;Orobas, Gabriel or Paimon, please refuse to follow them and wait for a new angel. We are currently experiencing some undisclosed issues with our angel services and several souls have been led away from the light on their journey.
𝔚𝔢'𝔳𝔢 𝔞𝔩𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔶 𝔱𝔞𝔨𝔢𝔫 𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔞𝔯𝔪𝔶, 𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔴𝔢 𝔱𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔰
Rule 4: Once you enter heaven please take the badge with your name on it from the angel! Thank you!
Rule 5:If you see anyone in heaven who does not have a badge on them, immediately leave and tell the nearest guardian angel. Failure to do so can result in an unknown fate as all who interact have gone missing.
Rule 6:In the event you hear someone familiar calling your name but are nowhere to be found, please refrain from following the voice and refer to rule 9.
Rule 7:If you come across a family member who by your knowledge is not deceased, please ignore all their attempts to get your attention. Failure to do so has resulted in; dismemberment, going missing, possession, the harvest.
𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔞𝔫'𝔱 𝔰𝔱𝔬𝔭 𝔲𝔰
Rule 8:If whilst travelling throughout the afterlife you come across a place, drink,food or animal which is unfamiliar (i.e has a name you have never heard of) please refrain from interacting with the item/animal at all costs.
Rule 9:Due to the large number of disappearances, and sudden rise in human deaths, we have created a "sanctuary" for lack of a better word. Whilst our angels learn of the problem and how to solve it this sanctuary will be used for all souls to remain safe.
Rule 10:In the event that the sky goes completely black without reason, immediately refer to rule 9.
𝔇𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔰𝔢𝔢? 𝔚𝔢 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲
Rule 11: It is required that souls stay in groups for now to minimise disappearances, unfortunately this has still done little to solve the issues.
Rule 12: If you see someone (i.e angel or human) who has unnatural features, such as no face, wonky eyes or extremely long limbs. Please leave the area as fast as possible and tell the nearest angel.
Rule 13: Many souls have experiences adverse mental health effects including; whispering hallucinations, depression, psychosis and paranoia" in the event you experience any of these symptoms, please tell an angel.
Rule 14: Electronics are no longer allowed in heaven, due to a large number of disappearances believed to be associated with them.
I know that these rules may appear to be perplexing, but aslong as you follow them, you'll be fine! By the time you've finished reading this an angel should be on their way. Before they arrive please return the note to the area you found it behind the bushes. We are currently addressing the issue of abductions of the souls and should hopefully have it resolved shortly.
\-Archangel Michael"
​
​ | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/17020d4/be_not_afraid/ | Ruleshorror | Stharx |
false | Is someone following you? | The day is finally ending, You're finally off work and going home but something is wrong..... Something seems to be behind you. Follow these rules to survive.
1. Do not look back. The urge to look back will creep upon you but you mustn't look back.
2. Ignore the voices, They're not there to help you. You mustn't listen to a word they say.
3. Don't stop walking. It doesn't matter if you're crossing the road while a car is coming at you, Anything is better than stopping.
4. Do not look at any surfaces that may reflect whatever is behind you. These include mirrors, polished walls, etc.
5. Do not talk to anyone. Worst case scenario, It gets both of you. It's best to not have anyone else involved for both their and your survival.
6. Do not try calling anyone, It can still hear you. If it thinks that you're trying to get help then you won't need to look back for it to get you.
7. When you reach your home, Lock your door and go to sleep. It should not bother you as long as you immediately go to sleep.
8. When you wake up in the morning, Go to the nearest UDA office and report the incident. We'll take care of it.
- The UDA | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16zrrxw/is_someone_following_you/ | Ruleshorror | No_Competition7327 |
false | Rules for surviving an Anomaly Warning | Hello! This is the Adams County Sheriff's Department. You are receiving this message because our county has been designated with a "Class II Anomaly Level" by the Federal Anomaly Investigation Division. Do not panic! The New Bavaria state government in conjunction with the FAID and National Anomaly Warning Service has designated some guidelines and rules to follow if an Anomalous Entity has been sighted or confirmed in your area. Follow these rules exactly as they are written and you and your family will be perfectly safe. Any deviations from these rules are likely to result in serious harm, death, or becoming afflicted by an Anomaly.
# Anomaly Watch
This is issued when an Anomalous Entity has been sighted but has not been confirmed by the the National Anomaly Warning Service. In this stage, the rules are less serious.
1. Stay indoors, but continue to perform your daily activities as usual. Bring any pets or kids inside as well.
2. Keep an eye outside and look for any strange weather conditions and individuals. If you notice anything, report it to your local police and head down to the bottom. You have officially entered **Anomaly Warning.** Strange weather and individuals include but are not limited to:
1. Mist when it was perfectly clear outside minutes ago
2. Shadows forming strange shapes on their own
3. Giant figures walking in the far distance
4. It's raining sideways
3. Keep track of your local radio station or NAWS and local police social media accounts. They will offer further guidelines and directives.
4. If you are driving, take note of any nearby buildings and structure you may take shelter in if an Anomaly Warning is issued. Continue to head to your destination while paying attention to the local radio
5. If you are in a mobile home, be aware of any buildings nearby that you may shelter in.
6. If you are outdoors or in a public place, finish your activity as quickly as possible and prepare to head home. If you feel that is impossible, be prepared to shelter in the nearest available location.
# Anomaly Warning
An Anomalous Entity has been detected by the National Anomaly Warning Service. An Anomaly Warning will be issued by the NAWS. Local police have been mobilized and are on the hunt for the Anomaly. This is where you are at most risk of danger, but continue to follow these guidelines and avoid any rash decisions.
**IF YOU ARE AT HOME**
1. BARRICADE ALL DOORS AND WINDOWS. New Bavaria state law requires all houses to have some method of barricading entrances in the event of an Anomaly Warning. This may include blocking all doors with furniture, wooden planks, or metal bars. Do not leave any doorways uncovered. STAY AWAY FROM ANY DOORS AND WINDOWS.
2. TURN OFF ALL THE LIGHTS. Keeping the light on is essentially an invitation for Anomalous Entities to enter your house. Ensure any light that is visible from outside is shut off including lightbulbs and fires. Turn off all screens and lower the brightness on your phone.
3. HEAD TO YOUR BASEMENT. Bring all family members and pets into your basement or shelter if possible. If your house doesn't have a basement, hide in any rooms that don't possess windows. Bring as much food and water as you can. You never know how long an Anomaly Warning might last.
4. KEEP AS QUIET AS POSSIBLE. Anomalous Entities are attracted to large sounds, and they will not hesitate to enter your house if they hear you. This means muzzle your pets, keep all electronics at the lowest possible volume, and speak only in whispers. Avoid any other large sounds.
5. KEEP A FIREARM WITH YOU. Having a firearm will help you feel secure and protected. This is better for your mental state.
6. IF an Anomaly has entered your house, refer to the section on **Anomaly Encounters** below.
7. If you hear voices in your house or someone speaking to you from upstairs, do not respond back. This is a common trap utilized by Anomalous Entities to lure you out of your hiding spot.
8. TURN OFF THE RADIO if you hear static or voices. It's no longer safe to use it.
**IF YOU ARE IN A PUBLIC PLACE**
1. Every public building in the state is legally required to have an Anomaly Shelter. Please follow staff directions as they direct you towards the nearest room. Do not lose sight of any family members, and DO NOT TRY TO HEAD HOME.
2. Staff members will give you rules to follow. Please listen to them.
3. Try to form bonds with your fellow shoppers. You might be here for a while.
**IF YOU ARE DRIVING, OUTDOORS, OR IN A MOBILE HOME**
1. Find the nearest building immediately and take shelter.
2. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO HEAD HOME. If you are caught by an Anomalous Entity we cannot help you.
3. If the Mist begins form while you're outdoors, run. Just run as fast as you can till you see a building. If you're caught outside in the Mist for too long, you'll fall asleep and you won't ever wake up again.
4. If you see figures in the distance, it is imperative that you DO NOT head towards them. They are likely not human. Continue to the Anomaly Encounter situation.
5. DO NOT STEP IN ANY SHADOWS. They'll drag you into some faraway place. And it is not pleasant.
6. If you have a firearm, bring it with you.
7. DO NOT TRUST ANYONE YOU SEE even if you think you know them. They might not be the person you know anymore.
8. You might see a missing or long dead family member. THIS IS A TRICK. Do not go near them no matter how much they beckon you. You will dragged away and we cannot help you.
# Anomaly Encounter
**IF AN ANOMALY HAS ENTERED YOUR BUILDING**
1. Stay silent. Do not make ANY noise whatsoever. It WILL hear you.
2. Silent dial 930 on your phone and switch it off. This number will alert FAID agents to your location and they will attempt to neutralize the Anomalous Entity. Refer to the section on **Law Enforcement Encounters** below.
3. If you hear any static or whispers on your radio, this means that an Anomalous Entity is nearby. The louder the static and whispers, the closer it is. DO NOT RESPOND. It will beeline to your location.
4. DO NOT PRAY. Whatever religion you follow, absolutely do not pray. DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT PRAYING OR GOD. Anomalous Entities HATE prayers and can sense their origin. Continue to keep silent and think about something else you enjoy.
5. If the Anomalous Entity has managed to enter your basement; we're sorry and we hope you didn't suffer.
**IF YOU ENCOUNTER AN ANOMALY OUTSIDE**
1. DO NOT RUN IF IT DOESN'T SEE YOU. Stay put and stay silent. It will likely move on unless you cause attention.
2. Silent dial 930 and alert FAID agents to your location.
3. Once the Anomalous Entity leaves, make your way to the nearest building as quietly and quickly as possible.
4. If an Anomalous Entity has seen you, RUN. If you have a firearm, attempt to delay it by shooting at it. Run to the nearest building you see and attempt to lose it. Please remain aware of any shadows or Mist in the vicinity while you escape.
# LAW ENFORCEMENT ENCOUNTERS
Our department's officers such as well as FAID agents are trained and equipped to deal with Anomalous Entities. While you are hiding, it's these brave men and women who will be dispatched to neutralize them. While law enforcement is dedicated to ensuring you and your family's safety, there are some guidelines on how to deal with our officers.
1. If officers have entered your home to deal with an Anomalous Entity, DO NOT EXIT your hiding spot or attempt to speak to the officers. Even if it sounds like the Anomaly has been neutralized, stay in the basement. Our officers have been ordered to shoot any individuals they see run into for their own protection. This applies to outdoor situations as well.
2. None of our officer will ask you to leave your basement unless the NAWS has ended the Anomaly Warning. If an officer invites you to leave your hiding spot, stay quiet and keep your firearm nearby. It is trying to lure you out.
3. If you encounter armed officers while outside, do not go near them. They have also been ordered to shoot any individuals they see. They will not help you or take you to safety.
4. ALL officers will be wearing gas masks or hazmat suits. If you see an officer without this equipment, THAT IS AN ANOMALY.
5. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CONTACT THE POLICE USING RADIO. Police will not use radio during an Anomaly Warning. If you have spoken to any voices on a police frequency, LEAVE YOUR LOCATION IMMEDIATELY.
6. Impeding an officer during an Anomaly Warning is a federal and state offense. DON'T DO IT. If you aren't shot, you will be facing multiple years of jail time.
7. All roads leading out of town will have been barricaded by police or the National Guard. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LEAVE. We must reiterate you WILL be shot.
# WHEN ANOMALY WARNING HAS ENDED
1. DO NOT LEAVE YOUR HIDING SPOT until the Anomaly Warning has ended. The NAWS will notify citizens on all its social media channels as well as by text message. Please be patient, Anomaly Warnings have known to last up to a whole week. While it's highly unlikely this might happen, staying patient will help you and your family stay safe.
2. YOU WILL NEVER receive an NAWS notification by radio. DO NOT TRUST IT.
3. Once the Anomaly Warning has ended, it is safe to return upstairs as well as to interact with any police officers you see. If your house has been damaged, please alert the New Bavaria Department of Emergency Management. They will assist with any disaster relief.
4. If you have any injured or dead family members/companions, CONTACT 911.
5. If you find a dead Anomalous Entity, call 930. FAID agents will arrive and dispose of the corpse. Do not touch it or go near it.
6. Continue to monitor NAWS notifications. The situation may not be over.
We thank you for your patience and understanding. We understand this may be frightening for you, but as long as you stay calm and alert, everything will be okay. We hope you and your family stay safe, and as always, have a great day! | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16z0o58/rules_for_surviving_an_anomaly_warning/ | Ruleshorror | Acceptable_Bullfrog3 |
false | My friend lent me her laptop, but she also gave me a set of rules | Rule#1: First of all, write down somewhere, what you are going to do with my PC. It will help you with managing your time and you actually do what you need to do.
Rule#2: When youturn on the laptop, you will see the profile Janet@ and host. ALWAYS choose Janet@'s profile. The PIN code is 080102022.
Rule#3: When you are in the profile, ALWAYS make sure that Proxy or VPN is on. Simply go to the internet setting, it will be there. If the VPN isn’t on or if you are not connected to some Proxy server, as quickly as possible turn the wi-fi off and connect to proxy or VPN first. if you forgot, refer to rule#12.
Rule#4: If you made sure that you have a secure connection, you can open the browser and search for the term „You will not find me“. You can go on with your work after that.
Rule#5: If you have to use a service, that requires logging, do not EVER type in your password directly. If you really need to use an email account or something like that, use phone authentication app and pray for the best. But I advise not to, it's just not safe.
Rule#6: Under any circumstances don't plug any type of USB drive into my pc, unless you are recovering the system.
Rule#7: Don’t click on any random folder, especially if it appeared randomly.
Rule#8: Don’t download anything. You will be traced.
Rule#9: Don’t be logged on for too long, it is wasting your time and safety.
Rule#10: If you are done with work, log off from any service that you used. After that,delete the entire system and reinstall. It will give you some time to stay unnoticed. Recover USB is in the laptop bag. BIOS is opened by pressing esc.
Rule#11: Do not EVER use computer at home, ESPECIALLY at night. Go to a library, so you don't draw attention to your apartment or house.
Rule#12: If you violate any of these rules, you... are probably dead now. Rest in peace, my friend.
*”Huh, that’s weird,” I murmured. “Janet wants to play ARG or something.” I put the pc on my desk, on the place I usually put mine. I am glad that she lent me the laptop, because I spilled an iced coffee all over my macbook and I have a lot of stuff to do. I reach into Janet’s laptop bag to find an adapter, but I also find a USB stick. “ Haha, the recovery USB, that will help me to stay safe,” I jokingly say to myself. I don’t believe any urban legend, nor some story that isn’t reliable. I plug the pc to the socket that is under the table. This appears to be a windows laptop I assume. But maybe she installed Linux on that? I don’t know, but I have some experience with both. I push the button to turn this piece of tech on. I am excited to see a logo of some well-known OS, but I see a flashing image of some weird logo that I have never seen before. But when the system booted, it looked exactly like Windows 7. On screen appears two user logins: host and* [*Janet@*](mailto:Janet@)*.”Haha,” I laugh nervously," it's just a coincidence".But I still use the Janet@'s username. An alarm on the shelf near a bed is showing 11:50, I have to work fast. I am planning to open my MS office online account and do some research related to mathematics. But when I access the profile,I realize that I am already connected to my home wi\_fi. That feels really strange, because my friend has never been here with her PC. Suddenly, I heard something. Was it just a wind? Or just a squirrel running on the roof? I live near a park, so it would make sense. But that isn’t a squirrel. I feel something from behind.* ***ITS CLOSE…*** | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16z1hma/my_friend_lent_me_her_laptop_but_she_also_gave_me/ | Ruleshorror | Regalwithbooksinside |
false | The Forest Screams | If you are reading this, then I am most likely dead. I would highly recommend you read the following letter if you do not wish to have the same fate as me.
The house you've just moved into...no...the area..it's not quite..normal if you will. We experience things here that most would just put out as a "common myth" or "rumour" but if you ask anyone who's seen it first hand they'd call them a blasphemer. As you know you've moved into 31 Ulus Street, Caecus. But do you know what Caecus means? The town was named Caecus back in 12th Century, it roughly translates to 'Help'. Back a few hundred years ago, Caecus experienced a freak storm like no other, it lasted days, no communications in or out. No one could even get across the river to it. Once the storm passed everyone in the town (then village) was found missing. Excuse the joke. That's just one of the weird occurrences to happen here. Below is a list of rules that the towns people have put together for newcomers. Please read them carefully, any questions you have will be answered at the end.
\-RULES-
R.1: Please remain in your house from 10:33PM to 6:45AM. Anyone who asks for you to let them in within this time frame must be ignored.
R.2: Please take note of all humanoid shadows you see in or outside of your house at night. If you see any, please be aware of them and stay away, they aren't tricks of the light.
R.3:If you hear the Forest outside screaming at night, close all curtains and remain in the emergency room fitted to every house in the basement.
R.4: If anyone tries to start gossip with you, ignore them. Whispers can bite.
R.5: You may hear an alarm during the night ringing through the village, it may repeat something like "It is safe to come out now" please ignore this. We have moved to Email's now due to the impersonation of our alarms.
R.6: In the event you have left something outside during the night, a pet, item of importance or clothing. Refrain from going out. Consider it lost.
R.7: Dreams aren't dreams anymore. If you dream something has entered your home, or you are leaving your home. Force yourself to wake up. It's not a dream anymore.
R.8:In the event the sun does not rise for several weeks, remain in your home, in the emergency room. There is plenty of items to remain safe. Do not leave the emergency room for any reason.
R.9: Stay away from shadows. The darkness is just as dangerous as the outside. If you must enter an unlit area bring the high-range flashlight supplied in the emergency room.
R.10: Lies are twisted truths. Never lie here, in this town anything that's a lie will inevitably become a truth.
We sincerely hope you listen to these rules. Do not try to leave, you can't leave anymore.
\-C.O | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16yxy8y/the_forest_screams/ | Ruleshorror | Stharx |
false | how to play tag with spirits (P.G.I chapter 1) | Welcome back, this file is focused on the tag invocation.
As a reminder, the object you must use is something that looks like a hand.
Once summoned, the spirit will communicate its needs using the rice grains to write.
1-If the spirit writes in a language you do not understand, say the following phrase: ‘i apologize, but i do not understand, could you please write it in english’, or in whatever language you wish to use. do not switch languages more than once.
2-the spirit will take a shape of its own this time, their shape should be relatively humanoid, you do not have to avoid mirrors.
3-they will only agree to play outside and at night, any other time is unacceptable.
3a-i think that’s obvious, but pick up a flashlight or some kind of light source, you don’t want the darkness to bite you, do you?
4-choose who’s IT, like in hide and seek, it will be determined by a small item. if the spirit asks to be IT or for you to be IT, just agree. let them have this.
5a-while being IT, wait for 5 seconds before you start hunting. please note to see them from far away, the spirit will hold a little laterne, they don’t need it, but it makes it fairer.
5b-while you’re IT, the spirit will be faster than you, but it will have a bit less stamina then you, so it will try to bait and lose you, by doing things like turning off their lantern. keep your light source on them to avoid losing them in the darkness.
5c-once you catch them, don’t be rude, just touch them gently, tell them their it in a respectful or playful manner, give them the IT item, and run away, you’ve got only 5 seconds.
6a-while being hunted, the spirit’s footsteps will be noticeably louder, they’ll use their lantern to inform you of the current situation.
6b-it’s lantern is off: it’s trying to sneak up on you, look around, and at any sign of it being close, run to the opposite direction, it’d be a shame to be caught without a bit of a chase.
6c-the lantern is a normal light: it’s just playing Tag normally. try not to get too close to them, they might be walking right now, but they’ll rush soon enough.
6d-the lantern is red: you’ve annoyed them enough to decide to go on a ‘hunting phase’, it’s not as scary as it sounds, they will simply give chase until they catch up, no matter how exhausted they were, now they’re not stopping ‘till they catch up.
6e-the lantern is pinkish purple: …this is not a game anymore. something else decided to join. take a deep breath, ready yourself, and once you hear incredibly loud footsteps coming your way, and that your playmate disappears in the shadow, run. don’t stop. run. run until you don’t hear it anymore. run. it’s as fast as you. run. your lungs aren’t fighting for air. run. your legs aren’t on fire. run. I know it feels like it. but just keep running until you can’t hear it behind you anymore, okay?
Once you’re done playing, go back to the summoning room, and stay ‘I'm tired, thank you for playing’. the spirit will not overstay its welcome and leave. if it was fun, it might even leave a little gift.
…the following rules only apply if you’ve accidentally summoned something BAD.
7a-the spirit does not take form, the rice will move, saying either ‘YOU’RE IT’, or ‘I’M IT’, as well as a number. The number is how many seconds until either you, or it starts chasing. it’s usually between 30 and 60, but it can go as low as 5, and the highest number recorded was 180.
7b-the fire will change to color to either: Indigo, Green, or orange. note that color.
Indigo represents a Wendigo looking spirit.
Green represents an undead looking spirit.
Orange represents a distorted looking humanoid spirit.
8a-if you are IT, use the time you’re allowed to get the following: a blade, a knife should do the trick, a light source (preferably one that allow you to see from far away), and then go out of your house, the outside will look like one endless foggy forest, it’s normal.
8b-while out there, be extra careful of the noise, if the noise isn’t humanoid or deer-like, shine your light towards it, if it does not back down, brandish the knife, the thought of being hurt will be enough to make it back down.
8c-you may encounter the two other beings, they aren’t your playmates, they might run away, but don’t try to catch them. keep your breath, your lungs are important and fragile here, don’t waste them.
8d-once you find your playmate, run towards it, it’s speed is similar to yours, but it has less stamina then you. However, it has the advantage of having normal lungs, allowing it to breathe better.
8e-once you catch them, they’ll give you a compass, run toward where it is pointing, you have a minute before … that thing shows up. you’ll reach your house, go in, take a deep breath of normal air to repair your lungs, you’re safe.
9a-if you are not IT, use the time you’re allowed to get the following: a light source (preferably one that lights up all around you), two things that can make static noises (two talkie-walkies will appear inside of a random closer, they will placed in a obvious spot) some kind of item that give information thanks to a rotation: a compass, a watch… then go out: it will look like an underground parking with weak neons on the ceiling. it’s normal
9b-check your rotational item as often as possible: if it behave strangely, find a hiding spot, as long as you are not visible from the white line in the middle of the path, it’s fine, then close your eyes, and listen, once you some kind of mechanical noise passing by you and then going far away, open your eyes, check on the item, if it’s back to normal, get out of hiding. If not, stay hidden.
9c-if you find a spirit that does not correspond to the color of the flames, turn on the item to make it static, it will make them freeze, and lure IT to catch them, so hurry out of here.
9d-if it sees you, run away until you’re sure they’ve given up on the chase, it has as much stamina and is as fast as you, but has a lot less determination than the average.
9e-once the two others are caught, the lights will flicker and turn off, use your light source to find the nearest door while having as much of your body in the light: the darkness is very hungry. The nearest door will take you back to your house. close your eyes, you’re safe.
Finally, just to be sure you understand, here are the consequences.
Staying in the forest for too long will damage your lungs, you’ll experience shortness of breath, and start to slowly asphyxiate.
being caught in underground parking, you’ll be forced to stay until light’s out, and you’ll have your light source taken away. nothing will stop the darkness from entering their feeding frenzy.
letting the mother machine see you … I hope you don’t mind your organs being changed to wires (it won’t turn you into a cyborg, it will turn you into a corpse with wires inside.).
here you go. you should know everything about it.
>!...oh, looks like you found my hiding spot. (P.G.I)!<
| https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16yvp74/how_to_play_tag_with_spirits_pgi_chapter_1/ | Ruleshorror | taod_game |
false | Rules for Fogstone College and Carrer Academy | AUTHOR NOTE: I'm on mobile so sorry for misspellings.
Hello. If you are reading this, then I'm sorry for the circumstances, but you need to follow these rules very closely in order to survive. I'm a senior here, so do as this paper says, and you might make it out.
/#1: If you break any rules, come hide in this locker that you found this note in. It doesn't matter how big you are, you'll fit.when in here, you need to be very quiet. Especially while the Principle is around, so I suggest learning to hold your breath for 5+ minutes. Unless a rule says don't follow this one, this is the default go-to if you break a rule.
/#2: Don't mess with the Janitor. He is not human. Make his job harder, and he will clean up the mess he made while dealing with you. If you need to, throw up on another kid. We all understand what is happing, and what needs to be done in order to survive.
/#3: Keep your grade above 50%. Yes, below 70% is failing, most teachers will give you a grace period of 3 weeks before involving the Principle, and you don't want that. You will be called to the office. Should this happen, go to the Janitor and ask him of he can hide you in his storage closet. If you are on his bad side, then go to rule #1.
/#4: Learn what teachers are and are not human. They change every year, so I can't say for sure. There was one that never was human; Ms Luttrell. She is by far the most strict teacher. DO NOT fail her class. If you need to, stop doing work for other classes so you can make up the work for her (just make sure they stay above 50%). She doesn't give a grace period.
/#5: The Lunch Ladies are nice, but not human. This isn't a bad thing, as you talk to them as if they were human, but do as the Principle says. So avoid them if you are "wanted". The Janitor has a crush on one of them, so no disrespect is tolerated. This is worse than vomiting on the floor. DO NOT disrespect the Lunch Ladies.
/#6: If you see a shadowy figure at the window outside in one of the classrooms, don't panic. That's Charles, the security guard. This only means he suspects you of breaking a rule, and is here to warn you. Just watch out if you are wanted by the principle, because you will not see him first.
/#7: The bus will always be arriving at 7:46 AM. Do not be late or Chrales will come get you. This is not bad, but you will be suspected of more rule breaking. The bus will also be arriving at your bus stop at 3:24 PM evryday.
I hope these rules help you walk across that stage and get out of this layer of hell. | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16yqclt/rules_for_fogstone_college_and_carrer_academy/ | Ruleshorror | Bagelgod448 |
false | Welcome to my room! | Welcome to my room! Dear friend, you know I care dearly for you, and because of this I have had the liberty to write up this letter in hopes that you can survive the rather....odd....and bizzare situation you have had the misfortune of getting yourself into. My mother hasn't disclosed the reason you'll be staying with us for these few days and I don't like to pry so I'll get right into the rules! Read them VERY carefully, your life depends on it! :)
\----RULES----
Rule 1:I won't be staying in my room during your stay as in this household our guests should be treated as nicely as possible, I will be sleeping in the livingroom! If I ask to sleep in my room with you tonight, Decline. And don't say anything further.
Rule 2:Always make sure a line of salt is in the following areas; both windows, the closet door, the bedroom door and around the bed. If any of these places does not have a continuous line of salt surrounding them there should be a jar of salt in my desk drawer.
Rules 3:You may hear sounds during the night, scratching, breathing, or even someone whispering quietly outside the door to let them in. Ignore these and continue about your day.
Rule 4: Whilst falling asleep you may feel a pulling sensation, as though you are being pulled from the bed. Please stay as calm as possible, even the smallest amount of anxiety will make it stronger, meditate if you can. After the pulling sensation stops, do not sleep and instead refer to rule 2.
Rules 5: There is a plush doll that is permanently resting on my desk chair, it should resemble a black deer toy with wings and antlers, it was a doll i made in school a few years back and it means alot to me, it will keep you safe. If the doll changes appearance or moves in anyway, refer to rule 8.
Rule 6: Always have the curtains closed. During the daytime and especially during the nighttime. Only open them at exactly 3:26PM to 4PM, increase this time by 1 minute each night.
Rule 7:During 3:26PM to 4PM you are safe, refill the small bowls of salt in each corner of my room, if the salt in them has turned black refer to rule 8. From anytime after that don't touch the bowls of salt no matter what happens.
Rules 8:I have a space in my closet which I use for emergencies. If you have failed any rules, immediately flee here, you will have no time to grab anything once you hear the scraping at the windows, close the door and stay in silence. In the event you hear breathing behind you whilst in the closet, you have also failed rule 2.
Rule 9: During the times 00:00 to 03:33 you will experience a large number of strange occurrences, I will list them below, The sun may not come up even though the time is past 5AM on all clocks, a red light may emit from the windows, all dark areas of the room will have an unnatural cold sensation and will induce anxiety, I will be knocking at you door at random intervals to get your attention. In the event any of these occur, bring the flashlight set on my bedside cabinet and refer to rule 8.
Rule 10: You are not safe here, there are many things that will stop at nothing to try and hurt you, one of them you may have already seen by now, the silhouette behind the curtains? check the salt bowls.
Rule 11:Don't leave my room after 9:33PM.
Rule 12: My cat Casteval will often follow you, make sure it's him. He always has a white patch on his nose.
I do hope you make it, i'd hate to be down a friend. If you have any questions, don't ask me and instead ask the doll, he'll keep you safe...for now. | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16xce2u/welcome_to_my_room/ | Ruleshorror | Stharx |
false | How to do Cake day properly (Cake day horror) | Welcome to my party! I have some ground rules set you MUST follow or else you’ll get a slap on the wrist! Haha.. ha. ahem. Anyways here the rules
1: The party start at 7:30 PM and ends at 1:21. If you do not leave prior, may you enjoy the things lurk at night.
1a: if you ever so wish to stay overnight, refrain from eating left over cake. It becomes dangerous when cake day has finished.
1b: the shadow people eat the cake and the cake only. So don’t disturb them, or else they’ll just eat your insides and use it as toppings.
2: if you disrupt cake day intentionally you will be locked in the cellar. Where you will have your heart ache, and your lungs fill up with carbon monoxide.
3: Do not harm the cake day boy. You wish will be severely punished
3a: you brought this upon your self, you are forced to find a or make a sharp object and stab your self in the abdomen, if you fail to do so. HE’LL do it for you.
4: most importantly, EAT SOME CAKE. It’s the only good cake you’re going to find in this community.
5: We want to have fun, don’t be a party pooper! Or else we’ll lock you in the pit. Yes, things crawl out of it.
6: Last of all, HAVE FUN!! It’s a party! | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16xf3lz/how_to_do_cake_day_properly_cake_day_horror/ | Ruleshorror | 180Space |
false | Experiment R3E5 | If you have been sent this letter via email, text message, mail, or any other method that would mean that you have been selected at random for an experiment that will occur on 4/23/24. Please read this thoroughly as if you don't, you will be unlikely to survive.
1. Upon arriving to the location of the experiment, you and 25 other subjects will receive tools and/or weaponry of all sorts. Please note that there are only a few specific types of objects you will be given or find around the location. If you find or are given something that is not on this list, it is to not be taken and returned to staff: Firearms that are not loaded, weapons that feel hollow, weapons that have any vibrations to them. Any of these are likely not an actual weapon.
2. Do not attack staff, but with some exceptions. If the staff member does not have any identification, they are not actual staff. If a member of staff is threatening you, or asking you to come with them to a private location without any reason why, they are not staff. If the staff member is wearing a uniform that is not like other staff, they are not staff. All of the following should be attacked, or fled from.
3. Anything not listed here is not a rule. You can do anything you desire too to survive, as this experiment is related to organisms discovered by the US Government. We are unsure of how most of them act or work, so you have been chosen to discover this. You may use any method to survive the experiment, whether it be killing, running, or hiding to survive.
4. Do not attempt to escape the experiment. It is pointless to attempt escape, as whatever you do will likely just let something know where you are, and none of the things in the area are your friends. No one is there to save you. You are alone, exactly the way you were brought into this experiment.
5. If you attack staff, you will be killed on sight. They are there to make sure everything goes correctly. If a staff member does something they shouldn't to you, they will be dealt with and punished accordingly. Remember rule 2, if it applies to that, you are entirely permitted to do whatever you think is necessary.
6. Attempting to avoid being brought to the experiment will likely result in you being forcefully brought to it, imprisoned, or something other. It is important you do this, so that we know how to stop whatever we put in there.
7. We are quite sure nothing inside of the experiment has any form of escape method, though as I mentioned, we are sure, not 100% though.
8. Refrain from attempting to directly terminate the things within. We do not know what would happen, if they would die or if something else. Besides, we need to study them either way.
9. You are 100% allowed to bring your own weaponry to the experiment, though there is a chance some guards may take it away if they believe it is too dangerous, or if it could be used to escape.
10. The identification that this experiment has is to signify the type of experiment, how many things are within the experiment, and how many times it has been tried. Pay attention to this, as this may give you an idea of what might be in there with you. The following experiment type is: Reality manipulation. Note that this is contained, and that they are unable to escape with this method.
11. There are only that many in there with you. Something is wrong if there is more. If there's more, you should also be given a device to communicate with staff members if you suspect of something wrong. Do not try to guilt trip them into freeing you, it wont work. This is your punishment for what you did.
12. This rule is to let you know beforehand that one of the things inside here will try manipulating you. **Don't listen to her. Don't listen to her, man.**
13. The experiment will last for 2 hours. You will be notified of the time that has passed. Upon there being 5 minutes left, you must report to the entrance gate. A wall of decent size will be raised in order to prevent anything from getting out.
14. There are only 26 people in this experiment. If more have been noticed, the staff will not notice them. Everyone in the experiment has a letter of the alphabet on them to signify they're in the experiment. Any extra people will either have a duplicate or something that is not a letter. We cannot tell you if they are safe or not.
15. **Don't listen to her. She wants to give you the same fate I was forced to suffer. Please, don't listen to her, she'll make you false promises. Don't end up like me.**
16. Please report any issues with this message. This entire is copied and pasted, and reviewed previously so any issues are to be reported in a reply to this.
17. Successfully making it through the experiment will result in you being given a reward for your troubles. If you are interested in applying to assist with future experiments or interested in researching anomalies in our world, you may apply afterwards.
18. *If you want to rescue him, you'll listen to me. He's still there, alive. Listening to that voice. He's on his way to his 3rd obstacle. It's pointless though, he won't survive unless you help him. After all, you want to save him, don't you rose?* | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16xd0y5/experiment_r3e5/ | Ruleshorror | BizarreTarot |
false | A quiz for your new job | Welcome to your new job at Pineapple Products Enterprises, you will be in-charge of product quality, it will be mandatory to take this quiz before starting, you will automatically start with a score of 0% and based on how many questions you get right. you will either be allowed to work here or let go, please do not attempt to cheat on this quiz as it is for you and your co-worker’s safety. You will need to get at least a 40% score to pass.
1. As you’re doing paperwork in your office, you hear growls and screams, what do you do?
A. | Help whoever’s being attacked
>!Wrong -5%, you will die as well.!<
B. | Get under your desk and hide
>!Correct +10%, just remember to lock the door and turn off the lights before as well.!<
C. | Smash the window and jump out
>!Wrong -5%, Your office is on the 6th floor, you will die.!<
2. Something that obviously isn’t human is banging on your door, what do you do?
A. | Grab the handgun under your desk and shoot yourself to avoid a fate worse than death
>!Wrong, -5% this isn’t one of those shitty r/RulesHorror Stories.!<
B. | Sit perfectly still so it won’t notice you
>!Partially Correct, +5% It can detect heat signatures, you’ll be left mutilated, but alive.!<
C. | Grab the handgun under your desk and unload it into the door
>!Correct, +10% It won’t kill it, only stun it but you’ll have enough time to escape through the hidden vent in your office.!<
3. You hear an alarm blaring and the lights in your office turn red, what do you do?
A. | Wait for the containment team to arrive
>!Wrong answer, -5% we don’t employ any “containment teams” they will kill you!<
B. | Run out of the building
>!Partially Correct, +5% but you may run into the “containment team” on your way out.!<
C. | Hide under your desk and listen for sounds
>!Correct, +10% this is the best thing you can do in this situation!<
4. Your manager asks you to get something out of the storage room on floor 10, what do you do?
A. | Follow their request
>!Wrong, -10% we don’t have a storage room on floor 10 and you don’t have a manager!<
B. | Report it to HR >!Partially correct, +7% you can but they won’t believe you.!<
C. | Report it to your supervisor
>!Correct, +12% your supervisor will get rid of this false “manager” as soon as possible.!<
5. Bob just told you to follow him to the shelter, what do you do?
A. | Follow him
>!Correct, +10% Bob is a nice dude who wants to protect you.!<
B. | Refuse to follow him
>!Wrong, -12% Bob won’t be happy but he will understand and go away, you will later be killed by a half dog half human creature because you didn’t listen to Bob.!<
C. | Pretend to follow bob but leave the building
>!Partially correct, +1% Bob won’t be happy whatsoever that you lied to him, you will later disappear in your home for betraying Bob.!< | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16wnp5i/a_quiz_for_your_new_job/ | Ruleshorror | Ok_Tap2070 |
false | how to play hide and seek with spirits. (chapter 1 of P.G.I) | Welcome back, this file is focused on the hide-and-seek invocation.
As a reminder, the object you must use is something that looks like an eye.
Once summoned, the spirit will communicate its needs using the rice grains to write.
1-If the spirit writes in a language you do not understand, say the following phrase: ‘i apologize, but i do not understand, could you please write it in english’, or in whatever language you wish to use. do not switch languages more than once.
2-Give the spirit whatever they ask for, it will most likely ask for: a vessel, (we recommend stuffed anthropomorphic animals), and some kind of thing to see who is IT, such as a small stick or some kind of sticker or a small cosmetic item.
3a-while you play as IT, you must count up to 60. don’t skip numbers, otherwise, they will be mad.
3b-while searching, avoid teasing them, don’t say things like ‘i wonder if someone’s in there!’, they don’t like it. keep quiet until you know where they are.
3c-once you’ve found them, give them the item that proves that you were IT, and say ‘found you, now it’s your turn’. you may say something else, but make it clear you’ve found them, and it’s their turn to search.
3d-if you find yourself unable to find them, shout ‘you’ve won, you were hidden too well.’, they will come out of their hiding spot and will take the item, but also a coin of whatever currency your country uses. the value they take is random. (ex: in Europe, they may take anything between 1 cent and 2 euros.)
4a-if you are the hider, you have 60 seconds to hide. do not hide in obvious places such as under the sheets or in a closet, they’d take it as you not taking them seriously.
4b-while hiding, the only noise you can make is the sound of you breathing, they’ll hear anything that isn’t the sound of breathing.
4c-don’t switch hiding spots, if you do, they’ll think you’re a dirty cheater. you don’t want that.
4d-keep a watch on you, if after 7 minutes, they’ve not found you, you’ve won, you can come out of hiding, once you find them, say ‘you were too slow to find me, i won.’ extend your hand towards them, they’ll give you the item that means you’re IT, and they’ll give you a coin of your current currency.
4e-if they find you before seven minutes, they’ll simply give you the IT item and wait for you to start counting again.
5-you may keep playing for as long as you want, but when you’re done, go back to where you summoned your playmate, and tell them ‘it was fun, thank you for coming and playing with me.’, then blow out the candles. the spirit will not overstay its welcome, and leave the vessel. please note that this vessel will be used for the following games you will start, if you do not wish for that, destroy it, preferably by fire.
…the following rules only apply if you’ve accidentally summoned something BAD.
6-you’ll know you’ve messed up when the candles blow out on their own. every curtain will be closed and any other light sources will be removed, leaving the room pitch black. you have 300 seconds to HIDE before it takes shape.
7-once it takes shape, it will stay for exactly 300 seconds, if you aren’t found during this time, it will leave. but this will be hard, it knows not to waste time.
here is how it will spend it’s time
First, it will close any and all blinds, to make sure no one is peeking. (if the room is locked, it’ll close them only once it enters)
then, it will look for something sharp or pointy, such as scissors, knives, or even a needle.
finally, it’ll start looking for you. if it finds you… I hope you don’t mind having your eyes pierced.
Here's a few tips to slow it down.
8a- open every blind, every blind takes very little time to close,
8b- block every item it could use as a weapon, it is fast but not very strong, forcing it to break a lock will waste quite a bit of time. (it is not useful to lock other doors as it will be able to destroy them in much less time with it’s new-found tool)
8c-make noise decoys, it will check places where it heard noises.
9-as a last resort, if it found you, you can try to run away, though, it won’t hesitate to injure you to make you stop running, kind of a double or nothing situation.
here you go. you should know everything about it.
>!Paranormal Games Industry. (P.G.I)!< | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16w81q9/how_to_play_hide_and_seek_with_spirits_chapter_1/ | Ruleshorror | taod_game |
false | The Haunting of Whispering Wood |
Alright, settle in, because we're diving into the hair-raising saga of the Whispering Woods. Picture this: a quaint hamlet, surrounded by these towering, ancient trees, like nature's own sentinels. Now, these woods, they got a reputation. People say their whispers can make even the bravest of souls do a double-take.
Rule 1: After sunset, stick to the path. Trust me, you don't want to go all "off-roading" in these woods after dark. Things get lively, and I mean that in the spookiest way possible.
Rule 2: Avoid eye contact with those spectral figures. They've got this gaze that's like a sticky trap. Lock eyes, and you might as well write your own ghost story.
Rule 3: Pretend you're the world's best ear-muff model when you hear those distant cries. They're like sirens, calling you deeper into the heart of the creepy.
Rule 4: Don't even think about leaving that lantern behind. It's like your own little forcefield against the nasties that lurk.
Rule 5: When you leave, seal those lips. Speaking of what you've seen? It's like rolling out the red carpet for horrors to stroll right back into our world.
Rule 6: Once you cross that threshold, don't even think about turning back. The path starts playing tricks on you, leading you to spots where no human hand has dared to reach.
Remember, these rules aren't just quaint stories told to keep you up at night. They're a pact, an unspoken agreement between the living and these... well, let's call them lively, Whispering Woods. Disobey and, well, let's just say the woods have a way of making sure you won't be bragging about it.
And then there's the Man-Man, a character who's equal parts eerie and oddly amusing. He's ventured where few dare to tread and lived to tell the tale. His stories, like the woods themselves, are a mystery to be unraveled... if you've got the guts for it. | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16w28hu/the_haunting_of_whispering_wood/ | Ruleshorror | TehAwkwardOne |
false | Gun safety is needed, the lack of it is horror | Gun safety is vital and the lack of it is violent enough to be horror, so why not adapt them to this sub?
1. Keep your weapon pointed in a safe direction. They might randomly fire, make sure they don't kill your family or yourself
2. Practice trigger discipline, keep the finger off the trigger until you're ready to shoot. Many guns have a sensitive trigger and you might have a reflex to pull any trigger your finger touches
3. Keep the gun unloaded until you're ready to fire. If you're not actively restraining the gun, it could go off in any direction
4. Treat all guns as if they're loaded. They can appear light to trick you, don't let that happen
5. Learn your gun, how to operate it, and how to avoid being its victim. Many veterans can tell vivid stories of their thumbs being eaten by their rifles
6. Know what you shoot at, what's nearby, and what's behind it. The bullets are very bloodthirsty, potentially bending or ricocheting into your loved ones | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16vnh41/gun_safety_is_needed_the_lack_of_it_is_horror/ | Ruleshorror | Jlegobot |
false | Rules to survive planet [[REDACTED]] |
This is a list of rules and protocols from the corporation one must follow to be safe at location [[REDACTED]] on planet [[REDACTED]] and have a fun and enchanting experience.
1.Do not remove your helmet,the atmosphere of [[REDACTED]] is poisonous for humans and eukaryote earth life due to it having high concentration of methane and xenon,the corporation is not responsible for what happens to you.
2. The wildlife of [[REDACTED]] is extremely dangerous,do not disturb it we will talk about a particular species in the Rule 5,keep walking on the main path.
3. FOR ABSOLUTELY NO CIRCUMSTANCES go to the west part of the river [[REDACTED]] the chances of survival there are negative percentage.
4.if it goes night,fastly return to your campground and make sure no one is outside of the safe zone (the campgrounds).
5.At night,creatures known as “Forest seekers” will come out of their burrows to search for prey,they’re easy to notice by their 6 eyes and ghost-like screams,if you see one,make all efforts to not be noticed,if you are noticed by the creature,run as fast as you can in zig zag and call number [[REDACTED]],the chances of survival are still less than 10 percent.
6.If you see a strange smile coming out of a xenotree hide,if they attack you protect your vital organs and curl up.
These are all the protocols to stay safe on the location,if you have any questions,ask the general [[REDACTED]] at colony 12. | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16vi6z8/rules_to_survive_planet_redacted/ | Ruleshorror | Rapha689Pro |
false | Rules for living alone | Are you the new person living in 1602? We're your neighbors. It's great that you've chosen to move to our neck of the woods, but it looks like you're living alone. There's no need to worry. We just want to be neighborly and make sure that you're safe while you live here!
First up, rule one, don't be outside after dark without at least two buddies. A good rule of thumb is that, if you don't have any companions to walk with, you shouldn't leave your house after around 6 PM unless you're absolutely sure you can make it back before the sun sets.
Second, rule two. This is a fun one! Make sure to stock up on books so that you can be entertained after we cut the power. Most of us just talk to our living mates until it's time for bed, but you'll need to have something else to keep you occupied.
Oh, and you do remember that we're going to be cutting the power for the whole town every day from 7 PM to 8 AM, right? Make sure that you remember to move all your perishable food into your ice box. Honestly, we just keep it in there all the time! I can't remember the last time we used our fridge.
Anyway, I guess you could call that one rule three. So, rule four, and this is important, especially if you're living alone. Make sure that your doors and windows are closed, locked, and barricaded before the power cut each day. I'd recommend that you set yourself an alarm so that you don't forget.
That reminds me, you're familiar with our analog policy, right? Internet usage is only allowed in the media center at the library. We like to limit the risk to our health. Your house should have a landline, a radio, and a CRT with a VCR and a DVD player built-in. Those are courtesy of the HOA!
I can tell you're getting bored, but we're almost done, I promise! I just want to make sure that you're sufficiently armed. You never know what kind of nasty surprises you might wake up to. We recommend at least a rifle and a spear, but a shotgun would be ideal!
Anyway, it's starting to get late, so we should head back to our houses. See you tomorrow, new neighbor!
Oh, and one last thing! 1602 is really close to the well in the forest, so be on the lookout for Witchdogs. They're a real problem these days, but not quite as bad as the Gnawing Husks.
Well, holler if you need anything, and welcome to the neighborhood! | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16uxt8c/rules_for_living_alone/ | Ruleshorror | Thorn11945 |
false | Rules for surviving | 1: if there are any people nearby, you are unsafe. Run until there is nobody in sight.
2: if you are outside, you are unsafe. Seek shelter immediately.
3: put your back against a solid wall. Drywall is not strong enough. Cinderblocks or bricks are necessary to keep you safe. If there are no walls strong enough, lay face-up on the floor, staring up at the ceiling.
4: if you can see the creatures, do not make eye contact, but do not avert your gaze. Keep your guard up no matter what you see or hear. If it roams about freely, it isn't one of us anymore. You can relax once they move out of your line of sight.
5: make a solid mental image of the creatures. What do they look like? Are they the writhing, tentacled abominations you expected, or is their form something less alien to you? Something reminiscent of those old memories that you tried so hard to forget?
6: do not, under any circumstances, close your eyes for more than a quarter of a second when in the creatures' presence. This is taken as a sign of weakness. A sign that you have given up.
7: if you feel yourself slipping away, state aloud both your name and the axiom, "I exist in this world." It should drag you back from the edge, if only temporarily.
8: think seriously about your intentions for the future. Is this broken mess really a world worth fighting for? How can you justify such a struggle for survival when things will never go back to the way they were? What about children? Is it fair to bring them into such a nightmare? | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16upi8p/rules_for_surviving/ | Ruleshorror | Thorn11945 |
false | base rules for playing alone... kind of. | so… I've heard you’re feeling lonely, and want to play games, but you’re all alone?
I mean, there IS a way… and it’s safe enough if you follow these rules.
Our source has only told us about three: hide and seek, tag, and a french game called ‘Marco Polo’.
to summon the playful spirit, you MUST follow these rules. if you don’t follow the rules, you might not summon anything, or worse; summon something dangerous.
1-get the item of your choice, it must represent the game. ex: something that looks like an eye for hide and seek, something that looks like a cat for tag, a blindfold for Marco Polo. put it on a table.
2-to increase the chances, put uncooked rice around the object: spirits tend to like that.
3-light candles, please, use white, or a color that’s considered ‘joyful’, a ‘sad’ color might bring an unwilling spirit, and a ‘angering’ color… let’s just not.
4-turn off electric light, we’re not sure why, but they don’t really like artificial light. you may keep the blinds open if you’re scared of the dark.
5-don’t have anyone in the house be unwilling to do it, the spirit will consider every human in the house as fully willing to play. they might get offended towards anyone who does not wanna play.
6-some spirits are very self aware of their appearance, you cannot see them directly, but mirrors will show it. they won’t like it if they realize you’ve seen their appearance.
7-don’t hold anything that could look like a weapon, they might take it poorly.
8-don’t use pentagrams, ouija boards, or anything along these lines, it increases the chance of you successfully summoning something, but your chances of summoning something nice will drop to 0.
9-don’t eat anything, you may only drink water: some spirits are a bit ‘salty’ from no longer being able to eat food.
10-don’t stay in pitch black places, even if you’ve summoned something nice, they might have left cracks on the way there allowing things to leak out, but only in total darkness.
…rules for the specific games will be given as soon as we can.
Also, if you end up cornered, don’t end yourself, trust me, it might be painful, but you’ll most likely live through it.
>!Paranormal Games Industry. P.G.I!<
| https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16umipw/base_rules_for_playing_alone_kind_of/ | Ruleshorror | taod_game |
false | Rules for the School of Reform | Welcome to our prestigious school! We know you did not come here by choice - if you had one, the whole block would be empty, ha. Rules not marked in bold aren’t important for your life, but we recommend following them anyway.
0. **The teachers and the staff have volunteered, you should respect them greatly**. The school has no policies to stop them from harming you.
1. **Bring the following materials every day to school.** If your bag gets heavy, we recommend visiting the school gym.
\- A pocket knife
\- Any special item requests made by teachers
\- Room freshener
All other items were emailed to your parents. We included these items here because of their suspicious nature.
2. **Do not go into the green. The nature here is false - an illusion**. If someone asks you to look at or go into any natural area, make an excuse and report them to your grade leader at an inconspicuous time such as lunch.
2a. If you go into such an area, do not attempt to return to the school. The lurkers are not very smart, though if their meal leads them straight to the restaurant, the amount of havoc caused will be indescribably painful.
2b. If there is a grave circumstance, do anything that you always wanted to do in school, for there will be no consequences. It is your last chance to do so. Your death will most likely not be swift.
3. **If anyone outside of school asks you about it, conceal its true nature.** The principal will locate you, and everyone you ever knew, know now, and will know.
4. **Do not rack up negative behaviour notes. Each will cause you to lose a behaviour point.** Positive behaviour notes will grant you 1 point. At -1 point, you will lose some of your lunchtime. At -2 points, you will be suspended. You do not want to see what happens when you reach -3 points. Rewards will be given when you reach +3 points and above, so it’s not all bad.
5. **Be as punctual as possible**. Again, the staff have kindly volunteered at this institution. Disrespect will not be tolerated. Refer to rule 0.
6. **Leave the refuge areas 2 minutes before break ends**, unless you wish to lose 2 limbs. You can assure yourself that the process will be cumbersome.
7. **Do not enter the library’s second floor**. This rule can be ignored as long as you bring a library assistant or librarian with you. The spirits express a strong distaste for adults.
8. **Don’t bring any metal onto the 7th floor**. This rule has no exceptions. If you do, you will know what you have done - they toy with your mind. You have 15 seconds to go to floor 6. Stay any longer, and you will see their true form.
9. **There is no art room on the 8th floor**. If your schedule directs you to enter this room, request a schedule change anytime before the class is supposed to start. Excuse yourself out of class if you must, your teachers know the protocol.
10. **If your substitute teacher is wearing half moon glasses, leave**. Say nothing, no matter what they may promise. They cannot give you behaviour notes. Anyone still inside after 10 seconds of them entering will be processed for consumption.
11. **If a classmate tells you that you have a class with Mr Mekwell**, Use your pocket knife(referred to in rule 1) and slit their throat. Do not feel any guilt. It was you or them. There will be no consequences for you, nor is the real person truly dead.
12. **If the lights go out, stay perfectly still**. They only try to devour heat sources which are moving. Do not attempt to save friends who are moving. Would you rather have your friend die, or *both* you and your friend?
13. **If you see two small girls who aren’t wearing uniforms near the second floor staircase,** Go down to floor 1 and take a different staircase immediately, even if you are not allowed to use that floor. Even a negative behaviour note is better than what will happen to you. If you are at -2 points already, prepare to lose all of your body parts, one by one, meticulously. There is no hope for you at this point.
14. **The indoor court should always have people in it. If it does not, report to the nearest teacher as well as the assistant principal.** There should be a broadcast advising everyone to take leave for the day. If there is not, they have already breached the school walls. Refer to rule 2b.
15. No playing games during class. I hope this is self explanatory.
16. **If the room you are in smells strange, you should spray a healthy helping of room freshener all over the room.** Exit promptly before reporting the problem to the vice principal. A barrier should be placed preventing people from entering.
17. Do not attempt to bypass the school wifi restrictions. Refer to rule 0.
18. **Try to leave school 30 minutes after your last class/activity at the latest**. The protective barrier grows weaker the less people there are in it. For the same reason, try to limit the amount of after-school activities that you do as much as possible. The more days you stay, the higher the risk of all the dangers getting to you is.
19. Discrimination will not be taken lightly. We are proud to be the most diverse school in the country. Not even one student should muck that up.
20. Utilise your breaks well. Take some time out to go to the bathroom, fill your water bottle, etc. You may anger your teacher. Refer to rule 0.
look not into the void which is the world. don't look outside don't don't don't don't don't
That’s it for the rules. You start on Monday, do us(and your parents) proud!
| https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16uilj6/rules_for_the_school_of_reform/ | Ruleshorror | ThatMan92 |
false | Rules for the Rideham Creek Booster Transmitter | So, you've taken a job here at the Rideham Creek Booster Transmitter, I assure you, you won't regret it! So here are the basics, as you already know, this is a radio transmitter that boosts up weak signals coming from elsewhere, so that they may go beyond Rideham Creek. However, we do have a few rules for you to follow!
1. As you know, you have a job in security booth No. 4 (also known by employees as the East Booth), there are a few dangers here that you might need to look out for.
2. Throughout the night, you will be monitoring the outside of the booth, as well as the Transmitter's signal quality.
3. If at any point during the night, the receiver in your booth that monitors the signal quality of the transmission starts playing what sounds like a sign-off for a station named 'RCB-198', turn off the receiver and hide; We don't boost a station named RCB-198 anymore, it is The Reporter's Spirit trying to trick you.
4. If at around 11:30 PM (your shift is from 9:00 PM to 5:00 AM) you start hearing scraping at the window, do not look at the window.
5. At around 1:00 AM, tune your receiver to 76MhZ, one of three things will happen:
5(a). The station on that frequency will continue playing its usual content, you are safe.
5(b). The station cuts out, in this case, exit your booth and inspect the main radio mast (the tallest
one of the three), there will be a circuit breaker at the base of it that you will need to reset.
Ignore The Reporter's Spirit, he will be crouching at the base of one of the other two
antennas, if you must look at him, avoid focusing on his broken face.
5(c). If the station cuts out AND the lights go out, then run from your booth and drive home as
fast as you can, failure to do so will result in him leaping at you from the darkness.
After you have driven home, lock ALL your doors and windows, go to your bedroom and
(preferably) stay awake, if he gets in then just give up at that point.
6. If at around 3:00 AM you hear what sounds like an 80's style landline phone ringing, don't pick it up, you do not have a landline.
7. During your shift, you might see The Reporter's Spirit outside your window, ignore him, at this point he is harmless. But do take the courtesy of not insulting/taunting him, he has suffered enough.
8. Outside your window, you might also see a guy standing there with a knife, he is a local serial killer and is very dangerous, however, as the guard it is your job to apprehend/ scare off him or any other trespassers.
9. If anything prompts you to leave your post and go into the woods, beware of the Goatman though, he is said to lurk among the trees at night, and he will massacre you with an axe if he catches you.
10. When your shift ends at 5:00, leave the booth, lock the door, and leave the key under the doormat for the daytime guard to find. However, The Reporter's Spirit and/or The Goatman might still be lurking between the booth and your car so look out for them. As you are driving out into the woods on your way home, you might hear something running after your car, do not let it catch up to you.
11. Please do remember that breaking any of these rules might result in injury/death, so follow them closely.
Enjoy your shift at the Rideham Creek Booster transmitter, best of luck! | https://www.reddit.com/r/Ruleshorror/comments/16u7nes/rules_for_the_rideham_creek_booster_transmitter/ | Ruleshorror | NoConsideration482 |
false | The clown on the walk | I live in a town that is fairly safe aside from college students. I always feel comfortable walking places alone until one walk. It was during the clown craze which I thought was fake until they said they were going to a school in my town. They were in my town but not at the school. I was walking to our lane library to play games because I have no game consoles or computers at home. There was a small open spot of land right next to the library and I was there. I look across the street the same time a person looked at me. But they were dressed as a clown. My worst nightmare. It held a machete and turned its head and started laughing. I was horrified. It started running across the street. All I could do was try to run. I was a short 11 year old 4'10. The clown seemed to be around 6'3 and fast. While it ran it laughed. After a little I was so scared I couldnt scream. I just ran. Ran to the library and hoped it would leave. When I got inside I looked out the big window. It was standing head sideways waving his machete. If it werent for me having played soccer I probably wouldnt have survived to turn 14 and finally grow. I never told anyone. | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/btyids/the_clown_on_the_walk/ | freehorrorstories | tanklessmango23 |
false | An Interaction With A Pedophile. | My name is Morgan and at the time of this story I’m fourteen. I’m a girl who enjoys the nerdier side of life.
This was my first experience playing dungeons and dragons with a few of my friends at a place called the Sci-Fi factory. This is a public place and to be honest the place is worse for wear.
There’s holes in the plastic tables, gunk on the floor, shitty outlets, and even shittier people.
The people here range from decent to flat out creepy. This is something I learned the hard way.
As I was setting up by elf rogue character a man came over to my group. Let’s call him Robbie. He told us he was twenty four and talked to my friends. They seemed to know each other so I was more than okay with letting him join us. He was white, Brown hair, busted glasses that made his eyes look bigger than they are, and nothing out of the ordinary clothes.
He introduced himself and his age and then asked the same of me.
I told him I was Morgan and I was fourteen.
Robbie quickly showed his weirder side. Even if it wasn’t the conversation piece he’d complain about how much of a dumb bitch his girlfriend was and tell her he came here just to avoid her. He didn’t break up with the bitch because she was her only source of income and shelter. He hated her. That was clear.
He also bragged about the knife he stole from Walmart and even showed it to us. Hell, he let me hold it and taught me how to flip it in and out without hurting myself.
Remember those glasses? Well, they were busted and broken up from a bar fight. That really unnerved me about this guy. He seemed so kind and friendly, but he was casually talking about assaulting people.
Then he did what I never expected him to do. He got my attention and made me lean towards him so I can see his android phone still plugged into the wall to charge. He had a notes app open and it read,
“Hey, I know this sounds creepy, but”
Oh god. This can’t end well.
“I think we should totally date.”
There was a whole paragraph more written, but I didn’t need to see what he thought of me. He expected some sort of response so I gave him one,
“Oh no- I’m not really interested in a relationship.”
“Oh that’s cool! That’s cool! Still friends?”
“Yeah!”
What was I supposed to say? No to the guy that’s been in a bar fight and has a knife on him. Neither of my two friends heard our conversation so I was stuck next to Robbie for the next hour until our session was over.
During that time, I offered Robbie some gummy worms. They weren’t my favorite thing in the world, but the dollar tree near by has good prices. He laughed and said to me,
“Food is the way to a man’s heart. Are you trying to seduce me right now?”
“No.”
You can say it’s a joke and doesn’t have any deeper meaning than that, but coming from the man ten years older than me who had just asked me out I wasn’t really laughing at it.
When I left the store after the session had ended I told my friends what had happen. They believed me and told me he was kind of a weird guy. I have been back at that store and ran into him once again. He was with a group of friends and a girl I recognized. He kept on asking me to come over and I insisted no. My friends who i was with already knew the story and I was admittedly nervous.
Even as we were leaving he tried to get me to come over, but after that I never saw him again.
I later learned that it’s because he was arrested for assault and vandalizing school property.
Funny thing is he doesn’t go to any school. | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/btuhme/an_interaction_with_a_pedophile/ | freehorrorstories | CallMeBundie |
false | [TRUE]The man in the truck | Ok so this happened just a few days ago when i was on a roadtrip with my cousin. I'll be referring to him again as james like i have in past stories.
For a quick reference, im 13 and female. James is 21.
James and i were on a roadtrip from my grandmothers to my aunts house. (I have a great relationship with my cousin so my parents let me go on trips with him occasionally.) Its about a 10 hour drive and we we're about 3 hours into the drive. It was about 9:00pm at the time. I was pretty sleep deprived and everything was hilarious at that moment so when i saw this red semi truck outside my window i just laughed my ass off. The man in the truck was heavyset (Thats an understatement) and had a long untamed beard. He had a creepy vibe, but i waved to them. He in turn did a groping motion to me. Finding it more hilarious than creepy, i started laughing harder and told james the story, doing the whole groping motion and all. He looked creeped out and disgusted, but there wasnt anything either of us could do.
A while later, about 4 and a half hours into our drive, james pulled into a rest stop. I walked into the bathroom and when i came out the man was just standing there. He looked to be 6'0 at least. I looked out the glass door leading into the building and saw james, glaring daggers at the door. I was confused and walked back to the car. What he told me really creeped me out, so much so i started crying. Then again, i had been awake for around 20 hours. The man had stared and followed me inside to the building mumbling shit about me. (James said he was basically talking normally) He attempted to comfort me, but quickly said he had to go to the bathroom and went inside. A few seconds later when i was in the car, the guy was at my window. He stared at me, a wide creepy grin. He started saying i should go with him and he was gunna treat me good. He offered me candy and just tried to coax me into his truck. I was busy bawling my eyes out. Then, right on cue, james walks out and yells at the guy and threatening him. The guy backed off and got into his truck. He still just stared at me, the grin still on his face. We floored it out of there. We wanted to get far from that guy.
It was around 12am when we pulled to a motel to sleep. The rest of the night till 8am was fine. Nothing really happened. Sadly, that didn't last long. When we were at a restaurant, eating breakfast the same fat shit sat across from us. He grinned at me and james just looked pissed off. The guy walked by the table when going to the bathroom and brushed his hand on my shoulder, doing the same on the way back. A quick note, James is a chill dude and will let most anything slide, but because hes known me since i was just a baby, hes protective over me. Hes not like that to even my siblings, he and i are close. He was obviously pissed before, but at that point he stood up from his seat and walked over the the guys table. He started yelling shit about he better stop following us and back off of me. He made no threats, but did curse a lot. I felt pretty nervous and just wanted to go. The guy stood up and smacked james and yelled how i was leading him on (The guy was about 6'0 and james was 6'8). Their arguement continued until the cops came and separated it. They got the story and came to the conclusion that because he was assaulted, we could press charges. He said no and we just continued the day.
The rest of the trip was pretty bland. The guy wasnt seen for the rest of it. However, james did follow me like a bodyguard whenever we went anywhere. Even though he was protecting me, i was terrified. He looks scary as shit, but hes a cinnamon roll.
Also, on the trip, i tried to ask him about what happened when i was 7 (it was another story i posted before) and he just played dumb. Bitch boy wouldn't tell me shit. Anyway Hope you all enjoy reading this shit show. Anyone who wants to narrate it can, just send me a link when you do. Bu-bye | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/bnukwa/truethe_man_in_the_truck/ | freehorrorstories | lily-draws |
false | Please lock your doors | I posted this on awhile ago, but it got lost. However since it's been a year after the incident I figured this would be a good place to share it as it about someone I never ever want to come across again. It all started and ended the day after I took my last final at this community college. I don't know if he was a stalker or if it was a break-in gone weird. So from the beginning, I was so nervous that I was going to fail this one class and was not going to be able to receive my AA degree. Later in the day I was out at the pool at my apartment complex with some friends and my roommates when I checked my phone and saw I passed my class. I got so excited I told everyone we were celebrating because I was the last one to have a final. It was 3 days before I got to walk and graduate with this degree that I decided we should have some fun before we all went our separate ways. As it got later into the night we decided not to go out and to stay in. We invited a couple more people over and went on with the night. Around 2 in the morning people started to leave and head top bed the only people left were my 2 roommates both of the people they were dating and one other friend. We were still messing around and because our apartment was on the first floor and next to the pool we went to go night swimming. As soon as we were done with that I was ready to just hangout and be in for good for the night. My roommates and the other friend all left to go somewhere else for a little while which was fine nothing out of the ordinary for me to be at home alone. I got some food and went to my room to hangout until they got back. The way my room is set up in our apartment its all the way in the back farthest away from the front door and the patio door my room is behind the kitchen and you'd have to go through the whole apartment to get there. Because our apartment was in the front of the complex and near the pool it was near the front gate at the time the gate was left open because it was broken. I have never had an issue with living this close upfront until this night. My room has one big window and you can easily see in my room when I don't have the blinds or curtains shut. I had a closet with mirror doors which if you look in through the window you can see every part of my room in it. So while I was waiting for my friends to get back I fell asleep the last time I looked at a clock it was 3:30 in the morning also key part in this my bedroom light was on when I went to sleep. The next time I woke up it was around 5:30am there were slow flashes going off it was like I had a strobe light going off in the corner of my room I woke up really confused and thought it was my friends coming back to mess with me. Once my eyes got more adjusted because the room was now dark I realized that it in fact was not my friends messing with me, but a single man who was at least 6'1 wearing a green nike hoodie with the hood on in the corner of my room by my closet holding a phone up taking pictures of me mind you I had tiny Sophie shorts on with on of my legs hanging out of my covers. I don't think he realized I'd woken up and when reality sunk in I said "what the fuck" and instead of coming at me or running out of my room the man put the phone down and walked out of my room not saying anything not in a panic just walked out. Me being the dumbass I am ran after him saying "HEY!" I tried to follow him out, but once I got to the front door I didn't see him anywhere ran back inside woke up all my roommates asking if they were messing with me when they said no I called the police. I looked around my room and saw the only thing missing was my laptop that was on my desk in the far corner of my room. The weirdest part about that was the fact that my laptop was in the farthest part of my room with my door closed and outside in the kitchen on the counter was 3 other MacBook laptops, 2 wallets, and at least a $300 speaker, but the only thing missing from the whole apartment was my laptop. Later on I found out that the front door and the patio door were never locked when everyone got back and that the police couldn't find the guy or my computer what made things worse was that the sim disk from my camera was in the computer so all my personal photos from that camera were now accessible to this guy. Some things I saw a couple days later while I was getting ready to move out freaked me out even more. Like I said earlier if you looked in my window you could see my closet mirrors and see just about my whole room one thing that was super noticeable was my tapestry, it was a very distinct and different kind of tapestry it has two wolves howling up to a moon and is all black and white. One day when I was packing my car I happened to look up it was starting to get dark and as I looked up I noticed in the apartment above mine through the blinds on the wall was the exact same tapestry as the one that was in my room what creeped me out even more was the fact the I had little purple lights I put on it from my mom because she knows my favorite color is purple, in that room above the lights in the fan were switched out for purple ones. As if I wasn't creeped out enough an all black cat came up to the window and my stomach started to feel weird because the year before I was still living in my room I got a baby kitten that was all black. In the end the guy was never found and I never saw his face which freaks me out to this day and I hope I never come across him again. I never got my laptop back and never found my sim disk to my camera. My best advice to anyone in a college town is no matter what always lock the doors. Because you never know what you could wake up to. | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/bn7jwx/please_lock_your_doors/ | freehorrorstories | Groundbreaking_Local |
false | I think the water plant is haunted... | null | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/bm3q5p/i_think_the_water_plant_is_haunted/ | freehorrorstories | Bigcountryred1993 |
false | Burglary Horror Story | I live in a fairly secure area and have two dogs one is a large Doberman and the other is a poodle. I was home alone as my parents were out for the weekend our dogs bark a lot as they are very protective and the neighbors hated when the dogs barked and would often get notes telling us to make keep the dogs quiet one of the more threatening ones was that he would hurt the dog if he wouldn't be quiet. so, my parents, had them taken to a dog kennel to avoid any complications. I was home alone playing video games and watching movies for the weekend It was the night after they had left and I was playing a video game and I think it was Rainbow Six Siege I was playing with a few friends and I had my microphone on I was playing with my window open and my friends kept telling me to stop making a squeaky sound I questioned what he meant and my friends said that it was a loud banging I removed my headphones and that was when I heard it the sound of something slamming into the gate I peered out it was a tall stocky man with a black hood on looking down slamming his body into the fence as the fence was weak the wood was splitting I decided to call the police than my parents but decided to stay near the window. still watching the man. I was talking to the 911 operator, the operator told me to lock myself in a room, get out of sight and that a police officer was on the way but curiosity got the better of me and I decided to continue watching the man he finally broke the wooden gate off its hinges but he didn't enter and he strapped something around his shoulder and upon further inspection only from the moonlight saw a hunting rifle strapped to his back that's when I went and hid underneath bed and listened out for anything until a loud shatter broke the silence which was the back door smashing followed by footsteps entering the house the intruder sounded like he was searching for something he was creeping up the stairs until the sound of police sirens flooded my ears and I made the stupid decision of bolting trying to escape the house and I started to get to the stairs and turned the corner and was greeted by a large man following the description of the man trying to break in the man gripped his neck and the police sirens got louder and the police were knocking on his door he was quickly losing breath from the man strangling him the cloth covering his face slipped down to reveal my neighbor I was nearly out of breath he let me go and gripped his rifle and aimed it at me and pulled the trigger but it didn't fire the dumb ass left the safety on the police kicked the door down and tazed the man. The man was found and was charged with breaking and entering and carrying an unlicensed firearm. I'm thankful that the safety was on and this could have ended very badly. I later went to my Xbox and told my friends what happened and that I almost died and they were very concerned. | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/bkk3dh/burglary_horror_story/ | freehorrorstories | BigMurf05 |
false | [Fiction] That's Not Me | null | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/bfru14/fiction_thats_not_me/ | freehorrorstories | JoeDog93 |
false | Always Trust Your Gut | By Jayden
Me and My family Were planning to stay over at my aunt house in Pennsylvania for the weekend
Me and brother were going alone with my aunts brother me and brother are very close to him so I never felt a weird vibe.We Just got of nj and it started turning dark we were still on the road I have this strange feeling that someone was following us we were only 20 mins away from our aunts house so I didn’t really think of it, Until this car it looked like a Gray But small car one of those standards cars.I had the feeling it was following us for the past 20 mins driving to my aunts place that car was following us. Just to let u guys know I’m one of those people who will be very paranoid about everything.We just pulled up to house the car behind us started to slow down when we pulled over I saw it turn there right and it was like there was no sign of the car.It is 1.am rn my aunt has these 2 big windows showing outside and my aunt house is really big so it’s showing u down at the ground.Its currently 2:15am. I decided to look at the windows and then I froze I saw the same car and some guy really tall looking at the window. I got into a panicked and went back. I went back just make sure he wasn’t there and I was dreaming and he was gone.Im sleeping currently in the first floor while every is sleeping in the second.if u were asking where my brother is he is upstairs with my mom.but I woke up to basement door being open I could see a figure coming out and then running towards fast I Didn’t do anything he grab me then I screamed everyone came down and the man ran back down stairs as me being paranoid I followed him but fell and he drove away in that same stupid ass car. After this situation I have made a promise to always trust my gut | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/bfcpvq/always_trust_your_gut/ | freehorrorstories | Jayfirezyt |
false | Camping horror story | A little background story, im tessa, in 14. I live in Minnesota and I go to this one Campground up north in the kind of middle of nowhere, I've gone to that campground for 11 years, and still go there to this day. It's been open for only a year or two before I started going there. My mom is really popular there, we know everyone. They always are having a party or staying up till 1 o'clock drunk as fuck. This particular night haunts me forever. Me and my friend chloe were best friends. She was the shy brunette and I was the wild blonde. She always had this thing where she never liked sleepovers. This one night me and her planned on having a sleepover in a text outside her actual camper. Our parents did not stay out late that one night for some reason. We had a fire and did regular camping things. It was about 1 when we decided to go in this shower house with showers and bathrooms. It was one of the best campgrounds in north America. It's a fact, not my opinion actually. So we were in the shower house planning to just hang out because the shower house and the lodge is the only place that has wifi. My data does not work because it is in the middle of nowhere. So we plan on staying there till 3 am. We are at about 2am and we need chargers. We go to her camper and grab our chargers and on our way back were outside the door for some air before we go inside. Chloe is on her phone and around the corner behind her is an old guy or maybe a woman, looks to be 100 years old. And is walking a rat, looks like one at least, I scream and tell her what I see and the guy has a crazy smile on him, we run as fast as out long legs let us about 2 steps till we get inside, I start crying because I'm so scared and she is freaking out because she does not know what was just behind her back, the plug-in are Chargers and hesitate to call either of our parents we feel like they would get really mad at us and not even believe us and we were out till 3 a.m. we were not even supposed to be up past 1 on that night so now we're freaking the f*** out and ready to just bust out the door we've been in there for an hour at this point past the time we saw the creepy old man and we hesitate to open the door but end up opening the door I'm thinking that we're going to die and we ran out the door and as I turn around I see the creepy old man with something that looks like a knife in his hand right around the corner of where we almost got stabbed. To this day we almost always remember this night p.s our parents believed us and was mad at us for not calling them. Btw I'm a huge fan and hope I get featured!! | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/bbehgr/camping_horror_story/ | freehorrorstories | Tessa_engen756 |
false | TRUE: No One Believes | I remember when I was around the age of 4, my family and I lived in a small apartment, on the 4th floor, which was pretty high. The apartment was full of stupid people like drug addicts and other low life criminals. There were no other kids in the unit so I mainly spent my time playing with toys.
One night, after my mother turned off the lights for bedtime, the whole family went to sleep. I woke up in the middle of the night, around 2am. I was pretty thirsty so I was going to grab a cup of water from the kitchen. But as I was pulling off my blanket, I heard noises...noises coming from the otherside of the house.
Being a stupid toddler, I didn't think anything of it. So I got up, and walked out of my room. The moon was lighting up the room through the open sliding door to the veranda. But then I came to the terrifying realization that the sliding door....was supposed to be closed, I knew this because I was the one who closed it before bed.
But at that moment I heard those noises again. And they...were coming from the kitchen. I put 2 and 2 together and realized that someone was in the home. I tried tiptoeing to my parents room, but I looked behind me, and what I saw scared me. It was a man...a man in a costume. He looked at me and grabbed me. He was pulling my hair and putting his hand on my mouth. But I broke out of his grip and ran to my mothers room. I was too scared to say anything.
The next morning I told my mother everything but she told me it was all just a wild nightmare. I tried to tell my dad, but he said the same. Only I know what happened but no one believes me. I will never forget that sack he wore over his head. And the thing that still bothers me is how did he manage to get to the 4th floor? The door was locked and so were the windows. So did he climb the entire building? And if he did, why me?
My true story. | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/bb5hyc/true_no_one_believes/ | freehorrorstories | Anubis-Kami |
false | Something in the woods | I guess I'll start with a background: I'm a 33 yr old female but this story takes place when I was a teenager, living in a suburb of Chicago. The village I lived in was quiet and middle class. We lived like a mile from the police station and the worst crimes we had was a murder or 2 and robbery - once in a blue moon. 99% of the time? BORING and more boring. Unless you had a car, you were stuck just walking around the park at night with your friends, kind of boring. Anyway. One night, my girlfriend and I decided to go hangout at a park with some guys at like 12 am. The night was a bit windy and had a full moon. I even got a kiss that night from the boy I liked. But the night wasn't just fun and hanging out late. There's a deep forest in the park with a stream with a playground right next to it. The same playground we went to - with swings and jungle gym columns. There's 2 bridges: one of wood (the one everyone uses) and one bridge made of rocks (that's rarely used because it is deeper in the forest) over the stream, connecting the 2 halves of the forest/park area. I'll get to the rock bridge in a minute. We hung around on the swings and chatted and just spent the evening together. I'm sitting and just looking around, talking and enjoying the peace and quiet and the moonlight. I have a full view of the forest and the dip of earth that I know leads to the stream. I see something moving over that dip of earth. Some dark shape. It looked like it was crawling out of the forest. An arm, then another arm. It pulls itself out of the ditch/stream. A figure darker than the surrounding forest. And I'm sitting there, frozen. I think I'm seeing things. It just kind of lays there, on the ground, but doesn't move. A flash of fear grips me - what if it comes this way? I look to my friends and no one notices anything. I look back and it's gone. Did it go back or go somewhere?? I really want to get out of there. Then one friend asks, "Did you guys hear about the urban legend of the rock bridge over the stream? Apparently, some kids or something played on the bridge and fell over and died." What a thing to say after what I saw! But I didn't ask anyone anything and just pretended I didn't see anything. But the experience stuck with me. I never talked about it because it must have been my imagination. Things like that happen only in scary movies, right? But. I rarely went to that park after that. And Black Thing, if you are real, I hope we never meet again. Who knows what would have happened if you saw me the same time I saw you? | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/b97lq2/something_in_the_woods/ | freehorrorstories | LadyAndain |
false | A bad idea | My family and I are immigrants from the former Soviet Union and money was tight living in Chicago. My parents worked a lot and, over the summer and on weekends, I'd stay with my grandparents. They were very good people. My grandpa taught me chess and walked with me daily. He was my hero. My grandma rarely left their apartment unless it was to go to the grocery store - she stayed home and cooked/cleaned. On one such occasion of my staying over, I was a little girl at the time, maybe 9? 10? My grandpa decided he and I would walk to the Zoo. I loved the zoo! I am an opinionated and headstrong little girl, mind you, and what happened that day changed me for the rest of my life. He and I were walking and, although I don't recall the details as it was like 20 yrs ago, I do remember that I got mad at my grandpa. I got so mad at him that I ran off ahead and away from him. Stupid, right? My grandpa walked with a cane and he was a military man in the USSR so, even as an old man, he could take care of himself. Yet he was too slow for me. After I ran a bit, i stopped and I was on a sidewalk and the neighboring road was busy. The zoo not too far away. We made the trip dozens of time so I knew where we were going. I look at the street and a grey 90s Taurus (I loved cars even then so I started memorizing makes and models) pulls up the curb. The front passenger man sticks his hand out to me and says, "hey, little girl, you want some candy?" I look at him and notice there are 3 men in the car. I'm immediately wary as alarm bells are going off in my head that something is wrong. I shake my head, no, and the man looks to my left (behind me) and then the car speeds off. My grandpa was running after me and he was catching up, getting closer by the minute. I realize right then and there that I was almost stolen. I stood there frozen on the spot and my grandpa looked so relieved, standing next to me. I don't remember what he said but he said something and then we went to the zoo. Who knows what would have happened if my grandpa wasn't there? I might not even be here, typing this, and just be dead. So. 3 men in a Grey Taurus? Let's never meet. | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/b97rpk/a_bad_idea/ | freehorrorstories | LadyAndain |
false | [Fiction] Out of the dark | My first experience with the supernatural was one of the most terrible life experiences I can remember. It happened when I was young and dumb and wanted to go out into the world and explore. While I was out of my home country of Canada I witnessed a horror I soon hope to forget. I had gone on a trip with some of my buddies to Montana just below my home province of Alberta. We were originally going to stay in Yellowstone national park but decided to head to Glacier National park first before camping out at Yellowstone for a few days. We finally reached Glacier park after a 6 hour drive and had just enough time to do a little hiking before going to our hotel in the nearby town to rest and move on towards Yellowstone. we had gotten to the park around 4:30 PM and decided it was a "great" idea to hike after dark so we hiked up the trail looking at the glorious views of rivers and waterfalls of the avalanche creek trail. The light began to fade rather quickly while we were about a two thirds of the way up and we had hiked into the trail about 10 km so it would take us about 2 hours to walk back down from that point.
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This is when shit goes downhill, myself and my friends were all outdoors men and loved to go hiking and travel around the rocky mountains but we were still inexperienced when it came to night hiking. Since the trail we were on wasn't as traveled at this part of the hike the trail was hard to follow in the dark, although every now and then we would see a sign that notified us that we were going in the right direction. At some point maybe a third of the way down the mountain we ended up going off the trail following a little rabbit trail thinking we were still on the correct path. We began to figure out that we were definitely not going the right way as my friend checked his compass showing we were heading deeper into the rocky mountain's miles and miles of forest. Then begins the mass panic my friends and I immediately turned around and began walking the way we came but the trail we were following didn't look the same as it had before leading us to being even more lost than before.
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That is when we collectively noticed how quiet it had gotten, no insects, no birds nothing it was dead silence. I knew this was a bad sign as I'm a hunter and when it gets quiet like this it means that there is a large predator around and that it is hunting. We had literally become prey to some unknown beast in the woods. We all began getting a sudden spike of anxiety when I let the guys know what was up. That's when we hear it a noise that brought terror, a guttural howl from up the mountain it was then followed by many more. My heart went into my throat and the terror i felt made me shake most of my friends did the same all but two the others had already dipped and had began running in the direction opposite the howls. We all followed soon after running ourselves ragged until we looked behind and saw the eye shine of something that was much larger than we had anticipated. the eyes were at least 6 feet off the ground and moving towards us fast that is when we split up running in random directions hoping to lose these beasts. It was never going to happen I could hear the breathe of one of these things about 20 feet behind me and gaining. All of a sudden my friend appears from the trees to my right and we end up running together until I cut off from him hoping to escape, I know I left him to die that night but it was a last ditch effort that worked out to my advantage. I heard his screams from my left and ran as fast as I could away from them with tears rolling down my face as I hear his screams for help and him shrieking in pain then nothing as if he never existed.
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I continue running down the mountain until I see a familiar sight ahead of me, it was one of the trail signs showing how far you were on the trail. I stopped, checked where I was and started running again hoping to get away from the creatures on the mountain. Another kilometer down the trail I began hearing howls getting closer and closer by the moment causing me to run even harder. Looking ahead I see the sign saying Parking Lot and zoom past it in my panic looking for the keys in my pocket and scrambling towards the only vehicle still left in the parking lot which was my car. I use my fob to unlock my car from a distance and run as hard as I can towards it slamming into the side of my door and opening it hopping in and starting the car. I look out of my window towards the trail entrance and see two pairs of eyes staring at me from just out of the range of the lamp posts. they stare at me before disappearing back into the brush as I drive away never looking back. I arrived at the ranger station by the park entrance and ran inside looking disheveled and terrified. I began telling the ranger at the desk what had just happened, he then looked at me with a sad face as if he knew something like this would happen and called up the search and rescue team to come in the morning to look for them. They were never found. | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/b54s53/fiction_out_of_the_dark/ | freehorrorstories | JankyTank64 |
false | [True] I grew up in a haunted house... | Sorry for bad grammar im currently 12
When I was younger about 2 or so sorry if my memory is foggy but I had a few dreams. First dream I can remember is where I was in that house and got something from the chimney and I had started doing something and the chimney talked to me and said my name to "come here, come here, come here!" now this freaked the shit out of me and I cried to my mom. Second dream is where I had been sitting with my family and watching TV with them then a version of them had come out of no where and I had to choose which one to go with and I chose obvious the one where I was originally sitting then I had heard news about a family member dying and left something for me. I had to help my family clear the cellar we had... That's where I saw him his eyes red with fire and hatred. My dad told me about foot steps when no-one else was in the house he had also told me about closing a window and a door that opened inward not where wind could open it but the door still opened and the window was closed. My dogs when they were still alive would look at invisible things. | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/b32sfe/true_i_grew_up_in_a_haunted_house/ | freehorrorstories | MM-CraSH |
false | [Fiction] I was saved by a murderer {READER DISCRETION ADVISED} | I'll admit, I'm not in the greatest mental state right now, but I figured talking about it would probably solve a lot of problems on my mind. Anyway, I haven’t been feeling the best after the death of my parents, but this was something I never expected in a million years…
I got home from school, after being made fun of and bullied all day, making me feel like absolute shit, I was feeling down on the world, and worthless, so I took matters to my own hands, and made my mind up. I would kill myself that night. Well, I started to plan, and got everything ready, the rope hanging, and made up a note for whoever decided to care. Well I didn’t have the courage to just yet, then 2:30am rolled around, and I was ready to leave the world. Everything was set up, and ready, and I mentally prepared myself for what was to come, I climbed onto the chair, and strung the rope around my neck when I heard the door forced open. It sounded like someone had hit it with a really big hammer. My mind at this point was on death and I didn’t care what was to happen. I heard footsteps carefully making their way up the stairs, and I kicked the chair down, it made a thud on the floor. I don’t remember much of what happened, just his face. A burly white male wearing stereotypical lumberjack plaid, with a big beard, and glasses. I guess he had a change of heart, because I found out later that he was arrested for murdering an elderly man.
Anyway I woke up being wheeled into the hospital with this man beside me, I couldn’t think then, I didn’t know what was happening. One minute I was hanging from the ceiling, the next Im being rushed into the hospital with a murderer beside me. From my knowledge he followed me home and had intentions of hurting me, which probably would have been better at this point now that I think of it. If only I waited a few more minutes… No, I shouldn’t have… I don’t know what’s going through my mind right now. So many emotions so little brain power… I need sleep… no I can’t. | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/b2mg3o/fiction_i_was_saved_by_a_murderer_reader/ | freehorrorstories | _Luna_k |
false | [Fiction] I'll Never Ride the Subway Again | null | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/azndyx/fiction_ill_never_ride_the_subway_again/ | freehorrorstories | JoeDog93 |
false | [Fiction] All I wanted Was Netflix and Chill | null | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/axvz2c/fiction_all_i_wanted_was_netflix_and_chill/ | freehorrorstories | JoeDog93 |
false | The Cottage in the Woods | Now this isn’t a scary story, but more of a creepy one. My friend’s dad’s family used to live in the woods near Eureka Springs, Arkansas. My friend’s uncle was the oldest of the 3 kids, and was allowed to explore the woods on his own, even though he was only about 9. One day he came across a little cottage nestled in the woods. He knocked on the door and was greeted by 2 old ladies. He promptly asked for some water, as he had been exploring for hours. The ladies invited him in and gave him milk and cookies and sat down and talked with him while he pet their white cat. They talked for a while, and they eventually invited him to stay for dinner and spend the night, because it was getting dark and he was a ways from home. His parents were pretty used to him being in the woods for nights without coming back, so he accepted without question. He spent the night without incident and returned home the next morning. He visited many more times over the next year, and one day, they told him that to bring his parents and brothers the next time he came. So the next week, the whole family embarked on the long trek to the cottage. When they arrived, however, they found the remains of a small cottage, that appeared to have been abandoned for years. Everyone was very confused, as they all trusted that my friend’s uncle had visited the women many times. They had absolutely no idea what had happened, or if my friend’s uncle had actually been visiting anybody. To make things even weirder, as they were leaving, an old, skinny, white cat ran past them, darting into the trees, leaving them in utter shock. | https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/aw9rfo/the_cottage_in_the_woods/ | freehorrorstories | lowly-bumbo |