Hi there!

I wanted to get in touch about something really strange. First, a little background: I’m a 22-year-old woman who finds it difficult to set boundaries with people who cross them.

Two weeks ago, I moved into a lovely new apartment. According to the lease, there should be four sets of keys, but I was only given two, one of which was incomplete. The landlord mentioned in passing that she has given a key to a trusted person in case of an emergency (she lives far away). I’m not a fan of the idea because that person may be her trusted person, but not mine.

I was at home tonight. I forgot to lock the top latch, so people in the building could open the door from the hallway. I was relaxing when I heard a soft knock on the door. I barely had time to react — I hate answering the door — when I heard some fumbling and the door opened. I was shocked and didn’t know what to say, but I reacted with surprise.

Leaning towards the hallway, I saw an old man continuing to walk into my apartment, despite my obvious lack of welcome (yelling, etc.). I said to him, “What the hell? Don't come in — are you crazy or something?' Even when he saw that I wasn't dressed properly, he didn't back down or look away.

The man finally explained that he was the landlord's handyman and had come to check if the tap was leaking.
I asked him, 'But what would you have done if I hadn't been there? Would you have broken into my apartment anyway?” He said, 'Of course not,' but when he came in, I hadn't made my presence known yet.

I asked him if he had the keys and he said no, but a few hours later I realised that he couldn't have got into the building because there's no doorbell or anything to open the door downstairs.

I don’t know how he got in, and I’m pretty sure I heard him trying to put the keys in the lock. It’s freaking me out. He said he came to check on a leak that the landlord never mentioned to me, even though she recently told me that she just needed to adjust the shutters. The so-called repairman told me that the landlord hadn't given him my contact details; otherwise, he would have called me. I think that’s strange.

The worst part is that I felt like a total jerk, so I ended up acting all friendly and apologetic, as if I’d been in the wrong for reacting that way. He just checked the sink and then left. I don’t feel safe, and I have a feeling he’ll be back any minute.

Should I call the landlord to confirm her side of the story?

Yesterday my girlfriend (24F) and me (23M) went for a routine shopping trip at Walmart. It’s not usually where we shop, but we were a couple towns over that day and it was the closest store. We split up once we got there, she usually likes to browse around while I grab groceries and snacks for the week.

Around 20 minutes later or so, she found me and came up to me saying she thinks there was a guy following her around and taking videos of her ass. She said at one point he pretended to drop a box of cookies so he could bend down and point his phone up at her. We confirmed it was true after we waited in one aisle for a while, waiting to see if he’d come around, and 3 separate times he walked past us, while looking at us nervously with his phone at his hip pointed towards her. The third time he actually came into the aisle and pointed his camera right at my girlfriend as he walked past her uncomfortably close. It was so obvious what he was doing, but he clearly thought he was being sneaky by pretending to just hold his phone naturally and pretending to shop.

We decided to go find an employee, and informed him what was happening. He came back with 2 other employees who I assume were security or managers, and they said if they saw him again they’d have him removed from the store. The creep decided to come back a 4th time, and he knew he was caught the second he did, he looked like a deer in headlights. The manager stopped him and asked “hey man, have you been filming women’s butts?” and he denied it until the manager threatened to call the cops.

The little creep was shaking like a leaf, it was actually kind of pathetic. He was a very short man and was clearly physically intimidated by the security guys. They escorted him away and I assume they evicted him from the store, and the manager told us he’d make sure the videos were deleted.

Just a reminder to always be aware of your surroundings in public, you never know who might be following you around. The whole situation was extremely off putting and ruined the rest of our day.

Okay so I’m not gonna give location names because I’m in a relatively small county or real names to protect my friend’s identity.

When I was like 15 I was hanging out with my friend Taylor and she had just gotten a car so we wanted to go out. We wanted to get a bottle so she called her sisters friend Lacy because she was 21, once we told her why we wanted it she said she wanted to go with us and that we could just ride with her so she could be our DD. (We don’t condone drunk driving we just genuinely didn’t think that far ahead) It was a little odd because we’ve never hung out with Lacy without Taylor’s older sister but we said okay because obviously we didn’t want any drunk driving happening.

Anyways once she got to my house like an hour later we went outside to meet her. Mind you it’s around midnight and there’s no street lights and not many houses around so we couldn’t really see anything until we got to the car. Once we got to her we noticed a man in the front seat who she didn’t mention at all. She said he was her new boyfriend and he wanted to come because he said “it’s not safe for three young girls to be out late alone” so we were like okay whatever and got in.

We ended up going over the bridge into the next county because Lacy said there’s a park downtown that’s really nice to hang out at. It was like 45ish minutes away so we started drinking in the car on the way there. We didn’t really do things like that often so it didn’t take much for us to start feeling it. The entire time Lacy’s boyfriend was giving me weird vibes because he literally didn’t talk at all, he just sat there staring out the window. I assumed it was just me being paranoid so I ignored it. Also my phone died on the way there but Lacy wouldn’t let me use her charger which also gave me weird vibes.

The county over wasn’t a small town like ours, it was more of a city just not a huge city. So there were buildings and some lights around the park and cars driving around, not like a lot but enough for one to pass every few minutes or so. So we wasn’t like completely alone in the middle of nowhere.

We were at the park for maybe 10 minutes before it got creepy. Me and Taylor hung out on the park like the swings and stuff. Lacy and her boyfriend just sat on the picnic tables watching us and occasionally talking. I kept looking at Lacy’s boyfriend because he was still giving me weird vibes and I noticed he didn’t stop watching us the entire time, even when Lacy was talking to him he just stayed locked on us.

Like I said not even 10 minutes later this man walked up to us. He immediately gave sketchy vibes because he came out of nowhere and was dressed in a black hoodie with the hood up and black jeans which was odd to us because it was around 80° that night, like us three girls were wearing tank tops and shorts. But again we just brushed it off because I know some people will wear stuff like that even in 100° weather. He was prob in his late 20s I’d say based off what I could see of his face.

Anyways, Lacy’s boyfriend called us over and this random man asked us if we smoked. I didn’t think anything of it at the time but as we were walking over I noticed the man looked at Lacy’s boyfriend and he kind of nodded at him, but Lacy and her boyfriend both said they didn’t know this guy. We said we do occasionally like with friends but not often. He offered us some and Taylor said yes because we were having a good night. We assumed he would just hang with us at the park and smoke but no. He said that he came alone and didn’t want to smoke by himself so told us to “follow him and we’ll go spark” we were hesitant but figured we would just go behind a building or something in case a cop drove by.

As we started following him I literally got the worst feeling in my stomach like I was about to throw up and something told me to stop walking. I grabbed Taylor’s hand to stop too but the other three didn’t notice because they were in front of us. I told her I had a bad feeling and didn’t want to go with them and felt like we needed to leave. We just kinda stood there watching them walk for a minute and noticed that they walked to a wooden gate that led to an alley. That was like the defining moment for me that we were NOT following them.

They eventually noticed that we didn’t cross the street with them and Lacy and her boyfriend came back to get us. Lucy grabbed Taylors hand and her boyfriend grabbed mine what seemed like more aggressively than needed and was trying to get us to walk with them. I didn’t trust Lacy at that point so I told her I felt like i needed to throw up and it was prob just the alc and that we would meet them over there. The boyfriend kept looking back at the other guy who was standing by the alley watching. They tried to get me to go to the bathroom alone and that they would take Taylor to the alley and wait but I said i wanted her to come with me so i wasn’t alone. They kept looking at each other and the boyfriend seemed kind of upset but they eventually let us go and we went to the bathroom across the park.

Taylor started crying and said she felt unsafe but our only way home was Lacy. We were honestly so scared. Somehow I was like sobered up at this point so I was trying to get Taylor to calm down. The park bathroom building had like slits at the top, i’m assuming because the bathroom didn’t have AC and it let air in and out. So i stood on a sink to see if I could see them and Lucy and her boyfriend were still standing by the road, it kind of looked like they were whispering and the boyfriend looked mad but idk.

Anyways, the other guy who mind you said he was ALONE got into a car that was parked directly in front of the wooden fence. And yk how when you open a car door the lights inside come on, yeah well when he opened it I saw FOUR other men sitting in the car just looking in this direction. I immediately knew we had to get out of there I was terrified.

Thankfully the girls bathroom door was on the other side of the building so they couldn’t see the door, or us until we walked a few feet out. So we had a plan to sneak out and run to the nearest building with people. I checked out the slits again to make sure they weren’t close and the strange guy plus the four men were walking in the direction of the park. Taylor was still crying and sitting on the floor but I was like we have to go right now.

We kept close to the bathroom building until we got to the opposite side and just took off running. We ran for like 10-15 minutes until we found an open convenient store. We ran inside and locked ourselves in the bathroom. I used Taylor’s phone and called my mom. My mom told us to stay in the bathroom with the door locked no matter who wanted to come in until we heard her voice while she was on the way. During this entire time in the bathroom Lacy was blowing up Taylor’s phone like I’d say over 50 calls and texts.

My mom made that 45 minute drive in like 20 minutes. She yelled for us and we ran out SOBBING, I’ve never hugged my mom so hard in my life. We got in the car and explained what happened. I must have said sorry like 100 times but she wasn’t mad at us, she said she was just happy we were safe.

We begged my mom not to call the cops because we were scared to get in trouble but obviously she did anyways (and rightfully so). Idk what came of it though because we would have heard from Taylor’s sister if Lacy or anyone she knows got arrested or anything.

Not even a few days later a girls body was found in that EXACT alley and it sent shivers down my spine when I read it. Now obviously idk if it was connected to that group of people or anything but it was still scary. And after we told Taylor’s sister she completely cut off Lacy and we never heard from or about her again.

Now that I’m older I realize how many warning signs that we may have been in danger there actually was. Literally from before we even pulled out of my driveway. Now I’m very cautious of any warning signs and I trust my gut feelings 100%. I still get a bad feeling when I pass that park though. Idk if it was some sort of trafficking plan or what but there was definitely something not right about it and I would much rather overreact and be wrong than under-react and be dead.

But me and Taylor are doing good. We’re safe obviously and we just moved into an apartment together and have adopted two cats!

TL;DR: Group of six friends had a second unsettling late-night encounter on SW Baker Rd near the former Bella Madrona Gardens when two silent individuals dressed in all black and white shoes approached and jogged after us in the dark.

I created this Reddit account solely to ask if anyone knows who these two people are.

On August 31, 2026, around 9:30–10:00 PM, a group of six friends and I were walking down a gravel road off SW Baker Rd near the permanently closed Bella Madrona Gardens. We weren't using lights to avoid disturbing neighbors. Coming out from the shadows, about 15–20 feet away, we saw two pairs of legs walking toward us. A friend shone his phone light at their feet—they were wearing white shoes and all-black clothing, making their legs invisible in the dark.

We immediately bolted back to the paved road and lit sidewalks. Looking back, one friend noticed the two individuals had jogged after us onto the main road before losing us as we sprinted away. They never spoke, physically confronted us, or showed visible faces/weapons.

This wasn't the first time. Around April/May, my friends had an encounter with two people in all black at the exact same location, except that time they were 100 feet away and running directly toward them.

When I searched online, results mentioned local burglaries and people "casing" the rural area, including a police log on suspects "masked, all in black, wearing white shoes and white gloves" (though I'm unsure if search results misreported this).

My friends and I agreed never to return to that area. Does anyone know who these two people could be, or why they are at that gravel road at night? Are they dangerous? Thanks.

a few weeks ago my sister and i took our kids to the playground by the marina with my mom for her birthday. pushing our kids on the swing set we notice this guy walking around the perimeter with his phone out seemingly recording. i see him stopping at the other end of the playground still recording and grinning. assuming i should be disgusted, i tell my mom i will be right back. so i walked over to him since no one else was trying to figure out wtf this guy was doing.

i asked him "are you with the park?" he said " no i..im just taking pictures to show my niece because i thought she would like to take her kids here..." so i replied "she can just google it. you need to delete that. my kids are in it and i dont think all the other parents want their kids in your 'pictures' either". he got annoyed and flustered and said "FINE ill delete it and deleted it in front of me... said "see i deleted it." i said to delete it from the trash too. and he did. and stormed away. hopefully that is enough to get my daughters and nephews out of that creep's phone.

Then yesterday, i took my younger daughter with really light platinum blonde hair to a local park. people comment on her hair everywhere we go. so that isnt anything new. we were playing with the weird steering wheel that is mounted on the playground that idk the purpose of lol. this old guy walking a toy poodle stops to compliment how beautiful her hair is and asks where she got it from like everyone else does, where i say i was a blonde baby but then i dyed my hair and it was never the same. so she is never allowed to touch her hair. the conversation seemed normal until i stood up. he said "hopefully she keeps your figure". and i was just like " he he eeuuhhhhh......" and turned back to my daughter. because was i supposed to say my 3 year old will? hopefully? lets hope so? act like that was a normal thing to say?

or was it just a badly worded compliment to me? regardless it was a disgusting way to include the thought about my 3 year old's body into a compliment to me so what the literal fuck. if he said something like she will grow up to be as beautiful as me or something i can see that being a more direct compliment towards me. but this gave me the ick. then he stood there awkwardly like he realized saying that didnt go over well or idk what.

creepy pervs. go away. gross.

I'm a 17 year old girl who recently got her license, so naturally I'm going places alone a lot more frequently. I'm already a very paranoid person, so I never go places alone late, and even go out of my way to go places I feel safer.

Today I had an encounter that really freaked me out, and while nothing actually happened I can't sleep thinking about what could have.

I was at the walmart self checkout, buying some last minute things for back to school. Towards the end as I'm starting to pay I noticed a man to my right who seemed to be in line for the check out, but he was like oddly close to the station I was at (yk normally people kind of stand in the middle, he was all the way towards the side I was on and I was on the first station on the right). My first assumption is maybe he's wondering how much money I'm spending or waiting for my station, even though that would still be odd. I do get kinda creeped out tho, so once he goes to the station to buy his ONE item, I pay as fast as possible and walk extremely fast out to the parking lot. I should mention at this time there was also multiple police cars in front of the walmart and police inside the exit I left out of. As I was walking to my car, I honestly wasn't thinking he was following me. I thought I had lost him and that it would be really audacious of him to follow me or do anything crazy when there was literally police right there.

I knew vaguely where my car was in the parking lot, but since my anxiety was high I got kind of flustered and couldn't find my car for a second. I ended up having to cut through an aisle to find my car, and when I did I got straight inside and locked the door.

Unfortunately, at this moment the car that was parked across the aisle behind me began to reverse so I was unable to leave and kinda had to sit in my car for a second waiting. Mind you, while I had a little bit of anxiety I wasn't really that stressed because I genuinely DID not have any reason to believe this man was following me.

As I'm sitting there, all of a sudden someone comes in between my car and the car next to me. I'm not parked near a shopping cart drop off thing, I'm literally surrounded by cars on all sides and the man comes between my car and the next car on the passenger side. As soon as I see him I'm like oh heckk no and back out and leave as fast as I can. I didn't notice anyone following me out of the parking lot and I was looking at all the cars around me to see if I could recognize the same man.

The more I have thought about this instance, the more it freaks me out. The fact he was only buying one thing, and I can't remember if he was even carrying a bag on the way out when I saw him walk by my car. I may have just not noticed it, the entire thing mayy have just been a coincidence but I can't help but think it was REALLY strange.

The fact that he just randomly cut between my car and another car makes me worry that maybe he was following me in the parking lot but lost me when I cut through the aisles and then went in the direction he thought I went? We also never made eye contact or anything when I saw him walk past my car, so I have no idea if he even knew I was there.

Idk I'm just super freaked out and I don't know what I should've done differently or what I could do in the future to prevent something like this from scaring me this bad again.

This happened a year ago when I was an international student in Lublin, Poland.

This story is completely real, and I’m sharing it because I’d really like to hear what you think. Even a year later, I still can’t figure out what happened. 

During Christmas break, almost everyone in my dorm went home, so only about 10–15 of us who couldn’t go home remained in the dorm. I was basically alone in the whole building. I used to go for evening walks by myself because there was barely anyone around.

One evening, I noticed a man standing alone in front of my dorm. He was far enough away to clearly see the entrance, and I only realized later that he seemed to be intentionally keeping his distance from the door. He looked around 30–35 years old. When I left the dorm, he came up behind me and tried to talk to me in Polish. I told him I didn’t speak Polish, so he switched to English and started asking where I was from, what I was doing that evening, and whether I was free. I told him I was from Turkiye and, also mentioned that I had a boyfriend.

He kept talking to me with this huge smile on his face. He was grinning so widely that I could almost see all his teeth. After I said I have a boyfriend, eventually, he just said, “Oh, okay,” suddenly turned around, and walked away. I remember thinking, what a weirdo.The area in front of my dorm had trees lining the road, and I’d planned to walk a few laps around the large wooded area before heading back. I was about halfway around, with the woods on my right, when I turned and saw the man standing among the trees, watching me. Both of his hands were in his pockets. You can’t imagine how creepy it was, especially since I was listening to music loudly at the time. He was some distance away, but I immediately sped up and practically ran back to the dorm because I was scared he might show up in front of me again.

A few days later, I went for another walk, and the same man came up behind me again, grinning. He started the conversation in exactly the same way and began asking the same questions. That was the strangest part. Instead of referring to our previous conversation or saying anything that suggested he remembered me, he seemed to start from the beginning, as if we had never spoken before. The wording of his questions was almost identical, and even the way he smiled and laughed felt artificial, as though he had memorized a script and was simply repeating it.

I reminded him that he had already approached me two or three days earlier and that I had told him I had a boyfriend. Again, he just said, “Oh, okay,” and quickly walked away. This time, I didn’t see him watching me afterward.

A few days after that, I went to a supermarket during the day and saw him standing outside. I have no idea whether he’d been waiting for me or was just there by coincidence, but when he saw me, he came over again and asked me the same questions.

By the way, I recognized him because of the way he smiled while talking to me. I basically said, “Are you kidding me? This is the third time you’ve done this. I’ve already talked to you before.”

He suddenly looked nervous and walked away really quickly.

What bothered me most was that this wasn’t just one weird interaction. He kept showing up when I was alone, repeated the same questions even though we’d already talked, and I’d also seen him watching me from the trees.

I obviously have no idea what his intentions were. Maybe he was just a really weird guy trying to flirt. Maybe he was stalking me. Maybe there was some totally innocent explanation. But I was an international student, alone in an almost completely empty dorm during Christmas break, and this guy seemed to know I was alone. Looking back, I still wonder what the hell he actually wanted. And please don’t laugh, because I know these questions might sound strange, but people naturally wonder about stuff like this: Was he a gang member targeting foreign students who somehow happened to talk to me three times? Was he doing it on purpose? Was he just an obsessive, strange person? Was he mentally unwell? Was he a mafia member who targeted students and said the same things to all of them, mistaking me for someone else each time? How many people had he already approached that day before talking to me? And why did he stand among the trees and watch me?

Has anyone experienced anything similar? Do you think I was overthinking it, or does it sound like he was deliberately targeting me?

I am freaked out so posting here. I posted something for sale on FB Marketplace and had only been replying those that didn't lowball me. Then one random lady comes up to my front door today asking for that item and exact price.

I don't give anyone my home address on marketplace so I am so freaked out. I didn't want to ask her how she knew my address cause I didn't want her to know my address.. I deleted my facebook account after this cause I am not taking anymore chances.

Anyone have anything similar happen to them or is this just coincidence?? Thanks

This happened about an hour ago. I was sitting in my dining room eating dinner. From where I’m sitting, theres a giant window just to my right. In front of that window is a little cat bed where my cat was lying looking outside. The curtains are almost all the way closed except for a 1-2 foot vertical gap for the cat to see.

So I see my cats head sort of perk up and look over towards something in the back yard. I think nothing of it, Theres tons of birds etc. I glance over and my heart stops. Standing at my backyard fence is a man with only his head visible above the fence. He had dark long shaggy hair down to his neck that was covering his entire face, like purposely brushed forward to cover his face.

At first I thought it was the back of someone’s head. I could barely make out the top of his ears and realized he was facing directly toward me. I was absolutely terrified and frozen. The scariest part was that he Did. Not. Move. He remained completely still like a statue. We stared at each other for probably 30 solid seconds, my heart was pounding in my ears. Then he turned and simply walked away.

I’ve been constantly checking my yard ever since. It creeped me out. How long were they there? Who was that? Could they see me? Was it a neighbor? Why was his hair covering his face? Could it have been a woman? My mind is trying to come up with an explanation

So I was talking to my dad a little while ago and I brought up a story he told me when I was little he said when he was in the barbershop he owns during lunch (he’s the only one that works there so he was alone) he was looking out his window when across the highway by the shop he saw a old lady build like a big grown man hunched in all white down ripping up plants and grass and then ran away but kinda crawled/stumbled away and about 20-30 mins later police came and he never saw him/her again I know it’s probably just a crazy person but I just wanted to tell the story

This story happened when I was 16. I’m a female who worked at a fairly known restaurant. I worked in the front (taking orders etc.) and I was only near the back of restaurant when I had to do dishes. Anyways, I usually worked during the nights because I was in school. One of the cooks who I normally worked with was around 45-50 years old. He’s a heavy set and on the child predator list.

From the first day I stared he always made me uncomfortable. He always stated at me while I was doing dishes, made inappropriate comments about my figure, and also told my brother (who also worked there) that “I was flirting with your sister.” But, the worst part was one time after we had closed and I had nothing to do, I was coloring kind of bend up. He came around the corner and looked at me, he then walked behind me and grabbed my ass. I emergency froze and looked at my friend (17 female) who was standing in front on me, she asked “did he just touch your ass?” And I shook my head yes. Later after the incident I told me gm, and she was livid. She wrote him up.

And mouths later he got fired. Later though I found out that he had told his wife (who also worked there) that “they(me and my friend) always wears tight jeans to attract all the guys at work. They’re trying to be sexy for us.” Keep in mind, I’m a lesbian. I like girls. Also, the only reason I wear tight jeans is because I hate the way baggie jeans look on me. I’m almost 19 now and this encounter still haunts me to this day.

I, 32F live in high rise apartment building in a major US city. I regularly sleep on the couch in my living room because I fall sleep watching TV after work and I don’t have a TV in my bedroom.

Important detail I’ll share now is that I lucid dream! I used to suffer from night terrors when I was a child and over time learned how to lucid dream and haven’t had one in years.

Well, two nights ago I was having a weird dream where a man was climbing through my window, but he was too big and got stuck. Because I knew this was a dream and I wasn’t actually in danger, I decided to get in the elevator and go down to the lobby. The dream wasn’t really going anywhere when all of a sudden a woman’s voice kept repeating “Man breaking through window, wake up call 911, Man breaking through window, wake up call 911!” It sounded like someone making an announcement over a PA system.

I eventually woke up and laid there for a bit before sitting up. I started watching the Youtube video that was playing when something caught my eye to my right. I looked over at my living room window and a man was peering through my window! I screamed and jumped up knocking my coffee table over as well as everything that was on it.

I realized my initial scream hadn’t deterred him and he kind of just stared at me. My phone had been on the coffee table and got lost in the chaos so I couldn’t even call 911. I just kept screaming! I remembered someone saying to act crazy if someone ever makes you feel unsafe, so I started doing just that! My screams went from terrified to terrifying! Just full on female rage!

At this point the man was still there, but he had put his hands up and was moving them in a ‘calm down’ motion. I could hear things shifting through the wall so I knew that my next door neighbor had been woken up from my screams. “Get the f*ck away from me, I’ll f*cking kill you before you kill me” was all I managed to get out and what finally did the trick.

He moved away from the window and I braced myself for him trying to enter through another window. I still couldn’t find my phone, but I did grab my pepper spray from my purse and stood ready for the breach!

Then it hit me, I’m on the 11th floor of my building, how tf did he get up here?? After a few minutes, I managed to find my phone and called my best friend! I said “I know this sounds insane, but there was man staring through my window!” I explained that I knew I wasn’t dreaming or hallucinating and she believed me. She assured me that we live in city where it really isn’t uncommon.

The only logical explanation I could come up with was that maybe the man was a graffiti artist who was attempting to tag the wall outside of my apartment. My building is covered in scaffolding all the way up to the roof on the front and two sides of the building. My unit is on the backside of the building which doesn’t have scaffolding and is a blank canvas. On a busy night, I have seen people climbing on the scaffolding out front, but never going past two floors to get a photo opp.

If my theory is true, he may have been there to tag the building, but noticed the flicker of my tv and decided to look into my window. In the morning I didn’t notice that one of the safety screws had been loosened, but was still in place enough that the window didn’t open. If he had tried a little bit harder or maybe if I didn’t wake up he would have managed to get it opened.

I’ve been sleeping with my knife and pepper spray under my pillow the past few nights and don’t see that changing any time soon! My best friend sent me two indoor cameras that I have facing the window and my front door.

I’ll never know what his true intentions were and I hope I never find out.

Hello there! I haven't every spoken about this story before but I figured this was the place to do it. First of all for context im from the UK and when this happened my friend and I were so shaken up we didn't tell anyone, it then became a story we would bring up to eachother over the years just due to how insane it was.

So, me and my friend were walking home from school like we would do together every day, she lived about 5 minutes away from our school so I would walk home with her and then walk another 30 minutes back to my home. It was summer so it was still light outside and we would only walk along the main road so we would be safer than walking down the cut through. As we were litteraly ROUND THE CORNER from her house a white van pulled up and a man rolled down his window to talk to us. He said we looked tired and that he could drive us home as he was going that way anyway.

We politely said no thankyou and tried to walk away but he honked the horn and became very insistent and almost aggressive. He kept saying that we should get in the van and that he was going to take us home (He was driving in the wrong direction and my friends house was right around the corner so we 100% knew he was lying anyway) eventually after a few minutes of him getting more and more pushy we bolted down the road and into her mums house, locking the door behind us. My friends mum wasn't home so we sat up in her room for around an hour before I felt like I could continue to walk home.

We never really told anyone about it as nothing happened, and to our 13 year old selves, we weren't in a lot of danger as it was daylight, there were people around, and we were by her house, but looking back now I cant help feeling like we might have been in more danger than we thought. Never saw him again and nothing like that ever happened again either so we kinda forgot about it, but it does get brought up every so often as a 'hey remember when we almost got kidnapped how insane was that!!' kinda conversation

Anyway, let me know if im overthinking this or is it was actually a dangerous situation or if anything like that has ever happened to anyone else!

This is one of those experiences where you never find out for sure what would have happened, but something still just *feels* not right. It was a short event, but one I still wonder about.

When I was 23 I had the chance to go to Havana, Cuba on an educational trip through my graduate program. We were a group of students in our 20s and 30s and so there was effectively no chaperoning, and they let us travel around the island freely.

My friends and I were staying in the absolutely wild relic of a hotel, the Riviera, along the malecón.

One night after visiting an outdoor art installation nearby, my friend and I decided to walk back to the hotel while the rest of the group went to eat. It was only roughly a 10 minute walk back to the hotel and we didn’t think twice, even though it was dark already. There was no one else around at this time (Havana gets interestingly empty in places at night) and the area wasn’t very built up, but again we didn’t feel unsafe.

We got about three blocks away, and began passing a very dark cross street with a few dark buildings down the block, when all of a sudden a woman comes out from this street and walks right behind us on the sidewalk. Without any street lamps or building lights we hadn’t seen her at first.

She calls out and asks where we’re from. We hadn’t been speaking loudly, but we definitely stood out as foreigners. We didn’t really feel that concerned, Cuba was full of many friendly and chatty folks, but we didn’t want to stop so we kept walking while responding ‘the US’ (in retrospect, not our wisest move).

The woman suddenly asked if we wanted to go to a party, gesturing towards that dark street again. “Free alcohol and great music!” she cheerfully offered. We politely declined while still walking. She asked if we were sure, and we said we yes. That was that I thought.

About 30 seconds went by and I chanced a look back- where I see the woman had walked back near the first corner she had come out of, but suddenly a taller man was with her. They were both still looking at us as we were walking away, not moving at all. But the man looked mildly angry and the girl looked sullen. I asked my friend to go a little faster.

It could’ve been nothing. But something just felt off. Glad I never found out more.

First of all excuse my bad grammar/language because English isn’t my first language.

This story happened on the week 2-6 June of 2025, I was on a class trip to Berlin(capital of Germany) for an end of the class year trip and I was 16 at the time and on the night of the thursday(5 of June) we went to a night club for teenagers together with our teachers.

After that we had to walk back to our hotel and it was around midnight. At one moment we were about 5 minutes away from our hotel when a friend of mine and I decided to walk a different way to the hotel so we could talk a little bit and settle from all the loud music and stuff

and the different way was like only 2 minutes slower but it was some kind of street where nobody was anymore so anyway were talking when I notice a taxi and it was a licsenced taxi pulling up behind us slowly
I turned around and noticed it had high beams on but didn’t
Really pay attention.

I try to explain the leayout of the street so you can imagine better how it happend the street my friend and I were taking was parallel to the street our class was taking but there was an office building between so in order to coma back to our class we had to walk down the street(50 meters or so) then take a right and then we would come back to the street of our class after walking another 50 meters or so and on the street we were taking was a roadblock so no cars could pass but the sidewalks were free.

Anyway as were walking down I wanted to crosse the street and take the left sidewalk because I wanted to walk a little more before going back to the hotel as I did that suggestion to my friend i waited for his answer but there was none as I turned to him and looked at him I saw the true horror in his eyes as he screamed and yelled watch out

I looked back only to see the taxi driver run towards us without saying a word we both yelled and started sprinting for our lives I never looked back but could feel he was in my back and I can only describe it with the feeling when your playing catch and you know your getting catched while running I slowly realized that this could be a live or death situation and survival mode kicked in I never ran so fast or screamed so incredibly loud after taking the right turn we slowly came back to our class as they looked to us in shock.

I don’t know how long he had followed us, i don’t know how long he ran after us after that I looked up similar incidents but found nothing. My treachers or nearly everyone I tell this story doesn’t believe me and I can relate because I wouldn’t either. I also can’t remember if the taxi driver had something in his hand but I believe so possibly a knife or so but I can’t say for sure.

If you have any questions ask me sorry for the poor explaining but it’s pretty hard to describe the situation.
Would be happy for your opinion on the story.

When I was 19, my girlfriend and I had to make a 3 to 4 hour drive about every two weeks because she lived in northern Germany and I lived in central Germany. So we would take turns staying at each other's places.

We usually left in the late afternoon, but sometimes it got later, like it did on this particular night.

It was around 10:30 PM in November. We had already been driving on the highway for about two hours when my girlfriend said she really needed to use the bathroom.

I normally hate stopping at rest stops, especially when it's cold, dark and lightly raining outside like it was that night, but it was the quickest option. So I pulled into the next rest stop.

To our surprise, the place was completely empty, which is actually pretty unusual in Germany. It wasn't one of those bigger rest stops with a Burger King or a gas station either. There was literally just a small five sided bathroom building lit up by fluorescent lights and nothing else.

My girlfriend got out and went to the bathroom, and I walked her there. Our car was parked about 10 meters from the bathroom.

I stood impatiently outside the door, keeping an eye on the entrance to the rest stop, but also on everything else around me. Nobody feels particularly safe at a completely deserted highway rest stop at night.

Finally, my girlfriend came back and we slowly started walking toward our car when suddenly another car pulled into the rest stop.

It was blue, some kind of small car, but I couldn't tell what brand it was. The only thing that really stood out was the license plate, which I had never seen anything like before. It was hanging slightly crooked.

The driver drove quickly toward the bathroom and parked two spaces away from us.

My girlfriend and I looked at each other and immediately had the same thought: get in the car. Now.

The car was now parked to our right. Normally I would have just pressed the unlock button, but my car's battery was dead, so I had to unlock it manually. The car could only be opened from the passenger side.

So I had to walk around to the left side of the car, open the door for my girlfriend, walk around the car again and then get in myself.

I was just unlocking the passenger door with the key when the man got out of his car.

He looked kind of disheveled and was wearing a brown jacket. I honestly can't remember much else about what he looked like because I was mainly focused on his right hand.

He had been keeping it behind his back the entire time, ever since he got out of his car.

I was just around the back of my car when he was suddenly only about two meters away from me. He started walking toward me quickly while saying something I couldn't understand.

I ignored him, yanked the door open, immediately slammed it shut behind me and locked all the doors from the inside.

While I was starting the car as quickly as possible, he was still standing right next to the window.

It was only when I put the car in reverse and started moving that he finally stepped back a little.

Unfortunately, I couldn't see what he was holding in his hand in the rearview mirror, and to this day I still wonder what exactly he wanted from us.

Obviously, I know he wasn't approaching me because he wanted to hand me a suitcase full of money. He clearly didn't seem to have good intentions.

But at the same time, he somehow seemed way too scruffy and disheveled to be some kind of kidnapper, human trafficker or organ thief...

It was a couple years ago, and I was walking with one of my friends to a pizza shop in a plaza near her house. We probably looked dumb laughing and talking about stupid things, so when we saw three teenage boys coming up, we laughed and told each other to act normal. When we got close enough to see their faces the boys moved to the left side of us and walked on the grass, which we thought was considerate. When we got even closer to the boys one of them turned his head to look at us and said, "Dude did you just say you wanted to 'SA' them". Me and my friend honestly froze for a second but sped up slightly to walk away from them.

When I turned my head back to look at them, I saw one of the three boys staring back. I looked away and then looked back again to see if they were still staring but instead was faced with two of them walking towards us. Instinctively we both sped up slightly which only made them do the same. And at some point, we were fully running away from them, they chased us into the plaza until we ran into the pizza shop. We ended up telling one of the workers there what had happened and described the boys just in case, especially since we were walking back home. On our way back we saw them again while passing a park, when they spotted us, they pointed and started following us again... they followed us until we were down her street and then left when we found a man and sat with him.

Given that the boys were our age or like a year older they probably thought that were just joking around, which gave me some guilt especially when I told my dad about it and was met with "just don't antagonize them". It just feels weird to feel bad for myself especially since nothing probably would've came from it and the fact that it has clearly stuck with me.

I posted this a while back but deleted it for some reason.

This happened in July 2023 I believe. It was around 1am and it was still about 80° F outside, and where I live AC isn’t very common so I was sitting in the living room with all the windows and doors open. I head out to smoke and since everything was open and I didn’t want the house to smell like smoke so I walked down the driveway and sat on the curb. There was a man standing on the same side of the street but a block down just staring at me and I got really uncomfortable so I got up and crossed the road.

The way my triplex is set up is there is a 3 car driveway, then a few stairs up that lead into the yard and then my door to the right, my neighbors straight ahead and some more stairs to my other neighbors upstairs. I live somewhere with a lot of homeless people and they’ll come up the driveway to look in our trash for cans or whatever and that’s fine, they never go up past the steps.

So I’m standing on the other side of the road and I watch the man stand and stare at me and then he proceeds to walk all the way into my yard and I start to panic because I didn’t lock the doors and all the windows were open, so I start to walk down the street and I see a man who looks nice enough and I stop him and ask if he could just pretend to know me (in retrospect this wasn’t my brightest decision but whatever).

So me and this man are standing there just talking and I’m explaining the situation and we’re both just smoking a cigarette and we’re looking at my house (I’m a few houses down now) and the man keeps peeking around the line of trees next to my place. He peeks around the corner a few more times and eventually walks up to me. I’m scared shitless and I’m shaking and he asks me for a cigarette and I go to hand him one and he goes “Why are you shaking? Are you scared?” And I was just like “uhh nope! have a great night!”

He walks away and the other dude stands there for a bit longer with me and the scary man starts peeking around another corner just staring at me again. The dude said “this is weird” and walks me to my house and I just shut all the windows and doors and I just dealt with the heat. I’m grateful for the random dude and don’t know what I would’ve done if he wasn’t there.

had to repost this bc i did it wrong lmao

uh hi i am new to reddit so i apologize if i do something wrong lmao also im severly dyslexic and have a hard time with words so im sorry if i fuck it up....heres a lil background i am a 17 year old still living at home with my younger siblings all under 14 and with my single mother all of us are female...

we had some new neighbors move in recently, an elderly father with his looks to be around 40-60 yr old son (yes i know a pretty big age gap but im honestly just guessing) a few weeks after they moved in my mom went over to welcome them to the neighborhood with 2 of my younger sisters and she was talking to the older man and he had told my mother that he liked younger girls and then smiled after while looking over at my sisters my mom very quickly finished the conversation and went back home.

it has been about 2 months since they moved in and recently we noticed the father and son both sitting on their front porch with chair facing our driveway which obviosly was very creepy yesterday my mom brought it to my attention that they have a camera facing right into our living room window idk if this is how it is everywhere but in my state it is technicly illigal to have a camera facing someone else yard/property

we are going to be calling our non emergince number to report it i will give updates ig if anything happens

thank you for reading this if you did once again i am sorry if i did this wrong this is my first post.

Back when I lived in Texas I was doing a lot of bow hunting at night on public land for feral hogs. I generally would head to the woods around 6-7 pm and head back home sometimes as late as 2-3 am. One very early morning around 2 am I was driving back to my house. The roads were pretty rural with a house every couple of miles or so. I start to round a curb and a young woman comes running out into the street screaming at the top of her lungs help me help! I stopped and rolled down my window. She started to talk and then a dude who claimed to be her boyfriend came running up. He sticks his head in my window and says something to the tune of “you better mind your own fucking business” I wasn’t armed other than a compound bow in the backseat so needless to say I drove down the road maybe 50-100 yards parked my truck and immediately called 911 and explained the situation. When I saw sirens flying down the road I decided to just head on back home and let the police handle it. Never knew what that was about. This was in Lucas Texas

I was driving alone to Mount Rainier National Park to go hiking. It was completely dark out, around 4am, and there were no other cars on the road. I was on a two-lane highway in the middle of the forest, with limited cell service.

I was driving the speed limit with my headlights on and was doing everything normally. Out of nowhere, a car appeared behind me and started tailgating me extremely closely while flashing their headlights.

They then pulled around me very closely and cut me off. They immediately slammed on their brakes, forcing me to brake as well.

They drove very slowly for a while and then sped back up, but continued driving about 10 mph under the speed limit. After driving like this for a while, they pulled over. I passed them, and they immediately got back behind me and started flashing their lights and tailgating me again.

Then they went around me on the right side, driving onto the shoulder and into the dirt, and once again cut me off extremely closely and slammed on their brakes.

They drove slowly again for a while, then sped back up to about 10 mph under the speed limit.

At that point, I slowed down immensely to keep as much distance between us as possible.

Eventually, they pulled over again. I passed them, and this time they ended up making a U-turn and drove away.

That was the end of it.

What made the whole thing so unsettling was the situation. It was 4am, completely dark, I was alone (I am a woman btw), there were no other cars around, and we were in the middle of a forest with limited cell service. I couldn’t understand why someone would repeatedly drive aggressively around me, pull over, wait for me to pass, and then do it all over again.

I have no idea what they were trying to accomplish, but it creeps me out to think they were trying to get me to pull over (or run into them, which then would make me have to pull over) and do God only knows what to me.

Was this just an extremely aggressive driver, or does anyone have another explanation for what might have been going on?

This happened to me back in March-June 2021. I was travel nursing to Virginia on a contract. I lived fairly close to the blue ridge mountains/ Shenandoah national park. Because it was just me and my husband (fiancé at the time) was back home in a different state, I went alone went to the blue ridge mountains since you don’t have to pay to get in. I used my all trails to find a good spot to put up my hammock. I went on a trail that was specifically appalchancian trail not far in maybe a little under a mile there was a perfect set up of a clearing overlooking a mountain with two trees in the perfect spot. I spent a good amount of time there.

However it was getting close to when I was going to pack up and an older guy with white hair was walking with a younger girl who had a dog. They stopped said hi, we exchanged a few greetings and they went on their way. Maybe 15 minutes later he come back by himself. I thought it was a little weird but he came back and started really really talking to me. Asking why I was out, who I was with, how close I lived, etc. I was just kinda feeing creeped out and decided when he left I would pack up and leave. Well he kept talking and that’s when I noticed his fly was down and had a little roughed up look about him.

I never asked about the girl or the dog because I was scared he would react poorly. Also, I never heard any sounds that would have made me question something happen. But weird that they came together on the trail and didn’t walk far then split up. I just didn’t feel good at all being in his presence. Well after talking for like 15 minutes he finally started leaving the trail after asking to walk me back. I stayed about 10 more minutes to get good space between us because I didn’t feel comfortable walking with him. I immediately called my husband and gave him a description (lol). When I started walking back up the trail I kept hearing these quiet rustling sounds that would stop when I would stop to listen more closely. I never saw anything but I felt impending doom in my stomach that I’ve never felt before, so I just took off running until I got back to the road.

The encounter never sat right with me and from time to time (especially the rest of my contract) I always kept an eye out for a missing girl/dog in the area around that time