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.

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?

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.