15.
The Stalker
While reddit can be a fantastic place for
armchair investigators or people who just
want a laugh, sometimes really frightening
things happen there: like stalkers taking
to the website to ask for stalking legal advice.
Redditor, Darylprat, posted to the legaladvice
subreddit: “I've followed this girl on YouTube,
facebook, and instagram for over a year, she's
a minor celebrity…I’ve never met her and
probably never will but her post and replies
were the best part of my day.”
Already there are warning signs galore.
He said that he liked every one of her posts,
only said nice things, and sometimes she even
responded to him.
But one day, she blocked him, and he didn’t
know why.
He made another account, requesting that she
unblock him.
But she blocked that one too and didn’t
respond.
“She is literally the best thing in my life,
so I was just going to make another account
with a fake name to follow her,” he wrote.
He asked the reddit community whether complimenting
a person and “saying nice things” could
be considered stalking or harassment.
Redditors ripped into the poster, with johnspiff
noting that his post history showed that he’d
taken it a step further, sending love letters
to her work address.
His youtube was also filled with random snapchat
screenshots of the girl.
The redditor advised the OP to stop stalking
an IGN employee.
Other redditors, like Lehk, suggested that
the OP see a psychiatrist, as he threatened
to take his own life over being rejected by
this girl he’d never met.
It’s unclear how this all ended.
But we can only hope that this stalker got
help and that the IGN employee remains unharmed.
14.
Video Recording
The following story was told by a redditor
who has since deleted their account, but posted
on the self.Advice subreddit.
In her message, she says she received an email
where, enclosed, was a video of herself at
15 years old.
She writes: “It has no subject, it's from
a fake email address...
Just a 30 second video of me, aged 15, on
my way home from school (presumably, because
of the location) answering questions.”
The OP notes that she never looks at the camera,
so she probably didn’t even know that she
was being recorded.
She doesn’t remember the video being taken,
and there’s no sound, so she doesn’t know
what’s being said.
The only clues she has is that she’s wearing
glasses and her hair color and length tell
her around what age she was when this video
was taken.
In lip-reading, she guesses that at one point
she mentions “school” and at another point
“my mum.”
The girl says the video was taken about three-and-a-half
years prior to her post, and she wonders what
she can do about it.
She feels intimidated and uncomfortable that
someone took the video without her knowledge
- someone who has her email and felt the need
to send it to her.
There was no further updates, hopefully this
situation didn’t get more severe.
13.
The Landlady’s Son
After moving into a small apartment, redditor
kimmiekissies’ sweet old lady landlord,
Olivia, would often bring over home-cooked
leftovers.
The OP was a recluse, so she didn’t leave
her house much, but whenever she did, she
noticed things were being moved around or
disappearing, altogether.
One day, after napping, she noticed that the
bedding beside her was warm and “disturbed.”
Things only got worse, and she eventually
went home to stay with her parents for a few
days, which is when she told them everything.
Her dad accompanied her back to her apartment,
and what they found was horrifying.
‘COME BACK’ ‘BABY PLEASE’ was written
all over the walls.
After calling the police, it was discovered
that the landlord’s son, Henry, believed
he was in a relationship with her.
He’d been drugging her food and then snuggling
her when she fell asleep.
In her own words: “A man, I never knew existed,
collected my drain hair, clothes, and trash
and practically lived in my apartment for
four months.”
Gives you chills just thinking about it.
12.
The Man-Dog
This story will make you think twice before
you let your dog out.
As flaxenflare tells it, she was home alone
with her dog around midnight, as her husband
was still at work.
She let her dog out on a line to use the bathroom
one last time before heading to bed.
While she was putting her dishes away, the
dog started scratching at the door, so she
went to let him in.
Before she did, she looked through the peephole,
just to be on the safe side.
What she saw stopped her heart.
A man was standing on the other side, staring
at the door handle.
Then she heard another scratch at the door.
Instead of opening it, she raced to her cellphone
to call her husband.
He said he was on his way.
Meanwhile, she checked the front door again,
and he was still standing out there.
He looked up directly at her through the peephole
and smiled for a few seconds.
Then, he left.
Her husband arrived shortly after.
In flaxenflare’s own words: “It turns
out this man had cut the end of the line connected
to the pipe, and our dog decided this was
a good time for him to explore my neighbors'
backyard, which was where we found him.
It’s been three years since this happened,
we’ve since moved to a new house, and the
police weren’t able to come up with any
suspects.”
I suspect that this dog act wasn’t this
creepy person’s first rodeo.
Who knows how many times he’s done this
before….and how many times he’s succeeded.
11.
Rising from the Field
The following story was posted by lyk_if_u_cri_erytiem.
It’s not his original story, but it will
make you want to avoid deserted highways.
The poster wrote that he was driving a desolate
shortcut in the high desert highway east of
LA.
Amboy, a deserted town, was at the time a
known area for satan worshiping groups.
The OP was driving through a canyon bordered
by tall grass, when he spotted something in
the road up ahead.
It turned out to be two bodies - a man and
a woman - laying in the road next to a red
Pontiac Fiero with a suitcase and clothes
scattered across both lanes.
With his hair standing up on the back of his
neck, he rolled to a stop a hundred feet away.
He was a Marine and had a sixth sense about
this.
He thought the scene looked staged and wondered
if it could be a potential ambush.
As it would turn out, he was probably right.
He planned a line of attack to pass them by
and, when he was sure he had it down, he floored
it and went full speed ahead.
He managed to avoid hitting the bodies in
the road and sped forward a couple hundred
feet before looking back in the rearview mirror.
The bodies had risen from the ground to their
knees, and twenty or more people rose from
the grass on either side of the road.
In his own words: “I will never know what
would have happened to me had I gotten out
of the car to check on the bodies or stopped
my car closer to them…Sometimes real life
can be scarier than a movie.”
10.
Midnight Prowler
Have you ever found something seriously disturbing
on security footage?
Redditor, FatNDepressed, did and he posted
the following image.
It may give you nightmares.
The OP had a smart doorbell with a motion
detector camera.
Whenever it detected motion, the camera would
send a message to his phone, alerting him
that he had a visitor.
For a while he kept receiving notifications
at random times from 11PM to 2AM.
This happened several nights in a row, but
the camera didn’t seem to detect anything.
Then one night, he received the notifications
four or five times between the hours of 11PM
and 12AM.
No one appeared in the footage.
But then, at 4AM, it captured an image that
set his heart racing.
A man staring right into the camera wearing
this disturbing mask.
The OP wrote: “For all of the PM's and comments
regarding if I am alive, yes, I am…Visitor
never returned thankfully.”
“Thankfully” is right.
Who knows what that masked man wanted.
9.
Trust No One
EndiaBanana was a young girl, camping with
her mom and six-year-old brother, when three
or four men pulled up in a truck, all with
lights on their helmets, shining in her family’s
face, so that they couldn’t see the men
well.
Despite having no credentials or anything
official-looking about them or their vehicle,
they claimed to be “official campground
employees” and started questioning her mother
about what their plans were for the night.
Her mom was visibly shaken by it.
And rightly so.
Being a smart woman, the girl’s mother trusted
her gut and told her kids to grab only the
essentials and get into the car.
They drove to their grandma’s house and
stayed there instead that night, abandoning
everything else at the campsite.
They returned to the campground the following
morning to gather their things and found bootprints
leading to their tent, a halfway unzipped
zipper, bootprints on their sleeping bags.
And it was clear that their stuff had been
picked over.
EndiaBanana writes, “We never saw those
guys again, but we still wonder what would
have happened if we'd stayed.”
I’m guessing nothing good…
8.
The Glove Man
One redditor wrote a word of warning to other
redditors, entitled, “Warning men of Halifax:
The Glove Man.”
In his tale, he told of a man who seemed to
be running his own private Uber service.
He offered to give him a ride in his black
SUV, because he was “headed in the same
direction,” and the OP took up the offer.
As they were driving, the man began telling
him about his business selling leather gloves,
and he asked his passenger if he would try
some on.
They were too tight, but the man encouraged
him to squeeze them on.
When they didn’t fit, he gave the guy another
pair of gloves to try on, and the OP realized
the guy was breathing heavily.
In his own words: “This time it becomes
extremely obvious that he has a [obsession]
for young men wearing leather gloves and this
is how he gets off.”
He managed to escape the guy and, as it turned
out, the man was known to do this on the regular,
so this man’s reddit warning was very much
needed.
7.
Eric & Annie
This two found each other on reddit.
The pair seemed to take a liking to each other,
creating long comment chains that reached
upwards of twenty replies nearly every day.
They had a rapport, inside jokes, they even
had their own posts which they called “Eric
and Annie’s Branch”.
Needless to say, there was love there, but
Annie had a boyfriend.
When she broke up with this boy, Eric was
seeing someone.
Annie couldn’t take it and, although she
said he was an incredible person, she thought
it was best for the both of them that they
cut off contact.
She left.
Eric was heartbroken and wanted her desperately
to return.
He continued to post on “Eric and Annie’s
branch,” but all of the responses were his.
She never answered.
One of his messages read: “I miss you.
It's more than I describe, it colors every
moment of my life and it seems to have no
end.”
He made a final chilling post entitled “The
last branch Eric can make for Annie.”
Anyone following their tale of unrequited
love could see this statement as ominous.
One redditor said he attempted to contact
Eric and received no response.
What happened to Eric?
It remains a mystery to this day…
6.
Seedy Hotel
Ever stayed in a creepy hotel?
Then you’ll know what one woman felt like
after traveling solo for a family reunion.
She posted her terrifying tale in an account
that’s since been deleted.
After a series of delays pushed her travel
back, she pulled into a strip motel off a
backroad for the night.
The clerk at the front desk said it was cash
only, and looking back on it, she could see
this was a red flag.
When she got into the small dingy room, she
realized it was too dirty to sleep in.
There were signs of bed bugs on the mattress
and a cockroach made its way across the floor.
She decided to sleep in the back trunk hatch
of her SUV, using her clothes as a blanket.
She woke up after about an hour to hear someone
talking on the phone just outside at 3AM.
Peering out the window, she saw it was the
clerk who checked her in.
After finishing his phone call, he went to
her room, unlocked the door, and entered.
A moment later, he walked out, along with
another man.
They were speaking hotly to each other, then
the clerk headed over to her SUV.
She quickly covered herself with her clothes,
and the clerk couldn’t see her in the darkness.
After she escaped, she called the police three
weeks later after figuring out the hotel’s
name.
They said the hotel had closed down just two
days before.
Needless to say, there was more than one cockroach
at this hotel that night.
5.
$700,000
Some people use reddit as a last resort.
To seek help from strangers before their it’s
too late.
That’s what happened when bangarrangg posted
the simple request: “need $700,000.”
Years later, another redditor, theOsttle wrote:
“He was begging in the comments for a way
to get money and said he had no way to escape,
and the account just went dead.
Saw it once and it shot daggers up my spine.”
When redditors responded, mainly with jokes,
the OP posted a grainy photo of some men at
a distance and said he was being followed.
He claimed they were “the mob” and said
they’d probably get to him before he could
“make any moves.”
Being as the account went dead, we can only
guess that they finally did get to him.
It’s unlikely that he could have come up
with $700,000 in such a short amount of time.
4.
Man by the Window
skinna555 posted this freaky Snapchat to reddit
and asked for redditors’ thoughts on it.
In the video, he’s showing his friends three
Australian native pet birds, but there’s
something - or someone - mysterious in the
background.
It wasn’t until one of his friends responded,
“BTW [what] was that in the window behind
you in the last one?” that he noticed the
figure.
There appears to be someone looking in through
the door in the background, with their hands
cupped against it.
Though the figure is hard to discern, it isn’t
in the first video, taken moments earlier.
The thing that worried the OP most was that
he experienced sleep paralysis, and during
these episodes, he felt an evil presence:
“A faceless 'person' looking into my bedroom
window with their hands cupped to the glass.”
Having watched the video, maybe it all wasn’t
just in his head.
3.
Losing Time
Strange events unfolded whenever this anonymous
poster ran into a strange man in her apartment
complex.
“This is not something I feel I can discuss
with my family, or personal friends - but
I'm losing [it], here, so I feel the need
to work through it with someone,” she wrote.
She proceeded to explain to the reddit community
that when she was sixteen years old, she was
out walking her dog and happened to cross
paths with a man in his thirties, wearing
a big down coat.
He was just standing in the trail, not doing
anything.
He made her nervous, so after getting past
him on the trail, she cut through the trees
to return to her apartment.
But that was the last she remembers until
she was outside her apartment door, unlocking
it with her key.
It was like she lost time.
Three years later, she and her fiancé moved
back to that same apartment complex.
She was taking the trash out, when she heard
someone on their phone.
She looked up to find the same man, wearing
the same coat, holding an old flip-phone to
his ear.
He stared at her as he cussed someone named
Lauren out on the other end of the line.
Then, he broke the phone into pieces and threw
them on the ground, while the OP raced back
to her apartment building.
But, again, her mind blanks, and she doesn’t
remember what happened.
All she does remember is waking up in the
maternity ward.
Her fiancé had taken her in the middle of
the night, after she’d spiked a fever.
He said that she’d acted perfectly normal
after coming in from taking the trash out.
Even on the way to the hospital, she was chit
chatting.
Shortly after, she was diagnosed with the
flu and discharged.
Nearly a year later was the last time she
saw the man in the down coat.
This time, he didn’t wait for her.
He came knocking.
Her dog was growling at the door, which was
unusual for her.
When she answered the door, he was standing
on the other side.
After seeing him, she remembers nothing.
When she came to again an hour and a half
after opening the door to him, she was sitting
at her kitchen table, and the thermostat had
been set to 90 degrees.
The apartment was blazing hot.
She was dressed for work, and her baby was
crying in her crib, having not been changed
or fed yet.
Other than these changes, nothing had been
stolen, and there was no obvious indications
that he’d been there.
Apart from a little blood by the door, where
her dog, perhaps, had bit the man.
What’s going on here?
Many redditors suggested she visit a neurologist.
2.
Basement Chamber
This entry is a gentle reminder why you should
NOT respond to Craigslist ads for rented apartments.
ScarsAndStripes tells the story of his brother’s
girlfriend, who was searching for an apartment
and decided to answer a Craigslist ad that
she came across that said "Roommate Wanted:
Females Only."
The listing said that the roommate was a 23-year-old
female college student, and the apartment
itself was quite a deal.
She sent an email and was promptly responded
to with a time and a place to meet for a tour
of the apartment.
When she arrived at the place, a 40-year-old
man claiming to be the “landlord” answered
the door, said the roommate was working late,
and offered to give her a tour of the apartment.
The man seemed nice enough, so Amanda entered.
There was absolutely no furniture in the place.
There was only one light on in the kitchen.
One of the rooms was closed, and the landlord
said it was the roommate’s room, and they
shouldn’t invade her privacy.
As alarms started ringing in Amanda’s head,
she tried to make her way out of the place,
but the landlord said she hadn’t seen the
recently furnished basement yet.
When he opened the basement door, it blocked
Amanda’s way out.
Just at that moment, Amanda received a text
that she pretended was a phone call.
At the same time, they heard a car pull up
outside.
Thinking on her feet, Amanda told the pretend
person on the other end of the line that she
would come out front and let them in to take
a look at the apartment.
The guy looked confused as she passed him
and, once outside, raced to her car and left
immediately.
She told her brother and mother what had happened
when she got home, and they called the cops.
By that time, the Craiglist ad had been removed
and an investigation found that the property
had been deserted after the house was foreclosed
six months prior.
In the OP’s own words: “When the police
investigated…the man had tied a thin piece
of fishing twine at about shin level across
the stairs about halfway down.
The basement was empty except another pile
of old blankets, a broom handle wrapped in
leather belts, and a small box with a few
rolls of assorted tape (duct, electric, etc).”
Amanda made a narrow escape, all thanks to
thinking on her feet.
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1.
Aurora Theater
What’s it like in the midst of a horrific
events like what happened at the Aurora Theater
on July 20, 2012?
Neon_Pikachux3 posted her account of inside
Aurora theater in Colorado on the subreddit,
/r/LetsNotMeet.
The account was verified by reddit and her
identity confirmed.
“The eyewitness account you are about to
read is 100% true, and is mine,” the OP
writes.
The OP and her husband would often get together
with a group of friends at their local movie
theater, and they made a date to meet at the
midnight premier of Batman.
Her firsthand account of what happened that
night is riveting.
The pair met their three other friends at
the cinema at 10:30, and they found their
way to Theater 9, the largest screening room
at the cinema.
The theater was already packed, despite arriving
an hour and a half early.
Everyone was excited to see the movie, but
the OP was tired, having just finished a long
shift at work, so she was falling asleep off
and on.
The last scene she remembered seeing was when
Bruce Wayne was investigating Catwoman.
That’s when a bang went off on the left
side of the theater.
The theater suddenly smelt like a firework.
Then, on the right side, the OP spotted him.
And as she describes it "a series of flashing
lights” coming from him.
She felt frozen to her seat, and she couldn’t
think.
Her husband pulled her to the ground and shielded
her with his own body.
Shots went off, people were screaming, the
movie playing overtop of it all.
Gun smoke and teargas mixed in the air, along
with the metallic smell of blood.
When the bullets ceased for a moment, one
of her friends, Tommy, shouted, “Let’s
get out of here!”
And they made a run for it, towards one of
the green exit signs.
When they fell out into the night, another
of her friends, Samantha, lost her pink flip-flops.
The OP realized she was covered in blood,
as they all ran.
It was her husband’s, as he’d been hit
in the leg.
She screamed, and her scream alerted construction
workers, who came to help carry her husband
to safety.
They could hear more shots from inside the
building.
Brock survived the incident, but twelve people
unfortunately did not, and more than seventy
were injured.
One scene photo shows the path they took out
of the theater, including the pink flip-flops
Samantha was wearing.
And Holmes was following right behind them.
The OP ends her post, writing: “I hope you
rot in prison.”
He is likely to do so, as he was sentenced
to 12 life sentences without the possibility
of parole.
