1. 10 True Horror Stories That Will Make Your Skin Crawl I live in North Wales in the United Kingdom for anyone who has had the pleasure of visiting it is a truly beautiful place to live but for an adolescent boy it was certainly lacking in things to do as a result my friends and I would often find ourselves mindlessly exploring areas of the countryside and Coastline despite it being quite sparsely populated in comparison to the closest cities there is a dual Carriage Way running right through the coast of Wales into England there is also train tracks that run along this passage occasionally passing overhead via a small cement Bridge there was one night a few years ago when four of us randomly decided that we wanted to explore the inside of one of these Bridges as one of the group had observed a manhole cover nearby which we thought was an entrance on closer inspection we discovered that several tools would be required to gain entry we returned with the necessary equipment and proceeded to unbolt the cover this had to be done discreetly as the train track was right beside us not close close enough to be in any danger but it was definitely a small enough
Distance to cause Panic for any train driver and panic usually leads to the police around here it wasn't long before the heavy steel disc was removed and we descended the ladder into the structure once we all had safely reached the bottom we decided to progress to the other side so if you're confused as to what the hell this bridge is supposed to be you probably should be from what I understand this is not something that is normal elsewhere I would have never known that this place had an interior if we hadn't discovered the manhole so as we squeezed and crouched and at one point scraped along our stomachs there was a growing sense of claustrophobia between us the distance to the end was surprisingly long by the halfway point you could look down through the gaps and see the motorway below this was actually pretty cool which in a strange way helped keep us calm apart from the mild discomfort we were still just a group of guys on an adventure but things were about to change dramatically it was no more than a few meters beyond the halfway point when one
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of our group claimed that they could see an object in the distance at the far end after some hesitation we agreed to investigate which was a bad move I reached the end first and let me tell you I've never felt the same sense of dread before or since in front of me was a single fold away chair positioned facing a wall on the wall was a partially torn page from a magazine showing a naked woman in a erotic position the the reason that I just don't refer to it as porn was because there was something different about this I can't quite put my finger on it but it seemed to be more Sinister than sexy if that makes any sense what was even more disturbing the eyes of the woman on display had been cut out not just hastily ripped off they were removed with Precision the scene that lay before us had rendered us completely speechless in an overpowering sense of panic could be felt collectively that was when we found the blood drenched condom needless to say we got the out of there as fast as humanly possible smashing our knees and shins against the sharp cement edges of course we were all praying to
God that the manhole hadn't been resealed but it was impossible to tell until you got to the ladder itself thankfully the exit was clear and we promptly dashed as far away as our legs could carry us I'm sure this ending comes as a disappointment to some of you listening as we luckily never bumped into the Twisted individual who sat in that chair but I must stress how radically out of the norm this was given where I live there was a reason that I mentioned the population earlier there was easily enough people here to escape the Realms of the crazy country folk but nowhere near the amount of people to have someone lose their grip on society without anyone noticing for example there was literally one homeless man in our community who everyone in the area knew and grew quite fond of resulting in a mass gathering at his funeral when he passed away sometimes I think about the person who climbs down into that bridge and navigates through the darkness to sit facing that wall and do God knows what and the end result is a condom full of blood you honestly couldn't Envision a more surreal
situation what we unearth that night has not once been uttered to another Soul as a naive teenager it was the kind of thing that you just wanted to forget about but looking back on it now we probably should have let someone know about what was down there because this wasn't the activity of a healthy-minded individual so there you have it apologies if I got a bit carried away now that I'm quite a few years older and hopefully a bit braver I'm considering going down there again accompanied of course just to see what might be waiting so I would consider camping to be my passion it is the only hobby I have that I take so much interest in and get very excited to do more specifically camping by myself of course I camp with friends every once in a while but nothing really matches the experience of camping in the wild alone there's something about sitting next to a fire you made yourself until the late hours of the night and going to bed with nothing but the sounds of the wild to accompany you of course camping alone also means I experience some pretty scary it's usually animal related howls and cries from the woods send chills down my spine I've had bare
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Sniff and bad at my tent before which is absolutely terrifying and usually keeps me up for the rest of the the night I make sure not to keep any food inside my tent so no animal should ever really want to get inside the scariest thing to encounter out in the wild however is another person you would think that animal and human footsteps sound relatively similar but they don't I've only had it happen twice until now the first time it was just passing Footsteps in the grass they didn't do anything but it still scared me nonetheless the second time someone stopped and waited they sounded maybe 20 ft from my tent I was holding my breath until they just walked off again however about a month ago I had the scariest camping experience of my life it was probably about 2:00 a. m. I've been lying in my sleeping bag for about an hour just listening to the sounds of the wild when I heard footsteps approaching getting closer and closer it sounded like they were directly approaching my tent they stopped right in front of the entrance I
was trying my hardest to keep my breathing quiet I always take a handgun with me whenever I go camping just to stay safe that was the first thing that came to my mind when they stopped right in front of my tent I needed that gun so as quietly as I could I reached into my open backpack carefully filling around through the clothing and such until I finally found my gun and then quietly pulled it out I held it tightly staring at my tent door what happened next sent me into full panic mode the person outside my tent began to unzip my door it was slow like they were trying to be quiet at this point I thought no more assumptions you need to make sure you don't get murdered out here so I cocked my gun after that click the person stopped unzipping my tent I choked out the words if you open that you're dead I have a gun after that the person ran off faster than I ever heard anyone run I couldn't close my eyes after that I thought for sure that I was either going to be killed or have to kill someone that night to this day I still go camping alone the fear is honestly the best part
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2. about it you never really know what you're going to encounter in May of 2009 I had just broken up with my girlfriend of almost 3 years we had moved from Calgary to Toronto and were stuck living together after the breakup as we didn't know many people in the city yet needless to say the situation was pretty stressful and upsetting so when a buddy of mine I was going to school with suggested a weekend camping trip I jumped at the chance I grew up in an area about an hour outside of Toronto called flamboro it's quite Scenic with loads of lush forests Farm fields and small rivers and creeks we decided to camp in fish at grindstone Creek it was close to some wetlands and the fishing is supposed to be great we ended up setting up our camp in what is possibly a farmer's field that overlooked a gorgeous Forest I'm guessing it was trespassing on our part we spent the first evening fishing shooting the and drinking some quality Canadian brew as it got darker we made a small fire and roasted some potatoes and hot dogs overall it was a pretty good night we turned just after midnight we were sharing a tent my buddy fell asleep before I did and I stayed up playing on
my phone until probably around 1:30 I must have drifted off because the next thing I remember was being woken up by a high-pitched yelping kind of sound I was groggy at first and it took me a moment to fully wake up the yelping was insistent it kind of sounded like a coyote I laid there for a moment just listening and then started playing on my phone again the sound was annoying as hell I tried ignoring it however it seemed to get closer until it sounded like it was 10 ft from the tent at this point I was getting a bit unsettled I had seen coyotes in Calgary before and and I thought they were pretty harmless they never looked much bigger than a small dog but what if one was Rapid or something what if it could smell our food I have pretty bad anxiety and I'm prone to worrying about these kind of things I nudged my buddy to see if he was awake he was the disturbance had woke him up as well we discussed what to do we had brought nothing to scare off the critters not a BB gun or anything we ultimately decided that he would shine his flashlight on it and holler
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hopefully that would scare it off he exited the tent and I watched him pointing a flashlight out into the darkness I'll never forget what happened next his legs suddenly went all wobbly and he sort of stumbled back into the tent he had a dumbfounded look on his face he turned to me and babbled it's not a coyote it's a man some weird man is out there normally I would have thought that he was messing with me I'm a huge Wimp And scar pretty easily I don't even watch horror movies that much but I've never seen someone look that terrified and I never want to see that expression on someone's face ever again so I knew he wasn't pulling my leg the weirdy eling and Howling type noises were still going on in retrospect it really didn't sound like like a coyote I guess in our groggy States it was a way for our brains to sort of make sense of it he kept telling me just to look outside the tent to make sure he wasn't crazy at this point I was having a fully blown anxiety attack my heart was racing I was terrified beyond belief but I had to look so I slowly peaked out the flap and waited for my eyes to adjust and that's when I saw him there was someone standing only a few feet away from the
Tent he was swaying from side to side wearing a baseball cap but the scariest thing was that he seemed to be wearing women's lingerie that's when I knew that there was likely something very wrong with this guy if making high-pitch noises in the middle of the night didn't give that away I pulled my head back inside and my buddy and I discussed what we we should do next we decided to tell the guy to off my buddy began yelling um excuse me can you off we're trying to sleep here the noise stopped it became dead silent that's when we heard footsteps running towards the tent they stopped right outside but we didn't waste any time and began yelling again seriously off we have phones in here and if you don't go away we're calling the cops with that we heard him walk by the tent and back into the woods it sounded like he was moving towards the road needless to say we lied awake petrified into the first sign of sunlight we then hightailed it the hell out of there we talked about our experience on the way home and we were both pretty embarrassed about how frightened we got
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3. it definitely wasn't manly on either of our parts I think because we were both ashamed of how we allowed some weirdo to freak us out this much we really haven't even talked about it since that night I'll always wonder what the hell that guy was doing out there or what was wrong with him sometimes I wonder if things would have turned out different if we had been a couple of girls I'm not saying he was some serial killer but it seemed like he was testing out who was inside the tent I'll guess we'll never know and for that I'm kind of glad I absolutely love camping anytime my friends and I come home from college we will load up our cooler with beer grab some gear and go screw around outside unfortunately when I was actually at school none of my sorority sisters or other friends ever wanted to go with me so I would often suffer withdrawals from camping one day the weather was way too nice to waste so I grabbed some of my gear hopped in a car that I borrowed from a buddy of mine and drove to a spot that was secluded yet within safe distance to civilization in case I had to go run and get help camping also creeps me out
sometimes but that uncertainty is also kind of a plus for me it's the same reason that people read these kind of stories sometimes it's just fun to be scared so I make myself a little camp and get a fire going I hadn't brought all that much to eat but I was enjoying myself reading and looking around the area that sort of thing suddenly I got the feeling that I was being watched and I stopped dead in my tracks I hear a twig snap over to my right I then see a deer Bolt from 100 ft or so in front of me huh I laugh at myself and went back to my campsite with the armful of firewood I had gathered I kept psyching myself out hearing sounds just outside of the Ring of light cast by my fire I always kind of get inside my own head so I just shrug it off around 1:00 I decided to get into my tent and snuff out the lantern I have been slamming back beers in the most unladylike fashion and smoking cheap cigars another reason I like camping I can act however I want so I passed out relatively quick it was around 2:00 I began hearing footsteps they sounded pretty light almost sort of
timid I thought to myself it was another deer were more likely a raccoon because I had probably left some food out but still I'm on guard 30 minutes passed by of me sleeping with one eye open when I hear a rubbing noise the fabric of the tent was being slightly pushed I don't know how I didn't myself but I sat there paralyzed with my Kar in my hand I desperately wanted to thrust the knife through the tent fabric but I didn't still holding out hope that it was one of my friends just messing with me as I had told him where I would be that night then suddenly as it began it stopped I was starting to feel slightly more secure because daylight would be coming in about 2 or 3 hours but I sure a wasn't going back to sleep it was around 4:00 that I realized that I probably should put on my boots in case anything thing happened I would be ready to run after having stayed up and being alert for a while longer my friend's car alarm starts blaring so now I'm freaked out and I run out of the tent I get about two steps before something grabs me around the.
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mouth I try to scream but the person's pinky finger slips between my teeth I've heard that people can perform at superhuman Feats when they have huge adrenaline rushes in my case I just clamped down there's no way to say this without sounding ridiculous but I bit the finger off the person screamed he pulled his hand away as I spat out his finger he took off running downhill and I went in the opposite direction I must have looked insane to the people whose house I ran to a little Sorority Girl and a wife beater boxers and still toe boots and also had blood coming down my lip because I had accidentally managed to take out a pretty good chunk of my own lip in the process I told them what happened and they called the police and got me some real clothing the man at the house made me some whiskey and Coke while we waited it stung like hell as it went down but it was worth it when the cops got there they checked it out when they came back it was daytime they escorted me back so I could get my friend's car and what I saw once we got there made me even more frightened right next to the tent was a red gas can this person could have just
lit me on fire at any time the finger was also gone suggesting that he had returned at some point to get it the kicker is that they never caught the guy so Somewhere Out There is a man sitting down at dinner maybe alone maybe with a wife and a couple of kids and if you look at his right hand his pinky will be missing this happened in 2019 I was in my second year of college at the time I lived with two other girls in a town home but they were back at their parents house for the holiday I work in healthcare and would be working Christmas that year a bit of backstory there used to be four of us living there but one of our roommates had to move out due to issues with her boyfriend he suffered from a condition called jackass he was supposed to come every so often but basically ended up living there we told her that she had to kick him out after an incident where he got physical with her and verbally abusive with the rest of us she wouldn't listen and we told her that she would have to talk to the landlord long story short she ended up moving out and left on bad terms with us on her another side note I've also been.
in an abusive relationship so I understand how things might have been for her I tried my best for 2 years at that point to help her open her eyes and get her away from him but you know how it goes the entire situation was affecting everyone that lived there and we didn't feel safe with him around so she had to move out it was Christmas Eve and I had to work the next day so I was getting ready for bed I locked the doors turned off all the lights and went downstairs to the basement where my bedroom was I was scrolling on my phone for about an hour it was Christmas Day at this point that's when I heard what sounded like chairs in the kitchen being moved the kitchen is is right above my bedroom I thought maybe I was hearing the neighbors next door as we share the same walls and sometimes they can be loud but I remember one of them texting me and asking me to bring in a package they were expecting since they were gone the noise was brief so I just brushed it off the next thing I knew my bedroom door is being creaked open in this moment I get a flashback and remembered my second grade teacher.
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4. telling us about the time someone had broke into her house and she acted as if she was sleeping so if they were just there to rob her they wouldn't feel the need to hurt her but my phone screen was lighting up my scared jaw-dropped face so I was unable to put on that facade my bed faces directly to the door so we're just looking right at each other I was myself while the Intruder had one foot in my bedroom with the door cracked open it felt like an eternity but in reality it was probably only about 10 seconds we were just staring at each other he slowly closes my door I just sit there in complete and utter shock I could not make out what he looked like as my eyes were still adjusting to the dark all I could see was a backward baseball cap I knew that I had to call the police but my anxious ass knew that if I called it would alert my parents it was part of our phone plan me being dumb as hell didn't want to worry them I was also scared that he might still be in the house and I didn't know what he would do if he heard me call so I texted my boyfriend some random guy just broke into my house and came into my room he immediately snapped me out of it and
texted back call the police the dispatcher asked me if I felt comfortable to go unlock the front door for them so they wouldn't have to break it down I told her no way I don't care if the door is broken I'm not going up there alone a couple minutes later I see flashlight shining through my window I hear the police knocking at the door and announcing themselves once they were in inside they asked me where I was I came out of my room and they escorted me outside they told me to wait on the back porch while they searched the house it was like a scene straight out of a horror movie they didn't find anyone and said that it looked like nothing had been taken and that there were no signs of forced entry my boyfriend came and stayed with me for the rest of that night but I still couldn't sleep I kept getting up to check every inch of the house I placed chairs under the door handles on the front door back door and even my bedroom the next day I informed our landlord what happened but she refused to come out and change the locks even when winter break was over for the rest of the time we stayed there the locks
were never changed I believe it was our old roommates boyfriend I think he had an extra key made for him at some point because he was basically living there but I don't understand why he didn't do anything to me and he didn't take anything if I'm wrong and it was somebody random I don't know why they wouldn't have done what they intended what were their intentions well that could have been any number of things so I live in a dorm on campus at my college I was back a week early during winter break for Greek recruitment basically interviewing with and visiting different sororities and the only people on campus were a few other students doing the same and a skeleton crew they didn't have the cleaning company dining hall staff or even our resident assistants around there were four dorm Towers 12 floors each I was the only one on my floor and one of only a few in the entire Tower to get up to the dorm this week you had to check in with the front desk to get your key activated if you didn't have a key coded to a specific Tower or room you wouldn't even be able to access the elevator now I was in my room on the second night of the week I had settled.
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back in and sitting on my futon back against one of the armrests and facing the door the rooms were your typical long rectangles with a window on one end and a door on the other my bed was lofted above me and a blanket was hanging down so you essentially couldn't see me from the doorway I was lying there when I heard the door opening Not only was there a distinct sound of the key card going in like a hotel room door I also have Christmas ornaments hanging from the ceiling I knew that the door had opened all the way because it had hit an ornament causing it to fall off its hook I froze in fear I knew my roommate wasn't back and neither was my ra and those are the only two people that would have access to my room my first thought was that whoever this was would realize their mistake and quickly back out kind of like opening an occupied bathroom stall but as I sat there barely breathing I heard them taking two steps forward and even bumping into my suitcase face which was taking up most of the doorway I adjusted slightly moving to reach my phone causing my futon to squeak instantly the
footsteps retreated and the door closed I was stuck where I was for maybe an hour until I could finally muster up the courage to get up there on the ground was the broken ornament and my suitcase sitting slightly a jar I texted my roommate in my r practically begging them to tell me that they were back but my roommate was still in London and my ra confirmed my worst fears but she also had no idea who would be able to get into my room even if the cleaning people or maintenance guys were back they didn't have permission to go into the dorms nor any way to get in she assured me she would let the front desk know and also suggested it was probably a spring admission student who had gotten the wrong key I accepted that as an answer they were confused heard the futon and realized they had got the wrong room it would never happen again if that was it but I still struggled to sleep that night I even felt terrified to turn around and look at the door when I woke up the next morning night returned unable to sleep and still very scared I was once again up late browsing Reddit this time I had my phone close to me and had taped a piece of string over the door Since I no
longer had my ornament alarm I needed to validate that I wasn't going crazy once again at 3:00 a. m. I heard heavy footsteps outside my door the destiny use of a key card and my door opening up I stayed perfectly still and I realized I could see a reflection of a silhouette in the microwave door which sat against the window facing the doorway they stood there and nearly filled up the entire doorway the light from the hallway streaming around them into my dark room I once again found myself Frozen convinced whoever this person was had ill intent last night wasn't a mistake I hit play on a video I had queued up and as soon as the ad started playing the figure left and the door closed behind them and the footsteps retreated I told my ra and my roommate about this as well as the front desk the next morning all of them confirmed that no one else had a registered key for my floor in my tower whether it was another student or employees I didn't sleep for the rest of that week and kept my suitcase and chair.
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5. in front of the door but it never happened again but even now months later that 9x2 room is terrifying to me whenever I'm there alone at night since whoever comes through that door is only a few steps away from my bed and blocks the only way out this happened 20 years ago I was driving back home with my girlfriend at the time it was Christmas Eve and my mother's family used to hold a large celebration at my aunt's house in estate this was my girlfriend's first time meeting with my extended family but she got on quite well with them we spent the majority of the afternoon and evening talking playing poker opening presents and drinking an assortment of adult beverages my girlfriend had been quite inebriated by the time we had to leave therefore I would be dro driving us home it was around 11:00 p. m. or so and I was driving my girlfriend's car along highway to 11 now this stretch of road is surrounded by farms and dense patches of forest there are parts of it that are completely unlit but nothing to fear I grew up in this area so I knew this road like the back of my hand both of us were
just driving and talking away there's a portion of the highway that descends down an enormous hill before Crossing Deep Creek surrounding both sides of the road is a thick forest the only thing that we could see was the area directly in front of our headlights I drove down the hill cross the bridge then back uphill through more Forest it was when the highway begins to flatten out again that it happened something Sprints across the road so quickly I nearly hit whatever it was I slam on the brakes I turned to my girlfriend hey did you just see that she confirmed that she had but couldn't make out what it was maybe it was a coyote they're a fairly common sight around this area but something fell off about this entire situation whatever it was ran out in front of the car then disappeared into the woods coyotes usually don't dart out in front of cars like that so for some reason I decided to check it out I turn the car around and switch on the high beams to illuminate the forest I then step out of the car and began walking towards the woods I don't see anything but as I drew closer to the
tree line it feels like perhaps I had made a grave mistake my heart was pounding and the hairs on the back of my neck were now standing at full attention I don't see anything unusual in the trees then suddenly the car horn [Music] blasts I hurri back to the car and ask my girlfriend what was going on she didn't say anything instead she pointed to a spot about 50 ft from where I was standing I look over in that direction and that's when I saw it without a doubt this was the thing that ran in front of our car it appeared to be a man completely naked his skin was covered in mud and in one of his hands he was holding a hatchet he looked back at us and then he smiled then waved just before turning around and walking back into the forest needless to say we got the hell out of there once we were safely on the road again my girlfriend explained what had just happened while I was trying to look for the man in the direction that he initially vanished in he circled around and came out from another spot in the forest beyond the car's
headlights my girlfriend had seen something out of the the corner of her eye and that's when she spotted him before she honked the horn he was walking toward me his Hatchet raised as if making to strike me we called the authorities once we safely got back home but they never found anybody the officer we spoke to explained his theory the man was looking to Ambush unsuspecting Travelers we all agreed that my girlfriend's quick thinking saved my life that night as it let my potential murderer know that I wasn't alone out there I moved back into that area recently so now I drive on that Highway often there hasn't been any naked Hatchet Man sightings yet but I can tell you that I'm definitely extra vigilant now especially whenever I'm near Deep Creek I'm a female living in New England this took place several years ago in a decent neighborhood the day before my 10th birthday I was arriving home with my mother and my younger brother from one of his soccer games when we pulled in my brother noticed a yard sail next door this house was run down apparently some police activity went on there before I
6. was born but that was over with now right a man walks up to us and introduces himself we'll call him Ry now Ry was renting from the woman who owned the place basically this woman had a house with four bedrooms one for her one for her disabled son and the other two rooms were rented out Ray seemed nice he played a bit of soccer on the sidewalk with my younger brother and spoke kindly with my mother he looked a bit trashy but I didn't care I just wanted to go inside and play some Minecraft not thinking much about the ordeal that was in October a few months later and late January I was barely awake when my dad came into my room and picked me up out of bed and carried me to the master bedroom where my mom and brother were the master bedroom is the furthest room away from the house next door I didn't like being disturbed so I ran back to my bedroom my dad then yelled at me saying that there were police next door and that I should go back into the other room I did as I was told I was scared apparently Rey's ex had gone over to the house to pick up some of her things and she brought her new boyfriend along with her Ray started stabbing the boyfriend and the police were called
guns drawn and all I thought that was a one-time instance and that we would be safe after that March rolls around my mom picked me up from school as usual my brother was staying after school for some guitar lessons she would get him later I threw my backpack in the trunk and I asked her why there were so many suitcases back there she cheerfully explained that we were staying at a hotel for the night we drove around town and finally she said my dad would take me back home and suddenly we were no longer staying at a hotel I thought all of this was very strange I came home with my dad I noticed that there was police tape on our lawn my dad said that they had found drugs in Ray's house that comment didn't really settle in until later the full story was Ry was doing PCP on his front steps soone noticed and called the cops the police came half chased Ray into the next town over investigated the house an officer picked up a package with drugs and immediate begins to have a bad reaction a biohazard unit had to be called and they found a drug lab inside the house the police advised my parents to evacuate it turns out it wasn't meth so we could come back but he was
7. manufacturing PCP right next door my mom arrives home with my brother a few hours after me and Dad and that's when reality sets in I had an anxiety attack I couldn't eat and I sat behind our couch using it as a makeshift bunker I couldn't get any sleep on that night after Ry was released from jail he goes right back to his illegal lifestyle apparently the evidence room was tampered with so he couldn't be convicted Meanwhile my family has bought a new house a large dog security cameras and plenty of weapons my brother and I were already attending therapy but now our sessions happen to be more fre quent we would be moving out in 2 months during this time Ray would watch us from his back porch just sitting there and staring at us my dad confronted him once and Ry started shouting death threats at him which upset me even more the day we moved Ry let his Pitbull loose it was in the evening and he didn't know that we had already left he just knew it was around the time that we usually walked our dog a a month after moving out Ray strolled into a local food store jacked up on PCP he tried to kidnap a small child thankfully the kid's parents noticed Ray dropped the child and tried
to hide but the police eventually caught up with him but here's a real kicker he was released from jail a month later because the cells were too full no transfers nothing it was like he was acquitted of all charges in legal terms I'm not sure what the outcome of this whole ordeal was but if he was capable of kidnapping what could he have done to me or my younger brother I have pushed this from the back of my mind in the past couple of months because any activity has seemingly stopped yet somehow I knew this silence was too good to be true and eventually we would hear from him again sooner or later it all started a few months ago a guy messaged me on Facebook and unlike the usual creepy messages I get this one sounded intelligent and funny we started chatting from time to time talking about anything and everything he said he was divorced with one child and I kind of empathized every time he would complain about his ex-wife even though it also kind of bothered me that he would tell all of these personal details to a virtual stranger after all no matter what happened between them she was still the mother of his kid please have some
8. respect we continued chatting and I'm getting more relaxed we were at the stage where we would often discuss our daily lives and inevitably I talked about my best friend with whom I'm extremely close with we were like sisters but at that particular time she was very busy with changes happening at her work she was was also having issues with a guy she had met and things were complicated and she promised me that she would explain everything in detail when there was more time to meet now keep in mind that under normal circumstances I would have known every little detail about it but as it happened then there wasn't sufficient time to properly see each other and talk so I only knew the basics no names or pictures Etc so I'm talking to uh for the sake of the story we'll just call him jakee and I'm beginning to notice that every time we have a conversation he would casually direct the discussion towards my best friend we'll call her Jenna I have mentioned to him that we've known each other since we were babies and practically grew up together so he would always ask me to tell him funny stories about our childhood and our teenage years then proceeded inquiring about what she's like now and what kind
of guy she goes for ETC I would jokingly asked if he got tired of me would he want her number but he would deflect with awkward humor so I didn't really read too much into it some time had passed and things are a bit calmer at Jenna's work so we finally got a chance to meet up for drinks inevitably we start talking about Jake I told her about him and she's smiling and nodding until I take out my phone and show her his pictures her face goes pale she grabs my phone and says this is him this is the guy I told you about at first I assumed that she was joking she is prone to messing with me but she looks dead serious so I began asking questions it turns out she met him on a dating app and when they talked she was under the same impression that I was that he was smart charming and cultured so so when he eventually asked her out she gladly accepted they went out had some drinks and talked and everything was fine until by the end of the evening when he got a bit too grabby with her and was insistent for more than just a good n night kiss he offered to drive her home even though she had taken her own car there and suggested that he could pick her up
9. in the morning and they could go back together and get her car since Jenna didn't want him to know where she stayed she was annoyed by his advances she refused and managed to escape him somehow she told me that she was afraid that Jake would follow her home so instead she went to a bar where a friend of hers worked at the next day he called her and apologized for his behavior blaming it on the alcohol and the stress from his job and then told her that he had to admit something to her because he really liked her and wanted to be honest she agreed and they met up again that's when he admitted that he was actually in the process of getting a divorce but hadn't filed for it yet and he was still living with his wife and small child because she didn't have a job and he couldn't just leave her alone this was only a temporary thing until she got financially stable Jenna being the blunt girl that she is called on his story and accused him of being yet another married man out to cheat on his wife and using false excuses for sympathy the guy worked in sales so he was really smooth talking and convincing so I don't know how he managed to appease her doubts at least
to the point of not cutting him off right then and there but some time passes and he chats to her online calls her and they talk but Jenna tells him that the only way that they would ever be intimate with each other is that she sees proof that he is actually divor divorced and Liv separately from his ex-wife one day he calls her up and tells her that he will put his wife on the phone to prove even though they live together they sleep in separate rooms and are technically separated a woman's voice actually confirms that but this leaves Jenna more puzzled than reassured she's conflicted because despite everything she really likes this guy and is therefore worried not to get herself into a mess if she falls deeper she's still hesitant to accept his invitations to meet so one day he accidentally walks past her workplace at exactly the time she's done with her shift what are the chances right she agrees to go grab a drink with him as long as they act platonic he promises and apparently that is also when she tells him more about her life childhood Etc and that's where I'm brought up in that conversation he listens to her carefully
and when she Compares both timelines it turns out a few days after that Jake begins to message me on Facebook we were both livid so we decided to confront him separately and then compare notes when I got back home I texted him asking why he had lied to me about being divorced when he was clearly still living with his family and more importantly why he even started talking to me when he was apparently seeing my best friend he was unprepared for that but he bounced back and gave me some excuse about how he was just curious about me when he had heard so much from Jenna and wanted to see what I looked like so he went through her Facebook friends and found me mind you she hadn't added him on Facebook so he basically stalked her profile to gather that information just like when she didn't tell him exactly where she worked yet he had accidentally by some marle walked past there when Jenna confronted him he told her that he was just curious and wanted to hear about her from the person who knows her best she told him that it was wrong and creepy on so many levels but he insisted that he had no bad intentions and he just allowed his
10. curiosity to get the better of him Etc when we compared notes after that Jenna and I just decided to stop talking to him all together because this guy was clearly a pathological liar and also extremely creepy we each tell him that we don't want to talk to him or see him ever again and even though he was shocked and tries to convince us otherwise he eventually accepts that and says that if we ever change our mind he'll be happy to talk we think it's over oh oh how naive we were at first he seemed to take it well but then he would again quote accidentally send a picture or message that was intended for somebody else but mistakenly sent it to me or Jenna so he could initiate a conversation he would attempt to ask her or me out again get denied and then Retreat again until the next message or call then the random bumping into each other ensued whenever we would go out on my way to work or to the market to the cafe or Jenna's gym he would be there of course all of this was random coincidence we were more annoyed than scared at this point we still thought he
was a longy piece of but ultimately harmless so there wasn't much that we could do except waited out and hope that he would eventually move on wrong one day Jenna comes to my place freaked out she tells me that she was on a date with a new guy and she saw Jake passing by the restaurant she was in then later called her in hysterics screaming at her look what you did I can't get you out of my mind because of you I got so angry I hit my child and chased my wife out of the house she got fed up with him and responded and told him to never bother her again and go seek a therapist because he clearly has issues and then she blocked him that creeped us both out because not only was he not moving on he seemed to have been escalating and becoming aggressive I told her that if he calls her again she should threaten to call the police and report him for being allegedly abusive toward his family we were in the middle of discussing this when I got a call from an unknown number I normally don't pick those up but I was also waiting for a package to be dropped off and thought that it might be the delivery man but it was Jake he
was crying into the phone sobbing and pleading with me to convince Jenna to unblock him that it wasn't fair and I had to help him he sounded insane I was shocked to hear him in this state it was such a contrast to his normally smooth demeanor so I calmly told him to start acting like a grown man and to calm down it wasn't my place to convince Jenna of anything after she had made up her mind especially after him acting crazy and the claims about hitting his child and chasing his wife out he then told me that he didn't really do that but just wanted to make Jenna feel guilty and scare her into talking to him he began to apologize profusely and said that he was at his Wit's End and didn't know what to do I told him that he had gone way too far and that if he ever proceeded to contact or stalk us again we would go to the police I hung up on him and blocked him as well the police threat seemed to work and we haven't heard from him in about 2 months but yesterday jenet and I were at a mutual friend's birthday party and guess who was the birthday girls + one here's some background information to give you a bit of understanding of
what my life was like back in the late 2000s early 2010s I grew up in a very dysfunctional household my parents hated each other and both my extended and immediate family were plagued by mental illness and drug addiction so needless to say I was a very anxious child who was drawn to unstable people and it goes without saying that they were drawn to me as well I was a shy 11-year-old girl who like many others before me use the internet as a way to vent my frustrations this was the time where AOL was still the main source of communication I was no stranger to this along with Myspace and Facebook however I wasn't like the typical pretty of my era or so I thought I kept all my profiles private and never accepted a friend request from anyone I didn't know and never shared my location on these said profiles this is the part where I introduce Tanya Tanya isn't her real name of course I don't want to use her real name in case she happens to read this thread watches a YouTube channel or listens to a podcast we met in elementary school at one of the points in my life where my
family situation was quite volatile and in retrospect I think she could pick up on this I was vulnerable and Tanya took advantage of my innocence she never really displayed any signs of her true intentions at the beginning as sociopaths never usually do she would do Shady things every now and again manipulate me into begging my mom to stay on the computer until the we hours of the morning so we could go on not safe for work websites she once ghosted me when I didn't give her my favorite pen she yelled at me when I couldn't perfect a guitar solo on Guitar Hero these were the early warning signs she did some other things to me that I believe my mind blocked out due to trauma my mom didn't like her either parents always had this weird intuition when it comes to friends and I wish to God I would have listened to my mom before Tanya did what she did Tanya's Behavior changed for the worse when I turned 11 she was openly jealous of My Success in school granted she was incredibly smart herself but she always made it a point to mock me for having great grades and would always comment since quote I wasn't pretty enough having good grades
would be a nice balance end quote real classy right it took me a while to build my self-esteem after all the snide remarks she would make about my weight and my face as a result of all of her jealousy and growing resentment towards me she began to plot my downfall I make no exaggeration either this girl literally tried to ruin my self-worth even more than she already had it all started in Middle School Tanya and I were remarkably close that year and I wanted to do everything together with her we would talk all day in school and would chat on night on instant messenger on one particular evening Tanya and I were talking about boys being that we were in the harmonal pre-teen stage our conversations would usually turn into who we liked in school that day being that I had a horrible relationship with my own father I didn't really trust boys from an early age it was rare if I ever developed a crush on one I remember Tanya and I's conversations went a little something like this do you know Mark the kid of my class yeah why I heard he likes you what no
way totally he told me himself do you want me to talk to him and maybe give him your username yeah of course thank you Tanya my heart was racing a boy liked me impossible when Tanya told me that she would give Mark my username I nearly exploded in my seat 11-year-old me could not believe I was going to have an actual real boyfriend oh boy how wrong I was fast forward to the next night I was getting ready for bed when I heard the famous AOL notification You've got mail when I checked the notification it was a message from Mary boy 99 Tanya really talked to Mark and gave him my username she was truly the best he messaged me with the usual hey I responded uh hey not even a minute later he messaged me back and we talked all night about everything our days how school was what type of silly bands we liked typical 11-year-old stuff I have to admit that I was smitten right off the bat I think it was partially because I never really had a boy that liked me before and another part of me being that my self-esteem was so low that I never thought anyone would be capable of liking me also it could
have been because Mark was one of the most popular boys in school at the time he played football was mouthy towards the teachers it was extremely outgoing all the things a young girl would be attracted to we talked for months my puppy love growing for him more and more every time we chatted of course I never spoke to him on the phone nor did I get his phone number because why do that right while I was speaking to him Tanya would tell me how proud she was of me and that I deserved a boyfriend my suspicions of Mark only began to grow when I attempted to approach him during school hours again I had bad anxiety and never really spoke to Mark outside of instant messenger when I went to talk to him Mark looked confused as if he had never had a conversation with me before in his life he turned away from me on the playground and walked over to his group of friends huh weird this wasn't like him he was usually so chatty with me online that I expected him to welcome me with open arms my ego was bruised my 11-year-old mind tried to rationalize this Behavior by chalking it
up to him not wanting to be seen talking to the nerdy girl since he was so popular and just preferred to keep our relationship online I told Tanya the news and she seemed to be genuinely heartbroken for me she was just as angry as I was and vowed to confront Mark later that day during music class I was happy I thought Tanya had my back and as far as I knew she was going to tell mark off about him being a total jerk to me well it worked later that night I got a message from Mark telling me about how sorry he was for ignoring me and that he was just going through some family things well I fell back in love I didn't care that Mark ignored me during school I didn't care about him rejecting my advances in person as long as he would talk to me online and as long as I had Tanya's support I would be fine I even told my mom about him and she was extremely happy for me as well another month passed this was March 31st Mark messaged me and told me that he had something very important to tell me the next day my anxiety began to act up again what could it be at that point I considered myself and Mark to be
dating so so I was scared that he was either going to break it off with me or that he was just going to make us public in school the next day I told my mom and Tanya almost on the verge of tears of how excited and nervous I was well the next day April 1st rolled around and this is what followed it was around 7:00 p. m. and I was on Club Penguin when I heard a familiar sound You've Got Mail it was Mark it was time for the big news I have been waiting for all day hey babe hey I've been waiting for you to chat me all night sorry about that I was at practice are you ready for the news I was shaking in anticipation at this point even writing this now a whole salute of emotions are resurfacing yes of course it was then that Mark sent me a picture I opened it up but only it wasn't mark it was Tanya and she was holding a handwritten sign that said happy April Fool's Day At first I started laughing and I mean it was an ugly laugh of course it was a prank T had got me so
good right right it was only then when the realiz hit me that I began to cry I felt so betrayed Tanya had been behind Mark all along and she had been planning this big joke since last October she had been so jealous of me that she pretended to be somebody else and string me along and she knew that I was already in a rough Place mentally Tanya had been at this for 6 months an 11-year-old girl plotted and tricked me into believing that I had a boyfriend all the while telling me she was happy for me and that Mark and I were a cute couple I told my mom she told Tanya's mom about what her daughter had done and to never speak to me again I was crushed my own best friend of 3 years had cherished me because she simply wanted to play a joke I was loyal to her and she toyed with my emotions in the months that followed leading into seventh GR grade Tanya tried multiple times to Guilt Trip me into being her friend again one of the more memorable and honestly messed up times being that she messaged me a few days after my birthday in August to tell me that her mother had died in a horrible car crash her body was dismembered and that they could only
find her head and wedding ring as anyone would be I was in tears Tanya's mother was nothing but loving towards me and learning that she had died in such a violent way crushed my soul I started talking to Tanya again asking her when her mother's funeral would be Tanya then revealed to me seconds later after speaking to her about the grizzly details over her mom's death that she was just kidding and was pranking me again and that I was stupid to believe her she even sent a video of her laughing at me I was disgusted what kind of now 12-year-old would make make something like that up about their own mother Tanya revealed her evil intentions at the beginning of seventh grade she had become friends with a girl named Kaylee they both invited me to sit with them at lunch because I was desperate for friends I stupidly accepted only to be met with hordes of insults and laughter behind my back Tanya then messaged me one night telling me to end my own life and that the world would be a much better place without me in it she also had Kaye tell me to jump off a bridge Tanya told me that she hated me and she was never really my friend to begin with that I deserved all the pain
that she had put me through the year prior again I turned to my mom who then called the police she had enough of Tanya and so had I for 4 years I had to put up with Tan's malicious behavior and I mentally couldn't handle it anymore my mom had me delete my AOL account and Tanya's mom told her to never contact me again I was also advised to move lunch tables but I was hellbent on not allowing Tanya to win for the remainder of seventh grade I sat at the same table as Tanya only I spoke to my friends on the other side of the table I never spoke to her looked at her or gave her any sort of attention Kaylee was scared to death of me afterward as as the police had gotten in contact with her family as well it's been 10 years and I still haven't spoken to Tanya I'm now 22 years old and I have two bachelor's degrees one in Psychology and the other in history I am now working towards my master's and clinical social work Tanya has done more than what is mentioned here I could write a whole other story about it but I think writing this one helped give me some closure on the part of my childhood that has scared me for years I thank God for my mom
stepping in when she did because I don't know where I would be without her as for Tanya I really don't know what ever became of her on the off chance she stumbles upon this story I have a message for her your jealousy and wishes for death upon me did not win and I truly hope Karma does not come around one day to bite you in the ass there's always a reason to be afraid
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