foreign it was senior year I had just recently started dating my fiance Mark we were approaching the end of the school year and so prom was coming up I didn't really know if I wanted to go because I just finally changed all of my contact info and my family moved to a new house because of my old stalker X Daryl who's four years older than me I was 18 and he was 22. we met when I was going through a rough time in my life long story but he turned out to be a psychotic he got kicked out of the army and started doing hard drugs like heroin I read More
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distanced myself from him as much as I could but he was relentless he attempted to break into my family's home at least three times and I had to get a restraining order against him but my family was worried for me and for all of us so we had to move to another house the reason I was hesitant about going to prom was because I knew my ex Daryl knew about it we used to talk about going to my prom together ever since our move my friends would drive me home and make sure we weren't followed I really lived in fear I was scared
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Daryl would show up to the prom venue and try to find me Mark has always been very understanding and supportive and he assured me he wouldn't tell me to go to prom if he didn't think he would be safe he made me feel comfortable with it we and our friends went in a limousine together to The Venue which was a fancy catering hall about 30 minutes away we all sat at our table and had food and just hung out for a while some people went to dance Mark and I included for a while I couldn't help but be paranoid for a while that Daryl was in the building
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somehow one of Mark's friends handed me a little shot bottle of vodka and told me it would calm my nerves I drank it in the bathroom and almost threw up but within half an hour it really did take the edge off a few hours later our group wanted to leave for What's called the after prom where you basically start drinking and continuing the party elsewhere with your friends as we walked outside of the venue to our respective rides I saw one car parked in front of the venue that didn't have its lights on I didn't know what Daryl drove
at that point or if he drove but I saw someone sitting in it they had a baseball hat on and were looking down so I couldn't see their face I pointed it out to Mark he told me to relax there's no way it's him we got in our friend's car who was picking us up and we drove to our friend Melissa's house was having a little after party the whole ride I kept looking behind us seeing if we were being followed but I couldn't tell because there were so many cars on the road I remember Mark whispering to me relax everything's fine and he held my hand
and it helped calm me down so much we arrived to Melissa's house and there were already people at her house at the peak of the night I'd say there were 20 people there and everyone was drinking eventually Mark and I wanted to go home so Mark called his sister to come pick us up and when she got there we went straight out to her car I looked around the street for any sketchy looking cars but didn't see anything and at this point I officially convinced myself I was just being paranoid Mark's sister drove us back to their house where I would be sleeping over it
was just his mom and his sister home his dad is retired cop but he was still working at the time and he was working a late shift that night his mom was already asleep it was very late Mark and I just went downstairs to his room to crawl into bed the whole den floor of the house was his floor it had a mini kitchen bedroom and living room his floor was level with the backyard and so it had a back door it was a warm night so some of the windows were cracked open we were watching a funny movie that was when we heard a bang on the glass door that led to the backyard the sliding curtain was covering the
doors so we couldn't see who or what did it I shrieked and Mark jumped up to open the curtain one was on the other side but there was a Post-It note slapped on the door with the word on it you found me he followed me from the prom to Melissa's house to hear and he probably heard me laughing and knew I was down here my paranoia was right all along we went upstairs to Mark's Mom's room and woke her up and called Mark's dad and the police waiting for Mark's dad and the rest of
the police to arrive felt like an actual eternity when the doorbell finally rang followed by loud knocks Mark and his mom went to go answer the door it was the police I had to explain the whole story with my ex and the restraining order and now being followed by him here they asked if there were any cameras on the property to which Mark's mom said no then they asked me if I had any texts from him or if perhaps I knew where he lived I told them I didn't have his number anymore and I had no idea where he lived anymore either Mark's dad finally arrived on the scene
I took the Post-it note from the door home with me to try and compare it to other handwriting from Daryl and it definitely matched Mark's dad gave me a ride to my house in his police car so that we could be sure I wouldn't be followed during the ride home I called our home phone and my dad picked up I cried to him into the phone hysterically after arriving home my parents were waiting in the front for me Mark's dad assured my parents we weren't followed during this period mark and I couldn't go to each other's houses
Mark's parents had security cameras installed the same week and this next part is truly unbelievable one of the side cameras on their property picked up motion which alerted Mark's dad's phone he grabbed his gun and ran outside to the smell of gasoline he followed the smell until he heard the sound of liquid being poured out of a can and there he saw Daryl pouring out gasoline on the sides of their house with his gun drawn Mark's dad yelled at him to drop the can and put his hands up and that was the moment Daryl was no longer going to be a threat to my or my loved one's lives I call it the sweetest
Justice that my future fiance's Cobb dad was the one to arrest my psychotic ex-boyfriend who ruined so many years of my life and had me living in worry he was sentenced to over 30 years for his crimes the worst of which of course was attempted arson on a police officer's house [Music] it was 2017. I was 17 getting ready for prom and of course girls have it harder because instead of the guys who just rent the same tuxedos girls have to find a nice dress that they're going to keep and of course prom dresses aren't cheap
if you want a nice one at least my parents didn't want to spend over two hundred dollars for a prom dress so my mom suggested I look online for a used one she'd even help me we scrolled on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace which had just become a thing back then and wasn't as popular as it is today there wasn't really any luck on Facebook Marketplace so we mainly searched Craigslist we found a listing for a dress that we both liked it was a navy blue evening gown fifty dollars it said it was worn once for prom the seller lived pretty close too so I contacted the number listed on the
listing and in under 10 minutes I got a text back after expressing my interest and asking a couple sizing questions the person offered to come to our house to drop it off to us but my mom said no to having someone from Craigslist come to our house so I said we'd come to them that day I asked for their name and they said Alex honestly I assumed that Alex was short for Alexandra my mom offered to come with me I felt more comfortable if she'd drive me when we got to the address it was a
townhouse in a congested area of town the townhouse was on a dead end my mom asked if I wanted her to come in with me and honestly I don't know why but I thought it would be embarrassing to go in with my mom I asked her to just wait in the car unless I text her I texted Alex and then I went to ring the doorbell I noticed all the blinds on the windows were closed which was strange it was the middle of the day the door opened and instead of some young girl around my age opening the door it was an actual grown man like 50 years old he smiled and asked if I was here for
the dress I said yeah are you Alex and he said yeah he said I look just like his daughter and then said come inside I looked back at my mom's car and then went inside the house he said I should be a perfect fit for the dress he said he'd go get it then disappeared into another room the living room was dark and kind of messy I took out my phone and texted my mom to come to the front door then the man called out from a room for me to come inside and try the dress on in front of a mirror I asked him if he could bring
the dress out to the living room he said there's no mirror in the living room and I replied that I just like to see the dress first he left the room and entered the living room empty-handed and said the dress is on the bed in the bedroom if I want to go look at it I once again asked him to please just bring it out here then a knock at the front door Alex said who is that and I opened the door to my mom stepping inside she smiled and said hello to the man and he took a couple seconds to say hello back but without a smile now I walk to the doorway of the bedroom
and as I did he made a noise as if to say don't go in there I looked into the dark bedroom and there was no dress on the bed my mom was in the middle of asking a question when I interrupted and said there's no dress there was a painfully uncomfortable and tense silence and then the man said I'd like you to leave now my mom and I without hesitation left to the car by the time we were in the car the front door was already closed and I saw the man peering through the king's blinds we were both in shock
if my mom hadn't come in I don't know what would have happened I reported the Craigslist ad we didn't call the police though because there was really no proof of anything and technically nothing happened but there was no blue dress in that room he was just trying to get me into that room and when my mom came in he couldn't exactly do that anymore thank God I listened to my mom and didn't give him our address I ended up getting a used dress shipped to me that prom night I told everyone this story and it's still kind of Haunting even today
in our high school class there was a kid named Joshua that moved to our high school during freshman year so I guess he had a hard time breaking into any of the established friend groups he had a few friends here and there from what I know but he wasn't part of any particular groups but then something really awkward happened one day during lunch I had already asked my date Natalie to prom and she said yes at lunch we had a table of mixed guys and girls and Natalie was at the table here came Joshua from whatever table he
was sitting at and like an awkward scene out of a movie he tapped Natalie on the shoulder and asked her to prom the whole table went silent except for one kid who cheered sarcastically that Natalie left in clear discomfort and said she's already going with me I felt the second-hand embarrassment Joshua looked at me and I didn't know what to think of the stare he gave me but I could tell he was humiliated he left without saying a word and everyone laughed loudly it was a horribly uncomfortable scenario all around while I felt bad I couldn't help but slightly laugh too I mean I have no idea
what he thought was going to happen especially with such a large audience of dudes at the table too we watched as Joshua actually left the cafeteria and the teacher on lunch duty actually chased after him because you weren't allowed to leave without a pass but Joshua never came back into the lunchroom I still wonder where he went from there on prom night we had our group of 10 in the back of the limo the same 10 of us sat at the table together when at the dance everything was going as prom should but then eventually that night one of my
friends told me don't look now but Josh was at that table eyeballing you I waited like 10 seconds before looking over and I saw Joshua shooting a dagger at I guess Natalie and I I decided I'd go talk to him but as I walked over to him he got up and hurried away out of the dance hall that was super weird but I wasn't gonna chase after him I went over to the table he was sitting at and asked a couple of the kids if they came with Joshua and they said no he kind of just sat there randomly and wasn't saying anything I went back to my table and like a
typical high schooler I told the whole table it was definitely pretty freakish after prom Natalie and I left with a friend who drove to go to a diner to eat a bunch of breakfast food at like 12 a. m after that we went to our friend Anthony's house he had a massive backyard right next to a nature preserve and he had a really cool fire pit so we all circled the fire pit with a speaker playing music and some drinks there were six of us total Anthony sitting across from me pointed out to the woods and said he saw
something in the woods we all looked over of course we looked at the woods for a while but when we didn't see anything Anthony basically said I ate whatever we continued to hang by the fire pit for a while eventually one couple left so it was just Natalie Anthony his date and myself left Anthony was mid-sentence when he stopped speaking abruptly I said what and I turned around and saw someone walking towards the light of the fire from the woods it was someone in a tuxedo he said to us don't get up as he got closer he realized it was
Joshua he was holding a hatchet or a small ax he looked like he had been crying but he also looked angry Anthony and I told him to please put the ax down and just talk Joshua yelled at us to shut up and he made us turn the music off hegan a rant about how soul-crushingly embarrassing what happened during lunch that day was and how he had been too embarrassed to come back to school after that because he thought it had been spread all over the school but it really hadn't and we tried to tell him that anytime we try to speak he'd scream shut
the up louder and louder and he'd began to raise the ax kind of he then directed his attention to Natalie and started going on about how he thought she was gorgeous and that she would only make fun of him with her friends which again that never happened all these things only happened in his head during this time that he was talking to Natalie Anthony was low-key and texted his dad something like bring the gun to the backyard making it clear we were in danger Anthony's dad came out to the back door and yelled what's going on with his gun
in his hand Joshua stopped talking and I could see he was deciding in his head whether to run or not he dropped the ax and ran back to the woods Anthony's dad came running over with his gun and we all four of us couldn't tell him what happened quick enough his dad said not to touch the ax leave the fingerprints on it for the police that hatchet acts whatever was eventually the key to Prosecuting Joshua after a few days Joshua had already been arrested and so his fingerprints were in the system and
they matched the fingerprints on the ax but when all four of us decided we didn't want to press charges on Joshua it was too late by that point he got charged criminally Anthony's friend said it was for menacing in the second degree he didn't serve any jail time I found Joshua on Facebook shortly after this and reached out to him with a sincere message not attacking him at all and he read it he never replied to it I saw Joshua one other time in the Halls that year he didn't look at me none of us ever saw him again after graduation