when I was 17 I moved to college two hours
away from home and took residence in the dorms on campus the dorms were not run through the
school but through a management company there were a lot of safety problems in the dorms as a
result of this assaults ODS drugs shootings Etc I am a 100 pound female so I always watched out
for serious situations around me everything was great I had some awful roommates but I was mostly
left alone one day in September I was leaving for class early in the mor
ning when I spotted a condom
tape to my name tag on the door it had a note that said call me with some random phone number
I told the rce and nothing came of it I just thought it was some random prank pulled by one
of the guys on the floor things went South with my roommates mostly because of my night terrors
scaring them even though I warned them before we even agreed to be roommates so I was moved into
a two-bedroom dorm with my new roommate named Jenny me and Jenny each had our own room
after
a week of living there I started noticing that things were appearing in the living room while we
were sleeping I asked Jenny about it and she vly denied it was her one day we noticed that the
lock on the front door did not lock properly if you pulled on the lock and twisted the handle
at the same time the door would come open around the same time I started getting snapchats of
inappropriate things vade threats and offers four great sex I would get ones that would
say things like you
look great today with that specific article of clothing I was wearing I
filed a report to the dorms to get the lock fixed but it took four months eight complaints threat
of legal action and my friend Deana yelling at them to get any action we got our door fixed but
the pris still appeared outside of the door with notes for me I was still receiving Snapchats but
I moved out of the dorms into an apartment with my then boyfriend the Snapchats continued then
I started getting calls at my work I
worked for the Dean's office of my college and I was in
charge of answering phones every day I would get three or more calls from randomly generated
numbers which was discovered it was through apps like Viber and Skype after I reported it to the
police and they investigated when I would answer the phone I would hear heavy breathing for a few
seconds then they would hang up I thought it was just some 12-year-old pranking our office until
my coworker got a call she answered with her name and
the person on the line asked if they could
speak with me thinking it was one of the Deans that I had been working with she forwarded it to
my phone I answered and I received the same heavy breathing and hung up I reported it to my boss
she did nothing one of the Deans overheard the conversation and reported it to Title 9 oh boy
talking to them was a mistake after the meeting with them the threat started getting getting worse
and this person found me in my new apartment one day in December
I was dog sitting two wonderful
dogs who hated other dogs and would bark at them on sight it was around 11:00 p.m. and I decided
to take them out before bed we get outside to the right of me is a bunch of thick trees that are
hard to see through I start to take the girls to the grass on the left they start growling and
barking at something in the trees thinking it's another dog I try to pull them away but they will
not budge I glance over and out of the trees comes a tall man but the weird
thing is he is wearing a
Michael Myers like mask he starts rushing towards me the dogs get between me and him he stops I run
up the stairs behind me into the apartment as he is disappearing into the trees again stupidly
I don't call the police but I see him one more time before I move to my new apartment things
are quiet for a while my boyfriend and I break up and I spend the first first few days in the
new apartment alone come to find out the window that can be accessed from the ground doe
sn't lock
one morning I wake up everything seems normal I check the mirror to do my hair for work I have
a bald spot my head was shaved in the middle of the night I find my hair tied up in knots in an
envelope I immediately call the police they do an investigation find the window was broken but
can't find anything to figure out who it was that came into my apartment they asked me to compile
a list of everything that was missing the only thing gone other than my hair were three pairs of
dir
ty underwear the investigation found no one I have since moved I no longer answer phones at my
work and I keep bare spray next to my bed at all times I have been camping solo backpacking
and hunting my whole life in Oregon and felt comfortable in the woods and have a deep respect
for nature a few years ago my wife daughter and two German Shepherds went camping north of n
Jefferson Oregon I found some coordinates of a campsite which we found to be the perfect setup
for us and our two dogs wh
o need privacy since they are intimidating to other dog owners and can
be loud when spooked it was not an established campsite just a nice horseshoe off a usfs road
that had flat ground full trees and a fire pit the first night my daughter wanted to sleep by
herself in a Twan tent right next to hours it was maybe 2 ft away from me and my wife's tent we
made the male German Shepherd sleep with her in the tent the German Shepherd's name is guts that
whole first night neither my wife and I cou
ld sleep we both heard footsteps they were heavy not
like typical Forest Critters scampering around the night I was well armed because I was paranoid
from Reading recently before departing about a dad in California who was shot and killed in a
tent next to his two infant daughters needless to say both my wife and I had two pistols and my
rifle with me the dogs are great at detection and that is why I felt my daughter could sleep alone
because guts is completely fearless and nothing would la
y a hand on her without a battle to the
death all in all nothing but bad vibes and Loud footsteps occurred that night which I ultimately
decided was deer or maybe some elk in the morning of day two we go for a walk down the road and
maybe 300 ft away see the circle area in the photo I see an abandoned Road where a rusted gate
poost was covered in vegetation something of blue color caught my eye and guts immediately took
off running down this abandoned Road my heart begins to race because I
think it's another
family camping like us and he is going to get himself shot or Scare some innocent people to
death so I chase after him as fast as I can and the rest follow he stops after 20 ft into the
road and me yelling his name but I have covered just enough distance to see that there is nobody
there and something is off about the site I yell hello is anyone there sorry about the dog I got
no response my curiosity gets the best of me and I have to see what the site conditions are as
I got closer I knew something was wrong it had all the Necessities for a campsite including
a cooler propane burner tent blankets folding table but every single item had been completely
destroyed smashed and torn from what appeared to be claw marks we all walked around in circles
puzzled why anyone would leave all their camping gear behind including an expensive REI tent I
figured well someone left in a hurry and animals got to the rest as the only logical explanation
still a propane tank a
nd cooler were flattened by something and it certainly wasn't a snow pack
with tree coverage in that spot as the afternoon rolls in me and my daughter are playing botche
ball at the campsite and my wife goes walking maybe 70 ft North to do her business business I
do not have direct line of sight on her but all of a sudden I see guts make a Mad Dash straight
towards her normally he would always be with me unless he was called over and she didn't call for
him his speed and focus caught my att
ention and I knew something weird was happening so I ran
over there and my wife started jogging at me I immediately draw my pistol guts had completely
continued running into the forest another 100 ft before I called him and he stopped my other dog
Leah who never misses the opportunity to be the pack leader is not taking points I have had her
for seven years now and this was the first time in her life she refused to leave my daughter's
side she was fully raised and attached to us at the hip
again anytime we hike or play Leah is
upfront bossing everything in her path and pauses to look to see where we are and continues I asked
my wife what happened and she said I was trying to pee and all of a sudden I felt all my hairs
rais I know someone was watching me then I saw guts running towards me and I just got up to move
towards you we spent 10 minutes looking for signs of anything and saw no Trails broken branches
nothing to point to what and where something went we decide to spend
one more night since it's
too late to pack up and drive but we will all be in the big tent together before we go to bed I
put a rope with a makeshift coin alarm around the perimeter of our campsite I used a mint can
some coins and keys from our truck to zip tie it so anything hitting the Rope gave a little jingle
very unsophisticated but it put my wife at ease as I go to tie my last corner off at a tree near
our tent our third mystery item unveils itself it looks like someone has done the s
ame exact thing
I have done with a rope that was so old and brown I didn't see it at first it was broken and only
a few pieces remain but sure enough it was tied at roughly the same height off the ground and even
had a few rusted washers on it I immediately felt someone had stayed here before and put the same
makeshift warning system on the same tree I was maybe 10 to 15 years ago based on the condition of
the Rope perhaps my paranoia has now reached a new height but I had to make sure the
girls felt we
were safe and at the time the only thing I could think of was when the evening came around I made
them sit in the truck and I fired a clip of my pistol into the dirt as a signal to whatever was
out there that we are armed I reassured the girls that anybody listening to that now knows we have
two wolves and are armed and we are too risky of a Target so we can sleep safely that night we heard
no footsteps the dogs never perked up or barked we left early the next morning fast for
ward
to today and I watched the Amazon Missing 411 hunted documentary I noticed the cluster smack
dab close to where we camped that weekend and a flood of dread rushes to me I think of that
mysterious abandoned campsite with the ripped tint smashed cooler cup toop we have been camping
since and have enjoyed the beauty of the Northwest but there was something there at that place that
possibly took or harmed someone else less than 300 ft away from where we camped and we all thank Our
Lucky S
tar guts was doing his thing so well that afternoon for some context I'm a 32-year-old
female this happened to me when I was about 25 or 26 I work full-time as a researcher at a
university which is where these encounters took place I'm not a professor or anything and because
of my age at the time I could have easily been mistaken for just another student wandering around
campus on some days when the weather was nice I would prefer to spend my lunch hour strolling
around the university groun
ds outside or sitting underneath a Shady Tree on a bench enjoying the
time I was not sitting in a cramped corner of a lab on one of these days I was sitting on a bench
enjoying the freshh air and a male student walking by asked if he could sit next to me I'm a pretty
shy and awkward kind of person so even though I really would have preferred sitting alone I
said sure he initiated a simple conversation to which I obliged but was careful not to
be too forthcoming he mentioned he had seen whic
h departmental building I came and went from
which slightly alarmed me given I had never seen this person before in my life but I pushed the
thought from my mind after all the weather had been decent lately and I had spent nearly all my
lunch hours for the past week outside he asked if I was studying within the mentioned Department
to which I told him that I was not a student but rather I worked there he told me he was an
engineering student and Then followed up with asking me out to coffee
sometime I apologized
and told him that I had a boyfriend and would have to decline we parted ways after that and I
assumed I probably wouldn't see him around again about a week or two went by and I was spending
another lunch hour outside on campus sitting on a different bench somewhere seemingly out of nowhere
the same man from before asked if he could sit next to me again admittedly I don't remember what
he started talking to me about at first my mind was reeling and I was rather uncomfo
rtable having
to potentially turn this guy down a second time sure enough he asked me again if we could go out
for coffee sometime I apologized and reminded him that I had a boyfriend and would not be meeting
him for coffee and again he left after that I was feeling rather anxious now but it still hadn't
reached the level where I felt I had to be too concerned a few days later I had finished work and
was leaving the building to walk to where I had parked my car the university charges a fort
une for
parking passes even if you're employed by them so I had always opted for free street parking about
about a 10-minute walk away from campus my walking route would take me down several quiet residential
streets with minimal car traffic even pedestrian traffic was pretty sparse on the busiest of
days it wasn't until I was about halfway to my car down one of these quiet back streets that I
noticed someone walking directly across the street from me but keeping a few Paces behind I notice
d
him from my peripheral vision and didn't want to flat out turn around to stare at him it wasn't
uncom to see someone else by any means I was just always trying to be aware of my surroundings
when walking the streets alone I had to make a few turns coming up anyways and the chance that they
would be going the same way as me was slim but he did he made all the turns I did still walking on
the sidewalk across from me a few steps behind I still did not want to look at whoever this was
I didn
't want him to know that I was aware of what I thought he was doing I quickened my Pace
to a Speedy walk I was approaching the first of two busier streets before I would reach my car
his Pace quickened to keep up with me that was the moment I panicked the moment I was sure that
he was indeed following me after that I started a full out jog to cross the first of the busier
streets he ran to keep up behind me and was now on the same side of the street I was I was now nearly
in my car I had to
cross the last busy street and get about 100 m and I would be there but it was
crossing the street that worried me I often had to stop and wait a good minute or so before it
was clear enough to do so if this were the case he would catch up with me as if the stars aligned
as soon as I made it running to the busy street I had a gap to cross I booked it as fast as I could
finally turning around once I had made it to look and yell at the man who had been pursuing me it
was him I could have sus
pected Ed but now it was confirmed it was the engineering student whom
I had turned down for coffee stopped following me I yelled at him from across the busy street
can I just talk to you he yelled back I didn't even answer him I mean the answer should have been
obvious from the start and I was certainly never going to give my time to anyone who had just
followed and then chased me for about 1 km I keep moving quickly to my car so determined to
get the hell out of there that I didn't didn't
even care if he saw which car was mine he had
given up following me and never tried to cross the road too to my relief I got home and broke
down I mean worse things had happened to other people no doubt and I was not harmed fortunately
but I was shaken I had some anxieties walking to and from work after that it wasn't long before
a coworker and I would walk most of the distance back to our cars together after work I even
changed where I started parking for a time a few weeks had passed sin
ce the incident and I had
not seen him around campus at all I had started spending my lunches in the lab instead of outside
but occasionally I would go to the Student Center to buy lunch instead this one particular day
the food court in the student center was packed almost shoulder toosh shoulder I was standing in
line at a burger stall and I heard a guy try and get someone's attention through the crowd I look
up and it's him again waving to me and trying to make his way through the people
I panicked and
even though I'm terribly shy I started a scene and yelled to him to leave me the hell alone
his face dropped instantly as people stared at us and he slink back into the sea of students my
heart was pounding and I was shaking I don't even remember if I ended up getting food after that
I went back to work and from then on was even more focused on my surroundings than I ever was
before it's been five or six years since then and I still work at the University I am so relieved
to
say I never saw him again after the food court and haven't had any other heroing accounts on
campus I am still diligent about being aware of my surroundings especially when I have to walk to
and from campus alone I never asked the guy his name so I couldn't even report an incident to
campus police for anything all in all I'm just glad I never saw him again and I can only hope he
never did this to any other girl before or after me hey everyone so I'm a guy from the UK I live
in a town in Wa
les albeit not the little Villages most people imagine my town is a popular holiday
destination along the coast of Wales this isn't overly relevant to the story but I just thought
I would give everyone some context I did actually post this story on a separate Reddit account
several years ago in a different subreddit how however I highly exaggerated it for the sake of
story and this was a creative writing subreddit I believe I can't fully remember I just remember
the story I told wasn't tota
lly honest so if you think you've read something similar before then
you probably have this is the full truth of what happened and is likely way less exciting than
the original story but I'll will so it started when I was around 15 years old about 8 years
ago I was dating a girl from about 2 town over I would usually get the train to hers and
back however this one night her family weren't supposed to be home and we were kind of being
watched by our brother who was about 19 to 20 and was pre
tty chill the plan was to stay the
night we were up late playing on the way but her parents unexpectedly came home I never got
along with her mother and the whole thing got kind of heated I was kicked out of the house and
told I couldn't stay over it was about 2:00 a.m. and I didn't want to call my own parents and
worry of waking them up so I began the long Church home it was roughly about an hour and a
quarter worth of walking so I was expecting to be home by around half 4 so I walked alon
g the
weird concrete bit just above the beach not sure what it's called and I stopped after about half an
hour of walking as there is a public toilet which is kind of run down but also open 24 hours and I
was desperate I was expecting it to be empty or just have a homeless dude sleeping in it but
I was wrong there was a guy using the urinal this guy looked to be in his mid to late 50s
maybe a little on the overweight side but not extremely he had gray messy is hair but other
than that he l
ooked pretty normal he definitely didn't look homeless I remember he made a quick
joke about something but I don't remember what I politely laughed did my business and left after
about another 15 minutes of walking the weather had gotten pretty bad starting started to rain
heavily and the wind was picking up I seemed to remember this was around November time so it
was pretty cold anyways so I'm walking in a car drives by beeps and pulls over just in front of me
I had assumed it was someone
I knew but couldn't think who got to the car and the dude from the
toilet was inside he asked me where I was headed and I told him he said that was a long walk and I
couldn't be expected to walk all that way in this weather and he offered me a lift in hindsight I
probably should have refused but the weather was bad and at the time he wasn't giving off any
weird Vibes the drive took about 15 minutes I think maybe 20 the more I was in the car with
him the more I started to get vibes that ther
e was something off about this guy he was telling
me his best friend was a 14-year-old lad who stays over at his place a lot and they drink together
and if I ever wanted to join I was welcome to he was asking me some really invasive questions as
well I don't fully remember what they were I just remember it's not the kind of questions you ask
to someone that you're giving a simple lift home to anyways we got to the street around the corner
from my place and I asked him to just drop me off th
ere I told him my house wasn't accessible by
Road and that I would walk the rest of the way he gave me his number and told me to ring him
when I got back to my house safely as he wanted to make sure I got home okay I asked him what
his name was as at this point he knew my full name and he just said Pete I said Pete what my
phone wants a surname he wouldn't tell me just kept saying just call me Pete I later found out
that Pete was a fake name too anyway I got into my house and text him just
to let him know I was
home safe probably a bad decision but back then I was full of bad decisions to be honest the next
day came and I was expecting everything to go back to normal it didn't because I stupidly gave Pete
my number when I texted him started to get texts from him every morning basically just saying good
morning to me and wishing me well I replied to the first few and then started ignoring them he then
started trying to ring me every single evening I would ignore most of his ca
lls but he would often
repeatedly ring until I answered he was sending me these texts inviting me over to his house for
some drinks he kept telling telling me he' just gotten himself a pool table and wanted me to come
and play it with him he was telling me a story of a friend he was playing pool with the 14-year-old
I was talking about and accidentally let slip that the guy called him John I asked him about this
and said I thought your name was Pete he said oh no my friend's name is John I
said you just said
your friend called you John and you told me your friend was called Tom he said oh well some people
call me John it's like a nickname but his name is John too he hesitated saying this and I kind of
clicked that he was telling me a bunch of Lies I kept refusing but he kept asking after a while my
mom wanted to know who this dude who kept texting me and ringing me was I told her and she rang
him herself from her phone and told him that if he carried on texting and ringing me
she would
be calling the police I didn't get any more texts from him after that but it didn't end there I had
a routine you see and he knew it I always walked my dog at half 4 every afternoon and played with
her for 40 minutes on the field at the end of my street just near where he had dropped me off
I started to notice his car pulling up there within 5 minutes of me getting there with my
dog he had tinted windows but I would always notice the car lights were always left on and
the engine
was always running also I recognized his car I would occasionally notice the car door
open and a large flash from that direction as if someone was taking pictures I started changing
the time I walked my dog but he would eventually figure it out and start showing up either earlier
or late to coincide with when I was walking her this went on for months and I never mentioned it
to anyone but one day it just stopped he stopped pulling up at the side of the field I never saw
his car anymore not
text messages or phone calls from him it all just stopped I ended up getting
a new phone after about a year and had that for another two years I dug out my old phone when I
was around 18 to 19 after the aformentioned dog died I had some old pictures and videos of her
on that phone and wanted to transfer them over to my PC so that I always had them I turned on a
phone which had been turned off for several years now and still had the old SIM in it that's when
I got my final message from Pete
it was an odd one and was about 14 months old it said something
along the lines of hi I know we haven't spoken in a while but I just thought you should know that
over New Year I was diagnosed with an illness and I've been told I don't have long left to live you
were a good friend in the short time we knew each other I live at this address and would really
appreciate if you could come around just so I can have a last chat with you I've got some
beers in and if it gets too too late you can s
tay the night just drop me a phone call when you
want to come around so that I can get everything ready for you see you soon no idea if Pete or
John was genuinely ill or just trying to lure me to his house never been to the address he sent
me and never responded to him or heard from him since I didn't reply to him and that was the last
I heard from the guy so yeah that's the story not tremendously exciting but kind of had a big impact
on me during the those years hope you all enjoyed it
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