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Let’s not sugar coat it guys - there’s some creepy people on this planet that we
call Earth - and here’s a compilation of some of the scariest near misses that the
Internet has to offer.
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Kicking off at Number 5 - The Man in the Yellow Raincoat.
And this story is so damn creepy, that you’ll think twice the next time you see someone
sheltering from the rain in a yellow nylon jacket.
You never know what they’re hiding beneath that bright, shiny exterior.
This story, from Reddit user whalebabboon, happened roughly around 2004 in Seoul, South
Korea.
As it goes, their mums friend lived in a huge apartment complex - and her husband worked
away during the day.
She’d usually run errands with her daughter to keep busy, and on the way back on one particular
occasion, she stepped into the buildings elevator and noticed a man in a Yellow Raincoat standing
inside, with his head hung low and his face obscured.
She instantly felt uneasy - and made her daughter stand to the side.
What made her even more uncomfortable, was the fact that when she went to press the button
for her floor - she noticed that no other number was lit.
On top of that, the man was clutching something wrapped inside a newspaper to his side.
Things started to click - and she started to panic.
She pulled out her cellphone and pretended to call her husband - saying that she was
nearly home and it’d be nice if he could meet them at the door.
Obviously, he was still at work - but quick thinking, right?
When the elevator reached her floor - she quickly got off and grabbed her daughter.
Of course, the man got out too - and of course, he was following her down the hallway.
She started banging on the door, calling for her husband - when the man seemed to lose
interest and turned around.
But when he heard her fumbling for the key card to her room - he turned back around and
sprinted at her.
Thankfully - the woman and her daughter got inside with seconds to spare - but it’s
the epilogue to this story where the real terror lies.
Several months later, she was watching the news - when coverage on the capture of a serial
killer, named Yoo Young Chul came on the screen.
It was awful, she thought - but when the news program showed images of the familiar yellow
raincoat that the killer would wear - the hairs on the back of her neck stood on end.
Next up at Number 4 - Roommate Wanted.
We’re piling on the creepy with this one.
As Reddit user ScarsAndStripes tells it - Amanda, their brother’s girlfriend - was looking
for a new apartment when she was moving into town, and wanted to split a house with a like
minded person.
She found an ad on craigslist titled “Roommate Wanted: Females Only” - which was common,
as the area was mainly young professionals.
It was steal of a deal too - 225 bucks a month, and the occupant - who’d listed themselves
as a 23 year old college student that didn’t want to share a space with any males.
Fair enough - but there was more to it.
Much more.
When Amanda got there - there was a sign on the door that said Door broken, use back door
- so she did - and when she knocked, it was a man who answered.
A guy who was clearly in his 40s, unshaven - and looked like he’d been living in a
car.
Red flag.
The man claimed to be the landlord, and the occupant was running late from work.
He offered to show him around, when a few more red flags popped up.
First, there was no furniture.
Anywhere.
The house was blank, boarded up in weird places.
And - that’s when he tried to show her the basement.
Fortunately, Amanda - through some quick thinking - managed to flee the house - and when she
got home she instantly called the police.
Of course, the ad had been taken down - but when the police searched the house, they found
a strange room that the man had been staying in.
There was rotten food and dirty old blankets everywhere.
But when they checked the basement, the area that he’d wanted to show her - the police
found that the man had tied a thin piece of fishing twine at about shin level across the
stairs down.
The basement was empty, save for a broom handle wrapped in old leather belts - and a small
box filled with rolls of duct tape.
It’s safe to say, Amanda didn’t move in.
Swinging in at Number 3 - Camping Horror
Next up is a story from reddit user MJOAllie - which happened to their parents way back
in the late 80s.
They were in their mid 20s - when they decided to go camping out in the forests of Cool,
California.
The place, not the state of mind.
They got their kind of late, when they started unpacking the truck - when they heard something
- or someone, walking around their campsite.
They were already pretty spooked - so they noped out of that particular spot - and decided
to drive 3 miles down the road with their headlights off - hoping they wouldn’t be
followed.
Once they got there - they set up camp, had a few beers and listened to a boxing match
on the radio.
Eventually - they got tired and decided to turn in.
Their dad nodded off pretty much straight away, but their mum was still half awake - when
she suddenly heard footsteps from outside of the tent.
She listened for what seemed like hours, when suddenly - she heard in the creepiest voice
you could ever imagine - Here I Ammmm.
I’m going to kill yooouuuuuu.
Then, she heard what she believed to be a knife - running along the material of the
tent.
She was frozen with fear - when suddenly she snapped out of it and screamed, JIM - GRAB
THE SHOTGUN - KILL THAT SON OF A BITCH.
Damn straight.
With that - their dad finally awoke and heard the guy running away - of course, they didn’t
have a gun - but it was a bluff that paid off.
When they got out of the tent, they found that their tires had been slashed.
Thankfully - about an hour or so later, a park ranger pulled up and said that he’d
been patrolling the area for any suspicious activity due to a string of recent murders
nearby - of which - they were probably the next victims.
Crazy stuff.
Coming in at Number 2 - Under the Bed.
And damn this one is creepy.
As reddit user myhra tells it - this event occurred sometime around late 2012 - after
they’d just moved into their first apartment, and in the process of moving in.
Myhra was on the phone to her boyfriend, when she absent mindedly headed outside to collect
her mail.
It’s important to note this - because you’ll find out why later.
When she came back inside, she sat on her bed opening her mail, still on the phone to
her boyfriend - when she accidentally dropped the phone on the floor, landing under the
bed.
She crouched down to get it - when her eyes grew wide in terror.
There was someone under her bed.
She choked the urge to scream - as whoever it was was facing the other way and hadn’t
seen her notice them.
Trying to be rational - she quickly picked up the phone, clearly stating her clumsiness
out loud - and told her boyfriend she was taking a shower.
Of course, she headed in - locked the door, ran the shower - and instantly jumped out
of the window.
Don’t worry, her apartment was on the first floor - the story doesn’t end there.
She called the police, who instantly told her to get to a safe police and keep an eye
on her window and door from across the street.
When the cops arrived, they stormed into her apartment - and found the man, clutching a
kitchen knife in his hand - standing directly outside the bathroom door, waiting for her
to come out.
Close call.
Let’s not meet, ever.
And finally - at our Number 1 spot - He Had Plans.
This story - from Reddit user JennLegend3 - has a real, real dark tone to it - and probably
is the definition of strangers that you wouldn’t ever want to meet.
Seriously.
Ever.
When Jen was a kid, she was hanging out in a place she called the Pine Cone Forest, a
little area that the neighbourhood kids called a small patch of trees on the side of the
road, that they would hang out and play in.
She was picking bark off of one of the trees while she waited for her friend Frankie to
finish his homework and come out and play.
Out of nowhere, a guy came up to her - she could smell him before she saw him - the stench
of stale cigarette smoke.
He wasn’t very old, but he had a very lazy eye, almost cloudy - and his teeth and fingernails
were stained yellow.
Jen was kind of scared to look at him, but her mum had taught her to be nice to people,
so she faked a smile and said hello.
He asked her what she was doing - and she said she was picking bark off a tree.
He replied that she shouldn’t do that.
Picking bark was like picking off the tree’s skin - how would you feel if someone picked
off your skin - he said while pinching her arm with his sharp yellow nails.
It’s then that Frankie’s mum, Sonia - saw what was happening and called out for Jen
to come inside - and she did - and she was safe.
Little did Jen know, but Sonia had called the police - after she saw the man get out
of a white van and follow Jen to the Pine Cone Forest.
When the cops showed up - it turned out that they’d tailed the guy - and followed him
just outside of the neighbourhood.
In the back of his van were binoculars - a Polaroid camera, and pictures of Jen taped
all over the walls and the ceiling.
Her at school - at her grandparents house - at the bank with her mum - everywhere she
went.
But that’s not all - the man had the key to storage unit on him.
When the police later checked the location, they found a cabinet full of knives - knives
of all kinds - parking knives, a butcher's cleaver - even a melon baller.
Alongside that, there were books on anatomy - duct tape - and 10 empty five gallon buckets.
In the middle of the room - an old bed that was used to restrain mental patients - and
the entire unit was covered in plastic wrap.
Whatever the stranger intended - he intended to do it to Jen.
And thankfully - she narrowly avoided that fate.
Creepy stuff.
Well unfortunately folks - that’s all we’ve got time for in today’s Top 5 Scary video
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