What’s the scariest true story you’ve heard or told ?
There have been several confirmed cases in a few different countries of people living in other people's houses unbeknownst to them.
I believe one case went on for a couple of years.
The intruder would wait until the homeowner would go to work and then sneak out and steal small amounts of food as not to be noticed.
Well, eventually the homeowner did noticed and couldn't figure out where his food was going, so he set up a hidden camera to record it.
I can only imagine how scary it would have been to come home
from work one night and sit down to watch the video, skipping through hours of stillness, to suddenly come across a person crawling out of your attic.
And then the slow realization that that person is still in your house at that moment.
And then the retroactive fear of thinking back to all the times you laid awake at night and heard a noise, which you just dismissed as coming from the pipes or the old wooden beams, but actually it was a beep person just above you.
It gives me the heebee jeebees every time I think about it.
I met a guy who had been travelling Australia with a couple friends, hitchhiking around as many of us had done.
One of his friend told him they were near his distant uncles house, whom he’d never met before.
He got a phone number from a family member and as they had hoped, the uncle offered them a place to stay.
He picked them up in town and drove them out to his rural property way out in the bush.
They said he seemed like a pretty normal guy, friendly and cheery.
When it was time to set up a place to sleep the uncle took them to a closet that was totally full of sleeping bags and bed rolls.
They didn’t think much of it at the time and all grabbed a kit and set up on the living
room floor.
They stayed a couple days and nothing out of the ordinary happened, and afterwards the uncle drove them to the bus station and they continued on their way.
About a year later that man was arrested and charged with several counts of murder.
He was the man who was picking up young hitch hiking backpackers and slaughtering them.
The guy who told me this story was 100% certain he had slept in the sleeping bag of one of his victims.
One day as a kid I was exploring the forests near our house with my cousin.
The forest was on a hill, but there were several craters there because of bombs that were dropped there during the world wars (Germany).
One day we saw a backpack at the bottom of one.
We tried to climb down, but it was kinda steep and slippery, so we didn’t want to risk falling.
We planned on returning later with a rope, and went home.
The next day news story was that there was a backpack found with the remains of a girl, in that forest.
A guy walking his dog found it, after the dog wouldn’t stop barking and going crazy at the edge of the crater, while starring at the backpack.
We stopped exploring the forests
after.
*edit: English is hard sometimes*
When I worked in healthcare I had a patient who got a sinus infection.
He stopped taking his antibiotics after a few days because he felt better.
His sinus infection came back with a vengeance.
When he got to the Emergency Department he was presenting with stroke symptoms.
The infection had spread to his cranial cavity.
There was so much pus that it was twisting his brain.
No one thought he would survive the surgery.
The family was advised to expect the worst.
Amazingly he actually survived.
He ended up needing 3 more surgeries to wash out and spent almost 2 months in the hospital.
Take your full dose of antibiotics, people!
Lived w 3 other girls sophomore year of college.
All 3 took off early for spring break, leaving me alone in the house.
First night alone, I heard someone bang on my front door at 2am.
Then I hear more knocks at the back door.
A man yells “Boulder police, open the door!” When I didn’t, I heard body slams against both doors.
Soon I hear “little girl, open the door, we know you’re alone.” At this point I’m so scared I keep accidentally dialing 611 instead of 911.
When I eventually do get the police, cars roll up (thankfully) just minutes later.
Officers have 4 boys from our school hockey team face down on the grass.
I had to file restringing orders against them and the kicker - one lived across
the street from me and we’d never spoken a single word before then.
[The Reyna Marroquin \- A young lady had an affair with her boss in the 1960s, got pregnant.
After threatening to tell her boss' wife, she was killed by her boss who then put her body in an industrial barrel.
He hid the barrel in his house for years and none of the various owners opened it due to the weight.
Finally one guy decided to dispose of it in the 90s and when he opened it he saw it contained something.
An investigation traced the barrel and girl back to the man who then killed himself before police could come arrest him after confirming he was the father of the unborn baby via DNA.
The lady's mother was in her late 80s when she was told her missing daughter was finally found.
She claims that she had been having dreams about her daughter being inside a metal container for years after she had gone missing.
I was in class in 10th grade and the teacher was asking everyone how their weekend was.
The quietest girl in the class spoke and while breaking down in tears said she was on a trip in the mountains with her mom.
They made a stop for some reason and she looked over the cliff and saw an overturned vehicle with a dead family scattered about.
Back in the 70s, some friends and I planned a camping trip to northern Cali for a long weekend.
We packed up and headed north on the highway.
Somewhere around Bakersfield we picked up a hitchhiker headed to Kernville, who we dropped off before heading further north.
So we get to our campsite and start getting things set up, my gf finds a note tucked into the top of her backpack.
It read, “I could have killed all of you”.
None of us slept that night.
When I was about 8 years old our school was doing swimming lessons as part of the curriculum.. my Mum worked late, so we went to after school care and didn’t get home until after dark.
When we got home Mum asked me to take my wet togs (bathing suit) and towel out to the clothesline to dry so I could use them the next day....
I was so confident going outside to do this and had this real feeling of being a big kid.
I walked into our backyard- only for a man to be RUNNING at me.
I screamed, jumped inside and instinctively locked the back door as I did so.
As this was happening, my Mum told me she
heard the guy jump the gate which was next to her bedroom just after she heard me scream and came running to find me.
I slept with the light on until I was 16 and I get my husband to go outside for me while it’s dark.
One of my friends was drugged by a "nice seeming" girl at a bar that tried to sex traffic her.
The girl got her an uber to an address she didn't know under the guise of "get my drunk friend home" but she woke up on the way and told the driver she didn't know where they were going.
They called the cops, apparently that wasn't the first time that week they'd heard the same story and they recognized the address as one they were already tracking.
If she hadn't woken up on the way she might have been trafficked by now.
Apparently they use younger, safe seeming girls to do the collecting a lot of the time.
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edit: to those of you who asked, this was in the US, in Washington state a few years ago.
We don't know who tried to do it.
The bar was informed.
To the people telling me this didn't happen or is made up, I'm just relaying what she told me after it happened.
I don't have any reason to believe she was lying about it nor do I have anything to gain and it'd be pretty beep up to make up something like this.
One of my dad's friend's wife was murdered by some crazy dude walking down the street.
This guy had just been released from a mental hospital and literally just stabbed her as she walked home.
When my dads friend came back he thought she had just taken the dogs out for a walk so he walked along the normal walk route and he saw loads of blue lights.
He was stopped by a police officer and wasnt allowed any closer until he saw that it was his wife
I am not sure I remember all the details correctly but anyway.
A guy was cleaning a giant cooking tank at a tuna factory.
It was so big that he had to climb all the way in.
Someone else didn't check and protocol was broken along the way somewhere.
Second guy locked the barrel and turn it on, cooking the guy inside alive.
I was a director of my college’s student government.
There was this dude who was always willing to take on projects so I gave him lots of stuff.
I remember thinking be was very charismatic and well dressed, and when he told me he owned a startup clothing company, I bought some stuff from his website.
It was typical for student government kids to end up at the same parties and I ran into him several times outside of committee.
I was studying abroad my senior year and I was here on reddit.
Saw an article with the guy’s face on it.
Turns out he raped TWELVE girls at my university.
It was apparently well known but because his father was a ~~dean~~ wealthy professor, it kept
getting swept under the rug.
Apparently he was using extracurriculars like the student government to keep coming back to campus after he had been removed from his classes.
EDIT:
beep this blew up.
Below is a link.
Abby Honold tweets there were actually as many as SEVENTEEN victims but she and another girl were the only ones who testified.
My snapchat feed was filled with girls I knew talking about their experiences with him at the time.
His father was just wealthy and a professor, not a dean.
My bad fam (it was five years ago).
And as another note I was just a student director in the student-run undergrad government - some people seemed to think I was faculty and responded as such.
The Lake Bodom murders are scary as hell
Like, there are 4 teens who go on a camping trip in Finland.
The next morning, 3 of the teens are found murdered, and one of them is almost dead and severely injured, but survived.
No one knows who the murderer is today.
Forty-Four years later, the fourth teen, Nils, who survived, was accused of murdering them and gets sent to prison.
But then he was released a year later, because there was little DNA evidence to prove this.
And no good evidence to prove that he murdered them at all.
However, there is circumstantial evidence such as he allegedly fought his one friend due to an argument and was drunk.
Some say this could’ve ended in accidental and/or intentional murder.
However, I personally highly doubt that Nils is guilty.
I couldn’t find much information on who Nils thought the murderer was.
So my thoughts are 1.)
it’s too traumatic for him to remember, or 2.)
He didn’t recognize the person
Some other key suspects include the manager of the camp, who was known for being quite hostile, an ice cream vendor who admitted to the crime on his deathbed, and a man who lived
only a short distance from the camp who claimed “to be in Germany” during that time.
However, there is much doubt for his claim
There was a sketch released of the alleged murderer.
Who seems to be an unsettling picture of an older man.
And you can find a photo of the man, who looks like the guy in the sketch, attending a police speech
edit-I added some information that I missed from this case based on the replies to this.
And edited some information I seemed to have been off on.
Much thanks to everyone for adding
more info!
And also much thanks to anyone who corrected me.
I made sure to double-check my post now, to make sure all my information is correct.
My mother never taught me to swim because when she was a teenager she saw a friend get sucked into a whirlpool at the bottom of a drainage lake that is the deepest body of water within a few hundred miles of us.
They didn’t find his body for days.
Co-worker's dad was babysitting his baby boy for him.
At one point, Granddad went into the nursery to check on the baby and found that he'd somehow reached for the window blinds strap and tangled himself up in it to the point where he was choking.
Baby was already blue and all of the veins in his face had popped.
Grandpa called 911 and frantically dialed 911.
EMS was there in 2-3 minutes and they brought the little fellow back to life and he's ok now.
When I was young, I saw a documentary about a guy who got flesh eating bacteria in his nasal cavity.
It ate his face and he's still alive.
Eventually they removed the bacteria by removing the eaten parts of his face.
He got a prosthetic face, which back in those days was basically a plastic Halloween mask that tried to look human.
At the end of the documentary, he took the mask off.
His face from his forehead down to his mouth was just a hole.
Edit: it was a fungus, not bacteria, apparently
My baby's crib caught fire in the middle of the night.
Some people's literal worst nightmare.
Edit: My baby was in it and he was severely burnt and spent a month intubated and in a medically-induced coma.
He is 5 now and is ok though!
The fire was a freak accident.
His humidifier caught fire, smoldered for a little while and drained the oxygen in the room before the smoke alarm went off.
When we opened the door to his room if flooded with oxygen creating a backdraft and launched a fireball at his crib.
This was his crib the next
Edit 2: A lot of people are asking for which humidifier it was and which company etc.
I am unable to elaborate any further than: I can say that a freak accident can occur with any electrical appliance you have from fridges to table lamps.
This specific accident was a humidifier but the nature of the accident is not exclusive to humidifiers.
Check your appliances and maintain them.
Discard them if they develop any issues and follow any safety instructions that might have been included with them.
Also, make sure your smoke alarms are in working order.
It could save a life...
I had a associate that was a Fireman.
He had to go find the head of his brother in law after a car accident.
Then he had to console his sister when she heard.
Tough bloke.
Can you imagine that being your day?
My moms best friend was murdered by a man because she broke up with him.
After reading these, I’m never doing anything with anyone ever again
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