I’ve had an awful few days and am feeling very unwell. Please distract me. I love creepy true stories, especially glitch-in-the-matrix type stuff.

EDIT: Thanks for all the stories, I’m enjoying them!

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I was driving out in the woods on a dirt road, heading home after a high school reunion. They wanted to do it deep in the woods at someone’s cabin. It involved a 2 or 3 mile slow drive through unpaved roads. It wasn’t so bad during the day, but at night driving back it was pitch blackness along bumpy dirt roads that didn’t make sense. It was already creepy enough coming in with signs nailed to trees proclaiming love for Trump or private property or whatever. But at night it was awful.

    So I turn down a road, completely lost, and end up at what I think might be a dead end. I roll a little closer to confirm and my headlights end up illuminating a shape in front of me in the darkness. It’s a man, quite large (in both height and width) wearing a robe or something. Just standing motionless on a dark forest road at 11pm. Wearing what might be a grey or white robe. So I stare at this guy, he stares back at me. He’s a bald white guy giving me a death glare. Motion out of the corner of my eye has me look around through my side windows. There are more people, at least a dozen, all milling about in the trees in pitch darkness. All of them in the same robes.

    I sit there idling for a moment since I’m not even sure if this is really happening, then they all walk out into the woods, without torches or flashlights or anything. I reverse my car, then speed away. Most likely explanation is I happened upon a Klan meeting, or a Klan offshoot, or who knows. My hometown is full of racist morons. I can’t explain how it seemed like they knew I’d be there. I’ve guessed for a long time that they expected someone else, then left when they realized I wasn’t whoever they were waiting for.

    Other creepy story of mine:

    This one is more mundane but I used to work at a grocery store. One of the temp managers was a little weird to me, but never had much trouble. But he had a weird aura and I couldn’t look him in the eyes without flinching. His eyes were just wrong. Everyone else at the store seemed to like him, but me even going within a few feet made my mental alarms go off.

    cw: graphic, death, murder

    Years later I learn that temp manager was in jail for killing and sexually assaulting his sister and brother in law over some kind of drug dispute. This was after I had left the job though, but I had always felt extremely uncomfortable around him.

    Sorry if my stories are more disturbing than the fun kind of creepy but they’re the scariest things I’ve ever experienced