r/creepyencounters

So this happened almost a year ago and I’m not sure I’ve fully processed what happened. I got my own place at 22 and started a second job in the summer to help with costs. It was a newspaper route that ran 12-3am everyday and it was pretty simple and easy.

3 months into the job and I was in a strict routine; got to my pick up location, bagged newspaper, listened to music and drove around dropping off newspapers at condos, apartments and out my car window to houses . The same route everyday.

On this night I couldn’t sleep and since I had more freedom to move my shift hours i decided to head to work 15 minutes early. I’m not going to go into much detail of the location but it was a public library and I got there at 2am instead of 2:15am.

Pulling into the library it was a huge parking lot and garage, most of the lights were at the library entrance. Usually there is a security guard car that patrolled and once he knew I was the newspaper girl we would just wave at each other (important).

I was pulling into the front of the library and I have to do a half u-turn to park. But I notice down the street there is another car doing a half u-turn as well.

If you’ve ever drive a lot at night you know that headlights are a lot more noticeable, especially when nobody is on the road. That was my first gut instinct and I tried to brush it off. So I watched in my side view mirror for them to pull off but instead they stop and turn their lights off. It becomes a 30sec waiting game while I felt too uncomfortable to get out and drop off the paper.

Like a guardian angel, the security car turns the corner facing both our cars. I take this as my opportunity to ‘safely’ get out the car and drop off the papers, but it was more like throwing them with how fast my heart was racing. As the paper hits the floor and I turn around I see the security guards car go into the parking garage.

I hear tires screeching like it’s taking off and everything in my body tells me to run so I sprint off the curb, into my car and locked the door. When I got to my car I look into the rear view for the light’s of the car and I don’t see them. So I look into my side mirror and don’t see them. Then I look again into my rear view and notice it’s blacker than normal so I straighten my posture to get a better look.

The car was there but it was so close behind me that I couldn’t even see the headlights, or the color or anything just the blacked windshield. I immediately step on it flying past 2 stop signs and going into a gated community which was my next delivery location to process what had just happened.

I ended up quitting less than a week afterwards because I couldn’t relax on the route anymore but I always wonder if I just overreacted or if someone was actually planning on trying something.

I got off work last night around 11pm and I was walking out to my car. I looked behind me as any woman does in the dark and saw some man walking behind me. It’s a restaurant in a hotel so it’s not uncommon for the parking lot to stay pretty full so I didn’t think much of it. I turn into walk inbetween my car and another car to get to the drivers seat and he’s now right there, blocking me in. He kept asking for my number or to get coffee & I was like no?!! After a minute he left & I got in my car and locked the door. Absolutely insane to me.

This very clearly intoxicated guy started talking to me and my friends while we were walking my dog. He insisted on getting my dog water, fine, he walked off I thought he'd forget about it. He didn't, came back with water all good. But he did not leave. He kept talking to us. He kept saying how he wasn't a dangerous guy, how he has a daughter n stuff.

But i was scared if we tried to leave or said the wrong thing he would flip - I don't know how to really put that he didn't look well. My friend didn't realise how uncomfortable I was, and while I tried to move away from him to someone else he followed me and told them he likes "big girls" (me). He asked for my number and I gave him one, cause I didn't want him to test it and get mad (I've heard of that happening to people.)

When we were going home he almost followed us back but thankfully didn't cause of my friend. He kept ringing me and messaging me and I blocked him but something like this has never happened to me before.

I got really really scared. He said he lived in the area I'm at and I'm just scared he'll see me and remember me and that I blocked him. I'm genuinely nervous to leave the park or walk my dog.

Idk. Sorry just wanted to vent.

A week back me (26M) my girlfriend(28 F) , we both went for dinner at a restaurant. Now for context we are in a long distance relation so every 4-5 months she visits me because her state has totally different language which I dont know and it's much easier for her to visit me. But this time due to some issue she could not come so i decided i will visit her this time.

After finishing dinner we left the restaurant just before closing around 11:20 Pm and were leaving i rented a two- wheeler at that time so we can easily explore and avoid traffic. Just as we were leaving i noticed two men in bike patiently waiting at the end of raod i did not pay much attention to this as it was a busy area. But idk my instincts told me something a while later i look at my rear view mirror i see them behind us slowly following us just to make sure i stopped at a busy area pretending to check my phone so they can get ahead and i can be assured that it was just my thinking, both of them just kept driving and i aslo thought it was my overthinking maybe. But just 5 mins after i see they again started following us now i was 100% sure that they were following us.

I did not even knew the proper way to anywhere in an unknown city at this point my gf also noticed that they are following us she got super scared and told me to drive home. I told her to tell me where the nearest police station is because leading to where she lived is a stupidity it was around 12:10 at this point and the road started becoming empty as she was guiding me they suddenly increase their speed said something and overtook us and stopped a little ahed of us. I was super tensed because of my Gf she called some of her friends and told me to just turn and run.Normally i would have stopped and confronted them long before but because of my Girlfriend i was really tensed I just took whatever turn i found and luckily my gf remember the area and guided us to a local police station 2 officers were standing outside she told them the whole situation as she was doing that both of them rode their bike in full speed and shouted something to me while crossing the station the police later escorted us to her house.

Man very creepy experience they had the guts to do this when i was with her i just can't imagine if she was alone. I just don't know they were waiting the whole time we were at the restaurant or just randomly started. Very creepy encounter.

this is an odd occurrence that happen last night and i wanna get it off my chest and maybe see if anyone knows what could’ve been up?

i was at a park with my bf, the kind of park that’s just a big parking lot surrounded by woods and a lake next to the highway, and we were sitting in the back seats chatting when we saw a light.

at first we thought it was another car in the parking lot leaving again but we were alone so i sat up to see and way in front of us, id say about 100 feet or so, was just this bright light.

it was like some person was holding a flash light looking directly at us and me and bf look at each other cus we don’t know if this is a park ranger kicking us out or not because it was fairly late.

the guy seems to walk off and we don’t suspect anything of it because he’s pointing his light at the road and other stuff, so we’re like okay whatever. not even 5 minutes later the bright light is pointing at us again and we sit up to see and dude this light is legit 5-10 feet from the side of our car just beaming at us.

he wasn’t peeking into the car and he wasn’t saying anything just staring right at the car.

we ofc were curious and rolled down the windows to say hello?? what do you want?? absolute silence it was dead quite out and the light didn’t even budge.

it was then when a cop car (which we didn’t call) pulled into the parking lot with no sirens but his neon lights were on so me and my bf are like okay yeah we’re def getting kicked out. so i climb into the front and im watching the guy turn his flash light off and walks away, my bf climbs out of the car to get into the front smh.

i’m watching this cop car pass behind us (and the guy points the light at them too before turning it off again?) and go around the end of the parking lot to stop and the cop gets out to approach this shed at the end of the side walk where i saw the mysterious man’s silhouette walk to.

we were driving out of there by then and as we’re turning into the main road i see on the bridge that goes over the highway that light again. i ask my bf is that’s the dude again and he’s like nah that’s a flood light, but the it turns off and it’s the guy again! walking across the bridge out of the parking lot.

idk what his intentions were and like was he stalking us or planning on doing something? idk.

TD; DR: hanging out late at night in parking lot and see a flashlight pointing at us from 100 feet away but we brush it off. less than 5 min later it’s at our car door 10 feet away shining at us (not into the car) just at us. cops come, which we didn’t call, and as we’re leaving the flash light is pointing at us from a bridge above the road. what was he planning or thinking? idk.

Im usually in food but currently in retail and I had this man come in and ask if I had bottled water. I told him where a small fridge was at the end of one of the last check out isles. I was the only person on the register so as I was helping a few people I saw him walking in and out of the back of the line tossing the bottle of water over and over again until it landed straight up in his hand with this weird look on his face. when he finally came up to me for me to check out his transaction all of my alarm bells were ringing ( i lived in NYC and LA for years, im not easily scared ) anyway… I tell him it will be $1.08 after tax and he takes a $10 bill and stretches it in a way between both hands that it kinda snaps and just stares at me without breaking eye contact, i try and make small talk through this entire experience but when I finally took his money to make change i felt this insane alarm inside that he has this serious oppressive and or psychotic energy and I could barely make eye contact because I felt he was not a safe person and I felt really uneasy. long story short he walked out whistling and confidently tossing the water bottle in his hand and I was too busy so I never told management.

should I say something tomorrow when I go to work? is it too late to describe him? am I over thinking it?

We are folklorist who have created a Reddit page to discuss internet urban legends.

In our first post we are discussing the Serbian Dancing Lady.

This was a creepypasta that blew up on Tiktok in 22/23, it started after a woman was filmed dancing a national Serbian dance alone at night, and went further with reports around a woman jumping in front of cars and dancing manically.

It all started with the initial creepy video but then became a hybrid digital urban legend part true and part not wherein people would make videos pretending to be her saying if you interrupted her or watched too long she'd come after you.

It was a very creepy encounter style video.

Is anyone here familiar with the story and if so what do you think was going on there, in our post we think it's a combination of a mental unless person, and then that being viewed through the lens of creepy video, but we are open to discussion.

That's the whole point of our Reddit page.

Two months ago, my ex and I were staying in a hotel for a few weeks during a really rough period in both of our lives. It was a La Quinta Inn—the best we could afford that wasn’t a highway motel.

When we got to our room, the guy next door had his TV blasting. Not just loud—like full volume blasting. We were a little annoyed and joked that it sounded like he was trying to cover up another sound.

The TV stayed on the entire time he was there. The volume would fluctuate, but it was always loud enough to hear through the wall. He even left it on when he wasn’t in the room. By the second night, we ended up calling the front desk because we couldn’t sleep. They got him to turn it down for a few hours, but the next morning it was blasting again.

We saw him outside a few times when he went out to smoke, and both of us got a really bad vibe. He would often sit right by the side door we used to get to our room. His eyes would follow us whenever we were outside at the same time. It creeped us out enough that we stopped going out alone.

One night, he was outside with two small dogs—Yorkies, I think. My ex (I’ll call him Jack) made a small comment about them when one ran up to him, but the guy didn’t respond at all. He just stared at us. We went back inside and tried to brush it off.

To be fair, there were a lot of sketchy people at this hotel, so we were already a little on edge.

About a week into our stay, around 10 p.m., his TV was loud again. Then we thought we heard another person in the room with him. Up until that point, he’d always been alone.

At first, it sounded like they were having s*x—the noises and the rhythm of the headboard hitting the wall made it pretty obvious. It was clearly a woman’s voice, not the TV. That went on for a few minutes, but then it started to sound… wrong. Like she was in distress.

The moment it started sounding off, the guy began singing.

I have no idea what he was singing, but he sounded completely calm—like nothing had just happened. Not even out of breath, which didn’t match what we had just heard.

After things went quiet, there was tapping on the wall—but not like before. It started softly on one side of the wall and slowly moved across to the other side, getting a little louder as it went. It wasn’t rhythmic anymore. The taps came at random intervals—sometimes seconds apart, sometimes minutes. But it felt like whatever he was doing, he was moving across the room.

We got curious (and honestly nosy), so I put my ear against the wall to try to figure out what was going on. The TV was off now, and no one was talking—which was weird if someone else was still in there. And we never heard anyone leave.

I listened for about 45 minutes. The only things I could hear were him walking around occasionally and this sound I can only describe as some kind of electric power tool. I could barely hear it unless my ear was against the wall, which is why I thought it might be something electric. At first I wondered if it was a hair dryer, but it went on way too long for that.

And every so often, there was this… wet sound. I don’t really know how else to describe it.

At that point, I got a really bad feeling. I pulled out my phone and started recording, waiting for him to come out of the room.

Eventually, the noise stopped. I went to our door and watched through the peephole for about ten minutes. I started to think he wasn’t going to come out, so I stepped away—but right then I heard his door open.

He walked out with a black trash bag.

Before anyone says anything—the bag was way too small to hold a whole person. But still. I got part of it on video (I can post it if anyone wants to see).

His room was to the left of ours. When he came out, he briefly walked down the hall to the right, almost like he was checking if anyone was there. Then he turned and went the opposite direction with the bag (that part is in the video).

He was gone for about 30 minutes.

When he came back, that same noise started up again almost immediately. And he started singing again.

My ex kept saying it sounded like an electric chainsaw, which felt extreme to me—but it definitely wasn’t normal. It went on for about another hour before stopping completely.

We stayed up for hours after that. We never heard or saw anyone else leave. And we never heard that woman’s voice again.

The guy checked out the next day.

I called my mom that night, hoping she’d tell me I was overthinking it. She said it was probably just some weird guy watching creepy p*rn, but it was very clearly a real voice in there—not something coming from a TV.

My ex even called the front desk and asked if they could do a welfare check, but no one ever came. I think they were annoyed because we had already complained about the noise twice.

I don’t know. It was just a bunch of really strange things happening all at once, and it still doesn’t sit right with me.

Ola, first I want to apologize I’m from Germany and English isn’t my first language:/ so I had this translated with chatGPT Lol

For obvious reasons, I’ll keep some details vague for privacy.🦝

Here’s the story. (M24)

When I was 15, I was hanging out in a friend’s basement with a former friend, two girls (who had escaped a psychiatric (yes, really 🤦🏻‍♂️), and we were toke drugs. (amphetamine, weed)

That’s where I first met “S.”

I found her really attractive and mysterious. I liked her a lot, but what I didn’t know at the time was that she was into me too.

I was into her as well, but she was… different. Hard to explain. The kind of person who gives you “signals” nobody else seems to understand.

Anyway. Time skip.

Years later, I was at a rave — a tunnel rave in my city, straight techno.

By coincidence, I ran into her again. She was on Ecstasy.

I was honestly shocked to see her there. We started talking, and she told me she had been into me back then and still had interest.

I still thought she was attractive, and she looked just as intense as I remembered.

So we spent time together that night. I made sure she was okay, got her water, etc. Nothing weird at first — just looking out for her.

Later we went to a nearby club after the rave.

Inside the club, things escalated the way you’d expect at that kind of night — dancing, kissing, drinking ect.

Oh and There was a guy with her (a friend of hers), who honestly behaved in a very intrusive and uncomfortable way, constantly inserting himself into situations where he clearly wasn’t wanted. It completely ruined the vibe.

After a while, I left.

Before leaving, I took her shirt with me — not for anything malicious, but as an excuse to see her again. 😶‍🌫️

A couple of days later, she came to pick it up.

And that’s when things got weird.

The atmosphere was off immediately. She was extremely cold, distant, almost emotionally flat. The conversation felt forced, like I had to carry every sentence.

(btw she was in prison)

At some point, she started telling me a story.

I’ll paraphrase it as best as I can, but the tone was the same:

She described how a former best friend had hurt her deeply. In response, she allegedly organized a house party to lure that person to her place. After the party, she got that person into a separate room under a false pretense, restrained them, and harmed them with a razor blade.

I honestly didn’t know how to react. I tried to stay calm and just responded vaguely.

The whole situation felt extremely disturbing, but I ignored my gut feeling because I had known her since I was a teenager and wanted to believe it was just talk.

Eventually, we ended up sleeping together, but the entire experience felt wrong and detached. She left around 3 AM, which honestly felt like a relief.

After that night, we didn’t really talk anymore.

Then things escalated again later.

About one or two months after that, I had been awake so 2 Days, i guess (Amphetamine)

While I was out getting groceries late in the evening, (alcohol lol) I suddenly received snaps from her.

The first one showed my front door.

No context.

Just my front door.

I opened it in the store and immediately felt a wave of panic. I was already sleep-deprived and anxious, and this made everything worse.

Then more snaps came.

A photo of a balcony.

It was the balcony directly above my apartment.

Again — no text, no explanation.

At that point I felt extremely uneasy and stopped engaging completely.

I told my friends about it back then because I genuinely didn’t know what to think.

Fast forward about 2 years later (2025/26), a friend told me that she apparently knew I had been talking about the situation. I don’t know how accurate that was, but it made me uncomfortable.

Then, by pure coincidence, I ended up at a bar/club area with some friends.

Someone told me she was there too.

And suddenly, she appeared next to me.

She immediately confronted me, clearly angry, asking why I had been “talking about her.”

I honestly don’t remember much after that night — I had been drinking and the situation became a blur. I just remember wanting to distance myself from her

We all make mistakes, but some people are mistakes.

Let’s not meet again.

I (21M) was home alone while my partner (31F) we were playing dead by daylight while after a while i started feeling really tired so I called it there for the night, got into bed and im not sure if this maybe caused it but I wrapped a small blanket over my face and just started drifting off.

Worth mentioning prior to this i read on Facebook about a guy in my area breaking into people's houses and claiming hes a man of god etc and i seen a meme of a monkey messing with a dog i think it was with the caption Bro seen the meme (trust me its important) then it switched to the monkey and lion meme.

Cut back to me lying in bed, I turned over and moved the blanket from my face and I just seen a lioness staring right at me on top of my partners drawers with its mouth wide open, just as quickly as I had seen it, it faded just as fast, but that was enough to scare me so badly, I felt like I was going to be sick, I couldn't breathe properly and not ashamed to admit I was nearly gonna cry, I love horror games but no horror game could compare to that fear I felt, after I seen it i ended up heading over to my partners mams were shes staying for a few days and slept there, safe to say im never staying home alone for more then a night or at the very least having someone over before I go to bed, used to think I loved the silence because it was comforting but not anymore.

Hello! My friends and I have recently gotten interested in ghosts / paranormal activity, and decided we would go to an old cemetery (featuring graves of old Quakers and people who died in the 18-1900s) with an Ouija Board, and ask some questions. Once we got there, and it was relatively dark, we went to a cluster of tombstones and set up the Ouija Board to try and talk to the dead.

Before we put our fingers on the board, we said the following phrase: "We invite only those spirits who mean no harm, if you bring lies or malice - you are not welcome here." We then put our fingers on the planchette, and asked a simple question of "is anyone there."

After a minute or so, the planchette did not move, and all of our anticipations crumbled down. Suddenly; though, a loud noise (seemingly one of a banging on a gong) was heard out in the woods by the graveyard.

The sound shocked us all, and immediately scared us. We started asking if the spirit was unable to contact us through the Board, and asked if the gong was their way of communicating to us. A minute or so later, we heard the gong again.

After around 5 minutes, the gong noise stopped. We started to think the entity had left, and we're ready to leave. Out of nowhere, again, we heard the gonging noise. This time, it was fainter - and happened twice in a row.

We then left, and went back to our car. Once we got in the car, we took the Ouija Board out one more time. That was then when I realized that the planchette had no glass part in the middle to keep a spirit in it. My friend had gotten a fake Ouija Board, or broken one.

As we drove home, we were all confused on the gonging noise. We had visited the graveyard during the day and never once heard any type of gong noise like that, same with the woods. That's when my friend realized something very interesting...

He claimed that we were able to summon a spirit, but they could not contact us through the Ouija Board as the planchette was broken. This is why the gonging noise happened, as a way for them to contact us...

In my mind, this truly is the only scenario that makes sense. I have never had an encounter with a ghost like this, and was wondering if any of you pros could have any input on what I experienced. Do you think my friend could be right? Also, should we go back with a working Ouija Board and try again? Thanks for reading!