19 Truly Terrifying Stranger Danger Stories That’ll Have You Tossing And Turning In Fear All Night Long

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“At my old job, there was a 6:00 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. shift which I hated being scheduled for because I didn’t have a car and all the bus routes I usually took didn’t run at 2:30 a.m. There was a random commuter bus at 3:00 a.m. that I would take on those shifts, though. It would drop me off about a 15-minute walk from my house, most of which was across a big mall parking lot, and then the last little bit on my street, which was always very dark at that time. One night, I got off the bus as usual, and while waiting to cross the street to get to the parking lot, a car slowly drove past me, and the driver was just staring straight at me. I continued on, and shortly after, I realized he had pulled into the parking lot and was following me slowly with his car.”

“It was the middle of the night, no one was around, and there was nowhere to go for help. I thought about calling the cops, but didn’t know how long they would take or if this guy would do something if he saw me with my phone. 

When I got near my street, I acted like I was walking past it because there was no way to drive directly on it from that part of the parking lot. When I was almost there, I quickly darted across the road to my street and could see the guy in the car quickly try to find an exit so he could continue following me. Before he could get there, I hid in my neighbor’s bushes and watched him drive up and down a few times, looking for me. Eventually, he gave up, and I quickly ran the rest of the way home.

After that night, I’d just Uber home when I worked that shift. It was way more expensive, but I decided I’d rather spend money than experience whatever that creep was planning on doing to me.”

—ihopeyoulikeapples