there are times in our lives when our
paths intersect with individuals that
have bad intentions for many they find
out too late for others they discover if
they had taken a wrong turn then all
alone or then the chosen lucky one they
would have been the next victim of a
psychopath here are seven stories people
told or luck was on their side enjoy
back in the 70s my grandfather dropped
my grandmother mom and her two sisters
off to do some shopping in his way to
work since he wasn't able to pick them
up they hitchhiked home my mom at the
time was only around 10 or 11 her middle
sister would have been around seven or
eight and the youngest was about a year
old they get picked up by a guy in a
pickup truck who has them all sit in the
back row with one of them holding the
baby my grandmother was giving
directions to their home from the
highway but the guy ignored her and went
by there exit claiming he had to make a
stop first didn't really say much else
to them during the drive my mom
remembers my grandmother being very
quiet and very nervous eventually they
come up to a farm the driver tells him
to wait in the car and he goes inside
the house while he's gone they just sit
there terrified
they're in the middle of nowhere and
they know they couldn't make it out on
put a few minutes later the driver comes
out with a second guy who looks into the
truck and sees my mom's youngest sister
he starts flipping out screaming at the
driver that he shouldn't have brought
the baby back they aren't going to do
anything with her and some other things
I can't remember he ends up telling him
to get them away from the farm the
driver gets back into the truck
apologizes and they get back on the
highway and drive again in silence my
grandmother normally a very smart woman
had him drive directly to their house
although I suspect her reasoning was
she'd already given him the address
before anything seemed off they lived at
that house for several years and luckily
never saw either of them a second time
my friend's dad once answer the door
late one night it was around 11pm or so
at the door was an odd man asking for
directions to the main road her dad
usually works nights but on this rare
occasion he had taken it off so he tells
the guy the route and the weird dude
thanked him and what off but in the
opposite direction he'd seemed quite
nervous and jittery which is odd but
what's even weirder is he's known in the
area he'd lived there for years he
wouldn't need to ask directions some
main road anyway it was revealed in the
news on that same night he had broken
into a house and violently raped a woman
and her daughter and later tried to
sexually assault another woman on the
street but a passerby managed to help
her get away this was after he called at
my friend's house so he'd gone there
then went off in the wrong direction and
tried to rape someone now my friends
family was having a lot of drama at the
time her mother is a nutcase alcoholic
and the whole street knew she'd been
centre rehab with her dad working nights
it's likely that the weird of raping man
knew my friend would be home alone
once as a teenager I was seeing a
fast-food drive-through and someone in
the old bronco started to follow me at
first I thought I was a road rage
situation and did the sorry wave and
tried to let him pass but he swerved at
me like he was trying to hit my car he
pulled up alongside of me and was
screaming out the window just
incoherently furious continuing to
swerve at me this was before the days of
cell phones and I was in an unfamiliar
area of town I was draining a Firebird
and tried to outrun him but he would run
red lights and me crazy turns to keep up
with me eventually I ran into a dead end
and he pulled his truck across the road
to block it there were big bitches on
either side so I was stuck he got out
and started screaming at my door handle
doors locked and pounding on the windows
his face inches from mine just screaming
and screaming in a way that seemed he
couldn't even quite see me shaking and
crying I turned on my overhead light so
he could see I was just a teenage girl
and not who he was looking for and he
jumped on my hood and started pounding
and drooling in thick white smears on my
windshield I was screaming and crying
and he stopped held up one finger like
wait a minute and screwed off to his
truck I floored the gas and ran into the
ditch and drove like a crazy person for
45 minutes until I knew I had lost him
no idea what his deal was my mom thought
I made up this story to lie about the
damage to my car and still seems
hesitant to believe me
this is from a male's perspective when
my wife was in college she took a
philosophy class or something on the
first day everyone announced who they
were etc turns out she was sitting next
to a police officer who's taking the
class for continuing education or
promotion can't remember but he was
actively a police officer this was
really great for her because she's small
and it was a nighttime class they became
sort of friends as much as two people
sitting next to each other for food
classes could be he agreed to walk over
carved her class since the school wasn't
in the best area and it made her feel
safe around midterms he stops showing up
she's kind of confused but figured life
happens and something else probably came
up a few weeks later we were at her
parents house and her mom asks if we had
heard about the police officer who had
been arrested we hadn't so she begins to
fill us in on this police officer that
had been pulling woman over and raping
them in their cars we live in a small
town but it gets super rural super fast
so nobody is passing these scenes as
they're happening it turns out that the
officer raping the women was the same
guy that had been walking her to her car
after class every week and the reason he
wasn't in class was because he had been
arrested
my father was a supervisor of a
now-defunct inpatient mental health
hospital he supervised the children's
unit these were kids mostly boys that
had done some terrible shit or they came
from terrible families and through no
fault of their own ended up there one
day a group outing had been planned for
some kids of the unit two boys decided
it would be a great time to start a
fight right as they were about to leave
my dad decided that their behavior
didn't warrant a trip I forgot where
they were going but it was somewhere
really fun he kept them back of the
facility that day I was six at the time
later that night my dad gets a phone
call from home it's the police two boys
had managed to slip past a psych tech
sleeping on the night shift at the
facility and were found just a few
blocks from our house with duct tape and
knives and their backpacks apparently
they hadn't taken kindly to being left
behind and waited until they knew the
night crew would be distracted doing
rounds or tending to patients they had
found my dad's home address by breaking
into his office and saw a picture of me
on his desk needless to say they
confessed to my dad's face later that
night that they had planned to rape and
murder me the cops had only picked them
up because they were too young to be
elderly if they were my dad could a few
weeks later and we moved across country
this Vincent in top in when I was in
college I was 20 I lived in a big city
where I went to school but I still used
my car more than public transportation
since I needed to transport a lot of
materials back and forth through my
apartment to campus sculpture major one
week night I had been working late in
the studio and decided to stop at the
24-hour drugstore chain on my drive home
to pick up a few things tampons and
chocolate it was pretty late probably 2
a.m. so there wasn't any other customers
in the store but there were two male
cashiers around my age after I have been
there are three minutes a new customer
entered the store he was male late 30s
kind of jittery looking he noticed me
and started following me around the
store in a really obvious way I was
trying to ignore him get my stuff and
get out of there he came up to me and
started doing this noise like he was
trying to discreetly get my attention I
kept ignoring him then he said fuck you
bitch and left the store I figured
whatever weirdo as I paid for my stuff I
had this overwhelming gut feeling to ask
the cashier if he wouldn't mind walking
me to my car since the jittery guy had
creeped me out the cashiers that it was
cool and we make our way out to the
parking lot so I'm feeling more at ease
about halfway to my car and I turned to
say thanks to the cashier for his help
when he grabs my shoulder and says that
guy is under your car sure enough that
fucking jittery guy was under my car the
cashier shouts what the fuck are you
doing I'm calling the police the jittery
guy starts scrambling out from under my
car and cashier guy and me run back in
the store and he immediately calls the
cops it scared me pretty good he ran
away before the cops got there I
sometimes wonder what he would have done
to me if I hadn't asked the cashier to
walk me out grabbed my foot stabbed me
with something just let me run him over
this happened in Antioch California it
was around 2am I was at a friend house
safe and warm sheltered sabria we were
having a lot to drink chit-chatting
enjoying ourselves of course when you're
having fun time hits the fast-forward
button and those few minutes turn into
an hour I had too much to drink my
friend has a bit of an abrupt bedtime so
I had dajjal early still intoxicated I
felt too shameful thinking I'd be asking
too much to stay in his house to sleep
off the drunkenness I suppose he was
either too rude or too drunk to consider
it himself whatever sometimes a little
inconvenient makes you appreciate
everything else i needed about an hour
or so to sober up and drive back now as
fast as time passed during my stay it
decided to drastically slowed down as
soon as I stepped out of his house it
was a cold sac area a concrete jungle
with the stem of the street breaking
into a fork alongside the road my car
was parked the only streetlight that
worked was in the middle of the
cul-de-sac circle about 80 yards away I
stumbled toward my car produce my keys
felt the male line up opened my door and
shift it to the backseat because this
was a dark strange and unfamiliar
neighborhood I took the leftover
newspapers and the sweater in my
backseat to cover myself up
I was a little scared I wanted to
camouflage myself and not just be some
guy awkwardly sitting in his car waiting
for time to pass in order to drive home
I could not fall asleep the
uncomfortable feeling of a cheap
backseat bed and shouted in darkness
didn't make the chance of slumber easier
it felt too ominous and of course my
mind began to wonder I thought of
worst-case scenarios like how the police
would shine a light on me through the
window or drug driver hitting my car and
wait in the distance about a hundred
yards away I could hear footsteps
approaching the gravel scuffed with each
step forward growing in proximity but
periodically taking stops I wonder why
until it made sense in my mind whoever
it was was probably looking through cars
carefully with the intent to steal one I
couldn't recall how many cars were on
the block but I counted three full stops
until he was at my window breathing I
froze there was no more than a foot
between us the car encapsulated me as I
lay hidden beneath backseat clutter
boring myself into an object trying my
hardest to be unnoticeable unmoving and
simply not there a key you said a
40-plus year old man and perverse baby
talk imagine when you're playing
hide-and-seek and while your friends
tricks you into coming out he said it in
that tone of voice as if baiting me like
he was questioning whether the clutter
in the backseat was just clutter or a
person
I didn't want to move or check the
window I remained clutter give me an
Academy Award my body reacted by
minimizing my breathing so much so that
I felt paralyzed I dare not look my eyes
fixated on the back of the passenger
seat I didn't blink I didn't move I
didn't breathe my heart was pounding so
hard it shook my body with each throb he
circled around the car my ears did not
fail me I heard the steps I felt like I
was part of the car I could merely feel
him touching the trunk as he carefully
pressed down on it as if to test the
alarm as if to test me I was in the
middle of fight or flight I couldn't do
either without elevating danger I was
frozen and hoping to God he was bluffing
he circled the car again the door hailed
to my right jiggled he was pulling it
multiple times x tu same tone but more
agitated and stressed more convinced
that he was trying to make that clutter
move revealing itself to be of his
expectations that it was me my muscles
tensed like a cow before slaughter that
sound had to be metal against glass take
a penny right now and tap on your window
a crowbar knife a rock a gun my eyes
fixated on the seat in front of me never
averting my gaze like he was
I was covering up to her I couldn't see
beyond the seat in front of me I know I
couldn't see him but I could feel his
eyes resting on top of me Marnie's poker
face what's your name the voice changed
in a lower demented and serious tone my
mind for Seville and it wasn't anything
human I already accepted my death I was
ready to be shot in the head take a
life-changing bullet multiple knife
wounds just make this sleep bearable not
excruciating as you train me of life I
wouldn't know how to react my thoughts
grew dimmer I imagined my friend waking
up the next morning after a calm night
of safe and sound sleep only to discover
my mutilated defiled and bloodied body
hanging outside my car door it was then
that I heard nothing but my own heart
what was this person doing now just
staring at me in the middle of the night
talking to me or a messy pile in the
backseat time froze the footsteps were
being swallowed into the distance thank
God he left I waited another hour until
the Sun showed itself I jumped in the
front seat and bolted out of there
wide-eyed and very sober
have you ever had a close call have you
ever had that sinking feeling if you a
turn left instead of right you might be
on a milk carton if so please contact me
through any of my social media links see
you next time
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