3 Very Scary TRUE Park Horror Stories
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00:00back before phones and social media took over the planet we actually had to go
00:15outside as kids maybe it's just where I live but I don't see kids riding their
00:20bikes around or playing ding-dong ditch or doing any of those late-night
00:23troublesome kid activities anymore but when I was a kid and I'm talking
00:28anywhere from 9 to 17 years old I was always outside with friends at my
00:33childhood home there was a park down the block from me that some of my friends
00:37and I would use as a hangout spot especially at night since our parents
00:41would get mad at us for being loud the park was perfect because it had a small
00:45patch of woods on three sides and then it faced the street on the fourth side and
00:49across from the park was another small patch of woods so basically we didn't
00:53have any neighboring houses watching us or calling the cops on us for making too
00:57much noise when we were in the park this happened when I was like 13 that age
01:02where we were riding bikes to get literally everywhere every day I think
01:06that day in question was a Saturday and we had ridden to a nearby pizza place a
01:10little earlier then went back to my friend Tony's house which was also not
01:14far from my house the six of us were hanging out in his backyard until his mom
01:18came outside and yelled at him to either be quiet send his friends home or go hang
01:22out somewhere else by this point three of our other friends decided to go home
01:27me Tony and our friend Rob decided to go ride to the park instead of calling it a
01:32night it was only about a five-minute bike ride and there was something so
01:36refreshing about riding bikes at night it felt easier and more relaxing so the
01:42three of us got to the park and to describe the park besides its surroundings the
01:46actual park had a small baseball field a small bleacher stand a couple typical
01:51park benches and a pretty decently sized playground with a swing set we would
01:56always chill on the actual playground because it was a cool elevated hidden
01:59surface to just hang out on at some point when we were chilling on the
02:04playgrounds Tony went shh did you hear that we all stopped talking for a few
02:09moments to listen when nothing happened Tony explained that he thought he heard a
02:14footstep or some kind of thump on the playground that wasn't us so naturally
02:19we all kind of took a quick glance around the playgrounds and ultimately
02:23didn't see anyone but probably a few minutes later there was a sound that we
02:27all heard this time and it did sound like some kind of thud emanating from
02:31somewhere in the physical playground itself now we were slightly unsettled
02:36because we were almost certain someone else was there making that noise so we
02:41took another peep this time actually getting up and walking around
02:44and even calling out asking who was there of course there was no response so
02:48eventually we settled back down up on the playgrounds we both for another few
02:54minutes until we heard yet another sound this time it was a much more
02:58unsettling sound it was the sound of a voice a child's voice and it came from
03:04inside the slide one of those twirling metal slides you see at most typical
03:09playgrounds I'm not gonna lie when we all heard it we genuinely freaked out even
03:16though yes we did hear some weird sounds on the playgrounds we didn't hear
03:20anyone climbing into the slide and the thumping sounds definitely didn't come
03:24from the slide so naturally I walked over to the slide and listened then I
03:29said is someone in there and a voice said back hello it was a child's voice I
03:35want to say a boy they sounded like a toddler I was 90% sure they said hello my
03:42friends heard it too we all gave each other these terrified looks we had not
03:47heard anyone in the slide for the entire half hour we'd been there I said down the
03:51slide do you need help but there was no response now in fact we didn't hear the
03:56voice again I had to assume there was a little kid stuck in there so I climbed in
04:01and slid down but as I slid down expecting a child to appear around the
04:05corner of the entire time instead I made it to the bottom only to find it was
04:09empty I then did a scan around the ground level of the playgrounds and the
04:14surrounding area and there was not a soul in sight my friends were just as
04:19shocked as I was there was literally not a soul besides us around and I'm telling
04:24you it was not possible for someone to have run away that quickly especially not a
04:28young child we checked every possible place to hide and there was no one we
04:33were already beyond freaked out but when we heard the same voice once again come
04:38from the slide this time saying catch me we all bolted for our bikes we pedaled
04:44faster than we ever had back to my house down the block we regrouped and caught
04:48our breath in my backyard we were trying to be quiet though since my dad was likely
04:53asleep already and he would get mad if we were loud outside so we sat amongst
04:57ourselves talking about what just happened and any possible explanations but
05:02things only got stranger when there was a knocking on the backyard gate yes like
05:07someone was knocking as if asking permission to come in I said who is that
05:11thinking maybe it was a family member but it was an unfamiliar woman's voice she
05:17said hello and then said were you guys just at the park before we once again
05:21looked at each other a nervousness there's a tiny crack in the gate where it
05:26met the fence that you could look through and see to the other side so I peeked
05:30through it and what I saw was a woman middle-aged standing on the other side
05:35with this big wide creepy grin on her face and she was already looking right at me
05:41through the crack as if she knew to do so I stepped away from the gate because it
05:46was such a disturbing sight I backed away and said no sorry the woman replied back
05:52are you sure and Tony replied for me saying no we weren't the woman said okay
05:58thanks anyway I stepped back toward the gate to see if she left but she was still
06:03standing there smiling and looking at me through the crack we were so freaked out
06:08that we went inside my house through the back door we quietly hung out downstairs for a
06:13while completely shook that woman was terrifying everything about her my friends
06:19were scared to get their bikes and leave so they slept over and left in the morning we
06:24didn't go back to that park for a long time after that if we really wanted to explain it
06:30all the way we could go with the explanation that there was a kid who ran away from his
06:34mother and was playing at the park and the mother was looking for her child but it doesn't
06:39make sense because we rode home so quickly that no one on foot would have been able to see
06:43where we went also we know for a fact that we didn't see any kid running around the playground
06:49so what the actual hell did we hear inside of that slide who was that who was the woman at this point
06:57it's a distant memory that will simply never be solved
07:00i never thought a normal walk in the park could turn into one of the scariest nights of my life
07:15but it did i live in a small suburban town the kind where everyone knows everyone else
07:22and most people think it's safe to be outside at any time it was a friday night in the summer of 2018
07:28i had just finished a late shift at work and i wanted to clear my head before going home
07:33the local park was only a few blocks away from the apartment and i used it a lot to jog or just walk
07:39when i needed to think that night it was quiet almost too quiet the sun had set maybe an hour before
07:48and the street lights inside the park were on but the main walking path still felt shadowed under the
07:53trees i remember thinking how peaceful it was as i entered the smell of freshly cut grass lingering
07:59in the air i wasn't expecting anyone to be there most of the time on a weekday night i'd be alone or
08:06maybe see a few people walking dogs or a couple of teenagers sitting on the benches i had my headphones
08:12in listening to music at a low volume and i started walking along the main path at first everything was
08:18normal i noticed a couple of dogs running in the distance and some people walking slowly laughing
08:23quietly it felt calm almost therapeutic but then i started noticing little things that made me feel
08:30uneasy though at the time i tried to brush them off the first thing i noticed was a man sitting on a
08:37bench not far from the path he was wearing a hoodie the hood pulled up over his head even though it
08:42wasn't cold he wasn't doing anything in particular just sitting and staring straight ahead i didn't
08:49think much of it at first people sit on benches all the time but as i passed i realized he was looking
08:55at me he didn't move when i walked by didn't even shift his eyes from me it made me uncomfortable so i
09:02picked up my pace a little telling myself he was probably harmless i kept walking trying to shake off the
09:08feeling but then i heard footsteps behind me i paused and the footsteps stopped i waited for a few seconds
09:16then continued walking they started again matching my pace exactly my heart started to beat faster but
09:24i told myself it was probably just someone else taking their own walk still the footsteps were too
09:29deliberate too in sync with mine i decided to take a different path one that led through a smaller
09:35section of the park with fewer lights the main path was still ahead but i wanted to cut through a
09:41side trail that loops back toward the street i figured i could get home faster that way and maybe
09:46avoid whoever was behind me as i turned onto the trail i noticed the man from the bench had stood up
09:52and was walking in the same direction i thought maybe it was a coincidence but something about the way he
09:58moved made me stop and stare he wasn't jogging or taking a normal stroll it was slow almost like he was
10:05matching my pace without looking directly at me i took out my phone and checked the time then
10:10pretended to make a call holding it up to my ear the man didn't react he didn't seem to care that i was
10:16looking at him i forced myself to keep walking trying not to panic i thought maybe if i went faster he'd
10:24eventually leave me alone i broke into a light jug and he did the same keeping exactly the same distance
10:30behind me my mind raced why was he following me was he dangerous should i run back the way i came
10:38i made a decision to leave the park completely there was a street exit just ahead that led back
10:43toward a well-lit neighborhood i broke into a faster run heart pounding so hard i thought it might explode
10:49out of my chest the footsteps behind me sped up matching mine perfectly i didn't look back again
10:56i just ran when i reached the street i slowed down and finally risked glancing behind me the man had
11:03stopped at the edge of the park standing at the shadows just inside the trees i could see the hood
11:08over his head the dark shape against the dimly lit path he wasn't moving just watching me i don't know
11:16how long i stood there before i turned and ran home my hands were shaking so badly i could hardly unlock
11:21my apartment door i thought that would be the end of it i told myself it was probably just a creepy guy
11:27who liked to follow people maybe harmless i kept imagining rational explanations maybe he was lonely
11:35maybe he was homeless maybe he just liked watching people walk i tried to go back to my normal life
11:41but i couldn't stop thinking about that night a few nights later i was back at the same park
11:48this time during the day trying to convince myself it was safe i walked along the same path i had
11:54walked that night scanning the area for anything unusual everything looked normal and i started to
12:00relax a little but then i noticed the same bench where i had first seen him it was empty now but
12:07someone had scratched something into the wood i couldn't make out exactly what it said it looked like
12:13letters carved hastily some of them smeared as if whoever did it didn't want it to be legible
12:19my stomach turned i snapped a picture and walked away quickly after that i tried to avoid the park
12:25at night completely but the worst part wasn't that i felt unsafe it was the feeling that someone knew
12:31i had been there that someone was waiting even when i wasn't looking i started noticing small things in
12:38the neighborhood too shadows moving in the corner of my eye a figure across the street that would
12:43vanish when i looked directly a car parked down the block that i didn't recognize lights turning on in
12:49houses when i walked past i kept telling myself it was paranoia that i was imagining things but the
12:56memory of that night never left me one evening maybe two weeks later i decided to go jogging again
13:02in the early evening thinking it was safer than night time i stayed on the main street not going
13:08into the park at all as i passed the edge of the park i noticed something that made my blood run cold
13:15a figure was standing just inside the tree line barely visible it was the same height and build as
13:20the man from before and the hood was up again i froze in place he didn't move but i had this
13:27overwhelming feeling that he had been there for hours just watching
13:31my instincts screamed at me to run but i forced myself to move slowly keeping my eyes on him
13:36when i reached my car i jumped in locked the doors and drove away constantly glancing back in the rear
13:42view mirror i never saw him again after that night at least not in the park but sometimes when i walk
13:49through the neighborhood or even near my apartment i get that same feeling that someone is watching me
13:55just beyond my line of sight i've checked the park security cameras in the past and nothing unusual
14:01shows up no one was captured entering the park at night and the areas i walked are supposed to be
14:06covered by cameras i don't know if he was someone who knew how to avoid them or if it was someone who
14:12had been living there without anyone noticing the strangest part is that i never heard anything
14:17directly from him no voice no movement besides the footsteps just that presence i've told friends
14:24and family but most of them dismiss it as paranoia i know what i experienced and i can't explain it
14:31i've learned to avoid that park completely at night and even in the day i stay on the main streets
14:36but the memory sticks with me sometimes late at night i find myself staring at the dark tree line
14:42where he stood wondering if he's still there waiting for someone else i never go back but a small
14:49irrational part of me feels like he could still be there even now hiding just out of sight watching
14:55anyone who dares to walk alone i don't know why he picked me or if it was random i don't know if he
15:01was dangerous or just interested all i know is that feeling of being followed being watched without
15:08anyone seeing it's something i'll never forget even writing this now i feel a chill remembering the
15:14quiet way he moved how he stayed just out of reach but always present i still take my walks but i make
15:22sure i'm never alone in the park after dark and sometimes when i'm home i swear i hear the sound of
15:27footsteps outside far enough away to be unnoticed but close enough to remind me that i'm being watched
15:33i tell myself it's probably nothing i hope it is but i can't shake the feeling that somewhere out
15:39there he's still waiting watching and stalking me like he was that night i never reported him to the
15:46police there was no evidence or proof that anyone was there except me i thought about it but i couldn't
15:52even describe him clearly just a hoodie a vague shape and the feeling that he knew everything i was doing
15:58the uncertainty is what haunts me the most i have no idea who he was why he was there or if he's still
16:05around even walking past that park during the day now makes me tense even now years later if i'm
16:11driving past i sometimes feel like i see a figure standing at the edge of the trees i can't tell if
16:17it's real or just my imagination i don't stop to find out i just keep driving hoping i never have to
16:23walk that path alone again this event happened less than 24 hours ago the details are still incredibly
16:39vivid in my head i'm not even sure how to classify this story because it was so bizarre it was the only
16:45time in my life that i've ever felt like i was actually in serious danger myself and a group of five
16:51friends were hanging out at a popular public park in my area called the overlook because it had a
16:56great view of downtown and nearby universities it was very late in the evening around 11 o'clock it was
17:04supposed to be just a chill rendezvous we had no plans of doing anything other than hanging out on
17:09the park benches and talking however one of my friends said that he had roman candles in his trunk
17:15and suggested that we light them off the overlook is probably the worst place in the entire park to light
17:20fireworks so i suggested we go to a more secluded part of the park called the loop the loop is just
17:26a few minutes away from the overlook and most of it is surrounded by trees so only people within
17:31that part of the park would be able to see what we were doing all six of us piled into two separate
17:37cars and made our way over to the loop although there was plenty of street parking within the loop we
17:42decided to park outside on a nearby street just in case anything went wrong we started walking toward
17:48the actual loop part which is basically a huge cul-de-sac surrounded by woods the driveway to the
17:54loop is very long and winding cutting through a thick tree line you can't see anything within the
17:59loop from outside because of the trees we noticed a few cars parked in different spots but we thought
18:05nothing of it as people walk in this park frequently still it was strange for such a late hour
18:12as we walked deeper into the loop we noticed several cars parked around the cul-de-sac with their lights off
18:17suddenly a truck behind us started moving with its headlights off it was facing the opposite direction
18:25toward the entrance of the loop but it quickly made a u-turn and headed in our direction we all found
18:31this strange and hid behind some trees the truck passed us slowly then continued around the loop drove
18:37back toward the entrance stopped suddenly and made another u-turn all of our stomachs sank the truck was
18:45small probably only fitting three people yet there were six of us all over six feet tall still we
18:51were frightened and creeped out for some reason my friend thought that was the perfect time to light
18:56a roman candle and sparks flew in our direction the truck immediately turned its headlights on and
19:02started slowly driving toward us we ran further into the tree line which was on a downward slope
19:08and we hid behind more trees however the truck went over the curb and drove through the grass toward us
19:13whoever was driving must have seen us running because they turned on their high beans and laid on the horn
19:20we sprinted as fast as we could into the woods these weren't paths people normally walked through
19:26there were bushes and tall grass making it difficult to move about 20 feet into the woods we began hearing
19:33voices from the truck and saw more pairs of headlights turn on from the loop during our sprint we had become
19:39separated i was with two friends and we didn't know where the other three were but that wasn't our main
19:45concern two men stepped out of the truck and sprinted down into the woods with flashlights
19:51my friends and i lay flat on the ground trying to stay hidden i managed to squeeze under a large bush
19:57but my other two friends were still partially exposed we were in a sunken part of the woods with part of
20:03the loop directly above us it was quiet for a few minutes until we heard footsteps and saw flashlights from above
20:11we didn't know if they could see us but we were basically trapped
20:15one group was searching from the front and another was searching from above
20:19we didn't understand why they were so upset about the fireworks
20:22none of them had come near any of their vehicles and fireworks are legal in our state
20:27all we could do was hide and hope they didn't find us after about 15 minutes we saw the truck pull out
20:34of the grass and back onto the street then drive away the other headlights disappeared but we never
20:39saw the men who had entered the woods come out to make matters worse one of my friends realized he had
20:45lost his phone somewhere in the woods while running finding it was surprisingly easy but sneaking out of
20:50the woods and back onto the road leading to the loop was difficult it was pitch black and we couldn't
20:56use our flashlights or phones because we didn't want to alert the men of our location we regrouped with
21:01one friend who had been hiding close by he said one of the men had run right past him but didn't see him
21:07however he noticed the man was carrying what looked like a knife or some kind of melee weapon
21:12after hearing this we sprinted down the road toward the entrance that's when we noticed the same
21:17truck from earlier about 50 feet from the entrance fortunately a dense patch of woods nearby allowed us to
21:23sneak into it and move toward the exit somehow whoever was in the truck realized we started
21:29moving because they immediately turned on their high beams and pulled the truck to the edge of the
21:33woods at that point we ran as fast as we could the truck followed us along the road but we quickly
21:39cut deeper into the woods eventually we reached a main road that led out of the loop the truck didn't
21:46follow beyond the entrance we took two different back roads to get back to our cars to make sure we
21:51weren't being followed we didn't hear from our other friends until a few hours later they had managed
21:57to escape much quicker by running without hiding i'm never going back to the loop i don't know what
22:03those people wanted or why they made such an effort to hunt us in the woods but i'm sure it wasn't good
22:09it felt like an eternity at the time and i've never been more scared in my life
22:13i truly didn't know what was going to happen
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