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00:00my college years were some of the best years of my life don't get me wrong i'm very happy with
00:17the life i live but my memories of those four years are eternal my advice to anyone still in
00:23college don't take it for granted because it definitely flies by i went to a beach college
00:29our campus was literally right on the water this story takes place while i was undergoing pledge
00:34with my pledge class if you don't know that's basically a full semester of initiation for
00:39everyone who got bids to the frat that semester most of what happens during pledge is better left
00:44undiscussed anyway it was the last week of pledge before we officially became brothers typically
00:51this is the week where the fraternity kicks things up a notch so to speak for us it was commonly
00:56understood that at some point during the final week we'd have to undergo the beach challenge
01:01here's what would happen the brothers would drive our entire class about 12 miles down the coast on
01:07friday night then we'd have an hour to finish a massive keg filled with god knows what then they'd
01:13walk us down to the beach tie all of our wrists together blindfold us take our phones watches and
01:18shoes and leave us there we'd have until sunrise to make it back to the house otherwise we'd all be
01:24dropped to be completely honest with you i was pretty nervous leading up to this but there was
01:30really nothing i could do there was nothing any of us could do i remember it being oddly chilly the
01:35night of but the excitement of becoming a brother and finally being done with all this nonsense was
01:40adrenalizing the kegs were the easy part by this point we were pretty comfortable with divvying up the
01:46alcohol and pulling trig if necessary there were 15 of us after tying us together the brothers
01:53blindfolded everyone but chandler who was at the very front of the line he was to be our eyes but
01:58that's all the help we'd get our pledge master was this big mexican guy named ramirez but he insisted
02:05we all call him los pollos like the restaurant from breaking bad he was a strange dude he outlined the
02:11rules for us one last time then joined the rest of the brothers and left we were now on our own
02:16i won't run you through everyone's names but my closest friends in my pledge class were chandler
02:21whitworth jackson and vikram i was at the very back of the line and witsworth was directly in front of me
02:28we began walking with chandler leading us it was hell without our phones there really was no way of
02:34telling how much ground we were covering or how much time we had left all we could do was keep walking
02:40at first we tried to liven the mood by talking and cracking jokes but eventually that got old
02:45after what i'll call two hours of walking we were trudging along in complete silence with the
02:51occasional stop for someone to throw up i started to disassociate even the sounds of the ocean grew
02:57silent as i walked along trapped inside my own head it was completely silent suddenly i felt a sharp
03:05tug on the rope around my wrists so i took a few big steps forward and stopped assuming whitworth had
03:10fallen whitworth was a little more clumsy than most so this kind of thing wasn't super surprising
03:16i didn't really have the strength nor energy to ask him if he was all right so i just waited
03:21i must have been standing there like a statue for a full minute something felt off i was just about to
03:27say something when the rope around my wrists was pulled tight again i resumed walking pleased that
03:33whitworth hadn't passed out the trek resumed and i drifted back into my zoned out phase feeling
03:39terrible i prayed we were closing in on the final stretch we had to be just then i took what must
03:46have been my 10 000th step but something was different instead of hitting damp sand my foot
03:52slapped the unmistakable thin layer of ocean water i took a few more steps and the water got deeper
03:58reaching up to my ankles i was confused why would chandler be leading us into the water
04:03the rope pulled tight again meaning whitworth and everyone else in front of me was continuing to walk
04:09so i did the same i guess i figured someone needed to wash off their feet for whatever reason
04:14if no one else was complaining though i definitely wasn't going to start
04:17the water remained ankle height for a while advancing and receding with the sway of the waves
04:23just then though i felt the water begin to rise again until it was comfortably around my shins
04:29chandler was definitely screwing with us which for the life of me i couldn't understand why
04:34wasn't the stupid activity painful enough the water was only going to slow us down
04:40seconds later it began to pick up on a faint sound in the distance
04:44i craned my ears and began to recognize it it was the sound of an idling boat engine
04:50as we continued to walk the drone of the engine only got louder meaning it was getting closer
04:55or i was getting closer to it i was starting to get really uncomfortable
05:00the water was almost up to my knees at this point
05:03finally i broke what must have been hours of unspoken silence
05:07guys what the hell are we doing in the water
05:09i waited confused as to why no one was answering me
05:13guys i asked again in a more concerned voice
05:17still nothing i could feel panic begin to set in
05:21suddenly my blindness was suffocating i had to look around
05:25i reached my wrists up towards my eyes in an attempt to undo my blindfold
05:30as i did so the rope yanked away from me forcing my arms back down
05:34i cursed plunging my head down towards my fingers and undoing my blindfold before the rope could be jolted
05:40away from me again
05:41to my horror whitworth wasn't the one guiding me
05:45instead i found myself staring at a random middle-aged man
05:49holding the frayed end of the rope tied around my wrists
05:52i stared in shock at the severed rope in his hand
05:55and that's when i realized what had done the cutting
05:58a long rusty kitchen knife sat in his left hand
06:01past him there was a boat bobbing in the water
06:04and i could make out three more silhouettes towering on board
06:07i screamed bloody murder before he had a chance to react
06:11yanking my arms upward as fiercely as i could
06:14at the same time
06:15i lifted a foot out of the water
06:17and kicked his chest with all the strength i could muster
06:19luckily the rope broke free from his grip
06:22he grabbed my shirt to try and cushion his fall
06:25but the fabric gave way with a deafening rip
06:27he yelled as he plunged into the water
06:30with a huge chunk of my white pledge t-shirt
06:32but i was already moving as fast as i could toward dry land
06:36my wrists still tied
06:37a few seconds passed before i heard a splash from further away
06:41someone had jumped off the boat
06:43i didn't even look behind me i just kept moving
06:46i was about halfway to the sand
06:49when something whizzed right past my head
06:51maybe a few inches from my right ear
06:53it was the knife
06:54i watched it shoot past me before disappearing into the water
06:58i was in complete shock
07:00but the adrenaline was doing its job
07:02i got to land and for the first time looked back
07:05there were two men in the water and two on the boat
07:08they weren't chasing me anymore
07:10just staring lifelessly in my direction
07:13the closest man was still holding onto the white piece of my shirt
07:16that had torn off in the fray
07:18i didn't waste another second
07:20i ran up the beach and made it to the street
07:22by this point it was past sunrise
07:25but my frat was the last thing i was thinking about
07:27i flagged down the nearest car
07:29and after pleading to use their phone
07:31called the police
07:32it was no use
07:34by the time the cops showed up
07:35the four men were gone
07:36presumably off to wherever
07:38in that tiny little boat of theirs
07:40i lied to the cops about what happened
07:43worried that there might be repercussions for the frat
07:45luckily they didn't ask questions
07:48i didn't get too much crap from my frat brothers
07:51they were actually more pissed at chandler for not realizing what had happened
07:54even though he swears he didn't hear a thing
07:56after that i became a brother
07:58and things went back to normal
08:00well normal for a while
08:02a few weeks later
08:04a couple of the guys and i were playing beach die in the sand behind the house
08:07when jackson noticed something in the distance
08:09there was a stick poking out of the sand
08:12and tied to that stick
08:13was the white piece of cloth that had been torn from my t-shirt
08:16the design on the ripped stick was unmistakable
08:19it was my shirt
08:21to this day
08:22i have no idea how they knew which frat i was in
08:25my brothers think they might have recognized the piece of my t-shirt
08:28but i have a more sinister theory
08:30i think it's very possible that they knew our frat would be sending us pledges
08:35on that beach that night
08:36helpless and blind
08:37i think they very well could have planned the whole thing around that stupid tradition
08:41swooping in and kidnapping whoever they could
08:44i was just unlucky enough to be in the back
08:46which still gives me chills to this day
08:48i still wonder what might have happened to me had i gotten on that boat
08:52the police as always were useless
08:55it's been nearly a number of years
08:57and they never found anything
08:59this happened to me about a year ago today
09:10which is why i'm writing about it now
09:12i'm a 19 year old college student that was in the middle of joining a fraternity on my campus
09:17i go to a big party school down south and creek life is taken very seriously there
09:23for privacy reasons i'll spare the specific details
09:26but this particular night was my initiation
09:28meaning the night that me and my class of 20 students would officially become brothers of the fraternity
09:33during the process of joining which lasts a couple of months
09:37the brothers would make us do odd things
09:39like blindfold us and take us to strange places
09:41you know typical hazing stuff
09:43this was one of those nights
09:45we were blindfolded and left the frat house around 10 30 pm
09:50the brothers took our phones and drove us to a mystery location
09:53split between a couple different cars to make sure we all got there
09:56on the way over
09:58they made us try and memorize some corny song while it blasted on full volume
10:02we always had to do these annoying tasks while blindfolded
10:05i guess as part of the whole hazing thing
10:08anyway after about 20 minutes of driving
10:11the car stopped and i heard the doors open and close
10:13i felt a hand grab my arm and silently usher me out of the car
10:18we walked probably 200 feet
10:20where i was then told to sit down and be quiet
10:23i was sitting on grass so i assumed we were in a field or something
10:27i could also tell i was sitting near people because i heard them sit down
10:31and i also heard the brothers telling each of them to be quiet
10:34after about a minute of sitting in silence
10:36i heard a voice speak to all of us
10:39saying a bunch of fraternity related things
10:41but mostly about how we were deemed worthy of becoming a part of the brotherhood
10:44then over the course of like 30 minutes
10:47i sat in silence
10:49occasionally hearing the sound of footsteps and movement around me
10:52i figured they might have been doing the final steps of initiation with each person individually
10:57like walking them away to talk to them in private
10:59i didn't know for sure but being blindfolded meant i was just left to my imagination
11:05there was a time though when the footsteps went away
11:08and all i was left with were the sounds of crickets and leaves rustling through the night breeze
11:13i began to grow uncomfortable as it must have been like 20 minutes that i was sitting there in silence
11:18then suddenly i finally heard the footsteps of one of the brothers walk up to me
11:23and i felt a hand grab my wrist and lead me away
11:26he didn't say a word and neither did i
11:29i just wanted to get it over with so i could take the stupid blindfold off
11:33while we walked i could feel the ground below me go from grass to more rough terrain
11:38i could tell we were walking through a forest as i felt branches and shrubs scrape against my body
11:43we were walking for some time and at one point
11:47the blindfold became very uncomfortable around my eyes
11:49i told him this and asked if we could stop for a second so i could adjust it
11:54he stopped and let go of me
11:56as i stood there rubbing my eyes from under the blindfold
11:59i heard a deep raspy voice say
12:01take it off
12:02i hesitated for a second
12:04not knowing what to say
12:06his voice threw me off as it didn't sound like a voice i recognized
12:09needless to say
12:11i took it off
12:12and what i was greeted with was not what i imagined
12:15i was standing face to face with some tall guy dressed in all black
12:19wearing a vendetta mask
12:20i let out a sharp yell and jumped back
12:23a part of me thought this was just some fucked up hazing prank
12:27but before a word could even escape my mouth
12:29he lunged at me yelling that he was going to take me with him
12:32we wrestled on the ground
12:34and i could tell that he was trying to choke me out
12:36with all my strength
12:38i threw him off of me
12:39got up
12:40and bolted in the opposite direction
12:42using nothing but moonlight to guide my way back
12:45my heart was beating a million times a minute
12:47and i kept looking back
12:49fearing that he was following me
12:50i eventually heard people yelling my name
12:53and i nearly ran head on into one of the fraternity brothers
12:56i told him in scrambled broken words
12:59that some random guy wearing a mask
13:01led me into the forest and tried fighting me
13:03but before i could warn them any further
13:05five or six of them rushed past me with flashlights
13:08looking to chase after him
13:10one of them stayed with me to calm me down
13:12and walk me back to safety
13:14when we made it out of the woods
13:16i realized we were in a backyard
13:18presumably one of the brothers houses
13:20i saw nearly the whole fraternity
13:23standing out on the porch
13:24looking at us in shock
13:26i asked them what the hell was going on
13:28they said that since it was dark
13:30and that i was the last in line
13:31the brother who was supposed to be escorting me
13:33somehow overlooked that i was there
13:35and completely forgot about me
13:36they said a couple minutes later
13:38one of them thought they saw movement in the woods
13:40which was around the same time
13:42that they realized i wasn't in my group
13:43i was in such shock
13:45i couldn't even be pissed about it
13:47none of them knew who that man was
13:49but some of the brothers speculated
13:51it could have been a brother from another fraternity
13:53shortly after
13:54flashlights emerged from the trees
13:56and i saw them running back towards us
13:58they told everyone to get the fuck out of there
14:00and get back to the campus immediately
14:02didn't ask questions
14:04they locked up the house
14:05and one of them got on the phone with the police
14:08the whole car ride back
14:10i was bombarded with questions
14:11and i answered them the best i could
14:13with my mind still racing
14:14i wondered where that man came from
14:17why was he wearing a mask
14:18and what he could have been leading me to
14:20i made up scenarios in my head
14:23like how it could have been a brother
14:24from a rival fraternity
14:26trying to steal me
14:27before i was initiated
14:28that doesn't explain why the brothers
14:30locked up the house
14:31and called the police though
14:32i didn't find out until the next day
14:34when one of the brothers who ran after him
14:36told me what they found in those woods
14:38and what they found was not what i expected
14:40as they were running
14:42they saw a light in the distance
14:44they grew silent
14:45when they got closer
14:47they realized it was a bonfire
14:49in the middle of a clearing
14:50standing around the fire
14:51were several people
14:52dressed in all black
14:53and wearing white vendetta masks
14:55chanting and throwing things into the fire
14:57one of the brothers stepped on a loud branch
15:00causing all of the masked men
15:01to turn and face them
15:03they froze up
15:04like something straight out of a horror movie
15:06the mysterious men
15:08suddenly started running in their direction
15:09they fled and made it back
15:11where they told everyone else
15:13to leave and call the police
15:14it seemed as though
15:16we somehow walked ourselves
15:17into some cult ritual meeting of some sort
15:19i couldn't sleep for many nights after
15:22and i tried my best
15:23to rid my mind of the situation
15:24however
15:26something that i heard from the fraternity
15:27a few days later
15:28sent shivers down my spine
15:30while few of them were playing football
15:33in the backyard of that same house
15:34they found a white vendetta mask
15:36hanging from a tree nearby
15:37they called the police
15:39and the cops took it for evidence
15:41and examination
15:42i'm not sure if those guys
15:44were ever caught
15:44or if the police even made anything of it
15:46i'm also not sure what the hell
15:48those weird people were doing
15:49in those woods
15:50i've been thinking about this experience
15:52a lot recently
15:53and i'm glad that i was left
15:55with nothing more than a crazy story
15:57it's been eight years
16:07since i graduated from college
16:08i went to cooper union
16:10a small technical school
16:11smack dab in the middle of manhattan
16:13going to school in new york city
16:15was amazing
16:16and i wouldn't trade it for anything
16:18we didn't have many frats back then
16:20so i was sure to join whichever one i could
16:22just to ensure that i'd have parties
16:24to go to and whatnot
16:25i was a relatively normal kid
16:27so it wasn't too difficult to get a bid
16:29most of the pledge events were pretty tame
16:32but i would soon find out
16:33what they were compensating for
16:35i hope i don't get in trouble
16:37for divulging this story
16:38but it happened so long ago
16:40that i figure it's safe to talk about
16:41i doubt my old frat is still making
16:44their pledges even do this
16:45i certainly hope they aren't
16:47anyway the big thing that we'd do
16:49during our initiation
16:50was a subway crawl
16:51i can't remember where exactly this was
16:54but there was an old abandoned subway station
16:56that teenagers would typically explore
16:58our frat would make us enter
16:59from one of the active platforms
17:01walk to the abandoned one
17:02take some pictures
17:03and then continue to the next active platform
17:06we'd been given subway schedules
17:08to ensure that there was no chance
17:09a train would come around
17:10while we were vulnerable
17:11we'd have plenty of time
17:13to get onto the abandoned platform
17:14wait for one train to pass
17:16and then make it to the next station
17:17i know what you're probably thinking
17:19but no we didn't have to run from a train
17:22the route was planned pretty well
17:24and we all had a lot of leeway
17:26when it came to traversing the track
17:27all we had to do was avoid the dangerous third rail
17:30and we'd be okay
17:31i had been a big fan of urban exploring before college
17:35so this was honestly more exciting
17:37than nerve-wracking for me
17:38it was some random weekday
17:40at like 3 a.m. when our frat brothers
17:42made us go down into the subway
17:43i'm pretty sure they picked this time
17:46because trains were very infrequent
17:47and we'd be protected at all costs
17:49there were about 10 of us
17:51i'm telling you
17:53it was a pretty small school
17:54you don't need to know everyone's name
17:55but i should mention
17:56that my closest friend in my pledge class
17:58was an albanian dude named reicher
18:00he's the funniest guy you'll ever meet
18:02my friends and i always said
18:03he should try and do stand-up comedy
18:05he also smoked a crap ton of pot
18:07which is important for this story
18:09the group of us made our way
18:11into the subway unscathed
18:12reicher and i brought up the rear
18:14because everyone else was too scared to do so
18:16it was really dark in there
18:18and our frat brothers had only given us
18:20two flashlights to share
18:21those flashlights and a single cheap film camera
18:24were all we had
18:25at first i was entrusted with one of the flashlights
18:28for being in the back
18:29but i quickly gave it up to one of my pledge brothers
18:31who was whining about not being able to see
18:33not even 30 seconds into the walk
18:36and reicher had his first genius idea
18:38he pulled out a pre-rolled joint from his jacket
18:40and grinned
18:41motioning for me to stop
18:42i don't have enough to share
18:44he whispered
18:45flicking his head in the direction of the other guys
18:47who hadn't noticed what we were doing
18:48against my better judgment
18:51i obliged
18:52heck when was i going to get the chance
18:53to light up in a subway tunnel again
18:55the two of us smoked
18:57while we watched the other guys travel further away from us
19:00their echoing laughter beginning to fade out
19:02we finished the pot
19:04we were a considerable distance behind the pack
19:07reicher's stuff was really strong
19:09and i found myself a little more absent-minded
19:11than i wanted to be
19:12my tolerance was definitely not as high as his
19:16the two of us picked up the pace to catch up with the rest of the group
19:19but reicher noticed something in our way
19:21we didn't have a light
19:22so all we could see was the silhouette of someone in the dimly lit tunnel lights
19:27i strained my eyes a little more
19:29there was definitely a person in there
19:31just standing motionless in the middle of the track facing us
19:34it was honestly a little creepy
19:37david called reicher
19:39his voice piercing the silence of the tunnel
19:41the person on the track didn't respond
19:44just then david's voice called back to us from further up the line
19:49the two of us froze
19:50this person in front of us was a stranger
19:53as if david's voice was some kind of switch
19:56the person on the track started full-on sprinting towards us
19:59the two of us turned around and bolted back the way we came
20:02being as high as i was i felt like i was going out of a panic attack
20:06the figure's sprint was eerily silent
20:08as if we were being chased by a shadow
20:11this guy must have been impossibly light
20:13reicher's grip on my arm tightened
20:15his goofy confidence completely gone
20:18faster he hissed
20:19the fear in his voice mimicking my own
20:22i knew we still had some time before the next train came
20:25but running in the wrong direction just felt wrong
20:28reicher must have thought the same thing
20:29because he frantically pulled me to the side
20:31motioning for us to cross the divider onto a different track
20:35in hindsight we probably could have continued running back to the original
20:38station but i was so high that i just followed reicher blindly
20:42we made it across the divider and sprinted back in the direction of the
20:45abandoned station
20:46things were even more terrifying now though
20:49we had literally no idea when a train was going to barrel down towards us on
20:53this track
20:53but at least we were heading in the right direction
20:56i hoped reicher's maneuver was enough to shake whoever was chasing us
21:00but apparently it wasn't
21:02whoever was behind us also crossed the divider and kept running after us
21:07the problem was there were only a few places where the divider could be
21:09crossed
21:10so we'd have to pray we found another one before a train came
21:14turning around to the one we just used was no longer an option
21:17my heart was thumping but reicher and i were able to widen the gap between us
21:21and our pursuer
21:23we kept running though looking for a place to cross
21:25but with no luck reicher started cursing repeatedly
21:30and i started feeling like throwing up
21:32we kept running still searching for a place to cross
21:36just then the track started vibrating and we could see light beginning to poke
21:40through at the distant end of the tunnel
21:42a train was coming we were screwed
21:45i considered turning around and just fighting whoever was behind us
21:48but then reicher screamed right here running toward the divider
21:51by some miracle the next crossing point was right in front of us
21:54and the two of us crossed back to the original track
21:57we sprinted like another 30 yards and caught up with the rest of the guys who
22:01were on the platform
22:02reicher explained the whole thing while i leaned over and threw up
22:06not even 30 seconds later the train on the other track zoomed by
22:10reicher and the rest of the guys were ready to confront whoever was chasing us
22:17no one showed up though
22:18we thought the worst but just then we heard another crazed yell from somewhere in the distance
22:24to this day i still have no idea how that person avoided the train
22:28we waited for the train to pass on our track and then sprinted the hell out of there
22:32in hindsight reicher and i probably just encountered some homeless guy who was drugged
22:36out and might not have even posed a threat to us the fear took over in that moment though which i
22:41guess explains the stupid decision we made to cross over the divider
22:45i'm sure the two of us also could have fended that guy off but i'm glad we didn't have to
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