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00:00When my cousin Cody and I were in our early 20s, we went on a handful of camping trips
00:14around Colorado. This happened I believe when I was 22 and he was 23, and it happened in
00:20Arapaho Forest. It was my first time camping there, not Cody's though. It was in the middle
00:26of the week. Our jobs allowed us to have off days in the middle of the week, and we'd often
00:30go in our campouts then to avoid traffic and crowds. I always let Cody take charge on these
00:36trips. He's the Eagle Scout, not me. We parked by a picnic area, and we set foot into the
00:42woods from there. After about 15 minutes of hiking deeper into the woods, we found a good
00:47spot to set up camp. A good spot meaning a big enough clearing to fit two tents, the portable
00:53stove, and a campfire. The first thing we did was unpack our stuff and set up our tents.
00:59Cody has always been a lot quicker than me in pitching a tent. He does it in only a few
01:03minutes. It always takes me over 20 minutes. Or rather, it always took me over 20 minutes,
01:09as I haven't been camping out in the wilderness since this.
01:13The next thing we did was create a ring of stones for a fire, and then gathered some sticks
01:18and wood. He did bring some fire starter and a lighter, so I guess we kind of cheated,
01:23but oh well. It was at the point in the day when the sun was going down. We had a fire going,
01:29and now Cody was grilling up some steak and burgers. One thing about Cody is he always went
01:33all out with the food on these trips, and he's a really good cook, so I always trusted him with
01:38feeding us. Of course, we had our bear spray in case the smell of the food would attract a black
01:43bear, which Cody always said was very unlikely. He always says the real thing you've got to worry
01:49about in the middle of the woods is other people. As we ate our steak and burgers, we cracked open
01:54some beers and had some classic rock playing on the speaker. If you've never been camping,
01:59you don't understand how good of a vibe moments like this are, in the wilderness with a friend
02:04or family member and some beers, reminiscing about good times and vibing to music. As it got dark,
02:10we started playing card games on this little folding platform table we brought specifically
02:14for cards. After playing more traditional card games, we started playing Uno, and this was when
02:20we heard something out in the woods. I paused the song on my phone so that the speaker would go silent.
02:26It was clear now. We heard a person humming and footsteps from beyond the trees in the pitch
02:31blackness of the forest. Cody urged me to find the flashlight. I tried, but by the time I found it,
02:38the sounds had faded away. I asked Cody if that was something to be concerned about,
02:43and he said it definitely was unusual for someone else to be this deep in the woods,
02:47let alone creepily walking by a campsite with an active campfire humming loudly.
02:52I was a bit shaken, and I saw Cody was too. We went back to playing cards with the music much lower
02:58now. When we least expected it, a big stick landing in the middle of our campsite made us both jump out
03:04of our skin. It didn't fall from a tree. This thing was thrown at us by someone. Cody started yelling
03:11something along the lines of, whoever's out there messing with us, get a life and f**k off. And then,
03:17footsteps could be heard once again in the distance. They were walking away from us. I said we should
03:23pack up camp and move somewhere else. He said absolutely not in the dark. We both had bear spray,
03:29and he advised to just keep it next to me in my tent when we go to sleep. It was the closest thing
03:34to range self-defense weapons we had. We kept hearing sounds like tree branches cracking in
03:40the distance, sounds that you would never expect an animal to be making. Someone was out there,
03:47maybe multiple people, that much was clear. We had to go to sleep eventually, so we agreed that maybe
03:53we should take turns staying up to keep watch to make sure that no one comes to our campsite and
03:57steals anything, or worse. Cody agreed to take first watch. He said he'd stay up and read his book.
04:05So I crawled into my tent and then my sleeping bag and went to sleep.
04:09Waking up in the middle of the night while camping is normal. You're in a cold, outdoor environment in
04:14an uncomfortable sleeping bag. Any number of things could wake you up. I didn't yet know what woke me
04:21up. I was still in a fog. My brain didn't feel fully woken up yet. I looked up and saw a head
04:28peering into my tent. It looked like Cody. I rubbed my eyes, but really it was the darkness that was
04:35preventing me from seeing anything of his face. I said Cody, thinking he was waking me up to take
04:41my turn of keeping watch. I said groggily, is it my turn? I stared at the head peering at me in my
04:47sleeping bag, slowly growing more awake every second. Then I heard the zipper to the tent quickly
04:53zip up and his head disappeared. I laid back down in my sleeping bag, but only for a second. I suddenly
05:01had some weird moment of clarity where I shot to an upright position and listened as the footsteps
05:06walked away. Cody, I said. He didn't answer. I unzipped my tent to peek out to the campsite.
05:14The fire was dead. Cody wasn't out there. I went over to Cody's tent, which was zipped up.
05:20I unzipped it and looked inside to see Cody fast asleep in his sleeping bag. I got chills,
05:27goosebumps, whatever you want to call it. I almost shit myself at the realization.
05:31I started shaking him awake and when he finally awoke, I told him someone's here, at the campsite.
05:39It took him a minute to come back to reality just like I did, but when he did, he grabbed his bear
05:44spray. He said he must have dozed off while reading. He said I should sleep in the tent with
05:50him tonight, but to do that, I'd need my sleeping bag. He came outside of the tent with me and stood
05:56watch as I ran to my tent to grab my sleeping bag. In my tent, grabbing my sleeping bag, I heard that
06:03goddamn humming again from outside. I grabbed it and Cody whispered at me to hurry up. I said,
06:10you hear that too? He said yes. We both got back in his tent and zipped it up, with our cans of bear
06:16spray by our sides. I tell you, in those moments, I wanted nothing more than for a bear to come and
06:21save the day. The hours dragged on as I stayed up while Cody slept. After three long, horrible
06:28hours, I woke him up and we switched. When Cody woke me up, it was almost dawn. There was light
06:35outside. So we packed everything up, and by the time we were done, there was plenty of light to
06:40hike back to the car. While we could have driven somewhere else and had another night of camping
06:45elsewhere, neither of us were feeling it anymore. This was a haunting experience, and I think we both
06:51just wanted to be in the safety of our houses. It's been six years since this happened, and he's hit me
06:56up a few times since then about camping, but I haven't really had interest since this experience.
07:01People are just too scary. Why was someone out there stalking our campsite, and the sight of that
07:06person's head in the dark, just looking into my tent? It was straight up from a nightmare.
07:12I may never go camping again, honestly.
07:21When my friends and I rented a beach house in Florida, I never could have expected how things
07:28would have turned out. It was the four of us in a cramped car driving down there. The house was
07:33directly on the beach. It was on this road that had the bay in front of the house across the street,
07:38and then in the backyard was literally the beach. There were some huge houses on this road, and some
07:44smaller, more normal-looking ones. This was one of the more modest-looking ones. It had four
07:50bedrooms, so a bedroom for each of us. The houses were spaced out on this road, creating a sense of
07:55privacy. And the whole time we were unloading the car out front, not a single car passed by on this
08:01road. The interior of the house was decent. It wasn't spectacular, but it was modest, clean, and the
08:08owners were really pushing a beach theme with the wall decor. I guess it would make sense considering
08:12the location. There was even a decorative surfboard in one corner of the living room behind the TV.
08:17The living room looked out to the back deck, which then looked out to the beach. The view was
08:23amazing. The deck wasn't elevated very high off the ground. It was just two steps down and onto the
08:29sand. We all claimed our bedrooms. I managed to get one of the rooms with a view of the beach.
08:35First thing we did after settling in was of course walking outside and laying on the beach.
08:40We all went in the water at one point and then played football. We were definitely on the beach for a
08:44few hours. We seemed to be the only ones on the beach apart from this older looking couple way
08:49down the beach. Afterwards, we went out to eat and then started bar hopping in the town area.
08:55When we Ubered back, it was dark out. We went outside on the beach to fuck around and play late
09:01night football while we were kind of drunk. As I was running to grab the ball after missing a catch,
09:06I noticed something in the water. The moon reflecting on the ocean was the only reason I could see it.
09:12I said, what the fuck is that out loud and then realized it was a person standing in the water
09:17about waist deep. My friends looked over and said they saw it too. It was only a little weird because
09:24of the time. It was like past midnight, but hey, if a local wants to go for a midnight swim,
09:29that's their business. We then went to sit on the deck and drink beers for a while until we got tired
09:34and one by one, everyone started going inside to go to sleep. My friend John and I were the last
09:40ones out there. I had been every once in a while glancing in the direction I saw that person before
09:45in the water just out of curiosity and so eventually when I shot a glance in that direction, I spotted
09:51someone standing on the beach. They appeared to be just standing there facing us. It was kind of
09:57creepy. Maybe a neighbor. I didn't want to be rude, but I wondered if it was the same person.
10:03We tried to ignore it, but John was facing that person and after a while, he said they were still
10:08just standing there facing us. I stood up and looked over and saw he was right. I yelled out,
10:14is everything okay? John asked, why'd you do that? I honestly didn't know what I was expecting.
10:20They didn't even reply anything though. We were officially creeped out, so we went inside.
10:26The other two, Travis and Liam, were already in their rooms, probably knocked out from drinking,
10:31so John and I decided to just call it a night too so that we could have a full day tomorrow.
10:35If I had to guess, it was 12.30 to 1am, which was honestly on the earlier side,
10:41but we were all burnt out from the long day. I went to my room after brushing my teeth.
10:46I looked out the window wanting to take a look to the ocean before crawling into bed.
10:51This is where the creepiness factor escalated substantially,
10:54because there was now someone standing in front of the back deck, facing the house.
10:59I felt like they were facing my window. The figure of the person appeared to be male,
11:05considering the slightly larger frame. It was undoubtedly the same person from before.
11:11I called John's name. He didn't reply. So I ran to his room and banged on his door,
11:17telling him to come out. He came out pretty quickly, and I led him to my window to look outside,
11:21but now the person was gone. I swore to him that the person from earlier was just standing as still
11:27as before right in front of our deck. He believed me. We weren't about to go outside and look around,
11:33though. I took one more look to make sure that they were still gone, and then I shut the blind
11:38to the bedroom window. But as I lay awake in bed, rolling from side to side, trying to sleep,
11:44I just couldn't shake the feeling that someone was still outside.
11:46Who was that person? Why were they creeping around?
11:52My thoughts were interrupted by the sickening sound of a fist knocking on the bedroom window.
11:57I felt like my insides just shriveled up and my heart completely dropped out of my body.
12:02I laid silent and frozen. Moments later, another light set of knocks on the glass.
12:08I didn't dare lift the blind, though. I couldn't gather the courage to.
12:13I almost yelled, who is it? But I stopped myself.
12:17Instead, I ran out to the living room, screaming for everyone to wake up.
12:21Everyone, one by one, came out of their rooms. No one was at the window when we checked.
12:27All four of us went out to the deck and turned on the lights to the deck.
12:30We looked out onto the beach and didn't see anyone. We also checked the front and sides of the house.
12:36No one. John and I had to explain to the other two what they missed when they fell asleep.
12:41We kept the backyard lights on that night. The next day, John and I went to the two nearest
12:46neighbors and asked them if they had also experienced someone knocking on their windows or doors.
12:51One of the neighbors told us a genuinely freaky encounter he had a week earlier.
12:55Someone knocked on their door in the middle of the night, and when he asked who it was,
12:59they wouldn't answer and just kept knocking. So he didn't answer the door.
13:03I'm not sure if it was connected, but if it was, that just makes this even scarier.
13:07We spent the rest of the day on the beach, exploring nearby towns, and hitting bars.
13:12Nothing happened that night. We left the next day. I still wonder what I would have seen if I had lifted the blind.
13:19I was nine years old when this happened. For whatever reason, I was home alone one night,
13:34so I was playing video games upstairs in my room. I wasn't allowed to answer the door to anyone when
13:39I was home alone. Whenever I was left alone, it wasn't for long. My mom would just be out grocery
13:44shopping or something like that. I was playing Metroid Prime on my GameCube. I used to be
13:50obsessed with that game. I heard the house phone downstairs start to ring. My mom always told me
13:56to pick up the phone if it rang, in case it was her calling. So I hurried downstairs, and by maybe
14:01the fourth ring, I picked up. The caller ID was from my mom's cell phone. She said,
14:06Sweetie, can you come outside and help with the groceries? I replied, Mom? She said back, Yes.
14:12I felt like something sounded off with her voice. You obviously know your own mom's voice, and so
14:18even at such a young age, when I was questioning why it didn't sound like her, I said, Why do you
14:23sound like that? She replied, Like what, sweetie? And I hung up. My mom would never use the word
14:29sweetie like that, especially twice in a matter of seconds. The phone rang again, and my mom's number
14:35came up on the caller ID again. I ignored it. For some reason, my heart was racing. I was
14:41nervous. I sat in the kitchen, waiting to see if the phone would ring a third time, and it did. It
14:48took a couple minutes before the third ringing, but when I checked the caller ID, this time it was a
14:52different number. I picked up, and a man's voice on the other end said, Hey James, I know this is
14:58going to sound weird, but it's your dad. I'm outside. All I could mutter out was a weak, what?
15:04The man said, I'm outside. I have a lot to explain. I hung up right then and there. My dad died when I
15:11was three. I have no memories of him. My suspicion was in fact true that the first voice I heard was
15:18not my mom's. The phone rang again, and then again after that. I ignored it each time. I couldn't even
15:26call my mom because someone clearly had her phone. Then things took a turn for the worse when there
15:32were knocks at the front door. This went from a someone has my mom's phone situation to a someone
15:38is outside the house situation. My mom would not be knocking on the door. She'd have a key, obviously.
15:44I peered around the wall of the kitchen to look at the front door. I heard a man's muffled voice on
15:49the other side saying my name. He was saying, It's your dad. He rang the doorbell, and then I heard
15:55him start attempting to open the door. I did something that no nine-year-old should ever have to do,
16:01and that was grabbing the phone and calling 911. The 911 operator asked me what I imagined to be
16:07some pretty standard questions, most importantly telling me to wait in a bathroom or other room
16:12with a lockable door until the police get there. The bathroom is on the first floor of the house.
16:18I hid in there with the lights off. Whoever was outside came to the window and tried pulling it
16:23open. I heard their entire struggle. Then they must have moved to the next window. I think they tried
16:30every window and door in the house. If anything were to have been unlocked, this story would have had a
16:35very different outcome. They must have given up at some point before the police arrived.
16:40And I say they, because clearly there were two people involved in this, a man and a woman.
16:45They both could have been out there for all I know. The operator told me that the police are at the
16:49front door now, and it's safe to go meet them there. Only when I opened the door to the police was when
16:54I hung up the phone. They did a quick investigation inside and outside of the house, and asked me where
16:59my mom was supposed to be, and if my mom knew anyone who might want to hurt us. I'm sure I said I
17:04thought she was grocery shopping or something, and not that I know of. My mom returned home with my
17:09little sister in a panic when she saw the police cars out front. My mom's phone was stolen, which
17:14was already clear. I'm sure that our address, home phone number, and other personal information was
17:20stored somewhere on the phone easily accessible, though how they knew my name I'm not exactly sure.
17:25Something on my mom's phone must have given it away. It was an old Nokia flip phone. Who stole it
17:31was a mystery? But my mom's phone background was a picture of her with my little sister and I.
17:37This could have been an indication to some disgusting, creepy couple out there that the
17:41owner of this phone was a single mom with two young kids, and they tried to use that as a way
17:46of tricking me into leaving the house, which was absolutely disgusting and horrific. The phone must
17:52have been destroyed after the failed attempts at trying to lure me outside. Things were a little
17:56different after this. My mom wouldn't leave me alone anymore at night. Not until I was a few years
18:01older at least.