Latest / True Horror Stories / Chipotle Incidents That Turned Unsettling
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- 0:09Speaker 1: I used to work at a retail store several years ago.
- 0:12Speaker 1: The store was in a shopping center that had basically
- 0:14Speaker 1: all of the main stores and restaurants you could ask
- 0:16Speaker 1: for within a several mile radius. One night, I was
- 0:20Speaker 1: working a later shift but wasn't closing. I got off
- 0:24Speaker 1: work at probably about nine or ten PM, when everything
- 0:26Speaker 1: had quieted down a bit. I began to walk to
- 0:29Speaker 1: my car near the back of the parking lot, and
- 0:31Speaker 1: after I made my long walk there, I arrived at
- 0:34Speaker 1: my car and realized just how hungry I was. I
- 0:37Speaker 1: turned around and Sacha Potle, which shared a general parking
- 0:39Speaker 1: lot with us. When I looked, I suddenly got the
- 0:42Speaker 1: craving for a Chipotle Burrito bull and turned around and
- 0:45Speaker 1: walked back up. I got inside and there was only
- 0:49Speaker 1: two people in line in front of me. I got
- 0:53Speaker 1: my food and then walked out to go back to
- 0:55Speaker 1: my car at the end of the parking lot. When
- 0:57Speaker 1: I arrived at my car, though, I saw that there
- 0:59Speaker 1: was an another car now parked two spaces over to
- 1:01Speaker 1: my left, which was also the very last space at
- 1:04Speaker 1: the corner of the parking lot. The hood of the
- 1:07Speaker 1: car was up and I saw a younger looking man
- 1:09Speaker 1: standing in front of it. As I got closer, the
- 1:12Speaker 1: man approached me and asked me what I knew about cars.
- 1:15Speaker 1: I told him not a whole lot, and asked him
- 1:17Speaker 1: what had happened. The man said he didn't know, and
- 1:20Speaker 1: asked me if I could maybe take a look inside
- 1:22Speaker 1: his car. He explained to me that he'd been sitting
- 1:24Speaker 1: in the parking lot for over an hour trying to
- 1:26Speaker 1: get it to start, but it just wouldn't. I asked
- 1:29Speaker 1: the man if his car had been in this exact
- 1:31Speaker 1: same parking spot the whole time, and he said yes.
- 1:34Speaker 2: Now I suddenly knew that.
- 1:35Speaker 1: The man was lying about this, and I got suspicious
- 1:38Speaker 1: because I had just been here ten minutes earlier and
- 1:40Speaker 1: the man in the car were both not there. The
- 1:44Speaker 1: man then told me to come around to the driver's
- 1:45Speaker 1: side and look, which was the far side from where
- 1:47Speaker 1: we were at. I noticed that there seemed to be
- 1:50Speaker 1: some sort of blanket straighted from the inside of the
- 1:52Speaker 1: car windows, covering them so that you couldn't see inside.
- 1:56Speaker 2: I told the man, sorry, but I had to get
- 1:57Speaker 2: back to work.
- 1:59Speaker 1: The man insisted that I take a look in his car,
- 2:01Speaker 1: but I had already began walking back to the department
- 2:03Speaker 1: store where I worked. He calmly and casually walked back
- 2:08Speaker 1: to my store, even though I was really nervous and
- 2:10Speaker 1: wanted to run, but thankfully the man didn't come after
- 2:13Speaker 1: me or say anything more. I walked all the way
- 2:16Speaker 1: back and got inside my store. Then I looked out
- 2:19Speaker 1: the window at the parking lot where the man was.
- 2:21Speaker 1: He was really far away, but I could see. About
- 2:24Speaker 1: thirty seconds after I got inside the store, I watched
- 2:27Speaker 1: the man close his hood and then get inside his
- 2:29Speaker 1: car and just drive off. I don't know exactly why
- 2:32Speaker 1: that man wanted me to look at his car, but
- 2:34Speaker 1: I feel like he was trying to set me up
- 2:36Speaker 1: for something. A couple of years ago, when I was
- 2:49Speaker 1: a little younger, I used to work at a Chipotle restaurant.
- 2:53Speaker 2: I was in school and lived in an apartment near
- 2:54Speaker 2: the city.
- 2:56Speaker 1: Because of this, I was able to walk to work
- 2:58Speaker 1: every single day because it only took me about ten
- 3:00Speaker 1: minutes and was better than city driving. I usually worked
- 3:04Speaker 1: later shifts from the afternoons to close, or at least
- 3:06Speaker 1: nighttime on weekdays.
- 3:08Speaker 2: When I got off, I would walk.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Home, and for the first few months of working there,
- 3:12Speaker 1: everything was cool, but over time I started to notice it,
- 3:15Speaker 1: it seemed as if.
- 3:16Speaker 2: Somebody was following me home.
- 3:18Speaker 1: I would often hear footsteps behind me, or see somebody
- 3:21Speaker 1: trailing me from a far way's back.
- 3:24Speaker 2: I had never.
- 3:24Speaker 1: Noticed before, because in the past, almost every single time
- 3:27Speaker 1: I had walked home, nobody else had been walking on
- 3:29Speaker 1: the sidewalks at all. I only started noticing it because
- 3:33Speaker 1: it was happening every single night. When I started to
- 3:37Speaker 1: take notice, I would always notice the person would follow
- 3:39Speaker 1: me to my apartment complex, but never go inside of
- 3:41Speaker 1: the complex and always walk right past it. This was
- 3:45Speaker 1: strange to me because beyond our apartment complex there really
- 3:48Speaker 1: wasn't anything else in that direction. It was kind of
- 3:50Speaker 1: just woods with no park or walking trail that I
- 3:52Speaker 1: knew of. Every time I would see this guy, I
- 3:56Speaker 1: would never get a good look at it because of
- 3:57Speaker 1: it being dark out in him being so far away.
- 4:00Speaker 1: He would also usually seem to be looking at the ground,
- 4:02Speaker 1: so I really had no idea who he was or
- 4:05Speaker 1: what he looked like. Still, I didn't know for sure,
- 4:08Speaker 1: and for the time span of I would say two
- 4:09Speaker 1: or three weeks, I would just walk home with this
- 4:11Speaker 1: person behind me and ignore. Then one night after work,
- 4:16Speaker 1: I got off a little bit early. It was a
- 4:18Speaker 1: week nd, so I could stay up later, and my
- 4:20Speaker 1: friend Anna invited me over. She lived in the opposite direction,
- 4:24Speaker 1: but was also within walking distance from work. She lived
- 4:28Speaker 1: in a little neighborhood about fifteen minutes away. When I
- 4:31Speaker 1: got off, I started to walk to Anne's place, but
- 4:34Speaker 1: before long I heard footsteps behind me, and once again
- 4:37Speaker 1: was reminded of the man who was seemingly stalking me
- 4:40Speaker 1: every time I worked. He was the only other person
- 4:44Speaker 1: on the sidewalk once again, and as I looked behind me,
- 4:46Speaker 1: he appeared to sure enough be the same guy. What
- 4:50Speaker 1: this really did was confirmed me that this guy was
- 4:53Speaker 1: in fact following me every single time, and I wasn't
- 4:55Speaker 1: just being paranoid for no reason. When I finally got
- 4:59Speaker 1: to Anna's neighborhood, I knew exactly which house was hers,
- 5:02Speaker 1: so I turned onto a street immediately which led to
- 5:05Speaker 1: her backyard, and then hid in there. I was so
- 5:08Speaker 1: far ahead of the man that I knew he wouldn't
- 5:10Speaker 1: see which way I went. I heard footsteps from a
- 5:13Speaker 1: ways away, and then they went into an opposite direction.
- 5:17Speaker 1: I then texted my friend Anna and she let me
- 5:19Speaker 1: in her house. We hung out for a while, but
- 5:22Speaker 1: about an hour later, Anna was in her kitchen and
- 5:24Speaker 1: she said she saw a weird guy looking in her
- 5:26Speaker 1: front window. My heart sank, and I told her to
- 5:30Speaker 1: come back to the living room where I was. I
- 5:33Speaker 1: asked her what the man looked like, and she said
- 5:35Speaker 1: just pretty average. She went back to look again, but
- 5:39Speaker 1: the man was gone. Of course, I immediately was worried
- 5:42Speaker 1: that it was the same guy that had been following me,
- 5:44Speaker 1: and I told Anna all about it.
- 5:47Speaker 2: We weren't really sure.
- 5:48Speaker 1: What we could do about it, though, and we didn't
- 5:50Speaker 1: see him for the rest of the night. The next day,
- 5:53Speaker 1: I went out and bought some mace and I could
- 5:55Speaker 1: use in self defense, although I was hoping it would
- 5:57Speaker 1: never come to that.
- 5:59Speaker 2: But the next day I worked late.
- 6:01Speaker 1: When I got off, I once again heard the footsteps
- 6:03Speaker 1: behind me, as if I was being followed, But this
- 6:06Speaker 1: time the footsteps didn't stay behind me for long. They
- 6:09Speaker 1: seemed to be walking faster than usual. The man was
- 6:12Speaker 1: walking really fast and quickly catching up to me. I
- 6:16Speaker 1: walked faster and faster, but so did he. Eventually, he
- 6:20Speaker 1: got so close to me that I decided to cross
- 6:22Speaker 1: the street and walk on the other side. When I did,
- 6:25Speaker 1: he did as well. We were not in a very
- 6:28Speaker 1: busy and well lit area and it was just us
- 6:30Speaker 1: on the sidewalk. The man started moving aggressively towards me.
- 6:34Speaker 1: Suddenly I couldn't take it any more, and at that
- 6:37Speaker 1: point I saw him start to reach out for me,
- 6:39Speaker 1: and I went from my pocket and pulled out the
- 6:41Speaker 1: mace and sprayed it all over him. I got him
- 6:44Speaker 1: good in the face, and the man jumped back and
- 6:46Speaker 1: ran away. After that, I went home and ended up
- 6:50Speaker 1: going to the police a short time later. I'm happy
- 6:53Speaker 1: to say that I was never followed again after them.
- 7:06Speaker 1: I work at Chipotle. I've been working there for almost
- 7:09Speaker 1: a year now. I liked the job, and I've made
- 7:12Speaker 1: friends with some of my coworkers, which I really like.
- 7:15Speaker 1: For the most part, I like everything about the job,
- 7:18Speaker 1: but of course there are occasionally bad customers and things
- 7:21Speaker 1: like that. One night, I was working a closing shift
- 7:25Speaker 1: and was mainly working behind the counter near the cash register.
- 7:29Speaker 1: The night had been pretty average, which meant busy at
- 7:31Speaker 1: dinner time and then quieting down as the night went on.
- 7:35Speaker 1: It was getting to be closing time and we still
- 7:37Speaker 1: had several customers inside there was a man in the
- 7:41Speaker 1: restaurant that I saw walking up to me. The man
- 7:44Speaker 1: wore an older looking jacket that seemed really worn, and
- 7:47Speaker 1: he had a small scruffy beard and wore sunglasses as well.
- 7:51Speaker 1: He came up to me and asked if he could
- 7:52Speaker 1: have some free chips. We weren't allowed to just give
- 7:55Speaker 1: free chips out, so I told him, sorry, but no.
- 7:58Speaker 1: It was kind of awkward to say no, so I
- 8:00Speaker 1: tried to say it in the nicest way that I could.
- 8:03Speaker 2: The man just walked away without saying anything.
- 8:07Speaker 1: We had I think two more total customers come in
- 8:09Speaker 1: before it was just about closing time. The man once
- 8:12Speaker 1: again came up to me and asked for free chips.
- 8:14Speaker 1: Once the other customers had ordered, I told him no
- 8:17Speaker 1: once again. I saw the man then start to walk
- 8:20Speaker 1: up to the other customers in the restaurant and seemed
- 8:22Speaker 1: to talk to them, but I couldn't really hear what
- 8:24Speaker 1: he was saying. At one point, I could clearly see
- 8:27Speaker 1: that the people he was talking to were not happy
- 8:29Speaker 1: with whatever the guy was saying. The man then came
- 8:33Speaker 1: back up to the counter and told me to give
- 8:35Speaker 1: him something for free. At this point, I said the
- 8:38Speaker 1: man would have to leave the restaurant. He got kind
- 8:41Speaker 1: of angry at this, and at first he said no.
- 8:44Speaker 1: I was concerned that this was going to get out
- 8:46Speaker 1: of hand and the man was not going to leave.
- 8:48Speaker 1: But at last the man finally turned and walked away.
- 8:52Speaker 1: I was so happy to see that, because we were
- 8:54Speaker 1: just closing at the same time too. I went over
- 8:58Speaker 1: after that and began to clean some parts to the restaurant.
- 9:00Speaker 1: Before I could leave, there were two other coworkers who
- 9:03Speaker 1: stayed back and were cleaning with me. They were mainly
- 9:06Speaker 1: in the back, and I went out to the rest
- 9:08Speaker 1: of the restaurant and cleaned a little. When I got
- 9:11Speaker 1: to the bathrooms, I walked in to make sure everything
- 9:13Speaker 1: was in order. Everything looked fine at first, until I
- 9:17Speaker 1: noticed that one of the stall doors was closed. I
- 9:20Speaker 1: tried to open it and saw that it was locked. Obviously,
- 9:24Speaker 1: we were closed and nobody was supposed to be in there,
- 9:26Speaker 1: and I didn't see anybody's feet on the floor.
- 9:28Speaker 2: From under the stall.
- 9:30Speaker 1: I decided to crawl under the stall to unlock it,
- 9:33Speaker 1: but as soon as I did, I saw that the
- 9:35Speaker 1: same man from before was standing on the toilet, crouched over,
- 9:38Speaker 1: looking right at me. As he saw me, he sprang
- 9:41Speaker 1: up and looked like he was going to try to
- 9:43Speaker 1: kick me right in the face. I backed off as
- 9:45Speaker 1: fast as I could and ran away as he kicked
- 9:48Speaker 1: the stall door. He then opened it and I ran
- 9:51Speaker 1: out of the entire restaurant. Thankfully, the man chased me out,
- 9:55Speaker 1: and once he was out, I ran as fast as
- 9:56Speaker 1: I could away from there. I was much faster than
- 10:00Speaker 1: him and lost him pretty easily. I called one of
- 10:03Speaker 1: my coworkers, who then called the police about the incident.
- 10:06Speaker 1: To all of our surprise, the man returned once again
- 10:09Speaker 1: and the police were able to arrest him at the scene.
- 10:11Speaker 1: He turned out to be on drugs, but it made
- 10:14Speaker 1: for a crazy night.